| 1 | [[WMG:[[center:[-''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' '''[[Characters/WonderWoman Main Character Index]]'''\ |
| 2 | '''Title Character'''\ |
| 3 | [[Characters/WonderWomanTheCharacter Princess Diana of Themyscira/Diana Prince]]\ |
| 4 | '''[[Characters/WonderWomanMythicalFigures Mythical Figures]]'''\ |
| 5 | [[Characters/WonderWomanAmazons Amazons]] | [[Characters/WonderWomanGods Gods]] ([[Characters/WonderWomanAres Ares]])\ |
| 6 | '''[[Characters/WonderWomanAllies Supporting Cast]]'''\ |
| 7 | Characters/WonderGirl ([[Characters/WonderGirlDonnaTroy Donna Troy]] | [[Characters/WonderGirlCassieSandsmark Cassie Sandsmark]])\ |
| 8 | '''[[Characters/WonderWomanVillains Villains]]'''\ |
| 9 | '''A-L''' ([[Characters/WonderWomanCheetah Cheetah]]) | [[Characters/WonderWomanRoguesGalleryMToZ M-Z]]-]]]]] |
| 10 | |
| 11 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 12 | |
| 13 | [[folder:Adjudicator]] |
| 14 | !!Adjudicator |
| 15 | [[quoteright:217:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/adjudicator.png]] |
| 16 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] #291. (1982) |
| 17 | !!! '''Created By:''' Paul Levitz · Gene Colan |
| 18 | !!! '''Universes:''' [[MediaNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Earth-One]], Prime Earth |
| 19 | |
| 20 | ->''"You had the chance to live for eternity as my caged specimens of your dead planet's life -- and you chose to throw it away on a feckless moment of empty self-sacrifice which you would call... heroism."'' |
| 21 | |
| 22 | An extradimensional being who has taken it upon himself to judge worlds and then destroy them across multiple universes at once when they fail his tests, which he does not allow any to pass no matter how they fare. |
| 23 | ---- |
| 24 | * AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: The extra-dimensional world destroying SufficientlyAdvancedAlien Adjudicator is taller than the Washington Monument. |
| 25 | * DeadlyGaze: The Adjudicator can immobilize targets, disintegrate people or cause them to fade right out of existence with his gaze if he so chooses. |
| 26 | * DemBones: The henchmen the Adjudicator created as manifestations of his will modeled after the HorsemenOfTheApocalypse were each skeletal figures wearing cloaks. |
| 27 | * ElectiveMute: The Adjudicator lets his thoughts and subsequent actions do the talking for him, which infuriates Diana given he's decided to destroy every version of earth and all inhabitants. While Diana thinks he can talk he never actually does, even after he's been defeated and is being torn away from his intended victims by his peers so it's unclear if he can verbalize his thoughts. |
| 28 | * ExoticEyeDesigns: The Adjudicator's eyes are split into a check pattern of many constantly changing swirling colors each square of which seem to reflect bits of shadow from different scenes. |
| 29 | * EyeBeams: If the rays of multicolored light the Adjudicator can emit from its eyes hit a person they go through a quick transformation of turned crystalline solid and then disintegrated. |
| 30 | * HeartLight: The Adjudicator is an extra-dimensional OmnicidalManiac who has a bright glowing light in the middle of his chest. |
| 31 | * HorsemenOfTheApocalypse: When the Adjudicator decided to judge earth—which in his case meant he'd already decided to destroy every earth in the multiverse—he formed four deadly horsemen based on the Biblical ones as his agents through which to judge humanity via their reaction to them. |
| 32 | * HumanoidAbomination: The Adjudicator appears as 600' tall blue man with something like a star for a heart. He's also a mad ancient thing that exists between realities and goes around "judging" and casually destroying planets and all their inhabitants, by which he means all versions of a planet and its inhabitants across the multiverse at once after "judging" five representative versions. He's only stopped because his keepers let him play with worlds as a way to keep him from annoying them by thinking of them and Diana's use of her lasso on him while questioning who gave him the authority to destroy earth makes him think of his keepers, who summon him for punishment in response. |
| 33 | * JudgeJuryAndExecutioner: Ever since his SufficientlyAdvancedAlien people kicked him out for being nuts the Adjudicator has been traveling the multiverse "judging" the worthiness of planets, then wiping out every single version of said planet across the multiverse in one go when it inevitably fails. |
| 34 | * ObliviouslyEvil: The Adjudicator does not see his actions, which are the destruction of populated worlds by destroying a planet across multiple dimensions, as anything but just even after it's learned that he was given the duty of "judging" worlds by his fellows who couldn't stand him and essentially gave him the "task" of playing with worlds they didn't care about so long as he didn't annoy them by thinking of them. |
| 35 | * OmnicidalManiac: The Adjudicator justifies his actions as judgement on the peoples of whatever world he's currently destroying across the multiverse, but he "judges" the planets on a skewed scale; only sometimes sending minions to test the inhabitants of a handful of the representative versions of the planet and that judgement always calls for the destruction of the planet(s) and its/their inhabitants. |
| 36 | * SufficientlyAdvancedAlien: The Adjudicator is a multi-dimensional being who goes around destroying planets, across all dimensions at once. Right when the coalition of super-heroes from four different earths fail to stop him from destroying earth, his more powerful overseers step in and save the planet, considering him to have overstepped his bounds. |
| 37 | [[/folder]] |
| 38 | |
| 39 | [[folder:Aegeus]] |
| 40 | !!Aegeus |
| 41 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/aegeus2.jpg]] |
| 42 | !!! '''AKA:''' Nikos Aegeus |
| 43 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Women'' (Vol 1) #297 (1982) |
| 44 | !!! '''Created By:''' Paul Kupperberg & Curt Swan |
| 45 | !!! '''Universes:''' [[MediaNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Earth-One]], [[ComicBook/PostCrisis New Earth]], Prime Earth |
| 46 | |
| 47 | ->''"I've had to '''scrape''' and '''fight'''... for everything... I always knew I was destined for something better. Well, I won't be denied any longer. It's time I got what I '''deserved'''."'' |
| 48 | |
| 49 | A terrorist from Greece who received magical weapons from the goddess Athena. Nikos revived a magical bridle, the Vulcan's Six Daggers that could cut through anything and a flying stallion named Pegasus. In the New 52, he is introduced as a usurper to Wonder Woman's role as the God of War. |
| 50 | ---- |
| 51 | * AbsurdlySharpBlade: Aegeus carries Vulcan's Daggers: blades forged by Vulcan himself that can slice through virtually any substance or material. They were able to cut through Wonder Woman's own lasso with ease and create a deep hole simply through slicing the ground a short number of times. New 52 gives him arrows, with the edges of their points existing in multiple dimensions at once. |
| 52 | * DivineParentage: New 52 Aegues is a great grand nephew of Poseidon. Unfortunately for him Poseidon doesn't give two rats about whether Aegues lives or dies and he's too far down the family tree to have inherited any godly powers. |
| 53 | * TheDragon: New 52 Nikos is the pawn of an unknown deity that wants him to kill Diana and replace her as a more worthy god of war, but is totally content with Diana killing him in self defense, believing it will lead to her [[ItGetsEasier becoming a more worthy god of war]]. Nikos becomes a SpannerInTheWorks simply by deciding to "help" Diana in his own, non lethal to her manner after coming to respect her. |
| 54 | * EmpoweredBadassNormal: New 52 Nikos is no match of Wonder Woman. He has divine ancestry but is too far removed from it for any benefit and his godly ancestor refuses to acknowledge his existence, much less unlock his latent potential. It's not until an unknown benefactor gives him PowerAtAPrice that he can begin his mission of killing Wonder Woman in earnest. |
| 55 | * GatheringSteam: His benefactor in New 52 gives him a power boost every time he at least tries to kill Diana, even as he continues to fail. This cuts off once Nikos learns this is coming at a [[PowerAtAPrice price]]. |
| 56 | * GoodFeelsGood: New 52 Aegeus initially hates Diana for being stuck on the straight and narrow, incensed that someone like her could be "gifted" with the title of war god. After nearly dying several times and being still alive largely because of Diana's mercy, Aegeus does start to warm up to her a little...[[NiceJobBreakingItHero at exactly the moment she doesn't want him around at all.]] |
| 57 | * GraveRobbing: On the "Pre Crisis" Earth One he digs up the remains of Artemis, an amazon who was supposed to become Wonder Woman three thousand years before Diana but decided to defy the goddess Athena instead, so that Circe can resurrect Artemis in the belief this "original" Wonder Woman can beat the current one(she can't, at least not in enough time to stop Diana from disrupt Circe's spell). |
| 58 | * GreenEyedMonster: Why he initially hates Diana in the New 52 comics. Nikos is descended from godhood too, but while Diana got nifty super powers and a purpose in life out of them, Nikos has gotten nothing but stories from his grand mother. |
| 59 | * HeelFaceTurn: Attempted by the New 52 Aegeus, who not only tries to stop killing Wonder Woman but tries to help her in her mission of spreading peace. Unfortunately he makes her truly angry for the first time, [[UnWantedAssistance the first time he tries to help]], when he shoots Donna Troy, who Wonder Woman was also trying to reform. |
| 60 | * HorseArcher: New 52 makes his preferred weapon arrows. This allows Diana, or rather Hephaestus, to investigate Aegeus's weaponry and determine just why this kid no one ever heard of has weapons that can kill gods. |
| 61 | * KillTheGod: His initial goal in New 52. Now that [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly lack of belief]] has rendered the Olympians and gods related to them mortal, now that he has seen Wonder Woman take the title "God Of War" by killing Ares, Nikos seeks to kill her believing he would be a better, less self righteous god of war. Ironically, when he gives up on this and tries to help Wonder Woman achieve her mission of peace he alomst foils Zeus's plans to restore immortality to the gods, all by accident! |
| 62 | * OlderHeroVersusYoungerVillain: While Diana retains the benefits of a youthful body, this is what keeps her from slaughtering Nikos in the New 52 continuity. He's just a kid who is clearly out of his depth. |
| 63 | * {{Pegasus}}: Bellerophon gifted Aegeus with the winged horse Pegasus. New 52 sees an initially anonymous benefactor gift him with the winged horse Discordia as a RedHerring to direct suspicions of who it might be to Eris/Strife, who is not amused. |
| 64 | * PerfectPoison: The post crisis version has a Lernaean Hydra Venom Spear, that can use its venom to stop a high-powered regenerator and slowly kill them. |
| 65 | * ShadowArchetype: In New 52 he is this to Donna Troy, as both are super powered problem "children" Wonder Woman is trying to "save" and set on a better path. While Donna Troy was manipulated into believing she was doing the right thing and became self destructively self loathing when she realized she had been lied to Aegeus didn't need much convincing to start down the path of bloodshed and is mostly being held back by his own sense of self preservation than by any notions of morality. Donna Troys attempts to be good in "man's world" get a girl killed however, causing her to relapse and attack Wonder Woman in her fury while being shown mercy by the woman he hates and scorn by someone he thought of as a friend causes Nikos Aegeus to turn over a new leaf and nearly kill Donna Troy to "protect" Wonder Woman. |
| 66 | * ShockAndAwe: Post Crisis Aegeus carries the Thunderbolts of Zeus, which transform into lightning bolts when he throws them. |
| 67 | * {{Teleportation}}: As wells as ShockAndAwe, the Thunderbolts of Zeus can be used for teleportation by the post crisis version. |
| 68 | [[/folder]] |
| 69 | |
| 70 | [[folder:Alkyone]] |
| 71 | !!Alkyone |
| 72 | [[quoteright:183:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/alkyone_963.jpg]] |
| 73 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman2006 Vol 3]] #14. (2008) |
| 74 | |
| 75 | A member of The Circle, Hippolyta's elite blood-sworn bodyguards, and a former weapons master. Alkyone calls Diana "The Dragon" and was convinced that she would destroy Themyscira, and tried to kill the infant, resulting in her imprisonment with the other members of The Circle. |
| 76 | |
| 77 | To learn more, see her folder [[Characters/WonderWomanAmazons here]] |
| 78 | [[/folder]] |
| 79 | |
| 80 | [[folder:Angle Man]] |
| 81 | !!Angle Man |
| 82 | [[quoteright:243:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2eb18355726c14eafa5a5bd640252eac.jpg]] |
| 83 | [[caption-width-right:270:[[labelnote:Click here to see Angelo as a GentlemanThief:]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/angleman.png]] |
| 84 | [[/labelnote]] |
| 85 | !!! '''AKA:''' Angelo Bend |
| 86 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' Wonder Woman [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] #62. (1953) |
| 87 | !!! '''Created By:''' Robert Kanigher & Harry G. Peter |
| 88 | !!! '''Universes:''' [[MediaNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Earth-Two]], [[MediaNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Earth-One]], [[ComicBook/PostCrisis New Earth]], Prime Earth, Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse, [[WesternAnimation/DCSuperFriends Earth-508]], WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold |
| 89 | |
| 90 | ->''"Greetings, all. For those who've never had the pleasure of meeting me before, the name's Angle Man. I'm the gent who stole your space shuttle."'' |
| 91 | |
| 92 | Originally an Italian conman and master thief obsessed with knowing all the angles, Angelo Bend later gained a magic Penrose triangle that enabled him to warp space time, manipulating geometry to his advantage. He has fought Diana, Donna, and Cassie at various points in his career, and has a bit of a crush on Donna. |
| 93 | ---- |
| 94 | * BadassInANiceSuit: Post-Crisis he did most of his crimes in a suit and tie, though he did eventually redone his Pre-Crisis green and orange tights. |
| 95 | * ConMan: The original Golden Age Angle Man was a con man and thief with no powers or magic items. |
| 96 | * GentlemanThief: As of ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'' Angle Man has gotten a revamp that includes a nice suit and hat and become a friendly if more unpredictable thief who always does his best to compliment the ladies. He also pays back his debts when Donna helps save his life. |
| 97 | * KilledOffForReal: The original Angle Man died in the first "Crisis", apparently as a result of attempting to use his Angler during the massive dimensional upheavals caused by that event. A new Angelo Bend lives on as a result of Wonder Woman's Post-Crisis reboot, but has none of the former's history. |
| 98 | * LegionOfDoom: Dawn of DC has him as part of AXE's special anti Wonder Woman squad. |
| 99 | * MagicFeather: A Dawn of DC {{retcon}} established that the angler has no powers and that Angelo only needs it to use his because of an insanity induced mental block. This creates {{plot holes}}, but only when trying to reconcille Dawn of DC with DC Rebirth. Everything else with the angler is safely in an AlternateContinuity. |
| 100 | * ManipulativeBastard: The original golden age Angle Man was all about cheating people who thought he was helping them out of their money, sometimes even if this meant Angle Man would be losing money in the long term, so long as he could bear the cost of his fun. |
| 101 | * ObliviouslySuperpowered: As of Dawn of DC Angelo Bend has innate super powers but is too insane to use them. ''Treating'' his insanity [[PowerBornOfMadness would also rob him of these powers]], so those looking to exploit him just let him believe he "needs" his angler. |
| 102 | * PhantomThief: A GentlemanThief who likes challenging himself by announcing he what he's going to steal, and then pulling of flamboyant theatrical heists often right in plain view while avoiding capture. He does however steal for a profit, he just likes clients with more odd requests. |
| 103 | * RealityWarper: His magic angler can warp geometry. |
| 104 | * RelatedInTheAdaptation: The ''New 52'' version is the son of [[Characters/DCComicsVandalSavage Vandal Savage]]. |
| 105 | * {{Retcon}}: The angler consistently was a space warping tool, most commonly adapted from New God technology. That was until Dawn of DC, when ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2023'' retconned Angelo Bend as a man who gained space warping powers from trying to understand the anti life equation but went so mad in the process that he can only use them when holding a sufficiently proportioned triangle, which he now obssessively believes are the source of his powers. This of course makes the Anglette plot from DC Rebirth impossible. |
| 106 | * TheRival: In DC Rebirth he's said to have been killed by a {{costume copy cat}} going by Anglette, who stole his angler and used it to distract Wonder Woman on Veronica Cale's orders. Dawn of DC shows Angelo Bend is still alive, has gotten his angler back, and is using it as part of his own anti Wonder Woman team. Whatever details are missing, Wonder Woman clearly isn't a mutual enough enemy for Angle Man and Anglette to work together against. |
| 107 | * RoguesGalleryTransplant: Became more associated with Characters/{{Catwoman|SelinaKyle}} for a time after Donna's death, before returning to Wonder Woman's rogues. |
| 108 | * SecondaryColorNemesis: His original costume was green and was a surprisingly competent criminal. |
| 109 | * StevenUlyssesPerhero: "Angelo Bend"? Seriously? |
| 110 | * SpaceMaster: His magic angler can warp geometry. |
| 111 | * TookALevelInBadass: Went from being a simple ConMan to a serious threat to Wonder Woman after he acquired the Angler, a Penrose triangle which could warp time and space in a variety of ways. |
| 112 | * VillainInAWhiteSuit: Angle Man was originally a thief with ties to organized crime who wore a light suit and matching fedora, before being suited up in green spandex in the Silver Age. He returned to his white suit and fedora and became a GentlemanThief ComicBook/PostCrisis. |
| 113 | * VillainTeamUp: Headed the Secret Society, and was a member of Circe's massive collective of Wonder Woman villains. |
| 114 | * VillainousCrush: He was caught by Donna Troy while trying to steal an ancient artifact from a museum. Despite this, Angle Man formed a bit of a crush on the Amazon. He became so enamored with her that he instinctively transported himself to Themyscira seeking Donna's help when he was savagely attacked by a Fury possessed Barbara Minerva. |
| 115 | [[/folder]] |
| 116 | |
| 117 | [[folder:Arachne]] |
| 118 | !!Arachne |
| 119 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/arachne_001.jpg]] |
| 120 | !!! '''AKA:''' Richard Agoras |
| 121 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' vol. 2 #151 (1999) |
| 122 | !!! '''Created By:''' Gerry Conway & Don Heck |
| 123 | !!! '''Universes:''' [[ComicBook/PostCrisis New Earth]] |
| 124 | |
| 125 | ->''"Prepare to die, little godspawn! So prideful and self-important, striving to hold back the tide of death! Feel the wrath of Arachne, whom the gods cursed for pride! My venom flows straight from the font of the universe!"'' |
| 126 | |
| 127 | An ordinary office worker, kidnapped and experimented upon by Doctor Poison. Under influence of the Pandora virus, he could transform into a massive spider. |
| 128 | ---- |
| 129 | * GiantSpider: After exposure to the Pandora virus, Richard Agoras uncontrollably changes into a giant spider. |
| 130 | * InvoluntaryShapeshifter: Has no control over his transformations. |
| 131 | [[/folder]] |
| 132 | |
| 133 | [[folder:Armageddon I & III]] |
| 134 | !!Armageddon I]] |
| 135 | [[quoteright:265:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/armageddon_01.jpg]] |
| 136 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' vol. 1 #234 (1977) |
