DOVE II
Real Name: Dawn Marie Granger
Class: Lord of Order
Occupation: College student, superhero
Group Affiliation: formerly Teen Titans, Teen Titans East
Known Relatives: Holly Granger (Hawk, sister, deceased), Marie Granger (mother), Russ Granger (father)
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Washington, D.C.
First Appearance: Hawk and Dove II #1 (October, 1988)
Powers: By saying the word "Dove" Dawn Granger was transformed into Dove, with her mystic costume replacing whatever she was wearing. As Dove she had peak human strength and agility, superhuman speed and an intelligent and expanded mind. Dove possessed superhuman recuperative power and the power of flight. Dawn was a skilled defensive combatant.History: (Hawk and Dove II #5 (fb)) - Dawn was with her mother Marie, who had diplomatic business in London, when the skies turned red and the Crisis broke out. In the chaos terrorists attacked the U.S. embassy and threatened to blow it up. A Voice told Dawn there was a way to save her mother, and transformed her into Dove. Dove took down the terrorists and saved her mother, only later learning that the original Dove, Don Hall, lost his powers and died shortly before she got hers. She felt a connection to the original Dove's brother Hank Hall, the Hawk, and was determined to find him.
(Hawk and Dove II #1-5) - Dawn enrolled in Georgetown University, where she ran into Hank Hall, at the bar and grill Suds, and heard him talking about seeing Hawk in action, who chased off robbers and found a Paulsen Photochemicals cap on one of them. As Dove she went to the factory and was joined in battling the criminals by Hawk. Hawk was outraged that someone took on his dead brother's superhero identity and took a swing at Dove. She ducked and evaded his further attacks, telling him she didn't choose to be Dove, that the same Voice that gave the original Dove his powers chose her. Hawk wouldn't listen so she left. Hank had dinner with his parents and ran into Dove again when she prevented a mugging, and they repeated their argument. The Lord of Chaos Kestrel was charged with killing Hawk, and their battle raged through the Air and Space Museum. Kestrel battered Hawk, leaving the hero ready for a deathblow before Dove arrived and saved him, drawing Kestrel away long enough for Hawk to change to Hank and get medical attention. The next day Kestrel sent a group of demonic commandos and Shadowblade to Hank's campus. Hank knew he needed help and found Ren Takamori, Dawn's friend and the girl he guessed was Dove, but his demands for her to change just frightened her. He turned into Hawk before her eyes just as Dove arrived, also revealing her identity as Dawn to Ren. Hawk and Dove were joined by Detective Wolfson and the Washington S.C.U. in battling the demons, and Hawk destroyed them by strapping a short-fuse bomb to himself, luring them to a deserted library, and blowing them up. Dove fought Shadowblade, and his own powers consumed him. Hawk agreed to work with Dove to stop Kestrel. Hawk agreed to work with Dove to stop Kestrel, and she shared her history with him, how she got her powers and came to Georgetown specifically to meet him because she felt she belonged with him. They confronted Kestrel in the Chaos Realm and he hinted to their connection with the Lords of Order and Chaos. The Chaos Realm weakened Dove and made Hawk more powerful and more violent. He nearly turned on Dove until Kestrel told him he should join up with him, and that they'd be as close as brothers. Thinking of Don Hawk calmed down and refused. The Lords of Chaos were displeased with Kestrel's misstep and disintegrated him, and Hawk and Dove returned to Earth. Hank and Dawn had dinner with Hank's parents, and he broke it to her that he thought of her more as a sister than anything else, and she told him she'd get over it, but they decided to stay partners as Hawk and Dove.
(Hawk and Dove III #1) - Hank regaled Ren Takamori with his story of fighting alongside Earth's superheroes in the Invasion for the umpteenth time, exaggerating his role as a leader. Dawn told her version, noting that Guy Gardner and Booster Gold both hit on her. Hank, Dawn and Ren rode in a taxi, with Ren planning a date with Hank when they saw the storefront of a jewelry store explode. Hawk and Dove went into action and battled the robotic Gauntlet inside the store, defeating him by taking off his head, but he escaped, teleporting away.
