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Whisper A'Daire is a fictional villain in DC Comics, first appearing in Detective Comics #743.

Formerly an agent for the late Ra's al Ghul, Ra's gave Whisper a serum that granted her immortality and the ability to shapeshift. Partnered with Kyle Abbot, officially her bodyguard, she in fact is a snake lady, and Kyle himself a wolf man. When Batman tried to free her from the villainous immortal mastermind, Whisper refused his help, disappearing for a while.

The same serum allows her to create a small group of men who also have the ability to shapeshift into different animals. Usually the redhead seductress uses her mind control to force them to obey her orders, though a stronger mind can break free from her clinging to his free will.

Whisper has since resurfaced in 52 week 11, with the formal role of a manager for HSC International Banking, a company is connected with Intergang, who is in turn flooding Gotham with strange futuristic weaponry. Confronted by the Question and ex-police officer Renee Montoya, she is able to flee without giving away other details on her current mission. In Kahndaq, Whisper is revealed to be the leader of the Cult of Cain. Using her powers, Whisper brainwashes kidnapped children into being Intergang operatives. Whisper is contfronted by Montoya, the Question, Black Adam and Isis and flees. Template:Spoiler She resurfaces several week later in Gotham, helping Bruno "Ugly" Mannheim into fathoming the secrets of the "Bible of Crime". Discovering the identity of "the twice named daughter of Kaine", in fact Kate Kane, the Batwoman, she officiates with Bruno a rite meant to drown Gotham into a fire pit, sacrificing Kate while activating alien devices all over Gotham. Once again her bodyguard betrays her, siding with Nightwing and Renee Montoya, so the former one is sent to interrupt the rite. In the ensuring fight Whisper is badly burnt. Template:Endspoiler

A feminine and attractive redhead, Whisper is an immortal shapeshifter, from having utilized Ra's serum on a regular basis. Appearing only in her twenties, she is at least eighty years old and keeps her appearance youthful by shedding her skin like a snake. Her shapeshifting abilities allow her to transform between her basic human form and a snake-like form, scaly and with slit-like irises and a forked tongue.

After Ra's death, is unknown how and where Whisper obtains the serum.

She has some form of mind control or mesmerization that apparently relies on eye contact, as Whisper was unable to control the faceless Question, but succeeded in forcing Renee to give her name. Whisper has always been described as a seductress, so, established a first contact with the subject, she can rely on her charms and her voice to keep him, or her, under her thrall.

Before the events told in 52, she had exhibited other snake abilities, like spitting acid poison in the face of her foes, or simply her servants who displeased her (like the very same Abbot), killing or disabling them. The full extension of her current powers is still unknown, because she prefers to rely on her deceptive defenceless appearance and her mind control abilities to avoid any fight, having always around her a small number of expendable and replaceable henchmen, or fleeing shortly before being discovered.

• Whisper A'Daire on The Unofficial Guide to the DC Universe