Voodoo

Current Events

In the new 52 continuity, Voodoo has been given her own series. The character being followed for the first five issues acted in a villainous context and was later revealed to be a clone of the original Voodoo. Jessica Fallon was pursuing the clone and eventually decides to free the original to help in the chase. After the clone confronts her Daemonite superiors, she is sent back to Earth to kill her pursuers and start a new mission. Once she arrives on Earth she finds Jessica, Balck Jack and Priscilla. After a brief conversation, the clone kills Black Jack and then attacks the other two. Priscilla decides first to flee but then returns to confront the clone, but by this point she has already killed Jessica. The Blackhawks intervene but are unable to catch the clone. Priscilla is then offered a role of agent with the team.

Origin

Priscilla Kitaen

Voodoo’s original origin differs from that in the new 52. Her real name is Priscilla Kitaen. She originally worked as a stripper before she was discovered by the WildC.A.T.s and the Daemonites. Both groups were after her because she had a unique ability called the “Sight” which allows her to detect when someone is being controlled by a Daemonite and remove it from the body.

In the new 52 there are in fact two Voodoos, one who is a Daemonite clone of the other and being used as an agent against the superheroes of Earth. As of yet very little has been revealed about the two characters, other than the original was being held in a government facility against her will.

Creation

Voodoo first appeared in WildC.A.T.S. #1 in August 1992 and was created by Brandon Choi and Jim Lee. Her first appearance under the DC label was in Voodoo #1 in 2011.

Character Evolution

Wildstorm Universe

Voodoo (Wildstorm)

After she joined the WildC.A.T.s her many psychic and animalistic powers were revealed. She would began a long running relationship with team leader Spartan for some time. After she was shot and sent into a coma, the team member Void used a computer to enter her mind. There it was revealed that she was a descendant from a Kherubim who had been controlled by a Daemonite making her a Kherubim/Daemonite/human hybrid.

Post-Flashpoint / Earth 0

Voodoo Clone

Voodoo Clone (Earth 0)

At the end of the DC Wide crossover Flashpoint, the mysterious figure known as Pandora explained to the Flash that the separate worlds of mainstream DC, Vertigo and Wildstorm would be folded into one, as only combined could they face the coming threat to Earth and the universe. In so doing Voodoo became a member of the regular DC continuity. Because of this most of her past seems to have been erased, as she is now apparently an agent for the Daemonites that is operating alone in obtaining information. Little else of her background is known.

Voodoo

Voodoo (Earth 0)

It's been revealed that original Voodoo to be a clone. Jessica Fallon was pursuing the clone and eventually decides to free the original to help in the chase. After the clone confronts her Daemonite superiors, she is sent back to Earth to kill her pursuers and start a new mission.

Major Story Arcs

Wildstorm Universe:

WildC.A.T.S.

WildC.A.T.s

As Voodoo's origin story formed the basis for her first real story arc, the subsequent story arcs were quite often focused on explaining more about her background. During a mission with the team a crashed Kherubium spaceship is discovered and to keep it from destroying the Earth, they use it to travel to the planet Khera. Upon arriving there she is made to go to a Daemonite ghetto and finds that the war between Daemonites and Kherubims is over and the Daemonites have lost. She finds that most Daemonites were not villains and the Earth based Daemonites were composed of a group of fanatic zealots. After finding the rest of the team, she is insulted by Zealot and loses faith in the whole Kherubim race, but is still able to stop a plan to kill Zealot. Due to everything she sees on Khera she leaves the team when they return to Earth.

