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Many months after her departure from the Outsiders, Grace is shown in a live-in relationship with Anissa, with both women now in a state of semi-retirement following Anissa's recovery. When Black Lightning arrives at Grace and Anissa's apartment with his small band of fugitive heroes, Grace comes to his aid and helps fight off the attacking ...
Born Anissa Pierce, she is a metahuman and daughter of superhero Black Lightning, able to increase her physical density and durability and create massive shockwaves. Pierce is also the older sister of Jennifer, herself a superhero operating under the alias Lightning. Against her parents' wishes, Anissa chooses to utilize her abilities to fight ...
Cress Williams. Jefferson "Jeff" Pierce (portrayed by Cress Williams as an adult; seasons 1–4; Kaden Washington Smith as a child) is the main protagonist of the series.. At the beginning of season one, Jefferson has retired crime-fighting as Black Lightning due to the urges of his ex-wife Lynn and the safety of his two daughters and is the benevolent school principal of Garfield High who is ...
Black Lighting made his debut on Black Lightning #1 (April 1977). Art by Rich Buckler and Frank Springe. The original candidate for DC Comics' first headlining black superhero was a character called the Black Bomber, a white racist who would turn into a black superhero under stress.
The Outsiders appear in the Black Lightning in two forms. In the first season episode "LaWanda: The Book of Burial", Grace Choi carries an Outsiders comic which Anissa Pierce notices while conducting research in a bookstore. [54]
But Black Lightning ' s greatest success so far is how it has surveyed the different ways black people tackle problems in their own backyards." [106] Nafessa Williams' portrayal of Anissa Pierce, Black Lightning's eldest daughter who becomes the superhero Thunder, also drew attention and praise from critics. As the first black lesbian superhero ...
An adolescent Lightning appears in the "Thunder and Lightning" segment of DC Nation Shorts, voiced by Masasa Moyo. Jennifer Pierce appears in Black Lightning, portrayed by China Anne McClain as a teenager [9] and Fallyn Brown as a child. [10] Late into the first season, her powers emerge amidst an argument with her sister Anissa Pierce.
Odell confronts Jefferson for breaking their agreement by going rogue as Black Lightning. The metahuman mercenary Instant and Markovian Colonel Yuri Mosin infiltrate an A.S.A base and escape after being thwarted by Odell and Black Lightning. Finding Anissa collapsed, Grace calls Gambi, who produces an anti-venom.