Pantha (Rosabelle Mendez) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

Publication history

Pantha first appeared in New Titans #73 (February 1991) and was created by Marv Wolfman and Tom Grummett.

Fictional character biography

Pantha is a cat-like member of the Teen Titans who was created by the Wildebeest Society. She has no knowledge of her origins and does not know whether she was a human or a panther before the Society mutated her. Pantha later adopts Baby Wildebeest and moves to Russia with Red Star to care for him. In Infinite Crisis, Superboy-Prime kills Pantha during his battle with the Teen Titans. In Blackest Night, Pantha returns as a Black Lantern before Dawn Granger kills her.

Powers and abilities

Pantha possesses retractable claws and superhuman physical abilities derived from her cat-like physiology, including enhanced strength, speed, agility, and senses.

Other versions

An alternate timeline variant of Pantha appears in Booster Gold (vol. 2). This version is a member of the Freedom Fighters and a student at New York University.

In other media