Eve Teschmacher is the name of multiple fictional characters appearing in
DC Comics
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–related media. The character was portrayed by
Valerie Perrine
Valerie Ritchie Perrine (born September 3, 1943) is an American actress. For her role as Honey Bruce in the 1974 film ''Lenny'', she won the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles, the Cannes Film Festival Award for Bes ...
in the
Christopher Reeve Superman films and by
Andrea Brooks
Andrea K. Brooks (born March 3, 1989) is a Canadian actress and model best known for portraying Faith Carter on the Hallmark series ''When Calls the Heart'' and Eve Teschmacher in The CW series ''Supergirl''.
Early life
Born in Brantford, Ont ...
in the
Arrowverse
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series ''
Supergirl
Supergirl is the name of several fictional superheroines appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The original, current, and most well known Supergirl is Kara Zor-El, the cousin of superhero Superman. The character made her fir ...
''.
Film
Created by
Richard Donner
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and
Mario Puzo
Mario Francis Puzo (; ; October 15, 1920 – July 2, 1999) was an American author, screenwriter, and journalist. He is known for his crime novels about the Italian-American Mafia and Sicilian Mafia, most notably '' The Godfather'' (1969), whi ...
, Eve Teschmacher first appears in ''
Superman'' and ''
Superman II
''Superman II'' is a 1980 superhero film directed by Richard Lester and written by Mario Puzo and David and Leslie Newman from a story by Puzo based on the DC Comics character Superman. It is the second installment in the ''Superman'' film se ...
'', portrayed by
Valerie Perrine
Valerie Ritchie Perrine (born September 3, 1943) is an American actress. For her role as Honey Bruce in the 1974 film ''Lenny'', she won the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles, the Cannes Film Festival Award for Bes ...
. Miss Teschmacher is
Lex Luthor
Alexander Joseph "Lex" Luthor () is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Lex Luthor originally appeared in ''Action Comics'' #23 (cover dated: April ...
's assistant and shares a relationship with her employer similar to that of a
gun moll
A gun moll or gangster moll or gangster's moll is the female companion of a male professional criminal. "Gun" was British slang for thief, derived from Yiddish ''ganef'', from the Hebrew ''gannāb'' ( גנב). "Moll" is also used as a euphemism for ...
. In the film series, Eve is Lex Luthor's closest assistant and apparently his love interest, although she is also attracted to her employer's arch-foe Superman. She frequently questions Luthor's evil schemes, and is clearly disloyal during his planned "Crime of The Century", rescuing Superman from certain death to thwart Luthor. However, this only happens after she makes Superman promise to save her mother in
Hackensack, New Jersey, to which Lex has sent a nuclear missile.
In ''Superman II'', she uses a hot-air balloon to rescue Lex from the State Penitentiary, along with his assistant Otis, whom Luthor leaves behind since he weighs down the balloon. According to the ''Superman II: Richard Donner Cut'', she talks of going on a vacation with Lex to somewhere romantic, but Lex insists on going north to Superman's Fortress of Solitude to learn the secret of Superman's abilities. Miss Teschmacher reluctantly goes along with his plan.
Eva is mentioned in the animated movie ''
Superman: Red Son''.
A character similar to Eve Teschmacher named Kitty Kowalski appears in ''
Superman Returns
''Superman Returns'' is a 2006 American superhero film directed by Bryan Singer and written by Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris from a story by Singer, Dougherty and Harris based on the DC Comics character Superman. It is the sixth and fina ...
'', portrayed by
Parker Posey
Parker Christian Posey (born November 8, 1968) is an American actress and musician. Posey is the recipient of a Golden Globe Award nomination, a Satellite Award nomination and two Independent Spirit Award nominations.
Posey made her film debu ...
.
Television
''Smallville''
A character loosely based on Eve Teschmacher appears in ''
Smallville'' as
Tess Mercer
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who is a composite of Eve,
Mercy Graves, and
Lena Luthor
Lena Luthor is a fictional comic book character in DC Comics. She is the sister of Superman's nemesis Lex Luthor. She was played by Cassidy Freeman in the television series ''Smallville'' and by Katie McGrath in the Arrowverse series ''Supergirl'' ...
. The name Tess Mercer is a reference to Teschmacher.
Arrowverse
Eve Teschmacher appears in ''
Supergirl
Supergirl is the name of several fictional superheroines appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The original, current, and most well known Supergirl is Kara Zor-El, the cousin of superhero Superman. The character made her fir ...
'' portrayed by
Andrea Brooks
Andrea K. Brooks (born March 3, 1989) is a Canadian actress and model best known for portraying Faith Carter on the Hallmark series ''When Calls the Heart'' and Eve Teschmacher in The CW series ''Supergirl''.
Early life
Born in Brantford, Ont ...
. She also makes a cameo in ''
The Flash
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'' season three episode "Dead or Alive". Eve Teschmacher is the personal assistant of
Jimmy Olsen
Jimmy Olsen is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Olsen is most often portrayed as a young photojournalist working for the ''Daily Planet''. He is close friends with Lois Lane and Clark Kent, and has ...
and
Lena Luthor
Lena Luthor is a fictional comic book character in DC Comics. She is the sister of Superman's nemesis Lex Luthor. She was played by Cassidy Freeman in the television series ''Smallville'' and by Katie McGrath in the Arrowverse series ''Supergirl'' ...
, previously
Cat Grant
Catherine Jane Grant is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.
The character was played by Tracy Scoggins in '' Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman'' and Calista Flockhart in the Arrowverse tel ...
