Lady Shiva
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Real Identity: Sandra Woosan
Powers/Skills: Martial Arts, Armed Combat, Unarmed Combat, and Analysis
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Guano Cravat, an industrialist, convinced Sandra Woosan that a martial artist named Richard Dragon murdered her sister, Carolyn Woosan. Woosan swore revenge and trained in martial arts and became an unrivaled master. However, after fighting Dragon, she learned Cravat was the real killer. Shiva, Dragon, and Ben Turner (Bronze Tiger) teamed up to destroy Cravat's organization.
Afterwards, Dragon took her on as a student and introduced her to the spiritual aspect of martial arts. She felt a feeling of rebirth and took on the codename Lady Shiva. For some time, Shiva served as a spy for G.O.O.D. but mainly operated as a mercenary for hire in order to finance herself and seek out more knowledge of the arts. Ultimately, her fighting style became a unique blend of every known fighting art, including capoeira, judo, koroshi, karate, kung-fu, and savate. Shiva shifted fighting for good and evil based on the mission at hand. Eventually, she was recruited by Ra's al Ghul to become a trainer in his League of Assassins. Her position in the League led Shiva to encounter Batman and Robin who defeated her.
After Lex Luthor became President, he returned to his campaign against Superman. Luthor fabricated a story that the approaching Kryptonite meteor was altering Superman's mind and making him insane. Luthor presented proof of threat when Superman supposedly murdered Metallo. He then issued a $1 Billion bounty on the hero. Superman was forced to go underground and several super villains tried to capture him. Shiva became a victim of Gorilla Grodd's mind control since she was one the few people that could defeat Batman.