Real Name: Darlene Davis

Age: 37

Occupation: Criminal

Status: On parole

BACKGROUND: Darlene was a college student majoring in communications and political science.  Not a very serious student, she spent much of her time partying and not a great deal of time studying.  Predictably, she wound up graduating with mediocre grades.  Now 22 and out of school with a useless bachelors and low GPA, Darlene did not know what to do.  Her parents were getting on her case about getting a real job and they were starting to suggest that moving out might be a good idea.  Desperate for some money, she read an ad where they were looking for test subjects for a new food fat substitute.  Darlene shrugged and checked it out.

It was a scam perpetrated by Doctor Riche, an insane biochemist looking for guinea pigs.  Darlene and forty two other victims were all kidnapped and used in a variety of experiments.  Forty two people died.

Darlene lived.

And she was pissed.

Some little time later Darlene exited Doctor Riche's lab, complete with new powers and a serious attitude problem aggrivated by some of the bio-neural experiments conducted on her.  Darlene quickly set about only a crime spree until she ran into a wall.  A living wall named Mustapha.  The battle was brutal, and to their mutual surprise Darlene won.  Darlene continued her crime spree and faced Mustapha again, and once again to everyone's utter disbelief she beat him again!  Finally they met a third time and Mustapha got smart; instead of going toe-to-toe with her he picked her up and dropped her from several miles up.  Terminal velocity was enough to knock Darlene unconscious.

Darlene's lawyer had unsuccessfully attempted to use the "Twinkie" defense to get his client off, as a result Darlene scored the full term at her sentencing hearing.  The spent fourteen years in The Hole as an inmate before she was finally paroled.

Now out, the best job Darlene could score was as a waitress at a Ram's Horn restaraunt.  She had written a book about her experiences but a class action suit was brought against her by her victims to secure the proceeds.  Darlene was nearly at the end of her patience.

Then she received another job offer.

Doctor Jonathan Sampson, aka Havok, approached Darlene and offered her a job as his personal trainer to teach him how to fight.  Darlene agreed.  Whether or not she is sincere about it, however...

PERSONALITY: Darlene is a bitter woman dealing with the distasteful knowledge that she made most of her problems.  The chemical treatments that turned her into an anti-social bitch had worn off by the second time she had fought Mustapha, but she had been so high on the previous victory and actually enjoyed the use of her powers so much she had continued her crime spree.  The fact is if she had been a better student and had chosen better electives perhaps she would have never fallen into the hands of Doctor Riche in the first place.

At the moment she is on a precipice; she knows if she goes back to crime she will probably get caught.  But using her powers had been so much fun...!

POWERS/SKILLS: Platinum Blonde is able to turn into an organic silvery metal.  In this form she is incredibly strong and highly resistant to injury; she is immune to high caliber bullets as well as pressure and temperature extremes.  She is able to leap hundreds of yards and run at a sprint of up to thirty miles an hour.  She loses none of her natural agility and she seems to have an excellent fighting instinct that makes her a dangerous opponent.  She claims this comes from living with three older brothers.

WEAKNESSES: Darlene still needs to breathe air while in organic form, apparently it has to do with her "metalicized cells" still needing oxygen.  Darlene is also vulnerable to high powered electrical attacks.  Platinum Blonde is also non-boyant, meaning she would sink in water if she remained in steel form so drowning is a very definite fear for her.