| 137 | !!! '''Created By:''' Gerry Conway & Don Heck |
| 138 | !!! '''Universes:''' [[MediaNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Earth-Two]], [[ComicBook/PostCrisis New Earth]] |
| 139 | |
| 140 | ->''"Glad you could rejoin us, my dear. You're just in time for my final act of sabotage in America... perhaps my greatest blow for international freedom!"'' |
| 141 | |
| 142 | Armageddon was Nazi mastermind who used advanced technology, such as boots that enabled him to stomp powerful vibrations and a toxin that turned men into mindless ogres he called Muutorrs. |
| 143 | ---- |
| 144 | * BadassNormal: He actually doesn't have any powers but his strength with the axe makes him more than a match for most opposition. |
| 145 | * TheFaceless: Never seen without his mask. |
| 146 | * PsychoSerum: Stole an experimental biochemical formula, which was capable of turning human beings into hulking, berserker-type monsters that would be more effective in combat that he called Muutorrs. |
| 147 | * RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: He dresses in black and red and he's an enforcer of the Nazis and an evil mastermind. |
| 148 | * ShockwaveStomp: Wore boots that enabled him to stomp powerful vibrations. |
| 149 | * TrickedOutShoes: Wore boots that enabled him to stomp powerful vibrations. |
| 150 | * WeaponSpecialization: Carried a doubled-bladed executioner's axe as his personal weapon. |
| 151 | |
| 152 | !!Armageddon III |
| 153 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/armageddon_prime_earth_001.png]] |
| 154 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' vol. 1 #753 (2020) |
| 155 | !!! '''Created By:''' Steve Orlando & Max Raynor |
| 156 | !!! '''Universes:''' Prime Earth |
| 157 | |
| 158 | ->''"I know why I am here. I lost everything... my humanity, my life, even the memory of my name... to be a tool for my father's hatred of Wonder Woman."'' |
| 159 | |
| 160 | Armageddon is a descendant of an unknown race of Ogres. Her father and grandfather had both been enemies of Wonder Woman. Making her home in the wilderness of Canada, Armageddon was tracked down by Warmaster and recruited into her Four Horsewomen. |
| 161 | ---- |
| 162 | * AffirmativeActionLegacy: Strangely enough, yes. She's female and a non-human taking the codename of a human male. |
| 163 | * EnhancedArchaicWeapon: Carries a rocket war axe. |
| 164 | * LegionOfDoom: Paula Von Gunther recruits her to be a member of Paula's "Four Horsewomen" who Paula attends to lead in the destruction of Themyscira out of spite for The Valkyries being attacked by The Amazons in antiquity. Out of Devastation, Genocide and Donna Troy, Armageddon is the only one ''not'' to be a Wonder Woman counterpart, though Gunther seeks her out claiming her ancestors fought Wonder Woman. |
| 165 | * OurOgresAreHungrier: Armageddon is a descendant of an unknown race of Ogres. |
| 166 | %%zce* {{Sizeshifter}} |
| 167 | * SuperStrength: By human standards she is far stronger than her size and weight would suggest, and she's pretty big to begin with |
| 168 | * WeaponSpecialization: Just like her predecessor, she carries a rocket war axe. |
| 169 | [[/folder]] |
| 170 | |
| 171 | [[folder:Blue Snowman]] |
| 172 | !!Blue Snowman |
| 173 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bryna_brilyant_01.jpg]] |
| 174 | [[caption-width-right:350:(Pre-Flashpoint)]] |
| 175 | [[quoteright:217:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bluesnowmanprimeearth.png]] |
| 176 | [[caption-width-right:217:(Post-Flashpoint)]] |
| 177 | !!! '''AKA:''' Byrna Brilyant |
| 178 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/SensationComics'' #59. (1946) |
| 179 | !!! '''Created By:''' Joye Murchison & Harry G. Peter |
| 180 | !!! '''Universes:''' [[MediaNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Earth-Two]], [[ComicBook/PostCrisis New Earth]], Prime Earth, [[WesternAnimation/DCSuperFriends Earth-508]] |
| 181 | |
| 182 | ->''"Ha! My telescopic snow ray has caught Wonder Woman! Even if she can get out of her plane, she'll freeze to death instantly!"'' |
| 183 | |
| 184 | A foe of Wonder Woman, gender-fluid mad scientist Byrna Brilyant used their father's invention of "blue snow" to paralyze an entire farming community in exchange for a ransom. They later joined Villainy Incorporated. |
| 185 | ---- |
| 186 | * AdaptationalBadass: Byrna "Blue Snowman" Brilyant has never posed a huge physical threat as they're a mad scientist fighting the Amazon's champion, and originally used their artificial snow to hold a farming community's fields for ransom. As of ''ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth'' they are far more dangerous and given a mecha to pilot rather than a small powered suit. Though Wondy still doesn't have too hard a time taking them down, Byrna is a much more deadly threat to civilians and non-powered opponents. |
| 187 | * AdaptationalWimp: Byrna's Post-Crisis iteration is a joke compared to their original self. They were originally something like an evil, more secretive Iron Man; with multiple suits, experimental weapons and remote-controlled robots, while their Post-Crisis self is killed offhand without ever posing a threat in their first appearance. |
| 188 | * AlliterativeName: '''B'''yrna '''B'''rilyant. |
| 189 | * AscendedExtra: Post-Crisis Blue Snowman was just a joke character brought in to get unceremoniously eaten, but Post-Rebirth Blue Snowman is back to being an acceptable threat, even appearing in ''Tis the Season to Be Freezin''', which doesn't feature Wonder Woman. |
| 190 | * BackFromTheDead: Byrna was revived in the post-Flashpoint continuity after being unceremoniously eaten alive in ''Power Girl''. |
| 191 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: When they first appear, Byrna is acting as a secretary at the Fair Weather Valley town meeting and voices their disgust at how childish the people are acting. Then they're revealed as the Blue Snowman. |
| 192 | * CerebusRetcon: People have repeatedly joked about the ridiculousness of an apparent woman calling themselves "Blue Snowman." Then Byrna appeared in ''DC Love Is A Battlefield'' and was revealed to be gender-fluid, having already spent a lot of time being mocked and rejected for "not being able to decide if they're a boy or girl." Suddenly the jokes in ''Power Girl'' aren't funny anymore. |
| 193 | * CListFodder: Their official Post-Crisis debut in ''ComicBook/PowerGirl'' #7 lasted long enough for her to be eaten alive. They're actually listed as being cannon fodder with a life expectancy of a few pages. |
| 194 | * ColorCharacter: ''Blue'' Snowman. |
| 195 | * CreepyCrossdresser: Created a masculine supervillain persona. They're listed in ''ComicBook/PowerGirl'' as "C-List Wonder Woman villain with gender issues." Byrna was later established to be gender-fluid and crafted their identity as "Blue Snowman" because sometimes they feel like a man. |
| 196 | * {{Foil}}: To Zara, princess of the crimson flame. Byrna doesn't go by anything that could be assume to be a given name and hides her appearance behind machinery and armor while Zara is a performer who likes showing off her body. Byrna seeks to harm as few people as possible, seeking mostly to bolster her bank account, while Zara hates people beyond what pleasure she can get out of them, quickly burning through any money she manages to acquire and leaving many casualties in her wake. Unnatural blue snow generated by machinery that only gets more sophisticated with each CosmicRetcon versus unnatural red fire produced by chemicals that become an innate super power of Zara's after such a retcon. |
| 197 | * HumongousMecha: Byrna Brilyant's snowstorm creating "Blue Snowman" Powered Armor of prior incarnations is leveled up to a giant cyclops MotionCaptureMecha in ''Wonder Woman (Rebirth)''. |
| 198 | * AnIcePerson: Byrna's Blue Snowman suit has the power to create localized snowstorms. |
| 199 | * MadScientist: A power-hungry scientist who takes the old and abandoned projects of other scientists and completes and perfects them for their own use, usually by combining them into their suit of powered armor. |
| 200 | * MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: Subverted. They're father was a scientist and they're beautiful, but they're a mad scientist in their own right. Byrna's also gender-fluid. |
| 201 | * NonActionGuy: Once the battle came down to them, Wonder Woman, and their respective fists it was a dead issue. |
| 202 | * PoweredArmor: Byrna used a snowman themed "Blue Snowman" mechanized snow creating armor in the Pre-Flashpoint continuity, though given who they're normally up against it didn't do them much good. |
| 203 | * SadistTeacher: Subverted. They used to be a school teacher but they're never shown acting maliciously to their students. |
| 204 | * TookALevelInBadass: Subverted in the Post-Crisis continuity. They're redesigned with a suit of robotic armor and a pipe that fires icicles but they're still taken down by Power Girl and Dr. Mid-Nite, and then eaten alive. |
| 205 | * UncertainDoom: Their ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'' incarnation was wired into her Exo-Mecha, and their brain "crashed" when Diana took down the suit. Byrna later reappeared in ''DC Love Is A Battlefield'' alive and well and back in an "[[FakeMuscles upgraded]]" version of the armor they wore in ''Power Girl''. |
| 206 | * VillainTeamUp: Served as a founding member of Villainy Inc. In the DC Rebirth continuity, they were part of the new unnamed interaction of the same team, this time put together by Veronica Cale. |
| 207 | [[/folder]] |
| 208 | |
| 209 | [[folder:Cheetah (I-IV)]] |
| 210 | !![[Characters/WonderWomanCheetah Cheetah (I-IV)]] |
| 211 | [[quoteright:218:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cheetahrebirth.png]] |
| 212 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] #6. (1943) |
| 213 | !!! '''Created By:''' William Moulton Marston & Harry G. Peter |
| 214 | |
| 215 | Cheetah is a LegacyCharacter and one of the major contenders for the title of Wonder Woman's Arch-Enemy. There have been four people who have taken up the mantle of Cheetah, and the first version, Priscilla Rich, a wealthy but troubled socialite with a SplitPersonality who donned a cheetah costume and fought Diana (or Hippolyta who was Wonder Woman back in the 1940s in the Post-Crisis continuity), was created by Wonder Woman's creator William Moulton Marston. |
| 216 | ---- |
| 217 | -> See Characters/WonderWomanCheetah |
| 218 | [[/folder]] |
| 219 | |
| 220 | [[folder:Chuma]] |
| 221 | !!Chuma |
| 222 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chuma.jpg]] |
| 223 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'' #7. (1949) |
| 224 | !!! '''Created By:''' Len Wein & Creator/GeorgePerez |
| 225 | !!! '''Universes:''' New Earth |
| 226 | |
| 227 | ->''"I be humbly sorry, your highness. But I could not allow you to be harming my most precious Madam."'' |
| 228 | |
| 229 | Urzkartaga's high priest and faithful manservant to Barbara Minerva, the third [[Characters/WonderWomanCheetah Cheetah]]. |
| 230 | ---- |
| 231 | * AffablyEvil: He's extremely polite to Diana, so it's easy to forget he's the HighPriest to a very evil deity who demands HumanSacrifice and Chuma is very much willing to kill for either his god or Minerva's sake. |
| 232 | * AlchemyIsMagic: He's the one who performs the RitualMagic necessary for the Cheetah transformation, which includes various alchemy concoctions and potions. |
| 233 | * AcquiredPoisonImmunity: Has become immune to the own poisons that he uses due to using them on himself for many years. |
| 234 | * BackFromTheDead: He was killed by the Amazons of Bana-Mighdall, but was later brought back to life when Minerva [[DealWithTheDevil sold her soul to Neron]] in exchange for his life. |
| 235 | * BaldOfAuthority: The bald HighPriest of the Urzkartaga tribe. |
| 236 | * BeleagueredAssistant: Minerva doesn't treat him with much respect and is often an impatient BadBoss, but he takes it in stride and cats as her faithful manservant. |
| 237 | * BlowGun: His weapon, with the darts coated with poison of his own making. |
| 238 | * ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: His last appearance in ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'' was shortly before Minerva dealt with Sebastian B7allesteros and regained her powers as Cheetah. He never appears again and Minerva never explains what happened to him. Both ''New 52'' and ''Rebirth'' continuities also didn't bring him back, and his role as Urzkartaga's main worshipper was replaced by African warlord Andres Cadulo in ''Rebirth''. |
| 239 | * DevotedToYou: Due to Minerva being TheChampion and [[MarriageToAGod bride]] to Urzkartaga, he's completely devoted to helping her achieve whatever she wants. |
| 240 | * EthnicMagician: An African who's connected to occult magic and dark rituals. |
| 241 | * FunetikAksent: He is an African man who often speaks with a phonetic accent, and seems particularly unable to pronounce the "th" sound. But despite this trope of having the implication that the character is dumb or uncultured, Chuma is portrayed as a very intelligent and sophisticated man. |
| 242 | * HighPriest: He used to be the religious leader of the {{cult}} of Urzkartaga, serving as the high priest. Now that the tribe is gone, he doesn't do much in that position other than tending to Urzkartaga's plant. |
| 243 | * IOweYouMyLife: Part of the reason he's so [[DevotedToYou devoted]] and [[UndyingLoyalty loyal]] Minerva is that she saved and spared his life when she found him in the aftermath of the surprise attack in Urzkartaga's tribe. |
| 244 | * MagicalNegro: A black African with vast mythical knowledge. |
| 245 | * MasterPoisoner: He's an expert at making poisons and other deadly concoctions. |
| 246 | * MiniatureSeniorCitizens: He's a very old and extremely diminutive man. |
| 247 | * OnlyOneName: He's only ever known as Chuma. |
| 248 | * ReligionIsMagic: All his mystical powers come from his dedication to Urzkartaga. |
| 249 | * {{Sidekick}}: Acts one to Minerva, assisting in her evil plans and when they seemingly have little to do with Urzkartaga, such as helping her steal Wonder Woman's Lasso of Truth |
| 250 | * SoleSurvivor: The only survivor of his tribe and of Urzkartaga's {{cult}}. |
| 251 | * SquishyWizard: He can use his occult magic and some weapons to defend himself, but is very physically frail. |
| 252 | * UndyingLoyalty: Despite Minerva often being a BadBoss to him and the mighty enemies she makes, it doesn't shake the loyalty he has towards him being her servant. Notably, he sides with her against Sebastian Ballesteros even though Urzkartaga himself favored him. |
| 253 | * WitchDoctor: Was basically this to his African tribe, serving as their mystical guide, healer and spiritual leader. |
| 254 | [[/folder]] |
| 255 | |
| 256 | [[folder:Circe]] |
| 257 | !!Circe |
| 258 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/circeww_1.jpg]] |
| 259 | [[caption-width-right:350:Circe's preferred appearance as of DC Rebirth. ''[[ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth Wonder Woman]]'' #20 (vol. 5), 2017. Art by Bilquis Evely]] |
| 260 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'' #37. (1949) |
| 261 | !!! '''Created By:''' Robert Kanigher & Harry G. Peter |
| 262 | !!! '''Universes:''' Earth-Two, Earth-One, New Earth, Prime Earth, Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse |
| 263 | |
| 264 | Creator/DCComics' version of the Ancient Greek sorceress from Myth/ClassicalMythology and Creator/{{Homer}}'s ''Literature/TheOdyssey''. Circe would at first only make a variety of scattered and intermittent appearances in multiple DC Comics books, not just Wonder Woman's, but when the [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Wonder Woman title would be relaunched]] under Creator/GeorgePerez, Circe would go on to become one of Diana's most persistent and dangerous foes [[note]] Surpassed only by [[Characters/WonderWomanCheetah Cheetah]] and [[Characters/WonderWomanAres Ares]] in terms of prominence[[/note]], being the source of a many calamitous events in her history. |
| 265 | |
| 266 | To learn more, see her folder [[Characters/WonderWomanMythicalFigures here]] |
| 267 | [[/folder]] |
| 268 | |
| 269 | [[folder:Cottus]] |
| 270 | !!Cottus |
| 271 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/431f87b6179c20c16f499d6962a10914.jpg]] |
| 272 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Vol 2]] #10. (1987) |
| 273 | !!! '''Created By:''' Creator/GeorgePerez |
| 274 | !!! '''Universes:''' New Earth |
| 275 | |
| 276 | One of the Hekatonkheires (Hundred-Handed Ones) of ancient Greek myth, Cottus was sealed behind Doom's Door under Themyscira long ago, and watched over by the Amazons in case he ever escaped, which he has a few times. If both he and Alkyone are to be believed, he is Wonder Woman's father (the clay she was created from supposedly came from he). |
| 277 | |
| 278 | To learn more, see his folder [[Characters/WonderWomanMythicalFigures here]] |
| 279 | [[/folder]] |
| 280 | |
| 281 | [[folder:Crimson Centipede]] |
| 282 | !!Crimson Centipede |
| 283 | [[quoteright:284:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/crimsoncentipede1.jpg]] |
| 284 | [[caption-width-right:284:Silver Age]] |
| 285 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/crimson_centipede_prime_earth_001.jpg]] |
| 286 | [[caption-width-right:350:Post-Flashpoint]] |
| 287 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] #169. (1967) |
| 288 | !!! '''Created By:''' Robert Kanigher & Ross Andru |
| 289 | !!! '''Universes:''' Earth-One, Prime Earth |
| 290 | |
| 291 | ->''"The fools -- thinking to stop the Crimson Centipede! All they have is one chance against my hundred!"'' |
| 292 | |
| 293 | The Silver Age Crimson Centipede was created by the God of War as a superpowerful entity to plague Wonder Woman. He would rob banks to fund widespread criminal enterprises to undermine Wonder Woman's efforts to bring peace to Earth. |
| 294 | |
| 295 | The current version of the Crimson Centipede is a bio-engineered weapon created by S.T.A.R. Labs and accidentally unleashed by a terrorist group. |
| 296 | ---- |
| 297 | * ADogNamedDog: The Rebirth Crimson Centipede ''is'' a crimson centipede, albeit an abnormally one. |
| 298 | * AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: The Silver Age Centipede has green skin. |
| 299 | * AnimalThemedSuperbeing: The Silver Age version had the powers of a centipede. |
| 300 | * BigCreepyCrawlies: The modern version is a giant, mutated centipede. |
| 301 | * ColorAnimalCodename: Crimson Centipede |
| 302 | * CreepyCentipedes: The modern version embodies this, being a giant, mutated centipede. The Silver Age version, not so much. |
| 303 | * DarkerAndEdgier: The Silver Age version was a fairly goofy supervillain. The modern version is a rampaging monstrosity. |
| 304 | * GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: The modern Centipede was created by S.T.A.R. Labs via "transpecies modification for military application." |
| 305 | * MultiArmedAndDangerous: The Silver Age version could use his multiple arms to fire multiple guns at once, or deliver multiple punches simultaneously. |
| 306 | * SuperSpeed: The Silver Age version's multiple legs made him much faster than a normal human. |
| 307 | [[/folder]] |
| 308 | |
| 309 | [[folder:Cyborgirl]] |
| 310 | !!Cyborgirl |
| 311 | !!! '''AKA:''' [=LeTonya=] Charles |
| 312 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cyborgirl.png]] |
| 313 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Vol 2]] #179. (2002) |
| 314 | !!! '''Created By:''' Phil Jimenez · Roy Allan Martinez |
| 315 | |
| 316 | ->''"Back up! I ''can'' control my power! I just needed help for a minute."'' |
| 317 | |
| 318 | [=LeTonya=] Charles was a young woman who had destroyed her body with the drug Tar, but was granted a second chance when her aunt, Sarah Charles, one of the scientists who helped repair [[Characters/TeenTitansNewTeenTitans Cyborg]], saved and augmented her with powerful cybernetic implants. Rather than use her newfound gifts to earn herself a HeelFaceTurn, [=LeTonya=] chose to focus on personal gain as Cyborgirl. Soon after, she joined the Cyborg Revenge Squad and was one of several such beings to wage an attack against Wonder Woman, and later on, Cyborg himself. |
| 319 | ---- |
