During the anti-hero mania that was sweeping the U.S. (during the Legends miniseries, 1986), Miss Rebecca Sharpe took the opportunity to avenge the death of her grandfather, Steven Sharpe III alias the Gambler. Rebecca took the name Hazard and joined with the Wizard in his new Injustice Society – which he called Injustice Unlimited. However, she refused to allow anyone to be killed, nor would she cause anyone's death in the process. They overcame the security at the International Trade Conference in Calgary—namely Infinity, Inc. and a contingent of the Global Guardians—and forced the heroes to help in some mayhem. Hazard took Wildcat and the Tasmanian Devil to Las Vegas and, with their help, financially ruined Mr. Taj, proprietor of the Taj Mahal Casino - it had been the crooked games of the casino which were in part to blame for her grandfather's suicide. They all returned to Calgary to share in the stolen wealth which the Wizard had been gathering, but the plan went haywire when Hourman revived and freed himself, as well as when Solomon Grundy was brought in from the Arctic Circle. It was Solomon who incapacitated Hazard, but in the confusion she was able to escape.[2]
Only weeks later, Hazard joined again with the villains the Icicle II and Artemis, along with the Harlequin (Marcie Cooper). The Harlequin brought in the Dummy and a duped Solomon Grundy. Under the leadership of the Dummy, their first goal was to murder the members of Infinity, Inc. so that the world and the criminal underworld would know and fear Injustice Unlimited. Though Hazard had previously voiced an unwillingness to take life, she consented to the murder of the super-powered Infinitors. The first target was Skyman, and he was successfully murdered by Harlequin. Within days Hazard joined with Harlequin and the Dummy to murder Pat Dugan working at Stellar Studios (the Infinity, Inc. HQ) outside Los Angeles. When Pat's young son became a collateral target, however, Hazard used her powers of probability manipulation to help save their lives – the Dummy decided instead to use Dugan as bait for the rest of the Infinitors. When the other heroes arrived at their HQ and the battle was begun, Hazard feigned the loss of her dice and did not join in. Afterwards, when the villains were successfully defeated, Hazard voluntarily entered into custody for her role in the criminal events.[3]
Hazard last appeared with several other villainesses who were hunting male superheroes who had been turned into animals by Circe. This takes place in a magically entrapped New York City.[4]
Powers and abilities
Hazard has psionic powers that she uses in conjunction with special dice to influence probability as she wishes. She can cause good luck or harmful "accidents" to befall someone. The origin of her powers, nature of her dice, and the relationship between them are unknown. In addition, she keeps herself in good physical condition but has no known training in hand-to-hand combat.
Family
Steven Sharpe III is Rebecca's grandfather and was the original Gambler who vexed the original Justice Society in the late 1940s.
Steven Sharpe V is Rebecca's cousin. He has taken over their grandfather's criminal mantle as the current Gambler.
Other characters named Hazard
Manuel Cabral: The head of Rainforest Technology who takes up the name Hazard when he leads the Black Ops. He and the Black Ops have clashed with Steel many times.[5]
Rebecca "Becky" Sharpe / Hazard appears in The Flash, portrayed by Sugar Lyn Beard.[8] Introduced in the fourth season, this version was plagued by bad luck until the Thinker tricks the Flash into exposing her to dark matter. After acquiring the power to create an energy field capable of manipulating probability, she unknowingly expands the field while reaping the benefits of her powers until Harry Wells uses S.T.A.R. Labs' particle accelerator to negate the field, allowing the Flash to arrest her and remand her to Iron Heights Penitentiary. Sharpe later joins Kilg%re, Dwarfstar, and Black Bison in mounting an escape attempt before Warden Gregory Wolfe can sell them to Amunet Black. However, the Thinker kills them for their powers and transfers his mind into Sharpe's body to further his plans[9] before eventually re-transferring to the Fiddler's body. Following changes made to the multiverse during the events of the crossover "Crisis on Infinite Earths", Sharpe was resurrected off-screen as of the ninth season episode "The Good, the Bad, and the Lucky".[10]
A young Rebecca "Becky" Sharpe appears in the Stargirl series finale "Frenemies – Chapter Thirteen: The Reckoning", portrayed by Kelsey Rose Healey.[citation needed] This version is the estranged daughter of the Gambler who was put up for adoption when she was two. In the third season premiere "Frenemies – Chapter One: The Murder", the Gambler discovers Becky's existence and writes a letter to her with the intention of making amends until he is killed. Upon discovering the letter, Courtney Whitmore eventually delivers the letter to Becky for him.
References
^Cowsill, Alan; Irvine, Alex; Korte, Steve; Manning, Matt; Wiacek, Win; Wilson, Sven (2016). The DC Comics Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Characters of the DC Universe. DK Publishing. p. 141. ISBN978-1-4654-5357-0.
