| Freefall | |
 Freefall by J. Scott Campbell and Alex Garner |
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| Publisher | DC Comics Image Comics (previously) Wildstorm |
| First appearance | Deathmate Black (February 1994) |
| Created by | Jim Lee Brandon Choi J. Scott Campbell |
| In story information | |
| Alter ego | Roxanne Spaulding |
| Team affiliations | Gen¹³ International Operations |
| Notable aliases | Roxy Spaulding, Juryoku |
| Abilities | Gravity manipulation |
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Character history
Early life
Roxy is the daughter of Team 7 member Alex Fairchild and Gloria Spaulding. Team 7 is the name of a Comic book Superhero team appearing in titles published by Wildstorm Productions. The two met when Alex was a soldier, stationed at Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. Kelly Field Annex (Formerly Kelly Air Force Base is a United States Air Force facility located in San Antonio Texas. Texas ( is a state geographically located in the South Central United States and is also known as the Lone Star State. Gloria was the daughter of the base commander. Despite her father's dislike of Alex, Gloria and Alex grew close, but soon Alex was called away on another secret mission. Gloria, who had become pregnant, had no way of contacting him. Gloria later married another man and told everyone, including her daughter Roxanne, that the child was merely her stepchild.
Details on Roxy's life before coming to Project: Genesis are sketchy. But a picture of her past can be gleaned from comments Freefall makes over the course of the series.
During a dream sequence Roxy is called "trailer trash" by classmates from her Catholic school. This article is about Catholic schools in general for specific schools named Catholic High School, see Catholic High School (disambiguation. This, along with Roxy's habit of sometimes wearing a crucifix necklace and comments during some conversations confirmed that she was raised a Catholic, though her behavior indicates that she is a lapsed Catholic. A crucifix (from Latin cruci fixus meaning "(one fixed to a cross" is a cross with a representation of Jesus ' body or corpus Catholic is an Adjective derived from the Greek adjective '' / 'katholikos' meaning "whole" or "complete". In Roman Catholicism, a lapsed Catholic is a Catholic who has ceased practicing the Catholic religion [1]
Freefall tends to speak with something of a valley girl accent, hinting that she may have grown up somewhere in Southern California, though she visited her mother when staying in New York City. Valley Girl (less commonly Val) is a term referred to affluent middle-class young girls living in the neighborhood of San Fernando Valley. Southern California, or So Cal, is defined as the southern portion of the U The City of New York In Las Vegas Roxy had missed her mother by mere hours at a casino she had been working at. Las Vegas ( Spanish: "The Meadows" is the most populous City in the state of Nevada, the seat of Clark County, and an internationally [2] This could be a hint that Gloria Spaulding has a tendency to move often.
The Gen¹³ Project
Roxy's father, Alex, was exposed to the Gen-factor, a substance which gave him and his fellow Team 7 members superhuman powers. Gen-Active is the name of a Comic book Anthology -series from Wildstorm. Team 7 is the name of a Comic book Superhero team appearing in titles published by Wildstorm Productions. Team 7's superiors, International Operations, thought that their children had inherited their powers and started Project: Genesis, testing and recruiting children who were gen-active from all over the United States. International Operations (IO IO or I/O is a Fictional American Intelligence Agency in Wildstorm comics. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Roxy is the youngest member of Gen¹³. She managed to escape Project: Genesis with them after they found out that the I. O. was planning to enslave them. During their escape, Roxy's powers manifestated: she was now capable of manipulating gravity and took the codename Freefall. [3] Roxy became infatuated with fellow teammate, Grunge, whom she sees as "the man of her dreams". Grunge is the codename of Percival Edmund Chang a fictional Comic book character from DC Comics / Wildstorm, and is a member of the Superhero She developed a jealousy of her statuesque teammate, Caitlin Fairchild, who is often ogled by Grunge, even though she likes Caitlin a lot. Caitlin Fairchild is a Fictional character from the Wildstorm Comic book series Gen¹³, created by Jim Lee and Brandon Choi
Life after the project
Gen¹³ relocated to San Diego after their escape and one evening, Roxy sneaked out of the house barefoot to go to a dance club called The Soil Machine. For people with the name Barefoot see Barefoot (surname Going barefoot (also barefoot ed) means for a person not to use or [4] In the club, she found the alien, Queelocke, who was hunted by alien bounty hunters. Gen¹³'s mentor, John Lynch, noticed the aliens arriving on Earth and sent the rest of Gen¹³ to help Roxy. They drove back the bounty hunters and the Queelocke became Roxy's pet. Shortly afterwards, Grunge finally returned her affections and the two became romantically involved. However, Grunge was unfaithful, insensitive and inmature and their relationship often broke apart.
