Line #3 Characters/TeenTitansCheshire


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11	!!Cheshire
12	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cheshire_unmasked.jpg]]
13	!!!'''Alter ego:''' Jade Nguyen / Jade Chaumont
14	!!!'''Species''': Human
15	!!!'''Created by:''' Marv Wolfman, George Pérez
16	!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''New Teen Titans Annual'' #2 (1983)
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18	Jade Nguyen is a deadly Vietnamese mercenary and assassin who goes by the {{Codename}} Cheshire. She's often recognized as one of the world's greatest and most ruthless assassins. Her skills include mastery over physical combat, various weaponry, and she is an expert on exotic poisons.
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20	While she's started as a rogue for ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' and their many spin-off teams, due to her mercenary nature she quickly became a rogue for all kinds of heroes in ''Franchise/TheDCU'', such as ComicBook/WonderWoman, ComicBook/{{Batman}}, ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey, and ComicBook/GreenArrow. She also joined several villainous organizations, such as the Ravens, Tartarus, Injustice League, Secret Six, Titans, Villains for Hire, League of Assassins, Brotherhood of Evil, Mayhem, etc. She's known to be an OnlyInItForTheMoney villain and usually has no real loyalty to any group or cause, frequently just working as a hired muscle for another villain.
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22	Cheshire's personal plot mostly revolves around her relationship with the hero Roy Harper/Arsenal, with whom she has a DatingCatwoman relationship with, which resulted in a daughter named Lian Harper.
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28	[[folder:Tropes associated with all versions of Cheshire]]
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30	* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: She's used this to become immune to many types of toxins. In one ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'' storyline, shot took down ComicBook/LadyShiva by simply flooding the room with an odorless and [[TheParalyzer paralyzing toxin]]. Shiva soon fell to the floor while Cheshire herself was immune to the effects.
31	* ActionMom: Becoming a mother has never stopped her from being a DarkActionGirl.
32	* AnimalMotifs: Cats. Her alias comes from the famous Cheshire Cat, the mask she (sometimes) wears resembles a cat, and she can be as coy, mysterious, and [[CatsAreMean cruel]] as a cat.
33	* AntiVillain: DependingOnTheWriter, she can fill this role. She's a ruthless assassin most of the time but she definitely has people she cares about and has a tragic past that sort of explains her actions.
34	* ArmedLegs: Sometimes her boots are equipped with blades. [[PoisonedWeapons Poisoned blades, naturally]].
35	* ArrogantKungFuGirl: Cheshire likes to gloat to her enemies while using her acrobat skills to dodge them and attack them while they're defenseless.
36	* ArsenalAttire: Her outfits are frequently covered in all sorts of weaponry, from sais, to throwing knives and swords. And sometimes she has HiddenWeapons on her, too.
37	* AsianBabymama: She's Vietnamese and mother to Lian Harper, with American hero Roy Harper/Arsenal.
38	* BadassesWearBandanas: If she's not wearing the [[MalevolentMaskedWoman Cheshire Cat mask]], then she's wearing a green bandana.
39	* BadassNormal: Doesn't have any powers, relying on her acrobatics, martial arts and mastery of poison to fight. She is still formidable enough to fight and take down many powerful heroes, such as ComicBook/{{Starfire}} and ComicBook/WonderWoman.
40	* BeneathTheMask: She works very hard at convincing people that she's a remorseless murderer who gets off on the suffering of others, but the fact that she works so hard at casting that image belies a completely miserable woman still trapped in her traumatic childhood and wants only to be with her children.
41	* BettyAndVeronica: Has this dynamic in the LoveTriangle between herself, Roy/Arsenal and Donna Troy / ComicBook/WonderGirl. she's the Veronica (as the seductive villainess) to Donna Troy's Betty (as the NiceGirl heroine) to Roy's Archie.
42	* BigEgoHiddenDepths: Behind her arrogance and coy attitude lies a [[BrokenBird deeply troubled woman]].
43	* BrainyBrunette: Jade has long black hair and despite her flirty demeanor, she's no BrainlessBeauty, being one the most talented toxicologists on the planet, and often being quite a good schemer and a cunning tactician.
44	* BuxomBeautyStandard: Her well-endowed figure has caught the eye of many characters. She's well aware and uses cleavage-baring outfits to [[ShowSomeLeg exploit it]] by advantage of her prey getting [[DistractedByTheSexy distracted by her cleavage]].
45	* CatNinja: She's a Cheshire Cat-themed ProfessionalKiller with a light {{Ninja}} motif.
46	* CatsAreMean: Jade is a cat-themed villainess for is known for being mean, to the point she's often a {{Jerkass}}. It's a case of DependingOnTheWriter if she's a JerkWithAHeartOfGold or a JerkWithAHeartOfJerk.
47	* CatsAreSuperior: Jade is a cat-themed villainess who's known for her arrogance and selfishness.
48	* CheshireCatGrin: She's famous for her coy and maniac smile, resembling that of a Cheshire Cat. It's how she got her {{Codename}}. She also sometimes wears a [[MalevolentMaskedWoman mask]] that is permanently set in one.
49	* ColorMotif: Green.
50	** Her first name is Jade, a mineral known for being green.
51	** She has bright green eyes.
52	** Her outfits, both supervillain and civilian ones, are mainly colored in various shades of green.
53	** The color green can often represent mystery, which is a character trait of hers.
54	** Her main gimmick is to be a MasterPoisoner, and poison is [[SicklyGreenGlow heavily associated with green]].
55	* ColorCodedEyes: She has bright green ones, evoking her [[SicklyGreenGlow toxic]] nature as both a MasterPoisoner and a ManipulativeBitch.
56	* CrazyInTheHeadCrazyInTheBed: When Roy Harper is fighting her off in ''Justice League: Rise of Arsenal'', he starts to wonder mid-fight what he ever saw in a PsychoForHire like her that he started a DatingCatwoman relationship with, but then the [[SexIsViolence fight starts to get more intimate]] and he remembers it's because, despite her AxCrazy personality, that feistiness makes her terrific in bed. Soon enough the fight evolves into SexForSolace instead.
57	* DarkActionGirl: An evil BadassNormal action girl and ProfessionalKiller.
58	* DatingCatwoman: She's a villainess that has had an on-again-off-again relationship with hero Roy Harper/Arsenal. The details tend to vary based on the incarnation, but it's usually [[TheMasochismTango not healthy for either party]].
59	* DeadlyScratch: Due to her status as a MasterPoisoner, she often fights with the aim to inflict these, as most of her weapons are [[PoisonedWeapons coated with poisons]], as it is all she needs to inflict her deadly toxins on her opponents. Her most iconic weapon is actually her [[FemmeFatalons nails]], which allows her to subtly scratch people, poisoning them without them even noticing it.
60	* DeadpanSnarker: She has a dry sense of humor, and treats her opponents like a cat would treat a mouse, allowing herself to be involved in playful banter to a small extent.
