Looker (Emily "Lia" Briggs) is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character's first appearance was in 1985 in Batman & the Outsiders #25.
Looker appears in the Arrowverse series Black Lightning, portrayed by Sofia Vassilieva.
Looker made her first appearance in Batman & the Outsiders #25 (September 1985) and was created by Mike W. Barr and Jim Aparo.
Barr spoke in an open letter to fans on the creation of the character, stating:
Emily Briggs was a mild-mannered bank teller who lived with her husband in Gotham City before being kidnapped by the people of Abyssia, a lost underground civilization, and rescued by the Outsiders. Emily eventually learns that she is part Abyssian and gains superpowers after Halley's Comet passes by Earth, the process of which also makes her extremely physically attractive and self-confident.
After leaving Abyssia to its people, Emily returns to the United States. Emily goes on to join the Outsiders as Looker after rescuing them from the Masters of Disaster. She had a short affair with team leader Geo-Force, but they eventually decide to break up.
Some time later, Looker receives a call for help from Abyssia and discovers that a despot has conquered it. In the ensuing battle, Looker loses her powers. Shortly afterwards, Geo-Force disbands the Outsiders. Through unknown circumstances, Looker would regain her powers. She is targeted by the Mud Pack, a group of various villains using the Clayface name.
When Geo-Force's homeland Markovia is overrun by vampire forces, Looker and the Outsiders go to confront them. Roderick, the leader of the vampire, becomes smitten with Looker and transforms her into a vampire, intending to marry her. After the transformation into a vampire, Looker's existing powers were joined by some new abilities. Looker's metahuman abilities suppress some of the traditional vampiric weaknesses such as vulnerability to sunlight.
Lia at some point after this may have cut her ties with her vampire coven; she also became more independent in her choice of actions. She became one of the hosts of the television program The Scene alongside Vicki Vale, Tawny Young, and Linda Park. Looker later resurfaces to help Batman, having become a model and no longer possessing an immunity to sunlight. She now lives alone in a mansion in Gotham City filled with framed photos of herself taken during her previous modeling days.
Lia reappears later where it is revealed she has been publicly moonlighting in her modeling career while secretly killing members of a powerful vampire clan. The clan retaliates by hiring a vampire hunter to assassinate her. The assassin is unsuccessful as Lia was able to destroy him before leaving for Markovia to help Geo-Force fight off an invasion.
In September 2011, The New 52 rebooted DC's continuity. In this new timeline, Looker is introduced once again as an agent of Batman Incorporated alongside Halo and Metamorpho. After being caught in an explosion and presumed dead, the three use their status to do undercover jobs for Batman.
Looker possesses the full spectrum of psionic abilities: telepathy, telekinesis, psychometry, enhanced metabolism, mind-control, psionic energy blasts, levitation, the creation of force shields, remote vision, and enhanced healing. Due to her vampiric nature, Looker can turn into vapor, but only at night. She also has the vampiric ability to mentally command vermin such as bugs. Her psionic powers suppress the vampire weakness to sunlight; however, she still requires blood as other vampires do. Changes in The New 52 continuity have left her as susceptible to sunlight as other vampires.
In her earlier appearances, Looker is also a lucid dreamer.
Her original costume was manufactured from Abyssian fabric that is partially invisible.
An alternate universe version of Looker appears in National Comics: Looker. This version is a supermodel who became a vampire after a one-night stand.
An alternate reality incarnation of Looker named Model Citizen appears in ', voiced by Kari Wuhrer. She is a member of the Crime Syndicate who serves under Owlman.
Looker appears as a character summon in '.