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#84 - Doctor Light (Kimiyo Hoshi)
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Beware her anger.

Kimiyo Hoshi was blasted with light from her own observatory telescope, channeling the power of the star Vega through suddenly acquired abilities. As a working single mother, Hoshi jungle home life, work life and a life of heroics, becoming the first Justice Leaguer from Japan, before devoting her efforts to her company and work at home. After the original Doctor Light regained his memories, he traveled to Japan and tortured Hoshi, murdering her children in front of her. After this trauma, Hoshi retired from public life entirely, giving up her costume for good - until a group of Checkmate agents foisted her back into the limelight.

Doctor Light's most important relationship is with Minerva who, in most Doctor Light scenes, follows her around carrying books or personal possessions in a large stack, calling her 'Hoshi-san' or 'sensei', taking her former employment as Doctor Light's children's sitter to heart and performing the duties as an assistant to the terrifying Doctor. And used the correct word. Doctor Light is terrifying. Only Amanda Waller can stand up to Hoshi-san. The phrase 'dragon lady' really has never been more properly used than when describing Kimiyo. Fearsome, violent, constantly angry - furious really, more than anything else. Doctor Light gives the more well-known Doctor Light a run for his money, and that guy may very well be the creepiest fellow to ever exist.

But the real nightmare remains Kimiyo. She's not spoiled or bratty - she's earned her hair-trigger temper. But Kimiyo holds so much power and sway as the greatest hero of Japan that she has developed a personality that is cold, cruel and accepts nothing less than perfection in those she deals with. Especially given the recent fall of Japan, Kimiyo has even more reason to demand much from those around her. And there is a return of investment - Kimiyo leads a field team that has been forging fuck-ups into fearsome warriors as they protect the northern islands of Japan from invasion by parademon forces and Equated under the command of Justeen and Heggra, Darkseid's mother. Those who she leads, like Black Alice, begrudgingly admit that no matter the chip on Kimiyo's shoulder, she only ever offers valuable advice - the source that keeps them alive. Even the hapless, witless Thom Kallor has learned a thing or two thanks to Kimiyo.

Most amusingly, Brennus was forced to suffer a concussion more or less thanks to Doctor Light in order to earn a spell. That's right; a roil of wild magic resided within her very soul, and the only way to coax it out was to piss of Doctor Light to such a level that the magic burst forth like one of her highly-ionized blasts of light.

As the campaign has progressed, we've seen the recruitment of some truly valuable heroes into the fold of Z'onn Z'orr. But aside from perhaps Black Canary, none really carries the gravity of being a top tier A-List hero like Doctor Light - Justice Leaguer, prominent Japanese superstar, and the angriest human being you've ever met. Mera? A Red Lantern? Hell, she's got nothing on Kimiyo Hoshi.

Go on. Take a shot at her, make a crack at her kids' death. You dare?

A character from Round 9 falls.