Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox comics character The Harbinger (Lyla Michaels) is a superheroine appearing in publications by DC Comics. She had a supporting role in the Crisis on Infinite Earths storyline, where she gathered heroes to protect the multiverse from the Anti-Monitor.
The character appeared as a recurring character in The CW television series Arrow and The Flash television series, portrayed by Audrey Marie Anderson.
Publication history
Lyla Michaels was created by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez, and first appeared in The New Teen Titans Annual #2 (July 1983). She first appeared as Harbinger in Crisis on Infinite Earths #1 (April 1985).
Fictional character biography
Lyla Michaels is an orphan who is taken in by the Monitor and becomes his assistant.[1] In Crisis on Infinite Earths, she becomes Harbinger to battle the Anti-Monitor.[2] Harbinger sacrifices her powers to save Earth-X, Earth-S, and Earth-Four before regaining them.[3] After the multiverse is destroyed, Harbinger joins the Amazons as their historian.[4]
Harbinger later sacrifices herself to protect Supergirl.[5][6] She temporarily returns as a Black Lantern in Blackest Night.[7]
Following Harbinger's death, an artificial intelligence resembling her appears in The Multiversity.[8]
In other media
Television
Lyla Michaels appears in the Arrowverse series Arrow and The Flash, portrayed by Audrey Marie Anderson.[9][10] This version is an agent, later the director, of A.R.G.U.S. and John Diggle's estranged wife who secretly works for Mar Novu as the Harbinger in the crossover "Crisis on Infinite Earths".
Film
- Lyla Michaels / Harbinger appears in Superman/Batman: Apocalypse, voiced by Rachel Quaintance.[11] This version is a resident of Themyscira and a friend of Supergirl before being killed by Darkseid.
- An original incarnation of Harbinger, Kara Zor-El, appears in the Tomorrowverse films Justice League: Warworld and Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths, voiced by Kari Wahlgren.[11]
Video games
- The AI incarnation of Harbinger appears in DC Universe Online.
- Lyla Michaels / Harbinger appears as a character summon in Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure.[12]
Merchandise
Lyla Michaels / Harbinger received an action figure in DC Direct's Crisis line in 2005.
References
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- ↑ History of the DC Universe #1-2 (January - February 1987)
- ↑ War of the Gods #4 (December 1991)
- ↑ Superman/Batman #9-10 (June - July 2004)
- ↑ Countdown to Adventure #1 (October 2007)
- ↑ R.E.B.E.L.S. (vol. 2) #10 (January 2010)
- ↑ The Multiversity #1 (October 2014)
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