(Hawk and Dove III #2, 3) - Dawn's parents bought her a brownstone in the fashionable Abernathy Court, and she threw a housewarming party. A homeless woman who'd taken an interest in Marie Granger's Huitzilopochtli pendant broke in and stole it, becoming possessed by Huitzilopochtli. dawn changed Dove to save her father Russ, whom Huitzilopochtli tried to make a blood sacrifice of. Hawk appeared to join the battle, but Huitzilopochtli overpowered him and prepared to cut into him with her ceremonial blade. Dove saved Hawk, but Huitzilopochtli captured Deb Kafka, a medic on the scene of the attack. Hawk and Dove followed them to the Washington Monument, where Huitzilopochtli attempted another sacrifice. They defeated the villain and hawk crushed Huitzilopochtli's pendant, supposedly trapping the god in the mortal's body.
(Hawk and Dove III #4) - Hawk and Dove walked into a bank robbery committed by the Untouchables, old-time gangster themed crooks. The Untouchables blasted their way out of the bank, and being beaten hurt Hawk’s pride, so when Ren expressed interest in the dangerous Untouchables he snapped at her. Dawn reminded Ren that he lacked social experience with women and was firm on the point that he had no romantic interest in Dawn. Hawk and Dove tracked the Untouchables to their speakeasy hideout and sent them to jail.
(Hawk and Dove III #5) - When Dawn was sick with the flu the spirit of Dove appeared to her, and she apologized for his death. Dove told her she was far exceeding him as Dove, because he never explored his own talents and tried to be too much like his brother.
(Hawk and Dove III #6, 7) - Donna convinced Dawn to go on a blind date with her friend Brian even though Dawn wasn't sure she was interested in a relationship. Before she could meet Brian she was summoned to Barter's shop along with Hank. Barter offered to reveal the truth behind the mysterious voice that gave them their powers if they stole a priceless bible from his old enemy Count St. Germaine. They agreed, and he sent them to find the Alchemist's tomb in Paris. They entered Germaine's mansion, which had defenses set for mortal and mystic intruders, and Hank transformed into Hawk to attract the mystic defenses and battle them while Dawn continued the search. Dawn was pursued by Germaine's assistant Kali Jehan, a huntress, and when cornered she turned into Dove. She learned that there was no alchemist's tomb, it was a rumor used by Germaine to trap test subjects, but she did deduce that the bible was hidden under a statue of Mercury. Hawk and Dove escaped Germaine, but Kali vowed to hunt them down. Barter told them that the Lord of Chaos T'Charr gave Hawk his powers, and Lord of Order Terataya gave Dove hers. When they waited for more of an explanation he told them he only promised the names and nature of the mysterious voices, nothing more. Disappointed and angry, the heroes left the shop. Dove was still haunted by the possibility that gaining her powers caused Don Hall's death and thought about seeing Barter again.
(Hawk and Dove III #8, 9) - The robot M.A.C. attacked an armored van, so Hawk and Dove teamed with The Washington S.C.U. to restrain it. Captain Arsala of the S.C.U. asked Dove out on a date and Hawk proceeded to run him down as a wimp, but Dove still considered seeing him. Hank and Dawn accompanied Ren back to her apartment where they found a gun-toting criminal who wanted their help in finding Kyle Spencer. Copperhead, who was pursuing Ren because she'd accidentally snapped a photo of him committing murder, chose this opportunity to attack Ren, and Hawk, Dove and the criminal fought him off. They learned that she was Rue Spencer, Kyle's aunt, and she wanted to meet Kyle's fiancée Donna, and needed to go to such measures because he wanted nothing to do with her. Hawk, Dove and Rue teamed up to defeat Copperhead. Rue was injured during the fight so the heroes put a mask on her and told Washington S.C.U. she was a new hero so they'd give her medical treatment without removing the mask.
(Hawk and Dove III #10-12) - Hank and Dawn were in the middle of midterms at Georgetown when Ren, who hadn't been acting like herself, flirted with some campus tough guys and provoked a fight between them and Hank. The fight came to an end when the robot Andromeda shot the roughnecks. Hawk and Dove fought Andromeda, as well as Gauntlet, who'd arrived on the scene to recover M.A.C. from police storage. Hawk managed to put a S.C.U. tracer on M.A.C. before Gauntlet teleported him away. Hawk and Dove visited the New Titans and asked them to help track the robots and provide back-up. The Titans weren't surprised that Hawk only came to see them because he wanted something, but they agreed and flew the T-Jet to the remote island where the robots were. They fought back the robots and their creator Professor Douglas Strange. The technorganic alien Scarab had been Strange to do his bidding, stealing gold so it could feed. The heroes injured Scarab and it fled. During the battle Andromeda, who'd been imprinted with the memories of Strange's wife Andromeda, was destroyed by Jericho. Hawk hated a victory that wasn't clear-cut and blamed the Titans, who doubted they'd work with him again.
