Valentina Vostok is alieutenant colonel in theSoviet Air Force who steals an experimental Russian fighter plane to defect to the United States. After crashing at the site of the originalDoom Patrol's death, Vostok fuses with a negative spirit and gains the ability to transform into one.[2] It is later revealed that Doom Patrol founderNiles Caulder facilitated Vostok's transformation so that she could replace the deceasedNegative Man.
Assuming the nameNegative Woman, Vostok joins the second incarnation of Doom Patrol and enters a relationship withJoshua Clay. However, her powers change to match her predecessor, forcing her to wear bandages to contain her radiation.[3]
Negative Man later resurfaces and absorbs Vostok's negative energy, leaving her powerless. Vostok becomes the leader of theAgency and the White Queen ofCheckmate, and joins theBlüdhaven Strike Force inFinal Crisis.[4]
InBlackest Night, Vostok dies under unspecified circumstances and is resurrected as aBlack Lantern before Negative Man kills her.[5]
As the Negative Woman, Valentina Vostok possessed aradioactive "soul-self", and was capable of flight, intangibility, and could generate minor explosions upon contact with positive energy.[7] As the White Queen, she has mastery of military protocol.
Valentina Vostok appears inLegends of Tomorrow, portrayed byStephanie Corneliussen.[8] This version is a Soviet scientist from the 1980s whoVandal Savage hired to develop a composite "nuclear man" after witnessingFirestorm a decade prior. Savage and Vostok capture half of Firestorm,Martin Stein, and torture his allies to force him to divulge the F.I.R.E.S.T.O.R.M. matrix's secrets. After Vostok discovers Stein has part of the matrix, she forces him to merge with her despite his warnings of requiring a "quantum splicer" to stabilize the process.Jefferson Jackson encourages Stein to fight Vostok's control and frees him while Vostok loses control of the matrix.
Valentina Vostok / Negative Woman appears in theYoung Justice episode "Nightmare Monkeys", voiced byTara Strong.[9] This version was a member of theDoom Patrol before she and most of her team were killed while on a mission years prior.[10]
Valentina Vostok, also known asMoscow, appears in theDoom Patrol episode "Space Patrol", portrayed byMariana Klaveno.[11] This version is a member of the Pioneers of the Uncharted, a research team sent into space by theChief in 1955 to find a source of time-dilating power. Her teammates Zip and Spec were killed during the mission, but Vostok made contact with a negative energy entity which possessed her. Over 60 years later, the now ageless Vostok returns to Earth so she can use the planet's atmosphere to kill alien spores that revived Zip and Spec. She befriendsLarry Trainor, who also bonded with a negative spirit, and invites him to join her in space, but he declines in favor of repairing his relationship with his family.
^Michael Browning, "The Doom Patrol Interviews: Paul Kupperberg", Back Issue (TwoMorrows Publishing), #65 (July 2013), p. 43
^Cowsill, Alan; Irvine, Alex; Korte, Steve; Manning, Matt; Wiacek, Win; Wilson, Sven (2016).The DC Comics Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Characters of the DC Universe. DK Publishing. p. 212.ISBN978-1-4654-5357-0.
^"Negative Woman Voice -Young Justice (TV Show)". Behind The Voice Actors. RetrievedJuly 23, 2024. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.