61	* DependingOnTheArtist: Flats vs. heels, cleavage vs. no cleavage, jacket vs. no jacket vs. bolero jacket vs. longcoat, whether or not she wears a [[MalevolentMaskedWoman Cheshire Cat mask]].
62	* DependingOnTheWriter: How cruel and evil she is can change often between writers, varying from a mercenary PunchClockVillain with few redeeming qualities to a [[EvilIsPetty petty]] and [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] PsychoForHire.
63	* DidNotThinkThisThrough: One of her biggest and most consistent flaws is that she will do things for short-term rewards without thinking of the consequences afterwards. From nuking Qurac, to betraying the Secret Six to the Society in order to be spared by them, to abandoning Lian to give her a fresh start, these almost always horribly backfire on her or the people around her in some way. Destroying Qurac proved she was a legitimate threat but destroyed any chance of her having a normal life with Roy and Lian because everyone wants her to pay for her atrocities and plagued the Harpers with guilt for caring about her. Betraying the Secret Six simply proved to everyone that she's an unreliable backstabber and earned her a bullet in the chest from a disgusted Deathstroke, showing it's more beneficial to try and put her down once she's served her purpose. And abandoning Lian to give her a normal life resulted in Lian losing her childhood and ending up a homeless teen orphan working for Catwoman. [[spoiler:Except it turns out Jade never abandoned Lian, nor did she even know she was still alive.]]
64	* DragonLady: Seems to fit several traits being foreign, [[TheVamp sexually aggressive]], mysterious and has quite the family history.
65	* DruggedLipstick: Unsurprisingly, a kiss from a FemmeFatale MasterPoisoner will likely be a KissOfDeath. In one instance in ''ComicBook/SecretSix'' she lured one man into a false sense of security by kissing him... and then [[LipLosses bit off a man's lower lip]], and then he started foaming at the mouth before he died implying she's [[AcquiredPoisonImmunity internalized a number of poisons]].
66	* DualWielding: She knows how to fight with one weapon in each hand, and this aggressive style combines well with her MasterPoisoner abilities and PoisonedWeapons, as she often just needs [[DeadlyScratch a single scratch]] to inflict her toxins on her opponents.
67	* FashionableAsymmetry: Her most iconic battle-kimono outfit has only her right shoulder bare.
68	* FemmeFatale: She's known to use her seductive skills in her work as a mercenary, making it easy to poison her targets without them even knowing. This even worked on Roy several times, despite the fact he should know better.
69	* FemmeFatalons: Her sharpened fingernails as her most iconic weapons, and as a MasterPoisoner, she frequently [[PoisonedWeapons keeps them poisoned]], making even [[DeadlyScratch the tiniest scratch potentially deadly]]. It can vary if they're actually just her natural nails or if she has some kind of [[WolverineClaws claw weapon]] on her fingers.
70	* FlirtingUnderFire: She sometimes acts as TheTease during combat, using sexual innuendo to try to throw off her opponents. Other times, she just enjoys being a flirt.
71	* FragileSpeedster: She's fast (to BadassNormal levels) and acrobatic, but while it's hard to land a hit on her, it doesn't take much to take her taken given she ''is'' just human.
72	* GreenAndMean: She has green as a ColorMotif and is almost wearing green-colored attires both as a civilian and in her villain outfit. She's also a DarkActionGirl known for being mean and manipulative.
73	* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Sometimes she's put on the path of redemption for the sake of Roy and Lian, but she ultimately [[ChronicVillainy always goes back to being a villain]].
74	* InstantSedation: Some of her poisons work like this, which is convenient for when she wants to capture or kidnap people. {{Justified\|Trope}} in that she ''is'' a MasterPoisoner.
75	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: It's very subtle, considering how she is an arrogant, sarcastic jerk, but it is there. She only shows her softer side to the people she deeply loves.
76	* KickChick: Due to having strong and flexible legs due to her [[SheFu acrobatic fighting style]], she prefers resorting to kicks when she has to fight unarmed.
77	* KimonoFanservice: Wears kimonos as casual clothes pretty often, and she usually wears them almost open to expose a great deal of cleavage.
78	* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Given she's a clever mercenary who's usually OnlyInItForTheMoney, she's prone to cutting her losses and making a retreat when the situation looks hopeless.
79	* MasterPoisoner: Her most dangerous quality and what she's mostly known for as an assassin. She's considered as one of the greatest poison experts in the ComicBook/DCUniverse, possessing a vast amount of knowledge about chemicals and toxins, to the point she has created some positively awful concoctions to unleash upon her opponents while also making them [[PerfectPoison almost undetectable]] and has [[AcquiredPoisonImmunity made herself immune to most of them]]. Most of her weaponry is also [[PoisonedWeapons coated in poisons]] making a [[DeadlyScratch single scratch being extremely deadly.]]
80	* MostCommonSuperPower: She's a fairly buxom super-villain.
81	* MsFanservice: When [[FanDisservice she's not being disturbing]], her [[{{Stripperiffic}} revealing outfit]], buxom figure and [[TheVamp seductive mannerisms]] definitely fit this trope and it's not unusual for her to get into her more {{Fanservice}}y situations.
82	** She's prone to invoking this whenever she wants to seduce Roy, such as in ''[[ComicBook/Titans2008 Titans]]'' #28 when she walks into Roy's room wearing solely a ModestyBedsheet before [[DressHitsFloor letting it hit the floor]].
83	** In ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'', she ambushed by ComicBook/BlackCanary and ComicBook/LadyShiva in her hotel room, while she was sleeping in an extremely revealing nightgown. Then she avoids them by making a HighDiveEscape into the pool below her room, making her skimpy nightgown now a SexySoakedShirt, with a gratuitous SexySurfacingShot of her climbing out of the water. And then she gets into a CatFight with Canary in that outfit.
84	* NavelDeepNeckline: Many of her costumes have her cleavage being so deep to reach her stomach.
85	* {{Omniglot}}: As an international mercenary and ProfessionalKiller, Jade learned how to be a multilingualist, speaking Vietnamese, Chinese, English, Japanese, Russian, French and Spanish.
86	* OneDoseFitsAll: Her poisons often have the same effect even when she unleashes them on targets with completely different (and sometimes alien) physiologies.
87	* OnlyInItForTheMoney: She works as a mercenary and a ProfessionalKiller just for the cash.
88	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Jade casually talks about poisoning people on her best of days, so if she's ever shown actually feeling sorry for what she's done it must've taken a ''lot'' to make her drop her guard.
89	* TheParalyzer: Her poisons most commonly have a paralyzing effect, especially when she's fighting heroes, since writers don't have an easy way to save characters if they're afflicted with a deadly poison.
