Margaret Pye

* Civilian
* Magpie

**Margaret Pye** is an extremely intelligent and deft thief known as **Magpie**, who is drawn to shiny objects and thus; has a penchant for pickpocketing the rich.

## Biography

#### Early life

Margaret was born in Gotham City. In her childhood, she lived in a quiet neighborhood in a small, yet welcoming building of ten apartments. However, when a group of real estate moguls began buying these buildings to turn them into luxury penthouses, Margot, her family, and all their neighbors were forcibly evicted.

Due to the hardships her family endured growing up, Margot developed an obsession for shiny objects and matured the belief that people have to do whatever possible to survive. Thus, she eventually began a criminal career as a jewel thief.

#### Operating as Magpie

At some point, she took up the name "Magpie" and built her own "nest", a secret base of operations completed with sensors that, if activated, would blow up the room to kill anyone who trespasses.

One night, Magpie broke into a museum to steal a jeweled Fabergé egg but Batman arrived and cut her cable. They began to fight, during which Magpie briefly tried to persuade Batman to join her but the vigilante refused, also mentioning she was allergic to feathers, like the ones stuck all over Magpie's attire. The thief briefly chuckled in amusement about her somewhat advantage over the bat-themed vigilante. In their altercation, Magpie and Batman proved themselves equally skilled as belligerents while trading barbs on the former's choice of career and moniker. Magpie escaped by jumping out of a window. Batman threw a batarang at her, only to miscalculate the weapon's return and miss, which also shattered a priceless vase held at the museum.

#### The Reign of Darkseid

During the Reign of Darkseid, Magpie as well as everyone on Earth-0 except for seven specific heroes became affected by the Anti-Life Equation, only to be freed two weeks later after the Justice League stopped Darkseid.

## Personality

Margot believes everything she does in pursuit of valuables is reasonable, despite the individuals she hurts or kills. Her main goal is to survive in life, even though she lets her kleptomania overtake her as she steals expensive, shiny objects. Ultimately, Margot claims she needs to steal because she wasn't born with a silver spoon like most of Gotham City's elites.

## Abilities

* **Peak of human physical condition:** As a thief, Margot is in top physical condition with remarkable flexibility and coordination, impressive durability, and quick reflexes. She is strong enough to knock out a grown man in a single hit. As Magpie, Margot is fast enough to exit a room unnoticed, and also has a high level of stamina.
	+ **Acrobatics/Free-running:** Margot has great acrobatic skills and is able to evade some of Batman's tech, easily perform parkour, and scale buildings. She was also able to perform a backflip while evading enemy hits in a fight.
	+ **Honed senses:** Margot has sharp hearing and sight, as well as keen skills of perception. She can pick up and incoming danger and react extremely quickly and identify who was approaching behind her back without looking.
* **High-level intellect/Skilled tactician:** Margot is an extremely intelligent individual and a very skilled tactician. She was able to predict Batman's moves and used several tricks and traps in an attempt to keep the vigilante occupied to get to the jewels.
	+ **Explosives expert:** Margot knows how to use a 3-D printer to print explosives and disguise them as fake jewelry. She also uses small electronic magpies as bombs.
	+ **Expert thief:** As a thief, Margot comes up with elaborate ideas on how to steal items. She mostly steals jewelry by breaking in through ceiling windows.
* **Expert hand-to-hand combatant/Martial artist:** Margot is a very capable hand-to-hand combatant and martial artist. She uses her sharp nails and acrobatics, combined with grappling techniques, in an agile fighting style. Margot managed to go toe to toe with Batman several times, never being directly defeated and once temporarily trapped him in a hold.

## Equipment

#### Current Equipment

* Magpie Suit: Margot wore a black uniform as her alter-ego, Magpie

## Trivia

* Margot is a kleptomaniac and attracted to shiny objects, just like magpies, hence her moniker.

## Behind the scenes

* In the DC comics, Magpie is Margaret Pye, a super-villain and enemy to Batman in Gotham City. Her first appearance in the comics was *The Man of Steel* #3 (November 1986).