The woman who would become Red Ann was happily married to a man called Bart . Ann's friend Trent had also loved her but she chose Bart over him. Trent responded graciously by buying them tickets for their honeymoon. But Ann's husband was killed before her eyes by gangsters working for the master criminal known as the Voice. Ann swore to kill the Voice just as he had killed her husband. Turning her back on her friends and family, including Trent, she taught herself to shoot and learned the ways of the underworld, becoming a masked vigilante.