90	* ParentsAsPeople: For all of her many, many, many, ''many'' faults, Jade has shown that she does love her children. The problem is that her myriad of emotional and mental issues stemming from years of trauma and inability to ''deal'' with those issues means she's not a good parent. She was shown to be loving towards Lian, and later Tommy, but Jade's occupation as an assassin and the amount of enemies she's amassed only made it impossible for her to properly care for either child. There's also the fact that she's often done things that straddle the line towards indirectly abusing her children as she tends to value her freedom more than their wellbeing.
91	* PerfectPoison: As a MasterPoisoner, she has made poisons that went undetected by people with enhanced senses such as Catman.
92	* PlotDevice Due to her status as a MasterPoisoner, she can make a concoction that allows her to do anything she wants, from being [[PerfectPoison nigh-undetectable]], to causing hallucinations, to working on all different kinds of physiologies, to only activating on specific timings, etc.
93	* PoisonedWeapons: Tends to keep all her weapons drenched in her many poisons. Even her own fingernails. It's generally dangerous to let her [[DeadlyScratch so much as scratch you]]. She also can provide poisoned weapons to her teammates.
94	-->'''Cheshire:''' Hand me one of your bullets. I have something agonizing to dip it in.
95	* ProfessionalKiller: Cheshire of the most well-known and feared assassins in the ComicBook/DCUniverse, and most of her appearances as a villain simply having her working as one for another villain.
96	* ProudBeauty: Jade is perfectly aware of how sexy and beautiful she is. She's also arrogant enough to often point it out, and clever enough to know [[TheVamp how to use it to her advantage]].
97	* PoisonIsCorrosive: She can make poisons and concoctions that have corrosive effects.
98	* PoisonIsEvil: Cheshire is a villainous ProfessionalKiller whose main schtick is being a MasterPoisoner with a vast array of PoisonedWeapons.
99	* SexGoddess: Given Jade is known for her [[FlexibilityEqualsSexAbility agility]], confidence and passion, is hardly surprising she's extremely good in bed.
100	** According to Roy Harper during ''The Rise of Arsenal'' arc, next to Kendra Saunders, Cheshire was the best lay Roy has ever had and keep in mind that he's [[TheCasanova a ladies man]] who has had sexual flings with many women, including [[ComicBook/WonderGirl Donna Troy]], ComicBook/{{Huntress}}, and other bodacious superheroines. This is heavily implied why he [[SexWithTheEx keeps sleeping with her]] even after all [[TheMasochismTango the screwed-up stuff that happened between them]].
101	** PlayedWith in ''ComicBook/RedHoodAndTheOutlaws''. She walks out of a brothel tent, claiming the men inside can barely after she got through with them... only for the owner to walk out, claiming that she poisoned them.
102	* SexWithTheEx: She and Roy have often ended up in bed even after having broken up, often ending up in a NotStayingForBreakfast morning-after. It's just one of the aspects of their [[TheMasochismTango mess of a relationship]].
103	** Pre-Flashpoint, she's implied to have had sex with Roy multiple times after he joined Deathstroke's Titans, though it's blatantly clear she's doing it to control him. Their first time together after Roy becomes a member of the team happens after she's stolen his heroin while he needs a fix, [[SexForSolace offering sex as an alternative to his addiction]].
104	** Post-Flashpoint in ''ComicBook/TitansRebirth'', she seduces and sleeps with him (making him cheat on Donna in the process) while [[WorkingWithTheEx they're working together on a case]]. But soon after it's revealed she's actually working with the bad guys and seducing him was just part of their ploy.
105	* SexyCatPerson: She has Cheshire Cats as a theme, and is famous for being a [[FemmeFatale seductive]] and [[TheTease flirty]] MsFanservice.
106	* SheFu: Cheshire is famous for her agile fighting style, being a triple-jointed acrobat which makes her moves quick and unexpected. She uses it primarily to dodge attacks, and then launches a CounterAttack when her opponent's guards are down.
107	* SlasherSmile: When she gets angry or violent her coy CheshireCatGrin turns into these.
108	* SmokeOut: One of Chesire's favorite tricks when she needs to make a retreat is to toss out smoke bombs.
109	* StatuesqueStunner: She's a HeadTurningBeauty that is 5'9" tall, making her slightly taller than her most recurring LoveInterest Roy Harper/Arsenal.
110	* StealthExpert: She's very good at sneaking around, and can infiltrate places, poison her target and get out without being noticed.
111	* StepfordSmiler: That smug, seductive grin Cheshire has is used to hide an incredibly unhappy person who longs to be truly happy.
112	* StockNinjaWeaponry: Given her Asian {{Ninja}} aesthetic, she's known to use sai on occasion, but just like in most media, she mostly just uses it as a knife, not as the defensive parrying weapon it's meant to be.
113	* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Has frequently used [[PerfectPoison nigh-undetectable poisons]] on the foods and drinks of her targets.
114	* TheTease: She often has a playful, flirty demeanor, especially with [[DatingCatwoman Roy Harper/Arsenal]].
115	* VillainExitStageLeft: She's extremely good at avoiding getting arrested, mostly thanks to her agility, sneaking skill, and good sense to KnowWhenToFoldEm.
116	* WildCard: Due to her flimsy loyalties and AntiVillain tendencies, it's up in the air whether she'll side with the heroes or villains. Usually, she's [[ItsAllAboutMe on her own side]].
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120	!!Jade Nguyen / Cheshire
121	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cheshire_pre_flashpoint.jpg]]
122	[[caption-width-right:350:Cheshire's design Pre-Flashpoint]]
123	[[quoteright:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see her Classic design]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cheshire_classic.jpg[[/labelnote]]]]
124	[[quoteright:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see her as a civilian]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jade_002.jpg[[/labelnote]]]]
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126	-> '''First appearance''': 1983, ''ComicBook/NewTeenTitans'' Annual #2
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128	-->''"The sentence of the court is not what concerns me. In any case, I don't wish for our daughter to see me caged like some animal. Just tell her I love her... And that I will see her again."''
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130	In the Pre-Flashpoint timeline, Jade Nguyen had a tragic backstory, born to a French father and a Vietnamese mother, she was kidnapped as a child and sold into slavery. She spent many years as a child slave, until one day she managed to kill her master and escape, and was eventually adopted by a Chinese WWII veteran, Weng Chen. He [[TheMentor taught her how to fight]] and put her on the path to becoming a mercenary.
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132	Working as a ProfessionalKiller she quickly became an enemy of the ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' and various other heroes, and became infamously known for nuking the country of Qurac, an event that was considered a MoralEventHorizon InUniverse.
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134	She has had multiple romantic relationships and given birth to two children with different fathers, Lian Harper with Arsenal and Thomas Blake, Jr. with Catman. Despite her own shortcomings, Jade seems to love her children, but it was never enough to dissuade her from her villainous and mercenary life.
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137	* AdaptationalModesty: The outfit she wears in ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'' is much more modest than her usual {{Stripperiffic}} battle-kimono. Ironically, the plot has her dress into a NubileSavage for a lot of issues.