During her time in Gen¹³, Roxy would find out that Alex Fairchild was her father and that her teammate Fairchild was her half-sister. She would also learn that the woman she thought was her foster mother was in fact her birth mother. Roxy was deeply upset that her mother had lied to her for her entire life, even if the lies had been meant to protect her. However, the two did eventually mend fences. It also led to frictions between her and Alex Fairchild, who had become the team's mentor. After Alex explained to her that he had no way of knowing about her, she came to accept him as a father, but Alex died protecting the team shortly afterwards.
Over the next few months, Roxy had a lot of arguments with her teammates, who had always had difficulties understanding Roxy's infatuation with Grunge, her smoking habits, and her general attitude. Their concerns were proven correct when Roxy found out that Grunge had been having an affair with Swift from The Authority. Swift ( Shen Li-Min) is a Fictional Comic book Superhero in the Wildstorm universe, published by DC Comics. The Authority is a Superhero Comic book published by DC Comics under the Wildstorm imprint Despite this all, Roxy was still in love with Grunge. During this time, Roxy also became a bit of an otaku, with a great love for J-pop music and anime. is a Japanese term used to refer to people with obsessive interests particularly Anime, Manga, and Video games. J-pop is an abbreviation of Japanese pop. It refers to Japanese popular musicians and was coined by the Japanese media to distinguish Japanese musicians from foreign musicians (anime in Japanese,
Roxy was thought to be killed in an explosion with the rest of Gen¹³, but in fact, Gen¹³ had been displaced to an alternate universe and they returned to their own Earth months later. Parallel universe or alternative reality is a self-contained separate reality coexisting with one's own
Gen¹³ relaunch
A new Gen¹³-series, written by Gail Simone and with art by Talent Caldwell has been announced for mid-2006. Gail Simone is an American writer of Comic books Best known for penning DC's Birds of Prey, she is the writer of Welcome Talent Caldwell is a Comic book artist best known for his work on the Top Cow Productions character Fathom. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Freefall is still a member, albeit she goes by her first name, Roxy.
Powers
Freefall has the ability to manipulate gravity to various effects. She can nullify gravity beneath her allowing her or others to levitate. She can also increase the gravity around a specific area inflicting damage or just making it impossible for an enemy to move. This ability requires concentration and is exhausting to maintain for long periods of time. It has also been suggested in dialog that if she tried hard enough she could effect gravity to the point of warping spacetime. SpaceTime is a patent-pending three dimensional graphical user interface that allows end users to search their content such as Google Google Images Yahoo! YouTube eBay Amazon and RSS
Trivia
- In the Gen¹³ animated movie, Freefall's voice was provided by E.G. Daily
- Roxy is a fan of the folk rock duo the Indigo Girls and the British alternative rock band Bush. Elizabeth Ann Guttman (born September 11, 1961) better known by her Stage names of Elizabeth Daily and E Folk rock is a musical genre combining elements of Folk music and rock music. Indigo Girls are an American Folk rock duo consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative; known primarily in the UK as indie) is a genre of Bush were a British Post-grunge band formed in London in 1992 She also a fan of anime series Sailor Moon. (anime in Japanese, is the title of a Japanese Media franchise created by Naoko Takeuchi.
- According to Gen¹³ co-creator J. Scott Campbell, Roxy was at first an original character created by Campbell and named Roxanne Warchild. But when hired to draw the original Gen¹³ mini-series, Campbell decided to use the Warchild design for Freefall.
- Campbell has also said in interviews that Freefall's appearance was based on Natalie Portman in The Professional. Natalie Portman (נטלי פורטמן born Natalie Hershlag June 9 1981 is an Israeli American Actress. Léon (also known as The Professional and Léon The Professional) is a French 1994 action drama Film It was later revealed in the Gen¹³ Zine that Roxy also has the same measurements as Portman.
References
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