. After
Kara Danvers
Kara Danvers, also known as Kara Zor-El on her homeworld, is a fictional character in the Arrowverse franchise, mainly the television series ''Supergirl''. Created by executive producers Greg Berlanti, Ali Adler and Andrew Kreisberg, the charac ...
was promoted, she recommended Eve to be her replacement as Cat's assistant. Cat found her inadequate, particularly compared to Kara, and often screamed at her. She was apparently reduced to tears on more than one occasion because of this. At one point, Eve forgot Cat's coffee, and as a punishment Cat made her call the dean of Yale and admonish him for having given her a diploma. Eve became James Olsen's assistant after Cat decided to take a leave of absence from CatCo. She was instantly infatuated with "Mike Matthews" (the fake identity of
Mon-El) on his first day at work, and willingly helped him with his files. She and Mon-El are later caught having sexual relations in a copy room by Kara. Later on, she let Mon-El use her credit card to buy a suit to wear to go to Lena Luthor's charity event. Some days later, while working one night, she witnessed
Vibe
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and
Gypsy
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duel, questioning herself in the background about why National City got weirder every day, as the two jumped into another universe. After Kara rejected Mon-El, he decided to move on and went on a date with Eve, but it went badly for her as he could only talk about Kara the whole time. Eve told him that he had to get over his ex if he ever wanted to date anyone else, to which he quickly responded that he and Kara never dated.
A few days later, When Kara bumped into Eve, she asked how things were going with "Mike" as she thought they were dating and Eve told her the truth of what had happened. Kara told Eve that she and "Mike" never dated, and Eve slyly replied that this was what he also said. Eve later acts as the research assistant of
Lena Luthor
Lena Luthor is a fictional comic book character in DC Comics. She is the sister of Superman's nemesis Lex Luthor. She was played by Cassidy Freeman in the television series ''Smallville'' and by Katie McGrath in the Arrowverse series ''Supergirl'' ...
, helping with her experiments at L-Corp and the
D.E.O. headquarters. As the series goes forwards, it is revealed that Eve's true alliance lies with Lex Luthor. Eve betrayed Lena by giving Lex a cure for his disease and it is revealed that Eve has been working for Lex Luthor all along as his spy and helper. In the season finale, it is revealed that Teschmacher is being controlled by a group called
Leviathan
Leviathan (; he, לִוְיָתָן, ) is a sea serpent noted in theology and mythology. It is referenced in several books of the Hebrew Bible, including Psalms, the Book of Job, the Book of Isaiah, the Book of Amos, and, according to some ...
who had her work with Lex. After Lex was defeated, an incognito Eve tries to leave National City only to be intercepted by their representative Margot who states that her job isn't done yet.
In season five, Eve returns to National City under Leviathan's orders and is blackbagged by Lena. Using a miniature device on Eve's head, Lena maps out Eve's brain. After
Andrea Rojas cuts her off, Lena moves on to Plan B where she reveals that she mapped out the loyalty parts of Eve's brain where she uploads her A.I. Hope into it enabling Hope to control Eve's body. After the attempt to use a weapon satellite, Hope in Eve's body takes the blame and is arrested by the FBI. Sometime after the ''
Crisis on Infinite Earths
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'' where Earth-Prime is formed, Eve is shown as an employee at Obsidian Tech. She is asked by Andrea to look into the bug patches in the Obsidian Lenses. In the episode "Deus Lex Machina," Eve was mentioned to have been coerced into working for Leviathan as their assassin after her father was killed. In a flashback, Lex found her on one of her assignments and persuaded her to work as her inside person while providing protection for her mother and planning to give the information of the person who killed her father. Some of the events she helped Lex with was the actions caused by Amy Sapphire and Richard Bates. Eve was then tricked into killing Jeremiah Danvers who Lex claimed was the one who killed her father. Following Supergirl stopping the Sun-Eater and Lex killing Margot to rescue those trapped in virtual reality, Lex revealed his lie about Jeremiah killing her father and has the footage of it as a way to keep her loyalty and to keep her from being at the other end of Supergirl's eye beams. When Eve states to Lex that he is worse than Leviathan, Lex replied that he is better. Lex threatens Eve’s mother if she tries to double cross him. After defeating Leviathan, Supergirl focuses her attention on Luthor. Supergirl rescues Eve’s mother from Lex’s assassins. Lex is arrested for his multiple crimes and put on trial. Eve testifies against him, telling the court about his plans for world domination. Acting as his own attorney, Lex discredits her testimony by citing their romantic history and claims her testimony is nothing more but slander from a scorned lover. The jury believes this argument and acquits Lex of all charges. Eve Teschmacher is not seen for the remainder of the series and her ultimate fate after double crossing Lex is unknown.
Comics
* Eve Teschmacher first appeared in ''
JLA: Earth-2''. She worked as Lex Luthor's
secretary
A secretary, administrative professional, administrative assistant, executive assistant, administrative officer, administrative support specialist, clerk, military assistant, management assistant, office secretary, or personal assistant is a ...
. At one point, she was unaware that her boss was replaced by a counterpart from another universe, who gives her some vacation time and $80,000 into her account.
[''JLA: Earth-2'' (January 2000). DC Comics.]
* Eve appears in ''Superman Returns: Prequel Comic'' #3, a tie-in comic to
the titular film.
* Eve Teschmacher is mentioned in ''Superman: Red Son'' #2 (
Earth-30
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).
* Eve Teschmacher appears in ''
Superman Family Adventures
''The Superman Family'' was an American comic book series published by DC Comics from 1974 to 1982 featuring Superman character and cast#Supporting characters, supporting characters in the ''Superman'' comics. The term "Superman Family" is often u ...
'' #5, 9 and 12.
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