138	* AllThereInTheManual: The fact she was married when she was 16, and learned how to be a MasterPoisoner from her first husband who passed away soon after, is only mentioned in her entry in ''Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe'' #4
139	* ArchEnemy:
140	** The closest the Secret Six has to one, but mostly to Catman in particular.
141	** She's also Roy Harper's.
142	* AsianBabymama: So nice she did it twice: once with Arsenal, and once with Catman.
143	* AssholeVictim: She's constantly targeted by assassins due to her nuking Qurac, and Roy (and his friends) [[VillainousRescue rescue her]], mostly for Lian's sake.
144	* AxCrazy: She revels in violence because it's the only way she knows to express her anger. The fact that she nuked Qurac [[ForTheEvulz because she could]] offers some pretty good insight into how utterly deranged this woman is.
145	* BrainwashedAndCrazy: She once got infected with the Joker Drug, making her even more insane and attacked the Titan's home to try and kidnap Lian, to the point she actually infected Lian with the Joker Drug so "they could be together".
146	* ButtMonkey: Her life is, to put it simply, a total wreck. She's barely functioning, has no friends, her ex-lovers can't stand her, her children can't be in her life, her reputation is in the gutter, and whenever she has a scheme it manages to backfire spectacularly on her before she gets her ass kicked in a humiliating and painful fashion.
147	* TheChessmaster: What's the best way to manipulate a superhero and a supervillain who both hate your guts? [[TheBabyTrap Have their kids]]. She also once set up a convoluted revenge scheme in ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'' that started off with Jade [[FrameUp framing]] ''herself''.
148	* TheChewToy: Any time Gail uses her, Cheshire [[ButtMonkey inevitably gets her ass handed to her]]. She's been thrown out of a helicopter, tortured, shot in the chest, forced to eat Solomon Grundy's cooked flesh, beaten within an inch of her life by Jeannette and then kicked upside the head by Tarantula, left as a bloody heap on the floor by three mercenaries hired to steal her son, [[spoiler: and then told said son was killed when he's really alive and been adopted by a loving couple.]]
149	* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Unfortunately for her, the Society [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves aren't idiots.]]
150	* ChronicVillainy: She's given multiple opportunities to redeem herself and even when it looks like she might be on that path, chances are she'll immediately slip back into the selfish psychopath she's more well known as because she argues it's "her nature."
151	* DarkAndTroubledPast: She was a child by rape who was separated from her mother and sold into sexual slavery before being found and trained by [[TheMentor her mentor]] Weng Chen.
152	* DependingOnTheWriter: Whether or not she cares about Lian. Overall the one consistent element of her characterization is that it's clear her childhood trauma will result in her doing things that go against her love for Lian if it involves her freedom.
153	* DidntThinkThisThrough: One of her biggest issues is that she does not have the capability of thinking her actions out in the long run.
154	** She destroyed Qurac just to show the world she wasn't bluffing with her blackmail demands, yet at no point ever stopped to think about what her life would be like once the entire world and just about everyone around her now believes she has to die for her crimes against humanity.
155	** She decided Lian would be better off if everyone believed she was still dead, so Jade left her amnesiac daughter in some random church in Gotham City. Several years later and Lian's now "Shoes," a homeless orphan who had to learn pickpocketing in order to survive and is now one of Catwoman's kid lackeys.
156	* DirtyCoward: Any time she gets cornered by Roy Harper or Thomas Blake she's quick to make some mention of the fact that she had their respective children. Also, for all intents and purposes, we've seen that while Jade is quick to dish out some extreme punishment, she's barely able to receive any back without pulling tail. See her encounter with Jeannette.
157	* EntitledBastard: She forces Roy to help with her scheme to murder Deathstroke by blaming him for Lian's death and stating he owes her for it. Not only is this frustrating due to it being clear Lian's death was a freak accident that had nothing to do with anything Roy directly or indirectly did, but she's lucky Roy never found out about Jade abandoning Lian in ''Villains United''.
158	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: DependingOnTheWriter, she does love her children, Lian Harper and Tommy Blake Jr.
159	* EvenEvilHasStandards: Before she nuked Qurac, Jade herself was a straight example of this. She used to avoid CollateralDamage during her assassinations (for instance, she left a witness BoundAndGagged and even assured the man that she had no intention of harming him), and even turned the tables on some racist South Africans who had hired her to kill a black civil rights worker. But after, she TookALevelInJerkass and didn't seem to have any standards.
160	* EvilGloating: In ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'', she makes a point to gloat about her EvilPlan to a paralyzed ComicBook/LadyShiva, and she actually manages to make this ''useful'' as she pits Shiva and ComicBook/BlackCanary against each other, since Shiva wants to murder Jade with Dinah just wants to arrest her.
161	* EvilIsPetty: Her whole villain history can be summed up as plans to hurt hundreds of people for small things. The woman had a child just to torment the father for [[WomanScorned walking out on her]] and committed nuclear holocaust just to prove she could. It doesn't get any pettier than that. In ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'' she murdered one of ComicBook/BlackCanary's and ComicBook/LadyShiva's former teachers, poisoning him and six of his students, even though he was a frail old man with terminal cancer who would have passed soon, anyway. When Dinah asks her why, Jade just replies "Because [[DisproportionateRetribution I don't like you]], Ms. Lance".
162	* EvilLaugh: Infamously she was letting out a burst of evil laughter when she nuked {{Qurac}}. The Mushroom cloud even depicted her face as she laughed.
163	* EvilMatriarch: She's a villainess who often comes into conflict with Lian's father Roy.
164	** She set out to murder Black Canary because she's taken care of Lian, and the girl comes to see Canary as more of a mother than Cheshire.
165	** Hell, she's so bad, even at age 4 Lian is perfectly aware of and ashamed of how horrible her mother is. When Lian's babysitter revealed that her grandparents died in the Qurac explosion, Lian got so angry at her mother that she threw Jade's picture at the wall shouting "BAD MOMMY!"
166	* EvilParentsWantGoodKids: Jade is a legitimately awful woman, but she loves Lian enough that she doesn't want her to turn out the way she did which is why she ultimately decided to allow Roy to have custody.
167	* FakingTheDead: During ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'', she had concocted a complex BatmanGambit {{revenge}} plan to destroy the life of a US Senator, whom she claims is her biological father that raped her mother, and in order to get away with it, she captured ComicBook/LadyShiva and left her BoundAndGagged near a bomb, setting up the situation so people would mistake Shiva's body for hers and assume she died. But the plan failed when ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} ended up rescuing Shiva.
168	* FatalFlaw: Her warped sense of self-preservation and inability to properly deal with her emotions has led to her being reviled by almost the entire world and cost her the opportunity to have a life with either of her children.
