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The walls of his carefully constructed existence will come crumbling down around him. The horns will sound and the battle cry will be given. He will beg us for mercy when we are finished, mother. We will give none to him. He will know and tremble at the wrath of Jericho!
Joseph W. "Joey" Wilson is the second son of Adeline Kane and Slade Wilson, from whom he inherited his metahumangene. He has been mute since childhood, when one of his father's enemies cut his throat.[4] Joey eventually became the vigilante hero known as Jericho, and in the business world, he is the Executive Vice President of Core Policy Group.[1] He has been a member of the Teen Titans, the Justice League Reserves and the Defiance.
Jericho was born to Adeline Kane and Slade Wilson and had two siblings, Grant and Rose Wilson. Slade was absent a majority of Joseph's childhood due to his "government missions" and unknowingly to him, some of his altered genetics would be passed on to Joseph, who eventually developed meta-psychic powers.
Joseph becomes Jericho
At some point during their childhoods, Joseph and Grant went camping with their father. While Joseph enjoyed himself, Grant refused to camp and slept in the car during the night, exhausting the car battery and stranding the three in the wilderness in the middle of winter. When Slade reprimanded Grant, he snapped at Slade. Before he could abuse him, Grant stormed off while Slade and Joseph began walking in a different direction to find a town.[5]
Eventually, Joseph was kidnapped and had his throat slit by operatives working for the Jackal. He made a successful recovery but lost his voice as a result and began communicating via American Sign Language and using his psychic powers.[6] Joseph later joined the Teen Titans as Jericho, however, Slade waged a war against the superhero group following Grant's death.[7] Joseph was originally given the alias Jericho by David Isherwood, one of Slade's closest friends, based on the fortified city of the same name from the Bible.[8]
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During the The New 52, Jericho was not mute and was fully capable of talking using his own voice. Following the DC Rebirth event, Joseph was restored to his Pre-Flashpointincarnation.
Joseph began a brief relationship with David Isherwood despite their large age gap, which was kept a secret because Isherwood knew Joseph's parents would not approve. Joseph later became the executive vice-president for a tech firm that Adeline owns in Los Angeles, and fell in love with his ASL interpreter Etienne. After Joseph and Etienne became engaged, Isherwood refused to accept that Joseph was marrying a woman and attempted to reveal their past relationship to Slade in order to stop the engagement. In a fit of anger, Joseph used his powers to possess Isherwood and turn off his anti-gravity suit, dropping him from a fatal height to his apparent death.[9]
Racked with guilt, Joseph kept the incident a secret while preparing for the wedding. Unbeknownst to him, Etienne was a spy working for Amanda Waller who was also having an affair with Slade.[10] While Rose and Adeline disliked Etienne, Joseph refused to believe their claims that she was hiding something. Eventually, the truth was exposed and she was murdered while dressing for the ceremony.[11] A heartbroken Joseph joined the Defiance Project to find her real killer, often acting as field leader.[12] Isherwood also resurfaced, having survived and been transformed into a hulking monster. He became driven to confront Slade to stop him from committing crimes; there, his and Joseph's former relationship came to light, much to Slade's anger.[13][8]
After some time, Joseph began dating a deaf man named Terrence and received an upgrade from Lex Luthor that made him far more powerful at the cost of his own sanity. Then, Joseph was confronted by David, who used his technology to lock onto the diode powering Joseph and pull it out. In a final sacrifice to save Joseph, he enveloped Joseph in a protective shield when the diode exploded, killing him.[14]
Powers and Abilities
Powers
Enhanced Brain Capacity: Due to his father's genetics, Jericho possesses a metahuman gene, which enables him to access higher brain functions on a cellular level, granting him varied psychic-based abilities.[15][16]
Astral Projection: His most commonly used ability, Jericho can separate his astral self from his physical body, and into the physical or mental planes of existence.[15]
Possession: Jericho's astral-self can enter and control the bodies of others. If possessing a meta-human, Jericho has been able to use their powers and abilities, as well as his own powers.
Psionic Manipulation: As a new facet of his psychic abilities, Joseph has demonstrated the ability to harness, project, and tap into psychic energy and forces for variety of effects and purposes, such as destructive blasts, telepathy, mind-reading, and psychokinesis.[15]
Telekinesis: On the physical side, Jericho is a powerful telekinetic, possessing the ability to move and manipulate objects with his mind, and project psychokinetic energy for a variety of purposes.[15]
Telekinetic Blasts: Jericho could emit his psychokinetic energy as a devastating blast of raw concussive force which can blow apart, rupture, or damage living bodies or inorganic elements with ease.[17]
Telepathy: Joseph is an exceptional telepath. He's adept enough to reach into a persons mindscape in order to affect their thoughts, memories, and emotions, as well as probe people's minds, broadcast his thoughts in order to communicate with people, or attack others mentally.[18]
Mind Reading: Jericho is able to read, detect and scan the thought patterns of other living beings.[19]
Mutism: During his childhood, Joseph had his throat slashed by one of his father's enemies. [4][25]
Power Instability: Joseph often had very little to no control over his psychic powers, often unleashing devastating mind pulses which devastated the surrounding area like a small atom bomb.[15]
Superhuman Durability: The Ikon Suit mark 7 allows Jericho to be hit by a large truck and be completely unbodered.[26]
Superhuman Strength: The Ikon Suit increases Jericho's to superhuman levels, with it he can crack concrete with his pounches, overpower his Deathstroke and defeat Rose with a single blow[26] that cracked her skull.[24]
Flight: The Ikon Suit allows Joseph to fly fast enough to keep up with Flash, although he has admitted of not really being as fast as he is.[27]
Subvocal Mic:
Joseph using the Subvocal Mic
Jericho has an app that vocalizes his thoughts on his phone via bluetooth, granting him the ability to communicate without having to resort to sign language.
Gravity Droplet(Formerly): Jericho accepted from Lex Luthor the power of a gravity droplet in a lechatelierite diode to replace his ruined Ikon Suit, a power that was intended for his father, then taken for dead, but which he eventually accepted after Luthor told him that if he did not accept, perhaps his sister Rose would.[28] The singularity's black-body radiation has turbocharged Jericho's metagenic abilities; in addition to granting him bluish skin and enhancing his mental powers of telekinesis, telepathy, mind control and psionics, the gravity droplet awoke in him the following superpowers:
Joseph is bisexual. A few of his loved ones initially refused to acknowledge this, rejecting his female fiancee and insisting he was gay;[31] however, they came to accept him after his impassioned statements about not deciding labels for him based on their own perception of his relationships.[32][24]
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