(Hawk and Dove III #13) - Dawn went on her date with Arsala, and it went well, but unbeknownst to her Hank was having dinner with Donna, Kyle and Rue Clayton at the same restaurant. Donna ran into Dawn in the ladies' room and assumed she was having an affair with a married man because she was being secretive. Rue's former friend Shell Shock was on a rampage, ending the awkward conversation. Hawk and Dove held off Shell Shock, who seemingly exploded herself when cornered. The police arrived, and Hawk uncharacteristically helped Rue escape. He explained to Dove that after hearing Rue's life story he'd decided the law was sometimes gray. Hawk and Dove returned to the restaurant and found Ren, who'd been possessed by Kestrel, waiting for them.
(Hawk & Dove III #14-17) - Kestrel told Hawk and Dove this time she wanted them to chase her, opened a portal to the dimension of Druspa Tau, and vanished. Hawk and Dove went to Barter in desperation, and after they described where they wanted to go he named his price as just the name of their destination. He opened a portal to Druspa Tau and wanted to bargain for their return ride when Hawk, sick of haggling, knocked him out and took him with them. The paradise of Tau had been taken over by the Lord of Chaos M'Shulla, with Kestrel in his thrall. Hawk tried to fight Kestrel, but was afraid of hurting Ren, so he agreed to serve M'Shulla if he'd release Ren. Dove took off with Rome, an old man who still believed in Arriya, the Lord of Order, but their path was blocked by Flaw and Child, but she dispatched them. Rome took her to the Tridic Tower, and explained the history of M'Shulla and Arriya's conflict. M'Shulla won the people of Tau by claiming that the Lords of Order imposed martial order on Tau, not revealing that Tau would burn out without their laws. Rome saw Dove as the daughter of Arriya and Tau's savior, and in Tau she was able to remove her mystic costume, revealing her full glory as a lord of Order. Hawk, who'd been won over by M'Shulla, took the Tau city Capella and captured Rome. Dove planned to show Hawk the error of his ways. Hawk and M'Shulla's army stormed the Tridic Tower, and after Hawk and Dove had a heated battle the forces of Chaos won and the Tower collapsed. Rome had escaped M'Shulla, and learned Arriya's true name, Teratya, allowing him to summon the Lord to confront M'Shulla. During the final battle for Tau M'Shulla didn't want Hawk interfering. Child and Flaw attacked Hawk and Dove, and Hawk shattered Flaw. Kestrel attacked them next, but Dove, understanding Kestrel's true nature as a minor chaos spell of death, physically separated Ren from kestrel, and had Hawk absorb kestrel into his own body, dissipating the weaker chaotic force. Terrataya was fatally wounded in the battle with M'Shulla and fled to a cave, where he had a talk with Hawk and Dove. Long ago Terrataya fell in love with lord of Chaos T'Charr and they bound themselves together as the Unity. To show the houses of Chaos and Order the potential of their cooperation they created the original Hawk and Dove. The Union told Hawk that Don hall was a weak candidate, which is why they had to take away his powers. The Union was dying, and Hawk and Dove would lose their powers if they didn't absorb their patron Lords into their own forms. With the Lords consciousness briefly still alive inside of them they chose to abandon Tau, because the Kali Yuga had arrived for it, it belonged to Chaos now. The Lords considered coupling, their experiment of Chaos and Order cooperating would be complete when Dove bore a child with Hawk that was a combined Lord. They decided the child must come from Hawk and Dove's own free will, and returned to Earth before the last of their consciousness became submerged. Hawk and Dove realized a part of them was deeply in love and embraced in a kiss.
