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Jakita Wagner (Prime Earth)

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As a result of the New 52 in 2011, the entire line of DC characters was relaunched, incorporating properties belonging to the company's imprints: Wildstorm, Milestone, and Vertigo. As such, elements of this character's history have been altered in some way from the previous incarnation. For a complete list of all versions of this character, see our disambiguation page.

I'd watch how you speak to me- I'm a ten on the power scale that starts with people like you.
— Jakita Wagner src

Jakita Wagner, also known as Drummer, is a survivor from an erased universe. She was a member of The Outsiders and the Planetary Organisation.

Origins

Jakita Wagner was born in another universe. She is the daughter of Anaykah, a scientist of the lost city Opak-Re in Africa; and Lord Blackstock, a British adventurer and Century Baby. Jakita considers Blackstock to have been a racist and a colonialist, and dislikes that she inherited his skin tone as well as his powers.[1]

As an adult, she was part of the Planetary Organisation alongside Elijah Snow, Ambrose Chase and The Drummer. The team had many adventures together, along the way Jakita met multiple Spirits of the Century.[2]

Planetary eventually defeated their arch-enemies The Four, a cabal of superhumans who kept the secret history of the world hidden; and released The Four's advanced technology to benefit the world. At a meeting of Planetary, Elijah announced that he had completed the Planetary Guide, a record of the secret history that the Four had tried to hide away, and was ready to publish and distribute it around the world for free. As he felt that his life's work was complete, he announced his retirement and Jakita's immediate promotion to head of Planetary. Jakita was overwhelmed and sincerely told him that it was the honour of her life.

Suddenly, Jakita felt a disturbance in reality and through the window they saw the entire world disappear into a white void. Horrified, Elijah said that the "actual ending" was happening and yelled at Jakita to take his hand, but the room around her disappeared and she was alone in the void. She saw Ambrose Chase's gun and the Drummer's drumsticks floating away from her and fading away. She reached for them and was able to grab onto one of the sticks, which became solid again in her hand.

Jakita somehow slipped into the Timestream and saw The Flash run by for an instant before she passed out. She awoke in an alley, where a homeless man told her she was in Metropolis. She looked into the sky and saw the Justice League battling Darkseid and his Parademons. She realised she was in another reality and ran to a nearby library. Jakita read through all the books and realised that her Multiverse, a snowflake spread across 196,833 dimensions was not only gone, it had never existed; in its place was an Orrery of Worlds with a new 52 Earths. She and she alone had survived because her invulnerability somehow made her immune to the changes to continuity. She had visions of a shadowy figure she called "The Observer" in a Cosmic Library, reading books that told all the stories of their world and realised that there was a reality beyond her own, where beings could look in and know everything.

Because all her research told her that she could never go home, she decided to make a life for herself in the new world. She got a job, an apartment and a steady boyfriend, and avoided any kind of superheroics. At night she saw the library in her dreams but ignored them, and tried to pretend that the new world was permanent, even as she saw its history rewritten again and again. However, then the Metal War came and the world was devastated by Barbatos' invasion, Jakita slipped out of reality into the Dark Multiverse, no longer a figure in the story. She found herself in the emptiness of Earth-Metal where she met The Final Knight. He told her that he could also sense the figure she dreamed about, which she called an "Observer". He revealed that when worlds were destroyed or stories were ended, people went "between" to a Limbo dimension until the next chapter.[3] Realising that her friends were alive, she became determined to find "The Place Between Places" and reunite with them.[4]

Jakita was sent back to the reborn universe, and found that the life she had created for herself was gone. She adopted a new persona as an eccentric genius, so that one day she could join a project to access the higher realities and find her way to the "Place Between". She took the alias "Drummer", using deduction and her accumulated knowledge to fake The Drummer's ability to "talk to history". She kept a journal of all her research, her own Planetary Guide.[3] "Drummer" earned a reputation as the world's leading archaeologist, someone who could find the rhythm of the lost or forgotten.[5]

The Outsiders

Fourteen months ago, Lucius Fox suffered a stroke, during which he "saw the face of God" and became determined to unlock the true secrets of reality. He founded the Outsiders to gather the information he would need to access the structure beyond the Multiverse and personally recruited "Drummer".[4]

Their first mission took them to a mysterious spaceship buried under the ice on Antarctica. Upon entering it, Jakita recognised it as The Carrier, the former headquarters of The Authority which had also somehow escaped the destruction of their universe. When they triggered its automated defences she destroyed them at super-speed too fast for the others to see, and pretended that she had detonated them with technopathic abilities. Pretending not to know what the Carrier was, she claimed that her psychic powers had told her its name and the way to the engine room, when in fact she already knew the way due to prior encounters with the Authority. The Carrier had activated its self-destruct in despair at losing its home, but Luke Fox was able to talk it down.[5] Realising that she could use the Carrier's capabilities to access Limbo and perhaps even find her way back to their original reality, Jakita went back to the Carrier's core that night and spoke to it. The Carrier agreed to help her, as it also wanted to go home.[6]

The Outsiders would go on to encounter an infant sea monster,[7] invade the collective subconscious of every Batman in the Multiverse[8] and meet the Spirit of the 21st Century in London.[9] Jakita recorded each of their adventures in the Planetary Guide.

