Many characters in the world of comic books are very clearly good and some very clearly bad. But sometimes, creators develop characters that live a much more ambiguous life, straddling the line between good and evil. Lashawn Baez, aka Peek-a-Boo, is one of those characters.

Created by Geoff Johns and Scott Kolins, Peek-a-Boo is young in the world of comics, introduced in The Flash #180 (January 2002). Baez was a graduate student at Central City Medical School who set aside her education to take care of her father. While trying to donate a kidney to her ailing father her latent teleportation abilities were activated. Using this power she can break her molecular structure down to teleport then reassemble somewhere else. When she is touched she immediately teleports a short distance away making her nearly impossible to kill. Unfortunately, because of the teleportation she cannot give her father a kidney.

Peek-a-Boo decides to become a superheroine, but not before using her abilities to find a match for her father. Her power was so new that it was still unstable and could be set off when she touches someone, causing an implosion where she disappeared. She accidently destroyed a lab and almost killed a surgeon who grabbed her arm while she was stealing a kidney. Peek-a-Boo fought the Flash and Cyborg who stop her by exhausting her when the Flash continues touching her, causing her to teleport and Cyborg creates a wall of white sound that traps her. They return the kidney then the police send her to Iron Heights.

Despite the fact that she wasn’t strictly engaging in criminal activity, the warden treats her harshly, including drugging her despite the Flash’s attempts to help her. When Gorilla Grodd attacks Iron Heights she is able to escape along with other Rogues. After she gets out, Peek-a-Boo goes to visit her father who is dying after his body rejects a donor kidney. Mercifully, she arrived in time to say goodbye to him. Knowing what she cares about, the Flash goes to see her at the hospital, sorry for her circumstances. She tells the Flash that she had wanted to be a hero like him until she was labeled a Rogue by the city. Despite feeling bitter toward the Flash and heroes, she saves his wife Linda Park after she’s injured while Peek-a-Boo and the Flash are fighting. She turned herself in to the police and has stayed out of the spotlight but there’s no telling if she’ll resurface as a hero or a villain.