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Jade Nguyen

154 appearancesSince 1983

Jade Nguyen first appeared in The New Teen Titans Annual #2 (1983-09), published by DC. 154 appearances are indexed across 60 series.

Jade Nguyen was born to a French father and a Vietnamese mother, and then sold into slavery at a young age. This trauma of this unhappy childhood lead to her become the assassin and mercenary, Cheshire. She killed her master and was adopted by Chinese freedom fighter Weng Chan, who taught her guerrilla fighting. She got her knowledge of poisons from Kruen Musenda, a famed African assassin known as the "Spitting Cobra" to whom she was married for a couple of years.

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