Roxy Monke

**Roxy Monke** is a main character in the Amazon Prime series, *The Power*.

#### A Better Future Is in Your Hands

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In London, Roxy Monke attends the wedding of her brother. She asks her father Bernie Monke, a crime boss, for a job. Bernie has given jobs to her brothers, but he thinks she’s too emotional, and refuses her.

Drunk off wine from the wedding, Roxy later accidentally starts a fire with the wine bottle and her electrical powers before returing home to her mom. That night, men break into their house. As one of them grabs her mom, she feels a surge of power. Roxy rushes at one of the men and hurts him with an electric shock. Knocked out by another man, she wakes up to find the men gone and her mom dead. When she returns to the wedding reception, she’s covered in blood.

#### The World Is on Fu\*king Fire

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Roxy tries to get her dad to find the men who killed her mom, but she doesn’t think he’s taking the matter seriously.

#### The Day of the Girls

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Bernie shows Roxy that he’s killed one of the men who killed her mom, but it’s not enough for her. There were two men, and she won’t rest until both of them are dead.

After a stint at a club with her brothers Terry and Darrel, Roxy decides to go after her mom’s killer herself. Her brothers can’t stop her, they follow after her. After showing up at the culprit’s place, Roxy tries to kill him with her powers. He pleads with her, and her brothers try to drag her away, but she lets loose everything she has to kill him while his family watches from the window. In the scuffle, Terry gets shot.

#### Sparklefingers

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Roxy visits Terry’s graveside. Darell admits to her he doesn’t want to be part of their dad’s business anymore. Roxy, being extremely powerful and intimidating, ends up making herself useful in Bernie’s business, however.

#### Baptism

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Roxy shows other girls how to use their powers for a price, and teaches them to weaponize their hatred. She later gives the proceeds to Terry’s mom, then waits for her dad’s decision over who gets Terry’s share in the business. Before Bernie decides, however, he wants to see Roxy and Ricky work together.

Roxy proves herself intimidating on the job, finding a man who owes Bernie money and threatening him into paying by electrocuting him.

Jos watches Roxy’s instructional videos online.

## Personality

Roxy may be the most powerful girl in the world. But when we first meet her, she is just the illegitimate daughter of the notorious gangster, Bernie Monke. All Roxy’s ever really wanted is to earn her father’s respect. But after tragedy strikes close to home, Roxy’s power emerges, and Bernie will finally stop and take notice, realizing that his daughter might be of more use to him than he ever imagined.

## Powers and abilities

* Bio-Electrokinesis or EOD/Electric Organ Discharge
	+ Electric Shocks
	+ Electric Blasts
	+ Electric Strikes
	+ Electrical Power Transferal

## Relationships

### Family

* Bernie Monke (father)
* Christina † (mother)
* Barbara Monke (step-mother)
* Ricky Monke (brother)
* Terry Monke † (brother)
* Darrell Monke (brother)

## Appearances

### Season 1

* A Better Future Is in Your Hands
* The World Is on Fu\*king Fire
* A New Organ
* The Day of the Girls
* Sparklefingers
* Baptism
* Just a Girl
* The Shape of Power