Red Trinity
Red Trinity | |
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The Flash (vol. 2) #6 (November 1987) | |
Created by | Mike Baron (writer) Jackson Guice (artist) |
In-story information | |
Member(s) | Anatole Bebeck Cassiopeia |
Red Trinity (
Fictional history
Doctor Pytor Orloff is a prominent Russian scientist at the Puleski Institute in Siberia. Orloff was able to inflict super-speed on laboratory subjects using steroids and cybernetic implants, in conjunction with specialized gene therapy. Orloff decided to create Red Trinity after conquering the adverse side effects which afflicted his prototype team, Blue Trinity.[1]
While the members of Blue Trinity were extremely powerful, they were also emotionally unstable, slow witted, and prone to violence. Currently known only as Anatole, Bebeck and Cassiopeia, the trio became super-powered operatives in the employ of the Russian army.[1]
Red Trinity came into conflict with Blue Trinity after they helped Wally West (
Later Lady Flash (Christina Alexandrova of Blue Trinity) and the three Kapitalist Kouriers were asked to capture a rogue Soviet terrorist named Proletariat who opposed glasnost. Together they prevent Proletariat from detonating a concealed bomb.
During the
The big man named Cassiopeia died due to Savitar absorbing the speed from all of the world's super-speedsters in The Flash (vol. 2) #108, while Cassiopeia was running up the side of a building; he then fell to his death.
Membership
- Anatole - a medium-sized cocky young man, he wanted to defect.
- Bebeck - a woman, and the head of Kapitalist Kouriers. She also wanted to defect.
- Cassiopeia - a large man, initially unwilling to defect but he gave in to the other two, now deceased.
See also
References
- ^ a b c Baron, Mike (w), Guice, Jackson (p), Mahlstedt, Larry (i). "Red Trinity" The Flash, vol. 2, no. 7 (December 1987). DC Comics.
- ^ Baron, Mike (w), Guice, Jackson (p), Mahlstedt, Larry (i). "Purple Haze" The Flash, vol. 2, no. 8 (January 1988). DC Comics.
- ^ Baron, Mike (w), Collins, Mike (p), Mahlstedt, Larry (i). "Velocity 9" The Flash, vol. 2, no. 12, p. 9/4 (May 1988). DC Comics.