WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Superman and the Authority #2, available now from DC Comics.

As Superman begins to show signs of aging, he decides to assemble a team with the ambitious goal of helping humanity find a way to make the world a better place. He enlists his enemy Manchester Black to help him recruit a powerful assortment of heroes and anti-heroes. In Superman and the Authority #2 (by Grant Morrison, Mikel Janín, Fico Ossio, Evan Cagle, Travel Foreman, Jordie Bellaire, Sebastian Cheng, Dave Stewart, Alex Sinclair and Steve Wands), the Man of Steel and Manchester check in on several of their prospective candidates including Natasha Irons, who they find busy fighting sentient iterations of the internet's most toxic archetypes.

While exploring the datacosmos, Natasha's uncle John Henry Irons, the original Steel, stumbles upon "hostile digital life-forms." John does his best to fend off the antagonistic computer monsters but still needs Natasha's help to fight them off. She happily dons her Steel armor and leaps into virtual battle.

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Bots attack Steel in the Datacosmos

Steel faces an army of bots, who attack her while spouting endless streams of misinformation. Despite their vast numbers, she makes short work of them and moves on to the numerous trolls who hurl insults her way. They too fall to her powerful armor. Next up are the edgelords who attempt to provoke her with menacing epithets. Upon facing these villains, Natasha realizes that they are the product of an artificial intelligence that is imitating human behavior that it learned from the internet.

Once she understands that the digital life-forms she's been fighting don't mean to be so antagonistic, she makes them a deal. She agrees to help them if they stop their internet-inspired "rampage." Her ability to perceive that the edgelords and trolls she was fighting were more than they seemed is emblematic of what makes her an ideal candidate for the Authority. If Superman wants to help humanity grow and change, he will need someone on his team capable of wrestling and reasoning with the most negative elements of the online zeitgeist. In many ways, Steel's true act of heroism was her decision to listen to her opponents even when she was capable of simply beating them to a pulp.

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Nat Steel reasons with a self aware AI

Manchester Black points out that Natasha's uncle taught her to idolize Superman, so it is no surprise that she embodies many of the Man of Steel's finest traits. She is an excellent combatant, but she is also willing to take the time to get to the real root of whatever problem she faces and seems to understand that not every challenge needs to be resolved with violence. Like Superman, her priority appears to be to help others, but she also maintains a healthy appreciation of a good adventure.

If her performance in the datacosmos is any indication, it is safe to assume that the new Steel will be a voice of reason among the many bombastic personalities that Superman and Black have recruited. Her levelheadedness alone would be enough to make her an ideal addition to the Authority, but her fearlessness and comfort with new technology might make her one of the most important members of the new team.

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