Lady Trieu (Watchmen)

Lady Trieu is a female television character who features in Watchmen.

Biography

Lady Trieu was a female human born in Vietnam in 1986 as the daughter of Bian My and Adrian Veidt. Her mother was originally a maid in the Veidt household where she wanted to defy her employer and secretly stole a sample of Adrian's sperm. With it, she inseminated herself where she escaped Karnak in the middle of the night without his knowledge. Thus, he was unaware of the birth of his daughter who grew up to be highly intelligent as the result of her father's genetics where she excelled in academics despite her young age. Recogising her intellectual potential, her mother sought to shape Trieu into becoming the smartest woman in the world where she had her daughter suffer isolation, tough love and enhanced transcendental meditation. At 15 years old, she graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where by 2001 she had PhDs in astrophysics, nuclear fission, bioengineering, and nanochemistry. When she was 19 years old, Lady Trieu decided to purchase the university with her growing fortune. rieu established Trieu Industries, an international conglomerate that by 2010 would revolutionize the fields of medicine, energy, and nanotechnology. After becoming a trillionaire from the success of the pharmaceutical drug Nostalgia in 2007, Lady Trieu turned her attention to space exploration. Since 2010, Trieu has launched 50 Voyager-class probes into the galaxy, and in 2015, she began licensing her patented micro-fusion propulsion technology to the SDI alliance, China, and the Egyptian Union. The trillion-dollar company, would serve as a front to construct her quantum centrifuge in Tulsa as the Millennium Clock.

In 2008, Trieu traveled to Karnak, Antarctica to meet her biological father Adrian Veidt. Veidt, however, was not interested in her until she revealed that she knew of his manufactured squid attack on New York City in 1985. Veidt denied this, but Trieu proclaimed that his actions were genius and pointed out that no one gives him any credit for it. She thanked Veidt for saving the world from nuclear holocaust, and he invited her in for tea. She points out that while the attack had stopped humanity from destroying itself, it only delayed the inevitable. Trieu wants Veidt's financial help to build a quantum centrifuge to extract the powers of Doctor Manhattan so she can enact a more permanent solution to world peace. Trieu reveals she knows Manhattan is on Europa and has launched a probe to arrive there in 2013 to visually confirm this. Veidt refuses to help noting that he gave up his parents' wealth to demonstrate he could achieve anything starting from nothing, and he offers Trieu the same. Veidt insists he will never called her 'daughter'. In 2012, Trieu bought Adrian Veidt's company, Veidt Enterprises. When members of Veidt Enterprises' board of directors visited Antarctica to seek Veidt’s blessing on the sale, they found Karnak to be unoccupied. By 2017, Trieu Industries officially acquired the estate of Veidt Enterprises.

Trieu later took a deep interest in Doctor Manhattan and had Manhattan Booths placed in major cities around the world. She successfully replicated one of Manhattan’s greatest creations, mass-producing synthetic lithium that reintroduced the electric car, and she built the “Eye over Mars” that displays video images of Manhattan building and collapsing ornate sandcastles on the surface of the red planet. She even funded a commission to prove that "The Big Blue Cancer Panic" perpetrated by the Nova Express in 1985 was a hoax. At some point Trieu discovered that Manhattan was not on Mars and that it's just a decoy going through the motions in a predetermined pattern. She believes that he's on Europa, and she designed and built a satellite to scan for Manhattan's unique frequency of radiation which would reach Europa in five years In 2013 the satellite probe she sent out five years earlier finally reaches Europa. She had expected to find Doctor Manhattan on Europa, but discovered a message her father, Adrian Veidt, crying out for help in a message saying: SAVE ME DAUGHTER. In 2016, she designed and launched the first micro-fusion spacecraft which she sent to Europa to return Veidt safely back to Earth by 2018. Through Will Reeves, she learned of Manhattan's identity on earth as Cal Abar, husband of Angela Abar. She also learned the Seventh Kavalry had discovered this as well and planned to capture Manhattan themselves, and Will asks for her help to wipe the Kavalry and Cyclops out.

Overview

Personality and attributes

Dressed in a silk costume and white gloves still low growth Vietnamese with short hair, but in the flashback scene she has long hair pinned up in a bun.

Powers and abilities

Lady Trieu, like Adrian Veidt, possesses an immense knowledge of physics, engineering, genetics, quantum mechanics, nanotechnology, and biology. She created the Millennium Clock to destroy Seventh Kavalry, kill Doctor Manhattan, and take his powers for herself. Her vast scientific intellect helped Veidt escape Europa to Earth and cure Angela Abar after she took her grandfather's Nostalgia. She's used her quantum mechanical knowledge of Dr. Manhattan weakness to kill him and take his powers.

She was the founder and CEO of an international business conglomerate which was Trieu Industries.

Notes

• Lady Trieu was created by Damon Lindelöf where she was portrayed by actor Hong Chau and was an original character for the Watchmen television series.
• The character was named after Lady Triệu who was a female warrior in 3rd century Vietnam where she resisted the Chinese state of Eastern Wu.

Appearances

• Watchmen: (2019)

External Links

• Watchmen Wiki Entry

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