| 320 | * AfroAsskicker: Possesses an afro and became a member of Villainy, Inc., teaming up with several seasoned Wonder Woman villains. She and her teammates tried to overthrow Skartaris, but were stopped by Wonder Woman. |
| 321 | * ArmCannon: She has a gauntlet implanted in her arm that fires electrical blasts. And she can morph her hand into the barrel of a powerful white sound generator packing the punch of a cannon. |
| 322 | * ArtificialLimbs: Much of her body has been replaced with mechanical parts, as she destroyed her human body with the drug Tar. |
| 323 | * CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Being repaired with advanced cybernetics has made her more machine than human. And much like Victor Stone, being part-machine is something she hates. She resents the people who saved her life but turned her into this. But unlike Cyborg, who has since been well-adapted to his cybernetics to become a force for good, [=LeTonya=] chose to remain in her old habits. |
| 324 | * {{Cyborg}}: [=LeTonya=] Charles destroyed her body with the drug Tar, so her aunt replaced much of her body with robotic parts. But rather than use them to reform herself, she was back into her old habits. Most of her body has been replaced with advanced prosthetics that grant superhuman strength and numerous other functions, such as sensors and built-in weapons. These built-in sensors can scan in infrared, ultraviolet/night vision, densimetry and electricity detection. |
| 325 | * DarkActionGirl: One whose cybernetic enhancements let her be a physical threat to Wonder Woman. |
| 326 | * DescentIntoAddiction: A former drug addict, [=LeTonya=] destroyed her health and body due to overusing a drug called Tar, a concoction that provides users with temporary super-strength. Though she was saved by her aunt by replacing much of her body with robotic parts, she took on the name Cybergirl, [[RedemptionRejection opting for a life of villainy rather than heroism]]. Although her initial target was Wonder Woman, Cyborgirl later joined the Cyborg Revenge Squad, teaming with other cybernetic bad guys to attack and destroy Vic Stone. |
| 327 | * ElectronicEyes: She has an electronic implant attached to her left eye. |
| 328 | * EvilCounterpart: While she is a foe of Wonder Woman, [[RobotGirl Cyborgirl]] also happens to be an evil version of [[Characters/TeenTitansNewTeenTitans Cyborg]], as she had permanently damaged her body by overdosing on the drug Tar. But her aunt, who happened to be one of the scientists who repaired Victor Stone, saved her with [[WeCanRebuildHim powerful]] [[UnwillingRoboticisation cybernetic implants]], hoping that this would reform her and give her a second chance in life. However, rather than use her newfound gifts for redeem herself, [=LeTonya=] chose to focus more on personal gain, essentially becoming [[RoboticPsychopath more machine than human]], unlike Cyborg, who accepted his fate and chose to use his cybernetics to become a force for good, eventually joining the Teen Titans and later on, the Justice League. |
| 329 | * EvilNephew: Evil Niece but fits, since she rejected her aunt Sarah's good intentions to help her rehabilitate by becoming a supervillain. |
| 330 | * FatalFlaw: [[ATragedyOfImpulsiveness Impulsiveness]], [[NeverMyFault irresponsibility]] and {{Greed}}. Her life is just a haphazard mudslide over which she has relatively little control due to her own failures, and choosing to destroy her body with Tar is what led her to become a cyborg. The only thing she can do is blindly let her past control herself and allow current excesses, mistakes and self-indulgences catch up with her. She bribes, she steals, she plunders – and she’s still out for a rush due to her greed. |
| 331 | * {{Jerkass}}: Even after being robotized, she still has an abrasive attitude. |
| 332 | * MadeOfIron: Parts of her are made of metal, making her much more durable thanks to being automated. |
| 333 | * NeverMyFault: Although she resents the people who turned her into a cyborg, part of the blame lies within her, as she destroyed much of her body through drug addiction. Despite this, Cyborgirl seems to be constantly jonesing for Tar, but since the physical component of the addiction has been removed, this has left her with just the psychological craving. And she is well aware that actually using Tar would slowly but surely tear her apart. |
| 334 | * PurpleIsPowerful: Her cyborg body is now purple and she's quite strong. |
| 335 | * PsychoForHire: She was first drafted by Queen Clea to become a member of the newly reformed [[LegionOfDoom Villainy Inc.]] as Cyborgirl. The team attempted to overthrow Skartaris, however they were ultimately defeated by Wonder Woman. Cyborgirl was then seen as a member of [[LegionOfDoom the Secret Society of Super Villains]]. Later, in DC Special: Cyborg #6, it shows her as a member of [[LegionOfDoom the Cyborg Revenge Squad]] to destroy Vic Stone. |
| 336 | * RedemptionRejection: Rather than use her newfound gifts to earn herself a HeelFaceTurn, [=LeTonya=] chose to focus on personal gain as Cyborgirl. |
| 337 | * RobotGirl: A dark example. What she is now, having chosen to go on a path of villainy, becoming more machine than human. |
| 338 | * RoboticPsychopath: Unlike Cyborg, Cyborgirl is more machine than human. For all intents and purposes, she's an insane psychopath even after being robotized. |
| 339 | * SuperStrength: Her cybernetic enhancements make her stronger than the average human. |
| 340 | * {{Technopath}}: She has "computepathic" abilities, which enables her brain to communicate with all sorts of computers, even unusual ones such as ancient Atlantean tech. And her built-in sensors can scan in infrared, ultraviolet/night vision, densimetry and electricity detection. Plus, her hands can morph into other configurations, as it once became ten tentacle-like computer connectors for a technology she just came into contact with. |
| 341 | * TelescopingRobot: She has a wide array of gadgets and weapons housed within her robotic body, including her SwissArmyAppendage. |
| 342 | * UnwillingRoboticisation: Cyborgirl destroyed much of her original body with the drug Tar, but was granted a second chance when her aunt, Sarah Charles, one of the scientists who helped repair [[Characters/TeenTitansNewTeenTitans Cyborg]], saved her with powerful cybernetic implants. |
| 343 | * WeCanRebuildHim: The major impetus behind giving [=LeTonya=] robotic body parts was to save her life, as she destroyed much of her body with the drug Tar. |
| 344 | [[/folder]] |
| 345 | |
| 346 | [[folder:Dark Angel]] |
| 347 | !!Dark Angel |
| 348 | [[quoteright:170:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dark_angel_1723.jpg]] |
| 349 | !!! '''AKA:''' Donna Troy of Earth-7 |
| 350 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Vol 2]] #131. (1998) |
| 351 | !!! '''Created By:''' John Byrne |
| 352 | |
| 353 | ->''"We both can't exist any longer... I'm going to remove you from this world and take your place in the cosmic balance."'' |
| 354 | |
| 355 | A psychotic witch/a wandering, demonic spirit who's got it out for [[ComicBook/WonderGirl Donna Troy]], Dark Angel first appeared to vex the Golden Age Wonder Woman (Hippolyta, given her Post-Crisis origin) after being summoned by Paula von Gunther. She returned years later to try getting revenge on Hippolyta by cursing her daughter to live an infinite amount of lives, all ending in tragedy. She snatched her daughter's doppelganger, Donna Troy by mistake. Dark Angel had now made it her life's effort to make Donna as miserable as possible, [[DependingOnTheWriter either]] as revenge or just for the hell of it. Last seen under the employ of the Monitors. [[spoiler: It turned out she's really the Donna Troy of Earth-7, from the Multiverse that was destroyed in ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths''. The Anti-Monitor saved her in order to make her his own harbinger, but she was too difficult to control and fled.]] |
| 356 | ---- |
| 357 | * AbortedArc: It was implied at some point during ''Countdown'' she was going to find Donna's group and fight her, but the confrontation never happened. |
| 358 | * AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: She has chalk white skin for no real reason. When Dark Angel works for The Monitors she suddenly has plain peachy skin, but retains the red eyes. |
| 359 | * ArchEnemy: To Donna Troy. She wants nothing more than to see Donna squirm. |
| 360 | * TheBadGuyWins: No matter how one looks at it, Dark Angel basically succeeded at destroying Donna's past. The poor woman's backstory has become such a tangled mess it'll likely never be fixed. It was already troubled by ''Crisis On Infinite Earths'' but it only became irreprable thanks to Dark Angel's curse. |
| 361 | * CaptainErsatz: It was very likely this wasn't intentional, but Dark Angel racks up a lot of comparison points with Queen Nehellenia from ''Franchise/SailorMoon''. She considers herself the dark to Donna's light and the way she says it mirrors a similar conversation Nehellenia had with Queen Serenity in the manga. Like Nehellenia sought to hurt Queen Serenity through her daughter, Dark Angel sought revenge on Hippolyta by cursing her daughter Diana. She operates out of an otherworldly dimension she has total control over like Nehellenia, and it's reached the point that she wants to make Donna suffer for no reason other than she enjoys it, just as Nehellenia wants Sailor Moon to suffer. What further strengthens this is that Donna is linked to the moon, and was at one point the literal goddess of the moon. |
| 362 | * ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Was last seen escaping from Earth-33 in ''Countdown to Adventure'' #4. At this point, we've no idea what her status is now that the Monitors are gone, but has managed to come back before, no matter what happened to her... |
| 363 | * DarkActionGirl: She's an insanely powerful witch capable of using advanced spells and disguises, but she's also willing to get her hands dirty and physically engage her foes. |
| 364 | * DeadPersonImpersonation: Dark Angel takes on the form of Kara Zor-El's father while trying to convince Supergirl to kill Superman and or herself. |
| 365 | * DemonicPossession: First manifested on Earth by possessing Paula von Gunther's body. |
| 366 | * {{Determinator}}: It's possible to incapacitate her and even kill her, but she'll always get back up for more. The only way the Titans were able to stop her second attempt on Donna's existence was by sealing her inside Nightstar's "tree house" dimension. |
| 367 | * DoppelgangerAttack: In ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'', she was able to make five alternate copies of herself to go into different points in Donna Troy's lifetime and kill her, including a cyborg, an old woman, a bat-like demon, a glam punk, and a teenage girl. |
| 368 | * TheDragon: Was this for Adolf Hitler, [[TokenEvilTeammate later for the Monitors]]. The Anti-Monitor groomed her to be this, but she escaped into the time stream. |
| 369 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: She made it clear that, while she was occupying the body of Paula von Gunther and under Hitler's control, she did not share in his Nazi dogma. Subverted as, while she has no racial beliefs personally, she'll personally engage in the genocide of an entire race if ordered to do so. Just ask the Forerunners-[[ForegoneConclusion oh wait.]] |
| 370 | * EvilCounterpart: She was supposed to be one to Harbinger, under the Anti-Monitor's control, but she escaped before it happened. Later she was supposed to be a ''replacement'' to Harbinger, after Harbinger died, but [[TyrantTakesTheHelm ended up living up to her original purpose instead]]. |
| 371 | * EvilTwin: [[spoiler: To Donna Troy. She's really the Donna of a destroyed parallel Earth]]. |
| 372 | * ForTheEvulz: It isn't clear if what she's doing to Donna Troy is simple revenge, because she likes screwing with her, or [[spoiler: because she's evious of Donna living a life Dark Angel could have had if not for the Anti-Monitor kidnapping Dark Angel]]. |
| 373 | * HotWitch: Although a temporal doppelganger of herself was a white haired hag. |
| 374 | * MirrorMatch: Dark Angel transformers into a duplicate of Kara Zor-El and starts beating up the original, trying to get Kara to admit she's a sorry Supergirl who should retire. Dark Angel ends up reverting to her true form out of frustration, screaming that she will prove Kara is a cancer that needs be to cut out of reality before [[AntiClimax a Monitor drags Dark Angel away]]. |
| 375 | * NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: In ''Countdown to Adventure'' #4, she could grow to giant size. This was the first and last time she ever demonstrated this power. She also demonstrated the power to bring the dead back to life in ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}''. |
| 376 | * OmnicidalManiac: Wiped out the entire Forerunner race of Earth-48 with the shadow demons, then gloated to Viza Aziv that she enjoyed watching them die. |
| 377 | * RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Characterized by her long black hair and red dress and she's incredibly dangerous. |
| 378 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: Her eyes shift from black with red pupils, to black with white pupils. |
| 379 | * TheResenter: The source of her hatred of Donna Troy is due to the fact she got to live the life that was forever taken from Earth-7 Donna after ''Crisis of Infinite Earths'' wiped her world from existence. All efforts by her have been made for the sake of either destroying Donna out of resentful jealousy or taking Donna's life as her own. |
| 380 | * RetGone: She did this twice to Donna Troy. The first time, when she still believed Donna was really Diana and subjected her to a multitude of lives ending in tragedy. The second time, as revenge for killing her, she erased the memory of Donna from everyone in the DCU, but did so to every other version of Donna ''before'' the one in the main DC timelines. However, the trick doesn't work on time travelers because it means they're outside of the revisions when they occur. |
| 381 | * RoguesGalleryTransplant: From Donna Troy to Kara Zor-El(Supergirl). This was ''supposed'' to be a HeelFaceTurn, [[TokenEvilTeammate but old habits die hard]]. |
| 382 | * SecretTestOfCharacter: In ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'', she was ordered by the Monitors to test the current Kara Zor-El to see if she deserved the right to exist in the current DC Universe. Dark Angel didn't take Kara passing the test with grace. |
| 383 | * TokenEvilTeammate: Working for The Monitors rather than the Anti-Monitor, or herself, makes Dark Angel less destructive, but it doesn't make her any better from a moral standpoint. She doesn't flee The Monitors the way she did The Anti-Monitor, she doesn't even disobey them directly, [[DrunkWithPower but she does everything in her power to ensure her subjects will fail her examinations]]. Her last appearance is being dragged off by a Monitor who is apologizing to Supergirl |
| 384 | * UnexplainedRecovery: There's been no explanation offered as to how Dark Angel came back after Donna Troy killed her in ''Wonder Woman''. |
| 385 | * WouldHurtAChild: Was more than willing to harm Donna Troy when Donna was a still young girl. It's implied that Dark Angel was responsible for the crash that killed Donna's ex-husband, her son, and stepdaughter. |
| 386 | [[/folder]] |
| 387 | |
| 388 | [[folder:Decay]] |
| 389 | !!Decay |
| 390 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/decay_5.jpg]] |
| 391 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' (Vol 2) #3 |
| 392 | !!! '''Created By:''' George Pérez |
| 393 | |
| 394 | ->''"How '''ironic''', Amazon -- that this new '''refuge''' should become your '''final resting place!'''"'' |
| 395 | |
| 396 | A creature born from the heart of Medusa, Decay was sent by Phobos, son of Ares, to destroy Wonder Woman. |
| 397 | ---- |
| 398 | * EvilCounterpart: Decay was shaped from the Gorgon's seething heart much as Diana was shaped from clay. She shares many of Diana's powers including {{Flight}}, SuperStrength and SuperToughness. |
| 399 | * {{Flight}}: Decay can fly. |
| 400 | * {{Golem}}: Phobos shaped Decay from the molten material of Medusa's heart. |
| 401 | * LeanAndMean: Looks like a skin suit draped over a skeleton. |
| 402 | * MakeThemRot: As indicated by her name, Decay's touch causes things to decompose. |
| 403 | * ReducedToDust: Decay's touch can do this. |
| 404 | * ReviveKillsZombie: Decay, who is a essentially a zombie made from Medusa's heart, is destroyed by the restorative powers of Diana's lasso. |
| 405 | * SuperStrength: Decay possesses superhuman strength equivalent to Wonder Woman's. |
| 406 | * SuperToughness: Decay possesses durability equivalent to Wonder Woman's. |
| 407 | * TouchOfDeath: As the embodiment of Death, Decay can kill with her touch. |
| 408 | [[/folder]] |
| 409 | |
| 410 | [[folder:Devastation]] |
| 411 | !!Devastation |
| 412 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/6a94f95329afd442941a359bc7c549a8.png]] |
| 413 | !!! '''AKA:''' Deva |
| 414 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Vol 2]] #143. (1999) |
| 415 | !!! '''Created By:''' Eric Luke & Yanick Paquette |
| 416 | |
| 417 | ->''"You can't fight somebody you care for... that you're afraid of hurting! Excuse me for crowing, Diana, but game... set... and match!"'' |
| 418 | |
| 419 | A clay golem brought to life by the Titan Cronus, Devastation is effectively an evil Wonder Woman, possessing all of her powers and more, and none of her morality. Realizing that Diana would be too difficult to defeat on her own, Devastation has repeatedly tried to strike at her through Cassie Sandsmark. |
| 420 | ---- |
| 421 | * AdaptationalUgliness: She's a lot less cute than usual in DC Rebirth to [[BeautyEqualsGoodness reinforce]] Donna Troy's status as the TokenGoodTeammate. |
| 422 | * AdaptationalWimp: DC Rebirth Devastation is nowhere near as effective as her post crisis incarnation, however the new version does get a nice sword. |
| 423 | * ArchEnemy: She was created to oppose Wonder Woman, but Post Crisis Devastation takes it upon herself to torment Sandsmark, often without even considering her long term mission against Wonder Woman. |
| 424 | * ArmorIsUseless: Diana dons her golden eagle armor only for Devastation to effortlessly shred through it...[[CoversAlwaysLie on cover of the comic]]. The two were and continue to be portrayed as relative equals in the comic's actual pages. |
| 425 | * DeliberatelyCuteChild: Is not afraid of taking on the shape of a child to lull enemies into a false sense of security, or goad people into giving her what she wants. Post Crisis it was her modus operandi. |
| 426 | * DishingOutDirt: Her connection to the planet she's on allows Devastation to cause earthquakes, appropriately. |
| 427 | * EnfantTerrible: Often takes this form, though she can be as old as she wants. |
| 428 | * EvilCounterpart: To Diana, having been created by Cronus in the same way that Diana was created by Aphrodite, Athena and Artemis. They even share DNA. |
| 429 | * FakeMemories: Devastation has the power to change a target's memories to whatever she wants them to be. This works [[AntagonistAbilities independent to the targets will power and bypasses usual resistances or immunities to psychic powers]]. [[ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaMan Diana]], with her inclination towards the truth and her lasso that enforces to truth to assert itself, she tends to not have to worry about this directly affecting her, and also has the means of removing these fake memories, but Donna Troy and Cassie Sandsmark aren't so lucky. |
| 430 | * FisherKingdom: Devastation is literally as strong and tough as the planet she happens to be residing on... though what that "literally" means depends on the writer. As long as Earth has a functioning ecosphere she doesn't even need to eat, but apparently still has to hold her breath underwater so Devastation still has some level of human respiration. |
| 431 | * HealThySelf: She can reshape her body into "any woman she wants", and use this ability to mend damage done to it. |
| 432 | * HoistHeroOverHead: CoversAlwaysLie but her inroductory comic shows her holding a defeated Diana over her head with one hand. |
