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HISTORICAL OVERVIEW Created by Gerry Conway and Pat Broderick , Bette Sans Souci was introduced as an even-then anachronistically-depicted Quebec patriot turned Terrorist to force Quebec's separation from the rest of Canada . First appearing in '' Fury Of Firestorm '' # 7(December, 1982), she made several appearances during Conway's tenure as writer of that series. She then began appearing in DC Comics' first '' Captain Atom '' from 1986 onwards as first an adversary, although that relationship evolved over the course of that series' five-year run towards the romantic. Her career in terror was not especially distinguished. In her first appearance, she attempted a Suicide Bombing against the DC Universe -specific newspaper the New York Herald-Express with a set of bombs attached to her costume, only to have the original Firestorm disarm her by vaporizing her clothes, leaving her naked and humiliated in public while Firestorm took the bombs to explode in a safer area. Later, via Genetic Modification commissioned by her organization, she gained the power to project explosive force from her body. The modifications did her little good, as she continued to be halted in her tracks and reimprisioned several times via either Firestorm's or Firehawk 's intervention. Her last major public operation as a terrorist was depicted in her first Captain Atom appearance, wherein she and the group she'd gathered for this particular attempted to destroy the Canadian Parliament Buildings in Ottawa and the Statue Of Liberty in New York City , as well as personally attempting the assassinations of the American President and Canadian Prime Minister , at a jointly-organized press conference staged by the two nations. The bombings of the two landmarks were thwarted, and Plastique herself personally captured on live international television, by Captain Atom. She became a member of the Suicide Squad for the duration of a single mission. She attempted to betray the mission team during their second field operation in Qurac under the command of Amanda Waller , was anticipated and caught by advance team operative Nemesis , and subsequently brainwashed to supress all memories of her Squad participation. In the years that followed, her followers abandoned her after becoming disillusioned with using force to advance their shared cause(thus reflecting real-world Canadian politics by that point, which had long since moved past the era that Plastique's methods and policies reflected). She then became a mercenary who actually reformed, subsequently earning a pardon from the United States for her crimes there based on services rendered to the "Captain Atom Project", as well as a somewhat more subdued response along similar lines from the Canadian authorities. Plastique then became engaged to Captain Atom, although the engagement was effectively broken in the wake of events of Armageddon: 2001. Following his reappearance in the then-present day, the engagement was renewed and Plastique was invited into the ranks of the "''' Extreme Justice '''" faction of the Justice League , and celebrated a bachelorette party before '''Extreme Justice''' was itself cancelled in 1996. The wedding was notable by its non-depiction in the comics themselves, having been implied in The L.A.W. mini-series as having happened between the 1989 cancellation of Captain Atom's first DC series and the start of The L.A.W.'s first issue. Plastique has had a handful of appearances since then, mostly cameos in other series. OTHER MEDIA In the '' Justice League Unlimited '' episode "Task Force X", Bette Sans Souci a.k.a. Plastique is an explosives expert. Plastique has advanced knowledge of the intricacies and use of demolition weaponry. Despite her efforts in joining her teams on the transporter, Plastique was caught in an explosion of her own device when Deadshot detonated it from a distance so that they could get away with the Annihilator. She was severely wounded but still moving when last seen. She was voiced by Juliet Landau . |
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