Kate Kane was invited to a party for monsters at Club IV in New York City by Nocturna, who she had previously had a less than consensual relationship with. Luke and Jakita asked Kate to accept and let them come with her, as they knew the party was the most likely place to find an "extrafictional entity" who knew how to access "The Place Between". At the party Jakita found the being, a demon known as ♄🜨♆♌︎γ🝪🝓 who she had encountered once before. He initially refused to tell her, but she offered to murder someone in his name if he told her, an act that would stain her soul while empowering him. He whispered the secret to her and told her she had a year and a day to make the sacrifice. However she killed the entity by punching his head clean off his shoulders, and sarcastically said "Praise be to ♄🜨♆♌︎γ🝪🝓". She then left the party and met back up with Luke, and they returned to The Carrier.[10]

From Batwoman's report of the Club IV mission, she learned that Nocturna, a vampire, had impossibly given birth to a boy who she had named "The End". Jakita realised that The End was not a child at all, but a "necessity", the concept of ending given flesh. She believed that he had been born for the express purpose of destroying all of existence.[6]

The Place Between Places

Lucius Fox was able to use the information Jakita got from the demon, as well as other data she had gathered during the team's missions, to complete his model of the Omniverse. He and the Outsiders gathered at the Carrier, where Jakita fed his model into the ship's computer and it generated a hologram of all of reality, which took the form of a snowflake. However, as Jakita had expected the Carrier detected a "continuity paradox" and suffered a full systems meltdown, triggering the Carrier's self-destruct. They were sucked through the hologram into a white void. The others were terrified but Jakita had expected this and was calm.

The four of them, along with a human manifestation of the Carrier, emerged in the Limbo dimension which took the form of an idealised mid-century American town. Jakita ran off looking for the lost members of Planetary and eventually found Elijah Snow's house, but his neighbour Richard Dragon told her that the house had been empty for as long as anyone could remember. In a rage she began destroying everything in sight until the Carrier stopped her and returned them home.

Back on Earth 0, Batwoman told Jakita that the Carrier had told her who she really was and ordered her to tell the Foxes the truth. Jakita revealed who she was and told the Outsiders that she hadn't joined their story, they had always been in hers.[4] She revealed her origins to them and Batwoman called her insane, but Lucius Fox said that everything she had said was supported by the science and what they had learned. Batwoman quit the Outsiders and Jakita addressed the "Observer" in the Library, telling them that she was coming.[3] As her attempts to find her friends in Limbo had failed, she decided that her only other choice was to destroy the Library and every story within it, except "the one that matters".[6]

Lost City of Cannon

Approximately two weeks later, Jakita lead the Foxes to the "Lost City of Cannon" in Yucatan in order to retrieve the Multiversal Cannon which she would need for her plan. They found the Lords of Chaos and Lords of Order battling over the city and the Cannon. Each side believed that the "cycle" of the world was coming to an end and wanted to use the cannon for their own purposes. If the Lords of Chaos got it, they would use it to destroy Earth 0 and allow the rest of the Multiverse to spin off into a multitude of new, incoherent stories. Meanwhile if the Lords of Order were able to fire the cannon they would destroy the library and all alternate universes, leaving Earth 0 as a single world of perfectly ordered continuity. No matter who got control of the cannon, trillions of innocent people would die. Rather than allow that, Luke Fox called in the Carrier and threatened to use it to destroy the entire city and all of them. The two sides backed down and the Outsiders took the Cannon into the Bleed.

On the ship they reunited with Batwoman, who had had her own adventure with Jinny Hex and found a cursed revolver that could destroy the world. Luke welcomed her back onto the team, but noted it was likely not a coincidence that they had two guns which would destroy all of reality. Jakita snuck away and stole the revolver from where it was stored on the Carrier.[1] The Carrier integrated the Multiversal Cannon into its systems, which would allow them to fire a "cosmic bullet" into the Library, but they were unable to aim it. Hex's revolver allowed them to target their shot with perfect accuracy and Jakita incorporated it into the weapon. She also reached out to Nocturna and informed her what her "son" really was, and that she wanted to use him as the ammunition in her plan. Nocturna eagerly agreed and handed The End over, as the insignificant death of every living being in the Omniverse would be the greatest act of horror ever committed. When The End was brought to the weapon "he" transformed into a cosmic round which could be fired from the Cannon.

