Gwen Raiden

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Gwen Raiden was a superpowered human thief and an ally of Angel Investigations, born with the power to manipulate electricity.

In 1985, a young Gwen Raiden was left at a boarding school in Gills Rock, Wisconsin by her anxious parents. Bundled up in a thick red winter coat and mittens, she sits down alone by a tree to eat her lunch while the other children play. She does something that every child does, that a parent or teacher would look upon as nothing more than an understandable necessity were she not special: She takes off one thick mitten to eat. A boy from the yard comes over in the midst of playing with his toy car, asking this strange bundled up girl if she is a ‘freak’ and says she doesn’t look like one. He offers her his toy car, and like any other grateful child would have done, Gwen reaches for it with her ungloved hand. The electricity travels from her to the boy in the half-second it takes to blink, and the boy was dead.

In 2002, Gwen strolls into a restaurant in Los Angeles wearing full-on superpower skank-wear (a leather red and black ensemble with a midriff bearing top) to meet her client. She has utilized her powers to become a very wealthy and successful cat burglar. She is hired to steal an expensive and mystical artifact called the Axis of Pythia, worth $33 million. During the job, she encounters Angel, the vampire with the soul, and his companions Charles Gunn and Winifred Burkle, in their own attempt to retrieve the Axis to locate and save Cordelia Chase. She kills Gunn in her attempt to escape and is momentarily haunted by the memory of the boy in Wisconsin, and revives the dead Gunn by jumpstarting his heart. Gwen and Angel fight, and to her surprise her powers of electricity little to no harmful effect on the vampire.

In fact, the shock makes his dead heart start beating for a few seconds (and in a moment of this passion, the two make out like a couple of rabid bunnies). The man who hired Gwen to steal the Axis interrupts the intense moment, however, and tries to kill Gwen with poison gas in revenge for electrically frying his watch. She is saved by Angel, who keeps her from hurting the man, and in return, Gwen allows him to borrow the artifact (which he later returns to her) to find his love.

Not long after, Gwen is hired by the mysterious Ashet to obtain protective amulets to ward of The Beast, a powerful demon. Out of fear for the danger that is coming and her desire to save her own ass, Gwen turns down the job just in time for her to watch Ashet get his skull ripped open by The Beast. She turns to Angel Investigations and helps them in their fight against the beast, but leaves town when he kicks their asses and blots out the sun.

When the sun is restored and The Beast is defeated, Gwen returns and asks Charles Gunn for help on a mission to rescue “Lisa,” a supposedly kidnapped girl. They break into a private party owned by a powerful company owner for the mission. However, Gwen reveals that she was using Gunn to pass through the metal detectors and steal L.I.S.A (Localised Ionic Sensory Activator), a prototype device that would render Gwen’s electronic body normal while worn. She appeals to Gunn’s need to do something useful and fun, and the two succeed. In her last appearance on the show, a now-touchable Gwen Raiden sleeps with Gunn in her first physical act of intimacy.