GRACE CHOI

Real Name: Grace Choi

Class: Amazonian / human hybrid

Occupation: Superhero, former bouncer

Group Affiliation: formerly Outsiders III

Known Relatives: unnamed mother

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Mobile

First Appearance: Outsiders III #1 (August, 2003)

Powers: As a half-Amazonian Grace was extremely long-lived and possessed superhuman strength, durability, stamina and speed. She was an accomplished streetfighter.

History: Grace was the offspring of a Bana-Mighdall Amazon and a human man. At an early age she was sold into child slavery, but as she reached puberty her Amazonian powers developed and she escaped. She drifted, taking a number of jobs before settling on being a bouncer.

(Outsiders III #4-6) -Acting on tips from Arsenal's source, Grace and the Outsiders battled and captured Calendar Man, Calculator, Plasmus, Punch and Jewlee and the Bug Eyed Bandit. Grace and the Outsiders shut down a gun-running operation headed by Brain and Monsieur Mallah in Kwajalein. Grace resumed an intimate relationship with Arsenal. Arsenal's source gave him a hint that the villains they had recently captured were working for Brother Blood, so the Outsiders went to the House of St. Francis Monastery where Blood was living as a monk. Blood set off a bomb that destroyed the monestary and fled. The Outsiders learned Blood was going to activate sleeper agents to steal one million babies to start a new race raised loyal only to him. The Outsiders stopped Blood from activating a GPS signal that would awaken his sleepers, but they failed to prevent the inmates of the Slab, who were protecting Blood, from escaping custody.

(Outsiders III #7) - Grace and the Outsiders physically restrained the real Metamorpho when he showed up at Outsiders hq and tried to absorb the Outsider's Metamorpho, who was actually a piece of Metamorpho that formed its' own life. The Outsiders helped convince the real Metamorpho that their Metamorpho was a real hero and should be able to continue his own, separate life.

(Outsiders III #8-10) - Grace and the Outsiders investigated a crime scene, a busload of people burned to death in a demonic ritual. They learned Russian mobster Ishmael Gregor was behind it and went to his home in Greenwich Village. By the time they arrived Gregor had completed the rituals needed to become the Hell-powered supervillain Sabbac, and he defeated the Outsiders. Grace suffered third degree burns when Sabbac spewed fire on her, which only angered her and made her eager for a rematch. The Outsiders later confronted Sabbac as he summoned the Soldiers of Dietec to Earth. With the help of Black Lightning and Captain Marvel, Jr. the Outsiders forced the Soldiers back to Hell and forced Sabbac to flee.

(Superman / Batman #13) - Grace and the Outsiders were among the heroes invited to Paradise Island to welcome Superman's cousin Supergirl into the superhero community.

(Green Arrow III #49, 50) - When Grace and the Outsiders learned Arsenal was supposedly caught in an explosion at the Star City Forest Trust Bank after aiding Green Arrow against Drakon, they came to offer their help. They searched the wreckage but found no sign of their teammate. They did find a calling card from Riddler, who had Drakon kidnap Arsenal before the detonation. They stormed Riddler’s safehouse, Puertas al Infierno, a former prison,and fought off the hi-tech armored mercenaries that guarded it. Shift captured Drakon, and once Riddler learned his security had been breahed he fled, noting that his act was a game, and a hint of things to come when he was serious about destroying Green Arrow.

(Villains United: Infinite Crisis Special #1) - The Society massed in Metropolis, and Grace and an army of virtually every hero on Earth confronted the villains and engaged in an epic battle with them.

(Tales of the Sinestro Corps: Superman-Prime #1) - An army of Earth’s heroes, including Grace and the Outsiders, appeared to take Superboy-Prime down during the Sinestro Corps invasion of Earth. The heroes focused on wrecking his armor, because after a year on Oa, and away from a yellow sun his Kryptonian body still wasn’t at full strength, and his armor collected sunlight. Superboy bragged that once the sun rose on Earth he’d be at full power. Superboy was battered by Wonder Girl and Wonder Woman, who blamed him for Superboy’s death, as well as Supergirl and Power Girl, who blamed him for the death of the Superman of Earth-2. As the fight went against him, Superboy broke down in tears. He tried to wipe them away, saying that it was impossible for boys to cry, and then whining that no one ever thanked him for sacrificing his Earth to save the multiverse. The battle lasted until dawn, and he flew into the sunrise. As he achieved full power he declared himself the one, true Superman. The Guardians arrived with Sodam Yat, the new Ion, and pitted him against Superboy-Prime.

Comments: Created by Judd Winick & Tom Raney.

Grace Choi received a profile in Teen Titans / Outsiders Secret Files 2003.

Grace had cameos in Green Arrow III #72, 73 and JLA #121.

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