Terra
Terra is a comic book character that first appeared in The New Teen Titans #26
Tara Markov was a character from the 80's and 90's in Teen Titans comics who had an intimate relationship with Beast Boy making for some interesting developments now that she's returned as a Black Lantern.
Origin
The king of Markovia had one affair which leaded to him having an illegitimate daughter named Tara Markov (Terra). The king decided that it would be the best to send her to the United States of America to prevent his public image to be ruined. Because of Tara's descendance she inherited earth moving powers similar to the ones of Geo-Force, who was her cousin, and with the help of a doctor named Helga Jace, Terra gained control. How much the doctor helped Terra in gaining control hasn't been explained, neither which was the process to do it, the doctor only implied that Terra got her powers by meddling. Soon after gaining control over her powers Tara Markov (Terra) decided to leave Markovia with a lot of hate and anger towards his father because of the fact that she was an illegitimate daughter. When Tara was fifteen years old she decided to use her powers to do illegitimate work for people.Meeting the Terminator
Tara's criminal life lead her to accept a contract that had been declined by Deathstroke himself and which emplied killing an African king. Tara decided to come close to the king and his family, one day betraying them and killing the king like the contract wanted. During this mission Tara met and had an affair with Slade Wilson (Deathstroke). He invited her to become his partner on a vendetta against the New Teen Titans because Slade blamed them for the death of his son. Tara Markov accepted the offer and took the codename Terra, at the same time she and Deathstroke invented a story that involved Tara being a prisoner of terrorists.A Traitor
Changeling ( Beast Boy) decided to offer Terra membership in the New Teen Titans after he saw her trying to destroy the Statue of Liberty. It was soon after her joining that Changeling (Beast Boy) started to have romantic feelings toward her, it was also during her time in the New Teen Titans that she was reunited with her cousin Geo-Force when both the "New Teen Titans" and the " Batman and the Outsiders" confronted the Fearsome Five together.During the time that Terra was a Teen Titan she worked as a spy for Deathstroke, collecting information for him to find out the identities of the members of the team and use it as a way to capture them and take them to the H.I.V.E who were the ones that hired Deathstroke.
After everyone in the team revealed their identities to Terra both Kid Flash ( Wally West) and Robin ( Dick Grayson) left the team for diferent reasons, having lost two of their members (Robin beeing the leader), Donna Troy became the new leader of the team until Dick Grayson decided to come back after figuring out what would he do with his life. Dick Grayson was attacked a few days later by Deathstroke as an attempt to capture him. The strange part of the attack was that Deathstroke didn't attack him as Robin, but as a civilian. After the confrontation Dick manages to escape Deathstroke by losing him in the city and goes to see if his teamates are okay. After Dick notices that every single one of the New Teen Titans has been captured he meets Adeline Kane and her son Joseph Wilson (Jericho) who tells him that Terra has been working with Deathstroke, and it was because of that that Deathstroke had learned their identities and was able to attack them at their homes. Dick Grayson (Having taken the identity of Nightwing), now with the help of Jericho went to rescue the New Teen Titans from H.I.V.E and Deathstroke. During the fight Jericho took control over the body of his father and used it to fight Terra, during the fight she lost control over her powers and caused the building to fall over on her, killing her.
Powers and Abilities
Terra had control over the Earth and often flew on a chunk of rock to reach her destination. Terra could transform the consistency of earth and rock, cause earthquakes, tap into lava flows, and create shapes out of solid rock.Tara Clone
Many years after the death of Terra another girl with the same appearance and powers appeared as a member of the Team Titans, claiming to be from the future.I'm Not from This Age: Future origin
The future origin of Terra starts 10 years into the future. In this timeline the villain known as Lord Chaos reignes the world with tyranny. Battalion is the second in command of a team named "Team Titans". These Titans were created to defeat Lord Chaos and restore the peace and freedom of the world. This timeline was proven false.As an attempt to stop the resistance and the Team Titans from beeing a problem for him anymore Lord Chaos decided that he would need a spy between their ranks to know of the moves and plans of the opposition. It was because of this plan that Lord Chaos sent some of his men to one of the rebel hospitals and took a girl that had a little similitude in appearance to Terra. The scientists of Lord Chaos were able to extract the DNA from the bones of the long dead Terra and inject it to the kidnapped girl. Because of this experiment the girl obtained the same powers that the first Terra had, while also adding false memories to her brain making her believe that she was the daughter of Geo-Force and making a surgery to make her look identical to the original Terra.
Just like Lord Chaos had thought, and thanks to the lack of records from the betrayal of Terra, she was able to join the resistance and the Team Titans as a brainwashed double agent, working for Lord Chaos in the same way that her predecessor had done with Deathstroke in the past. However the only diference was that before Terra could give the information to Lord Chaos about their location she was discovered by the leader of the Team Titans.
After the discovery of Terra's betrayal the Team Titans used a cerebro mind probe to learn everything they could about her. After learning everything that Lord Chaos had done to Terra as an attempt to use her as a weapon against the resistance and the Team Titans they also discovered that the body of the new Terra was rejecting the DNA of the original one and that it would cause her to die in just a few weeks. Prestor Jon was able to make the body of Terra accept the DNA of her predeccesor and saving her life in the progress. After learning that everything she believed in was false and how much Lord Chaos had done to her, she decided to join the Team Titans to help them fight Lord Chaos.