(Hawk & Dove III #18, 19) -Hank and Dawn met at Suds to discuss their future, and decided not to tell Ren about their kiss. They attended the Georgetown University Law and Order Symposium to watch speeches from Judge Irwin hall and Hank's hero Jack Ryder. Hall put Ryder in his place when he defended Washington S.C.U/'s relationship with the vigilantes Hawk and Dove, and Hank was proud of his dad. The Madmen attacked the symposium to steal the experimental weaponry on show by the S.C.U.. Hawk and Dove joined the fray, and were joined by Ryder's alter-ego the Creeper. Creeper didn't get along with Hawk and Dove, and after he plowed a car into a group of Madmen, nearly injuring civilians, they thought of him as insane. The Secret Service intervened because Fleeter mentally controlled the other Madmen, and one of them was vice-president Quayle, who was speaking at the symposium. When Fleeter was knocked out the other Madmen regained their senses.
(Hawk and Dove Annual #1) - Hawk and Dove were brought to S.T.A.R. labs to investigate a portal opened by Director Jeffrey Simon as part of his Operation Zeppelin. Simon had disappeared, along with a rescue crew sent in after him. Hawk's old girlfriend Flamebird was in town, and called in other former members of Titans West for a reunion, and they all entered the portal, which led to Limbo. Deceased villains Iron Major, Top, Clayface, El Papagayo, Electrocutioner and Icicle were seeking to escape the underworld and return to Earth through the portal. They'd already taken the rescue team hostage to appease their demon jailer, a devil impersonating Etrigan. Hawk, Dove and the Titans battled them, and the tide turned when General Jeb Stuart came from Heaven to give Hawk his Haunted Tank. The false Etrigan was merely toying with the dead villains, and when he sent them through a portal, it turned out to be an entrance to Hell. The heroes returned to Earth with the rescue squad, and S.T.A.R. shut down Zeppelin. Flamebird wanted the Titans West to reform, but no one was that interested.
(Hawk & Dove III #20) - Dawn did her Christmas shopping at We r Toys when a group of criminals dressed as elves, sugarplum fairies, Santa and snowmen robbed the place. Their ringleader was Nutcracker, formerly owner of Faberville Toys who'd been driven out of business by Mr. Winslow, president of We R Toys. Dove rounded up the crooks with help from actors playing the Super-Powered Samurai Saurians, that season's hot toy line. Dawn made it to Donna's Christmas party and finally met Brian, who turned out to be police captain Arsala. Dawn liked the idea of competing against herself as Dove for his affections.
(Hawk & Dove III #21) -
Hank finally got to see Rodger in action as the Black Russian, he worked at a
boys club portraying a villain and teaching kids about the dangers of talking to
strangers. The Female Furies attacked Washington, playing a game to see who
could kill the most people, with superheroes being worth the most points. Hawk
and Dove went into action, and minimalized the loss of life. Malice of the
Furies won the game by mauling the Black Russian with her demonic cat Chessure,
and the Furies departed. Hawk held his dying friend in his arms.
(Hawk & Dove III #22) - Rodger miraculously survived, and Hank and Dawn spent the night by his hospital bedside. Hank needed to blow off steam, and attacked drug dealers in a park, but because he didn't transform into Hawk he had to be rescued by Dove. This disturbance attracted the attention of Sudden Death, who was looking to settle his old score with Hawk. After a fight, Sudden Death was defeated, but spirited away by crimelord Velvet Tiger.
(Hawk & Dove III #23) - Hank and Ren kept an eye on Dove when she went on a dinner date with Arsala. Halfway through she changed into Dawn to have another date with Arsala, to see who he preferred. When Hank and Dawn went home they saw a car blown up by a bomb. Velvet Tiger's brother Hakker and his Cyber-Brats were trying to kill Tiger because she was evil. Hawk and Dove defeated the Brats and saved her, but she warned them they'd come to blows in the future.
(JSA #49-51) - Dove and the JSA battled Kobra cultists who were launching terrorists attacks against Philadelphia after the Princes of Darkness pulled the moon from its’ orbit and Kobra declared the event signaled the impending end of the world. Dr. Fate sent a psychic transmission asking Dove, Hawkgirl and Power Girl to come to Gemworld and free the soul of Arion, whose body Mordu was using to exist on the physical plane. JSA reservist Dr. Occult opened a portal to Gemworld, and the heroines crossed over. The heroines rescued Arion’s soul from Flaw and Child and then returned to Earth. Arion’s soul passed through Mordu’s form before passing into the afterlife, weakening Mordru to the point that he could no longer keep Dr. Fate imprisoned in Fate’s amulet. Fate imprisoned Mordru in the Rock of Eternity.