| 433 | * HumanShifting: Her default height is an imperial 4'2. She can make herself smaller, though nowhere near as small as Atomia, and make herself larger, but no where near as large as Giganta, being limited to realistic human proportions. But when coupling this ability with a few illusions she can impersonate any number of people. |
| 434 | * LaserGuidedAmnesia: You might be a better fighter or smarter tactician than Devastation, but she can make you forget what makes you so. |
| 435 | * LegionOfDoom: In the Rebirth continuity Paul Von Gunther recruits Devastation, Genocide, and Donna Troy, three "anti wonder women" along with Armageddon II to serve as her "four horsewomen" in an attempt to destroy Themyscira and avenge [[FeudingFamilies The Valkyries killed by The Amazons ages ago]]. Donna Troy doesn't play along, however. |
| 436 | * MadeOfEvil: {{Defied|Trope}}, as Wonder Woman made use of TimeTravel to alter Devastation's creation. Devastation ''can'' choose to be good now, even if she usually doesn't. |
| 437 | * TheManBehindTheMan: To Doctor Poison II during the latter's first appearance. |
| 438 | * ManipulativeBastard: The reason she prefers to torment Cassie Sandsmark instead of Diana. Devastation finds Sandsmark harder to hurt physically, but far easier to manipulate psychologically and emotinoally. |
| 439 | * MundaneSolution: She can't beat Wonder Woman with her powers during their first fight, but manages to send her into retreat with serious injuries after shooting her with a handgun. Wonder Woman being seriously injured by low caliber round was {{retcon}}ned after fans complained but Devastation making use of mundane weaponry was not. Even if it does prove ineffective against her superpowered opponents she'll still put it to great use against [[{{muggles}} their intended targets]]. |
| 440 | * OriginalGeneration: She was empowered by a generation of Titans, [[EatsBabies released from the bowels of Cronus willingly]] after he was imprisoned, that did not exist in classical mythology, created specifically for the comic. |
| 441 | * SuperPowerLottery: A major winner. She is a FlyingBrick and MasterOfIllusion with NighInvulnerability and the ability to insert FalseMemories into a target. She has SuperReflexes, SuperSpeed and SuperStrength. |
| 442 | * SuperSpeed: She can move faster than her own bullets. |
| 443 | [[/folder]] |
| 444 | |
| 445 | [[folder:Doctor Cyber]] |
| 446 | !!Doctor Cyber |
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| 451 | [[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cylvia_cyber_earth_one_0001.jpg]] |
| 452 | !!! '''AKA:''' Cylvia Cyber, Adrianna Anderson |
| 453 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] #179. (1968) |
| 454 | !!! '''Created By:''' Dennis O'Neil & Mike Sekowsky |
| 455 | |
| 456 | ->''"I'm a fully realized, entirely liberated, cognitive neural-network in digital form... what you would call an artificial intelligence... so, I'm not just a machine... I'm the woman of your dreams, baby, I'm a digital goddess in a quantum-optical mainframe."'' |
| 457 | |
| 458 | A scientist turned crime boss, Doctor Cyber replaced parts of her body with cybernetic implants and donned a power suit to battle Wonder Woman. A major enemy during MediaNotes/{{the Bronze Age|OfComicBooks}}, she's faded from the public eye since then, battling Wonder Woman only once in Post-Crisis continuity. Most of her plots revolve around global conquest and large-scale extortion schemes. |
| 459 | ---- |
| 460 | * AffectionateNickname: ''Rebirth'' Adrianna Anderson Cyber refers to Veronica Cale as "Ronnie". |
| 461 | * AlliterativeName: Either as '''Cy'''lvia '''Cy'''ber or '''A'''drianna '''A'''nderson. |
| 462 | * BadassCape: Pre-and-Post-Crisis alike she has a purple cape hanging off her armour. |
| 463 | * BrainUploading: ''Rebirth'' Cyber's origins. She and Veronica were using a remote-controlled drone to gain information on Diana, but it came with the flaw of only being viable for two minutes before the human operator would be fatally injured by the strain. Adrianna volunteered to do it anyway, and was fried. Some of her mind was uploaded into a mainframe, resulting in Doctor Cyber. A Physical Doctor Cyber who presumably is Clyvia, shows up in ''World's Finest'', however. |
| 464 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: Adrianna Anderson was something of an oddball as a human, but a bona-fied cybernetic genius nonetheless. Her goofy behavior transferred over with the uploading. |
| 465 | * ColdBloodedTorture: Pre Crisis, Doctor Cyber drops Wonder Girl down a TrapDoor and has her minions shoot Wonder Girl with lasers before subjecting her to [[DeadlyGas toxic gas]]. All to lure out Wonder Girl's big sister. |
| 466 | * ComplexityAddiction |
| 467 | ** Pre Crisis Cylvia Cyber's plans are rarely straight forward. In her second appearance she intended to kill the children of United States sentator with bombs installed inside of their toys in order to rob jewelry stores in London. It gave an investigating Steve Trevor quite the runaround. |
| 468 | ** Cylvia Cyber discovered Dr. Gustav Renault was more adept in the field of cosmetics than Doctor Moon. Rather than just hire Renault as she had Moon, however, Cyber decided to fatally drain the knowledge from his brain into a computer server and then extract his cosmetic knowledge from it. Naturally the machine gets damaged before her work is completed. |
| 469 | * CompositeCharacter: As of ''ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth'' Doctor Cyber as a character has been merged with Dr. Leslie Anderson, who was Veronica Cale's only friend in ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'' and brokenheartedly allied herself with Wonder Woman after realizing what Veronica was up to. This time it's Adrianna Anderson though, so Lesie could still be around. ''Worlds Finest'' reveals Cylvia Cyber ''is'' still around, but as an incarcerated PunchClockVillain. |
| 470 | * CoolMask: Both Pre and Post-Crisis versions wear a face concealing cybernetic mask. |
| 471 | * {{Cyborg}}: The Post-Crisis Doctor Cyber had cybernetic implants, as opposed to the Pre-Crisis version, who only had her PoweredArmor. |
| 472 | * DarkActionGirl: One whose armor and, later, cybernetic enhancements, let her be a physical threat to Wonder Woman. |
| 473 | * DeflectorShields: Built into her armored suit Pre-Crisis. |
| 474 | * DemotedToExtra: In Post-Crisis continuity where she went from a major Bronze Age villain to a minor antagonist. |
| 475 | * DespotismJustifiesTheMeans: Was willing to do whatever it took to take over the world. |
| 476 | * DiabolicalMastermind: Pre-Crisis, when she ran an international criminal syndicate dedicated to world domination. |
| 477 | * EarthquakeMachine: In the Silver Age Cilvia Cyber's first plan to take over the world involved destroying cities with earthquake machines until the leaders of the world surrendered to her. This lead her into conflict not just with Diana Prince, but with the Tiger Tong gang, as Cyber decided to start with their turf, Hong Kong, to demonstrate that she wasn't bluffing, and they wanted more money than previously agreed to when they discovered this. Cyber refused, which lead to a fight where Tiger Tong all died by Cyber was disfigured. |
| 478 | * EvilGenius: Cylvia Cyber is a MadScientist, DiabolicalMastermind, and all around evil intellectual. Andrianna Anderson has to be digitized before she really jumps into "evil" but was a genius already. |
| 479 | * FacialHorror: After Pre Crisis Cylvia Cyber's face was burned and her syndicate was destroyed in a fight with the Tiger Tong, Diana Prince and I Ching, Cyber formed a new organization called The Tribunal, which profitted on the kidnapping and exploitation of beautiful women, with one unlucky victim to have her face stolen by Doctor Cyber herself. |
| 480 | * FrameUp: Her last plot prior to Crisis On Infinite Earths, was to both take over the world through nuclear war and make sure Diana Prince was blamed for it. |
| 481 | * FusionDance: Post Crisis, Doctor Cyber is fused with fellow cyborgs to create Rosie The Riveter, Ford, Automan, Brainstorm and Emil Hamilton to form Enginehead. |
| 482 | * GadgeteerGenius: Cylvia Cyber is brilliant, if twisted, inventor. |
| 483 | * GeniusBruiser: A mad genius and inventor, whose superhuman strength and durability matches that of Wonder Woman, thanks to the armor she wears, and her willingness to transform herself into a cyborg. Pre Crisis, she was able to trap Wonder Girl and fight the remaining Teen Titans trying to rescue Wonder Girl before Wonder Woman took Doctor Cyber down. |
| 484 | * GoodScarsEvilScars: Had her face mangled during her first conflict with Diana Prince. |
| 485 | * HighCollarOfDoom: Pre-Crisis her cape had a high flaring collar. |
| 486 | * InTheHood: Post-Crisis her cape has hood that wraps about her helmet. |
| 487 | * InvisibilityCloak: Her power armour contains a device that turns her invisible. |
| 488 | * JokerImmunity |
| 489 | ** Silver Age/Bronze Age Doctor Cyber was caught in an explosion caused by one of her own {{earthquake machine}}s, impaled with her own scalpel, and fell off a ski lift, but kept returning with burns to her face from hot coals being the only lasting damage to her body. She was finally declared dead when she was on a rocket that crashed into a cliffside but still returned for ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths''. |
| 490 | ** No attempt was made to explain how Post Crisis Doctor Cyber got free of Enginehead. |
| 491 | * JustAMachine: At the end of Rucka's ''Rebirth'' run, a broken Veronica snarls that she's not the real Adrianna, just a machine copy of her. |
| 492 | * LackOfEmpathy: Adrianna is totally willing to help Veronica get her daughter back, but that concern absolutely does ''not'' apply to anyone else. She quite gladly helps cause Barbara Ann's turn into the Cheetah, and later taunts her about Veronica sending Doctor Poison's team to kill Diana's friends. |
| 493 | * LatexPerfection: After The Tribunal's defeat, Doctor Moon performed reconstructive surgery on Cylvia Cyber, and gave her a polymask which allowed her to imitate virtually any face she wanted. Despite this, Doctor Cyber still wanted a "real" undamage face and at first pursued a more talented cosmetic surgeon Dr. Gustav Renault. After killing Renault, she decided to try and steal the face of Diana Prince again. Unfortunately for Cyber Diana had regained her powers and Wonder Woman defeated Doctor Cyber. Following this Cylvia Cyber just accepted her polymask and successfully inflitrated The Pentagon to steal the USA's nuclear launch codes, by impersonating Diana Prince. No one noticed Cyber was two inches taller than Prince until it was almost too late. |
| 494 | * MadScientist: An evil cybernetic genius. |
| 495 | * MisplacedRetribution: Cylvia Cyber becomes obessessed with getting revenge on Wonder Woman after members of The Tiger Tong gang, which Wonder Woman is neither a member of nor gives any support to, burn Cylvia's face with hot coals. |
| 496 | * MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: ''Doctor'' Cyber, would-be world conqueror. |
| 497 | * MoreExpendableThanYou: One of the reasons Adrianna plugged herself into the Cyberwalker to begin with, since her and Veronica's end goal was getting Ronnie's daughter back. Adrianna figured that if this was the case, it was better Isidora had a mom to come back to. |
| 498 | * NonActionGuy: ''Rebirth'' Adrianna, by dint of being an AI, she has no actual physical body of her own, unless there's a robot or cyborg around for her to hijack. |
| 499 | * NukeEm: Doctor Cyber's final plan to take over the world before ''Crisis On Infinite Earths'', the one that was supposed to have gotten her KilledOffForReal, was to destroy national capitols with nuclear weapons [[EmptyQuiver stolen from the United States]]. |
| 500 | * PerpetuallyProtean: Adrianna's holographic image rarely keeps the same look for more than a few minutes. |
| 501 | * PoweredArmor: Pre-Crisis, Cyber wore a suit of armor equipped with lasers and an invisibility screen. Post-Crisis, she donned a similar suit on top of her mechanical enhancements. |
| 502 | * ProjectedMan: ''Rebirth'' Adrianna uses a hologram to interact with people. |
| 503 | * {{Revenge}}: After her disfigurement, Cyber's plans turned from [[TakeOverTheWorld world domination]] to revenge on Wonder Woman. |
| 504 | * RobotMaster: Has armies of robots under her command. |
| 505 | * RoguesGalleryTransplant |
| 506 | ** Post Crisis, Doctor Cyber was more associated with The Power Company, Donna Troy and Cassie Sandsmark than Wonder Woman, only fighting Diana of Themyscira once after having been obssessed with Diana of Paradise Island in the previous continuity. |
| 507 | ** ''Batman/Superman World's Finest'' #15 revealed there is a Cylvia Cyber in the DC Rebirth/Infinite Frontier/Dawn Of DC continuity. Obviously though, she's a Superman/Batman villain with no Wonder Woman in sight. Moreover she's a PunchClockVillain who ends up going quietly with The Flash(Barry Allen). A far cry from the Silver Age/Bronze Age despot. |
| 508 | * SamusIsAGirl: Pre Crisis, Cylvia Cyber was so ShroudedInMyth that most people who had heard of "Doctor Cyber" assumed the criminal mastermind was a man. After having her face burned by the Tiger Tong, however, Cylvia Cyber made a point of letting everyone know she was a woman. |
| 509 | * SecondaryColorNemesis: She wears a green cape and her armor is mostly purple. Post Crisis, Cylvia wears clothing and amor of many colors, but Infinite Froniter Cylvia is back to the secondary colors. |
| 510 | * StatuesqueStunner: Pre-disfigurement the 6 foot 2 inch tall Cyber was quite the looker. |
| 511 | * StevenUlyssesPerhero: Her real name is "Cylvia Cyber". Hr real name is Adrianna Anderson as of Rebirth, until Infinite Frontier reveals Cylvia Cyber still exists. |
| 512 | * SuperReflexes: Cylvia Cyber's robotic adjustments to her body included ones that increased her reflexes and reaction time to superhuman levels. |
| 513 | * SuperSpeed: Courtesy of her armor |
| 514 | * SuperStrength: Her armor and cybernetic enhancements allow her to fight Wonder Woman evenly. |
| 515 | * TakeOverTheWorld: Wants to rule the world, as was typical of Bronze Age villains. |
| 516 | * TookALevelInCynicism: The living, breathing Adrianna Anderson was a fan of Wonder Woman's who was only messing with her for the sake of reuiniting Isadore Cale's soul with her body. The uploaded, digitized "Doctor Cyber" hates Wonder Woman and is dedicated to hurting her. Being an program limited to holographic projectors and the speaker systems of Empire Enterprises, Anderson can do no more than [[PokeThePoodle tell Wonder Woman how much she sucks and provocatively pose for Steve Trevor in front of her]]. She even blames Wonder Woman for Cheetah's fate after [[LackOfEmpathy gleefully mocking Barbara Minverva for her own role in turning Minverva back into Cheetah]]. |
| 517 | * UndyingLoyalty: Even after Veronica Cale refuses to call her Adrianna Anderson anymore, calling her nothing more than the artificial intelligence Doctor Cyber that Cale made, and telling "Doctor Cyber" to "go away", Anderson still tells Cale to call her when she needs her. |
| 518 | * WeCanRuleTogether: Cylvia Cyber is initially presented as a jewel thief in the Silver Age, and when she makes her first move to takover the world Cylvia Cyber invites the then {{depower}}ed Diana Prince and offers to let Prince in on the plan, being impressed by Diana Prince and I Ching's efforts to stop one of Cyber's hiests. |
| 519 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Doctor Cyber decides to have the Tiger Tong gang killed when their leader wants more money in exchange for letting Doctor Cyber destroy Hong Kong. Doctor Cyber's forces win the fight but the Tiger Tong [[TheDogBitesBack burn her face in the process]]. |
| 520 | [[/folder]] |
| 521 | |
| 522 | [[folder:Doctor Poison (I-IV)]] |
| 523 | !!Doctor Poison I |
| 524 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/doctor_poison_i.jpg]] |
| 525 | [[caption-width-right:350:Doctor Poison I]] |
| 526 | !!! '''AKA:''' Maru (I) |
| 527 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/SensationComics'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] #2. (1942) |
| 528 | !!! '''Created By:''' William Moulton Marston & Harry G. Peter |
| 529 | !!! '''Universes:''' Earth-Two, Earth-One, New Earth |
| 530 | |
| 531 | ->''"I am the Princess Maru. My genius shall destroy America."'' |
| 532 | |
| 533 | An outcast member of the Japanese imperial family, Doctor Poison is a diabolical genius who specializes in toxins and disease. The first Doctor Poison, alias Princess Maru, fought Diana (later retconned to be Hippolyta, as the Golden Age Wonder Woman), during World War II, both on her own as an agent of Imperial Japan, and as part of Villainy, Incorporated. |
| 534 | ---- |
| 535 | * AmbiguousGender: Used bulky clothing and a mask to conceal her gender from the world. |
| 536 | * AristocratsAreEvil: The original Doctor Poison was the Princess Maru, member of Japanese Imperial family, a spy and chief of the Nazi Poison Division. So, not really a fairy tale princess. |
| 537 | * BadassLongcoat: Wrapped head to foot in a concealing greatcoat in her first and second incarnations. |
| 538 | * BadassNormal: Poison was a reasonably competent threat, despite lacking any innate superpowers, or even advanced combat training. |
| 539 | * DeadlyGas: Retconned into deploying it in the Post-Crisis era. |
| 540 | * DiabolicalMastermind: The first Doctor Poison was an archetypal diabolical mastermind, operating at the top of a network of spies. Her successors also shares her penchant for operating through henchmen, though they typically do so at the behest of others. |
| 541 | * DominoMask: Worn by Doctor Poison I atop the false face that concealed her gender. |
| 542 | * EvilGenius: Plenty of brainpower, no morals. |
| 543 | * FairForItsDay: She's still evil, no doubt about it, but at the very least her portrayal lacks a lot of the [[AsianBuckTeeth more ]] [[AsianSpeekeeEngrish offensive]] traits often given to Japanese characters at the time, which is both unusual and refreshing for this era. |
| 544 | * {{Gonk}}: Subverted. While she seems very unappealing, this is merely a mask worn to disguise her identity as a Japanese princess and [[http://assets1.ignimgs.com/2016/11/03/dr-poison-revealedjpg-fe226e_1280w.jpg she is revealed to be more conventionally attractive]]. |
| 545 | * GreenAndMean: Dr. Poison and all of her successors dress in green, and they're all very dangerous villains. |
| 546 | * {{Hypocrite}}: As a strong-willed, independent woman fighting for a regime that valued subservience in women (even members of the royal family), Doctor Poison I was inherently hypocritical. |
| 547 | * KarmicDeath: Maru was killed by her own concoction, Reverso, which aged her down to a fetus, then out of existence all together. |
| 548 | * MadDoctor: Holds a legitimate doctorate, and uses it as an excuse to perform unethical modifications on patients. |
| 549 | * MadScientist: Willing to harm anyone in the name of scientific progress. |
| 550 | * MasterPoisoner: An expert in the use of poisons, toxins and plagues. |
| 551 | * MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: A pretty classic example, dating back to the 1940s. |
| 552 | * NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: In the modern era she's become a DistaffCounterpart to real life Japanese war criminal Ishii Shiro, who experimented on Chinese civilians with bubonic plague, smallpox, anthrax, and other biological and chemical agents. |
| 553 | * {{Retcon}}: Much of what Doctor Poison II talks about, and various flashbacks would indicate that Doctor Poison I, originally a fairly standard Golden Age villain whose plans involved stopping plane engines and reverting people to infancy, has been retconned into having been as vile as her grandchild. |
| 554 | * SamusIsAGirl: Outed as a woman at the end of her first story, after having been assumed to be a man. |
| 555 | * SecondaryColorNemesis: Dressed head to foot in dark green. |
| 556 | * VillainousPrincess: The original Doctor Poison was a member of the Japanese Imperial family during WWII. While the entire family was, in some ways, complicit in Japan's actions, Maru's willingness to personally participate in experimentation on human beings, coupled with her own ambitions, marked her as the most evil of the lot. |
| 557 | * VillainTeamUp: A founding member of Villainy Incorporated Pre-Crisis and Post-Crisis. |
