Martha Washington

Martha Washington
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Real Name	Martha Washington
Current Alias	Martha Washington
Identity	Public
Alignment	Good
Affiliation	PAX
Characteristics
Gender	Female
Hair	Brown, Blond
Status
Citizenship	American
Origin
Creators	Frank Miller, Dave Gibbons
First appearance	Give Me Liberty #1 Unknown

History

Born in 1995, Martha Washington grew up in the Cabrini-Green housing project in Chicago (called "The Green") with her mother and two brothers in abject poverty brought on by the economic policies of the President Erwin Rexall. She is an average student, but one who displays a gift for computer programming and hacking.

Her teacher, Donald, encourages her to be a better student and, because he lives outside the Green, brings her contraband items. One night Martha shows up at Donald’s classroom and finds that he’s been murdered by the Ice Man, a large thug who works for a local gangster called the Pope. Before dying, Donald managed to stab the Ice Man in the wrist. This distraction allowed Martha to seize his weapon, a longshoreman’s hook, and plunge it into his shoulder. The Ice Man chases her through the school to a locker room, but before he can kill her, he dies of blood loss. Martha is later remanded to a psychiatric hospital.

In the institution, she discovers that experiments are being secretly performed on children to genetically alter their minds, effectively turning them into human computers. Their heads are covered with wires plugged into their brains. Martha believes one of them resembles the Raggedy Ann doll she played with as a child. This institution is closed due to national budget cuts, and Martha is left homeless. She later joins the PAX Peace Force, where her heroic tale begins.

Powers and Abilities

Abilities

She has the abilities to program on the computers, hack, and engage into hand-to-hand combat.

Trivia

• She was born on March 11, 1995, and died exactly 100 years later on March 11, 2095.

Related

• Appearances of Martha Washington
• Images featuring Martha Washington
• Quotations by or about Martha Washington
• Character Gallery: Martha Washington

Links

• Martha Washington at dccomics.com
• Martha Washington (comics) at Wikipedia.org
• Martha Washington at the Big Comic Book DataBase

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