The DC Multiverse can be a darkly unforgiving place to live. One day you're a hero, the next you're a villain. Sometimes you don't even get the chance to find out what you are. Today we look at one of those unfortunate souls, Alexandra Gianopoulos.

Alexandra's story begins in Booster Gold Volume 2 #45 when Booster Gold falls into her bed. Literally.

Unfortunately for everyone, Booster is being pursued by Doomsday, who makes short work of her Coast City penthouse apartment, forcing Booster and Alexandra to flee. Booster soon deduces that he had unintentionally arrived in an alternate timeline orchestrated by Flash's archnemesis, Professor Zoom and sets out to apprehend the villain.

Alexandra liked the idea of a world where humans and metahumans weren't waging a world war against one another. Her own father had been killed in the fight against Emperor Aquaman, and worse, she was a closet metahuman herself. She was born a "parasite" with the innate ability to temporarily absorb the abilities of anyone she touches. The unexpected arrival of a time traveler made her think that maybe the world really could be changed for the better.

When Doomsday and Booster Gold resume their fight, Alexandra flies into action with Booster's powers. However, her rash intervention only results in all three of them being captured by the United State military (Booster Gold Volume 2 #46). When Doomsday proves too powerful to be tamed, Alexandra utilizes the military's mind control technology to force the monster to kill itself (Booster Gold Volume 2 #47).

As changes to the timestream began to eat away at Booster's memory, he heroically vows to Alexandra that he will tap into Flash's Speed Force, resolve the Flashpoint paradox, and take her with him to a better timeline.

Booster fails.

In an interesting quirk of history, death in the Flashpoint timeline was not intended to be the final fate of poor Alexandra Gianopoulos. You can see in the panels above that Alexandra nebulously disappears into the Speed Force, and in comics, if there is no body, there is no death.

As DC timeline rebooted itself into the New 52 Universe, we can be sure that Alexandra was to join the reformed Justice League International. She can plainly be seen as the "woman in black" in the originally solicitated cover for Justice League International Volume 3 #1. However, for reasons that remain unclear (perhaps an editorial mandate that no characters were allowed to escape the Flashpoint paradox?), when the book was released, Alexandra had been replaced by former Global Guardian Godiva.

Alexandra will make one last appearance on the released cover of Justice League International Volume 3 #5 (another editorial oversight?), but she hasn't been seen since, a lingering reminder that time definitely does not heal all wounds.

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