| 558 | * WeaponOfMassDestruction: Her entire motif involves chemical and biological weaponry, two of the three weapons types classed as [=WMD=]s. |
| 559 | * YellowPeril: A renegade member of the Japanese imperial clan out to destroy the United States of America, she hits plenty of the tropes. That said, she lacks the caricatured appearance and speech patterns that afflicted so many of the Asian characters of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, and as such her portrayal can be regarded as FairForItsDay. |
| 560 | |
| 561 | !!Doctor Poison II |
| 562 | |
| 563 | [[quoteright:234:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/doctor_poison_2215.jpg]] |
| 564 | [[caption-width-right:234:Doctor Poison II]] |
| 565 | !!! '''AKA:''' Unknown |
| 566 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' Vol 2 #151. (1999) |
| 567 | !!! '''Created By:''' Eric Luke · Matthew Clark |
| 568 | |
| 569 | ->''"The subject was a carrier. The virus will disseminate. The nightmare of myth shall invade the world of man. This is only the beginning."'' |
| 570 | |
| 571 | Decades after WWII, Doctor Poison I's unnamed grandchild would take on the identity of Doctor Poison to battle Diana in the Post-Crisis era, and would also join a new version of Villainy, Incorporated. Charitably described as a maddened sadist, this version of Doctor Poison has made it clear that she does not share her grandmother's ideological convictions, and would gladly kill every man, woman, and child on Earth in the name of her research. |
| 572 | ---- |
| 573 | * AmbiguousGender: Dr. Poisons I & II have used bulky clothing and masks to conceal their genders from the world. The original Dr. Poison was eventually revealed as a woman, but the second one's gender has never been confirmed either way, though most people assume that it is female. |
| 574 | * BlueBlood: The original Doctor Poison was an Imperial Japanese princess. While Doctor Poison II is not a member of the royal family, their blood still flows in her veins. |
| 575 | * BodyHorror: Self-inflicted. She uses drugs and surgical wires to fix her eyes and mouth into a permanent stare and grin. She's also made other, less visible modifications that let her exhale poison gas. |
| 576 | * BreathWeapon: Doctor Poison II is able to exhale DeadlyGas, thanks to modifications to her own saliva. |
| 577 | * CoolMask: Wears a creepy looking leather mask. |
| 578 | * DeadlyGas: A major fan of the stuff, using it as her weapon. |
| 579 | * EvilGenius: Plenty of brainpower, no morals. |
| 580 | * EvilutionaryBiologist: Doctor Poison II is an arcanobiologist, devoted to the study of the biology of demigods, techno-organic beings, etc. This has led her to mutate humans into monsters using the DNA of supernatural or otherworldly beings, and to derive toxins and diseases from the genetics of such beings. |
| 581 | * ForScience: Doctor Poison II is far more interested in the results of her experiments than she is in ideology. |
| 582 | * GoodScarsEvilScars: Features a scar in the shape of a caduceus around her eye. Her mask has a caduceus design in the same place. |
| 583 | * HiredGuns: Has hired out her services to Devastation, Circe, and Clea among others. |
| 584 | * LegacyCharacter: Took over the role from her grandmother. |
| 585 | * MadDoctor: Holds a legitimate doctorate, and uses it as an excuse to perform unethical modifications on patients. |
| 586 | * MadScientist: Willing to harm anyone in the name of scientific progress. |
| 587 | * MasterPoisoner: An expert in the use of poisons, toxins and plagues. |
| 588 | * MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Holds the same one her grandmother did. |
| 589 | * NoNameGiven: The second Dr. Poison's name has never been revealed. |
| 590 | * OmnicidalManiac: Released a lethal virus in the hopes that it would multiply and destroy the world. It failed, but not from lack of effort on her part. |
| 591 | * PoisonousPerson: Doctor Poison II can excrete poisons from her skin and saliva, thanks to modifications she made to herself. |
| 592 | * PsychoForHire: Doctor Poison II has hired out his/her services to other members of Wonder Woman's rogues gallery. |
| 593 | * SlasherSmile: Doctor Poison II uses a drug to lock her face in this position so that nobody can read her expression. |
| 594 | * SlaveMooks: Tortured the citizens of Skartaris into becoming zombies slaved to her will. |
| 595 | * VillainTeamUp: The second Doctor Poison joined the Secret Society of Supervillains and aided in the creation of Genocide, in addition to joining Queen Clea's second Villainy Inc. |
| 596 | * WeaponOfMassDestruction: Her entire motif involves chemical and biological weaponry, two of the three weapons types classed as [=WMD=]s. |
| 597 | * YellowPeril: Averted. While she's at least partly Japanese, she doesn't share her grandmother's connection to the home country and her mask makes the full extent of her ethnic make up almost impossible to determine. |
| 598 | |
| 599 | !!WMG:Doctor Poison III |
| 600 | [[quoteright:178:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/doctor_maru.png]] |
| 601 | !!! '''AKA:''' Unknown |
| 602 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman2011 Vol 4]] #48. (2016) |
| 603 | !!! '''Created By:''' Meredith Finch · David Finch |
| 604 | |
| 605 | ->''"You've been a good soldier, General Zunchievwski. But I think we both know that failure is not an option. not when i'm this close to victory."'' |
| 606 | |
| 607 | A Russian woman with a grudge against the USA and a habit of funding terrorism served as the New 52 Doctor Poison before she was erased from continuity via being revealed to have been part of Wonder Woman's false implanted memories at the start of DC Rebirth. |
| 608 | ---- |
| 609 | * RaceLift: Post-Flashpoint, Doctor Poison was revamped from a dark haired Japanese woman to a blonde, white Russian woman. |
| 610 | * WesternTerrorists: She funds and works with such groups, at one point attacking a summit in the hopes of assassinating the US president. |
| 611 | |
| 612 | !!Doctor Poison IV |
| 613 | [[quoteright:240:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dr_poison_iv.jpg]] |
| 614 | !!! '''AKA:''' Marina Maru |
| 615 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth Vol 5]] #13. (2017) |
| 616 | !!! '''Created By:''' Greg Rucka · Renato Guedes |
| 617 | |
| 618 | ->''"If I learned anything as a child... it's that you always need a backup plan."'' |
| 619 | |
| 620 | A version of the character created after DC Rebirth, Marina Maru is a former Japanese colonel who leads a mercenary gang known only as "POISON". |
| 621 | ---- |
| 622 | * AlliterativeName: '''Mar'''ina '''Mar'''u. |
| 623 | * BatmanGambit: Marina Maru gets Steve Trevor to surrender by holding Wonder Woman at gunpoint while Diana has none of her wonderful powers and no awareness of her surroundings or situation, due to mind tampering [[ContrivedCoincidence Maru had nothing to do with, that can't be dealt with for reasons independent of Maru's presence]]. Furthermore, Marina ''can't'' kill Diana at this point without compromising her mission, and it's in her best interest to restore Wonder Woman's mind too. Steve Trevor of course knows none of this but Maru knows exactly how Trevor will respond. |
| 624 | * ColonelBadass: DC Rebirth gave Doctor Poison IV the rank of Colonel in the Japanese military. |
| 625 | * TheDreaded: To highly skilled but still human soliders like Steve Trevor, Team Poison mercenaries are the fiercest of opponents and Marina Maru stands atop them all. To Wonder Woman though, [[OvershadowedByAwesome they're just annoying]]. |
| 626 | * GoodScarsEvilScars: Features a scar in the shape of a caduceus below her eye. |
| 627 | * InverseLawOfUtilityAndLethality: Marina Maru fully unloads on Wonder Woman, in the knowledge Diana can take it, while using far more restraint with Steve Trevor, Etta Candy and Sasha Bordeaux. |
| 628 | * NothingPersonal: Diana points out that while attempts on her life may not be from any actual dislike on Marina's part, she quite understandably takes people trying to kill her and her friends ''[[DefiedTrope very]]'' personally |
| 629 | * OvershadowedByAwesome: Marina Maru is very good at what she does. And what she does is kidnap and assasinate political and economic targets in the mediterranean region. She also has some conventional combat experience in the Pacific, but an enemy faster than a bullet and more powerful than a tank shell is a little out of her depth. Further complicating things is that Veronica Cale wants Wonder Woman alive when it's all Marina Maru can do just land a hit. It's only through some {{contrived coincidence}}s that Team Poison remain a threat for more than two issues. |
| 630 | * PunchClockVillain: She tries to drive off, distract and capture Wonder Woman at various points, as well as flushout, pindown, execute or kidnap members of ARGUS, who are largely just trying to hide from Poison. She even helps Veronica Cale coerce Barbara Minerva into become Cheetah again, but like most of Godwatch, it's all just a job to Marina Maru. She spares Steve Trevor's life when she doesn't have to, since Maru doesn't have to kill Trevor either, just get Cale what Cale wants. |
| 631 | * ShootingSuperman: She actually manages to shoot Wonder Woman in the chest with a sniper rifle after setting up a distraction to occupy her and Steve Trevor. Wonder Woman quickly finds Marina Maru's position and knocks Marina out, but it becomes a valuable learning experience for Diana when she has to deal with Mayfly a couple of story arcs later. |
| 632 | * TrapMaster: [[NearVillainVictory She casually makes her way through Steve Trevor's booby traps]]...only for the rest of Team Poison to trigger them anyway when they indentify and try to shoot him. |
| 633 | [[/folder]] |
| 634 | |
| 635 | [[folder:Doctor Psycho]] |
| 636 | !!Doctor Psycho |
| 637 | [[quoteright:272:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dr__psycho_4432.jpg]] |
| 638 | !!! '''AKA:''' Edgar Cizko |
| 639 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] #5. (1943) |
| 640 | !!! '''Created By:''' William Moulton Marston |
| 641 | !!! '''Universes:''' Earth-Two, Earth-One, New Earth, Prime Earth, [[ComicBook/WonderWomanEarthOne Earth 1]], Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse, [[WesternAnimation/DCUniverseAnimatedOriginalMovies DCUAOM]], [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold BTBATB]], [[ComicBook/AmalgamUniverse Earth-496]], Earth-1927, WesternAnimation/TeenTitans, VideoGame/DCUniverseOnline, ComicBook/WonderWoman77, Series/Powerless2017, WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019 |
| 642 | |
| 643 | ->''"Ladies, gentlemen, others, creatures of indeterminate inner demons and fixations -- my name is Dr. Psycho. And you're going to help me with a little experiment. All I ask? That you keep an open mind."'' |
| 644 | |
| 645 | Diana's most disgusting and diminutive foe can control people's minds and broadcast illusions. He's a misogynistic sadist with serious problems when it comes to interacting with women... and it doesn't help that he has a creepy crush on Wonder Woman. |
| 646 | ---- |
| 647 | * AxCrazy: A completely unhinged monster. |
| 648 | * BaldOfEvil: In the mid-2000s. He grew his hair back in time for ''The Odyssey''. |
| 649 | * BeardOfEvil: Most modern depictions of Psycho feature this look. |
| 650 | * BerserkButton: Being embarrassed in any way will set Psycho off. Commenting on his height, or lack thereof, will do it even faster. |
| 651 | * BodySwap: In Wonder Woman volume three Doctor Psycho switches bodies with Sergeant Steel and then brainwashes Steel into forgetting the switch ever happened. Luckily for Psycho Wonder Woman is on a mission that ''requires'' Doctor Psycho be captured alive by the time it is undone. |
| 652 | * CardCarryingVillain: He once went on a rampage because a woman called him "normal". He ''loves'' being a villain. |
| 653 | * ColdBloodedTorture: Of the psychological variety, mostly, but he doesn't exactly shy away from the physical variety either. He once threatened to use his psychic powers to force Catman to eat his own intestines. |
| 654 | * ComicBookFantasyCasting |
| 655 | ** In his original Harry G Peters depiction, he has a glaring TakeThat facial resemblance to a caricature of Josef Goebbels. |
| 656 | ** Creator/GailSimone arranged for him to look like Creator/PeterDinklage circa ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'' and its aftermath. |
| 657 | * DefiantToTheEnd: {{Defied|Trope}} at the last second. When Psycho was about to be killed by The Morrigan, a pair of goddesses who had already captured and tortured him, he used what he thought would be his last seconds to laugh in their faces and tell them that Wonder Woman was coming for them. |
| 658 | * DependingOnTheArtist: How disfigured he is varies. Sometimes he's a twisted little troll of a man, as in the page image. Other times he's still a dwarf, with short legs and an outsized head, but is more or less good looking. |
| 659 | * DependingOnTheWriter: Whether his FreudianExcuse is given any play or not, and if his crush on Diana is a redeeming quality or just makes him worse. |
| 660 | * DepravedDwarf: Stunted and twisted in both body and spirit summarizes Doctor Psycho pretty well. We're talking an evil midget who once [[spoiler:used mind-control to make a bunch of people commit cannibalism, an act that not only sexually aroused him, but inspired him to MindRape them by letting them feel his arousal as if it were their own and then let them go once he was bored]]. Even beyond that, he's defined by his hateful misogyny. |
| 661 | * DreamWalker: During ''Wonder Woman'' volume 2 Doctor Psycho torments Vanessa Kapatelis in her dreams after Wonder Woman moves out of Boston. Kapatelis eventually adapts to it and boots Psycho out of her subconsious, however. |
| 662 | * DrivenToSuicide: Dr. Psycho drives a nearby construction worker to jump off a bridge in order to get away from Wonder Woman when she confronts Psycho about lying on national television. |
| 663 | * EnemyMine: Doctor Psycho helps get Pele a spot in one of Roulette's unlicensed {{fight club|bing}}s and even arranges a handicap match between Pele and "The Orphan Sisters" since they both want half of the TagTeam dead. [[BrainsAndBrawn Pele is the power but Psycho has the connections]] that let Pele face this "Orphan Sister" on her own terms. |
| 664 | * EnemyMine: Actually aids Wonder Woman during ''Odyssey'' because he hates the new timeline as much as she does. |
| 665 | * EvilVersusEvil: During Infinite Frontier the puppet of Doctor Psycho comes into conflict with the puppets of Image-Maker, who are also antagonizing Wonder Woman but have entirely different motivations for doing so and want Psycho's puppet out of the picture, and vise-versa. |
| 666 | * FrameUp: In the Golden Age he was framed for theft by a college rival, who subsequently stole Psycho's fiancé while he was in prison. |
| 667 | * FreudianExcuse: Has a lifetime of rejection and mistreatment behind him, though whether this is played for sympathy at all depends upon the writer. |
| 668 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: Dr. Psycho is too powerful to ignore, so he gets plenty of team-ups. He's also too unhinged and malevolent to trust, so nobody minds when he gets screwed. |
| 669 | * GoodEyesEvilEyes: His are grotesquely wide and constantly bulging almost clear out of his head. |
| 670 | * HadToComeToPrisonToBeACrook: He was framed for a crime he did not commit and ended up in prison as a result, all while a colleague stole his fiancee. His time in prison seems to be the last straw that turned him into what he was. |
| 671 | * HeManWomanHater: Without the he-man part. |
| 672 | * ImAHumanitarian |
| 673 | ** In ''ComicBook/SecretSix'', they find out they're eating Solomon Grundy. Cheshire throws up. Psycho asks for more. |
| 674 | ** Infamously mind-controlled a crowd into cannibalizing people. He found it arousing. |
| 675 | * KickTheDog: He does this a LOT. Post Crisis, Doctor Morrow rats Doctor Psycho out to Wonder Woman in revenge for Psycho turning Morrow's Justice League killing weapon into a genocidal monster. |
| 676 | * LittlePeopleAreSurreal: Invoked by Psycho's mental powers and penchant for making people live through what essentially qualifies as an acid trip. |
| 677 | * ManOfWealthAndTaste: Usually dressed in a suit Post-Crisis. |
| 678 | * MassHypnosis: One of his main super powers. |
| 679 | * MasterOfIllusion: Another major super power. Dr. Psycho can create powerful illusions that are influential enough to damage or kill others. |
| 680 | * MessyHair: Pre-Crisis. Today he's more likely to have it slicked back. |
| 681 | * MindRape: He's a fan. Especially the rape part. |
| 682 | * MoodSwinger: ''Dawn Of DC'' sees Doctor Psycho seesaw between wanting to murder Wonder Woman and wanting to take Wonder Woman out on a date. His courtship still involves using his psychic powers to control people, so she still has to stop him even in his "good" moods. |
| 683 | * MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: The very name says it all. |
| 684 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Would you trust in an explicitly-psycho doctor? |
| 685 | * TheNapoleon: Hates being reminded of how small he is. |
| 686 | * NightmareFetishist: In one infamous incident, he used MoreThanMindControl to enslave multiple people and turned them on each other in a frenzy of cannibalism. ''He got '''sexually aroused''' from watching this!'' ''And'' he broadcast his sexual pleasure from the act into the minds of all his victims, resulting in a case of serious MindRape in those who survived. |
| 687 | * NoHonorAmongThieves: During his time in the Society leadership, he attempted to mind control the others in Luthor's inner circle. All of them did a NoSell, knowing full well Psycho's reputation. |
| 688 | * PetTheDog |
| 689 | ** During his EnemyMine with Wonder Woman in the altered timeline of ''Odyssey'' he not only helps restore Diana's memories of the regular timeline, but gives a long speech on how much she means to the world, and how much he admires her personally and wants to be a part of her life. His freeing Ajax later in the same arc may also qualify, even if it was in his best interests to do so. |
| 690 | ** Genuinely likes children for the innocent curiosity about them. This is subverted in that he happily harms these same children as an attack on their parents. |
| 691 | * PhonyPsychic: {{Downplayed|Trope}} in that Doctor Psycho really does have PsychicPowers, but during Infintie Frontier Psycho starts a new religious movement through {{necromancy}}, a psychic power Psycho doesn't actually have. |
| 692 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: One of the premiere examples in comics. He dates back to the Golden Age, where misogyny was his primary reason for becoming a supervillain, and it still forms a cornerstone of his persona. |
| 693 | * PsychicPowers: |
| 694 | ** Dr. Psycho is a potent telepath, which grants him the ability to astrally project, create ectoplasmic conjurations, and control minds via hypnosis and illusions. |
| 695 | ** MindOverMatter: Averted, actually. For all his nasty power over the human mind, Cziko cannot affect the physical world with his powers. |
| 696 | * PsychoForHire: When employed by The Duke of Deception, Circe, Veronica Cale, Alexander Luthor Jr, or any of the other masterminds who have used his services. |
| 697 | * PsychoPsychologist: In his original depiction he was a psychiatrist. Indeed, he has a particular talent for taking an opponent's fears and inhibitions and turning them against them. And well... for the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin psycho part]]... |
| 698 | * RedRightHand: Psycho's dwarfism is played this way. |
| 699 | * TheResenter: Resents normal sized men and women alike. |
| 700 | * SherlockScan: Black Canary produces a disguise for Wonder Woman that fools Roulette, and [[PetTheDog even Zeus lends his assistance]] in concealing Diana's identity. Doctor Psycho knows it's Wonder Woman [[RefugeInAudacity based on her thighs]], however. |
| 701 | * SinisterShades: A part of his costume in the mid-2000s. |
| 702 | * SlasherSmile: Sports it more than once. |
| 703 | * TheSociopath: Under some writers he's played as an absolute psychopath. |
| 704 | * StalkerWithACrush: To Diana, as well as Kate Spencer. |
