Lady Trieu was a trillionaire industrialist and CEO of Trieu Industries. The daughter of famed costumed adventurer Ozymandias, she was conceived by Bian My with Veidt's semen to spite him and managed to escape from Antarctica on the night of the 11/2 incident. With her vast wealth and exceptional intelligence, she pushed the bounds of science and technology in the fields of aerospace and bioengineering. Unhappy with the state of a world that Veidt saved decades ago from World War 3 and plagued with a massive hubris that rivals even that of her own father, she attempted to harness and absorb the power of Doctor Manhattan, with the intent to "fix the world".
Biography[]
Early life and education[]
Lady Trieu was born in Vietnam in 1986 and is the biological daughter of Adrian Veidt after her mother Bian My, in a show of defiance against Veidt, inseminated herself with one of Veidt's own samples and escaped Karnak in the middle of the night without his knowledge. Trieu grew up highly intelligent due to Veidt's genetics, academically exceeding beyond those her own age. Recognizing Trieu's intellectual potential, her mother molded into “the world’s smartest woman" through controversial methods such as isolation, tough love, and enhanced transcendental meditation.
She graduated from the Myanmar Institute of Technology in 2001 when she was only fifteen years old with PhDs in astrophysics, nuclear fission, bioengineering, and nanochemistry. She would later purchase the university at the age of nineteen.[1][2]
Trieu Industries[]
Trieu established Trieu Industries, an international conglomerate that by 2010 would revolutionize the fields of medicine, energy, and nanotechnology. After becoming a trillionaire from the success of the pharmaceutical drug Nostalgia in 2007, Lady Trieu turned her attention to space exploration. Since 2010, Trieu has launched 50 Voyager-class probes into the galaxy, and in 2015, she began licensing her patented micro-fusion propulsion technology to the SDI alliance, China, and the Egyptian Union.[2]
The trillion-dollar company, would serve as a front to construct her quantum centrifuge in Tulsa as the "Millennium Clock".
Meeting Adrian Veidt[]
In 2008, Trieu traveled to Karnak, Antarctica to meet her biological father Adrian Veidt. Veidt isn't interested until she reveals that she knows of his manufactured squid attack on New York City in 1985. Veidt denies this, but Trieu proclaims that his actions were genius and points out that no one gives him any credit for it. She thanks Veidt for saving the world from nuclear holocaust, and he invites her in for tea.
She points out that while the attack had stopped humanity from destroying itself, it only delayed the inevitable. Trieu wants Veidt's financial help to build a quantum centrifuge to extract the powers of Doctor Manhattan so she can enact a more permanent solution to world peace. Trieu reveals she knows Manhattan is on Europa and has launched a probe to arrive there in 2013 to visually confirm this. Veidt refuses to help noting that he gave up his parents' wealth to demonstrate he could achieve anything starting from nothing, and he offers Trieu the same. Veidt insists he will never call her "daughter".[3]
Acquiring Veidt Enterprises[]
In 2012 Trieu bought Adrian Veidt's company, Veidt Enterprises. When members of Veidt Enterprises' board of directors visited Antarctica to seek Veidt’s blessing on the sale, they found Karnak to be unoccupied.
By 2017, Trieu Industries officially acquired the estate of Veidt Enterprises.
Discovering Dr. Manhattan's and Ozymandias' whereabouts[]
Trieu took a deep interest in Doctor Manhattan and had Manhattan Booths placed in major cities around the world. She successfully replicated one of Manhattan’s greatest creations, mass-producing synthetic lithium that reintroduced the electric car, and she built the “Eye over Mars” that displays video images of Manhattan building and collapsing ornate sandcastles on the surface of the red planet. She even funded a commission to prove that "The Big Blue Cancer Panic" perpetrated by the Nova Express in 1985 was a hoax.[2]
At some point Trieu discovered that Manhattan wasn't on Mars and that it's just a decoy going through the motions in a predetermined pattern. She believes that he's on Europa, and she designed and built a satellite to scan for Manhattan's unique frequency of radiation which would reach Europa in five years.[3]
In 2013 the satellite probe she sent out five years earlier finally reaches Europa. She had expected to find Doctor Manhattan on Europa, but discovered a message her father, Adrian Veidt, crying out for help in a message saying: SAVE ME DAUGHTER. In 2016, she designed and launched the first micro-fusion spacecraft which she sent to Europa to return Veidt safely back to Earth by 2018.
