Fictional Obituary: Priscilla Rich / Cheetah (Absolute Wonder Woman comic spoilers)

Fictional Obituary: Priscilla Rich / Cheetah (Absolute Wonder Woman comic spoilers) Priscilla Rich, the woman known as Cheetah, has died following the attack on Gateway City. She was killed by Giovanni Zatara after returning to human form. Both had been drawn into the violence directed by Veronica Cale. Much of Priscilla’s life remained hidden behind captivity and the creature she had become. Those who encountered her as Cheetah saw extraordinary speed, strength and a capacity for terrible violence. Far fewer were given the opportunity to know the woman carrying that power or the circumstances in which she was made to use it. Her involvement with Cale’s forces placed her against Diana of the Amazons. Diana nevertheless grieved her death. The fighting between them had not made Priscilla’s life disposable, and the loss of a woman who might still have been reached weighed on Diana after the confrontation ended. Priscilla’s final moments came after the transformation had fallen away. She was human again when she was killed, denied the chance to discover what might have followed her captivity. Her death also left another woman, Barbara Minerva, facing the legacy of Cheetah and the power behind it. The surviving record of Priscilla’s life contains too much of what was done to her and too little of what she might have chosen for herself. Her name deserves to remain attached to that life. Those remembering her should remember Priscilla Rich, including the woman whose future was taken from her, alongside the fearsome identity by which she became known.