| 705 | * TragicVillain: Initially, as he was born deformed, bullied all of his life because of it, framed for a crime that he did not commit, had his fiancee stolen from him, and was led to believe that she was complicit in the FrameUp. As the years went on, though, he became crazier and crazier and sympathies dwindled accordingly. |
| 706 | * UnderestimatingBadassery: Heroes and villains alike are prone to doing this to Psycho on account of his small size. It rarely ends well for them. |
| 707 | * UngratefulBastard: As if she needed more evidence of it at this point, but upon learning the true nature of the monster Genocide Wonder Woman declares him to be this for his role in creating the LivingWeapon, cursing herself for the dozens of times she opted not to end Doctor Psycho's life. By the time Diana does catch up with Doctor Psycho though her anger and adrenaline have faded enough for her sense of mercy to return. |
| 708 | * UnwittingPawn: Wonder Woman accuses him of heading a scam religious revival movement during ''DC Infinite Frontier''. As it turns out Dr. Psycho ''is'' in contact with more gods than he thought and for the purposes he thinks, with most of what he says being made up as his "god" isn't even bothering to answer him most of the time. Phobos and Deimos mock him before the reveal they themselves have been recorrupted by Hera. |
| 709 | * VillainousCrush: Often written as having one on Wonder Woman. During ''The Odyssey'' he comes to her assistance because he can't stand living in a world where he isn't a part of her life. |
| 710 | * WeWantOurJerkBack: After the monster Doomsday starts developing sentience, conciousness, sapience, a conscience, and then a FriendlyRivalry with Superman consisting of IneffectualDeathThreats while ''saving'' Superman from things that would actually end his life and protecting civilians in Superman's absence, Doctor Psycho tries to use his powers to make Doomsday a single minded brute again. One pointed away from Psycho himself of course. Doomsday manages to overcome Psycho's MindManipulation only for ''Flashpoint'' to roll around [[ShaggyDogStory and reset Doomsday to a murder brute anyway.]] |
| 711 | [[/folder]] |
| 712 | |
| 713 | [[folder:Drakul Karfang]] |
| 714 | !!Drakul Karfang |
| 715 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/drakul_karfang_001.JPG]] |
| 716 | !!! '''AKA''': Drakul Karfang Drankoni Serpente |
| 717 | ->'''First Appearance: ''' [[ComicBook/JLAALeagueOfOne ''JLA: A League of One'']] |
| 718 | ->'''Created By: ''' Christopher Moeller |
| 719 | |
| 720 | ->''"There is nowhere for you to fly off to this time, is there Princess? No way for you to avoid... THIS?"'' |
| 721 | |
| 722 | The main antagonist of the graphic novel League of One. An ancient dragon queen prophesied by the Oracle of Delphi to slaughter the Justice League should they face her in battle. Learning of this, Wonder Woman decides to disable the team to face the dragon herself. She goes on a rampage across Switzerland, killing many people and turning neighbors against each other out of both revenge for the destruction of her kind, and out of sadism. |
| 723 | ---- |
| 724 | * BadBoss: Treats her gnome servants like crap, having no regard whatsoever for their well being. |
| 725 | * BreathWeapon: Three different ones. Fire, magic green MookMaker fire, and poison gas. |
| 726 | * CantLiveWithoutYou: She is brought back to life by Circe, but that life only lasts so long as Circe's magic is acting on Karfang. Removing Circe returns Karfang to a dead pile of bones. |
| 727 | * ConsummateLiar: Knows of the prophecy, and temporarily convinces Diana that she misinterpreted it. [[spoiler:She didn't.]] Is also just dishonest in general. |
| 728 | * CorruptTheCutie: Well, "cutie" is pushing it, but according to one gnome the main reason she's so evil is that the gold she ate to become strong was tainted with the essence of its wicked former human owners. |
| 729 | * DraconicAbomination: Drakul has consumed so much wicked gold over her long lifespan that she's stated to have essentially become an embodiment of hatred and lies. |
| 730 | * TheDreaded: Feared by all who know of her, and for good reason. |
| 731 | * HeavySleeper: After her first defeat, she slept for six hundred years. |
| 732 | * HatePlague: Her mere presence instills paranoia and hatred within people. |
| 733 | * FatalFlaw: [[spoiler:Sees everyone as beneath her, and thus fatally underestimates Diana]]. |
| 734 | * GiantFlyer: One of her teeth is roughly as big as Wonder Woman's head, the rest of her body is in proportion to them, and she can still fly. |
| 735 | * GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: The Queen of the Dragons is evil to the core. |
| 736 | * IKnowYourTrueName: If she knows a person's real name, she can push their mind into believing lies. [[spoiler:If her own full name is revealed, she becomes weakened.]] |
| 737 | * ISurrenderSuckers: [[spoiler:Offers to allow Wonder Woman to keep her heart for insurance that she will no longer cause trouble. It's a ploy of course, and leads directly to Karfang's death]]. |
| 738 | * LastOfHerKind: Well, the last of her particular breed of dragons anyway. |
| 739 | * MookMaker: Can turn gnomes into monstrous Drakugnomes with her green flame. |
| 740 | * OurDragonsAreDifferent: A classic western style six-limbed dragon. Breathes two kinds of fire, one semi-normal flame, and a magic green flame that creates monsters. Collects gold to use as a bed, and also consumes it to strengthen outer armor, but this gold is tainted by the spirit of its owners, influencing the dragon in question. |
| 741 | * OneShotCharacter: She only shows up for a single, if memorable, graphic novel. [[spoiler: Defied. She was revived courtesy of Circe, albeit temporarily, in the pages of ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueDark'' (vol.2)]] |
| 742 | * PoisonIsEvil: She can expel toxic gas, but allegedly wasn't evil until she got her teeth on gold that had been held by greedy people. |
| 743 | * ThePowerOfHate: Her flames are instilled with the power of pure hatred, which takes the fear and hatred within a person's soul and uses it to burn them from within. [[spoiler:This is how Diana is ultimately able to defeat her. Wonder Woman has no hatred to speak of.]] |
| 744 | * RedemptionRejection: Wonder Woman offers Karfang mercy and protection if she will just surrender, but Drakul refuses, and in attacking stumbles right into the trap Wonder Woman had laid in case the offer was rejected. |
| 745 | * ResurrectTheVillain: [[spoiler:In ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueDark'' (vol.2) Circe, possessing Wonder Woman's body at the time, resurrects Drakul to serve her and in exchange she'll allow her to destroy Wonder Woman's body.]] |
| 746 | * SealedEvilInACan: After Wonder Woman kills Karfang she creates a special tomb for the skeleton and invokes the Gods Of Olympus to seal it, to ensure the dragon can never come back. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, Circe is of the same godly lineage as the Olympians and is able to open the tomb.]] |
| 747 | * SicklyGreenGlow: Her secondary fire attack is green, and can infect gnomes. |
| 748 | * SmugSnake: Arrogant and self-centered, to the point she acts without thinking and loses to foes she could have beaten with sound strategy. |
| 749 | * SoulJar: Her lineage of dragons is effectively invincible unless their heart is destroyed. |
| 750 | * StrongerWithAge: As long as she maintains a healthy diet she will continue to get stronger |
| 751 | * SuperStrength: She is much stronger than her size and musculature would suggest, and Karfang is pretty large to begin with |
| 752 | * TechnicolorFire: Has a special green fire that forcibly transforms gnomes into Drakugnome minions. |
| 753 | * ThematicRoguesGallery: A villain themed around deception and lies. Fitting for the Spirit of Truth. |
| 754 | * ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: [[spoiler:Ultimately, Diana was really the only person who could've stopped her]]. |
| 755 | [[/folder]] |
| 756 | |
| 757 | [[folder:Duke of Deception]] |
| 758 | !!Duke of Deception |
| 759 | [[quoteright:186:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/duke_of_deception.jpg]] |
| 760 | [[caption-width-right:186:Disguised]] |
| 761 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wonder_woman_villains_deception.jpg]] |
| 762 | [[caption-width-right:350:True form]] |
| 763 | !!! '''AKA:''' Dolos |
| 764 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] #2. (1942) |
| 765 | !!! '''Created By:''' William Moulton Marston & Harry G. Peter |
| 766 | |
| 767 | ->''"You are generous to me, noble Mars! Weak slaves are just the kind I desire -- I can train weakling more easily to cheat their superiors!"'' |
| 768 | |
| 769 | The Duke of Deception is Ares' right hand man and most trusted disciple. He has the ability to create illusions. |
| 770 | ---- |
| 771 | * AntagonisticOffspring: After Duke of Deception usurps his master and takes over Mars during the Golden Age Duke of Deception himself is usurped by his daugter Lya. Duke manages to wrest control back from Lya but then Mars manages to wrest control back from Duke. |
| 772 | * CanonCharacterAllAlong: He was mostly treated as an original character until ''ComicBook/WonderWomanInfiniteFrontier'' confirmed him to be based on Dolos, the personification of deceit and lies in Greek mythology. |
| 773 | * TheCorrupter: Like Ares' other associates in the Golden Age he was portrayed as influencing people to commit deception, apparently influencing Imperial Japan and Hitler. This gets to the point that when he's imprisoned Imperial Japan becomes more honest with their allies. |
| 774 | * DemonicPossession: Is apparently able to possess humans... though he often redundantly possesses bodies he has created. |
| 775 | * TheDragon: To Ares naturally, one of his most trusted allies. |
| 776 | * DragonAscendant: During the Golden Age Duke of Deception briefly overthrows Mars and rules the empire himself. |
| 777 | * {{Gonk}}: His Golden Age incarnation was pretty danged homely. Of course, he's a master of illusion, so he can look like whatever he wants. |
| 778 | * ManipulativeBastard: Duke of Decption is a bit of an idiot, [[DramaPreservingHandicap which is a good thing for life everywhere]], because he has deceived everything from humans, to gods to {{cosmic being}}s with barely recognizable thought processes across various continuties. |
| 779 | * MasterOfIllusion: He uses his illusions to spread falsehoods among humanity to provoke them into conflict and war. He often vainly projects an attractive illusion of himself. |
| 780 | * TheStarscream: Perhaps unsurprisingly, he's repeatedly attempted to betray Ares. |
| 781 | * ThematicRoguesGallery: The Duke of Deception versus the wielder of the Lasso of Truth. Even before she had the lasso of truth, Wonder Woman acted as double agent for the purpose of ''helping'' the nations Duke of Deception would tear apart with his lies. |
| 782 | * VillainousLineage: In the Golden Age his daughter Lya also antagonizes Wonder Woman. In Lya's case without and orders to or instigation from Wonder Woman, just because she knows of her from Duke of Deception and has nothing better do to after Duke of Deception kicks her off of Mars for temporarily usurping him. |
| 783 | [[/folder]] |
| 784 | |
| 785 | [[folder:Earl of Greed]] |
| 786 | !!Earl of Greed |
| 787 | [[quoteright:299:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/earl_of_greed_earth_one_001.jpg]] |
| 788 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] #2 (1942) |
| 789 | !!! '''Created By:''' William Moulton Marston & Harry G. Peter |
| 790 | !!! '''Universes:''' [[MediaNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Earth-Two]], [[MediaNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Earth-One]] |
| 791 | |
| 792 | ->''"I know you have billions in gold -- reveal the secret of your hidden vault and I will arrange your escape!"'' |
| 793 | |
| 794 | The Earl of Greed was an agent of Mars, the Greco-Roman God of War. He lived and worked on the planet Mars, alongside two other confederates named the Count of Conquest and the Duke of Deception and helped to facilitate Mars' ongoing efforts to perpetuate a never-ending state of warfare on the planet Earth. |
| 795 | ---- |
| 796 | * TheCorrupter: Like Ares' other associates in the Golden Age, he was portrayed as influencing people to act greedily, apparently influencing Imperial Japan and Hitler. |
| 797 | * FatBastard: As befits his status as a glutton, he is noticeably corpulent. |
| 798 | * {{Greed}}: Is the living embodiment of this sin, and exists to encourage others to act greedily. |
| 799 | * VillainousGlutton: His passion for consumption extends to food and drink, and he is constantly eating. |
| 800 | [[/folder]] |
| 801 | |
| 802 | [[folder:Echidna]] |
| 803 | !!Echidna |
| 804 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/echidna_5.png]] |
| 805 | !!! '''AKA:''' The Mother of Monsters |
| 806 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''DC Comics Presents'' #46 (1982) |
| 807 | !!! '''Universes:''' [[MediaNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Earth-One]], [[ComicBook/PostCrisis New Earth]], Prime Earth |
| 808 | |
| 809 | Known as the Mother of All Monsters, Echidna is a monstrous creature with the upper torso of a woman and the body and tail of a serpent. With her mate Typhon, Echidna birthed legendary monsters such as Cerberus, the Sphinx, the Chimera, and the Hydra, among others. At some point, Echidna was imprisoned underneath Themyscira. |
| 810 | |
| 811 | To learn more, see her folder [[Characters/WonderWomanMythicalFigures here]] |
| 812 | [[/folder]] |
| 813 | |
| 814 | [[folder:Egg Fu]] |
| 815 | !!Egg Fu |
| 816 | [[quoteright:237:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/egg_fu_chang_tzu.jpg]] |
| 817 | !!! '''AKA:''' Chang Tzu |
| 818 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] #157. (1965) |
| 819 | !!! '''Created By:''' Robert Kanigher & Ross Andru |
| 820 | |
| 821 | ->''"You must remain conscious while I work. The tremendous pain this will cause you is incidental, but, if consolation concerns you, it is in the name of research."'' |
| 822 | |
| 823 | Debuting in MediaNotes/{{the Silver Age|OfComicBooks}}; Egg Fu was a Chinese Communist agent (and horrible racial stereotype) who inexplicably took the form of an egg the size of a house, and used his Literature/FuManchu mustache as a weapon. Killed in combat with Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor, he was replaced by his descendant, Egg Fu the Fifth, who menaced Wonder Woman in another issue, and his robotic duplicate, Doctor Yes, who fought the Metal Men. |
| 824 | |
| 825 | Post-Crisis, Egg Fu was reimagined first as an Apokoliptian super computer, and then as a centuries old criminal mastermind and mad scientist (and horrible racial stereotype) named Chang Tzu. The Chang Tzu incarnation was the head of a collective of mad scientists on Oolong Island, and produced weapons and technology for Intergang, until he was seemingly slain by a revolt among the other scientists. Returning to life four months later, he went on to menace both Checkmate and the Outsiders, before facing Wonder Woman, Characters/PowerGirl, and [[ComicBook/Batgirl2000 Cassandra Cain]] in ''Wonder Woman #600." |
| 826 | ---- |
| 827 | * AlternateCompanyEquivalent: Morrison's version of Egg Fu was a giant flying head inside a cybernetic apparatus who killed henchmen on a whim and acted as Intergang's top scientist. It's a pretty obvious parallel to Marvel's [[Characters/MarvelComicsAIM M.O.D.O.K.]], a giant flying head inside a cybernetic apparatus with similar BadBoss tendencies and who is also typically the leader of the science-terrorist cabal known as AIM. |
| 828 | * AmbiguouslyHuman: |
| 829 | ** The original Egg Fu is egg-shaped and the size of a house, but apparently human as he's specifically a Chinese Communist agent (as racially depicted as he may be). Though his descendent, Egg Fu the Fifth references "other Egg Fus" being "hatched" which begs the question of just what process was used to create them. |
| 830 | ** What exactly Chang Tzu is was also kept up in the air. He spoke as if he was human, but didn't look it in the least, and his condition doesn't resemble any real life deformity. Though it could be the result of self-mutation. |
| 831 | * AsianSpeekeeEngrish: Egg Fu the First, Egg Fu the Fifth, and Doctor Yes all spoke this way in the sixties, mangling tenses and sentence structure and swapping "L" and "R". |
| 832 | * AxCrazy: The Chang Tzu version is a violent lunatic who kills off anyone who irritates him. |
| 833 | * BadBoss: Chang Tzu murders a henchman for laughing at his nickname. |
| 834 | * BerserkButton: Surprisingly, "Egg Fu" isn't for Chang Tzu - it is merely one on his "nine thousand and ninety-nine unmentionable names." Thinking the name is ''funny,'' however, gets you immediately killed. |
| 835 | * BodyHorror: His physical condition was played for full horror in the Chang Tzu version. |
| 836 | * TheCameo: Briefly appears in the background during ''Dark Knights: Metal'' (specifically, the ''Wild Hunt'' one-shot, which was co-written by Grant Morrison, the guy who pushed to reintroduce him in the modern day). |
| 837 | * {{Cephalothorax}}: The Chang Tzu version has mechanical arms built into his "body" which is otherwise just a head. |
| 838 | * ColdBloodedTorture: Chang Tzu puts Sasha Bordeaux and Captain Boomerang through excruciating torture in order to understand their abilities. |
| 839 | * CombatTentacles: Chang Tzu uses his mechanical tentacle arms as his main weapons. In ''Wonder Woman'' #600, two of them are fixed to his face in "honour" of his sixties prehensile moustache. |
| 840 | * DarkerAndEdgier: Post-Crisis (in ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo''), Egg Fu was transformed into the horrific and monstrous Chang Tzu, who killed a henchman because he might have once called him "Egg Fu." According to the WordOfGod, Morrison was begging them to retain the prehensile mustache, but he was voted down. |
| 841 | * DeathIsCheap: Though he has been killed on more than one occasion he never fails to reappear eventually. He has hinted that his "resurrections" are accomplished through [[BodyBackUpDrive cloning]]. |
| 842 | * DiabolicalMastermind: Both in MediaNotes/{{the Silver Age|OfComicBooks}} and MediaNotes/{{the Modern Age|OfComicBooks}}. |
| 843 | * DirtyCommunists: In his first incarnation, he was a former communist agent. |
| 844 | * EggFolk: He's a giant, sentient egg. |
| 845 | * EvilCripple: The Chang Tzu incarnation can only move with the aid of his cybernetic arms and legs. |
| 846 | * EvilLaugh: "Hee-ho!" |
| 847 | * FunetikAksent: Went on and on about "Amelicans" and his "Doomsday Locket" in the sixties. It was as painfully racist as it sounds. |
| 848 | * ImmortalityImmorality: The Chang Tzu version, who regenerates after every death. |
| 849 | * InterchangeableAsianCultures: In ''Wonder Woman'' #600, he becomes the subject of an AllAnimeIsNaughtyTentacles joke, despite supposedly being from China. |
| 850 | * LegacyCharacter: The original Egg Fu's relative, Egg Fu the Fifth, and his robotic duplicate, Doctor Yes. |
| 851 | * MadScientist: He also established an entire collective of "mad" scientists dubbed the ''Science Squad''. |
| 852 | * MultiArmedAndDangerous: The Chang Tzu incarnation features multiple mechanical arms, strong enough to tear even superhumans apart and temporarily restrain the likes of Wonder Woman and Power Girl. |
| 853 | * NighInvulnerability: Not most of the time, but in ''Wonder Woman'' #600, Diana tells Power Girl they will both have to strike with all of their might in order to put Chang Tzu down. Power Girl questions this, noting "that's a lot of might," and Wonder Woman tells her to just do it. In the end, both their full power blows prove enough to knock Chang Tzu out, but only crack his shell enough to give him the equivalent of a nosebleed. |
| 854 | * NinjaPirateZombieRobot: A cyborg Chinese mad scientist with a giant head. |
| 855 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: The original Egg Fu actually killed Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor, requiring Hippolyta to use a special machine to resurrect them. The Chang Tzu version was briefly able to subdue Diana, Cassandra Cain, ''and'' Power Girl before being taken out. |
