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==Powers and abilities==
==Powers and abilities==
Jinx is an elemental sorceress who draws her magic from natural solid ground. This is why she must have contact with the ground and her feet at all times or her magical effects become weakened or she looses them all together. Some of her elemental abilities include but are not limited to: generating powerful force bolts, conjuring wind bursts, summoning emerald flames, creating earth tremors, and even dissolving solid matter converting it into mystical energy beams. Other abilities may exist but none are certain.
Jinx is an elemental sorceress who draws her magic from natural solid ground. This is why she must have contact with the ground and her feet at all times or her magical effects become weakened or she looses them all together. Some of her elemental abilities include but are not limited to: generating powerful force bolts, conjuring wind bursts, summoning emerald flames, creating earth tremors, and even dissolving solid matter converting it into mystical energy beams. Other abilities may exist but none are certain.



In the series ''[[Teen Titans (TV series)|Teen Titans]]'' her powers consist of projecting mystic energy waves that bend probability fields around matter which cause "bad luck", such as materials and structures breaking or collapsing.
In the series ''[[Teen Titans (TV series)|Teen Titans]]'' her powers consist of projecting mystic energy waves that bend probability fields around matter which cause "bad luck", such as materials and structures breaking or collapsing.

==Other Jinxes==
A different kind of Jinx appeared in "Adventure Comics" #488 and had fought [[Dial H for Hero|Chris King and Vicky Grant]] alongside Cancero and Jelly Woman. This version has the power of jinx.


==Other Media==
==Other Media==
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Jinx's personality is very different from when she first met the Teen Titans to when she met Kid Flash{{Citation needed|date=January 2009}}. At first, Jinx appears to be quiet, mean, mysterious, often speaking in whispers, and sometimes depicted as crazy because of the evil, crooked grin she usually wore when battling. However, at "Lightspeed", we see a more determined, outspoken, and sane Jinx who wanted to be respected and not shunned because of her bad-luck powers. Generally, however, despite her habitual dark looks she is a very fashion-conscious girl, more intent on hunting for interesting attire and accessories rather than getting rich.
Jinx's personality is very different from when she first met the Teen Titans to when she met Kid Flash{{Citation needed|date=January 2009}}. At first, Jinx appears to be quiet, mean, mysterious, often speaking in whispers, and sometimes depicted as crazy because of the evil, crooked grin she usually wore when battling. However, at "Lightspeed", we see a more determined, outspoken, and sane Jinx who wanted to be respected and not shunned because of her bad-luck powers. Generally, however, despite her habitual dark looks she is a very fashion-conscious girl, more intent on hunting for interesting attire and accessories rather than getting rich.



The animated Jinx's powers portray a manipulation of [[probability]], more specifically, the ability to "bring bad luck" to her enemies, similar to early portrayals of the [[Marvel Comics]] characters [[Scarlet Witch]] and [[Black Cat (comics)|Black Cat]] how she does this is never explored. When she wants her enemies to be "unlucky" she fires powerful, disruptive pink energy waves from her hands, often causing solid structures in her surroundings to break or fall on her opponents. She is also very agile, capable of dodging beam weapon bursts, starbolts, and pillars of stone telekinetically launched at her.
The animated Jinx's powers portray a manipulation of [[probability]], more specifically, the ability to "bring bad luck" to her enemies, similar to early portrayals of the [[Marvel Comics]] characters [[Scarlet Witch]] and [[Black Cat (comics)|Black Cat]] how she does this is never explored. When she wants her enemies to be "unlucky" she fires powerful, disruptive pink energy waves from her hands, often causing solid structures in her surroundings to break or fall on her opponents. She is also very agile, capable of dodging beam weapon bursts, starbolts, and pillars of stone telekinetically launched at her.

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Jinx
Injustice League
Fearsome Five
Villainy Inc.
Secret Society of Super Villains
AbilitiesMagical command of elements
Manipulation of magical energy in diverse ways

Jinx is a

Tales of the Teen Titans #56 (August 1985), and was created by Marv Wolfman and Chuck Patton
.

Publication history

She joined the supervillain group, the Fearsome Five, a frequent enemy of the Teen Titans, Superman and the Outsiders.[1] She has also been a member of Villainy Inc. To date, her real name has not been revealed.

Fictional character biography

Jinx is an East

jewelry
, and she is always barefoot.

She first encountered the Fearsome Five when that group attacked a research facility belonging to

Alcatraz, along with her teammates Mammoth and Gizmo
.

Later, in a storyline in

Lexcorp stock by having them steal its accounts from its corporate building in Metropolis, and then driving down the stock by killing all the people in the building. Sivana also had them destroy two other Lexcorp properties. At the latter of the two, a microchip processor factory of Lexcorp's subsidiary, Kellacor, the Five were confronted by the Outsiders. After escaping, the criminally unsophisticated Five urged Sivana to take Lexcorp's nuclear missile facility near Joshua Tree, California. When Sivana refused, Psimon asserted that they would take it anyway, and in response, Sivana killed Gizmo with a laser blast to the head, and severed relations with the remaining four, warning them that he would kill them if they ever crossed his path again. The Five decided to enact their plan to take the facility and fire a nuclear missile at Canada
, but were defeated by the Outsiders. Mammoth was returned to Alcatraz Island, but Jinx and the other members of the Five remain at large.

Most recently, she as seen among the new

Injustice League, and is one of the villains featured in Salvation Run. She is one of the villains sent to retrieve the Get Out of Hell free card from the Secret Six
.

