Plastique (comics)

Plastique is a fictional supervillain appearing in comics published by DC Comics. She first appeared in Fury of Firestorm #7 (December 1982), and was created by Gerry Conway and Pat Broderick. She is an enemy and love interest of Captain Atom.

Fictional character biography

Bette Sans Souci was introduced as a terrorist attempting to coerce the separation of Quebec from the rest of Canada. First appearing in Fury of Firestorm # 7 (December 1982), she subsequently made several appearances during Conway's tenure as writer of that series. She then began appearing in DC Comics' first Captain Atom series from 1986 onwards, at first depicted as an adversary, though that relationship eventually evolved toward the romantic.

Firestorm

In her first appearance, Plastique attempted a suicide bombing against the New York Herald-Express (a fictitious newspaper appearing within the DC Universe) using a set of bombs attached to her costume, only to have Firestorm disarm her by vaporizing her clothing, leaving her naked and humiliated in public while Firestorm took the bombs to explode in a safer area. Later, via genetic engineering, she gained the power to project explosive force outward from her body.