Scandal`s first show was in Villains United #1, and she was created by Gail Simone. She is the girl of the immortal Vandal Savage. While she vows not to be like her father, Scandal is nonetheless a scoundrel and an anti-hero. She sees the globe as low down between lord and ignoble actions. Scandal Savage
Scandal Savage
Scandal was elevated in Brazil by her human mother.
However, Vandal came round to learn her combat skills and seemingly wanted her around as an heir. (How an immortal can cause a rightful heir, I don`t know either. He gave her a set of Lamentation Blades, which marked her as a Savage. Scandal also seemingly inherited some of his immortality, or at least, she has healing powers.
Lex Luthor blackmailed her and 5 other villains to shape the Private Six during Identity Crisis. The Private Six were to carry on the Occult Order of Super Villains, who were under the command of an alternate universe Lex Luthor. Scandal goes on with everything to keep her mother.
However, Scandal falls in bed with Knockout. When Scandal fights against Talia al Ghul, Knockout joins the struggle and reveals herself to be a mole working with the Private Six. Scandal finds that she has more reasons than just her mother`s wellbeing to stay with the Private Six.
Scandal and Knockout kiss.
But the honeymoon doesn`t last. When Scandal and Knockout go on holiday to Bangkok, they`re attacked by a sniper. Knockout jumps in face of the explosive bullet meant for Scandal. She then throws herself into the sea to avoid killing bystanders. However, when Scandal goes to find Knockout`s body, she finds her girlfriend alive, but badly burned.
Scandal hunts and tortures the sniper, Pistolera. However, she doesn`t actually make the support for cleanup and alternatively has teammate Deadshot kill Pistolera. They get out that Vandal sent Pistolera to kill Knockout and did several other attacks on them to try to give Scandal date a man and make him a grandchild.
When Scandal fights her father, the two are pretty matched in combat. It`s only when Deadshot shoots Vandal in the headland that the battle is interrupted. Father and daughter fall over a wall, with Scandal hanging onto the fence and Vandal hanging onto her feet. Vandal is constrained to acknowledge that Scandal looks too often like her mother, the woman he loved, and that he wants to her live. So Vandal lets go and plunges to one of his many deaths.
The Private Six go on various other missions, including having some fights and team-ups with the Birds of Prey. Scandal fights Hawkgirl, and her regeneration power is shown when Spy Smasher makes Deadshot shoot Scandal in place to end their fight.
Afterward, Scandal teases Knockout about her battle with Big Barda. When Knockout goes after Big Barda, she`s killed by the villain going around killing the New Gods. Scandal becomes extremely depressed and drinks a lot. In her drunkenness, Scandal`s kidnapped and thrown into Amanda Waller`s Salvation Run operation where she`s exiled to another planet with the residue of the world`s metacriminals.
However, being villains, they get out. Despite her drinking, Scandal remains with the Private Six. In an attempt to get her happy, the team hires a stripper dressed as Hard to leap out of a cake. (Awe, villains, what they consider will give you feeling better. While Scandal turns down the stripper`s advances, she seems to bust out of her major depression. Though she does steal a "Get Out of Hell Free" card created by Neron as she believes Knockout`s soul may be cornered in hell. Even if she does start going out on dates with other women.
Scandal also becomes friends with Bane. She helps him through his dependence to venom, and the two take a somewhat father-daughter relationship.
Bane is surprisingly sensitive to Scandal, and she responds with gratitude.
However, Bane takes the Private Six out of Scandal`s leadership and kicks her off the squad after Scandal takes venom to struggle against her half-brother and about other villains. Scandal remains living at the Secret Six`s headquarters, but does not go on missions with them anymore. It seems that she might go to find Knockout`s soul and relieve her from hell.
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