Through Will Reeves, she learned of Manhattan's identity on earth as Cal Abar, husband of Angela Abar. She also learned the Seventh Kavalry had discovered this as well and planned to capture Manhattan themselves, and Will asks for her help to wipe the Kavalry and Cyclops out.
The New Millennium[]
In 2019, when Treiu's plan of returning her father back to Earth was to be completed, she had also created a clone of her mother Bian to assist her.
As Trieu's quantum centrifuge activates following the Seventh Kavalry's capture of Doctor Manhattan, Trieu teleports the Kavalry, Manhattan, Angela Abar, Laurie Blake, and Wade Tillman to downtown Tulsa with Bian and Adrian Veidt in attendance. She obliterates Cyclops and the Kavalry and triggers the centrifuge, but not before Manhattan teleports Veidt, Laurie, and Wade to Karnak, where they use Veidt's squid-rain-making device to send frozen squid projectiles in the immediate area. Though Trieu is able to kill Manhattan before this, the squids destroy the centrifuge and kill Trieu before the transfer of power can be completed.[3]
Powers and abilities[]
- Genius Level Intelligence: Lady Trieu is incredibly intelligent and thanks to her scientific knowledge and genius she's able to build an empire like Ozymandias
- Master Manipulator: Lady Trieu can, using the influence of her intelligence, manipulated people like Angela Abar or Will Reeves.
- Master Scientist: Lady Trieu, like Adrian Veidt, possesses an immense knowledge of physics, engineering, genetics, quantum mechanics, nanotechnology, and biology. She created the Millennium Clock to destroy Seventh Kavalry, kill Doctor Manhattan, and take his powers for herself. Her vast scientific intellect helped Veidt escape Europa to Earth and cure Angela Abar after she took her grandfather's Nostalgia. She's used her quantum mechanical knowledge of Dr. Manhattan weakness to kill him and take his powers.
- Tactical and Strategic Analysis: Lady Trieu is a strategic genius on the level of Ozymandias. She was able to analyze the patterns of Doctor Manhattan's decoy on Mars to determine it was a fake, gather the resources necessary to build the Millennium Clock, and both predicted and manipulated the master plan of Cyclops and Seventh Kavalry to capture, kill, and steal Manhattan's powers.
Physical appearance[]
Dressed in a silk costume and white gloves still low growth Vietnamese with short hair, but in the flashback scene she has long hair pinned up in a bun.
Personality[]
Lady Trieu, just like her father Adrian Veidt, is very intelligent, but she shows narcissism and like her father desired to cleanse the world of evil and ensure everlasting peace. To her enemies, Trieu is a very cynical, ruthless, sinister, cruel and power-hungry woman, but if someone hurts or kidnaps a loved one, she becomes very sadistic and vengeful. For instance, Trieu became very aggressive and angry at Doctor Manhattan after he teleported Veidt to Karnak and began to reveal manifestations of rage, ordering him to reveal where her father is.
Appearances[]
Season 1[]
- "If You Don't Like My Story, Write Your Own"
- "This Extraordinary Being"
- "An Almost Religious Awe"
- "See How They Fly"
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Lady Trieu just like Ozymandias in Alan Moore's Watchmen graphic novel turns out to be the real villain of the series in the last episode, she still shows good intentions and tries to help other people like Angela Abar after she ingested a large dosage of Nostalgia that belonged to her grandfather.
- Her name is a reference to a real-world female warrior of the same name who lived in the 3rd century and managed, for a time, to resist the Chinese state of Eastern Wu during its occupation of Vietnam.
- In a flashback sequence, Trieu's mother quotes one of the real Lady Trieu's famous sayings: "I want to ride the strong winds, crush the angry waves, slay the killer whales in the Eastern sea, chase away the Wu army, reclaim the land, remove the yoke of slavery. I will not bend my back to be a slave."
- Trieu, like Ozymandias, is an anti-villain - a well-intentioned extremist. Like her father, her master plan involves committing a villainous act (in her case, the murder of Doctor Manhattan) for the greater good (destroying the world's nuclear weapons), although she is also likely motivated by revolutionism and revenge against Manhattan for his role in the colonization of Vietnam.
- In a flashback sequence, Trieu's mother quotes one of the real Lady Trieu's famous sayings: "I want to ride the strong winds, crush the angry waves, slay the killer whales in the Eastern sea, chase away the Wu army, reclaim the land, remove the yoke of slavery. I will not bend my back to be a slave."
- To prepare for the part, Hong Chau reviewed the behaviors of real-life tech billionaires like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Richard Branson, as well as real world Japanese scientists on the leading edge of cloning and genetics research.