Voodoo becomes an exotic dancer again living in New Orleans. After meeting two men named Attibon and Carry-4 she begins to work for Christian Charles at the Midnight Lounge. She becomes friends with fellow dancer Purity. She later meets a prostitute named Freda and an ex-hitman named Saturday. However, it is revealed that Attibon, Freda, and Saturday are actually Erzulie, Papa Legba and Baron Samedi, three deities related to Voodoo. It is also revealed that Charles was killing his dancers so he can take their blood and bathe in it. This was part of an attempt to perform a ritual that would bring back to life his evil magician father Jean-Pierre LaCroix. Carry-4 is revealed to be an evil Voodoo deity named Mait Carrefour. Charles intends to kill Purity, but Voodoo and David Dove (the detective investigating the murders) are able to save her life. However, Charles had gained enough blood to be able to perform the ritual. Voodoo allows Erzulie Freda to take control of her body, and then Erzulie Freda is able to lure LaCroix back into the afterlife. After the events of this series, Voodoo decides that her encounter is proof that she should become a master in understanding the practices of voodoo, and at that time she is taken in by a teacher of sorcery named Gran'Mere.

Some months later after the incident, Priscilla goes back to the WildC.A.T.s. However, her time with the team is short-lived as the team breaks up after Zealot is assumed to have died. She and Jeremy Stone begin to live together and they soon realize that they are in love. Soon after, due to her connection with the Halo Corporation she is attacked by Samuel Smith, the grandson of Slaughterhouse Smith who wanted revenge for Spartan (Jack Marlowe) killing his father. He attacks Voodoo, cutting off her legs and seriously hurting her neck. He is subsequently beaten by Grifter and Jack. Grifter is able to get Jeremy to stop trying to remove Voodoo’s Daemonite abilities. The hospital staff are amazed at the rate at which she heals from her injuries. Soon she meets a Daemonite who was against the others. He is able to teach her about her powers to control time and even her regenerating powers, causing her legs to be fully restored. The old Daemonite also gets Voodoo to engage in a relationship with Stone. The relationship between the two does not last long as Voodoo discover that she can enhance her telepathic abilities by having sex with others and Stone is unable to deal with the fact that she is intimate with more men than just himself. Voodoo decides to break up with Stone and the two begin to fight. However, due to a side effect of his powers, Stone loses his intelligence with his size and Voodoo enrages him so he would forget the purpose of the battle and she uses this to leave him.

Along with the rest of the Wildstorm Universe, Priscilla becomes involved in the battle with Captain Atom and during the battle she displays new magnetic powers and uses them to control his body. However after she attempts to use her telepathy on him, he is able to connect her to the minds of every source of knowledge, causing her to pass out from the overload. Priscilla later becomes a stripper again. She performs for very rich clients such as shieks, until Spartan contacts her and after a night of passion she goes to work for him, with him tripling her common salary.

World's End

After the U.S. government captures and clones the superhero High, clones called Reapers are let loose on the world. Their programing causes them to attack anyone and anything, including superheroes. They cause so much damage to the planet itself that Earth is sent off its axis, smog covers the sun and more and more super powered beings appear. However the WildC.A.Ts are not as badly affected as the rest of the world, due to the batteries that the Halo Company had build that would not die. This meant they had technology and power. Voodoo once again joins the team, led by Spartan now without his Void powers. She along with the rest of the team is attacked by Mr. Majestic. Majestic had been raiding Halo for anything he needed and bringing it back to his new land in Hawaii. He offers some of the team a chance to come with him but does not ask Voodoo, due to her Daemonite side, however all members refuse.

Team after the World's End

The team go on a mission to Nevada in search of an oasis of life that appears after the world ended which may or may not be the garden made by the first Engineer. They find the location defended by Paris and Gramalkin and Voodoo and Grifter fight them so that they can share the garden. Maul goes crazy during the battle and begins to destroy the forest, but is stopped by Voodoo. However after the fight they realize the area was made by the Paladin Tumbleweed. They want to use his powers to create more gardens but finds he can only maintain one at a time and remains there to keep it alive. She later has to counsel Spartan after he becomes more and more depressed at the loss of his Void powers and the chance to fix things. Their talk ends with a kiss that Maul sees.

Soon things only become worse as the team's old foes the Daemonites make their way to Los Angeles lead by Lord Defile. However, after noticing that the Daemonites can survive unprotected in L.A., Voodoo makes a type of truce between the two sides and gets Defile to agree by resurrecting a small undead army of his victims.

