The Silhouette real name Ursula Zandt was a member of the the Minutemen. Active with the team throughout the war, she was expulsed when her homosexuality was discovered and murdered shortly after. Originally from Linz, Austria, Ursula Zandt lost most of her family when her homeland was taken over by the Nazis. Only she and her younger sister Blanche survived and were captured by the Nazis and were forced into sexual slavery. Ursula and Blanche were kept in an orphanage where a masked Nazi henchman tortured and murdered young Jewish residents. The man eventually killed Blanche but Ursula and her lover Gretchen, the orphanage's pharmacist, escaped though not before shooting the murderer in rage and leaving him for dead. Fleeing to the US, Zandt began calling herself the Silhouette, and waged a one-woman war on child trafficking.

No recent wiki edits to this page. Most of her family was killed during riots in the town of Linz, and Ursula and her younger sister suffered at the hands of the national socialists. Ursula managed to escape, but her younger sister died while they were attempting to escape from Nazi occupied Europe. Ursula made her way to America where, motivated by the death or her parents and her sister, she became the gun-toting vigilante known as Silhouette. In , Ursula became the crime fighter, Silhouette.

These characters were originally based on the Mighty Crusaders [1] and then reworked in an unsolicited proposal to fit superhero properties DC had acquired from Charlton Comics in the early s. Since the publisher planned to integrate Charlton's superheroes into the main DC Universe and the script would have made many of them unusable for future stories, series writer Alan Moore eventually agreed to create original characters. Moore wished the main characters to present six "radically opposing ways" to perceive the world, and to give readers of the story the privilege of determining which one was most morally comprehensible. The protagonists of Watchmen were reused in the prequel series Before Watchmen , which also gave backstories to several minor characters from the original graphic novel, and introduced new characters.