Jade Nguyen

**Jade Nguyen** (ジェイド・グェン, *Jeido Guen*), also known as "**Cheshire**" (チェシャー, *Cheshā*), is a fictional character and deuteragonist of the *Marvelous DC's* *Transformer Titans* series created by Sam Register and Bob Haney.

She is a deadly international terrorist, and one of the highly skilled, greatest, and most ruthless assassins who worked for the League of Assassins. Her skills include mastery over physical combat, various weaponry, and she is an expert on exotic poisons.

"*Like the Cheshire Cat, I'll disappear.*"

—Cheshire.

## Appearance & Biography

*Voice actor:* Kelly Hu (English), Not Known (Japanese), Not Known (Arabic), Not Known (Basque), Not Known (Brazilian), Not Known (Cantonese), Not Known (Catalan), Not Known (Chinese), Not Known (Croatian), Not Known (Danish), Not Known (Dutch), Not Known (Finnish), Not Known (Filipino), Not Known (French), Not Known (Galician), Not Known (German), Not Known (Greek), Not Known (Hebrew), Not Known (Hong Kong), Not Known (Hungarian), Not Known (Indonesian), Not Known (Italian), Not Known (Korean), Not Known (Mandarin), Not Known (Norwegian), Not Known (Polish), Not Known (Portuguese), Not Known (Romanian), Not Known (Russian), Not Known (Serbian), Not Known (Spanish), Not Known (Swedish), Not Known (Tagalog), Not Known (Thai), Not Known (Valencian), Not Known (Ukrainian), Not Known (Brazilian Portuguese), Not Known (Canadian French), Not Known (European Spanish), Not Known (European Portuguese), Not Known (Latin American Spanish), Not Known (Latin Spanish), Not Known (Spain-Spanish)

### Appearance

#### As Jade Nguyen

Jade is a young woman with a slender, but fit build; she stands at 1.67m/5'6". She has thick black hair and gray eyes, as well as olive-colored skin due to her Vietnamese heritage, on her mother's side. She has proved to be very flexible in her time working as an assassin for the League of Shadows, and her fighting skills are enough to match the fighting ability of one with superpowers.

#### As Cheshire

As Cheshire, she wears a dark green colored kimono, and appears as though it has shreds and rips along it. Whether these rips are an intentional design or just wear and tear from her time as an assassin is unknown. The kimono is tied around her waist, where its length reaches just above her knees. Cheshire also wears black knee-high boots.

A trademark of her appearance is a white mask, resembling a cat's head with red stripes and a wide grin, in reference to the Cheshire Cat in Alice and Wonderland, hence her name.

* Hair Color: Black
* Skin Color: Olive
* Eye Color: Gray
* Age: 19
* Birthday: Not Known
* Height: 5'6"
* Weight: Not Known

## Relationships

### Family

* Paula Crock (mother)
* Sportsmaster (father)
* Tigress (sister)
* Will Harper (husband)
* Lian Nguyen-Harper (daughter)

## Abilities and Powers

Cheshire is a master-level martial artist and acrobat. She is shown to have above-average agility as seen when dodging all of Speedy's explosive arrows.

She employs hand claws in close combat. As for superhuman abilities, she has displayed extraordinary speed when running on all fours and the ability to become invisible (except for the eyes and the grinning mouth of her mask).

### Abilities

* **Hand-to-Hand Combat** (Advanced):
	+ - **Martial Arts**: She has demonstrated incredible fighting skills, able to hold her own against Aqualad's enhanced abilities; Cheshire is trained in various forms of martial arts, making her infiltration and combat skills top-notch. Her combat abilities makes her a threat even to super-powered heroes.
			* **Kung Fu**:
			* **Ninjitsu**:
* **Agility**:
* **Acrobatics**:
* **Photography**:
* **Swordsmanship**:
* **Tracking**: She has shown the ability to track her enemies through assorted means.
* **Stealth**: Cheshire has demonstrated the ability to disappear into the shadows at will with no-one being able to find her when she doesn't wish to be found. She also demonstrated stealth when sneaking past Artemis and Miss Martian while on watch duty.
* **Multilingualism**: Cheshire can speak English, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese and possibly many more.
* **Throwing**: She has impressive skills with long-range objects, particularly throwing stars.
* **Toxicology**: She has demonstrated a penchant to coat her weapons with jellyfish poison.

### Equipment

* **Mask**: The mask itself is a modern ninja tool, built with night vision and various forms of optical sensory capabilities. It also has built in oxygen filter to allow Cheshire to freely move about in environments that lack clean air.

### Weapons

* **Collapsible Swords**: Dual weapons that are easy to carry and use.
* **Crossbow**: Used in her attempted assassination of "Dr. Serling Roquette".
* **Flash Bombs**: Bomb that generates a bright flash, enabling her to escape quickly and stealthily.
* **Kunai**: She uses for close combat, if her sais aren't available.
* **RPG-7**: A popular Russian made rocket launcher used by terrorists. She used it in the first assassination attempt against Lex Luthor.
* **Sai**: These are her primary weapons which she uses for close ranged battles.
* **Shurikens**: Coated with jellyfish poison.

## History

### Past

#### Early Life

Jade Nguyen is the daughter of Paula Crock and Sportsmaster. Jade's parents shared a history as criminals. During one of their crimes, Paula Crock became paraplegic, and also took the fall for her husband. As a result, she was sent to prison. During this time, the relationship between Jade and her father truly became acrimonious due to his emotional and verbal abuse. Before the year was out, Jade ran away, and left Artemis to be raised alone by their father. Jade took her mother's maiden name because of her issues with her father.

## External links

* Cheshire *Wikipedia*
* Cheshire *DC Database*
* Cheshire *Teen Titans Wiki*
* Cheshire *Young Justice Wiki*
* Cheshire *Villains Wiki*

## Notes & Trivia

* Cheshire first appeared in *New Teen Titans Annual #2* (1983).
* Cheshire is half-Caucasian and half-Vietnamese.
* The claws on Cheshire's hands are similar to that of Wolverine.