Tuppence Terror is the twin sister of Tommy Terror, and together they make the villainous duo "The Terror Twins". They both speak with a very heavy Southern accent. She was a member of Onslaught[3] before being captured and brought into Task Force X.[4]
Much like her brother, Tuppence is rash, arrogant, and mostly relies on her strength to win fights. She has little compassion for others. She makes her own rules, and is quick to anger when someone challenges her.[5]
Physical appearance[]
The twins dress and talk very much alike. Tuppence has blonde hair which she keeps in a ponytail and has two lines shaved across her temples. She uses excessive makeup, including purple lipstick, and has multiple earrings, one of which is a safety pin. She wears a white top and a black plaid skirt, held up by red suspenders. She wears boots and torn stockings, and finger-less gloves that reach to her elbows.[6]
By 2016, she has matured quite a bit, and built up muscle. She traded the skirt for black hot pants.[2]
As of 2018, she seems to have developed more muscle and a scar on her right cheek. She has also cut her hair shorter, with shaved sides, and gotten rid of her ponytail.
History[]
Early history[]
Tommy is only three minutes older than Tuppence, but insists on calling her "li'l sis".[5]Their parents are not supervillains.[7]
Tommy and Tuppence attempted to rob Gemini Gems in the Central City Mall. Kid Flash and Superboy tried to intervene, but things escalated and the Terror Twins took hostages. The fight eventually moved outside to the car park, where they were surprised to see Flash and Superman had also responded to the commotion. Outnumbered, they fled, pursued by Superman.[5]
After an ambush on the Team involving Belle Reve in-mates made it clear the prison was under the Light's control, Vandal Savage called Hugo Strange to alert him, instructing him to open all the doors.[9]
2014[]
At some unspecified point, Tommy and Tuppence had an undocumented skirmish with the Team, and Aqualad attempted to lock them back in Belle Reve.[2]
Tuppence Terror was captured by Kylstar, and stored in a crystalline prison cell with all captured heroes and villains. After the captured heroes escaped, they contemplated liberating the villains, but decided not to and find their captor first.[10]
Kylstar's Vessel December 1, 23:58UTC
The Justice League, Superboy, Miss Martian's valiant effort against Kylstar convinced him to treat his sentient weapons better. All captives, including Tuppence, were released, and Orb-One explained Kylstar's motives. He was a freedom fighter who was on a mission to stop slavers who destroyed his homeworld. As a sign of his good intentions, he offered to return captives unwilling to help with his fight back to their homeworlds. Those willing to stay were promised good treatment and glorious battle.[11]
Tuppence, along with all of Kylstar's captives from Earth, were teleported into the Collector's Ship. With the additional reinforcements, the Collector's body was quickly destroyed.[11]
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The body was merely one of many, and the Collector unleashed several additional Coludroids on the assembly. The battle was interrupted when the Collector noticed that the probe he embedded underneath Metropolis was malfunctioning. If nothing was done, Earth would be destroyed. Since the Collector was a preserver and not a destroyer, he agreed to shut off the beam that was slowly shrinking the City. After the assembled heroes convince him of their determination to prevent him from taking the city, he begrudgingly agreed to re-size it back to normal and leave.[11]
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The Collector teleported all Earthlings into the city. The villains were nowhere in sight, and the assembled heroes thought that the Collector had teleported them elsewhere to spite them. Unbeknownst to them, the villains were actually just yards away, mentally shielded by Gorilla Grodd, who informed them they now owed him.[11]
Tommy and Tuppence were chosen for a strike team led by Kaldur'ahm to capture Blue Beetle. On the way Icicle Jr. continually hit on her, but she rebuffed him.[2]
They located Blue Beetle outside El Paso, and attacked him and his friend Impulse. Tuppence intercepted Blue Beetle in mid-air, and held him down with her brother for Icicle to freeze him. It didn't hold, however, and Tuppence was knocked out by a punch from Beetle. The two heroes got away.[2]
