Shayera Thal (Prime Earth)
Shayera Thal, also known as the superhero Hawkwoman, is a Thanagarian reincarnation of Shrra, the Empress of her people, and the wife of Katar Hol. She is a former member of the Justice League of America.
Shayera is the reincarnation of Shrra, an angelic herald cursed by God to reincarnate across space and time alongside Ktar Deathbringer, as she decided to save him by reaching out and making herself visible to him despite the great slaughter he committed and in defiance of her God's will.[1]
Following the death of her previous incarnation, Shiera Hall, she was split between two lives by the malevolent demiurge Perpetua: the human Kendra Saunders and Shayera Thal of the planet Thanagar.[2]
New 52 Origin
When her father, the emperor of Thanagar died, her brother Corsar took over and began mining for Nth Metal so his people could use the material to fly again. However, he became drunk with power and attacked Katar Hol for opposing him, which led to Corsar accidentally shocking himself to death. Shayera entered the room and ordered her men to arrest Katar for killing her brother. However, Katar managed to escape using a stolen shuttle.
Shayera put a bounty on Katar Hol's head and he was soon tracked to Earth. Shayera was able to capture Katar and his human friend Emma and was preparing to take them both off world, when Corsar revealed to her that he had survived his encounter with Katar.
A short time later Corsar's ship was orbiting a star, and the Emperor was beginning to extract the Nth Metal from Katar so it could be his own. However, Shayera freed Katar before the process could be completed and managed to get him and Emma to an escape pod. She gave Katar one last goodbye kiss before apologizing to him for accusing him of murdering her brother. She then decided to stay behind and fight Corsar as the ship exploded, seemingly killing both her and her brother.[3]
She survived, however, but was stranded on Earth and cut off from her people. In addition to the costumed identity of "Hawkgirl," she took the human name "Hall" and found work as a detective for the Chicago Police Department, keeping her true nature from her coworkers, including her partner Will Cariad. As a member of her department's "Weird Weapons Squad," Hall collected a number of Thanagarian weapons found at Chicago crime scenes and attempted to trace them to their source, a Great Old One of Thanagar. With the Nth metal weapons distributed among the people driving them into a violent frenzy, the Old One revealed their machinations against Earth and attacked Thal as Hawkgirl.[4]
Following the cosmic upheavals of the Rebirth period, this character's history was revised. While some of these events may have occurred in current continuity, there are a number of contradictions.
Current Origin
The daughter of Emperor Thal Provis,[5] Shayera Thal became a law enforcement officer on Thanagar, with Ktar's reincarnation Katar Hol as her partner,[6] and later, husband.[7] In their longest time together across their many lives, they lived together in Midway City, working at the Midway City Museum and defending their new home as Hawkgirl and Hawkman once more. Using a Memracon, a piece of Thanagarian technology, they made a record of their lives together in Midway and buried it in a cave outside the city, intending to relive them at a later date—or in later lives. Unbeknownst to her husband, Hawkgirl left an Nth Metal sentry at the site to keep him from accessing the now-bitter memories in the event that they were separated.[8]
Eventually, they came into contact with the other superheroes of Earth; Thal served as a member of the Justice League of America and stood with her teammates against the interplanetary threat of Darkseid.[9] She also became familiar with John Stewart, a member of the intergalactic police force the Green Lantern Corps from Earth.[10]
DC Rebirth
Hawkworld
Hawkwoman vs Hawkgirl.
Following the havoc wrought on Thanagar by Despero, Shayera became the Empress of Thanagar Prime, the redoubt-world used as a last refuge by the people of Thanagar, and was very protective of the planet's secrets. She was using the Absorbascon's power fueled by the Martian Keep's mind to hide Thanagar's weakness and desolation after her battle with Onimar Synn. After Martian Manhunter discovered this, he and Kendra Saunders stopped her, giving her a second chance to rebuild her planet without the mischievous weapon.[7][11][2]
She led the Last Fleet of Thanagar in bringing the Omega Titan Mystery to the Source Wall, contributing to the Justice League's effort to repair it that inadvertently freed Perpetua.[12] Later, she and the fleet launched an assault on Perpetua's ship the Godhead, but, unable to breach its defenses, were forced to cut their losses and withdraw, broadcasting a warning to the Justice League.[13] When the balance of the universe tipped in Perpetua's favor, Thal watched her Sigil of Doom appear in the skies over her world.[14]
New lives
Shayera and Carter.
