Magpie (DC)

Villain Overview

“	Shiny, Shiny!	„
	~ Magpie

Margaret Pye, or also better known by her codename Magpie, is a villainess in the DC Comics universe. She is a jewel thief who mainly targets jewels based on birds, which she bases her name and costume from.

Since her childhood, Margaret had an strange love for pretty things. As an adult, she became curator of the Gotham Museum of Antiquities, where she began stealing many priceless artifacts, boobytrapping the crime scenes and resulting in multiple deaths. Eventually, she became a member of the Suicide Squad.

Biography[]

Origin[]

Margaret Pye always had an obsessive fascination with shiny objects. As a child, she was teased for her obsession and given the nickname Magpie; a bird that is known to collect shiny things. Years later, Margaret became a curator at the Gotham City Museum where she was constantly surrounded by shining displays that she could not have. Driven mad by the fact she wasn't able to obtain the displays, Margaret began a life of crime as the thief Magpie.

Modern Age[]

As Magpie, she used the knowledge she'd gleaned from the museun to fashion deadly duplicates of the pretty things she wanted to own. She didn't see it as stealing; she was simply "taking" that which was righfully hers and replacing it with a fatal reminder to the unlucky possessor that she was the true owner and they would have to be "punished" for keeping Magpie's shiny things from her. She surounded herself with musclebound thugs who often pay the utimate price for failure; they are "punished."

Magpie's first string of murders was stopped by Superman and Batman, becoming the first villain defeated by the duo. After being released by a cagey lawyer, Magpie was stopped some time later by Batman and Robin and incarcerated again. She later tried to escape Arkham Asylum with her cellmate Poison Ivy. Magpie was eventually killed by the second Tally Man who was working with Great White Shark.

Blackest Night[]

150px-Black Lantern Magpie 001 — Magpie as a Black Lantern.

After her death, Magpie was later resurrected by Black Hand as a member of the Black Lantern Corps, but was later defeated.

New 52[]

Margaret Pye is revived during the New 52. In this continuity, she still committed crimes as the villainess Magpie until she was caught and incarcerated in Arkham Asylum, where she somehow got a job as a receptionist. Margaret continued doing this job for awhile but her villainous behavior slowly resurfaced and she eventually resumed her activities as Magpie once again.

DC Rebirth[]

During DC Rebirth, Magpie faced several heroes, like Batgirl, Batman, and the anti-hero Catwoman. This version of the character also uses sharp-claws in combat. Eventually, she was killed on a Suicide Squad mission. However, she was resurrected after the Infinite Frontier event.

Powers and Abilities[]

Magpie originally had no natural super-human powers. Her weapons, carried in her hip-pouch, include an exploding dart gun, poisonous acid gas pellets, and a wide variety of explosives and blades she uses to create her deadly duplicate gens. Her gloves contain spring-loaded needles coatod with a paralysis venom. She has also set many deathtraps into her base at the Gotham City Museum of Antiquities, most of which have been dismantled by Batman.

Other Versions[]

A second male Magpie named Merg Gaterra appeared as a villain for the Legion of Superheroes. He was hired by Monitor to steal items from the Legion's headquaters.
Magpie appeared in the Batman: Li'l Gotham comics.

Other Media[]

Television[]

Beware the Batman[]

Magpie is one of the villains in the Beware the Batman animated series, where is voiced by Grey DeLise.

Magpie appears in the episode "Secrets". Unlike in the comics (where she is publically called Margaret Pye and is a petty thief going after shiny objects), she is originally named Margaret Sorrow who not only goes after shiny objects but also targets the doctors who experimented on her back when she was in Blackgate Prison. The experiments were meant to reform her which worked for a little while until she later forgets her past and develops a split personality. In the day, she works as Cassie; the bubbly assistant to one of her former doctors. By night she becomes Magpie. When she finds her doctors, she uses a device that makes them forget all their memories. After several fights with Batman, she finally is able to capture him and tries to use the device on him. In spite of this, he breaks free. Batman is then able to stop her from using the device on one of her doctors in time and captures her.

She later appears in the episode "Attraction", where she is in prison. However, after seeing Batman and Katana turning in a criminal, she breaks out and goes after them. She fights them in Gotham but gets away and goes on a crime spree. She robs stores and leaves signals for Batman. Batman goes to her hideout in an abandoned lab and fights her, but she is able to trap him. Katana comes to fight her, but Magpie defeats and captures her. Magpie buries her in a grave in a cemetery where her alter-ego Margret Sorrow was buried. Batman is able to deduce this when she sends him a picture of her buried. Batman suspects that she is in Margret's grave and digs it up, but she is not in there. Magpie gloats at Batman for his failure and they fight again, but this time Magpie poisons Batman and pushes him into a hole. However, Katana is able to dig her way up and fight Magpie while Batman gives himself an antidote. They are then able to knock out Magpie and she is arrested again.

In the episode "Reckoning", she is among the many criminals that are released by Ra's al Ghul from prison and went after Batman so that Ra's would give them a piece of the city. When Magpie found Batman, she was about to kill him. But criminal named Phosphorus Rex, and then, they start to fight each other, but both of them became mind controlled by Cypher. In several minutes, Batman defeat Cypher and frees Magpie and Phosphorus Rex from mind control. Batman planned to lock them, but criminal Mr. Toad used his super attack to throw Batman in the wall. Batman understood that he would not handle to fight all of his enemies. However, Batman tricks all of the criminals and they all turn on each other. Batman then leaves them fighting.

Gotham[]

Main article: Magpie (Gotham)

Arrowverse[]

Main article: Magpie (Arrowverse)

A version of Magpie called Margot appears in the Arrowverse series Batwoman, portrayed by Rachel Matthews.

The Penguin[]

Magpie appears in The Penguin episode "Cent'Anni", portrayed by Marié Botha. This version was a inmate of Arkham State Hospital who was killed by Sofia Falcone.

Film[]

In Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, Superman asks Batman about Magpie, prompting Batman to tell him that she is dead. This prompts Superman to ask him "Why is it that good villains never die?" to which Batman replies "Clark, what the hell are good villains?".
Magpie makes a non-speaking cameo appearance in The Lego Batman Movie.

Videogames[]

Magpie appeared in the prequel comic to Injustice 2. This versions is a member of the Suicide Squad. Jason Todd (as Batman) detonated the bomb in Magpie's head for being useless.

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Biography[]

Origin[]

Modern Age[]

Blackest Night[]

New 52[]

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Powers and Abilities[]

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Other Media[]

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