Monstress

Monstress may refer to:

Monstress (book)

Monstress is a collection of stories by Lysley Tenorio.

Plot

In Monstress, Filipina actress Reva Gogo and her B-Movie director boyfriend go to Los Angeles hoping that an American director can help them be successful. In Help, a man recruits his nephew to fight the Beatles for being rude to Imelda Marcos. In Superassassin, an isolated boy writes a biographical report on the Green Lantern and practices being a super-powered avenger with disastrous results. In Felix Starro, the grandson of a famous Filipino faith healer plans his escape from the family business. In 'The Brothers, a man buries his transgender sister with the help of her friend and remembers the brother he lost. In The View From Culion, a young woman raised in a leper colony strikes up a tentative friendship with a US Navy officer afflicted with the disease. In Save the I-Hotel, an elderly man tries to manage his homosexual desire for his oldest friend.

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Monstress (comics)

Monstress (Candi Pyponte-Le Parc III) is a fictional character, a superheroine in the 30th and 31st centuries of the DC Comics universe, and a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes in the post-Zero Hour continuity.

Fictional character biography

She is a pampered daughter of a rich industrialist from Xanthu who gains her abilities and monstrous appearance from an explosion caused by a gene-altering bomb within a plant on one of Candi's father's labor farms. The bomb is activated by a protester who was disgusted at the conditions in the facility.

She joins with Xanthu's Uncanny Amazers Kid Quantum and Star Boy. They have a friendly competition with the Legion. The two teams fight Mordru, the Dark Lord. Impressed with the Legion, she asks to join and is accepted. She helps recruit Kid Quantum. By chance, Element Lad alters her skin from green to orange. Monstress also befriends the time-lost Lori Morning.

The aliens known as the Blight attack, causing ten Legionnaires to be transported to the far-side of the universe. Monstress is featured in the first eleven issues of the series Legion Lost, detailing what happened to these ten Legionnaires. Fellow Legionnaire Element Lad had been separated and tossed through time and space; his personal trip renders him mad. Monstress, who had developed feelings for Element Lad, tries to talk him out of his madness. He calls her inferior and kills her with a touch.