Back to the Past
One day the leader of the Team Titans decided to make one risky and dangerous mission. The team titans would travel 10 years into the past to kill Donna Troy in an attempt to stop Lord Chaos from being born. Of course this had to be made before Donna Troy was able to give birth to her son (The future Lord Chaos). The first part of the mission was successful and the team of the future (Team Titans) were able to go back to the past before Donna Troy gave birth to Robert Long. When the Team Titans tried to kill Donna Troy they encountered the team of Titans from the present (the new Teen Titans) and fought them. However before the team titans could kill Donna Troy she gave birth to her son. Although the mission looked to have failed, the Teen Titans and the Team Titans were able to both stop the future Lord Chaos and did not have to kill Donna Troy.We did it...now what?
After the mission was acomplished the Team Titans were trapped into the past, with no way to return home. Without any options they decided that they would stay on that era until they could find a way to go back. In an ironic twist they accepted the offer of Donna Troy to live in her farmhouse in the city of New Jersey. After that they decided to investigate this timeline to find where they belong in it.Terra started to develop a crush on Changeling, while at the same time she met Geo-Force, who wanted to know if this Terra was really his sister who had somehow come back to life. After investigating Geo-Force decided that this Terra wasn't really his dead sister as evidence suggested, however he threated her like she was his real sister without caring for the truth, telling her that she was a better person than his dead sister ever was.
Zero Hour
In this time crisis was revealed that the real leader of the Team Titans was the being known as Monarch (Previously known as Hawk). The Team Titans were actually from a false future created by Monarch who wanted to have sleeper agents that would serve him as assasins in order to help him to rule the entire timeline. That future also had another purpose. It would help Monach to train young metahumans and have a bigger and more powerfull army against the heroes of all generations. Monarch (Now as Extant) absorbed the power of Waverider and used it to take adventage of the incoming time crisis. Using the army that he created, along with the Team Titans, he attacked the world's heroes who wanted to stop the time crisis. However Extant's plan was unsuccessful and the Team Titans were defeated by the earth's heroes. At the same moment, time started to collapse, this made all the parallel and false timelines to be erased from existence. As another result the Team Titans were erased from history and dissapeared. The only three Team Titans members that weren't eased were Terra II, Mirage, and Deathwing because it was revealed that they were from the present timeline and that Extant had taken them from there, erasing their memories to make them part of his army.Terra II or original Terra?
After the events of Zero Hour Terra joined Arsenal's short lived Titans team along with Mirage, Supergirl, Bart Allen, Minion, Donna Troy and Kyle Rayner. After the team disbanded she moved to Markovia where she decided to let the scientists of the country run a few tests to clear all questions if this Terra was indeed the same girl that had betrayed the New Teen Titans.Terra awaited the results with a great fear that she may really be the same person, however the only person that received the results was Geo-Force who told Terra that the results were negative and that she indeed wasn't Geo-Force's dead sister back from the grave. However it was revealed that the results were positive, meaning that the Terra that betrayed the New Teen Titans and the one from the Team Titans were indeed the same person, Geo-Force is the only person that knows that the two Terras are indeed the same person.
Death of a Hero
After the events of Infinite Crisis the DCU skipped one year of continuity. During the missing year the Teen Titans had over a dozen diferent lineups. Terra was one of the Teen Titans during the missing year, and also a member when Black Adam declared war to the world, confronting the heroes of the entire world. During the fight against Black Adam both Terra and Young Frankenstein were killed in action by the angered Black Adam.Atlee, The New Terra
A new individual took up the Terra mantle named, Atlee.
Blackest Night
In Blackest Night: Titans #1 Terra seemingly returns, confusing Beast Boy. Terra claims she had survived her apparent death and gone into hiding. The illusion is shattered when Starfire and Cyborg discover and attack the Black Lantern version of Lilith Clay, whose telepathy had been hiding Terra's true appearance, that of a rotting corpse.Powers and Abilities
Terra has the ability of geokinesis, exhibiting psychokinetic control over the earth and minerals. While she can control massive amounts of earth and rock, shaping it to her will, she has also revealed an incredible amount of fine control, making artistic shapes, or even transmuting raw materials into different crystalline forms. Her primary forms of mobility include flying on a rock platform or extremely quick tunneling.Atlee has also been revealed to have a degree of superhuman toughness, surviving even after being battered by rocky shards and being immersed in lava. She has shown to have very rapid regenerative powers, with moderate to severe burns disappearing in a matter of hours, leaving no visible scars. She later revealed that earth in all its forms does little or no harm to her. She stated this after she allowed herself to be caught between the North American continental bedrock while she lowered the entire island of Manhattan on top of her. Her degree of geomorphic control is shown to be greater and more refined than what the original Terra has been shown capable of, moving volumes of many many square miles of earth at one time.
Other Media
Animated Terra
Movies
There is a Animated Judas contract movie in development.
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| Super Name: | Terra |
| Real Name: | Tara Markov |
| Aliases: |
Tara Markov Terran Terra Atlee |
| Publisher: | DC Comics |
| Gender: | Female |
| Character Type: | Other |
| 1st Appearance: | The New Teen Titans #26 |
| Appears in: | 158 issues |
| Birthday: | |
| Died: |
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