Lady Quark

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character_name = Lady Quark
publisher = DC Comics
debut = "Crisis on Infinite Earths" #4 (July 1985)
creators = Marv Wolfman
George Pérez
real_name = Tashana
species =
homeworld = formerly Earth-Six
alliances =L.E.G.I.O.N.
aliases =
supports=
powers = absorption of nuclear energies

Lady Quark is a fictional character, a superheroine in the DC Universe. In the DC Comics 12-issue limited series "Crisis on Infinite Earths", the character was one of the rulers of her home world, Earth-Six where the Revolutionary War was won by England.

Fictional character biography

Lady Quark's husband Lord Volt and daughter Princess Fern are both killed when Earth-Six is destroyed during the Crisis. She is saved at the last minute by Pariah, a dimensional traveler. She helps most of the multiverse's surviving heroes and they journey to the Dawn of Time to battle the Anti-Monitor.

After the Crisis is over, Lady Quark resettles on Earth with Pariah and Harbinger. Missing her husband, she approached Will Payton in "Starman" (Volume 1) #8 with the idea of having him become her consort. Payton rejected her advances.

Lady Quark is eventually recruited by Vril Dox to be become a member of the peace-keeping force L.E.G.I.O.N. ("L.E.G.I.O.N." #18). During her stay with the team, an alternate time-line presents itself when Dox captures the time-traveler Waverider. Quark, Dox and Waverider then merge into a powerful, murderous dictator (in "L.E.G.I.O.N. '91 Annual" #2 (1991)).

Death/Rebirth

Lady Quark is apparently killed in "L.E.G.I.O.N. '94" #62 after a parasitic shapeshifter absorbs her memories and powers. The shapeshifter replaces her in L.E.G.I.O.N., but later dies in "L.E.G.I.O.N. '94" #70. Lady Quark's corpse is seen floating in space, heavily maimed. Eleven years later, she returns alive and well without explanation in "Villains United" #5, in which she is captured by Sinestro at Alexander Luthor, Jr.'s request. She is imprisoned on Luthor's tower; its purpose is to bring the core Earths of the Multiverse back into existence. She is later freed and joins Earth's heroes in defeating Alexander Luthor. She recently appears again in several splash pages in "Tales of The Sinestro Corps: Superman-Prime" (December 2007).

Powers and abilities

Lady Quark is a metahuman with the ability to absorb and emit nuclear energies. She can direct these energies as percussive forces from her body. Her powers allow her to fly and travel through space.

External links

* [http://www.dcuguide.com/who.php?name=ladyquark Lady Quark at the Unofficial Guide to the DC Universe]