Powers and abilities

Jinx is an elemental sorceress who draws her magic from natural solid ground. This is why she must have contact with the ground and her feet at all times or her magical effects become weakened or she looses them all together. Some of her elemental abilities include but are not limited to: generating powerful force bolts, conjuring wind bursts, summoning emerald flames, creating earth tremors, and even dissolving solid matter converting it into mystical energy beams. Other abilities may exist but none are certain.

In the series Teen Titans her powers consist of projecting mystic energy waves that bend probability fields around matter which cause "bad luck", such as materials and structures breaking or collapsing.

Other Jinxes

A different kind of Jinx appeared in "Adventure Comics" #488 and had fought Chris King and Vicky Grant alongside Cancero and Jelly Woman. This version has the power of jinx.

Other Media

Television

Teen Titans

Jinx from Teen Titans the Animated series

Jinx appears in the

See-More
- are revealed to have (had) a crush on her.

Her first mission with her classmates (for which they were dispatched by the H.I.V.E. Headmistress, who had been hired by

Slade
) was to kill the Titans. They managed to get the Titans out of their tower, but the Titans returned and defeated the evil teens.

Jinx was involved in a series of bank robberies with Gizmo and Mammoth but the Titans planted a tracking device on her while they escaped and had

Mother Mae-Eye
appeared and defeated them. Later on after they defeated Mother Mae-Eye, the Titans tricked Gizmo into taking the pie she was in, and May-Eye subsequently brainwashes Jinx and the H.I.V.E. by feeding them her pie.

She then appeared as the de facto leader of a slightly reorganized H.I.V.E. Five group, consisting of herself, Mammoth, Gizmo,

Kyd Wykkyd (when it was pointed out that the group now consists of six members, rather than five, the indignant teens' only response was that the original group name "sounds cooler"). Jinx was apparently the only member of this group who took her criminal career seriously, as the other members all displayed a serious lack of initiative and a remarkably short attention span
.

This latest incarnation of the H.I.V.E. Five was foiled during a raid on a museum by the teenaged superhero

Madame Rouge
, whom she idolized. However, Kid Flash took a liking to Jinx, and during their encounters, he alternately flirted with her and tried to convince her to renounce her life of crime. She later told Kid Flash that it was her power of "bad luck" that made her decide on pursuing a villainous life, since she saw little alternative considering the nature of her powers.

Jinx was eventually successful in capturing Kid Flash (with See-More's assistance), but she quickly released him after Madame Rouge's constant string of insults and patronizing attitude became too much for her to bear. At that point Jinx swiftly blasted Madame Rouge away with her powers, saying, 'I don't care who you are, nobody messes with me', which apparently impressed Madame Rouge enough to reconsider Jinx. However, Jinx disappeared into the shadows to join forces with Kid Flash. In "Titans Together" she, along with

Dr. Light
after he robbed a bank.

Jinx's personality is very different from when she first met the Teen Titans to when she met Kid Flash[citation needed]. At first, Jinx appears to be quiet, mean, mysterious, often speaking in whispers, and sometimes depicted as crazy because of the evil, crooked grin she usually wore when battling. However, at "Lightspeed", we see a more determined, outspoken, and sane Jinx who wanted to be respected and not shunned because of her bad-luck powers. Generally, however, despite her habitual dark looks she is a very fashion-conscious girl, more intent on hunting for interesting attire and accessories rather than getting rich.

The animated Jinx's powers portray a manipulation of probability, more specifically, the ability to "bring bad luck" to her enemies, similar to early portrayals of the Marvel Comics characters Scarlet Witch and Black Cat how she does this is never explored. When she wants her enemies to be "unlucky" she fires powerful, disruptive pink energy waves from her hands, often causing solid structures in her surroundings to break or fall on her opponents. She is also very agile, capable of dodging beam weapon bursts, starbolts, and pillars of stone telekinetically launched at her.

Teen Titans Go!

The animated version of Jinx makes numerous appearances (in a few of which she is one of the main characters) in

Argent, and several other females during his own charity race. She gets captured with the other heroines by Blackfire and is rescued by the Titans in issue #36. In issue #39, she is still with Kid Flash; when Larry, who is playing Cupid
, strikes other women with his love arrows when Flash wouldn't allow himself to be hit, she has her hands full with keeping them from flirting with her boyfriend.

Jinx also appears in issue #40, still as part of the Hive Five at that time, and issue #43, helping the Titans stop the Fearsome Five. She is mad at Raven and the Titans because she had not been given a communicator, but nevertheless she helps Robin infiltrate the Fearsome Five. When they make their appearance to Cyborg and Beast Boy, Jinx is with them (and the Titans act as if they were shocked about Jinx's "treason"). After the Fearsome Five go into Titans Tower, the Titans, Jinx, and Kid Flash ambush them, and after the battle, Robin gives her a communicator (the only reason Jinx did not get a communicator was because Robin had run out of them during the Brotherhood of Evil's battle).

In #53, it is revealed that Jinx's nickname is/was "Lucky" and that she had entertained a disappointing relationship with Kid Kold (aka Leo), one of the two villains featured in that story, before joining the H.I.V.E. In that issue she also shares her first official kiss with Kid Flash.

Video Games

See also

Bibliography

  • Teen Titans: Characters
  • TitansGo.net: Characters
  • DC’s Who's Who
  • The Official Teen Titans Index (ICG; 1985)
  • The New Titans Sourcebook (Mayfair Games; 1990)
  • Tales of the Teen Titans #56–58 (August–October 1985)
  • Wonder Woman vol. 2 #175 (December 2001)
  • Wonder Woman vol. 2 #179–185 (May–November 2002)
  • New Titans #116–117 (December 1994 – January 1995)
  • Outsiders #13–15 (August–October 2004)

References

  1. OCLC 213309017
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