Bette Sans Souci

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Bette Sans Souci/Plastique
Family	Unknown
Occupation	Member of Tess Mercer's team
Powers and Abilities	High frequency energy blast projection
Played By	Jessica Parker Kennedy
Status	Incarcerated
Appeared In	Plastique, Injustice

Bette Sans Souci is a psychotic 15-year-old teenager with the ability to project high frequency energy blasts in the form of explosives. She was also a member of the Injustice League.

Contents 1 Personality 2 Powers and Abilities 3 Early Life 4 Season Eight 5 In the Comics

[edit] Personality

Bette has a fiery personality and doesn't trust anybody. Even when Clark, Davis and Chloe were trying to help her out in her current situation she refuted it and ended up being sent to Belle Reve. She is also very protective of herself and her own personal gain as she killed Tommy after she realised her secret powers would be revealed. She is also very concerned with what people think of her as when Tess offered her a job on her team with other people like her she warmed to the idea.

[edit] Powers and Abilities

Bette has the power to explode forces from her body, causing a ring of golden light to pass over her eyes before shooting an explosive force.

She also appears to be somewhat immune to her own power, possibly through some form of invulnerability. Bette survives the bus explosion that she causes, even though she must've been near its epicenter. She also survives after her explosive charges bounce off of Clark Kent and rebound to hit her.

[edit] Early Life

Bette was imprisoned in LuthorCorp's Black Creek facility in Montana when she was only 12 after they found her to have powers. After Tess Mercer took over LuthorCorp, all the prisoners were tagged and released. Bette escaped before being tagged; later, she told her friend Tommy about her past, and he led Tess Mercer straight to her.

[edit] Season Eight

Bette was released from the LuthorCorp facility in Black Creek and made her way to Metropolis where she was on a bus and was being followed by LuthorCorp agents and also Tess Mercer. She recognised Tess and shot her energy blasts at Tess, causing the bus to explode. Tess was unaffected, and claimed that she had ducked to avoid Bette's charges. Clark then super sped to the bus and helped the people of the bus, including Bette.

Chloe found a staggering Bette who shouted over Davis Bloome who checked her over. Later on at the hospital, Davis offered a home to Bette and Chloe offered her home and Bette accepted. At Chloe's apartment, Clark came to talk to Bette who told Clark that a street kid named Tommy blew up the bus. Bette then took Clark to Tommy and then Bette shot energy blasts at Tommy and killed him.

Later on, Bette became angry with Chloe and revealed her powers by blowing up a cup. She then attempted to blow up Chloe but Clark arrived and deflected the blast back on Bette. She was then being taken to Belle Reeve when Tess intercepted the truck and offered her the chance to save the world with other people like her, on the team of a special unit.

After intense training, Bette and the other selected group of metahumans from Black Creek were made as a unit for Tess Mercer, with Bette as team leader. Bette and the Injustice gang were defeated by Doomsday while trying to stop him. Two members: Neutron and Livewire, were killed by Tess and Doomsday. Clark found Bette and tells her about Tess betraying them, and Parasite steals Clark's powers. With the help of Oliver Queen, Clark took his powers back from Parasite and he and Bette were incarcerated.

[edit] In the Comics

Bette Sans Souci was introduced as an even-then anachronistically-depicted Quebec patriot turned terrorist to force Quebec's separation from the rest of Canada. First appearing in Fury of Firestorm # 7 (December 1982), she made several appearances during Conway's tenure as writer of that series. She then began appearing in DC Comics' first Captain Atom from 1986 onwards as first an adversary, although that relationship evolved over the course of that series' five-year run towards the romantic. Originally Plastique wore a costume covered with plastic explosives, which she could trigger and detonate manually. She has since gained the ability to project explosive force at will by touching an object with her fingertips. She has been a member of Suicide Squad, Bomb Squad, Extreme Justice with Rick Flag, Bronze Tiger, Multiplex, Captain Boomerang II, Count Vertigo, General Wade Eiling, Marauder, Blackguard, Twister, White Dragon, and Windfall. She appears in the Justice League Unlimited in the episode Task Force X with Rick Flag, Clock King, Deadshot and Captain Boomerang.