Shrike (identity)

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Shrike is the name of multiple fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

Fictional character biographies

Toros Tos

The Shrike
Publication information
PublisherDC Comics
First appearanceHawkman #11 (December 1965/January 1966)
Created byDave Cockrum, Gardner Fox, and Murphy Anderson
In-story information
Alter egoToros Tos
Place of originMoronon
Notable aliasesThe Demon-Bird
AbilitiesFlight, accelerated growth from infant to adulthood, as member of royal family possesses ability to understand all languages & to fire lightning, cyclonic winds & ice pellets from his "wonder wings"

Toros Tos was a super-powered orphan from the highly advanced planet Moronon in the distant Mizar system where everyone has wings.

lizards
, helped him reclaim his throne from the evil dictator Boras Boran who had usurped it from his late parents.

Vanessa Kingsbury

Vanessa Kingsbury was an escaped mental patient who was empowered by the

Starshrike
joined the Cadre in her place.

Shrike III

Shrike
Shrike, art by Javier Pulido and Marcos Martin.
Publication information
PublisherDC Comics
First appearanceRobin: Year One #3 (December 2000)
Created byChuck Dixon, Scott Beatty, Javier Pulido, and Marcos Martin
In-story information
Team affiliationsLeague of Assassins
AbilitiesExceptional martial artist

The third Shrike is a martial artist created by writers

Robin
) and he appeared in Robin Year One #3.

A member of

Escrima stick-fighting, as he was first seen using these weapons after training at the Vengeance Academy. When Shrike took out an assassination contract on Two-Face, he sent a number of his students to carry out the assassination, including Dick and Shrike's top student, a boy named Boone. Dick saved both Boone and Two-Face in the ensuing battle, confirming Shrike's suspicions that Dick was a spy. Batman arrived to save Dick, only to be badly wounded by Shrike. Two-Face himself arrived in the middle of this battle, wishing to kill his would-be assassins and accidentally killed Shrike just as the assassin was preparing to kill Dick. Two-Face escaped, and Shrike's school fled, with Boone greatly upset by the death of his master. Shrike's legacy was picked up by Boone - Shrike. Shrike's namesake, the bird of prey Shrike
, is known for catching smaller animals and impaling them on spikes, thorns, barbed wire, etc. The assassin presumably took this name out of a preference for bladed and spiked weapons.

Shrike revealed that he had been so impressed with Dick's natural talents and martial arts prowess that he had intended to present the young teen to an "O-Sensei". It is unknown whether he referred to the League of Assassins' Sensei, the individual only known as the O-Sensei, Ra's al Ghul, or another individual entirely.

Boone

Shrike
Shrike as depicted in Nightwing Secret Files #1 (August 1999). Art by Scott McDaniel.
Publication information
PublisherDC Comics
First appearanceNightwing Secret Files & Origins #1 (October 1999)
Created byChuck Dixon (writer)
Scott McDaniel (artist)
In-story information
Alter egoUnknown
Team affiliationsVengeance Academy
League of Assassins
The Society
Suicide Squad
Notable aliasesBoone
Wayne Wilkins Jr.
Ruby Eyes
General War
AbilitiesExceptional martial artist

As a teenager, the boy known only as Boone was a friend of Dick Grayson, who would grow up to become Nightwing. As Grayson was learning under the tutelage of the heroic Batman, Boone was traveling throughout the Pacific Rim, learning martial arts from a number of teachers, including several former members of Ra's al Ghul's League of Assassins. In Hong Kong Boone encountered Shrike, the "Master" that would turn him into a skilled and disciplined killing machine. Boone was part of the Vengeance Academy that Shrike operated in Gotham City, training young teens to become assassins. Dick Grayson, temporarily fired by Batman, infiltrated the school after an "audition" and formed a hesitant friendship with Boone. After Dick revealed the school to Batman following an abortive assassination attempt by the students on Two Face, leading to the death of Shrike by the villain (as mentioned above), Boone swore to avenge his master. After meeting with Talia al Ghul, Boone continued his education by members of the League of Assassins. Taking on his mentor's name, the new Shrike became one of the world's foremost assassins, killing throughout Asia and the former Soviet bloc, before returning to America to become the new chief enforcer of criminal kingpin Blockbuster in order to assassinate Nightwing. He twice failed in this regard. Shrike later appeared, after the death of Ra's al Ghul, as a member of Nyssa al Ghul's new League of Assassins. Like his mentor and their namesake, the Shrike, Shrike uses a number of bladed and spiked weapons, such as swords, bladed tonfa, nets with fishing hooks added to them, and various knives and shuriken.

In

Alexander Luthor, Jr.'s Secret Society of Super Villains.[3]

In 2016, DC Comics implemented another relaunch of its books called "

Psych, and Vortex. After Psych admitted that he cheated, he used the projection of everyone that was killed by the three villains over the years to kill them.[4]

Following DC's "

Film Freak, Boone is left to die by Joker's laughing gas.[5] His brother, code-named Blue Shrike, appears as well, battling Nightwing in honor of his brother on Lazarus Island.[6]

Queen Shrike

The notorious Queen Shrike, Khea Taramka, is the queen of

The Star Sapphires
, The Predator takes over the queen. It states to Hawkman and Hawkgirl that this is their last incarnation. The Hawks separate the queen from the entity, then the skeletons from their past incarnations come alive to take the queen to another dimension.

In other media

The Boone incarnation of Shrike makes a non-speaking cameo appearance in Superman/Batman: Public Enemies.

References

  1. ISBN 9780345501066
    .
  2. ^ Suicide Squad #67 (January 2010). DC Comics.
  3. ^ Villains United: Infinite Crisis Special
  4. ^ The Flash (vol. 5) #61. DC Comics.
  5. ^ Suicide Squad (vol. 7) #1. DC Comics.
  6. ^ Robin Versus the World! #1. DC Comics.
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