Amanda Waller

* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

## Biography

### Amanda Waller: 1964 - Present

Amanda Blake was born and raised in a crime-ridden neighborhood of Chicago, it was a tough life but Amanda was more than capable of taking care of herself. Right out of high school she married Joseph Waller and the two began a family together. Amanda and Joseph had five children in quick succession. Their lives were one financial struggle after another, but they were happy. In 1992, when Coretta had started school, Amanda started taking college courses, eventually earning a degree in political science, and getting a job as an aide in the Chicago Mayor’s office where she excelled, quickly being appointed to one bureaucratic position after another.

In 2000, Amanda was at a fundraiser ball when she learned her firstborn son had been killed in a mugging, no suspect was ever arrested. Later that year, Amanda’s eldest daughter was also murdered. Though police arrested a serial rapist known as the “Candyman”, he was released on a technicality, prompting Joseph to take Candyman’s life at the cost of his own.

Following this train of tragedy, Amanda used her political clout to get appointed to a position with the U.S. Justice Department; tasked to oversee a new federal prison for the housing of metahuman criminals, known as Belle Reve. Waller made a name of herself with this appointment, often advising the president on matters of metahuman affairs and super-crime. It was sometime following the events of September 11, 2001, that Waller created an off-the-books task force known as the "Secret Six", which she used as an experiment of sorts before she created "Task Force X" which was a DEO sanctioned black ops program using incarcerated super-criminals. This program however became public in late 2008, leading to a Senate hearing which Waller avoided due to “convenient” departure from the Justice Department and appointment as the Assistant Director of the U.N. backed division known as ARGUS, which she had a hand in creating with Maxwell Lord. Recently, Waller has received sanction from the U.N. to create a new incarnation of “Task Force X” at the new ARGUS facility, Arkham Asylum.

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

* Tom Manning is her associate.
* She knows Green Arrow's identity when she caught Oliver Queen after a night with Carrie Cutter.
* According to Kid Eternity she is haunted by many ghosts.
* She is aware of Checkmate's existence and the war between Monitor and Anti-Monitor.
* The senate hearings after Task Force X becoming public knowledge are colloquially known as "Wallergate".
* She warned Dora Leigh not to make any politically charged statements in costume.

### Activities

* She captured Rose Walker and her clones as part of the classified "Project Pygmalion." After nearly five years, the project was transferred to ARGUS.
* Lady Arkham in reality is working for her. She's a prisoner under mind control and experimented on in Arkham Asylum's Black Wing (and Waller's favorite test subject).
* Waller ordered Task Force X to steal the Phantom Zone Generator. Superman let her do it.
* Some Arkham patients work for her as scientist in the Spyral program.
* Lazlo Valentin became insane due to her machinations. Jervis Tetch was also her victim.
* She took the case of the Losers and believes the unit is innocent. When Marian Grange started to investigate, Amanda was impressed and told her her husband was alive and offered help if Marian ran for a DA. Marian agreed. When the election period started Marian received generous campaign contributions from companies she had never heard of and had no affiliation with. A week into her campaign, Waller stopped by Marian's office to give her a tablet and told her she had fifteen minutes. Marian turned the tablet on and there was Linwood, alive and well, via a webcam in some tropical region of the world. After that, Marian was more than willing to do Waller's work as long as Waller kept her informed on her husband's well-being and allowed them to have those encrypted exchanges. Marian later ran to be the mayor of Gotham City with Waller's support, but lost to Lincoln March. Marian still works as the DA, though she has had an increasingly tense relationship with Waller since around 2012 with the two even butting heads often.
* She recruited Marian Drews to covertly extract information from the Joker. After meeting Joker Marian became Hellequin.

### Mockingbird

* As Mockingbird she tricked college-aged hackers into crashing covert DEO server farms and other secret government facilities.
* Her Mockingbird identity was stolen from her by the Riddler.

### Possession

* She was possessed by a Daemonite in 2007. Amanda has no memory of her actions until the alien left in November 2016.
* Her actions while possessed include:
	+ Becoming the deputy director of ARGUS.
	+ Becoming aware of the Anti-Life Equation from Nyssa al Ghul and used it to create a mind control agent Red-K.
	+ Transfer of "Project Pygmalion" to ARGUS.
	+ Losing the Mockingbird identity.
	+ Turning a prisoner into Lady Arkham.
	+ Learning Green Arrow's identity.
	+ Endorsing Sebastian Hady during the elections.
	+ Becoming interested in the Losers case.
	+ Recruiting Marian Drews for a mission with the Joker.
	+ Contracting Cheetah for a number of thefts.
* In some cases it's hard to discern if it was her actions or the Daemonite's:
	+ In 2007 she ordered Rose Walker to seduce an agent.
	+ Being part of the Spyral program.

### Notes

* Her portrait is inspired by her appearance in *Justice League Unlimited*.

## Links and References

* Appearances of Amanda Waller

1. ↑ Oracle Files: Amanda Waller
2. ↑ Network Files: Tom Manning
3. ↑ Network Files: Dora Leigh 2
4. ↑ VOX Box: Heretic Saga 16
5. ↑ VOX Box: Dream a Little Dream 1
6. ↑ VOX Box: Weirds Worlds 14
7. ↑ NFX: Marian Grange
8. ↑ Oracle Files: Marian Drews (1/2)
9. ↑ Network Files: Janine Melnitz 1
10. ↑ Network Files: Emily Nashton 2
11. ↑ VOX Box: Krimson Klaw 1