Leslie Wilis

**Leslie Willis**  is a former shock jock of Metropolis Radio. After a fatal helicopter accident, Leslie gained electrical abilities and turned to a villian named **Livewire**.

## Biography

#### Working at Metropolis Radio

Leslie once worked as a shock jock at a “shoebox of a radio station", where she would talk about her miserable life when she then began working at Metropolis Radio. Over the years, Leslie rose to become Metropolis's most prominent, yet controversial, shock jock.

#### Becoming Livewire

In late April 2020, Leslie decided to target the Blur for her annual roasting special. However, Leslie's shocking rants began to annoy her audience, including her boss. Furious, her boss fired Leslie for her negative comments in which she runs out angry but, since she still had a year in her contract, she couldn't get fired and was moved to the traffic chopper, infuriating the latter, who promised retribution.

On her first nightly traffic report, a lightning storm moved in over the city. Despite the pilot's concerns about the dangerous weather, Leslie stubbornly refused to return to HQ until she finished her report. Suddenly, lightning struck the chopper, causing it to spin out of control. Fortunately, The Blur saved them. While he managed to to get the pilot to safety, a bolt of lightning hit the superhero as he took Leslie's hand. Intensified by The Blurs Kryptonian DNA, the electricity picked up unknown properties before transferring into Leslie, turning her hair white and giving her powers.

Leslie was rendered comatose and hospitalized at Metropolis Hospital with her waking up and regaining consciousness as the electronics around her began to flicker and short circuit. After being discharged from the hospital, Leslie was walking around town. She began to notice her hands were charging with electricity and accidentally fired a blast, shorting out an electric sign, much to her shock. She then had the idea to terrorize everyone who mistreated her.

#### Going after Perry White

After causing a total blackout in Metropolis, Leslie, now calling herself "Livewire", broke into the Daily Planet and went after Perry White, although he wasn't there. The Blur arrived and went to stop Livewire, the superhero tried to reason with her offering to help her, but Livewire refused before firing electrical blasts at him. He fired his heat vision at Livewire, but the latter simply absorbed the energy, allowing her to use it as a power source. As a distraction, Livewire damaged the elevator controls, which James and Lois tried to flee on, causing it to plummet and allowing the former to escape.

As a way to defeat Leslie, The Blur turned off all electricity which caused her to static and then he put a tranquilizer to take her out. Afterwards, Leslie was taken into custody by the Metropolis Police Department

#### Escape from captivity

A few months later, Wilis escaped from prison and planned to exact revenge on Superman. As soon as she got to Metropolis, she attacked an electric tower to get his attention. After the two fought, Leslie was shown to be more powerful than ever causing her to evade further capture.

#### Return To Metropolis

6 months later, Leslie returned to Metropolis and get revenge on Superman but ultimately fails no thanks to a new female hero. Afterwards, Leslie was arrested and locked up in Stryker's Island Penitentiary for "a long time".

#### The Reign Of Darkseid

During the Reign of Darkseid, Leslie 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

Leslie was prone to anger, along with not caring for the feelings of others such as the Blur. She takes sadistic pleasure in hurting others such as when she nearly killed Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen.

## Powers and abilities

### Powers

* **Meta-human physiology:** As a result of The Blur being struck by lightning while making physical contact with Leslie, the lightning was enhanced after passing through his Kryptonian DNA. After being transferred into Leslie's body, the lightning augmented her physiology, allowing her to access her abilities.
	+ **Electrokinesis:** Leslie is able to control and siphon electricity, as well as to transform into electricity. She has used it to conjure lightning blasts of various intensities and lengths and, while siphoning the entire city.If Leslie is completely drained of her power, or exposed to water, she reverts to her solid form and cannot use most of her abilities, nor will she then be able to transform into living electricity.
		- **Levitation:** Leslie is able to use the electrical energy to rise into the air.
	+ **Energy absorption:** Leslie's powers depend on the amount of energy she possesses, and like a battery, her powers are not indefinite. To re-power herself, she must absorb a vast amount of electricity from an available power source. However, she is able to absorb not only electricity but other forms of energy, to give herself strength. Even the energy from Kryptonian heat vision can be a suitable power source for her, though the latter can make her even stronger, due to its electrical nature.
	+ **Superhuman durability:** Leslie possesses superhuman durability, as she could take hits from The Blur and could fight her off with the help of her electrical abilities.
	+ **Superhuman strength:** Leslie could divert electricity into her touch and physical attacks, allowing her to fight him on equal grounds.
	+ **Cellular replication:** Leslie can replicate her cells at superhuman speeds, allowing her to create electrical copies of herself.

### Weakness

* **Charging:** Leslie does not create her own electricity, nor is her power indefinite, so she needs a source of electricity to use it.
* **Power-dampening tech:**
* **Water:** Leslie's main weakness is water, and even a small amount can harm her. To suffer a major power loss, Leslie has to be completely drenched in water, which will cause her to short-circuit.

## Appearances

### Man of Steel

#### Season 1

* A spark in the air
* Family Matters

## Trivia

* Leslie was the first meta-human to appear ever

## Behind the scenes

* Leslie Willis first appeared in *Superman Adventures* #5 (March, 1997), a tie-in comic book based on the DCAU series, and was created by Bruce Timm. Six months later, she appeared as a recurring villain in the *Superman: The Animated Series*, debuting in the episode "Livewire", voiced by Lori Petty. She made her debut in the mainstream comic books in *Action Comics* #835 (March, 2006).