Sara Pezzini

Sara Pezzini
Sara Pezzini, by Michael Turner & Marc Silvestri (artists)
Publication information
Publisher	Image Comics/Top Cow
First appearance	Cyblade/Shi: The Battle for Independents (1995)
Created by	Marc Silvestri David Wohl Brian Haberlin Michael Turner
In-story information
Team affiliations	NYPD
Notable aliases	Pez, Witchblade
Abilities	The Witchblade can act like armor, produce energy blasts, form itself into weapons, and extra appendages Healing factor Flight Enhanced strength

The Witchblade can act like armor, produce energy blasts, form itself into weapons, and extra appendages

Sara Pezzini is a fictional character, a comic book superheroine starring in the Witchblade series. Sara also appeared in a Turner Network Television live-action feature film and TV series of the same name and she was portrayed by Yancy Butler. She is an NYPD homicide detective whose life changed when she came into contact with a powerful ancient weapon known as the Witchblade, which bestows its wielder with supernatural powers.

Sara Pezzini was born November 18, 1970, and is of Italian descent. Her major enemies are Kenneth Irons and Ian Nottingham.

As one of the current hosts of the Witchblade, Sara has been granted many unique abilities, including the power and ability to heal herself, to create (often very revealing) armor over her skin (as the Witchblade tends to rip away all of her clothes), to shoot energy blasts, to extend razor sharp tendrils and even winged flight. She has yet to explore the full limits of the Witchblade, and thus does not know what other mystical magical abilities it possesses. When not overly active, the Witchblade can assume the form of a bracelet, allowing her to wear the entity without drawing attention. The Witchblade is a male entity of both light and dark which represents both order and chaos. It is the offspring of the Angelus and the Darkness; as such, Sara does not have complete control over its actions and reactions.

Sara first appeared in Cyblade/Shi #1: The Battle For Independents in 1995. She had wanted nothing more in her life than to be a good cop. As a homicide detective in New York City, life was challenging enough, but for Sara, those were simpler times. While on an undercover case at the Rialto Theater, both she and her partner, Michael Yee (named Danny Woo in the TV series), were mortally wounded. At this same theater was a man named Kenneth Irons, who had brought a gauntlet known as the Witchblade. Irons was in search of the secrets to unlocking his full power and ability.