Lol is Voodoo’s backside literally only covered in mesh?
ZEALOT (Lady Zannah, aka Lucy Blaze)
Created By: Brandon Choi & Jim Lee
First Appearance: WildC.A.T.s #1 (Aug. 1992)
Role: Miss Fanservice, Bad-Ass Martial Arts Chick, Grimacing Angry Girl
Marvel Character Most Ripped Off: Psylocke (frowning, toned martial arts chick with swords)
'90s Ratio: 10/10 (swords, throwing blades, swimsuit-ish costume with random holes cut out; permanent frown and bad attitude)
Group Affiliations: WildC.A.T.s, The Coda Assassins, Team One
PL 10 (203)
STRENGTH 5
STAMINA 6
AGILITY 7
FIGHTING 13
DEXTERITY 5
INTELLIGENCE 3
AWARENESS 4
PRESENCE 2
Skills:
Acrobatics 8 (+15)
Athletics 10 (+14)
Close Combat (Unarmed) 2 (+15)
Deception 6 (+8)
Expertise (History) 10 (+13)
Expertise (Martial Arts) 9 (+12)
Expertise (Survival) 4 (+8)
Insight 4 (+8)
Intimidation 4 (+8)
Investigation 3 (+7)
Perception 8 (+12)
Ranged Combat (Blades) 4 (+14)
Stealth 3 (+10)
Technology 2 (+5)
Vehicles 1 (+6)
Advantages:
Accurate Attack, Assessment, Defensive Attack, Diehard, Equipment 3 (Clef Blade +2, Throwing Blades +4), Great Endurance, Improved Critical (Clef Blade) 2, Improved Critical (Unarmed), Improved Initiative, Precise Attack (Close/Concealment), Ranged Attack 5, Startle, Takedown 2, Tracking, Uncanny Dodge
Powers:
"Kherubim Physiology"
Immunity 4 (Aging, Disease, Poison, Radiation) [4]
Power-Lifting 1 (3,200 lbs.) [1]
Regeneration 6 (Feats: Regrows Limbs) [7]
Senses 1 (Extended Hearing) [1]
"Forgotten Dark Sorcery" Variable 5 (Flaws: Uncontrolled, Limited to Against Wizards) [25]
Offense:
Unarmed +15 (+5 Damage, DC 20)
Clef Blade +13 (+7 Damage, DC 22)
Throwing Blades +14 (+4 Ranged Damage, DC 19)
Initiative +11
Defenses:
Dodge +13 (DC 23), Parry +14 (DC 24), Toughness +6, Fortitude +8, Will +8
Complications:
Relationship (Grifter)- The two were once lovers- she trained him in the ways of the Coda- but split up before the joined the WildC.A.T.s. Their relationship is professional yet full of sarcasm and some bitterness.
Enemy (The Coda)- Zealot trained the Coda Assassins years ago, but had apparently made them too harsh, as they exiled her for an act of mercy and have attempted to hunt her down ever since.
Responsibility (Coda)- The Coda must never, ever surrender in battle.
Relationship (Savant)- Zealot and Mr. Majestic were ordered to breed on Khera centuries ago- both didn't realize their daughter had survived.
Total: Abilities: 90 / Skills: 80--40 / Advantages: 23 / Powers: 37 / Defenses: 13 (203)
-Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh man, we were supposed to just be ENAMORED with Zealot, I can tell. They spend half the first issue of
WildC.A.T.s gushing about how deadly the Coda Assassins are. Grifter goes on about her. She gets a big dramatic save and a two-page centerfold spread of her debut on the scene. They talk about how hot she is, and she wears a red Psylocke knock-off outfit that's covered in blades. She was supposed to be this big mega-star. But she's soooooooooooooo bad- Zealot is 100% drawn from that "Hot Chicks = Frowning, Grimacing Men With Boobs" well of the '90s, where their attempts to make chicks hot was to make them scowling, tooth-gnashing bad-asses who yelled at everyone and killed people.
-So Zealot debuts with the rest of the team, having teamed up with Grifter beforehand- they'd had their own deal hunting her former band of assassins (the Coda), and she recognizes Lord Emp as a Kherubim- she's one, too, and has been on Earth for centuries. While there, she trained various women in the Coda styles of Khera, but was ultimately banished from her own organization for various acts of mercy- she'd I guess taught them too well to be killers. She was enslaved by a witch for centuries, but never gave up on who she was, and later joined Team One, along with some other Kherubim survivors. She has a child with John Colt (later the basis for Spartan), and is revealed to have had one ages ago with Mister Majestic as well.
-Most of her modern stuff is "Zealot goes along with _____" or "Zealot has a backstory with _____". She reacts poorly to the sight of what Khera has become (the Daemonites have lost the war and are now second-class citizens in ghettos), and she finds her long-lost children. Some weird story has her artificially impregnating Coda warriors to make a soldier force for Earth, which seems out of character. But it seems like most writers after the first never really had much of a "take" on her that was consistent, either.
-Zealot is given all sorts of superlatives to define her fighting capabilities and sorta-superhuman nature, but OF COURSE her backstory with that Witch indicates that she has had magical powers all along, which she forcibly tried to withhold- I threw on Uncontrolled Variable because that's dumb. But Zealot is sort of like how Marvel pimps up Iron Fist & Shang-Chi, but with superhuman stats, meaning she could be some sort of mythical PL 11-12 entity. This is perhaps justified with a semi-recent story featuring her and the Midnighter being evenly-matched in a contest.