Halo (comics)

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Halo, Gabrielle Doe, Violet Harper or Marissa Baron, is a fictional superheroine whose adventures were published by DC Comics in Batman and the Outsiders and The Outsiders in the 1980s and 1990s.

Halo is a gestalt of a human body and an "Aurakle", an energy-being resembling a sphere of iridescent color. When sociopath Violet Harper was murdered, the Aurakle, who had been observing her out of curiosity, was sucked into the newly-vacant body, which it found itself animating. The shock of death-and-resurrection induced a profound amnesia in the new combined entity. As such, she was a complete innocent who was discovered by Batman who recruited her for the Outsiders. Regardless of her state of mind, Halo later had adventures in which she had to deal with the consequences of her body's previous occupant's actions, which required the assistance of the team to resolve.

Halo pretty much disappeared in the DC Universe for years, but recently reappeared during the Infinite Crisis during the Society's attack on Metropolis in Villains United Special #1, as well as flying into space with various heroes to fight Superboy-Prime and most recently aided in the search for missing heroes in the pages of 52. However, her recent cameo appearances cannot be considered a clear revival of her as a character at this time.

Powers and Abilities

Halo has the ability to fly, and to create auras of different colors around herself which have different effects:

Red aura/halo: Heat beams
Orange aura/halo: Concussive force beams
Yellow aura/halo: Brilliant light
Green aura/halo: Stasis beam
Blue aura/halo: Distortion effect
Indigo aura/halo: Tractor beam
Violet aura/halo: Gave the sociopathic personality of Violet Harper control of the body, enabling her to use any/all of Halo's powers.

In the 1990s, it was shown that, should the human body be destroyed, the Aurakle can merge with another freshly-dead human.

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