Halo (DC Comics)

Halo did die, in a manner of speaking, in a much later incident. After the team was framed for the murder of Markovia's queen, which was caused by Roderick and his vampire forces, they were forced to flee. Technocrat's evil ex-wife, Marissa Barron, hires an old associate named Ryer who believes Technocrat had abandoned him in Markovia. As the cyborg Sanction, he nearly kills the Outsiders in Switzerland. Later, in Gotham City, he attacks again, slaying both Marissa and Halo. As with Violet Harper, Halo's essence is sucked into Marissa's body, reanimating it.

During an attempt by the Outsiders to create a new headquarters, other Aurakles would return to reclaim Halo. Halo would later strike up a relationship with Sebastian Faust, a fellow Outsider that not many on the team trusted. The entire team is eventually cleared of wrongdoing. Halo later returns to Markovia. There she assists in combating a portal to Hell that had opened as part of the Day of Judgment incident.

Halo later appears back in the body of its original host, Violet Harper, through unexplained means.

During the Infinite Crisis, supervillain prisons around the world are opened as their respective wardens are targeted and blackmailed. Halo is part of a makeshift team of heroes battling a breakout at the Alcatraz prison in San Francisco. She later joins the Battle of Metropolis, which takes place in issue #7, helping other heroes protect the city from an army of super-villains bent on its destruction.

Soon after the events of the crisis, she assists a team of astronauts in a space station searching for heroes missing in action. She detects traces of Zeta radiation, a sign of Adam Strange, one of the many missing.

She is part of another multi-hero battle, this time against the murderous Black Adam. This takes place on Chinese soil, during the limited series World War III.

She makes another brief appearance in Action Comics #843. She is part of dozens of super-powered beings fighting to free themselves from the prison ships of the "Auctioneer".

In Batman and the Outsiders Special (Feb. 2009), Halo is one of the heroes approached by Alfred to form a new team of Outsiders. She accepts in Outsiders vol. 4, #15 and reforms the team with original members Katana, Geo-Force, Black Lightning, and Metamorpho, along with new members Owlman and the Creeper.

During a recovery mission with the Outsiders, Halo, along with the Creeper and Katana, are confronted by Katana's recently resurrected family. Under the control of their Black Lantern rings, they attack Katana and Halo, with Creeper easily dispatched; he retreats into the woods to get help from their prisoner, Killer Croc. While Katana battles her husband, Halo is forced to fight Katana's children. Although her light-based powers prove ineffective at first, Violet unleashes more power than ever before to save her teammates, whose abilities have no long-term effect on the Lanterns. Finally, she manages to destroy the Black Lantern rings and goes to aid the rest of her team who are also under attack.[6]

Back in their headquarters, the rest of the Outsiders are faced with a recently risen Terra and are hopelessly outmatched until Halo intervenes. With great effort, she manages to separate Terra from her ring and to destroy it while Geo-Force turns Terra's body to stone to keep her from coming back again. Violet, however, seems to disperse into light, her last words being that the (light) is calling her.[7] Afterward, Halo is returned to Earth.[8]

Halo is later selected as a member of a new team of Outsiders, led by Red Robin and funded by Batman Incorporated.[9] Halo and her teammates infiltrate a satellite said to be run by the villainous Leviathan organization, but this is revealed to be a trap set by Lord Death Man and Talia al Ghul. The satellite is destroyed in a massive explosion, making it unclear whether Halo and the others survived.[10]

In The New 52 reboot of DC's continuity, Halo and the Outsiders survived the explosion but were assumed dead. They now work as part of the Dead Heroes Club, a group of heroes who take advantage of their legally-deceased status to perform covert missions for Batman.[11]

In a later series, Halo is once again shown as very naive, freshly rescued from an incident in Markovia. She is under the care of Katana. The government believes Halo simply to be a young girl, unaware of her alien origin and powers.[12]

• Halo appears in the teaser for the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode "Requiem for a Scarlet Speedster!" as a new member of the Outsiders.
• Halo appears in Young Justice,[13] voiced by Zehra Fazal.[14] Introduced in the third season, Outsiders, this version is the product of a dissected Mother Box's spirit reviving the body of Gabrielle Daou, a Quraci refugee who was kidnapped by metahuman traffickers, used as a test subject to stimulate her meta-gene, and euthanized by Helga Jace after testing negative for the gene. Initially a blank slate with minor traces of Daou's personality and memories as well as fleeting access to the Mother Box's knowledge and some of its powers, Halo is soon after rescued by Tigress, whom they would go on to live with before joining Nightwing's team, who helps them figure out who and what they are and their vast range of abilities. They also name themselves Violet Harper, seeing themselves as a new individual; enter a relationship with Brion Markov; and befriend Harper Row. However, they are kidnapped by Granny Goodness, who harnesses their unrestricted access to the Source to create the Anti-Life Equation and place the universe under Darkseid's control, before being rescued by Victor Stone. In the aftermath, Halo breaks up with Markov after Zviad Baazovi secretly manipulates him into killing his uncle Baron Bedlam. In the fourth season, Young Justice: Phantoms, Halo considers converting to Islam as Daou's faith was important to her, starts identifying as non-binary, and begins to reconsider their feelings towards Markov and Row. As of the fourth season finale, Halo and Row have entered a relationship.

An alternate universe version of Halo called Aurora appears in Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths as a minor member of the Crime Syndicate of America whose powers function similarly to a Green Lantern's.[15]