Supergirl exhibits new powers, manifesting sunstone crystals from her body ; so far she only does so while under great stress ( for example, when Cassandra Cain tries to kill her ).

He retires from crime fighting, with Tim Drake and Cassandra Cain as his replacements.

She is murdered during the One Year Later storyline by Cassandra Cain.

; Cassandra Cain: The daughter of assassin David Cain and Lady Shiva, she is her mother's equal as a martial artist.

In DCU: Last Will and Testament, Deathstroke takes credit for Tara's insanity by claiming he gave her the same serum he used on Cassandra Cain and his daughter, Rose Wilson, telling Geo-Force that " the problem with Tara was that we waited too long.

During the same No Man's Land storyline, Cassandra Cain was given the role of Batgirl under the guidance of Batman and Oracle.

The series was canceled in 2006 and Cassandra Cain abandoned the role of Batgirl shortly thereafter.

After Cassandra Cain abandoned the role a mystery character appeared as the new Batgirl in the Birds of Prey comic.

While Barbara Gordon and Cassandra Cain have both been the subject of academic analysis regarding the portrayal of women in comics, commentary on Barbara Gordon's Batgirl has focused on her character's connection to the Women's liberation movement, doctoral degree and career as a librarian, while analysis of Cassandra Cain's Batgirl has focused on the character's double minority status as a woman and a person of color.

In a story arc of the Batgirl title in 2005 Cassandra Cain begins a search for her birth mother, who she believes is Lady Shiva.

He often visits Jason's gravesite and raises his death as a factor in his reluctance to take on new sidekicks, such as Tim Drake ( the third Robin and current Red Robin ), Stephanie Brown ( the fourth Robin, and third Batgirl ), Cassandra Cain ( the second Batgirl ), and Damian Wayne ( the current Robin ).

The child, Cassandra Cain, was to be Ra's al Ghul's " One Who Is All ," a perfected bodyguard, whose only form of communication was literacy in body language, and whose sole instinct was for hand-to-hand combat.

Due to revelations in the final issue of Batgirl ( issue # 73, February 2006, see Cassandra Cain ), the relative Post-Crisis canonicity of Guano Cravat and Richard Dragon in Shiva's history remain in question, as Sandra appears to immediately know the identity of her sister's killer, and her decision to become Lady Shiva stems entirely from events related to her sister's death and daughter's birth, rather than a rivalry with Dragon.

At age 8, Shiva's daughter Cassandra flees from David Cain, horrified after killing a man with her bare hands on her first assassination.

Cassandra begins to suspect that Shiva is her mother, but cannot provoke Cain into an admission.

Nyssa explains why she and Talia are working with the villains of the Society to Batgirl ( Cassandra Cain ).

After Nyssa's apparent death at the hands of Cassandra Cain ( who usurps control of the League of Assassins ), Talia becomes the new Demon's Head.

However, the League of Assassins has apparently splintered and Cassandra Cain has gained only partial control.

* Cassandra Cain: Batgirl

* David Cain ( comics ), a fictional character from DC Comics and father to the previous Batgirl Cassandra Cain

Later, when discussing the plans for 2013's Bat-books, Didio stated that Stephanie Brown, Cassandra Cain, and many other missing characters would appear eventually in the year.

An MP3 version of the album released through Amazon. com contains an additional track entitled " The Flight of Cassandra.

San Francisco Opera staged a heavily cut version of the opera ( reducing it to about 3 hours ), billed as the “ American professional stage premiere ,” in 1966, with French soprano Régine Crespin as both Cassandra and Dido and Canadian tenor Jon Vickers as Aeneas, and again in 1968 with Ms. Crespin and Guy Chauvet ; Jean Périsson conducted all performances.

* Cassandra Wilson recorded a cover version of the song " Harvest Moon " on her 1995 album New Moon Daughter.

Cassandra then put herself into Xavier's machine Cerebra ( an enhanced version of Cerebro ) and switched minds with her brother before Emma Frost snapped Cassandra's neck ( Emma had been in Genosha teaching during the attack and witnessed her students massacred ).