Post-Flashpoint / Earth 0:

Voodoo Clone

Daemonite Invasion

Looks can kill

Since her introduction to the mainstream DC universe, Voodoo has been depicted as mostly a villainous character, an advance scout for a Daemonite invasion. The first part of this task composed of posing as a stripper near a military base in order to determine secrets from soldiers. After reporting this information she had a run-in with Kyle Rayner, who was on patrol for illegal alien activity on Earth. After escaping she broke into a top secret government facility and obtained the information she was supposed to before traveling to the southwest to broadcast the information to her superiors. While there she encountered and fought a full Daemonite who thought she was an inferior hybrid. After defeating him it is revealed that she has amassed information on a number of superheroes, including Superman, Batman, Cyborg, Green Lantern and Wonder Woman.

Powers and Abilities

The Sight

Voodoo is part human, Kherubim and Daemonite which results in her having unique abilities not seen in either two. She has the power of the “Sight” which allows her to see any being or object as it truly is, meaning she is not affected by shape-shifters or any type of illusion.

Telepath

She is a telepath, meaning she has the power to read or take over a person's mind. She can focus her mental powers into a mental attack. She is also an empath allowing her to feel the emotions of those she chooses.

Separating

Another powerful gift is that she can separate any being that is possessing a body and she often uses this gift against Daemonites. It does usually result in pain and at times it may also hurt Voodoo herself. This power can be used from a distance, but she usually gets close to the person she is using it on.

Shape-Shifing

Shape Shifting

Due to training from a Daemonite, Voodoo can use more of the traditional powers attributed to a Daemonite. She can transform, revealing Daemonite parts resulting in her having claws, super strength, speed. She has the power to regrow lost limbs and heal from wounds faster than a normal human. She also has the power to control time itself and has recently used magnetic powers that were strong enough to control Captain Atom’s suit and even the tiny iron particles in his blood. She has been trained in traditional Voodoo magic and has even used the power of a Voodoo deity. Recently she has shown the power to animate the dead.

Unarmed Combat

She has also received Coda training from Zealot, Majestrix of the Coda, making her a deadly martial arts expert. she has also been shown to exhibit exceptional healing abilities, including regenerating limbs.

Post-Flashpoint:

Daemonites

Daemonite

Following the reboot into the DC Universe, her powers have become one of the most defined aspects of her character as her background remains clouded in mystery. Her placement as a deep cover information gatherer for the Daemonites means that she has both a range of abilities and a substantial amount of training to accomplish her goal. Her natural abilities include shapeshifting, telepathy, the produtions of projectile quills and the secretion of poison. The shapeshifting requires that she have contact with an individual first before being able to copy their appearance (though this ability has been shown to operate on animals as well.) She is only capable of transforming a certain times within a short period as it takes a physical toll on her body. Her telepathy is somewhat limited, though it does give her the ability to analyze an enemy for their weaknesses.

Telepathy

Along with her limited abilities in telepathy is a weakness in that she is unable to control her own mind when she uses these abilities, thus leaving herself vulnerable to counter telepathy.

Claws & Quills

She is able to shoot the quills from her body over a short range, but the poison secretion has not been shown to be effective except through the lips. In her natural Daemonite form she also has razor sharp claws. Her training is not explained, but seemingly involves knowledge of espionage and related fields. She is able to infiltrate undetected into a high security facility and she is also adept at using seduction to her advantage, including as a distraction in combat.

Unarmed Combat

She is also a skilled hand- to-hand combatant, especially so as she transforms between human and Daemonite forms. Although the member of an alien race it appears that her knowledge of high tech items is rather limited. She has also been shown to be able to create weapons out of her body such as changing her arm into a spear. She has also used this ability to to act as a hook if she is trying remain stationary. As well during battles she has been shown to develop scales which she uses to bolster her defenses. She can also create wings in order for a limited amount of flight.

Other Versions

Other Media

Television

WildC.A.T.s series

Voodoo appeared in the cartoon show.