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#80 - Sue Dibny
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She'll break your heart, don't you know.

Susan Dearbon Dibny, the longtime companion of Ralph Dibny, the Elongated Man, was often considered an honorary member of the Justice League from some of its earliest days. Always faithfully at her husbands side, Sue had a passion for travel and adventure, and her presence helped to ground the Justice League in its International and Satellite eras. However, when left alone in the Satellite during one routine mission, Sue witnessed the arrival of Doctor Light on the scene. She was captured and held down as Light proceeded to rape Sue. The Justice League soon arrived and, taken to the hospital by Ralph, the remaining members decided to hold court and make a decision as to the fate of Doctor Light. It could be argued that Sue inadvertently set in motion the chain of events that led to the foundation of the Society, in that respect. Sue was tenacious, however, and after her recovery, she and Ralph resumed their mission in superheroes with the Justice League Europe and International incarnations, as well as with the Superbuddies.

After years of partnership, Sue learned she was pregnant, and while planning a surprise party to tell Ralph, she was murdered by Jean Loring, the wife of the Atom, in a bid for that former spouse to win back the heart of her superheroic ex. This came on a Sunday, during a mission Ralph undertook in California with Firehawk. On his way home, Sue began to experience pressure on her brain caused by Jean Loring, who attempted to cause a seizure within Sue to scare both her and Ralph. Instead, inexperienced with the White Dwarf Belt belonging to her ex-husband, Jean accidentally crushed Sues mid-medulla. Shocked by the sudden death of her friend, Jean used a flamethrower weapon to burn Sues body and escape. By the time Ralph arrived, his wife was dead, her body singed to a crisp.

If you ask someone like Paul Lincoln, our historian du jour in the campaign, he'll tell you that the death of Sue Dibny precipitated the fall of the superhero community. Sue was beloved - not even Lois Lane was an honorary member of the JLA, but Sue was. She was a partner not just to Ralph Dibny, but the rest of the League. Her sweetness, her kindness, was unparalleled. And her death shook the world.

Especially as of late, Lush seems to be deeply, deeply affected by Sue's death. The two of them share a common thread, after all. They have a connection to one another through the mindwipes of Zatanna. By all rights, Lush should be as angry with Sue as she wishes, and yet Lush is the one who has visited Sue's body in the morgue of Z'onn Z'orr. It's almost terrifying, thinking of how Lush took Sue's hand in her own, of her own volition, feeling every ounce of pain and empathy for a woman whose inadvertent legacy IS Lush, in a lot of ways.

But for others, like Rosetta, the realization that Sue Dibny's true legacy IS this Crisis, is dawning slowly before them. Perhaps no character's life and death have impacted this campaign as significantly as Sue's has.

Of course, her rebirth at the hands of the Cult of Conner... well, maybe there's a chance that the life and death and life once more of Sue Dibny will be a story to be told soon enough.

Round 4 loses another draftee.