Riptide (Leanna Creel) is a superhero from Image Comics created by Rob Liefeld.

Riptide got her powers during an undersea accident that would have killed her if not for the mysterious Sea Witch.

Her father, Storybook Smith, had carefully written a story on the origins of her powers many years earlier.

During a Youngblood barbecue at the Marcus Langston/Sentinel household, Riptide found her father's missing book on Langston's shelves and took it.

In the following fight, Langston killed her in cold blood and tried to frame Knightsabre for the murder.