| 856 | * ObviouslyEvil: The Chang Tzu incarnation is a giant yellow face with a SlasherSmile and various robotic arms hanging off his sides. |
| 857 | * OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: We only arrived in time to see his defeat, but Chang Tzu apparently fought Wonder Woman, Power Girl, and Batgirl all at once in ''Wonder Woman'' #600, something few villains can boast of. |
| 858 | * PrehensileHair: The sixties incarnations of Egg Fu the First and Egg Fu the Fifth both had prehensile mustaches. This was referenced in ''Wonder Woman'' #600 where some of Chang Tzu's tentacles are fixed to his face in the same place. (Grant Morrison apparently petitioned editorial to add the mustache back, but was denied.) |
| 859 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: The Chang Tzu version. |
| 860 | * RoboticPsychopath: The version that was an Apokoliptian supercomputer. |
| 861 | * RoguesGalleryTransplant: Despite being teamed with fellow WW villain Veronica Cale, the Chang Tzu incarnation initially fought the Outsiders and Checkmate, not Wonder Woman. He would eventually face her in the Issue #600 anniversary addition. |
| 862 | * StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: Chang Tzu could be shot to death by Will Magnus, yet a few years later could tank anything short of full powered blows from both Wonder Woman ''and'' Power Girl. |
| 863 | * TakeThat: His murder of one of his subordinates for laughing at his "Egg Fu" nickname could be seen as one of these, seeing as how his original name was a blatantly racist stereotype. |
| 864 | * YellowPeril: One of the most imfamous [[{{Stereotype}} stereotypically]] racist villains of the 1960s as a giant yellow-faced ''egg'' with Oriental features and a Fu Manchu mustache. John Byrne attempted to fix these problems by ret-conning him to be an Apokalyptian supercomputer, but Grant Morrison would later bring back the unfortunate implications of the character in ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'' by making him a Chinese mad scientist named Chang Tzu. |
| 865 | [[/folder]] |
| 866 | |
| 867 | [[folder:Emperor Sangtee]] |
| 868 | !!Emperor Sangtee |
| 869 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/emperor_4.png]] |
| 870 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' Vol 2 #69. (1992) |
| 871 | !!! '''Created By:''' William Messner-Loebs & Paris Cullins |
| 872 | |
| 873 | ->''"And them execute them... gruesomely. She'll be tempted to some gesture. She'll come here, either in force or by stealth..."'' |
| 874 | |
| 875 | Emperor of the Sangtee Empire, the group that enslaved Diana when she was sent spinning uncontrolled into space on a broken space station. |
| 876 | ---- |
| 877 | * AlienHair: The Emperor, like all kreel, has no hair but does have a set of barbels on the end of each brow and a flat hair substitute. |
| 878 | * BoomerangBigot: The Emperor is [[spoiler:a woman]] but practices their society's violent and horrific [[spoiler:misogyny]]. |
| 879 | * DefeatMeansFriendship: The Emperor never seems quite as militantly obsessed with the Empire's rampant misogyny as the P'Q'Rort (noble governors approx.) and after admitting defeat is seen walking arm-in-arm with Diana while discussing the Empire's plans moving forward. The Emperor also arranges for Diana and Natasha to be safely returned to earth and doesn't renege on the terms of the Empire's defeat, making slavery outlawed permanently. |
| 880 | * EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Emperor Sangtee or Majesty are the closest this character gets to a name. |
| 881 | * GalacticConqueror: The Emperor is popular with the people due to their efforts in the expansion of the Empire, and the televised depictions of them brutally putting down slave rebellions. |
| 882 | * OppositeSexClone: Kreel biology means that attempting to clone a man may result in a female infant, as is the case for [[spoiler:the Emperor]]. |
| 883 | * PointyEars: Kreel have ears that are sort of similar to a human's, with the back edge more rounded and flattened with notches and coming up to a point at the top. |
| 884 | * RankScalesWithAsskicking: They are an excellent fighter and general. This is only seen in flashbacks and holographic records since when they confront Diana one-on-one they let her talk and then lower their weapon and concede defeat. |
| 885 | * RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: Before the deception is revealed the Emperor intends to have Sakritt executed for betraying Diana to the Empire. |
| 886 | * RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: The Emperor is an active warrior and keeps informed of the rest of the nobles activities, occasionally showing up on their doorstep to take them to task for failure. |
| 887 | * SheIsTheKing: The Sangtee Emperor [[spoiler:is a woman in disguise]]. |
| 888 | * SlouchOfVillainy: The Emperor is mostly seen slouched gracefully in their throne. |
| 889 | * SpellMyNameWithAThe: The Emperor is as close to a name as they answer to, though they'll answer to "Majesty" as well. |
| 890 | * SweetPollyOliver: [[spoiler:The Emperor is a woman. Not even just her sex, once she's accused of such she agrees it's her gender]]. |
| 891 | * WarriorPrince: The Emperor rose to fame as a warrior putting down rebellions prior to ascending to the throne. |
| 892 | [[/folder]] |
| 893 | |
| 894 | [[folder:Fireworks Man]] |
| 895 | !!Fireworks Man |
| 896 | [[quoteright:263:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fireworksman1.jpg]] |
| 897 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' #141 (October, 1963) |
| 898 | !!! '''Universes:''' [[MediaNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Earth-One]] |
| 899 | |
| 900 | ->''"I am a human fireworks! No one can withstand my powers! I will shatter Wonder Woman! I will win the "Golden WW"! I, the Fireworks Man!"'' |
| 901 | |
| 902 | The Fireworks a.k.a. The Human Fireworks was formerly a chemist. The Fireworks Man turned himself into creature made from explosives in order to acquire the "Golden WW," a statue which symbolizes the defeat of Wonder Woman. |
| 903 | ---- |
| 904 | * BlindedByTheLight: Generates dazzling explosive bursts similar to fireworks. |
| 905 | * EnergyBeings: The Fireworks Man turned himself into a creature made from explosives. |
| 906 | * {{Flight}}: Has the ability to become a malleable energy generating being who can fly. |
| 907 | * HavingABlast: The Fireworks Man turned himself into creature made from explosives. |
| 908 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His real name has never been revealed. |
| 909 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: Fireworks Man's body has no set shape. |
| 910 | [[/folder]] |
| 911 | |
| 912 | [[folder:El Gaucho]] |
| 913 | !!El Gaucho |
| 914 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/elgaucho01.jpg]] |
| 915 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' Vol 1 #265 (1980) |
| 916 | !!! '''Universes:''' [[MediaNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Earth-One]] |
| 917 | |
| 918 | ->''"But now, El Gaucho has shown the world that no one may stand in the way of the Cartel... not even a Wonder Woman!"'' |
| 919 | |
| 920 | One of five assassins controlled by a mysterious entity called the Prime Planner. He originated from the wild pampas of South America and dressed much like South American gauchos. He is equipped with a flying silver robot horse, an electrified lasso, projectiles, and bolas which consist of three balls attached to a long rope that he throws at his victims. |
| 921 | ---- |
| 922 | * BattleBolas: Uses a bolas equipped with explosives or noxious gas. |
| 923 | * BeardOfEvil: Has a goatee. |
| 924 | * CaptainEthnic: A walking, talking Argentinian stereotype. |
| 925 | * EnhancedArchaicWeapon: Uses a BattleBolas equipped with explosives or noxious gas, and a lasso capable of delivering massive electric shocks. |
| 926 | * {{Gaucho}}: His name and his look. |
| 927 | * MechanicalHorse: Rides a a mechanical horse with flight capabilities. |
| 928 | * OneSteveLimit: He's got nothing to do with the heroic El Gaucho who's part of Batman Incorporated. |
| 929 | * StrawMisogynist: Is full of South American machismo and boasts that Diana has no chance against a "real man". |
| 930 | [[/folder]] |
| 931 | |
| 932 | [[folder:Genocide]] |
| 933 | !!Genocide |
| 934 | [[quoteright:265:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/genocide_9734.jpg]] |
| 935 | !!! '''AKA:''' Princess Diana of Themyscira/Wonder Woman from the future (reanimated corpse) |
| 936 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' Vol 3 #26. (2009) |
| 937 | !!! '''Created By:''' Gail Simone & Aaron Lopresti |
| 938 | |
| 939 | ->''"No. Only Genocide kills. Suffer! Do you see it? A thin grail of human blood! Covering the earth!"'' |
| 940 | |
| 941 | Created by the Secret Society of Super Villains from the soil of the sites of the world's worst atrocities[[spoiler:, using them to empower a corpse of Wonder Woman from the future]], Genocide has the strength of a god and nothing even resembling human compassion. |
| 942 | ---- |
| 943 | * AdaptationalAttractiveness: Her DC Rebirth incarnation is clothed in a way that makes her "humanity" more obvious and looks more like a muscular athlete, less like a RockMonster(which she never ''literally'' was but nonetheless looked like). This is to somewhat differentiate Genocide from new character Armageddon II, who also looks like an inhuman rock monster and is working alongside Genocide here. |
| 944 | * AdaptationalWimp: DC Rebirth Genocide is a lackey of Paula Von Gunther who's best known for being defeated after being lassoed by Diana and Donna Troy at the same, showing how two Wonder Women are better than one and that Troy has finally, truly [[HeelFaceTurn been redeemed]] in the rebirth continuity. While Post Crisis Genocide wasn't put down until a joint effort by Donna Troy, Cassie Sandsmark Diana, two super hero teams [[EnemyMine and Doctor Morrow]] with Diana being the only one standing when all was said and done. Rebirth Genocide is destroyed in a joint effort by Donna Troy, Nubia and ''Maggie'' the latter of whom does not even have any powers, only being an "honorary" amazon. |
| 945 | * AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and mass murder. |
| 946 | * BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:Genocide infects Donna Troy's brain with a trigger that goes off whenever Donna is near the lasso of truth, the thing Diana usually uses to undo MindManipulation. She also curses the lasso to burn both sisters on contact, all to ensure Diana can't "fix" Donna even if she gets the lariat back.]] |
| 947 | * CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:She's Diana's own corpse resurrected into genocide incarnate]]. |
| 948 | * ColdBloodedTorture: Poor, poor [[spoiler:Etta]], though at least she got better. |
| 949 | * CoolMask: As seen in the picture. It is usually drawn in a way that makes one question how she sees through it. |
| 950 | * TheCorrupter: Can infuse its hate into other beings. |
| 951 | * {{Curse}}: Genocide cursed the lasso of truth to burn Wonder Woman, to prevent Diana from ever getting it back. Diana does, but the effort burns the flesh off her hands, almost down to the bone. For reference, Wonder Woman pummeled Genocide into orbit, caught and tackled her back down to Earth, [[ImmuneToFire completely unbothered]] by the [[ReEntryScare heat of reentry]]! To burn her it has to be a nasty curse. |
| 952 | * DarkActionGirl: Genocide is physically female, very dark, and can take down Amazons with ease. |
| 953 | * DarkerAndEdgier: Narratively speaking, Genocide is a darker, edgier [[SevenYearRule replacement]] for Devastation. Her story follows many of the same beats, such as beating Wonder Woman and turning a Wonder Girl against her, but while Devastation is a woman with a mission, a woman that Wonder Woman is out to redeem, Genocide is a LivingWeapon Wonder Woman struggles to even humanise. Reformation is out of the question and Genocide has no mission beyond "kill", [[GoneHorriblyWrong a mission she takes way too far]], only slowing down on murder when she discovers joys of theft and torture. |
| 954 | * EmotionBomb: One of her powers, which she uses to turn [[spoiler:Donna]] against Diana. |
| 955 | * EnemyToAllLivingThings: Genocide kills anything that crosses her path indiscriminately. She only slows down on killing once she learns how to torment and torture. |
| 956 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: Causes this reaction even among the Secret Society of Super Villains, especially with Dr. Morrow [[spoiler:who reveals that being of Polish descent means that he can't stomach having anything to do with Genocide]]. |
| 957 | * EvilIsPetty: Genocide claims to only want to commit genocides until there are no humans left on Earth. This is not true, however, as she frequently puts this off to steal from or torture people. Wonder Woman realizes Genocide has a {{sadist}}ic streak after Genocide uses the lasso of truth to make Tom Tresser realize Diana doesn't love him, putting revealing this information to him over ending his life. This also causes Diana to realize Genocide is [[DrivenByEnvy methodically ruining Diana's life out of envy]], independently of whichever group of people marked for death at the moment. |
| 958 | * EvilMeScaresMe: [[spoiler:Genocide was created from the corpse of the future Wonder Woman]]. |
| 959 | * EvilRedhead: She is a redhead AnthropomorphicPersonification of genocide. |
| 960 | * {{Expy}}: Not dissimilar to Doomsday, being a largely mute EnemyToAllLivingThings with a complicated origin and little personality beyond the desire--and power--to kill the hero. Her appearance invokes him, but in character she becomes more like Devastation as time goes on. |
| 961 | * EyeScream: Wonder Woman breaks Genocide's visor during their [[NeverFoundTheBody seemingly]] final Post Crisis throw down. This doesn't slow Genocide but Wonder Woman proceeds to [[UseYourHead repeately headbutt]] Genocide with her tiara where tha visor used to be, and ''that'' rattles the monster and makes it realize it managed to push Wonder Woman into seriously wanting it dead. |
| 962 | * FinalSolution: The anthropomorphic personification of it. |
| 963 | * HeroKiller: Brutalizes Diana in their first battle, and subsequently takes on a good portion of the JLA and Teen Titans, beating down Wonder Woman, Troia, and Wonder Girl, before at last going down. |
| 964 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Genocide has the lasso of truth surgically connected to her body, so that no one can take it back from her. Wonder Woman pulls it out anyway, and removes a good bit of Genocide's cybernetics and nervous system in the process, leaving Genocide paralyzed.]] |
| 965 | * HulkSpeak: At first. She grows a little more verbose as time goes along. |
| 966 | * HumansAreTheRealMonsters: The personification of this idea. |
| 967 | * ImplacableMan: Very Terminator-esque in her style and approach. |
| 968 | * LackOfEmpathy: The ability to identify with others was not part of Genocide's programming. |
| 969 | * LegionOfDoom: In DC Rebirth Genocide is one of two other "anti Wonder Women" Devastation and Donna Troy recruited by Paula Von Gunther, alongside Armageddon II, to serve as Paula's "Four Horsewomen" who will destroy Themyscira in revenge for all the Valkyries killed by the Amazons. |
| 970 | * LivingWeapon: Genocide's only purpose is to be a weapon who can kill Justice League members if the need arises. [[GoneHorriblyWrong Unforntunatley]] Genocide herself only cares about identifying and erradicating certaint members of the human population, and [[KillAllHumans ultimately plans]] to carry on genocide after genocide until everyone is dead. [[WhatDidYouExpectWhenYouNamedIt Who'd have thunk?]] The only other interests she manages to develop are theft and torture. |
| 971 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: And she makes a point of saying that it's not just her name, it's what she does. |
| 972 | * NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:Because Ares took it]]. |
| 973 | * NighInvulnerability: She's not easy to beat. |
| 974 | * NinjaPirateZombieRobot: An undead Amazon corpse from the future infused with the souls of victims of genocide and ethnic cleansing, and reinforced with Felix Faust's enchantments, Dr. T.O. Morrow's cybernetics, and [[spoiler:Ares']] blessings. What exactly do you call her at this point? |
| 975 | * ThePowerOfHate: Powered by genocidal hate. |
| 976 | * SmokeShield: Doctor Morrow provides Tom Tresser with a warhead designed to destroy all life on a cellular level. Morrow doubts it will kill Genocide, wishing he had time to do more research, but knows it will distract Genocide and give Wonder Woman time to recover. |
| 977 | * SpikesOfVillainy: Has them on her face mask. |
| 978 | * SuperReflexes: Very fast reflexes. |
| 979 | * SuperSpeed: She's very fast. |
| 980 | * SuperStrength: Much stronger than Wonder Woman, who is already as strong as many gods. |
| 981 | * TheResenter: Despite the mosnter's claims, Genocide actually hates the fact she's created to be a one note killing machine and does not like the fact people think she's mindless. Too bad she's literally wired to only get enjoyment out of the pain and death of people. Too bad she hasn't been ''taught'' to do anything else and has to figure out the rest on her own. |
| 982 | * TheSpook: In DC Rebirth Genocide's a monster eerily similar to Wonder Woman no one knows the origins of, apparently attempting to remove The Gargareans from their own island before Wonder Woman is forced to [[BewareTheNiceOnes bury]] her there. Rebirth Cheetah and Ares would not have even been in position to corrupt Doctor Morrow's project, and the Gargareans are MIA anyway so one wonders what Genocide even accomplished Still, Genocide made enough of an impression for Warmaster to risk resurrecting her for another round on the island of the Amazons. |
| 983 | * TheUndead: Part of why it's so hard to kill. |
| 984 | * WouldHurtAChild: Would hurt anyone, in fact. |
| 985 | [[/folder]] |
| 986 | |
| 987 | [[folder:Giganta (I-II)]] |
| 988 | !!Giganta I |
| 989 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/giganta_golden_age.jpg]] |
| 990 | [[caption-width-right:350:Golden Age Giganta]] |
| 991 | !!! '''AKA:''' N/A |
| 992 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] #9. (1944) |
| 993 | !!! '''Created By:''' William Moulton Marston & Harry G. Peter |
| 994 | !!! '''Universes:''' [[MediaNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Earth-One]], [[MediaNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Earth-Two]], Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse, Series/WonderWoman1975, |
| 995 | |
| 996 | ->''"Wonder Woman's bonds were subduing me, but now that I'm free, I'm savage again! With [my now] human brain, I'll destroy this golden age of love and establish a new order -- a rule by force!"'' |
| 997 | |
| 998 | An exceptionally large and aggressive gorilla, the Golden Age Giganta was the largest ape in captivity. After she broke out and went on a rampage (only to be stopped by Wonder Woman), [[Characters/WonderWomanAllies Steve Trevor]] ordered her destroyed, despite the objections of her keepers. When well-meaning scientist Doctor Zool offered to change Giganta into a human being rather than killing her, Trevor agreed, hoping the experiment would kill the ape. Instead Giganta was changed into a seven foot tall woman who nevertheless retained all the strength and savagery of her original form. |
| 999 | |
| 1000 | In the Silver Age, Giganta's story was changed somewhat so that she was a colossal ape who had tried to kidnap Steve Trevor. Doctor Psycho intervened and forced Doctor Zool to change her into a human being at gunpoint. The two then teamed up against Wonder Woman, aiming to destroy Diana and win Steve for Giganta. |
| 1001 | ---- |
| 1002 | * AdaptationDyeJob: The Silver Age version has blonde hair. |
| 1003 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: Almost every version of Giganta is nicer in some way than the Golden Age Earth Two original. The Silver Age Earth One Giganta retained the ability to love even as a human, and her love extended to more than just children. The post crisis Giganta mostly cares about her health and her money. She had a desire to bash Wonder Woman after losing to her once, but got it out of her system and mostly became docile so long as she was living comfortably. |
