Jade

JADE

Real Name: Jennie-Lynn Hayden

Class: Human mutant / magic-user

Occupation: Adventurer, photographer, aspiring actress, model, dancer, former salesgirl

Group Affiliation: Justice League of America II, formerly Infinity, Inc., Outsiders III

Known Relatives: Rose Canton (Thorn I, mother, deceased), Julian Hayden (adoptive father), Myma Hayden (adoptive mother), Todd Rice (Obsidian, brother), Jeremy Rice (adoptive brother), Alan Wellington Scott (Green Lantern I, father), Molly Mayne Scott (Harlequin I, stepmother),

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: New York City, NY, formerly Stellar Studios, Los Angeles, California

First Appearance: All-Star Squadron #25 (September, 1983)

Powers: Jade could project mystical green energy that could perform any feat she desired. This power was limited by the strength of her will, and the energy was completely ineffective against anything made of wood. She had a minor telepathic link with her brother Obsidian.

History: Jennie was the daughter of Green Lantern I and Rose Canton. Green Lantern never knew that Rose bore him two children, who she gave up for adoption because she feared her psychotic personality Thorn would one day reemerge. A separate foster family raised each twin. During her adolescence Jennie's skin turned green and her mutant abilities derived from her father's mystical connection with the Starheart emerged. As an adult she met her brother Todd, who also possessed super powers. They both suspected their true parentage, and intended to become superheroes under the names Jade and Obsidian. They tried out for the JSA, along with a few other second generation superheroes, but were rejected. These second generation heroes formed their own team as Infinity, Inc.

After the dissolution of Infinity, Inc. Jade moved to NYC and threw herself into her modeling and acting career.

(Showcase '93 #7) - Jade did a commercial shoot for Ardent Chris' Jealousy perfume, using her powers to create special effects. She had a blast, but Obsidian, who as accompanying her, thought it was stupid. They were attacked by Mister McEscher, a special effects director who blamed Jade for stealing business from him. He used a projector to create illusions that had the heroes confounded until Jeremy, who directed the commercial, found McEscher's control booth and shut it down.

(Final Night #1, 3) - Superman organized a summit of superheroes, including Jade, to listen to an alien named Dusk. She'd seen the Sun-Eater snuff out the sun of countless planets, and she was there to warn the heroes that the Sun-Eater was headed towards Earth. The heroes discussed different ways to deal with the menace. The Eater engulfed the sun, leading to worldwide cooling. Frozen oceans caused earthquakes, and Sentinel saved a number of citizens in Japan from the aftermath. He was joined by Jade and Obsidian, who wanted to make sure they got to spend time with their father if this was really the end of the world.

(Green Lantern III #81) - Coast City; Jade was among the heroes who attended a memorial service for Green Lantern Hal Jordan.

Jade started dating Green Lantern IV, and received a Green Lantern power ring. Her ring was destroyed during a fight with Fatality, once again robbing her of super-powers.

(Green Lantern III #103)- Jade listened to Kyle's recent fears that time traveling Green Lantern Hal Jordan had taken his spot on the JLA. Jade told him she'd always be there for him to lean on as a friend. They shared a moment and a kiss.

(Green Lantern III #106) - Kyle told Jade about his time traveling adventure with Green Lantern Hal Jordan and Jade decided she liked how much simpler her life was now that she wasn't a superheroine. Kyle showed her that before he returned to his own time Hal gave him a self-replicating power ring.

(JLA #27) - Jade was called in as a JLA reservist to battle Amazo. Amazo was programmed to acquire the powers of the JLA, so when Jade and a number of other heroes temporarily joined the JLA to battle him it just made Amazo more powerful. Amazo decimated the JLA reservists, and was only defeated when Superman officially disbanded the JLA, leaving Amazo powerless

(JSA #7) - Jade was worried when Obsidian stopped taking his anti-psychotic medication, and this worry turned into panic when she felt how angry and pained he was through her psychic connection to him. She phoned Sentinel and made him aware of her concerns.

(JSA #9) - Jade awoke to find her father in her apartment. He broke the news to her that Obsidian seemingly died trying to bring the Shadowlands to Earth.

(Green Lantern III #132) - Jade saw a news report of Fatality on a rampage, and called Kyle, alerting him that his old enemy was back.

(Green Lantern III #133) - Jade, Kyle Merayn, and Guy Gardner visited John Stewart, who was recovering from injuries he suffered at Fatality's hands at St. Vincent's hospital. Kyle reflected on his fight with Fatality, and it depressed him, so Jade cheered him up by taking him to a cheap pizza joint they used to go to when they were dating. They started spending more time with each other and rekindled their relationship. Jade was impressed that Kyle was more grounded and ready for a commitment.

(Green Lantern III #134) - Sentinel was injured while fighting Nero, and Kyle brought him back to his and Jade's apartment. Jade patched up her father, who demanded Kyle do everything in his power to stop Nero.

(Green Lantern III #136) - Jade was proud of Kyle for defeating Nero with the help of the JLA. Batman told Kyle there should be more ring bearers, so he gave Kyle the ring Jade used to wear, and Kyle presented her with it. He also used the ring as an opportunity to propose to Jade.