The strike team infiltrated the Cave, and Tuppence went after Beast Boy. She surprised him in his room, and knocked him out with one punch. She fitted him with an inhibitor collar and carried him to the Mission Room. In the Mission Room, Impulse thought he could take on Tuppence. She was too durable, however, and he bounced right off her, straight in Tommy's hands, who gave him a collar. Tuppence carried Beast Boy aboard the Manta-Flyer. She was already on board when Blue Beetle, unsuccessfully, tried to escape.[2]
Onslaught oversaw security at a meta-human auction and arena fight held in an abandoned mall. She and her brother were guarding the prisoners before being alerted of intruders. After chaos broke out, she watched as her brother being irritated that they couldn't participated in the battle before spotting Nightwing and Tigress trying to liberate the captives. The Terror Twins were excited but this distraction allowed Black Lightning to shock them. Tuppence recovered and caught Nightwing off-guard, as he led the prisoners out. She then started to attack Tigress by shrugging off her arrows until the latter had the prisoners get out the building. Along with her brother, she prepared to corner the heroes but Geo-Force and Tara came to the heroes' aid by blocking the villains' path to prevent pursuit.[3]
After Psimon and Devastation kidnapped Perdita Vladek to distract the Team, Tuppence and the rest of Onslaught used knock out gas on everyone at the Meta-Human Youth Center, and began to gather the meta-humans. They had barely begun when the Team returned. Tuppence used a Fatherbox to open a boom tube to try to get rid of some of the heroes, but failed, and the Fatherbox was taken from her and sent through the tube. The Team knocked out Tuppence and the rest of Onslaught.[12]
Tuppence was part of a Task Force X squad led by Black Manta. They prepared to kidnap Clayface from Bowhunter Security. Brick was nervous about dealing with them, but Tuppence expected an easy mission. The squad attacked the warehouse Bowhunter was guarding, with Tuppence tearing down one of the doors. Captain Boomerang desiccated Clayface, and Monsieur Mallah vacuumed him up while the rest of the squad easily handled the other Bowhunter guards.
The squad escaped on the Manta-Flyer, where they rehydrated Clayface in a pod. Boomerang had trouble interpreting Mallah's "speech", so Tuppence translated for him.[4]
The Flyer was shot down by the Bio-Ship. The squad quickly abandoned it and began to hike the few miles to Belle Reve Penitentiary, with Brick and Tuppence carrying Clayface's pod. Bowhunter Security, reinforced by several new temps, confronted them. Raquel trapped Tuppence in a force bubble, which she was unable to escape despite her attempts to punch it down. Task Force X were defeated and returned to Belle Reve.[4]
Powers and abilities[]
Super strength: This is one of the Terror Twins' main abilities. This allows them to easily pick up or carry heavy objects. The Terrors Twins were able to battle Superman and the other powerhouses of the Justice League.[6]
Super leap: Their strength also allows them to jump over great distances and to great heights.[6]
Invulnerability: Both Tuppence and Tommy have great durability and are able to take punches from Superman and Superboy with very little physical damage to their bodies.[6]
The Terror Twins were created forYoung Justice. Tommy and Tuppence Terror are named after the characters Tommy and Tuppence, a couple of married detectives created by Agatha Christie. The name is also a nod to Greg Weisman's friend Tuppence Macintyre, who had previously helped him research Scottish history for the television series Gargoyles.[13] Greg had previously created another character based on Tuppence Macintyre while writing Captain Atom: Plastique's lawyer, Tuppence Macrae.[14]
In Young Justice #0, Tuppence had short hair. In the comic, she was drawn by Mike Norton based on a rough design (concept art) by Phil Bourassa. For the show, director Jay Oliva wanted her to more resemble Gwen Stefani, partly to differentiate her from Shimmer, so she was redesigned by Phil Bourassa.[15]
Notes[]
↑In their first appearance, Tommy had brown eyes and Tuppence had green.