(JSA #52) - Dr. Fate told Dove she could stay with the JSA, but she knew that it was her destiny to find a new “Hawk.” As Order’s Dove she had to work with Chaos’ Hawk so they could learn from each other. Fate offered to find Chaos’ new Hawk, but she told him it was something she had to do herself.
(Villains United: Infinite Crisis Special #1) - When the Society broke out virtually every incarcerated supervillain around the world Martian Manhunter sent a telepathic S.O.S. asking every available hero to stop the breakouts, and Hawk and Dove were among the heroes who responded. They helped return escaped prisoners to Wormwood Scrubs in England.
(52 / WWIII Part Two: The Valiant #1) - <Week 50, Day 4> Black Adam declared war on Earth, starting WWIII. Dove and the Teen Titans, led by Beast Boy, prepared to confront him, well knowing he could kill them all.
(52 / WWIII Part Three: Hell Is For Heroes #1) - <Week 5, Day 5, 6> The Titans confronted Black Adam in Greece, and Raven begged Beast Boy to have confidence in himself and be the leader they needed him to be. Adam defeated the Titans, severely injuring several of them and killing Young Frankenstein. Beast Boy decided to leave the wounded behind to be tended by locals, and pursue Adam to the Himalayas. Adam defeated the Titans again, injuring Hawk and Dove. Beast Boy realized he could do nothing except tend to the wounded.
(Titans East Special #1, Titans II #1) - Cyborg recruited a new roster of young heroes and contacted his old friends to reform the Titans and train them. Everyone turned him down, but Nightwing told him he appreciated what he was trying to do. They bout had a moment of nostalgia for the Titans, and how they were always equally family and a team. Cyborg assembled the new Hawk and Dove, Power Boy, Lagoon Boy, Anima, Son of Vulcan and Little Barda as the Teen Titans East. Hawk spent a night with her teammate Power Boy, and bragged about it to Dove, exasperating her sister. Cyborg wanted them to prove themselves as a team, so he set up a war game where the rest of the team would try to subdue Power Boy, whose cockiness and unfortunate run-in with Supergirl meant he had yet to earn Cyborg’s trust, despite his immense power. The team functioned decently, if not entirely in synch before Power Boy was charred and impaled on a tree. Laser beams cut down the rest of the team, as Cyborg watched helplessly before he was consumed y a fireball that destroyed most of his body. The former Titans responded, and Raven realized that her father Trigon was trying to kill every last Titan, past or present.
(Titans II #22) - Hawk and Dove and several other heroes gathered at Titans Tower for Hero's Day, a remembrance of their brothers and sisters in arms that died in the line of duty.
(Blackest Night: Titans #1-3) -Dove paid her respect to Hawk's memorial statue at Titan's Tower, and her sister Hawk said her predecessor was a sexist idiot and a tool. Dove tried to convince her that beneath his rough exterior Hawk was a great hero, and Hawk reminded her that he died a villain. They left Hero's Day to get a few drinks, and Dove tried to convince Hawk to go back to college. She wanted Hawk to focus on something besides her rage, because that was what ended up corrupting Hank Hall. They were attacked by Hank, who'd been resurrected as a zombie by the Black Lantern Corps. He battered them, and ripped out Hawk's heart, telling her she was a pale imitation as his successor. She was resurrected as a Black Lantern, and they ganged up on Dove, but they couldn't get an emotional response because of her ties to the Lords of Order. She fled to Titans Tower, where several other Titans had been resurrected as Black Lanterns. The Black Lanterns attacked Dove, but her lifeforce connection permanently destroyed them. The surviving Lanterns fled, and the Titans realized the war was far from over. Troia said they needed to get Dove on the front lines. The spirit of Don Hall appeared to Dove, and told her she was at peace like him, and she could never give up in her fight against the Lanterns.
Comments: Created by Karl Kesel, Barbara Kesel & Rob Liefeld
Dove received a profile in Who's Who in the DC Universe #6.
A portrait of Dove was seen in Fate’s Tower in JSA All-Stars #3.
Dove had cameos in New Gods II #15 and Titans II #21.
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