She is a long-standing rival of the superhero team, the Teen Titans, and occasional love interest of Roy Harper[1] and Thomas Blake.
As a young adult, after killing her master, Jade is informally adopted by Chinese freedom fighter Weng Chan, who teaches her all he knows about guerrilla fighting.
She acquires knowledge of poisons from Kruen Musenda, a famed African assassin known as the "Spitting Cobra", whom she is married to for the two years prior to his death.
[3] Returning to her mercenary ways after leaving Lian behind for Roy, Jade saves Deathstroke's life so he can help her in stealing nuclear weapons from Russia in an attempt to blackmail the world.
Cheshire volunteers to join Tartarus, a group created by Vandal Savage with the objective of destroying the Titans.
Eventually, Cheshire discovers that her biological father is a Senator named Robert Pullman, and she attempts to torture and kill him.
To that end, she defeats Lady Shiva, and devises a plan to use her to fake her own death and flee the country with her daughter.
On her unfortune, Catwoman and Gypsy show up and untie Shiva, while Huntress and Black Canary stop Jade from murdering the Senator, and take her into custody.
[6] Cheshire is blackmailed into joining by Mockingbird, who claims that there is a small bomb implanted in the back of Lian's head.
During the series, she sleeps with Catman, and becomes pregnant with a replacement child, thereby allowing her to leave the team and no longer needing to worry for Lian's safety.
Cheshire returns as a member of a small army of villains attempting to collect massive bounties on the heads of the Secret Six.
This sends her in to a sorrowful rage, while Catman tells his son to rest in peace after killing all of the kidnappers involved.
[17] Upon returning to the labyrinth, Deathstroke reveals to them that his preceding deeds are being used to create a healing machine called a "Methuselah Device" for his dying son, Jericho.
[18] After healing Jericho, Deathstroke claims the machine can also resurrect the dead, offering Cheshire and Roy the chance to revive Lian.
[20] It is in the Birds of Prey story arc Sensei and Student that Cheshire herself states that she had found out the real identity of her father, U.S.
[24] Cheshire appears in Aquaman and the Others, teaming up with KGBeast and a group of terrorists known as Mayhem to steal the launch codes to a Soviet-era satellite full of nuclear weapons to hold the Earth to ransom.
Chesire is seen leading a mission for the League of Assassins with the intent of carrying out a citywide catastrophe, but her plans are thwarted by Nightwing, Damian Wayne and Roy.
Cheshire reappeared in the Infinite Frontier event, now wearing a mask similar to her Young Justice counterpart.
To protect her, Jade took Lian to a local church in Gotham, referring to the then-sleeping girl as Lotus before departing back into the night.
Moreover, Jade is reinstated that her heritage as only Vietnamese, therefore she is no longer stated to be the daughter of Senator Pullman, or André Chaumont and Anna Nguyen.
[31] Throughout Catwoman #33-38, Jade is shown pursuing a redemption path alongside Clayface, and other villains such as Firefly and Knockout.
After this confrontation, Lian asks Jade to join her and Catwoman's cause to save Batman from the Orghams, a family who seeks to publicly execute him.
Oliver Queen eventually secretly cut a deal to work for Waller, which appeared to include her agreeing to release Roy and leave the rest of Team Arrow alone.
Roy and Lian broke into the secret prison where Cheshire was being held and freed her, returning to Arrow island.
Cheshire's criminal contacts informed her that Ivo was holed up at a secret lab in Death Valley and the entire team flew there to confront the mad scientist.
Roy sent Jade and Lian to chase after Ivo, while the rest of Team Arrow attempted to fight the Tomorrow Woman.
In addition, Cheshire is also an expert triple-jointed acrobat, and uses this skill to move quickly and unexpectedly, and to also augment her fighting abilities.
In Birds of Prey #63, Black Canary calls her "the second most deadly assassin in the world", only topped by Lady Shiva.