169	* FetishizedAbuser: While Cheshire wasn't this when she was originally with Roy Harper/Arnesal even though she [[DatingCatwoman was still evil]], she'd become this to him when they were both in Deathstroke's mock [[ComicBook/TeenTitans Titans]] team. Following their daughter's death, Jade began exploiting Roy's emotional deterioration and emotionally blackmailed him into joining Slade's team so they could gang up on Deathstroke and kill him. When she wasn't sleeping with Roy, Jade would frequently call him an idiot and berate him. Thankfully, the faux relationship ended when Roy and a newly revived Jericho destroyed Deathstroke's main plans and the team disbanded, with Jade not wanting anything to do with Roy.
170	* {{Flanderization}}: After Wolfman introduced her in the eighties, she was a morally grey assassin with flashes of EvenEvilHasStandards here and there and a very good reason to [[TheResenter resent Roy]], who essentially [[BedTrick seduced her under a false identity]] and then abandoned her, setting up a very involved DatingCatwoman scenario. When Wolfman brought her back in the 90s in the pages of ''ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}}'', it was as an EvilerThanThou aspiring nuclear terrorist and [[ComicBook/TheJudasContract Terra-style pure evil lunatic]]. Bizarrely, Roy Harper is ''also'' there for the same arc of ''Deathstroke'', and he doesn't even register as a third wheel.
171	* {{Foil}}: To Roy Harper. Both lost their parents at an early age and had difficult childhoods, both were taken in by a mentor who raised them to be who they are now. Roy's mentor Green Arrow neglected him and caused him to suffer serious abandonment issues that led to Roy experimenting with drugs. Jade's mentor trained her to be a killer and fundamentally ruined her ability to express her emotions. Roy accepts his failures and tries to learn from them, becoming a better, more multifaceted individual. Jade cannot accept or face the horrible things she's done and tries to shove all her negative emotions and desires into her role as Cheshire, an identity shaped to be a sociopathic defense mechanism, so she's trying and failing to live as one person with two facets.
172	* FreudianExcuse: She was [[MadeASlave sold into slavery]] at a very young age, and was never given a proper outlet to express her emotions since doing so in such a place would've been a death sentence. As an adult, she's tried to live as both "Jade" and "Cheshire," where Cheshire's the one who channels her anger and hostility while Jade gets to live peacefully. Her reliance on the Cheshire identity as an emotional crutch has left her incapable of expressing her emotions in a healthy manner, until the build-up of horrific events (nuking Qurac, forsaking Lian's life) left her wanting only to be Cheshire so she wouldn't have to face her guilty conscience.
173	* GoneHorriblyWrong: Her mentor and guardian taught her how to be a killer, and she ended up crafting the Cheshire identity as an outlet for all her negative emotions so they wouldn't affect her private life as Jade. Trouble is, her actions as Cheshire escalated to such a degree she couldn't ignore her guilt while living as Jade and eventually reached a point she'd rather pretend to be TheSociopath then admit how much suffering she's caused.
174	* GreenEyedMonster: She holds a pretty grudge against ComicBook/BlackCanary just because the woman has a closer relationship with Lian.
175	* HappilyAdopted: After living as a child slave for years, she was adopted by WWII veteran Weng Chen. He also served as her [[TheMentor mentor]] in teaching her about martial arts and guerilla warfare, putting her on the path to become a mercenary.
176	* HatedByAll: After a while, there are very few people in the entirety of the DCU who actually like Jade: her mentor, Roy, Lian, Tommy, and Catman. Even then, it's a stretch to say how much they actually like Jade at the moment and how much they pity her, while Tommy's a baby and generally too young to know or understand what Jade's done. Meanwhile, the superhero community views her as a dangerous woman who needs to pay for her crimes against humanity, the supervillain community views her as an [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder untrustworthy backstabber]] willing to sell out her own children just to save herself, and the regular people of the world think she's a [[OmnicidalManiac genocidal maniac]].
177	* HateSink: Whenever she's written by Creator/GailSimone, there's nothing good, redeemable, or likable about her, with Gail writing Jade as a repugnant, self-admitted [[TheSociopath sociopath]] whose horrific actions make the readers cheer when she [[ButtMonkey inevitably gets beaten up]]. Whereas other writers have her be caring and loving towards Lian (and to an extremely lesser extent Roy). Gail stated Cheshire is one character whom she never writes with any redeeming qualities and cites her nuclear genocide of Qurac as the reason why.
178	* HatedByAll: At the peak of her villainy, she was so thoroughly unpleasant that most people won't associate with her unless they absolutely have to, including her fellow villains.
179	* HerOwnWorstEnemy: Jade started as a mercenary who had a clear code of ethics, but her desire to prove how dangerous she is has destroyed her morals while ruining any and all chances she had for interpersonal relationships. Roy left her both because he couldn't bring himself to get her arrested and because he knew he could never have a life with Jade. Lian still loves Jade but knows she's horrible and believes she needs to be punished for hurting people, especially Roy and her babysitter Chanda. Ironically, Jade's biggest fear has always been the fear of becoming trapped like she was as a child and she's no one but herself to blame for the trap she's made of her life with the lengths she's gone through to never be enslaved again.
180	* IHaveAFamily: She's invoked this a couple of times. A standard defense is to remind Roy Harper that she is the mother of his child, which was useful even after Lian died. In ''ComicBook/SecretSix'', she attempted this on Jeannette while being dangled off a building. Jeannette could ''[[NoSell not]]'' have cared less.
181	* IJustWantToBeNormal: Her [[TheSociopath sociopathic veneer]] is used to hide a truly miserable woman who doesn't want her life to be what it is now, but feels she cannot change who she is at this point.
182	* IntimateMarks: She was originally drawn with a pink lotus tattoo on her breast.
183	* ItsAllAboutMe: She has no regard for anyone else unless she can use them.
184	* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: She started out as an assassin with a moral code and an understandable vendetta against Roy Harper, but the more desperate she was to prove what she was capable of as a villain led to her committing nuclear holocaust. After that, it's hard to go back to being a simple mercenary no matter how much she'd like to and it's not something ''anyone'' is going to simply forgive her for.
185	%%* KarmaHoudini: Averted multiple times, at least when Creator/GailSimone's the author.
186	* KickTheMoralityPet: Her desperation to escape from Mockingbird's control resulted in her consciously forsaking Lian so long as she could conceive a replacement baby. Unfortunately, Roy nor Lian ever found out so Jade was never forced to atone for this action, [[spoiler:even after Lian died.]]
187	* LackOfEmpathy: She doesn’t care about anyone's pain [[ItsAllAboutMe but her own]]. Some issues she implies she actually ''is'' capable of guilt, but the build-up of horrible actions she's perpetrated has led her to use apathy as a defense mechanism rather than let her guilty conscience potentially drive her insane.
188	* LaserGuidedKarma: See TheChewToy. If Creator/GailSimone's the writer, Cheshire will always get what's coming to her.
189	* LaxativePrank: While working with ComicBook/BlackCanary in ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'', she poisoned Dinah with a light laxative during a flight [[EvilIsPetty just to annoy her]].
