Syonide

"You will know strength...be strength, and believe me, it's so much fun!"

- Syonide to Khalil

Syonide is a recurring villain in the first season of the 2018 CW series Black Lightning. She is based on the similalry called character from the DC Comics, who is a henchwoman of Tobias Whale as well.

Together with Joey Toledo, she is one of Tobias Whale's most trusted henchmen and can be seen in his presence constantly. Like Toledo, she is a bloodthirsty gangster, although she acts in a more elegant manner and does not seem as insane as Toledo.

She is portrayed as Charlbi Dean.

Past
At some point, Syonide joined the 100 Gang and became a highly trusted associate of gang leader Tobias Whale himself. It is possible that she underwent some treatment which makes her unnormaly strong and agile.

Black Lightning's return
Syonide watches TV in Tobias' headquarter when the news reveal that the superhero - and Whale's old nemesis - Black Lightning, has returned. While she is only slightly interested, Whale believes the man to be an impostor. Soon after, Whale gets news that his henchmen Lala has gotten into conflict with the impostor and he sends out Syonide and his second-in-command Joey Toledo to bring Lala to him. The two drive out into Freeland and stop Lala's car. They kidnap him with drawn guns and then deliver him to Whale's headquarter. Together with Joey, she then watches as Whale tortures Lala for his failure and forces him to deal with the problem. In order to find out who exactly the Black Lightning impostor is, Whale sends out Syonide and Lala to raise the protection money in town until somebody comes forward with information. While Syonide accepts the order without raising a question, Lala cannot keep his mouth shut and is reprimanded by Whale. When Lala keeps talking, claiming he has a plan to deal with Black Lightning, Syonide puts a muzzle in his mouth.

After Lala has been captured by the police, Syonide accompanies Whale to the precinct at night, where a corrupt policeman leads them into the holding cells. Syonide keeps in the background but watches in amusement when Whale kills Lala for his repeated failures.

After the community of Reverend Holt starts planning a protest march against the 100 gang, Whale and Syonide are called before Lady Eve. Eve orders Whale to deal with the protest without having Holt die as a martyr. While talking, Eve recognizes Syonide's twisted psychopathy and refers to her as "the girl with death in her eyes". At the night of the protest march, Syonide acts as Whale's driver and the two watch from inside their car while one of Whale's henchmen attacks the march. However, due to the actions of Black Lightning the man is stopped before he can hurt anybody. Witnessing this, Whale furiously orders Syonide to shoot Black Lightning. Syonide raises a sniper rifle but the bullet misses Black Lightning and hits Reverend Holt instead. Passing through the reverend, the bullet hits student Khalil Payne as well and without regarding the consequence of their actions, Syonide and Whale drive off.

Versus Lady Eve
When Joey Toledo arrives at Whale's hideout days later, having escaped Black Lightning, Syonide is disinterested in the matter and is on her phone instead. She briefly joins the conversation to reveal to Tobias that the protection of his sister Tori - a result of Lady Eve's threat - is in place and that all seems to be well.

After now having proof that Black Lightning is back, Tobias brings Syonide along to a visit at Peter Gambi's tailor store. Whale wants Gambi to tell him who Black Lightning is, but Gambi refuses. When Gambi slowly draws a gun to get Whale to leave, Syonide draws her own gun as well. However, Whale decides to leave without causing a disruption and Syonide accompanies him without a word. When the two return to Whale's hideout, they find a warning from Lady Eve. Soon after, Whale and Syonide pick up Khalil Payne, who is now paralyzed due to Syonide's gunshot. Having successfully manipulated Khalil into believing that Black Lightning is the reason for his condition, Whale wants to use Khalil as a weapon against Black Lightning. When Khalil depressedly tells him that he will not be much help because he cannot walk, Whale implies that they have a way to deal with this problem. Syonide joins the conversation and tells Khalil that he will know and be pure strenght, which she considers "fun". After Whale has come to the conclusion that the drug Green Light is causing too much problems and deaths in Freeland, he calls in Syonide and orders her to arrange a meeting with Lady Eve. However, the meeting never comes to pass and Whale decides to murder Eve instead.

After Lady Eve's demise has been organizes, Tobias - along with Tori, Syonide and other henchmen - heads to a concert. However, since Joey Toledo organized this, Black Lightning is aware of the concert and he confronts and attacks the surprised Tobias - striking him down with Lightning before Tobias can even act. While the henchmen throw themselves at Black Lightning, Tori and Syonide help Tobias up. While Tori drags Tobias away to safety, Synodie retuns and draws to pistols. She fires them at Black Lightning, who uses his powers to deflect the bullets. This buys enough time for Tobias to escape and Synonide escapes as well when another henchman shows up and attacks Black Lightning as well.

Trivia

 * Although she has appeared mutiple times since the first episode, Syonide's name is only revealed in episode seven.