Nightshade (DC)

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Nightshade is a female comic superhero who features in DC Comics.

Biography

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Eve Eden was a female human who was the daughter of Senator Wayne Eden and Magda Eden with her having an older brother named Larry Eden. Her mother in reality was a princess from an otherworldly realm known as the Land of Nightshades with her powers being passed to her children. (Captain Atom v1 #87)

As a young girl, her mother revealed to Eve and her brother about their heritage as well as their powers where she took them to the Land of Nightshades. (Captain Atom v1 #87) Once there, they were beset upon by warriors of the demonic Incubus who had terrorised the land. They attacked Magda in order to take her and her children back to their master leading to her being briefly separated from her children. In the chaos, Eve managed to escape and by instinct tapped into her powers where in the shade she merged with the shadows to escape her pursuers. Meanwhile, her mother went to save her son Larry where in the commotion she was stabbed by one of the warriors. Eve came to her mother in those moments and used her powers to send the two of them back to Earth but Larry remained trapped in the Land of Nightshades. The dying Magda told her daughter to not reveal the circumstances of her ancestry or the events in the other dimension and asked her to promise to find her brother in the future. Thus, Eve's mother died in front of her but she had made the promise to accomplish her mother's dying wish and kept the existence of her powers a secret from her father. (Captain Atom v1 #88)

She was then taken from her home by a foreign agent known as the Image who had a strange power over mirrors and was able to use them as portals. Taking Eve Eden hostage, he sent a ransom to her father the senator in order to blackmail them and subvert plans to strengthen the nation's defences. Whilst away from his base, Eve looked for a means to get her powers but she could not find any shadows due to the lights present in her cell. She then used her shoe to shatter the light allowing her to become Nightshade and used her shadow powers to re-appear at the Eden mansion. Nightshade was present at the Image looked to threaten the gathered senators to follow his demands or he would detonate an explosive to kill them. She engaged the villain in a fight and he briefly gained an advantage until Nightshade asked one of the bystanders to switch off the lights leaving the room in darkness. Desperate, the Image decided to flee through a mirror but left the explosive behind to kill everyone but Nightshade through it into the mirror which exploded with the fate of the foreign agent being unknown. After leaving the room, she quickly changed back to Eve Eden who claimed that Nightshade had rescued her and brought her back home. (Captain Atom v1 #88)

DC

Following the Crisis on Infinite Earths, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.

She was with Shadowpact when they sensed a magical disturbance surrounding Linda Danvers and ambushed her in order to prevent her from going on a rampage. (Reign of Hell v1 #1)

Post-Flashpoint

Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.

Overview

Personality and attributes

Her masked persona was known to had to had struck fear in the unknown shadows of the underworld of criminals and spies. (Captain Atom v1 #87)

Eve's father was a senator in the U.S. government. (Captain Atom v1 #87)

Powers and abilities

Her abilities were tied to the otherworld of the Land of Nightshades which the source of her shadow powers. She had inherited these powers from her mother who was a Princess of that realm. These powers were said to be akin to being magic within the human world. It allowed her to become like a shadow and she could use this to transport herself to the wondrous realm that was their mother's home. (Captain Atom v1 #87)

On Earth, her family home was the Eden Mansion that was the stately manor of her father who was a senator in the U.S. government. (Captain Atom v1 #87)

Notes

• Nightshade was created by David Kaler and Steve Ditko where she made her first appearance in Captain Atom v1 #82 (September, 1966).

Alternate Versions

• In Countdown: Arena v1 #1 (2008), an alternate version of the character called the Eve of Shadows appeared in the world of Earth-13. She was shown as being married to her version of Nathaniel Adams who on her world was called Brigadier Atom.

In other media

Films

• In Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, Nightshade made a minor appearance in the setting of the animated film where she was voiced by actress Rachael MacFarlane.

Appearances

• Captain Atom v1: (1966)
• Suicide Squad v1:
• Shadowpact v1:
• Reign in Hell v1:
• Deathstroke:

External Links

• DC Database Entry
• Comicvine Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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