Terrance Kelly (Earth-9)

Terrance Kelly
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Real Name	Terrance Kelly
Relatives	Celeste Nelson (ex-wife) · Lia Nelson (stepdaughter)
Affiliation	Nightwing
Status
Alignment	Bad
Identity	Public Identity
Citizenship	American
Marital Status	Divorced
Occupation	Nightwing operative
Characteristics
Gender	Male
Hair	Black
Origin
Universe	Earth-9 · Earth 9
Creators	Todd Dezago · Gary Frank
First Appearance	Tangent Comics: Flash #1 (December, 1997)

Terrance Kelly was a covert Nightwing operative and one of the first astronauts that participated in the Jupiter Mission.

History

Engaged in tests designed to detect the presence of extraterrestrial life, he extracted radioactive fragments from one of Jupiter's moons on board. These fragments seemingly affected his younger daughter, Lia, to develop light-based powers. After returning to Earth, Kelly attempted to use his daughter as a potential asset for Nightwing's cause but it proved difficult to control her, especially when she quickly gained public celebrity status, partly influenced by Kelly's ex-wife, Celeste Nelson, as The Flash. Kelly was reprimanded by his organization and given the impossible task of capturing his daughter. His attempts were largely unsuccessful mostly due to his own incompetence.

Notes

• Terrance Kelly was modeled after "some of fiction's most infamously weaselly and incompetent characters" such as Dick Dastardly and Inspector Clouseau.
• Terrance is named after the word "Terra" as a companion naming device to the meaning of his ex-wife Celeste's name: "celestial."

Related

• 4 Appearances of Terrance Kelly (Earth-9)
• 1 Images featuring Terrance Kelly (Earth-9)
• Quotations by or about Terrance Kelly (Earth-9)
• Character Gallery: Terrance Kelly (Earth-9)

Footnotes

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