190	* LoveCannotOvercome: Whatever feelings she has for Roy and the love she has for Lian and Tommy aren't strong enough to overcome her traumatic childhood and determination to do anything possible to avoid being captured or enslaved again.
191	* MadeASlave: In her backstory, she was kidnapped and sold as a slave while she was still a child, and only managed to escape the life years later, by killing her master.
192	* MadeOfIron: She's merely a BadassNormal and not any kind of enhanced meta-human. In the Batman story ''Their Dark Designs'', Cheshire gets ''hit head-on by an 18 wheeler'' during a fight with Batman and somehow doesn't die from it. The worst that happens is that she looks injured, with some cuts, and can't move but can otherwise carry on a conversation with Batman in the middle of him apprehending her.
193	* ManipulativeBitch: She purposefully nuked Qurac because she knew if anyone would try to call her out on it they would have to remember she destroyed a country considered to be the terrorist capital of the world and may have considered it a blessing. She basically killed millions just to troll everyone.
194	* MaternallyChallenged: {{Subverted\|Trope}}. When she was taking care of Lian, and later Tommy, she didn't exactly mistreat or abuse them. But the general implications are that she only does so to carry on the facade of actually giving a shit about them so she can keep using and hurting their fathers. If it looks like she doesn't love her kids, then there's no reason for their dads to give a crap about her. Her original plan for Lian was to use her mere existence to torment Roy Harper as {{revenge}} for [[PsychoExGirlfriend walking out on her]], and Tommy's conception was so she'd at least have one child after leaving the ''ComicBook/SecretSix'' and so Catman would have a reason to protect her when she betrayed the team. Creator/GailSimone describes Cheshire as having a lizard-like mentality with her kids: the moment they become a detriment to her freedom, all bets are off.
195	* TheMillstone: Almost any time a story is being done about Roy and Lian Harper, chances are the main source of drama will come from their relation to Cheshire. Roy will angst over the fact that [[DatingCatwoman he was in love with a genocidal maniac]] and that Lian will have to deal with the fact that [[EvilMatriarch her mother]] is a {{manipulative bitch}} who [[TheSociopath could never stop hurting others]] even if she wanted to (which is not very likely). Some authors have tried to get Roy to move past his old relationship, while others have ignored those movements forward for the sake of cheap drama. ''The Trial Of Cheshire'' in the first ''Titans'' volume is a decent example of this.
196	* MoralityPet: Her daughter Lian, and later her son by Catman, Thomas Jr.. [[spoiler:After Lian's death, and Catman convincing her that her son was dead too, the MoralityChain may be severed]]. However, when Lian's safety was held overhead to ensure her cooperation with the team, she was more than willing to conceive a replacement child just to leave the ''ComicBook/SecretSix'' and betray them.
197	* MoralEventHorizon: InUniverse it's usually considered to be her nuking {{Qurac}} ForTheEvulz in ''Deathstroke #19''.
198	* MuggingTheMonster: The mercenary who went after her and tried to rape her probably should have read up on her history first. Let's just say it doesn't end well for him.
199	-->'''Cheshire''': To be fair, he ''does'' have the kind of face that looks better in rictus.
200	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The ending of "The Trial of Cheshire" shows Jade locked away in a prison cell and forced to look back on everything that got her to this point and realizes [[HerOwnWorstEnemy everything she did was her own fault]]. Unfortunately, after that she tries way too hard to numb herself by staying solely in her Cheshire persona.
201	* NeverMyFault: She hates Roy for leaving her and because he was investigating her for the government while they were dating. She has a right to be angry about the latter, but it hasn't dawned on her that her increasingly bloodthirsty actions and repeated excuses of how she can't change who she is are the reasons why Roy's refused to get back together with her.
202	* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Nuking Qurac pretty much redefined Cheshire both in and out of universe, and unlike most cases this was a JustifiedTrope because no one in their right mind would brush off the fact she murdered an entire country simply [[EvilerThanThou to show that she could]].
203	* ParentalFavoritism: She's equally distraught when Lian dies and when she's told Tommy is dead but when Drago is reading her mind and stating she's subconsciously suicidal over Lian's death, Tommy is never mentioned or alluded to at all. It rather darkly implies that Tommy really was just a ReplacementGoldfish to her.
204	* ParentalSubstitute: Her mentor Weng is the one who started her training to become an assassin and the only parental figure she had after her mother died. The trouble is that Weng's training resulted in Jade becoming an emotionally stunted psychopath who gradually committed more and more horrific actions until she destroyed any chance she might have for happiness. Weng was initially ''proud'' of Jade for being the perfect assassin, and he claimed to hate Roy Harper because their love made Jade "weak" and ruined her skills as a killer. It's unclear how Weng felt when Jade nuked Qurac, or how he felt about her keeping Lian around as the anchor for her private, happier side.
205	* PsychoForHire: She may be in the supervillain gig [[OnlyInItForTheMoney for the money]], but she definitely [[{{Sadist}} enjoys]] her work ''way'' too much. During ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'' she was so AxCrazy she tried to kill Diana even though it went against her employer's wishes.
206	* PunchClockVillain: In the 80s, she was a ProfessionalKiller who had some morals, such as actively avoiding CollateralDamage, and tried to have a normal civilian life. Then [[MoralEventHorizon she nuked a country]] just to prove she could and she TookALevelInJerkass ever since.
207	* TheResenter:
208	** Her [[DatingCatwoman relationship with Roy]] is especially screwed up because, despite whatever lingering love she is for him, it's overshadowed by her [[PsychoExGirlfriend blistering hatred]] for how he [[WomanScorned walked out on her]]. Ironically, her homicidal actions only served to prove Roy was right to leave her and take custody of Lian after realizing they could never have a life together.
209	** She loathes ComicBook/BlackCanary because Canary has a [[GreenEyedMonster closer bond to Roy and Lian than Jade herself could have]].
210	* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}} was so disgusted by how quickly Cheshire had sold out her own team by divulging their location, he rewarded her for it by shooting her in the gut.
211	* {{Sadist}}: She takes a disturbing pleasure in poisoning her victims.
212	* TheSociopath: Has referred to herself as a "Well-known sociopath," and there was increasing evidence she truly [[LackOfEmpathy didn't give a shit about anyone]], not Roy ''or'' Lian, if it wasn't [[ItsAllAboutMe convenient for her]]. The idea that she openly refers to herself as a sociopath may imply she's not, but is trying to be in order to live with the bloodshed on her hands.
213	* TheStarscream: Spent most of her stay in Deathstroke's Titans planning to betray him, even manipulating Roy to assist her. Slade was all too aware of it, but still kept her around because he figured he could still handle her. When she actually made her move, she was more successful than both expected. Later, a mind-reading villain finds out she was [[SuicideByCop actually hoping Slade would kill her]].
214	* StupidEvil: Holding the world ransom with stolen nuclear warheads was one thing, but the fact that she actually used one to prove she wasn't bluffing managed to be the stupidest thing she's ever done due to not considering what would happen if she were ever caught. Now everybody hates her and more people want her dead than before.