After Shayera and Carter released the power of their thousands of lives, they overloaded and destroyed the Lord Beyond the Void, while also killing themselves. They awoke in the Sphere of the Gods, reverted to Ktar and Shrra. God explained that Ktar's debt had been repaid and offered to allow him to pass on and to restore Shrra. However, they did not wish to be parted, so the Presence offered them another reward: to be reincarnated a final time in their favorite lives.[15] They agreed and were restored to life on Earth in the 1940s as the human Hawkman and Hawkgirl, with Shayera now reborn once more as Shiera Sanders. Reuniting with the Justice Society of America, they faced the Injustice Society in Austria,[16] and Anton Hastor, who had survived his apparent death.[17] Though Hastor died in that encounter, the Hawks faced many more of his reincarnations in the course of their last, extended lives.[18]
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In the 21st Century, Hawkwoman discovered a spaceship on course to collide with the Earth, and led Hawkman out to investigate. She held off the ship's robot defenses while Hall found its occupants, an alien couple whose consciousnesses had been exposed to ten thousand years of isolation due to a sensor malfunction, and fed them his own memories of his many lives with his wife, prompting them to change course and averting disaster.[19] She and Hall served with the Justice Society during the Dark Crisis, protecting civilians[20] and fighting Deathstroke's Dark Army in Europe.[21] Their team was sent out into the Multiverse to halt the darkness spreading through it,[22] and once it had been purged, Hawkwoman and the JSA were returned to their own world.[23] Following a distress call, she and Hall came across a ship carrying a psychic alien child, whose fear of abandonment drove her to create imaginary worlds in which the Hawks would stay with her—but apart from each other. Thal found herself back on Thanagar Prime as empress, but the intrusion of the Earth holiday Christmas and her lingering memories of Hall allowed her to break free of the fantasy and reunite with him, promising to return the child to her people.[5]
After Thanagar was destroyed by Mogo, the living planet,[24] she left Earth and Carter Hall behind[8] to join her people's surviving diaspora. She was their royal envoy for a salvage mission to the ruins of Thanagar with the Green Lantern Corps, represented by the personally-requested John Stewart.[10] While scouting the remains of the planet, they encountered a ship of former Red Lanterns, harvesting Thanagar's Nth metal as a conduit for their vessel's power source—the rage energy of their former fellow Zilius Zox. Infiltrating the the ship, she and Stewart where found by and did battle with their leader, Atrocitus.[24]
Powers and Abilities
Powers
- Decelerated Aging: As the final reincarnation of Shrra, Shayera Thal's lifespan has been greatly extended. In a possible future, her life extended into the 40th Century.[18]
- Thanagarian Physiology: Thanagarians possess several gifts that are common to members of their race, but sets them apart from normal humans.
- Enhanced Senses: Thanagarians also possess enhanced senses.
- Enhanced Hearing: A Thanagarian's auditory senses are also particularly acute and they can perceive sounds with greater clarity than the average human.
- Enhanced Vision: A Thanagarians's eyesight is more acute than a normal human and their range of vision is similar to that of a bird.
- Enhanced Sense of Smell[25]
- Enhanced Durability: A Thanagarian is also physically more endurable than the average Earth human.
- Enhanced Stamina: Thanagarians have greater stamina and a greater resistance to pain.
- Enhanced Strength: Thanagarian strength is far beyond the range of a normal human.
- Longevity: A Thanagarian's life span is significantly greater than that of a normal human being. At one-hundred years of age, a Thanagarian physically resembles a thirty-year-old Earth human.
- Enhanced Senses: Thanagarians also possess enhanced senses.
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Transportation
- Shayera Thal was created by Gardner Fox and Joe Kubert, first appearing in The Brave and the Bold #34. However, in the Prime Earth continuity, Shayera Thal first appeared as part of the New 52 DC Universe in Savage Hawkman #9 by Rob Liefeld, Mark Poulton, and Joe Bennett.
- 51 Appearances of Shayera Thal (Prime Earth)
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Footnotes
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