(JSA #21) - Jade visited Sentinel, who was still recuperating from injures suffered at the hands of the Injustice Society. Jade told him that she knew Obsidian was still alive; he was haunting her in her dreams.

(JSA: Our Worlds at War #1) - During the Imperiex War Jade was called in as a JSA reserve on a mission to disrupt Imperiex’s link to his ship’s power supply. The JSA found that Imperiex’s ship was leeching it’s power from the planet Daxam, which Imperiex had pulled out of its’ orbit. With Jade’s help Dr. Occult managed to send Daxam back into proper orbit, and Imperiex’s ship, no longer having a power supply, imploded.

(JSA #34, 35, 37) - The Ultra-Humanite used Johnny Thunder’s Thunderbolt to conquer the world, and imprisoned Barda and virtually every superhuman on Earth in stasis tubes, only reviving them when he needed mind-controlled slaves to serve in his personal guard the Thunderfront. Jade served as a member of the Thunderfront when they attacked the JSA, the only heroes not under the Humanite’s control. During the fight Thunderfront member Captain Atom’s shell was cracked, quantum leaping him and everyone around him, including Jade, one week into the future. By this time the JSA had already defeated the Humanite and freed the Thunderfront from his control. Jade attended the funeral of Johnny Thunder.

(Green Lantern III #143-145) - Jade and Kyle cleaned up the Statue of Liberty, which had been defaced by a Jokerized villain. They then defeated the Jokerized Grayven, who'd taken over a late night television show to try out his comedy routine. Grayven ahd planted a neutron bomb in the building, so Kyle took it into the sky and tapped into an entirely new and powerful source of energy to contain the explosion. The new energy that filled Kyle left him in a daze and unable to communicate. Jade finally got through to him with the help of Sentinel. Kyle told her it was his destiny to claim all the Parallax power in the sun and prevent Nero, who also knew it was there, from taking it as his own. Jade was insistent on going with Kyle, but Sentinel held her back, telling her she'd just be in the way and at this point it was something Kyle had to do on his own. Kyle succeeded and returned to Earth as Ion.

(Green Lantern III #146) - Jade was taken aback by Ion and his new powers, as he was creating multiple versions of himself to perform superheroics around the world and through space. She was worried about him playing God, but he told her he was just a bigger, badder superhero. Jade and Ion had a date night and spent some quality time together.

(Green Lantern III #148) - Jade was out on patrol when she met Sonar, who surprised her during the fight and had her on the ropes. He almost took her ring before she took him down with a low blow. Jade and Ion spent the evening together and met with John Stewart and Merayn, who announced that John was healed and no longer needed a wheelchair. She convinced everyone they had to go out dancing to celebrate. After a long night of partying Ion got her to admit how much she missed her old powers despite having a power ring. He told her he could restore her powers with his new abilities, and she gladly consented. She gave Ion back her power ring and the couple went flying over the city.

(Green Lantern III #150) - Ion gave up his powers to reignite the Central Power Battery and resurrect the Guardians of the Universe, and Jade told him it was an incredibly noble thing to do.

(Green Arrow III #23, Green Lantern III #162) - Jade and Kyle went to a club with Jade's supermodel friends, but Jade had a miserable time because her "friends" were bubbleheads. They came across members of the Black Circle, interstellar drug dealers trying to broker a deal with the mafia, but the Circle members escaped capture. Kyle wanted to work with Green Arrow, who was also on the case, but Arrow wanted nothing to do with him because he saw Kyle as usurping the role Hal Jordan had. Kyle took his aggravation out on some street punks, and Jade told him to calm down. She told him to forget about Arrow and work the case alone.

(Green Arrow III #24) - Jade and Kyle were, despite initial doubts, ready to resume their physical relationship when Kyle was called away by Green Arrow Connor Hawke.

(JSA #49-51) - Jade was horrified when Obsidian pull the moon from its orbit with the help of his allies the Princes of Darkness. JSAers Captain Marvel and Star-Spangled Kid brought Sentinel to Jade. He was dying because the Princes stole the Starheart from him, and the JSAers asked Jade to lend him some of her power to keep him alive. As she was about to try and help her father she was attacked by Obsidian. The heroes fended off Obsidian, and jade lent her powers to Sentinel, who stripped Obsidian of his powers. Sentinel promised Jade and Obsidian that everything would be all right, and they shared a hug. Jade aided the JSA in defeating Mordru.

(JSA #52) - Jade and Green Lantern Alan Scott visited Obsidian, who was in D.E.O. custody, and they were pleased to see he was pulling his life together after losing his connection to the Shadowlands, and was no longer under its thrall.

(JSA #54) - Jade, the JLA and JSA celebrated Thanksgiving at JSA hq.

(Outsiders III #2, 3) - Jade rescued President Luthor's plane from crashing after it entered a disruption field Gorilla Grodd set up around NYC. Jade then assisted the Outsiders in defeating Grodd and his ape army. The Outsiders learned that Grodd was only there as a distraction so that Joker could kidnap President Luthor. Jade and the Outsiders saved Luthor and took Joker into custody. Jade later joined the Outsiders.

