Jericho (DC)
Jericho is a male comic character who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Origin
Joseph William Wilson
He later re-emerged where he took possession of his fathers body where he murdered Wintergreen after which he targeted the Teen Titans where he intended to kill them to force the team to disband. (Teen Titans v3 #4)
Whilst within Raven's Soul-Self, they were confronted by Jericho who battled both his father and the Teen Titans. This saw him possessing peoples bodies in order to murder the Titans as he believed children should not be heroes. Their fight later emerged in the real world when the Soul-Self took them back to Earth during the rest of the Teen Titan's fight with the Church of Blood. After possessing Wonder Girl, he was goaded by Cyborg into possessing him with this being a trick as he was forced into Victor's cybernetic eye and trapped within a sealed file thus defeating him. (Teen Titans v3 #12)
The Titans and Teen Titans managed to disable the T-Wing and crash it into the East River without anyone getting injured. Ravager was stowed away on the T-Wing, and old he Titans she waned o help them stop her brother without him getting killed. Jericho possessed Raven and spirited away his sister. He told her he was trying to kill he Titans, but only because of the voices in his head. He asked for her help, and she turned him down. Jericho was disappointed in her, he thought she would always be on his side, and pointed out that she was working with heroes associated with Vigilante, who was trying to kill him. He returned her to the Titans and fled to Time Square. The Titans spotted Vigilante, who was following them, and subdued him, though Ravager wanted to keep beating him for trying to kill Jericho. Vigilante promised to not kill Jericho if they promised that Jericho’s killing days were over. The next day Jericho entered the Hamilton Grande, prepared for a slaughter. (Teen Titans v3 #70)
Jericho entered the Hamilton Grande, prepared for a slaughter. He announced that he had rigged explosives throughout the restaurant, and every wealthy patron was his hostage. Using a cellphone video, he recorded himself shooting the hotel manager in the head, and promised to kill a patron every two minutes, unless the Titans arrived to stop him. The Titans confronted Jericho, and tried to reason with him, but he as having none of it, telling them he’d succeed in killing them here his father failed, finally allowing him to overshadow his dad. He’d strapped explosives to his hostages, and held the trigger, guaranteeing that the Titans would die trying to save them. He offered Ravager a chance to escape, but she wasn’t abandoning her teammates. They tussled, and Jericho set off the detonator, and escaped. News crews filmed what appeared to be the dead Titans. Cyborg heard the broadcasts, and ripped off his life-support system, vowing to make Jericho pay. Jericho was tormented by the voices of his friends in his head, and when he felt guilty this led to another round of arguments with the voice of Deathstroke in his head. He raged, and promised to kill Deathstroke, at which point it seemed his father actually appeared to confront him. (Titans v2 #13)
Raven had actually created the illusion of the Titans’ death, and Miss Martian disguised herself as Deathstroke to confront and confuse Jericho. The Titans reached out to Jericho, and Raven tried to enter his mind to heal him, but all she found was darkness. They defeated him, but Vigilante made his presence known, and drew his guns, saying Jericho would kill again if not stopped. Ravager reminded him of his promise, and he slipped away. He later ambushed Jericho’s police convoy, and cut out his eyes so he could never use his power again. The Titans realized too late what Vigilante was up to, and they found Jericho in the back of his transport, bleeding and babbling that he was cured. (Vigilante v3 #6)
Post-Flashpoint
Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.
At some point during their childhoods, Joseph and Grant went camping with their father. While Joseph enjoyed himself, Grant refused to camp and slept in the car during the night, exhausting the car battery and stranding the three in the wilderness in the middle of winter. When Slade reprimanded Grant, he snapped at Slade. Before he could abuse him, Grant stormed off while Slade and Joseph began walking in a different direction to find a town. (Deathstroke: Rebirth v1 #1)
As a young adult, Jericho works as an executive vice-president for a tech firm that his mother owns in Los Angeles, and is engaged to his interpreter Etienne. Although mute and still using ASL, Jericho uses mobile technology that vocalizes his thoughts. (Deathstroke v4 #46)
It was later revealed that Etienne was a spy working for Amanda Waller and she had an affair with Slade. She was later murdered and Joseph joined the Defiance Project to find her killer. (Deathstroke v4 #28)
Joseph later received an upgrade from Lex Luthor that made him far more powerful at the cost of his own sanity. Then, Joseph was confronted by David and they both went to space to talk, so David used his technology to lock onto the energy signature to lock onto the diode powering Joseph and pull it out. He created an energy bubble around Joseph while the diode latched on to him, creating an explosion that killed him as his final sacrifice to save Joseph. (Deathstroke v4 #50)
Overview
Personality and attributes
He came to believe that children had no place to be superheroes after seeing so many of them die. Thus, he decided to brutally injure young heroes to force them to abandon the life of being a hero. This was under the belief that he was helping them by stopping them from facing further tragedies. (Teen Titans v3 #4)
Powers and abilities
Jericho can separate his astral self from his physical body, and into the physical or mental planes of existence. (Deathstroke v3 #3)
As a new facet of his psychic abilities, Joseph has demonstrated the ability to harness, project, and tap into psychic energy and forces for variety of effects and purposes, such as destructive blasts, telepathy, mind-reading, and psychokinesis. On the physical side, Jericho is a powerful telekinetic, possessing the ability to move and manipulate objects with his mind, and project psychokinetic energy for a variety of purposes. (Deathstroke v3 #3) Jericho could emit his psychokinetic energy as a devastating blast of raw concussive force which can blow apart, rupture, or damage living bodies or inorganic elements with ease. (Deathstroke v3 #5)
He would later come to use his fathers Ikon Suit where he began to operate as a superhero. (Deathstroke v4 #7)
Jericho accepted from Lex Luthor the power of a gravity droplet in a lechatelierite diode to replace his ruined Ikon Suit, a power that was intended for his father, then taken for dead, but which he eventually accepted after Luthor told him that if he did not accept, perhaps his sister Rose would. (Deathstroke v4 #46)
Notes
- Jericho was created by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez where he made his first appearance in Tales of the Teen Titans v1 #43 (June, 1984).
- In an interview with Wolfman, he commented on CBR about the characters sexuality originally, "Jericho was not gay. I would not have a problem creating a gay character, but to say he's gay because he was nice and gentle and artistic is stereotyping I don't believe in doing."
- On Comicvine, Wolfman wrote in an interview regarding Convergence: New Teen Titans, "And because of the timing of our story I got to do more with Jericho and Kole which actually uses a storyline I started back in 1984 but we didn't follow through on. But back then Kole asks a question which we didn't answer until now. It might be nice and very surprising to readers what I wanted to do 31 years ago. It'll definitely be controversial." During he resultant story, it was heavily implied that the character was a homosexual and had no romantic interest in teammate Kole beyond friendship despite her being in love with him.
- In the Post-Flashpoint continuity, it was shown in Christopher Priest's Deathstroke that Jericho was bisexual.
Alternate Versions
In other media
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Appearances
- Tales of the Teen Titans v1: (1984)
- Teen Titans v3:
- Deathstroke v4:
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