Vicki Vale is a recurring antagonist in My Adventures with Superman. She is the current editor-in-chief of Gotham's newspaper The Gotham Gazette and Perry White's greatest rival.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Vicki knew Perry White in college. Vicki ran the number 1 student newspaper in the country while Perry ran the number 2 student newspaper in the country.
Years later, Vicki became a prize-winning reporter for her hard hitting exposes on Gotham’s criminal underworld and gained the admiration of young Lois Lane, who idolized her and wanted to become a reporter just like her.
Visiting Metropolis[]
Vicki arrived in Metropolis to work on a story, telling Perry that she might leave the Gotham Gazette to work for the Daily Planet if she gets a great story. Perry assigns Lois and Jimmy to work with her and later she reveals her assignment to them: she wants to expose Superman as a menace to society. Despite the pleas from the two interns for her to reconsider or to not go from a biased angle and take the positive comments from the citizens of Metropolis, Vicki eventually selected her sources and got what she wanted.
Her interview with Alex was the final “proof” she needed, as Alex recalled how Superman stopping Ivo’s rampage bankrupted AmazoTech, costing thousands of people their jobs and that a being with such powers cannot be trusted to never use them in malicious ways. Lois was disappointed that her hero was a horrible person but hesitated to defend Superman.
Vicki simply says she didn’t get to where she was by publishing the good news, sometimes you have to go “out for blood” to get the story. Vicki surprised Perry by leaving the Daily Planet, the Gotham Gazette later announced that her fearmongering story on Superman was going to get her a promotion to editor in chief of the paper. She had used and manipulated the Daily Planet as a means to just get a promotion.
Appearance[]
Vicki appears to be an attractive young woman of East Asian descent with long dark hair and red glasses. She wears a dark blue blazer over a yellow shirt and matching dress pants.
Personality[]
Vicki Vale is cocky, manipulative and distrustful of vigilantes.
Powers and Abilities[]
- Journalism: Vicki has won multiple awards in journalism.
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Trivia[]
- Vicki Vale is a character from the Batman universe first appearing in 1948, she is a reporter and often has a romantic interest in the Dark Knight or his alter ego Bruce Wayne. She was removed from the Batman comics in the 1960s after a mandate to streamline the cast but resurfaced in the late 1970s and gained more recognition and popularity due to Kim Basinger’s portrayal in the 1989 Tim Burton Batman film.
- This incarnation of Vicki is a bit more morally grey or even malicious compared to her previous counterparts, acting in a way as a twisted version of what Lois Lane is traditionally right down to her appearance. She is a personification of everything wrong with modern journalism: manipulative, biased by selectively picking sources and twisting statements to fit her narrative and often seeking out the worst in people. She does this and incites fearmongering rather than seeking the truth just to sell more news.
- Vicki is usually portrayed as being a caucasian woman with red or blonde hair in various media, this incarnation marks the first time, she has ever been of East Asian descent.
- This version of Vicky is seemingly inspired off of real life Asian American journalist, Connie Chung.
- Given her negative comments on vigilantes, it is possible she has already met Batman and their relationship is hostile.
- Vicki was the main antagonist in the 2016 game Batman: The Telltale Series.
