History Characters / WonderWomanRoguesGalleryMToZ

** The Sovereign is unimpressed by Superman, Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman, Martian Manhunter and Black Canary but he fears and admires Wonder Woman for her particular brand of restrain if you can kill if you must violence.

** The Sovereign is unimpressed by Superman and Aquaman, but he fears and admires Wonder Woman for her particular brand of restrain if you can kill if you must violence.

* DivineRightOfKings: Sovereign has supreme confidence in his moral justification and guarateed due to the belief God has chosen him to rule The United States.

* HidingBehindReligion: The Sovereign rejects those parts of Chritianity about God himself being the only true king, or God's being told to abandon violence after Jesus surrendered himself to the Romans, loving your neighbor as yourself, telling the truth, confession your sins and treating others how you would wish to be treated. Still, he's a very devout man ensuring the triumph of proper moral values you see.
* MakeAnExampleOfThem: When Queen Nubia opens the borders of Themyscira The Sovereign responds by trying to deport all amazons from the United States of America, including those that aren't even from Themyscira, by any means necessary. The one exception Themyscira's ambassador Diana, whom Sovereign wants to see broken down and reshaped into his ideal woman, everything the amazons are not.
* NemesisWeapon: He has a ''lasso of lies" that is a counterpart to the Lasso of Truth. Able to convince whose ever bound by it to believe whatever he lie he tells them. [[spoiler: Even able to get them to commit suicide.]]

* VillainRespect: He had enough sense to approach Grail, the daughter of Darkseid, personally to request help rather than send a lackey in his place.

* HandBlast: Pre-Crisis, Sumo learned how to WalkingWasteland tendencies by focusing the radiation into his hands and firing at foes.

* TheHeavy: The Sovereign is taking advantage of the tragedies orchestrated by a villain with international ambitions to push his smaller scale national ambitions. The more ambitious villain is hidden not just from the general public but from the reader entirely, so Sovereign gets more time on panel. He ends up taking more time to defeat even after the wider scope villain is revealed.
* TheFundamentalist: He wants everyone in The United States to adhere to his particular interpretation of the Christian Bible, including things that aren't actually in the Bible but Sovereign thinks should be. The amazons, being reborn in bodies granted to them by Hellenistic deities, are among those he does not want in his country at all.

* TheDreaded: Granted, the "Golden Age" Wonder Woman [[{{Chickification}} was not written to be as fierce as she once had been]] when Kanigher decided to take a break from "Earth One" [[InvokedTrope in an attempt to appease]] "[[FanCommunityNickname Golden Agers]]" readers who had become disatisfied with his handling of the Silver Age Wonder Woman, but all the same it takes a lot of power and a quite the reputation to intimdate a woman capable of lifting stone slabs weighing several tons.

* MakeAnExampleOfThem: When Queen Nubia opens the borders of Themyscira The Sovereign responds by trying to eject all amazons from the United States of America, including those that aren't even from Themyscira, by any means necessary. The one exception Themyscira's ambassador Diana, whom Sovereign wants to see broken down and reshaped into his ideal woman, everything the amazons are not.

* AsTheGoodBookSays: Like most kings, The Sovereign justifies his rule as divine right from a god, {{God}} in this case. And he quotes The Bible when justifying his more cruel and callous actions. Sovereign of course has to cherry pick his quotes and occasionally add his own thoughts to get around The Bible actually teaching that kings are stupid thing people never should have asked God for.

* TheHeavy: The Sovereign is taking advantage of the tragedies orchestrated by a villain with international ambitions to push his smaller scale national ambitions. The more ambitious villain is hidden not just from the general public but from the reader entirely, so Sovereign gets more time on panel.

* ShadowDictator: The true ruler of the United States, whose line pre-dates the American Revolution going off his narration. It's been stated every U.S. President showed fealty to his family.

* NemesisWeapon: He has a ''lasso of lies" that is a counterpart to the Lasso of Truth. Able to convince whose ever bound by it to believe whatever he lie he tells them. [[spoiler: Even able to get them to commit suicide.]]

* TheFundalmentalist: He wants everyone in The United States to adhere to his particular interpretation of the Christian Bible, including things that aren't actually in the Bible but Sovereign thinks should be. The amazons, being reborn in bodies granted to them by Hellenistic deities, are among those he does not want in his country at all.

