Bette Sans Souci


 * For the episode of the same name, see Plastique.

Bette Sans Souci, nicknamed Plastique by Cisco Ramon, was a bomb specialist and metahuman.

Time in the Military
Bette was a sergeant for the US military as a bombs specialist (EOD, Explosive Ordnance Disposal). She was RTU'd from Afghanistan after a bomb went off and shrapnel got into her body. Dr. Hadley and Wade Eiling began performing experiments on her.

After the accident
Months after the particle accelerator accident, Bette stole a file from an office building and set off a bomb to escape, though she didn't mean any harm. Barry chased her down and Bette accidentally turned his suit into a bomb. Bette told Barry to take off his suit and his suit explodes soon after, though Barry got out in time. Bette later confronted Dr. Hadley, a Doctor who previously experimented on her with Wade Eiling. Wade intervened and attempted to capture her though she was merely wounded and saved by The Streak. At S.T.A.R. Labs, they realized that she had bomb fragments in her DNA, explaining why everything she touches turns into a bomb. When Caitlin checked up on her, she realized she was shot and noticed there was a tracker, where Wade shows up at S.T.A.R. Labs. The team managed to get Bette out of S.T.A.R. Labs as they monitored her powers outside the lab. While alone with Wells, she was told to go out and kill Wade. Bette had herself found by Wade where Wade knew she wasn't surrendering herself. Bette quickly attacked Wade and his men with bombs though The Streak arrived soon after. Bette was soon shot by Wade and tried to tell Barry that she was told by Wells to kill Wade but died before she could finish. The fragments in her DNA turned the bullet into a bomb but Barry managed to drop Bette's body into the river before she detonated.

Powers

 * Explosion touch: After being hit by the dark matter wave released by the particle accelerator incident the bomb fragment Bette had inside her body combined with her physiology on a cellular level and this gave her the metahuman ability to produce spontaneous combustion upon tactile contact.

Skills

 * Bombs specialist: Trained by the Explosive Ordnance Disposal, she was an expert at defusing bombs.

Weaknesses

 * Involuntary control: Unlike most metahumans, Bette could not control her super powers.
 * Involuntary combustion: After she was shot and killed by Wade Eiling, her body started to explode, when Barry carried her body to the ocean, when her body was far enough away from Central City, she exploded, the size of explosion appears to be that of a nuclear explosion.

Trivia

 * Ironically, or perhaps in a manner similar to Caitlin, who appears to have undergone a shift in personality with the death of Ronnie Raymond, Bette's surname means "carefree" in French, the opposite of her repressed onscreen demeanor.
 * She was the first friendly metahuman encountered by Barry.
 * Bette is mentioned to have one emergency contact - Cameron Scott.
 * In the DC comics, 'Cameron Scott' is one of the aliases of the superhero Captain Atom (whose secret identity is actually Nathaniel Adam), who is the ex-husband of Bette's comicbook counterpart.