Alex Merkel (New Earth)

Alex Merkel is first introduced in issue one of the secret six, going by the alias "Junior". She is rarely seen and is percieved by the other characters as being male. She lived in a small crate below a male strip club, controlling all the mobs and criminals on the west coast with just a phone and note book. She has at least two hench men; Tig and Aaron, conjoint twins who were seperated by their father. Even these two are not allowed to look at her. When outside her crate she wears a mask that completely covers her face with only two small slits for eye-holes. She also wears long gloves, socks, trainers, black trousers, a long sleeved black top and a black robe. She likes to make people plead for their loved ones to be killed in their place before killing them and is extremely sadistic. It is stated that she is a rapist. She is pysically disabled in some way (presumably this is due to 'triple-jointedness') and requires crutches to walk. However, despite this she seems to posses almost super-human strength. It is revealled in issue five of the secret six that she is female and Ragdoll (III) 's sister. He says their father (Ragdoll I) liked her best. However, as it is heavily implided that their father was sexually abusive, this was probably not to her benefit. She was named Alex as her hoped for a boy. She was very beautiful but mutilated herself, stitching her eyes and mouth open and sowing little red patches onto her nose, cheeks and forehead (presumably to make herself look like a rag-doll). She appears to have had an incestuous relationship with her brother (Ragdoll III). It is stated that they french-kissed and that he took her to the prom. She strips naked to show him how she has disfigured herself but becomes upset that people are looking at her. She kills one of her hechmen for looking, calling him a pervert.