Empress (comics)
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Empress is a fictional character, a superheroine in the DC Comics universe.
[edit] Character biography
Anita Fite is the daughter of Donald Fite, of the All Purpose Enforcement Squad, who, with his partner Ishido Maad, hounded Young Justice throughout the team's early days. (The partners' names, Fite 'n' Maad, are a deliberate pun by Peter David on the phrase fightin' mad; Anita Fite's name is also a pun – I need a fight.)
She first appeared in the pages of Young Justice, saving Wonder Girl from dying due to a poisonous snake bite.
Shortly afterward during Young Justice's visit to the Olympics to support their former teammate, Cissie King-Jones, she met the team out of costume, and her father (who claimed to not know of her superheroic activities) let her secret identity slip ("Empress" having been a childhood nickname her mother had given her).
It was revealed that Anita had become a superheroine due to the inspiration of Cissie King-Jones, the former Arrowette. Anita had seen Cissie stop a thief in a mall, and was so impressed that she began to use her natural abilities to fight for good. There was tension at first between Cissie and Anita - Cissie thinking that Anita had simply wanted to replace her in Young Justice - but the girls quickly came to an understanding and became friends.
Anita remained a member of Young Justice for the rest of its run, even through the death of her father-- her mother had been killed, years before, by Anita's grandfather, the villain Agua Sin Gaaz. But Anita got her parents back, after a fashion, when they were reincarnated into infant bodies.
In January 2006, Empress appeared as backup in the fight to save Gotham City from wild magic in the Infinite Crisis special follow-up to Day of Vengeance, although a colouring error depicted her as caucasian.
Anita appeared again in Infinite Crisis #6, when the world's mystics joined together at Stonehenge to usher in the new age of magic by summoning the new Spectre and his host.
[edit] Powers and abilities
Empress can telepathically command people to do simple actions (like forcing someone to stand still or shut up) through a piece of the Anti-Life Equation she holds in her brain.
She is also an accomplished voudoun/ Voodoo practitioner, which she learned from her mother and grandmother, allowing her to teleport and perform other spells.
Finally, she is an accomplished fighter with her sword baton ("Emperor's Stick").
