User:Joejoeice99/Scarlet (DC Comics)

Partnerships: Red Hood Real Name:Sasha Abilities: - Excellent acrobat and marksman - Deadly hand-to-hand combatant - Access to high-caliber weaponry - Advanced student in detection - Shows no mercy

History

Sasha came to Gotham City, with her father Niko. Niko was a petty criminal who came to Gotham City because his brother Lev had made promises of opportunity. Sasha chose to come along because she always sided with her father against her mother. Her mother believed Niko to be a "no-good shiftless waster." Sasha would later come to believe her mother was perhaps right about Niko all along. But he was still her father. After her father and Uncle Lev had a job foiled by the new Batman and Robin, they both returned home to Sasha ready to pack up and leave town. It was Batman they were afraid of, but their fears were misplaced. For their failure, Professor Pyg came, killed Uncle Lev and abducted Sasha and her father. They were taken to his hideout, a run down circus ground, where Pyg conducted his experiments on them. Sasha had to watch as Pyg turned her father into a "Dollotron" by grafting a freakish mask to his face and surgically altering him. The drugs and trauma reduced him to another one of Pyg's mindless and obedient servants. Then, the process began on her. It only progressed as far as grafting the mask to her face, mutilating her. Robin had found his way to Pyg's hiding place and gotten himself captured. Pyg stopped working on her so that he could focus on Robin, but Robin broke free of his restraints. During the distraction, Sasha attacked Pyg in a rage and lit him and the whole place on fire. Robin promised to save her, but he became too distracted with pursuing Pyg. She begged for him not to leave her behind, and he tried to reach back for her but tumbled outside with Pyg. She managed to escape burning along with everything else. However, the entire ordeal had traumatized her. She looked like one of Pyg's Dollotrons now, as did her father. She found where he had been taken in the hospital, slipped into his room during the night, and smothered him to death with a pillow. This was when the Red Hood found her and promised her a way she could channel all that rage.

Red Hood and Scarlet This was how Sasha became Scarlet, the Red Hood's sidekick. She joined him on his viral marketing campaign of killing criminals and trying to supplant Batman and Robin's place in Gotham City.

She was afraid to try to remove the mask Pyg had put on her. If she attempted to do so, it could tear her face off or make it so no doctor could help her later. She asked Red Hood "Maybe it will dry up one day and drop off. You think?" He reassured her that whatever she decided to do about it would not make her any less special.

Working with the Red Hood led her into a confrontation with Robin, who had previous failed to keep his promise to save her. He was a much better fighter than her, but he was still only a kid. She surprised him with a taser shot and stabbed him in the side. She then rendered him unconscious with a blow to the head, helping Red Hood capture the dynamic duo.

The actions of Scarlet and the Red Hood had also garnered the attention of El Penitente who sent an insane assassin by the name of Flamingo to kill them. Flamingo had incapacitated Red Hood and Scarlet, and would have killed them if not for the intervention of Batman and Robin. During the fight, Robin saved Scarlet from Flamingo, taking five gun shots in the back. Scarlet was able to injure Flamingo, allowing Red Hood to defeat him. When Batman came to the injured Robin's side, Robin said "Just tell...tell the girl we're even." Scarlet escaped the scene in the Red Hood's vehicle headquarters. As she is left Gotham City, the "Dollotron" mask appeared to peel away and fall from her face along with the "horror and madness" in her mind. Sasha's Scarlet identity had gone. In the second story arc of Batman and Robin by Grant Morrison and Philip Tan, Todd retakes the mantle of the Red Hood after losing his bid to become the new Batman to Grayson. With the goal of making the very concept of Batman obsolete, he puts a lot of effort into public relations: he drastically alters his Red Hood costume to look more like a traditional superhero outfit, recruits his own sidekick, Scarlet, and uses Twitter to report on his crime-fighting activities. In their war on crime, Red Hood and Scarlet freely kill criminals, villains, and anyone who gets in their way, even the police. He leaves behind a calling card which states "let the punishment fit the crime." He describes his vendetta against Grayson as "the revenge of one crazy man in a mask on another crazy man in a mask."[34][35] Todd has reappeared with red hair, claiming that he is a natural red-head and that Bruce had him dye his hair black in order to look like Grayson, as in his pre-Crisis origins. He also claims the white streak of hair that he got is from being resurrected in the Lazarus Pit though the white streak disappears again.[36] In the issue, Todd is characterized as increasingly unstable and his idea of "finishing off" Batman and Robin now consists of stripping them down to their underwear and exposing their identities via webcam activated by a phone poll [a nod by Morrison to his own death poll]. A fight between Batman, Robin, and the Flamingo ends with Jason burying Flamingo in debris with a bulldozer. Flamingo is assumed dead, although Commissioner Gordon reports that his body can't be recovered from beneath the rubble. In a homage to The Killing Joke,[37] Grayson offers to rehabilitate Todd who, in a moment of clarity, tells Grayson it's too late for him, and how he tried to be what Batman wanted, "but this world...this dirty, twisted, cruel and ugly dungheap had...other plans for me." He then proceeds to fall back into his hero persona, ranting how he did what Batman never did. He "...defeated his archenemy." Todd is arrested by Gordon who informs him that the reason he has always worked with Batman is that Batman never violates the law "where it counts". As Gordon leads him away, Todd tauntingly asks Grayson why he hasn't put Wayne's corpse into a Lazarus Pit to bring him back, citing his own resurrection from its bath. Scarlet flees Gotham, her mask finally falling from her face as she exits the city limits