The origin of Super Villains: Magpie

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magpie_(character)

Magpie (Margaret Pye) is a fictional supervillainess created by John Byrne who first appeared in The Man of Steel #3 (November 1986).

The character has been adapted from the comics into various forms of media. Grey DeLisle has voiced her in the television series Beware the Batman; Magpie has been portrayed in live-action by Sarah Schenkkan in the fifth season of Gotham, and by Rachel Matthews in the first season of Batwoman.

Magpie is a jewel thief who specifically targets jewels named after birds and then replaces them with booby-trapped replicas.[1] Taking a job as a museum curator, Pye is slowly driven mad surrounded by the beautiful things that she so loves but can never own. She was notable in Post-Crisis continuity as the first villain who was defeated by Superman and Batman working together, Superman having visited Gotham to "apprehend" Batman before Batman's demonstration of his skills while tracking Magpie convinced Superman that Gotham needed someone like Batman to protect it.[2]

Magpie disappears for a length of time, until it is revealed that she is Poison Ivy's cellmate at Arkham Asylum.[3]

Shortly thereafter, she is murdered by the Tally Man II, along with Orca, the Ventriloquist and Scarface and the KGBeast, villains working for the Penguin. Ultimately, her death was part of a revenge scheme by the criminal known as the Great White Shark.[4]

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