Gypsy
Created by Gerry Conway & Chuck Patton
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NAME + ALIASES:
Cindy Reynolds
KNOWN RELATIVES:
Unnamed parents (deceased)
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GROUP AFFILIATIONS:
Justice League of America, The Conglomerate
FIRST APPEARANCE:
Justice League of America Annual #2
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Cindy Reynolds was a 14-year old street urchin who inhabited the
sector of Detroit in which the Justice League took up residence shortly
after Aquaman disbanded the original League in the wake of the alien invasion.
(Justice League of America Annual #2) Shortly
after the JLAers moved into their new inner city HQ, Gypsy began using
her camouflage powers to penetrate the League's defensive measures, in
order to check out her new neighbors first hand. Out of curiosity, Gypsy
began following the Justice Leaguers around, eventually stepping forward
to aid the heroes against the menace of the Cadre, an act which netted
her an offer to become a full-time Justice Leaguer herself. (Justice
League of America #236)
Gypsy later participated in the League's struggles against the power-mad
Anton Allegro (#237-239) and a reactivated Amazo.
(#241-243) The origin of Gypsy's powers and her
true background remain a mystery. Just after the JLA broke up for good,
Gypsy revealed that she was a runaway and returned to her family.
(#259)
Cindy does indeed descend
from the line of Romany known by her namesake — the "Gypsies." But for
whatever her reason (perhaps a sense of mistrust bred by centuries of
persecution) she has always guarded the secrets of her superhuman powers.
Gypsy found cause to test these powers
to their limits when the new JLA were ambushed by the Royal
Flush Gang during a wilderness retreat. (JLA:
Classified #22)
While her teammates were incapacitated, Gypsy ventured outside her own
body, in astral form. #23 In this form, she was able to spy on the Flush
Gang's activities. Also during this mission, she Gypsy senses a dire
future for Steel and Vibe.
JLA: Classified #25 (9.06)
In his bid to wipe out the new JLA, Professor Ivo sent an android to
destroy Gypsy, but she managed to find the conscience that was lurking
deep within the android's programming and convinced it not to kill her.
The android then saw her safely returned to her parents' keeping.
 Gypsy's happiness was to be short-lived, however. One day while she was
at school, several months after leaving the JLA, a vengeful Despero arrived
at Gypsy's home and callously murdered her parents. (Justice
League America #38) Gypsy would have been Despero's next victim,
if it had not been for the timely intervention of J'Onn J'Onzz
and the rest of the Justice League, who managed to halt Despero's insane
rampage. (#39) Devastated by the loss of her family,
Gypsy was immediately recruited by Booster
Gold to become a member of the corporate-sponsored team of heroes
known as the Conglomerate. (Justice
League Quarterly #1)
Over time, she has grown close to the Martian Manhunter. The two
of them were the mainstays of the short-lived Justice League Task Force,
and have kept in touch since that time. In fact, recently she was killed!
She was miraculously returned to life by J'Onn, who pleaded with his
god, Hronmeer, to restore her life. (Martian Manhunter
#12)
There have also been hints of a romantic relationship between Gypsy and
the Bronze Tiger. (Justice League Task Force #6)
Gypsy's most dominant personality trait is her curiosity. It led her
to sneak into the JLA headquarters on several occasions, and she even
went so far as to surreptitiously follow them on several cases. She seemed
to be somewhat shy and reserved, because she never wanted to talk about
herself or her background, and she never told anyone the true origin of
her camouflage and illusion powers.
Most recently, Gypsy joined Oracle's Birds of Prey. (Birds
of Prey #92) Oracle greatly relies on Gypsy's stealth for their
undercover work and, in fact, didn't even tell her other operatives
about Gypsy's involvement. She has demonstrated greater flexibility
with her powers as well, now able to extend her powers of invisibility
to others and things around her. (#93)
Gypsy also joined another Bird — her former JLA comrade Vixen — to stop
clean up the remnants of a years-old case. The two heroines rescued
Stargirl when they discovered that Amos Fortune was kidnapping members
of the JSA. (JSA
Classified #14-16)
In the DC/Marvel Amalgam universe cross-over (1996),a nameless Romany
beauty was called Runaway.
Gypsy has illusion powers which primarily help her camouflage herself
from view. Occasionally, she has shown the ability to also project believable
illustions into the minds of others. It has been suggested that Gypsy's
powers are still evolving.
Apparently, Gypsy keeps other abilities secret, even from her
best friends in the JLA. She has been able to travel in astral form,
outside her body. She can also coax others' astral forms out, to communicate
on that plane. In this form, she can also channel and redirect some other
kinds of energy (such as Amos Fortune's cosmic "stelleration" energy).
She has also received premonitions of future events; she
sensed of her teammates' — Steel and Vibe's — deaths, months before
the fact.
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