You're getting struck by Black Lightning. 
- — Black Lightning src
Jefferson Pierce is Black Lightning, a genius superhero with the power to generate electricity and a former member of the Justice League.
History
Year One
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Following the Joker's destruction of Metropolis and the disillusionment of Superman, Black Lightning retired from the Justice League and focused his efforts on helping the survivors of the destruction as Jefferson Pierce. However, despite this initial neutrality, Pierce was recruited to aid Batman's Insurgency against Superman.
On one of his first missions for the Insurgency, Lightning and Huntress captured Hawkgirl from kidnapping a political officer, only to find out that Batman intended on imprisoning her inside the Insurgency Base. Pierce, as well as a few other Insurgency members, saw a problem with them illegally imprisoning one of their former friends like that but continued to stay on the team regardless.
At the latter part of the first of fighting, Batman and the team made a risky play to steal the newly developed Super-Pills the Regime were making from the Fortress of Solitude, a move that got Green Arrow and Captain Atom killed. Upon returning from the mission, Batman encouraged most of the Insurgency to go into hiding until further notice.
Year Five
Black Lightning, having kept to his orders and stayed hidden for four years, finally grew so disillusioned with the Insurgency's mission that he joined the Regime. Though he didn't believe in Superman's totalitarian rule, Black Lightning thought he could do more good alongside them than in hiding. Pierce personally quit the Insurgency to Batman's face, which the Bat was disappointed to hear.[1]
Before Brainiac's Invasion
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After the fall of Superman's Regime shortly after he joined, Black Lightning was forgiven for his betrayal of the Insurgency and invited by Batman to help him reorganize the world back to normal. However, not long after the Regime's fall, Pierce's daughters were kidnapped by the League of Assassins as they planned to exterminate those they felt plagued the Earth.[2] The League used the children as a distraction from the main goal of wiping out the entire city of Washington, D.C. and, even though Pierce was reunited with his children, the League had ultimately succeeded. At some point between this and the peace talks with the League, Pierce became President of the United States of America.[3]
Powers and Abilities
Powers
- Electrokinesis: Black Lighting has the metahuman ability to generate and control vast amounts of electricity.
- Electro-Blast: Black Lighting can discharge powerful blasts of electric energy capable of taking down the likes of Hawkgirl[4] and Orca.[2]
Abilities
- Hand-to-Hand Combat (Basic)
- Political Science: Jefferson was the secretary of education before becoming president.[5]
Related
- 22 Appearances of Jefferson Pierce (Injustice)
- 5 Images featuring Jefferson Pierce (Injustice)
- 1 Quotations by or about Jefferson Pierce (Injustice)
- Character Gallery: Jefferson Pierce (Injustice)
Footnotes
- ↑ Injustice: Gods Among Us: Year Five Annual #1
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Injustice 2 (Volume 7) #
- ↑ Injustice 2 #34
- ↑ Injustice: Gods Among Us #7
- ↑ Injustice 2 #14
  This character is or was a member of the Insurgency, a gathering of heroes and villains who have come together to usurp Superman's Regime and restore democratic order on Earth in the events that precede and include the Injustice: Gods Among Us video game. |
 This character is or was a member of the New Regime, a regime formed by Superman enforcing the law with an iron hand in the events that precede and include the Injustice: Gods Among Us video game. |
 This character has been a member of the Justice League of America, or the Justice League in any of its various incarnations, sworn by a duty to act as guardians of America and the world by using their skills and/or superpowers to protect Earth from the clutches of both interstellar and domestic threats. |