Open Source: NewsFlash

NewsFlash, The Libel Lightning
Real Name: Tina Trivia
Powers: Speedster Physiology; Paper Mimicry & Manipulation; Enhanced Investigation and finally Information Detection
Equipment: None
First Appearance: Deviantart (2/14/2019)

Origin
(---"If anyone is the physical definition of Yellow Journalism, it would be Tina Trivia. A professional mud slinger who uses their talents in investigative journalism to not only expose rather personal information about her target, but also use that information to severely slander them with her own brand of blatant libel. And while Tina's headlines and stories sold papers back on her old world, she was later fired and blacklisted from her job in mainstream press due to multiple libel lawsuits filed towards her and her home company.

She became a freelance reporter after her firing, willing to be hired to find the latest scoop and continue to ruin lives with her falsehoods. Whether it'd be claiming that an innocent man is a violent misogynist, a woman being a STD ridden harlot, or even a class of christian boys as a gang of smug racists; no one with a modicum of media presence was safe.

Though things will change for Tina, whether she likes to or not.

One night as she was scoping out a celebrity's lakeside home, she ended up falling into a rainbow colored portal that formed beneath her. She tumbled through the tunnel as she fell unconscious. She woke up a few minutes later, into the world of Sargasso, The Ever-Changing City. And she ended up becoming a super fast, humanoid pile of newspapers, which after some practice, she started to really enjoy as now she can get the scoop on the various going ons in The City, and also add her own bit of "spice" that she adds to the stories, becoming something of a professional blackmail merchant that can be paid to find information on a target.

Plus her newfound speed and power over newspapers made getaways from both unhappy heroes and villains rather easy.

You can mostly find her hideout in the 30s district in an abandoned press room, with her typewriter creating stacks of dossiers on the different people in Sargasso."---)

I doubt that you would see this kind of character in The Flash TV series. Though maybe if she was in the DC universe, she would be a "journalist" that worked for the Daily Planet and was struck by the same kind of lightning that gave The Flash his powers. And if someone wanted to make commentary on the current state of mainstream journalism as a continuous deluge of slander against anything their corporate masters deems to be the enemy, here's the character for you.

This character was made using Hero Machine 3.

Newsflash is an open source character created specifically for use by anyone. Feel free to use it any way you wish. You must also give creator credit.

The image is copyright AFD Studios/heromachine.com and is posted here as a fair use reference.