A
comic book character created by
Erik Larsen. Her real name is
Sharona Jackson, and she first appeared in
Savage Dragon #4. Rapture is a tall
black woman with very long, curly brown hair. Her hair has a white
streak right down the middle. Like nearly all of Larsen's female characters, she is extraordinarily
busty and likes to wear
thongs.
Rapture grew up
poor and turned to
prostitution to support herself after her father died and her mother disappeared. After escaping from her murderous
pimp, she was
abducted by a
mad scientist named
Dr. Nirvana, who was
experimenting on people looking for a way to give himself
superpowers. When he experimented on Rapture, however, an
explosion destroyed his lab and gave her the ability to generate
electricity and shoot
lightning bolts. She ended up
electrocuting her pimp when he tried to kill her, and soon decided to become a
superhero. She also joined the
Chicago Police Department for a while.
She dated
the Dragon for quite a while and gave
birth to his son, but the big dork was too
chicken to marry her. Then she got
murdered by an
evil dictator from another
universe -- a
shocking act even in a comic book like "Dragon", where
death is
common and almost
casual. Honestly, I suspect Rapture was more
popular with the readers than Larsen had suspected. Rapture has made
reappearances in the past, but they've usually been
unmasked as
imposters,
shapeshifters,
evil alternate-universe duplicates,
illusions,
evil clones, etc.