215	* SuicideByCop: [[{{Telepathy}} Mind reader]] villain Drago finds out she has been trying to do this ever since Lian died, and it was the primary reason she attempted to betray Slade.
216	* SympathyForTheDevil: Roy and Lian are literally the only people on the planet who feel any sense of sorrow or compassion for Jade, and that's only because she's Lian's mom AND even then the two both feel she deserves punishment for her actions. The idea they still care about her, Roy especially, has left both of them to wonder if there's something wrong with themselves.
217	* TokenEvilTeammate: When she was part of the ''ComicBook/SecretSix'' and later Deathstroke's Titans because she was [[TheStarscream actively conspiring against Slade]] and [[ManipulativeBitch exploiting Arsenal's breakdown]].
218	* TookALevelInDumbass: Jade always had a rather eloquent vernacular, but following ''Rise of Arsenal'' and starting in ''Villains for Hire'' her vocabulary suddenly became extremely limited and she started swearing more frequently.
219	* ToxicFriendInfluence: Well, Toxic Ex-Girlfriend Influence on Roy Harper. She eagerly manipulates their past relationship and the fact that she had his daughter just about every time they meet, with key moments being in ''Rise of Arsenal'' and the second ''Titans'' book. In the former Jade had shown up to kill Roy because of Lian's death, but if she hadn't said "our baby is gone" after she'd been cornered, Roy may have very well killed her. In ''Titans'', Roy only joined Deathstroke's team because Cheshire said he "owed" her for Lian's death.
220	* TragicVillain: Cheshire is a deeply unhappy and angry woman so traumatized by her childhood spent in slavery and how she grew up with no healthy ways to vent her emotions that she has destroyed every meaningful relationship she may have had.
221	** Growing up with the fear of being enslaved and held captive again have caused her to do anything and everything possible to prevent it from happening, including sacrificing her daughter's well-being. Said actions included selling out the Secret Six and manipulating Catman into helping her conceive a child, which not only made the Six her sworn enemies but proved to the global villain community she can never be trusted as an ally.
222	** Her efforts to prove how dangerous she is destroyed whatever ethics she may have had and got her labeled a genocidal maniac, making it impossible for her to ever have a life with Roy and Lian and causing them no end of unhappiness at seeing what Jade's become. Even if she had justifiable reasons to hate Roy because of their original relationship, her actions, later on, overshadowed whatever he may have done to her and convinced him Jade was beyond salvation.
223	** Jade's biggest fear of becoming trapped again has been fulfilled by none other than herself, and she's now stuck living a life as a wanted criminal feared, hated, and distrusted by every person around her with no one but herself to blame for how she got here.
224	* {{Troll}}: It doesn't get any pettier than blowing up the terrorist capital of the world just to prove you could and for laughing in the face of global hypocrisy.
225	* WomanScorned: This is the whole reason [[BabyTrap she had Lian]]. The next time she met Roy Harper after their relationship ended, she told him about their child, a child she was never going to let him see as {{revenge}}. And when Roy ''did'' meet Lian, Jade changed her plan to taunting Roy by giving him the barest of details on Lian's development but never letting him see her again.
226	* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: In ''Villains United'', she was {{blackmail}}ed into compliance by threats against Lian's safety. Over the course of the miniseries she [[TheVamp successfully seduced Catman]] and managed to conceive a replacement baby in order to betray and leave the ''ComicBook/SecretSix'' with Lian's welfare no longer being an issue ([[LackOfEmpathy that she cared about]]). It turned out the threat was false, but she didn't know that. She then immediately had this trope pulled on ''her'' when Deathstroke shoots her as soon she's visible, coldly stating the Secret Society doesn't need traitors. Though she survived, it wasn't for lack of trying on Slade's part.
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229	[[folder:Tropes associated with Cheshire (Post-Flashpoint)]]
230	!!Jade Nguyen / Cheshire
231	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cheshire_infinite_frontiers.jpg]]
232	[[caption-width-right:350:Cheshire's design in ''Infinite Frontiers'']]
233	[[quoteright:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see her design in ''The New 52'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cheshire_new_52.jpg[[/labelnote]]]]
234	[[quoteright:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see her design in ''Rebirth'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cheshire_rebirth.jpg[[/labelnote]]]]
235
236	-> '''First appearance''': ''ComicBook/RedHoodAndTheOutlaws'' Annual #1
237
238	In the Post-Flashpoint timeline, Jade Nguyen is introduced as a member of the [[Characters/BatmanLeagueOfAssassins League of Assassins]] who trained under Bronze Tiger along with [[Characters/BatmanJasonTodd Jason Todd]]. But she quickly part ways with the League and starts working as a mercenary for all kinds of villains. She also maintained an unspecified romantic history with Roy/Arsenal. In ''ComicBook/DCInfiniteFrontier'', Jade and Roy's daughter Lian was retconned back into existence.
239	----
240
241	* AdaptationOriginConnection: While she was a ProfessionalKiller Pre-Flashpoint, her introduction in ''ComicBook/TheNew52'' on ''ComicBook/RedHoodAndTheOutlaws'' has her as a member of the [[Characters/BatmanLeagueOfAssassins League of Assassins]] who trained there alongside Jason Todd under Bronze Tiger, which seems to be where many of her assassination skills. She does quit the League at the end of the arc involving them, but still seems to maintain ties as she has worked with them on occasion, such as her appearance in ''ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}''.
242	* AmbiguousSituation: Since she has been OutOfFocus, it's ambiguous how much of her previous backstory remains canon.
243	* AntagonistInMourning: Despite having an antagonistic relationship with Roy/Arsenal when it happened, she still attended his funeral, standing away far from everyone else, in the back.
244	* TheAtoner: Seems to be seeking redemption in Volume 5 of ''ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}'', under the mentorship of reformed villain [[Characters/BatmanClayface Basil Karlo/Clayface]].
245	* BitchInSheepsClothing: In ''ComicBook/TitansRebirth'', she shows up to Roy pretending she's working to take down the same [[TheCartel criminal cartel]] as he is and [[WorkingWithTheEx suggests them to team up]]. But she's actually secretly working for The Brain who's behind TheCartel and is only manipulating Roy, and goes as far as [[SexWithTheEx seducing him]] and inflicting him with an experimental drug during intercourse.
246	* CasualDangerDialogue: Jade likes to banter and even [[FlirtingUnderFire flirt]] with her teammates and opponents during battle, especially during her appearances in ''ComicBook/RedHoodAndTheOutlaws''.
247	* CatsAreSnarkers: Jade is a cat-themed ProfessionalKiller who is known for [[TheTease her flirty banter]] and snarker tendencies, [[CasualDangerDialogue even during combat]].
