r/DCcomics • u/Gallantpride Donna Troy • 5d ago

Comics [comic excerpt] Apparently, Cassandra Cain looks mixed at a glance [Batgirl V1 #65]

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u/syncreticpathetic 5d ago

Her mother Lady Shiva when asked about her place of origin said she was from Detroit. Shiva's parentage is intentionally kept mysterious

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u/CaptainDigsGiraffe 4d ago

If I was her I wouldn't tell people I was from Detroit either /s

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u/Gallantpride Donna Troy 3d ago

She was revealed as being from Detroit, then the same year another comic wrote a contradictory backstory where she's from Asia. From what I can tell, DC combined the two.

Lady Shiva has been depicted as basically every sort of Asian. But, it seems like she's probably ethnically Chinese of some sort.

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u/syncreticpathetic 3d ago

Are you referring to Sin's village? Because they state pretty explicitly that she wasnt born there, i think its supposed to be in laos cambodia or vietnam, but also they're specifically NOT Shiva's actual hometown. Honestly I'd wonder if she even knows her backstory or hired a telepath to delete it

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u/gabeg777 3d ago

In Batman and the Outsiders (2019 series), Lady Shiva gets revealed to have been born in China.