Lisa Snart (New Earth)

Golden Glider
Mainstream Universe‎‎, 1950s-2011‎
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Real Name	Lisa Snart
Main Alias	Golden Glider
Other Aliases	Lisa Star
Relatives	Leonard Snart (brother), Lawrence Snart (father)
Affiliation	Formerly Rogues Gallery, Golden Snowball Recoveries, Black Lantern Corps
Base Of Operations	Central City
Status
Citizenship	American
Marital Status	Single
Occupation	Professional criminal
Characteristics
Gender	Female
Height	5' 5"
Weight	117 lbs (53 kg)
Eyes	Blue
Hair	Blond
Origin
Universe	Earth-One · New Earth
Creators	Cary Bates · Irv Novick
First Appearance	The Flash #250 (June, 1977)
Appearance of Death	The Flash Vol 2 #113 (May, 1996)

Lisa Snart was the Golden Glider. The younger sister of Captain Cold and the girlfriend of the Top, she used her ice skating skills to become a Rogue like them.

History

Origins

Lisa Snart's older brother, Leonard Snart, is Captain Cold. Lisa endured the same abuse that Len did from their father. But while Len turned to a life of crime, Lisa tried to escape her abusive homelife by becoming a figure skater under the name Lisa Star for the touring Futura Ice Show.

Rogues

Lisa's claim to fame in the skating world was her ability to spin at incredible speeds, a skill she learned from her coach and lover, Roscoe Dillon, a man more commonly known as the Flash villain, the Top. When the Top was killed fighting the speedster, Lisa vowed revenge upon the Fastest Man Alive and became the Golden Glider.

Golden Glider first foiled two attempts on the Flash's life made by her brother, wanting him to suffer first before being killed. She then tracked the speedster down and learned that he was romantically linked with Iris Allen. She then attempted to kill Iris, but the speedster managed to step in front of the freeze-drying blast that had targeted his wife. After an unsuccessful attempt at abducting Iris with a flying top, she invited the Allens to one of her ice-skating performances, where she had laid a trap. However, her freeze-drying gun was set to to work only on Iris, and thus failed to do any harm to the actress Daphne Dean, who had gone to the show in her stead. The Flash easily defeated both Golden Glider and Captain Cold, who had arrived on the scene to get back at his sister for stealing his freeze-drying weapon and allowing him to be sent back to jail. Later, she attempted to gain revenge on the Flash again with the assistance of a hypnotized dupe, Beauregard Baer AKA the Ringmaster, whom she set up as Central City's newest superhero in order to make the Flash look incompetent, before attempting to kill Iris again and frame the Flash for her murder. Again, she was defeated.

After Barry Allen was killed during the Crisis on Infinite Earths, Lisa renounced her feud with the Flash and tried to abandon her life of crime. Together with her brother, they formed Golden Snowball Recoveries, a company which recovered lost or stolen items or your money back. They were hired to go to Swainsville, New Mexico, and capture the Porcupine Man and find his victims. They battled with the Porcupine Man, who turned out to be none other than Wally West in disguise. Three boys had been trapped in a nearby cave, and were have thought to have been the victims of the Porcupine Man. They were not, and it was even Wally who saved them. He split the reward money with Lisa. Eventually, Lisa resumed her career as the Golden Glider, and began working with various men called Chillblaine, supplying them with copies of her brother's ice gun, and then abandoning them after they became useless. However, the fourth Chillbaine was smarter than the others, and he killed the Golden Glider.

Blackest Night

Lisa was reanimated as a Black Lantern and with other Black Lanterns, attacked Iron Heights prison.

Powers and Abilities

Abilities

• Dancing
• Skating
• Hand-to-Hand Combat (Basic): Lisa managed to take out two police officers by herself, she even developed a fighting style that involves her using her skates.
• Peak Human Balance: Lisa was trained by the Top, when it comes to spinning and achieving perfect balance.
• Peak Human Strength: By spinning rapidly, Lisa can break out of and pulverize ice made by her brother, Leonard Snart.
• Peak Human Speed: She's fast enough to even out maneuver her own brother and blitz Captain Cold, along with avoiding cool ice energy blasts from the cold gun, while skating on ice. Lisa has even shown capable of tagging the Flash, while in mid-battle.
• Lip Reading
• Firearms
• Stealth: Lisa's capable of remaining out of sight, that the Flash doesn't notice her.
• Marksmanship
• Hypnosis
• Gadgetry
• Genius Level Intellect: Lisa's capable of not only using her brother's weaponry, the freeze-dryer, but reverse-engineer it to target her specific victims. Along with manufacturing the freeze dryer into a wand, for Lisa's own use. She's one of the few Rogues members to discover the Flash's identity, when he was alive. The Flash even compliments and confirms she's a genius. Lisa even created Ringmaster's arsenal of special rings.
• Pedagogy: Trained Ringmaster how to use his special rings.
  

Paraphernalia

Transportation

• Ice-Air Skates: Lisa invented ice skates that manufactured their own ice, allowing Golden Glider to skate wherever she pleased. Her ice skates emit antigravity radiation.

Weapons

• Black Lantern Ring (Formerly)
• Weaponized Tops (Formerly)
• Captain Cold's Cold Gun: A freeze-drying gun stolen from Captain Cold, later retooled into a twirling baton.
• Lisa uses weapons that she wears in the form of jewels on her costume, and that she adapted from the designs from the Top's weaponry. Her jewel weapons include ones that can hypnotize victims, create force fields, teleport their wielder, create illusions, project force beams, emit powerful acid, and increase a victim's mass.
• According to the Flash, Lisa's arsenal can take down an army.

Notes

• Although this character was originally introduced during DC's Earth-One era of publication, their existence following the events of the 1985–86 limited series Crisis on Infinite Earths remains intact. However, some elements of the character's Pre-Crisis history may have been altered or removed for Post-Crisis New Earth continuity, and should be considered apocryphal.

Related

• 46 Appearances of Lisa Snart (New Earth)
• 16 Images featuring Lisa Snart (New Earth)
• 5 Quotations by or about Lisa Snart (New Earth)
• Character Gallery: Lisa Snart (New Earth)

External Links

• Golden Glider at Flash: Those Who Ride the Lightning

Footnotes

Rogues Gallery This character is or was a member of the Rogues, a loose collection of enemies to the Flash, in any of its various incarnations. They are a team of highly effective super-villains with their own internal code that prevents them from killing speedsters. This template will categorize articles that include it into the "Rogues Gallery members category."

Flash Villain(s) This character, team, or organization, is or was primarily an enemy of any or all of the various incarnations of the Flash. This template will categorize articles that include it into the category "Flash Villains."

Black Lantern Corps member This character is or was a member of the Black Lantern Corps. Those who have died may wield the Black Power Ring, symbolizing their lack of both life and emotion. This template will categorize articles that include it into the "Black Lantern Corps members category."