(Outsiders III #4-6) - Acting on tips from Arsenal's source, Jade and the Outsiders battled and captured Calendar Man, Calculator, Plasmus, Punch and Jewlee and the Bug Eyed Bandit. Jade and the Outsiders shut down a gun-running operation headed by Brain and Monsieur Mallah in Kwajalein. 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 monastery 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) - Jade and the Outsiders physically restrained the real Metamorpho when 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) - Jade 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. 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.

(Identity Crisis #1) - Jade was among the number of heroes who attended Sue Dibny’s funeral.

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

(Green Lantern: Rebirth #1, 2, 4, 6) - Jade and the JSA quarantined Warriors after Guy Gardner lost control of his powers and destroyed the bar. The only thing standing was a statue of Green Lantern, leading the heroes to worry that Hal Jordan was involved and had returned to the dark side. Green Lantern started feeling ill, and Jade convinced him to get some rest. Ganthet assembled Jade and a number of other heroes to battle Parallax, who’d completely taken over Hal Jordan. They weakened him enough for the Spectre to separate Hal from Parallax, allowing Hal’s soul to return to his body, resurrecting him. Parallax possessed Ganthet and spread fear worldwide. Jade supported her father, convinced the heroes that only Hal and the other Green Lanterns could stand up to him, and they did, banishing Parallax to the Central Power Battery.

(Green Arrow III #49, 50) - When Jade 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 breached he fled, noting that his act was a game, and a hint of things to come when he was serious about destroying Green Arrow.

(Firestorm II #19) - Troia needed a team to go into space during the Infinite Crisis, and she gathered Jade, Starfire and Shift, but needed one more powerful met human for her mission. The JLA recommended Firestorm, and after meeting his fellow heroes he was eager to help save the universe.

(Firestorm II #20) - Troia’s team, including Jade, headed to the center of the universe, and they came across a Rannian ship sitting dead in space, and being attacked by Thanagarians. After some debate the heroes decided to intervene. Getting involved in the Rann-Thanagar war turned out to be a pointless endeavor, the Rannians had stolen a revered Thanagarian Ca’arra hawk and killed it, so the Thanagarians retaliated by blowing up their ship. The heroes were taken aback by the senselessness of war.

(JSA #85, 86) - Thunderbolt summoned the spirit of Jade and several other deceased JSAers to help J.J. Thunder, who was being attacked by Gentleman Ghost an a gang of spirits under the Ghost’s control. After defeating the Ghost’s underlings Jafe saw her father Green Lantern, who’d been hospitalize by the Ghost. She healed him, established a connection with him so he could find the Ghost, and then faded back into the ether.

(Titans II #30) - Atom Ray Palmer visited Jade and the JLA to tell them he’d uncovered evidence that Atom Ryan Choi had been murdered. The JLA acknowledged the possibility, but wanted him to get more evidence before they accepted Ryan’s death, or begin a search for the killer.

(Titans II #36, Titans Annual II #1) - Atom Ray Palmer proved the death of Atom Ryan Choi and learned that Deathstroke and his Titans were responsible. Atom contacted Batman, Jade and the Justice League, and they confronted the Titans, demanding justice. Deathstroke showed the Justice League that his plane was equipped with a nuclear self-destruct system, and he’d rather destroy himself and them than surrender. Deathstroke also told Arsenal he knew the League would never allow him to die, because they still considered him one of their own. This exact situation was the only reason Deathstroke allowed Arsenal to join his team. The League backed off temporarily, and allowed the Titans to fly off. The League confronted the Titans again in Kahndaq, where the villains had enlisted the support of Kahndaq’s ruler Osiris. Batman tried to get Arsenal to side with the League, but he refused, telling him that heroes never won when it counted. Tattooed Man rejoined the team, just as Deathstroke knew he would, and gave Slade the opportunity to stab Supergirl with a kryptonite sword created for him by Lex Luthor. The battle ravaged Kahndaq, and Isis had enough. She demonstrated her godlike powers, and banished the League from her country. She sent Osiris and the Titans off, telling her brother that he’d proved he was unfit to rule.

(Titans II #38) - Jade, the Justice League of America and the rest of the superhero community attended the funeral of Atom Ryan Choi

Comments: Created by Jerry Ordway, Mike Machlan and Roy Thomas.

In the pre-Crisis DC Universe Jade lived on Earth-2.

Jade received profiles in Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #11, Who's Who in the DC Universe #3, Green Lantern Secret Files #1, 2, 3 and Teen Titans / Outsiders Secret Files 2003.

Jade had a cameo in Green Arrow III #72, JLA #121, Showcase '93 #1 and Tales of the Sinestro Corps: Parallax #1.

Jade was pictured on the cover of Outsiders III #1 even though she didn't join until issue #3.

JSA #38 showed a photo of Jade and the rest of Infinity, Inc. in Hourman II’s JSA brownstone.

A statue of Jade was seen in the JSA Museumin JSA #63.

In Villains United #1 Mockingbird showed his Secret Six images on a viewscreen of various heroes that had defeated them in the past, including Jade.