Roulette (DC Comics)
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Roulette is a fictional character, a supervillainess in the DC Comics universe.
Biography
Roulette ran an elaborate underground gaming arena, the House, where she pitted drugged and mentally-controlled superheroes against each other for the entertainment and gambling pleasure of super-villains. She was responsible for the deaths of most of the super hero team known as the Hybrid. Later she kidnapped seven members of the Justice Society and pitted them against each other in a series of death games. They managed to escape after wrecking the House, but Roulette swore to rebuild. She later lured the Super Buddies into the new House but they also managed to escape. Some time later she was responsible for the death of fledgeling hero Firebrand III Alex Sanchez in the arena.Roulette has no apparent superhuman abilities but is a genius when calculating odds and gambling winnings. She believes she is the granddaughter of the Golden Age Mr. Terrific, Terry Sloane - "Man of a Thousand Talents," but is actually the granddaughter of his brother, Ned. She also bears a grudge against the modern-day Mr. Terrific, whom she considers a pretender. Roulette has robot security dogs, automated security devices, a series of death traps, and at least one metahuman on staff who can negate- or limit to a certain level- any kind of super-powers.
Roulette's grandmother was a Golden Age villain of the same name, who ran a more conventional casino and fought Mr Terrific, as well as having a relationship with his brother, as mentioned above. Ned has been retconned into Mr Terrific's history, and does not appear in the original stories.
Other media
In Justice League Unlimited, Roulette debuted in the season four episode The Cat and the Canary, where she had addicted Wildcat to her costumed fighter vs. costumed fighter no-holds-barred tournament, Meta-Brawl. The fight ring highlighted the distrust of metahumans by civilians, as evidenced by the many paying spectators who cheered non-metas like Wildcat on and execrated the metahumans; this was one of the early indications of the scope of the Project Cadmus among the ordinary populace.
Green Arrow and Black Canary directly confronted Roulette's Meta-Brawl (hooking up in the process). They were forced to battle other participants of Meta-Brawl, including Sportsmaster, Bloodsport, Electrocutioner, Atomic Skull, Hellgrammite, Tracer, Evil Star, and Amygdala.
In season five, Roulette upgraded the premise of Meta-Brawl in the face of falling profits. She utilized Lex Luthor's Legion of Doom mind-control technology to brainwash female Leaguers -- including Vixen, Fire, Wonder Woman and Black Canary to create a re-imagined "Glamour Slam". This tournament was destroyed and the heroines rescued by a team-up between the resuscitated Canary and Huntress (in itself a first, because Huntress and Canary had been in opposition since their violent altercation in Double Date).
Roulette was voiced by Virginia Madsen; Madsen's other characters on the series include Dr. Sarah Corwin in The Brave and the Bold.
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