!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth Vol 5]] #58. (1944)

Characters/WonderGirl ([[Characters/WonderGirlDonnaTroy Donna Troy]] | [[Characters/WonderGirlCassieSandsmark Cassie Sandsmark]]) | [[Characters/WonderWomanAmazons Amazons]]\\

[[Characters/WonderWomanRoguesGalleryAToL A-L]] ([[Characters/WonderWomanCheetah Cheetah]]) | '''M-Z''' | [[Characters/WonderWomanGods Gods]] ([[Characters/WonderWomanAres Ares]])-]]]]]

->''"Pain can bring out your most animalistic qualities. Athena thought she cursed me, but she blessed me with the power I needed to survive this world and this prison."''

* AcidAttack: The gorgon's serpentine locks produce their own corrosive toxin which debilitates and sears those affected by it.
* TheAgeless: Being of divine blood, she and her sisters do not age.
* BodySurf: In DC Rebirth her shade escapes Hades, makes it past Doom's Door and begins possessing amazons on Themyscira as a ghost.
* CompellingVoice: Has been blessed by Circe with a vocal allure that compels others to turn towards her gaze when calling to them.
* {{Curse}}: Her powers are a result of a curse placed on her by Athena.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: It takes several defeats over the course of "Rebirth" but when Nubia hits her with a new weapon that proves capable of removing the Gorgon curse Medusa has a change of heart and decides to join the amazons of Themyscira.
* GorgeousGorgon: Is the leader of the Gorgons, is smoking hot, and likes to flaunt her body. Granted, she's less hot in some continuities than others.
* LosingYourHead: Her head has survived multiple decapitations.
* {{Medusa}}: The original.
* RedemptionDemotion: Medusa's HeelFaceTurn in Rebirth causes her to lose her gorgon body and powers. She does get to keep her semi immortality due to being made an official amazon of Themyscira, however.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Thrice. Despite her origins in Greek mythology, Medusa first appeared in an issue of ''Superman's Girlfriend, Lois Lane'' before going to become a regular opponent of Wonder Woman. On Prime Earth, she has primarily been a foe of ComicBook/{{Batwoman}}. Come DC Rebirth and she becomes more associated with Nubia than Diana.
* SiblingsInCrime: Is frequently assisted by her sisters Euryale and Stheno.
* SuperpowerLottery: A loser of it, as she does not have the same immortality of her sisters, due to being a cursed Gorgon rather than one by birth. However, DC's Medusa enjoys much greater longevity than her mythological counterpart.
* SuperStrength: Can go toe-to-toe with Wonder Woman.
* SuperToughness: Can go toe-to-toe with Wonder Woman.
* TakenForGranite: Can turn people to stone with her gaze.
* TruerToTheText: She has wings, an aspect that frequently appears in archaic Greek portrayal of gorgons, but that isn't present in later depictions, especially in contemporary pop culture.
* UngratefulBastard: When her shade gets past Doom's Door and she becomes a {{body surf}}ing ghost, Nubia asks her to stop on the condition the Hippolyta had preserved Medusa's head and they can use it to restore Medusa's body. While this does stop Medusa's ghost antics, it doesn't stop her attacks on the amazons, leading to a thrashing from Nubia. [[DownplayedTrope However]], when this leads to Medusa [[BeatTheCurseOutOfHim losing Athena's gorgon curse]] she does show gratitude to Nubia and offers to serve her as an amazon.
* WingedHumanoid: Has feathered wings which enable her to fly.

[[folder:The Merciless]]
!!The Merciless
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!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Dark Days: The Casting'' #1 (September, 2017)
!!! '''Created By:''' Scott Snyder & Greg Capullo
!!! '''Universes:''' Prime Earth, Earth-12

->''" My whole life, I had been afraid of doing what I knew needed to be done. Afraid to give all of myself to the battle. The helmet showed me that my codes and rules were naive. That all that truly mattered was victory. And now I would finally take it for myself."''

The Merciless is the Batman of Earth -12. When he donned Ares' helmet to defeat the God of War, Bruce realized that peace and morality were falsehoods, and that the absolute destruction of his enemies was the only way forward. He eventually joined the Dark Knights, a team of evil Batmen from alternate realities.
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-> See Characters/DarkNightsMetal
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A billionaire perfume magnate that just happens to also be an OmnidisciplinaryScientist, Veronica Cale worked her way up from poor beginnings to become one of the richest women in the world. On account of this, she loathes Wonder Woman, whom she sees as a far inferior icon of female empowerment when compared to herself. She later become the deputy leader of Oolong Island, a commune of {{Mad Scientist}}s in the Yellow Sea off the coast of China.

* FemmeFatalons: Queen Atomia always has sharp fingernails about as long as her fingers themselves. They don't hurt Wonder Woman, but they don't break when Atomia fights her either.