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| Real Name: Miya Shimada | ||||||||
| Also Known As: No known Alias | ||||||||
| Place Of Birth: Santa Barbara | ||||||||
| First Appearance: All-Star Squadron Vol.1 #33 (1984) Bronze Age Villain | ||||||||
| Known Associates: Kung, Sumo the Samurai | ||||||||
| Group Affiliation: Samurai Squad, All-Star Squadron, Young All-Stars | ||||||||
| Base Of Operations: New York City | ||||||||
| Grudges: All-Star Squadron | ||||||||
| Creators: Roy Thomas and Rick Hoberg | ||||||||
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| Enhanced Abilities: Tsunami has super human strength, durability and endurance. | |||||||
| Swimming: Tsunami can swim at incredibly fast speeds. | |||||||
| Hydrokinesis: Tsunami’s powers are mental in nature and allow her to cause tidal waves to form in the ocean with the ability to mentally control them. It has also been seen that Tsunami can control the flowing path of even smaller masses of water. | |||||||
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| Miya Shimada was born a nisei, a Japanese-American born in the United States of native Japanese parents. She was thus a full American citizen and grew up in Santa Barbara, California. | ||||
| The racial prejudice against Japanese-Americans that Miya encountered during the start of World War II caused her to turn against America. She went to Japan to study for a few years and there she joined the cause of the Imperial Japanese government. It was the famed Japanese naval commander Admiral Yamamoto who named Miya Shimada "Tsunami" (the Japanese word for "tidal wave") after her mental power to create and control such waves. | ||||
| In early 1942, after the United States had entered the war against Japan, Tsunami was secretly brought to California by a Japanese submarine and she sought to convince Japanese-Americans to join Imperial Japan's cause. | ||||
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| Tsunami at DC Database | ||||
| Tsunami at Comic Vine | ||||