Jill Carlyle

  – A lawyer who was frustrated by the corruption and injustice in the legal system. She bought a pair of antique pistols that belonged to the original Crimson Avenger, a masked vigilante from the 1940s. The pistols were cursed and bonded with her, giving her the power to exact vengeance on those who escaped justice. She became a Justice Society of America member and fought alongside other heroes. She also participated in the crossover event Infinite Crisis, where she helped stop Superboy-Prime from destroying reality. She first appeared in JSA Secret Files #1 (2001).

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Powers

• Spirit of Vengeance: Jill Carlyle is a minor spirit of vengeance and, as such, is fated to be forced into exacting revenge on whoever is her next assignment. Part of her “curse” is gaining the abilities of the deceased she is forced to understand, as well as giving her her own powers that she sometimes cannot use at will.
  • Intangibility: She can become intangible, and all physical objects can travel through her without harm to her body. However, it doesn’t work against magic spells or her own bullets.
  • Phasing: More of an active ability than her previous power, she can force herself to phase through buildings and obstacles instead of just becoming intangible as a reaction. She uses this power to doggedly pursue her assignments.
  • Teleportation: Another ability she cannot use on command, as a Spirit of Vengeance, she is forced to teleport to her next assignment.

Abilities

• Law
• Firearms

Weaknesses

• Suicidal Resurrection: She cannot die by conventional means; even if she takes her own life with her mystical pistols, she arises for her next assignment.
• Eternal Gunshot Wound: Part of the curse attached to the pistols there is a constantly bleeding, painful bullet wound in her chest that cannot or will not be healed.
• Vulnerability to Self: Her own bullets can harm her, likely even if she is intangible. Power Girl was able to catch the Crimson’s bullets and threw them back, injuring her leg.^[3] However, the Crimson’s mystical bullets have not been shown to kill or destroy her permanently.
• The spirit seeking justice through her did not have to be totally innocent. She could be used for the revenge of a spirit who was innocent of one crime but guilty of another.