10 Deadliest Comic Book Assassins (That You'd Totally Hire)

Sandra Wu-San is generally considered the finest martial artist in the DC universe. She and another on this list, David Cain, go hand in hand as the parents of Cassandra Cain, the one-time Batgirl and a formidable fighter herself.

Although occasionally an anti-hero, Lady Shiva is, at heart, an assassin. While Shiva never hesitates to kill for cash, she also has an odd, twisted sense of honour. She will face any challenger in hand-to-hand combat, killing those who waste her time but respecting those who manage to simply make contact with her. She has mastered almost a dozen martial arts and predicts opponent's moves through body language.

So great are her abilities that, despite her reputation, Bruce Wayne trusted her to restore his fighting spirit after Bane broke not only his back, but his confidence. Shiva was skilful enough to take Batman's shattered need for violence as a tool, and teach a man who was already one of the best fighters in the world even more.

Try as she might, however, she could not get Bruce to think like her and drop his no-killing rule. While she views this as a failure, it in no way lessens her prowess as DC's foremost female assassin.