Who's This? A mute Titan.
The facts: Jericho was created by Marv Wolfman and George Perez (the latter doing most of the heavy lifting), and was introduced in Tales of the Teen Titans #42 (May 1984). The mutant son of Deathstroke, he joins the Titans as its most peacenik member, one of the hooks being that, as a mute character, he would never be given thought balloons and only express himself visually. They also considered making him gay, but Marv considered it a cliché for someone with his sensitive, artistic personality to BE gay, so decided against it. (Convergence later decided he was anyway, and DC Rebirth made him bisexual.) In the 80s, it was "cool" to hate certain characters and Jericho was definitely one of these. As such, he was much abused starting in the 90s. His father kills him in 1992, but his spirit hides inside Deathstroke and awakens 11 years later (our time). He gets a new body (one that isn't mute) and briefly rejoins the Titans in the 2000s. Events soon drive him insane and he's a psychotic villain until saved by Brightest Day (though he's an antagonist again in the New52). While Rebirth did restore him to his original specs, he soon starts acting villainously again. Many of his later appearances are in Deathstroke comics rather than Titans books.
How you could have heard of him: The Teen Titans TV show had a bisexual Jericho played by Chella Man as an honorary member. The Arrow show, however, used Jericho as a non-mute villain played by Liam Hall.
Example story: Teen Titans Spotlight #5 (December 1986) "Inside Threat!" by Marv Wolfman, Ross Andru and Larry Mahlstedt (with help from other inkers)
Catching Joseph Slade in the third part of a 4-issue story where he goes up against H.I.V.E., ol' Jericho shows how his power can be abused, even if it's for good.
He's just stealing fingerprints to get into Dayton Labs, but let's just say you always want to go to bed AFTER him, and get up BEFORE him. Or else what shenanigans do you think your body'll get up to while you're sleeping? He's also the almost perfect spy because he can jump into a security guard's body and walk into any facility (which he does next), but only almost because the person is still conscious and only being puppeteered. They can even speak. In this case, Jericho stuff his host's mouth with a handkerchief to prevent him from raising the alarm. Personally, I would just run into a wall and knock him out, then fully control him like he's Changeling on Sunday morning. Maybe he could hurt himself that way. Better to knock the host out in advance, like so:
With the voice of his new host, he sends the rest of the guards on a wild goose chase and he penetrates the facility further, while he uses Gar's fingerprints to get into a lab and steal Promethium... what, pellets? Ear plugs? Fuel cells, I guess. That's the thing. With Jericho, there are no thought balloons, and Wolfman doesn't cheat by putting thoughts in captions, so the art does all the work, and we have to catch up. I like that, it's very "modern". As he returns home, we find his mother hanging with the man who wanted the Promethium, and who claims it's the ransom for his daughter held in Qurac. Not that Adeline nor Jericho really believe him any more than the readers do (as some light signage reveals).
Arthur Lord (brother of Maxwell?) heads to Japan where his daughter is safe and sound, so yeah, it's all part of a scheme. Meanwhile, Jericho and his mom parachute into Qurac and silently infiltrate an enemy fortress. Surprint powers activate!
DON'T WAKE UP! That's the daughter's husband, by the way, and Adeline wants to know who he really is. She's got some spy gear to help her find out... But while we wait, Lord is testing a Promethium gun, and in Qurac, President Marlo, that old rascal discover their prisoner is missing. Under interrogation, the guy explains things to the heroes and off Jericho goes climbing the ramparts of the Japanese castle - they really should talk about his climbing skills in the Who's Who entry - and uncovers a H.I.V.E cell/cult/giant underground temple beneath the building. Lord is taking over after the Mistress's defeat, and when Jericho jumps him, he knows better than to look him in the eye. So it's just gonna be about outkicking one another:
Lord wins, they fall through a hole in the wall, and Lord walks out claiming Jericho is dead. So obviously, Jericho's taken him over, right?!H.I.V.E. leaves and Lord orders the island detonated and that's that. To be concluded.
Now, I've never been a big Jericho fan, and he would also hover near the bottom of any Ranked Titans List I might make, but as a superspy who jumps bodies like the demon in Fallen, I do like him. A less garish outfit and he might have made a better covert character than the villain role he was eventually pushed into. He needed more stories like this one, honestly.
Who's Next? An East Indian sorceress.
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