Everything was ready, but just as Jakita was about to fire, the Carrier revealed that it had allowed Batwoman to find the Planetary Guide, the final entry of which revealed Jakita's plans. The Carrier viewed Jakita and the Outsiders as "friends" and therefore chose to help both sides try to achieve their goals. As Batwoman and Batwing raced to reach the Cannon room, the Carrier teleported Jenny Crisis, Jinny Hex and the sea monster from the Enlil Triangle onboard to stop her. However Jakita's strength and invulnerability allowed her to easily defeat the three Century Babies. She threatened to kill them if the Carrier did not send them away. The Carrier opened doors to safety for each of them and Jakita threw them through. However, the young heroes did slow Jakita down long enough for Batwoman and Batwing to reach her.

The Outsiders ordered her to stop, but Jakita simply rolled her eyes at them acting like stereotypical superheroes after she had showed them that they were nothing but figures in a story. Luke pulled out a batarang and she said that she had hoped he at least would be curious to see what would happen, then challenged him to "go out fighting" as the story demanded. Luke stood down and Jakita fired the cosmic bullet through the rift left in The Bleed by the Outsiders' journey into Limbo. They were once again swallowed by the void.[6]

Cosmic Library

In the void, the Carrier's spirit jumped in front of the wave of destruction she had created. As she crumbled, the Carrier told Jakita that they were now the only two stories in existence, but they had very different endings in mind. The Carrier managed to preserve a possible future timeline and pull Lucius Fox, Luke and Batwoman out of it, depositing the four of them in the Library.

Jakita yelled out for the Carrier to get back and put things to rights, but Lucius told her that the Carrier was dead and had brought them there to stop her. Luke and Batwoman attacked her, but Jakita once again easily overpowered them, saying that their violent "good-versus-evil" approach to problems was pointless against someone as powerful as her. Luciud challenges her to prove her point and make a better story than the one she was given, and Batwoman told her that her only other option was to kill the only people who still care about her.

She realised that they were right and she was no long the hero of the story; and now had to choose between being the villain or the narrator. She took out the Planetary Guide and wrote on the last page that she fired herself rather than the cosmic round into the Library, then scraped the Planetary logo off the front cover and writes "OUTSIDERS" in its place. She placed it on a shelf in the Library, making the story within it true and undoing her own actions. As the timeline was rewritten the room and the Outsiders once again faded away, leaving her alone with the book suspended in mid-air. The Carrier's spirit appeared behind her and told her that she was doing the right thing. Jakita said she was happy the Carrier was there at the end, but the Carrier replied that it is never the end.

The Library returned, and Jakita found herself reading the "OUTSIDERS" book. Through it she saw how reality had been restored and Luke and Batwoman had moved on. She realised that the "Observer" she had seen in her dreams had not been a god or a creator, but had in fact been her. She put the book back on the shelf and scanned the titles of the other books, finding one titled "PLANETARY". She opened the book, and inside found a comic book telling the story of her adventures with Planetary. She settled down to read it, saying "There you are".[11]

Powers

  • Cosmic Awareness: Jakita Wagner is "immune" to changes to continuity, allowing her to be aware of the various "reboots" of the Multiverse and retain her memories between them. She can sense impending Crises and is able to get brief visions of other levels of reality in dreams.[3][8]
  • Decelerated Aging: As the child of a Century Baby, Jakita is effectively immortal and does not age.[3]
  • Invulnerability: Jakita appears to be almost totally indestructible.[3] She has withstood a point-blank explosion,[11] energy blasts, shots from Rannian ray guns and a full-strength blow from a giant sea monster without being harmed or even feeling it.[6]
  • Superhuman Speed: Jakita can run at superhuman speed, and move fast enough to be invisible to the naked eye.[3]
  • Superhuman Strength: Jakita can decapitate a demon with a single blow,[10] smash cars and buildings with her bare hands,[4] create powerful shockwaves just by stomping on the ground and knock a giant monster unconscious with one punch.[6]

Abilities

  • Archaeology: As "Drummer", Jakita is considered the world's best living archaeologist.[5]
  • Investigation: Despite having typically been the "muscle" of the Planetary Organisation, Jakita is a skilled researcher and investigator.[3]
  • Science[6]

Equipment

  • Drumstick: Jakita carries one of the original Drummer's drumsticks, the only thing she was able to save from the destruction of her world.[3]
  • Planetary Guide: Jakita keeps a journal of all her research and the Outsiders' adventures.[5][8] It is inspired by the Planetary Guide written by Elijah Snow.[3] She later repurposed it as a book in the Multiversal Library, using it to rewrite the timeline.[11]


  • The grey streaks in her hair are dyed.[3]

Related

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Outsiders (Volume 5) #9
  2. ↑ Outsiders (Volume 5) #4
  3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 Outsiders (Volume 5) #7
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Outsiders (Volume 5) #6
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Outsiders (Volume 5) #1
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 Outsiders (Volume 5) #10
  7. ↑ Outsiders (Volume 5) #2
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Outsiders (Volume 5) #3
  9. ↑ Outsiders (Volume 5) #4
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Outsiders (Volume 5) #5
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Outsiders (Volume 5) #11
  12. ↑ https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Talk:Jakita_Wagner_(Wildstorm_Universe)


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