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Origin
Kole gained her powers when her mad father tried to save her by turning her to crystal.
Place of Birth: Place of birth unknown
Place of Death: One of the Earths during the Crisis
Known Relatives: Insane father and mother (possibly deceased) attempted to save humanity by changing them to bugs
First Appearance: New Teen Titans Vol. 2 #9
Final Appearance: Crisis on Infinite Earths #12
History
Professor Abel Weathers, paranoid of an impending nuclear holocaust, was attempting to find a way for humanity to survive the fallout through forced evolution. One of the test subjects in his experiments was his 16-year-old daughter, Kole, whom he grafted with Promethium. However, instead of evolving, she found herself with the ability to create and control silicon crystal.
Kole was then kidnapped by the mad sun Titaness, Thia. For two years, Thia forced Kole to use her powers to construct a crystal prison in which Thia can hold important prisoners. Thia eventually came into conflict with the Teen Titans... which ultimately lead to the death of the goddess and Kole winning her freedom. Lilith, a member of the Titans who has the power to tell the future, sensed the "dark clouds of destruction" around Kole and warned her that she would face a "grim future" should she return to Earth and invited her to remain in Olympus. Kole declined, electing to reclaim her life on Earth.
Now back on earth, Kole tried to reunite with her parents, only to find that her father's experiments had produced a house full of crystalline and insectoid monstrosities. When the Titans came to confront him, he had them captured and attempted to subject them with the same experiments. Kole helped them to escape, and in the ensuing conflict, Abel and his wife Marilyn transformed themselves into insects and caused the lab to self-destruct. Having nowhere else to go, Kole chose to go with the Titans to New York City, though she never officially joined (this fact seems to be contradicted in other later sources such as The Secret Origins of the Teen Titans in which Dick Grayson lamented how Kole was a "Titan for such a short time").
Kole was apparently killed during the Crisis on Infinite Earths by the Anti-Monitor's shadow demons while trying to protect Earth-Two's Robin and the Huntress. Noted that the Crisis of Infinite Earths rewrote the origins of Donna Troy, in which Thia and her fellow Titans of Myth played a major role... which means Thia never kidnapped Kole and thus how Kole met the Titans has been nullified. There has yet to be an updated origin for Kole.
After her seeming death, Kole mysteriously resurfaced a few years later, where she assisted the Team Titans against a pack of vampires. Her powers had somehow been upgraded with the ability to teleport from place to place at will and sense events happening miles away. She also hinted that she isn't anything "alive". After helping the Team Titans in several battles, Kole vanished again. It was later suggested that this was not in fact the real Kole, but a puppet created by Monarch. However, when an organization called The 1,000 did a data search on all the Titans, living and dead, Kole's file read "Data Inconclusive", which adds some doubt to her final fate.
Most recently, Kole's status seems to have been firmly cemented as "dead"; in Teen Titans #30-31 (December 2005-January 2006), Kole appeared as a member of a team of zombie-like Titans raised from the dead by the latest incarnation of Brother Blood to fight the current (living) Titans. When Blood's control over these undead Titans was broken by Kid Eternity (whose powers Blood had tapped to bring them "back to life"), they seemed to simultaneously decompose and vanish as they were returned to the afterlife. Furthermore, Kole has a statue in the "hall of fallen Titans" at Titans Tower, alongside the original Hawk and Dove, the original Aquagirl and others.
It would seem that the status of Kole, both her Post-Crisis origin and her current status, are likely to remain in dispute. Until DC chooses to address this issue in greater detail, what is written above are the current facts.
Animated Series
Kole as she appears on the Teen Titans cartoon
Kole appears in a Teen Titans episode bearing her name, alongside Gnaark, her Caveman partner. Her powers are much different than in her comic incarnation. Rather than creating crystal, she literally transforms herself into it, and is directly used as a melee weapon by Gnarrk in her crystal form. She lives underground with Gnarrk and becomes friends with the Titans. In the episode, Dr. Light wanted to use her as a tool to focus and enhance his light powers, but she was saved by the Titans and Gnarrk. They both become Honorary Titans, but Kole believed she would be safe from the Brotherhood of Evil, as no one knew about her. Unfortunately, the Brotherhood used the communicator Robin gave her to listen in on her conversation and locate her. They later sent Billy Numerous and Gizmo to attack her and Gnarrk. She, Gnarrk and Cyborg (who had gone to rescue her) escaped, and joined in the final battle against the Brotherhood of Evil. She is voiced by Tara Strong.
Powers
Known Powers: Kole has the power to "spin" crystal, which is to create silicon crystal into independent masses...anything from a crystal "sculpture to a safety slide". She is known to encase people in crystal, effectively immobilizing them. It is not clear what happens to the crystal she spun, whether they just eventually disappear or they remain in existence has never been established (she once spun a crystal bridge to transport herself and Jericho from Manhattan to Titan's Tower in the East River, what happened to that bridge is subject to debate).
Kole also has the ability to fly, but it is unclear whether this also comes from the experiments which gave her her powers, or granted to her during her tenure as Thia's slave. Later in the Titan Titans comics, Kole is seen transporting herself on a crystal carpet. Only once had Kole been seen moving through crystal (or at least the crystal she spun herself).
Known Abilities: No known abilities.
Strength Level: Average
Miscellaneous
Equipment: No known equipment.
Transportation: No known transportation.
Weapons: No known weapons.
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