A quarter-century later, Cassandra Peterson established a persona that was essentially a ditzier, more buxom version of Vampira.

Cassandra Cain's Batgirl has become one of the most prominent Asian characters to appear in American comic books, and her understated sexuality is notable as being contrary to the common sexual objectification of female characters, especially those of Asian descent.

Seeing promise in Cassandra, Batman and former Batgirl, Barbara Gordon, give Cassandra their blessings to take up the mantle of Batgirl.

Cassandra then abandons the identity of Batgirl and returns to her life as a wanderer.

The first time, in Batgirl # 62, Cassandra Cain meets her during a near death experience.

Then, in Batgirl # 72 – 73, Cassandra is near death following a battle with Mad Dog when Stephanie's " ghost " appears before her again and informs Cassandra of her true parentage and of Blüdhaven's destruction.

Cassandra Cain has apparently become disillusioned following Bruce Wayne's apparent death and gives Stephanie her Batgirl costume.

" Breen also voiced concern about the characterization of Cassandra, who is a victim of incest with her father in the novel, as well as the mercy killing of the grandmother by Parris also depicted in the novel, and " the sadistic characterization of Dr.

* Rosier is depicted as an incubus and is lord of the incubi in the The Cassandra Palmer series by Karen Chance.

Cassandra factors prominently in the future depicted in X-Men: The End storyline ( Book 3 ).

* The character of Camille in Cassandra Claire's Mortal Instruments series may be based on Carmilla, given the similarity in their names and descriptions.

* Magnus Bane, a character in the Mortal Instruments and Infernal Devices series by Cassandra Clare

* Maia, a werewolf character in The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare

Cassandra Peterson is an actress best known for her on-screen horror hostess character Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.

Judge Cassandra Anderson is a fictional character that started as a supporting player in the comic story Judge Dredd of 2000 AD and eventually rose in prominence and became the star of her own series, which is entitled Anderson: Psi-Division.

* Sebastian Verlac, character in Cassandra Clare's novel City of Glass

Christa Wolf provides another degraded future for the character in Cassandra by once more naming her Briseis and including the Homeric story of her slavery to Achilles and Agamemnon.

The cover art features Waits sitting in a go-go dancer's dressing room, with a topless go-go dancer standing nearby who is rumored to be Cassandra Peterson who is famously known for her character Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.

Cassandra Peterson ( born September 17, 1951 ) is an American actress best known for her on-screen horror hostess character Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.

" He took his pen-name from Cassandra in Greek mythology, a tragic character that is given the gift of prophecy by Apollo but is then cursed so that no one will ever believe her.

In the BBC TV series Doctor Who episode " New Earth ", the character Lady Cassandra is transplanted into Rose Tyler's body ( Billie Piper ).

For example, the design in the movie of the character, Cassandra, is the same as the design in the series of the character, Roxanne.

Instead of from life, the character seems to come from literature, for his name is reminiscent of Oroondates, a character in La Calprenède's Cassandra, which Behn had read.

When the decision was made to return to the apartment, the writers felt that the character should be brought along, so they sped up his relationship with Cassandra and had the two marry.

Davies stated that the character of Cassandra was inspired by drastic beauty treatments that had been taken by female celebrities.

Stature ( Cassandra Eleanor " Cassie " Lang ) is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe.

* Boobarella, who appears at the beginning of the episode, is an obvious parody of Elvira, the seductive gothic character portrayed by Cassandra Peterson.

* " No Man's Land " introduced the character of Cassandra Cain, who would become the third Batgirl.

The film is narrated by Laurence Fishburne in character as Blind Willie Johnson, and features performances by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Beck, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, James ' Blood ' Ulmer, T-Bone Burnett, Eagle Eye Cherry, Shemekia Copeland, Garland Jeffreys, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Los Lobos, Bonnie Raitt, Lou Reed, Marc Ribot, Lucinda Williams, and Cassandra Wilson.

Lady Cassandra O ' Brien. Δ17 is a fictional character from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.