Thorn (comics)
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- For original DC Comics hero who called herself Thorn, see Rose and Thorn.
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Thorn is a fictional character in DC Comics, a superhero who suffers from multiple personalities
[edit] History
Rhosyn "Rose" Forrest is the daughter of Metropolis police officer Phil Forrest who died from the attack of a crime group named the 100. When Rose went to sleep, her Thorn personality would emerge and stalk the streets as a vigilante, attempting to bring the 100 to justice. She succeeds in this goal and the Thorn disappears from the superhero scene until members of the 100 escape and form the 1000. She has since worked with Superman and Booster Gold to try to put these criminals behind bars. For a brief period of time, she was under the control of Lord Satanus.
Thorn has no actual superpowers, but she is highly athletic and retains a high degree of martial arts ability from when her father taught her. She is known to carry a pair of combat daggers, a barbed whip, and a bandolier of tiny, thorn-shaped weapons, some of which contain explosives, miniature smoke bombs, or blinding magnesium flares.[1]
A 2004 Rose & Thorn miniseries by Gail Simone provided a slightly different origin story. Her father was still killed by the 100 (as well as her mother), but Rhosyn was now revealed to have, at age 12, fought back and sliced the hand off their killer, Mr Quince. Following this she was placed into a psychiatric care home soon after where she showed constant violent outbursts. Rhosyn's split personality came about due to unethical and experimental treatments by Dr Chritlow, making her psychologically repress all her more violent & base emotions, deliberately giving all her violent and base emotions to her Thorn persona which she kept buried. Following this, she became a far more submissive and innocent young girl, renaming herself Rose. Her Thorn personality finally broke out after Rose's room-mate Kimmy was burnt to death by another patient, who Thorn viciously mutilated. Once released into the public, Thorn began taking over more frequently, taking up a role as ultra-violent vigilante in a quest to take down the 100 in revenge for her parents. By the end of the miniseries, it was hinted she'd killed the head of the 100 while he was in hospital.
In the miniseries, Gail Simone gave Rhosyn an uncle and godfather, Detective Curtis Leland, who was secretly on the take from the 100 and had been unable to stop them killing Rhosyn's parents. He was driven by guilt for this and for letting his goddaughter be put in a care home, which was only worsened after he saw the drastic personality changes she'd gained under Chritlow's treatment. In an attempt to protect her, he disposed of two 100 grunts that Thorn had dispatched; when it became clear she was going to be murdered by a vengeful Quince, Curtis was killed hospitalising Quince and the 100's leader, having placed a full signed confession to everything in his pocket beforehand so the police could arrest them.
It was also revealed that Rose and Thorn are not the only two personalities in Rhosyn's mind. The other two shown have been Mom, a caring and maternal figure much like how Rose remembers their mother, and Wild Rose, an Irish-accented personality even more vicious and punitive than Thorn.
She encountered the Birds of Prey in the Hero Hunters storyline. As of Birds of Prey #98, she is employed at Dinah Lance's flower shop, Sherwood Florist II.
