Real Name: Jade
Occupation: Assassin
Marital Status: Single
Base of Operations: Gotham City
Height: 5ft. 9in.
Weight: 141 lbs
Eyes: Green
Hair: Black
First Appearance: New Teen Titans Annual #2 (1983)
Created By: Marv Wolfman, George Perez

Born to a French father and a Vietnamese mother, she had an unhappy childhood and was sold into slavery. This trauma made her psychotic, and paved her way into becoming one of the world's most ruthless mercenaries.

After killing her master, Jade is informally adopted by Chinese freedom fighter Weng Chan, who teaches her all he knows about guerrilla fighting. She acquires knowledge of poisons from Kruen Musenda, a famed African assassin known as the "Spitting Cobra" and to whom she is married for the two years prior to his death.

She is a long-standing rival of the superhero team the Teen Titans. However, when Roy Harper, a.k.a. the archer Arsenal, goes undercover for the government in a mission to get her confidence and turn her over, the two fall passionately in love. Knowing he will not be able to turn her in, he walks out; Cheshire would not learn his true identity until later. The result of their romance is a daughter, Lian, whom Roy is raising. Despite her own shortcomings, Jade loves her daughter.

Returning to her mercenary ways after leaving Lian behind for Roy, Jade saves Deathstroke's life so he could help her in stealing nuclear weapons from Russia in an attempt to blackmail the world. To prove she is not bluffing, she obliterates the fictional Middle East nation of Qurac, reasoning that since Qurac is a stronghold of Muslim terrorists, that Western countries would be secretly grateful.[1]. Cheshire's plans are foiled when her base comes under attack and she is forced to flee. She later creates her own team, The Ravens.

Cheshire volunteers to join Tartarus, a group created by Vandal Savage with the objective of destroying the Titans. During a confrontation with the Titans and the H.I.V.E, Savage shoots Cheshire to distract Arsenal. She recovers, but is taken into custody for crimes including destroying Qurac. Sentenced to life imprisonment, she is broken out by the Ravens. Arsenal, however, forces her back into custody.

She became as a member of the Secret Six had relations with Thomas Blake, a.k.a. Catman, and became pregnant. At the end of the miniseries, having betrayed the Six to Lex Luthor's Society, she is shot and critically wounded by Deathstroke. Though apparently killed, she later turns up alive, living in a mansion in the Himalaya Mountains with her son by Blake. She put out hits on the other members of the Secret Six except for Blake. Taking matters into her own hands, she stabs The Mad Hatter, who is working with the Six. Her blade was poisoned (as usual) and she later bartered the antidote to the poison to Catman in exchange for her safety.

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