248	* CerebusRetcon: [[spoiler:It was made to look like Cheshire allowed everyone believe Lian was dead so she would have a better life, when Lian's death was averted due to the machinations of a future Green Arrow working with Amanda Waller and Parallax. Jade never knew Lian was alive, and was shocked when she saw Cheshire Cat because for all she knew her daughter was dead.]]
249	* CruelToBeKind: Unintentionally deconstructed. She abandons an amnesiac Lian believing she's giving her a normal life. Jade immensely misunderstood how really cruel this ended up being for all parties involved, letting Roy and everyone else believe Lian was dead, denying Lian a childhood with people who loved her until she ends up a lackey of Catwoman, and making Jade herself even more miserable spending years not knowing where her daughter might be.
250	* TheGadfly: She seems to enjoy messing around with people just for laughs in ''ComicBook/RedHoodAndTheOutlaws''.
251	* GiveHimANormalLife: Cheshire after ''Festival of Heroes'' revealed she knew Lian was alive and left her amnesiac daughter at a church in Gotham City, under the logic it would be better for Lian than to be raised than going back to Roy. Unfortunately, knowing that Lian is currently a homeless orphan who had to resort to stealing on a regular basis in order to survive and the implication the rest of her childhood and most of her adolescence was spent growing up without a family or any real sense of stability only makes Cheshire come across as [[DidntThinkThisThrough shortsighted]] and [[ParentalNeglect incredibly neglectful]]. [[spoiler:This was later retconned out in ''ComicBook/GreenArrow2023'', where it established Jade didn't abandon Lian because even she didn't know Lian was alive. Lian's status was kept hidden thanks to a version of her grandfather collaborating with Amanda Waller and Parallax to keep the Arrow Family split up.]]
252	* GoodFeelsGood: She Invokes this in ''ComicBook/TitansRebirth'', telling Roy it feels good to fight the bad guys for a change when she gets a job to take down TheCartel, but it's later revealed she was manipulating him the whole time, and likely just told him that to gain his trust.
253	* TheHilarityOfHats: She steals Roy's hat during her first appearance in ''ComicBook/RedHoodAndTheOutlaws'', and wears it to mock him for the entire duration of her time in the run.
254	* {{Intangibility}}: During her tenure in the League of Assassins, she had a cybernetic implant that lets her phase through solid matter.
255	* MalevolentMaskedWoman: At some point, she started to wear the sinister [[MalevolentMaskedWoman Cheshire Cat mask]] her animated counterparts in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' and ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010''.
256	* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Following the {{retcon}} of Lian's death, Jade was shown leaving her unconscious and amnesiac daughter in a church in Gotham City operating under the pretext that [[GiveHimANormalLife it would be better for Lian to have a fresh start cut off from her parents and extended family]]. Fast forward several years later and it's shown Jade's spur of the moment plan [[DidntThinkThisThrough backfired pretty badly]], now that Lian's a homeless, pickpocketing teen orphan working as a lackey for ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}. Which isn't even taking into account that she [[ParentalAbandonment abandoned Lian]] in Gotham City, [[WretchedHive of all places]]. With no memories, no family, and no means of support, it's honestly a wonder how Lian was able to survive living in Gotham long enough to become a teenager.
257	* OutOfFocus: Until she got involved in Lian Harper's storyline ''Infinite Frontier'', Jade mostly just worked as hired muscle for the EvilPlan of various villains, and had no personal stake in any of them, and her backstory has never been explored.
258	* ParentalAbandonment: ''ComicBook/DCInfiniteFrontier'' revealed she's known Lian was actually alive all this time, but left her in some church at Gotham City unconscious and with total amnesia thinking [[GiveHimANormalLife she'd be better off this way]]. [[DidntThinkThisThrough She was wrong]]. [[spoiler:Subverted due to the fact she didn't abandon Lian.]]
259	* PetTheDog:
260	** She sympathized with Roy and assisted him and Starfire escape when they were imprisoned by the League of Assassins, before she defected herself.
261	** She thought she was doing this when she gave Lian up, when instead she severed Lian from her family and let her grow up as an amnesiac orphan living on the streets of Gotham City.
262	* VillainTeleportation: During her tenure in the League of Assassins, she had a cybernetic implant that allowed her to teleport over small distances, much like the original Cheshire Cat could.
263	* WaterSourceTampering: Her role in the Ninth Circle's attack on Seattle in ''ComicBook/GreenArrowRebirth'' was to poison the city's water supply, which would spread an awful disease in everyone who drank it, but she was stopped by Arsenal and Red Arrow.
264	[[/folder]]
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266	[[folder:Cheshire appearances in other media]]
267
268	[[AC: Animation]]
269
270	* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'': Cheshire was a minor villain who appeared as a recruit of the Brotherhood of Evil during season 5. Notably this version is much younger, has {{Invisibility}} powers, has no poison skills and wears the Cheshire Cat mask, the first instance of any version of Cheshire to do so. Her history with Roy is [[AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul somewhat acknowledged]] by her fighting primarily Speedy, but there's no real romantic subtext between them. [[Characters/TeenTitans2003Enemies Click here to see her character page]].
271	* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'': Cheshire is one of the major recurring antagonists during the show, [[RelatedInTheAdaptation reimagined]] as a member of the Crook family, being the older sister to Artemis Crook/Tigress and daughter of Sportsmaster. She's also a member of the League of Shadows (the show's version of the [[Characters/BatmanLeagueOfAssassins League of Assassins]]. Much like in her ''Teen Titan'' incarnation, she has no poison skills and fights primary as a martial artist and also wears the Cheshire Cat mask. Her relationship with Roy Harper is also featured prominently, which results in Lian being introduced in season 2. She's voiced by Creator/KellyHu. [[Characters/YoungJustice2010LeagueOfShadows Click here to see her character page]].
272	* ''WebAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls'': Cheshire is a minor antagonist, debuting in the second season of the show, going up against ComicBook/HarleyQuinn and ComicBook/LadyShiva. Her design more closely resembles what she wears in the comics, and she's acknowledged as a ProfessionalKiller who fights using [[FemmeFatalons her sharpened nails]]. She's voiced by Creator/NikaFutterman. [[Characters/DCSuperHeroGirls2015 Click here to see her character page]].
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274	[[AC:Video Games]]
275
276	* ''VideoGame/YoungJusticeLegacy'': She appears as one of the antagonists of the game, and is one of the boss fights. She's voiced by Creator/KellyHu.
277	* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'': Cheshire is briefly referenced as one of the assassins considered by Black Mask to hunt down ComicBook/{{Batman}}, but was ultimately rejected.
278	* ''VideoGame/LegoBatman'': Cheshire is one of the playable characters in ''Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham''. She uses a costume similar to her comic version and her moveset only uses her swords. She's voiced by Creator/TaraStrong. She also appeared in ''VideoGame/LegoDCSuperVillains'' and ''Lego DC Heroes and Villains''. [[Characters/LegoBatman Click here to see her character page]].
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Context Characters / TeenTitansCheshire