<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=104036.msg5709392#msg5709392">Quote from: NotoriusBEN on 11-01-2012, 08:14:54</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">So when you say incarnations... its just the next person to don the visage of that hero? Four women couldnt be original so they were all Lady Liberty after their predecessor died?<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Yup, that's how it works!  The tradition of carrying on a costume and a name started in the 15th century with Le Homme-Corbeau of France, an identity taken by Gilles de Rais, after witnessing how inspiring the legend of Joan of Arc became.  Gilles fought a tireless battle against corruption, but was sentanced to death for the murder of children.  Unable to sustain the damage the loss of both figures would do to the French state, Jean de Dunois, the Bastard of Orleans, took up the mantle of Homme-Corbeau.  Since that time, it has been fashionable for particularly famous heroes to enjoy a sort of immortality by having new adventurers take their name and costume, if they can live up to the legend.<br/><br/>Lady Liberty's first incarnation was Betsy Ross, a young widowed seamstress who quietly sabotaged the efforts of the British to put down the revolution.  Seventy years later, a fiery abolitionist named Lydia M. Child again donned the mask of Lady Liberty to help operate the underground railroad, and lead slaves to freedom.  At some point after the civil war, Lydia Child abandoned the identity of Lady Liberty, and it was taken up by an unknown feminist, who fought crime in the name of women's suffrage until the outbreak of World War I.  The third Lady Liberty is popularly supposed to have been Susan B. Anthony, but her identity was never revealed.  The fourth Lady Liberty was an African American, and donned the costume in the 1920s to fight mostly against the Klu Klux Klan.<br/><br/>During the second World War, she was killed by Demagog when he went over to the side of Ragnarok during the Normandy invasion, becoming the first Lady Liberty to be killed in the line of duty.  The fifth Lady Liberty is an atomic powered mixed race champion of the American Way, who fights to preserve all people from the bondage of communism.  She sits on the North American council of WAHMO, and is assigned as guardian over the Midwestern United States and Canada.  She spends most of her time patrolling the North Pole, making sure that nobody attempts to militarize the region, and that Santa's Workshop remains hidden and unmolested.<br/><br/><br/>Some other heroes and villains that have had multiple incarnations include:  Ameterasu (disputed), Captain Prussia, Demagog, General Lee, La Femme Nikita, Ragnarok (disputed), Shiva, and Uncle Sam