| The Golden Glider | |
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 Golden Glider as depicted inWho's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #9 (November 1985). Art byIrv Novick. | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | The Flash #250 (June 1977) |
| Created by | Cary Bates Irv Novick |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Lisa Snart |
| Species | Human |
| Place of origin | New Earth |
| Team affiliations | Rogues Black Lantern Corps Legion of Zoom |
| Notable aliases | Lisa Star, Goldie, Glider |
| Abilities | Olympic-level figure skater Skilled inventor of jewel-themed gadgets and weaponry Wears experimental skates (New 52): Astral form that grants: Flight Ribbon-like tendrils Ability to move at extreme speeds |
Golden Glider (Lisa Snart) is asupervillain appearing inAmerican comic books published byDC Comics. She is the younger sister ofCaptain Cold and enemy of theFlash.
Lisa Snart appeared in thefirst andsecond seasons ofThe Flash, portrayed byPeyton List, as well as the third season ofHarley Quinn and the spin-off seriesKite Man: Hell Yeah!, voiced byCathy Ang andStephanie Hsu respectively.
Created byCary Bates andIrv Novick, the character made her first appearance inThe Flash #250 (June 1977).[1] EditorJulius Schwartz was also involved in the character's creation, and may have been responsible for the name Golden Glider.[2]
Lisa Snart is afigure skater, known by the alias Lisa Star, who has help in her career from her secret coach and lover,The Top, a foe ofBarry Allen / Flash who dies after being injured in a battle with him. Furious over his death, Snart vows revenge, adopting an orange ice-skater's costume, a mask, andice skates which create their own ice flow, which allow her to effectively skate on air. She also has diamonds and jewels that can be used as explosives or hypnotic devices. The Golden Glider seeks revenge against Allen for several years and frequently collaborates in her heists with her brother, who is very protective of her.[3]
After Barry Allen's death, Snart retires from crime and becomes a mercenary alongside Captain Cold. Eventually she returns to crime, with a series of partners, all code-named "Chillblaine", whom she supplies with a replica of her brother's cold gun. The last of these was described as more intelligent and ruthless than his predecessors, and he kills Snart[4] with the weapon she gave him, then holds Keystone for ransom with the aid ofDoctor Polaris. Flash barely manages to defeat them. Chillblaine is then killed by Cold in retaliation.[3] Her death has been a constant source of grief for her older brother.[3]
InBlackest Night, Golden Glider is revived as aBlack Lantern before being killed by Cold.[5][6]
InThe New 52 timeline (a reboot of DC comics), Lisa Snart's murder has been written out of continuity and she is alive. In this continuity, she is dying of a brain tumor;[7] she survives after the tumor is removed, but expresses shame over her brother's actions.[8] Later, she mysteriously appears inSouth America, going by the name "Glider" and apparently wielding metahuman abilities. She is shown recruitingWeather Wizard for an unknown purpose after his battle with the Flash.[9] She recruitsHeat Wave, theTrickster andMirror Master to join her faction to exact revenge on Flash,[10] but is stopped with the help ofPied Piper and her brother.[11]
Lisa and the Rogues later make their peace with Snart as they help him stopGorilla Grodd, which leads the U.S government to pardon them. Lisa is revealed to be in a relationship with Mirror Master, whom she managed to bring back to their dimension at great risk to herself. Afterwards she ends up in a deep coma until Pied Piper revives her, to come to the Rogues' aid when TheSecret Society of Super Villains and theRoyal Flush Gang attack.
Lisa and the Rogues make their first cameo appearance, in theDC Rebirth storyline, inThe Flash (vol. 4) #3 watching a news report about the many newly created speedsters appearing throughout the city. They later make their first full-length appearance inThe Flash (vol. 4) #15, attempting to steal a valuable golden statue of the god Mercury from Corto Maltese. The Flash arrives to stop them, but they turn out to be mirror constructs created to distract him.
The Golden Glider is anOlympic-levelfigure skater. Thanks to a pair of experimental skates that create their own ice, she is able to skate on any surface, including mid-air. She also wields jewel-themed gadgets and weaponry.[3]
In the New 52, Glider gained metahuman abilities in the same incident that gave Mirror Master, Captain Cold, Heat Wave and Weather Wizard theirs, enabling her to fly, becoming intangible, and generate sharp, ribbon-like tendrils.[12]
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