| 1004 | * AlliterativeName: In the Silver Age she was '''G'''iganta the '''G'''orilla '''G'''irl. |
| 1005 | * AmazonianBeauty: She certainly looked the part, though her attitude would put even the most brutal BrawnHilda to shame. |
| 1006 | * TheBerserker: Pretty much always in a rage and all the stronger for it. |
| 1007 | * BrainsAndBrawn: The Brawn to Doctor Psycho's Brains in the Silver Age. |
| 1008 | * TheBrute: Played this role as part of Villainy Incorporated and ''always'' featured the personality. |
| 1009 | * CarryABigStick: Sometimes wielded a club in the Golden Age. |
| 1010 | * DarkActionGirl: An incredibly powerful hand-to-hand combatant. |
| 1011 | * DumbMuscle: Giganta was smarter than your typical thug but not by much, and was always at her most dangerous when someone else was directing her fury. |
| 1012 | * EvilRedhead: Has fiery red hair as a human being, at least in the Golden Age. In the Silver Age she was blonde. |
| 1013 | * ForcedTransformation: As far as Giganta is concerned. She didn't ask to become human and she's not thrilled about it. Since she's stuck she tries to bring everyone down into savagery with her. |
| 1014 | * FreudianExcuse: Golden Age Earth Two Giganta became abnormally violent for a gorilla after going crazy with grief when her child died. Still, Giganta had a soft spot for children of any species and would not hurt them. After being turned into a human she became crazier to the point she wanted to ruin the entire world, making even the children in it suffer. |
| 1015 | * HugeGirlTinyGuy: When she allied with Doctor Psycho in the Silver Age. She's seven feet tall, he's a dwarf. |
| 1016 | * HumanityEnsues: A gorilla transformed into a girl via mad science. |
| 1017 | * KillerGorilla: A huge, vicious minded gorilla before being transformed into an equally huge, vicious minded woman. |
| 1018 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: Giganta's transformation into a supervillain is entirely the fault of Steve Trevor. |
| 1019 | * PeltsOfTheBarbarian: When allowed to choose her own clothes she favoured a leopard skin dress. |
| 1020 | * SpeaksFluentAnimal: Can still communicate with apes as a human. To call her "fluent" would be a stretch, as a brief translation showed she was nowhere near as articulate as she thought she was. |
| 1021 | * StatuesqueStunner: Seven feet of redheaded beauty. |
| 1022 | * SuperStrength: Giganta's strength was ridiculous even for a gorilla, and it remained that way after she became human. Most of her strength came from being larger than the other gorillas in the golden age though. |
| 1023 | * UnstoppableRage: Seemed to draw strength from her anger. |
| 1024 | * UpliftedAnimal: Gained human intelligence when she was transformed into a person. |
| 1025 | * VillainousCrush: The Silver Age one had one on Steve Trevor, in an inverse King Kong situation. |
| 1026 | * VillainessesWantHeroes: Steve Trevor wasn't a superhero but he was certainly heroic, and Silver Age Giganta was motivated by her interest in him. |
| 1027 | * VillainTeamUp: Golden Age Giganta joined Villainy Incorporated. She worked most closely with Clea, and the two of them ended up ditching Eviless to carry out their own plans, also helping Zara and Hypnota get back to "Man's World". Silver Age Giganta briefly teamed with Doctor Psycho and even developed a bit of a crush on him, though it never overrode her interest in Steve. |
| 1028 | |
| 1029 | !!Giganta II |
| 1030 | [[quoteright:319:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/giganta_3765.jpg]] |
| 1031 | !!! '''AKA:''' Doris Zeul |
| 1032 | !!! '''Universes:''' [[ComicBook/PostCrisis New Earth]], Prime Earth, WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}, VideoGame/LegoBatman, Franchise/{{Injustice}}, WesternAnimation/DCSuperheroGirls, WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold, WebAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls (Web), |
| 1033 | |
| 1034 | ->''"Don't take this the wrong way, but I often get the urge to crush you in my grip. With affection, though. Like a fatal hug. Endearing and enduring, at once. Feel your bones turn to powder just a little bit. Yum."'' |
| 1035 | |
| 1036 | ComicBook/PostCrisis, Giganta is Doctor Doris Zeul, a mousy scientist who was dying from a fatal disease. After trying and failing to place her mind in Wonder Woman's body, Dr. Zeul instead switched bodies with a circus strongwoman who just happened to have mystical size-changing powers. In addition to her feud with Wonder Woman, Giganta is also a long-time member of the Secret Society of Super-Villains and Injustice League and has a crush on her one-time colleague [[ComicBook/TheAtom Ryan Choi]], the fourth Atom. She was also a member of ''ComicBook/SecretSix'' until the New-52 reboot. |
| 1037 | ---- |
| 1038 | * AdaptationSpeciesChange: Pre-Crisis, she was a gorilla-turned-human. Post-Crisis, she's a human who put herself in a gorilla body in a last-ditch attempt to save herself, then she put herself in another human body. |
| 1039 | * AmazonianBeauty: Is often depicted as being quite muscular, although how attractive she is depends on the artist. |
| 1040 | * AntiVillain: More recent depictions seem to be pushing her towards this role. She's still a villain, but usually one who [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain causes more noise than actual harm]], and is quite willing to act civilly with certain heroes, when they don't stand in her way. While she was dating Ryan Choi, she had a definite [[FemmeFatale sense of sultry danger]] going for her, but her commitment to the relationship seemed based out of genuine interest. |
| 1041 | * AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Attack of the 50-Foot Woman, actually. Though in truth she can get much, much larger than that, reaching heights in excess of several hundred feet. |
| 1042 | * BodySwap: The biggest thing keeping Post Crisis Giganta a villain is that she won't give the body back and no one interested in making her has found a way to yet. |
| 1043 | * TheBrute: Often plays this role in team ups, especially when she's stupid. |
| 1044 | * ColdBloodedTorture: [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend Her reaction]] in ''ComicBook/SecretSix'' when she discovered that the shrinking killer, Dwarfstar, has hired Deathstroke and his Titans to kill Ryan Choi? She lures Dwarfstar to her bedroom with the promise of sex, strips him of his belt (the source of his powers) and beats him into submission. She is last heard covering Dwarfstar's mouth with duct tape to stifle his screams, telling him that she plans on keeping him alive so that she can prolong his suffering. |
| 1045 | * CompositeCharacter: She take on the look and supervillain identity of the original Giganta, but the name of the scientist (Zool/Zeul)[[note]]originally male[[/note]] who created her. |
| 1046 | * DarkActionGirl: Giganta's a capable enough fighter at her regular height. When she grows to full size she becomes an even more formidable adversary, with strength on par with Wonder Woman's. |
| 1047 | * DealWithTheDevil: Cut a deal with Circe that allowed her to keep her intelligence when she grew. |
| 1048 | * DefeatByModesty: Once the ComicBook/MetalMen defeated Giganta by (accidentally) ripping her clothes off, and agreeing to act as a makeshift bikini in exchange for her turning herself in. |
| 1049 | * DoingInTheScientist: Despite being ''Dr.'' Zeul, her abilities are explicitly magical in nature. One issue of the original Jaime Reyes ComicBook/BlueBeetle run that featured her as a MonsterOfTheWeek had Jaime's mentor note that he hated dealing with size-shifters, because they're always at least somewhat magical, because trying to grow a person to such sizes using purely scientific means never [[SquareCubeLaw ends]] [[LudicrousGibs well]]. |
| 1050 | * TheDreaded: While Wonder Woman views Giganta as irriating, Giganta legitimately scares Diana's side kicks like Cassie Sandsmark and utterly terrifies the civilians, mundane law enforcers and conventional militaries allied with Wonder Woman. |
| 1051 | * DumbMuscle: Back when she lost IQ points for every foot she grew, Giganta often ended up in this role. |
| 1052 | * EnemyMine: Giganta's as against Zeus's plan to TakeoverTheWorld through the Gargareans as Wonder Woman and Pele are, instantly throwing her lot in with them after overhearing the two discuss it. |
| 1053 | * EvilRedhead: A redhead and regular villain. |
| 1054 | * FieryRedhead: Has a noticeably short temper, and auburn hair. |
| 1055 | * FriendlyEnemy: Under Gail Simone she's relatively friendly to Wonder Woman when they aren't in combat. |
| 1056 | * GeniusBruiser: Minus the bit described in WeaksauceWeakness below, there's a reason she's '''Dr.''' Doris Zeul. |
| 1057 | * GiantWoman: She certainly lives up to her name. |
| 1058 | * GoKartingWithBowser: |
| 1059 | ** She went on a few dates with the Atom even after they found out each others' identities. It seemed to be going pretty well, until he got murdered by her coworker (she didn't take it kindly). |
| 1060 | ** She is perfectly willing to just sit down and chat with Wonder Woman when they've both had a crummy day. |
| 1061 | * GoingCommando: In one ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' story, after Characters/BlackCanary defeats Giganta, she goes, "If you insist on wearing a skirt into battle, put on some underpants, or at least learn to sit like a lady." |
| 1062 | * IneffectualSympatheticVillain: To a degree. She's definitely not a good person (though she's gotten nicer over the years and generally wasn't horrible even at her most villainous), but she's not very good at being a supervillain and frequently falls victim to TheWorfEffect. Plus the whole fatal illness part of her backstory. |
| 1063 | * KillerGorilla: Was briefly trapped in the body of a gorilla in a shout out to her Golden Age self. |
| 1064 | * MadScientist: Though this has more to do with her origins, attempting to cure her degenerative disease and or steal a healthier body to transfere her thoughts into, than how she currently operates. |
| 1065 | * MySuitIsAlsoSuper: Giganta's suit is specialized to grow with her and enhances her invulnerability. Even at normal size, it is bulletproof and resistant to extremes of heat and cold. |
| 1066 | * NotWhatItLooksLike: Wonder Woman hears a report of Giganta stomping towards a US military base and attacks. Wonder Woman backs off when Giganta insists she's not there to cause trouble, this time. |
| 1067 | * PretenderDiss: When Donna Troy took up the mantle of Wonder Woman, Gignata beat her up and went on a rampage looking for the "real" Wonder Woman while wearing a chained up Troy as a necklace. |
| 1068 | * PunchClockVillain: Is more of a mercenary than diabolical supervillain. If she's not on the clock, she probably has no beef with you and is more than happy to leave you be, and she is generally very willing to live and let live when encountering heroes. She also personally has no animus towards Wonder Woman and is often cordial with her off the clock, and on her end, Diana also doesn't really have an issue with her and typically treats her as someone with a job to do that just so happens to be incompatible with her own occupation. |
| 1069 | * RetCanon: A completely human Giganta who gains the power to grow in size first appeared in ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}''. Rather than steal growing powder from [[CanonForeigner Apache Chief]], however, the Post Crisis comic books have Doris Zeul BodySwap with a size shifting circus performer. |
| 1070 | * {{Sizeshifter}}: Bigger than normal only. |
| 1071 | * StatuesqueStunner: Even at her shortest, Giganta is still six and a half to seven feet tall (DependingOnTheWriter). And there is no doubt that she is a good looking woman. |
| 1072 | * SternTeacher: Sometimes has a legitimate job as a very strict college professor at Ivy University. |
| 1073 | * SuperStrength: Big and strong in her normal form, Giganta's strength increases exponentially when she grows, giving her muscular power far in excess of her already considerable size. |
| 1074 | %%zce* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs |
| 1075 | * TinyGuyHugeGirl: With Ryan Choi (Atom). Even with both at normal size, she has several inches on him. |
| 1076 | * VillainessesWantHeroes: Infected and controlled by M'Nagalah, the monstrous Cancer god, she was sent to seduce and capture Ryan Choi, the fourth Atom, in the process even going so far as to swallow the miniature hero alive (he escapes). Free of M'Nagalah's control, she approached Ryan for a second chance creating a real relationship despite difficulties. In a bit of irony, their powers [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever are]] [[IncredibleShrinkingMan opposite]]. |
| 1077 | * WeaksauceWeakness: Originally, the bigger Giganta got, the stupider she became, making her easier to defeat. She lost this problem thanks to Circe (and got a more sensible outfit out of the deal). |
| 1078 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: So, whatever happened to the circus strongwoman who had her mind placed in the body of a gorilla? |
| 1079 | [[/folder]] |
| 1080 | |
| 1081 | [[folder:Glop]] |
| 1082 | !!Glop |
| 1083 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/glop.jpg]] |
| 1084 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] #151. (1965) |
| 1085 | !!! '''Created By:''' Robert Kanigher & Harry G. Peter |
| 1086 | !!! '''Universes:''' [[MediaNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Earth-One]] |
| 1087 | |
| 1088 | ->''"GLOP... GLOP... Here's "confetti" in your eye! My Wonder Girl's in the sky!"'' |
| 1089 | |
| 1090 | The Glop was an alien creature which could metamorphose into any form that it could digest. This creature was dreamt by a young Diana Prince. |
| 1091 | ---- |
| 1092 | * AlienArtsAreAppreciated: Glop fell in love with rock music. |
| 1093 | * AllJustADream: Due to the ContinuitySnarl surrounding Diana as Wonder Girl, the Glop stories were retoconned as having been something Diana dreamt. |
| 1094 | * BlobMonster: Glop is foul-smelling, amorphous creature. |
| 1095 | * ContinuitySnarl: The Glop stories form part of the continuity snarl around Diana having been Wonder Girl. |
| 1096 | * ExtremeOmnivore: Glop can consume almost anything. |
| 1097 | * InterspeciesRomance: Has a crush on Wonder Girl. |
| 1098 | * MaterialMimicry: Glop can metamorphose into any form that it can digest. |
| 1099 | * PokemonSpeak: Would typically prefix its speech by saying its own name twice. |
| 1100 | * RhymesOnADime: Having fallen in love with rock and roll, Glop sung much of his dialogue as rhyming couplets. |
| 1101 | * StalkerWithACrush: To Wonder Girl. |
| 1102 | [[/folder]] |
| 1103 | |
| 1104 | [[folder:Grail]] |
| 1105 | !!Grail |
| 1106 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/justice_league_darkseid_war_special_vol_1_1_textless.jpg]] |
| 1107 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Justice League'' Vol 2 #40 (June, 2015) |
| 1108 | !!! '''Created By:''' Geoff Johns & Jason Fabok |
| 1109 | !!! '''Universes:''' Prime Earth |
| 1110 | |
| 1111 | ->''"I've been hunting it my whole life. Searching for my tool of vengeance. Suffering through unspeakable horrors. I sacrificed everything to the darkness. All for this."'' |
| 1112 | |
| 1113 | The Daughter of [[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darkseid]] and the Amazonian Myrina, prophesied to cause great destruction at the behest of the Anti-God. At the same time as the birth of Diana to Hippolyta, the Amazonian assassin Myrina gave birth to the daughter of Darkseid in secret, aided by Penelope and watched by the oracle Menalippe. Upon the birth of the young girl, Grail was defended by her mother from Penelope, who heard of the prophecy from Menalippe of the destruction that would be caused by the girl when she grew. After murdering Menalippe, Myrina fled Themyscira, bringing her daughter with her as the first Amazons to leave the island. |
| 1114 | ---- |
| 1115 | * ApocalypseMaiden: Grail was conceived for the purpose of killing Darkseid only to join her father's side instead. While she is prophecized to one day leave Darkseid it is said she will be joining the Anti Monitor, who is even worse. |
| 1116 | * TheCorrupter |
| 1117 | ** Grail can infect and corrode the emerald energy of willpower emanated from the Green Lantern Rings, causing great harm and pain to the ring wielder. |
| 1118 | ** During DC Rebirth she poisons Jason agains his sister, Wonder Woman Diana. He gladly fights alongside Grail and even Darkseid against her but when he sees that Darkseid is going to ''kill'' Diana that's way beyond the bounds of his SiblingRivalry and he turns against the new gods. |
| 1119 | * EvilCounterpart: Grail to Wonder Woman, more so than even [[spoiler: Superwoman]]. |
| 1120 | * EvilSorcerer: Grail can perform occult Amazon rituals for various purposes. |
| 1121 | * EyeBeams: Inherited her father's Omega Beams. Capable of injuring the likes of New Gods and destroying the unbreakable bracelets of Wonder Woman. |
| 1122 | * FalseFlagOperation: She arranges for Jason to be attacked by The Deep Six while he is on his job as a fisherman, and then saves him when he becomes overwhelmed. Jason doesn't know that Grail and The Deep Six are all servants of Darkseid, much less what Darkseid wants out of him, until it is too late. |
| 1123 | * ForgedByTheGods: She has a spear forged by Hades. |
| 1124 | * HeroKiller: During DC Rebirth Grail starts hunting and killing the offspring of Zeus in order to feed them to Darkseid and induce RapidAging after he was reborn as a baby. Zeus takes notice and steps in before she and Darkseid can kill Diana and Jason, but not before Grail singlehandedly killed dozens of demigods, including Perseus and Hercules. |
| 1125 | * ILied: She told Jason, who is close to Hercules, that she would only be siphoning energy off of Zeus's children, not killing them. When he finds out Hercules is dead she tells him it was an accident, that something went wrong, but when Gail is actively helping Darkseid kill Wonder Woman she admits to an angry Jason she was lying. |
| 1126 | * KillTheGod: Grail wielded the God Killer, an oversized sword that did just that to Ares. Unfortunately for Grail, [[EvilVersusEvil Lex Luthor stole it]] and gifted the weapon to Cheetah. Grail was too busy dealing with an amazon uprising lead by Diana to get it back. |
| 1127 | * LaserGuidedTykeBomb: Grail was conceived by an amazon assassin for the explicit purpose of ''killing'' Darkseid, but [[GoneHorriblyWrong ends up becoming his greatest warrior]] when the rest of his planet falls into disarray. |
| 1128 | * LetsFightLikeGentleman: During ''Dawn of DC'' Grail comes across a swordless Wonder Woman and sets down her own spear, interested in challenge of beating Diana unarmed, though Grail still plans on skewering Wonder Woman once she's done. |
| 1129 | * NoSell: She's able to refrain from speaking while caught in the Lasso of Truth and even escape being tied from it entirely with a little concentration. Grail credits the latter to her amazon blood, but she still [[DownPlayedTrope cannot tell a lie while touching the lasso]]. |
| 1130 | * NonHumanHumanoidHybrid: Grail is the hybrid offspring of Darkseid the New God and Myrina the Amazonian. In Post Crisis and Rebirth DC, amazons are the souls of dead humans reborn into newer, stronger bodies, making them SemiDivine. |
| 1131 | * OutGambitted: During the Rebirth ''Return of The Amazons'' two parter, Grail successfully conquers Themyscira, puts herself on the throne, and [[InTheirOwnImage reshapes the island as she sees fit]]. Grail's "redecorating" temporarily weakens Themyscira's barriers enough for [[EvilVersusEvil Lex Luthor to sneak a drone through]] and steal The God Killer from Grail, however. Before Grail can get the weapon back Grail's [[FakeDefector most trusted advisor]] Nubia [[AntiClimax ends Grail's reign]] by spearing Grail InTheBack. |
| 1132 | * ReforgedIntoAMinion: Upon reaching Themyscira in DC Rebirth Grail starts using her eye beams to turn the amazons there into parademons. Newer, stronger parademons than Darkseid ever made. |
| 1133 | * RiddleForTheAges: It is never explained how she still exists after the New 52 era ended, given that her mother was one of the fake Amazons on the illusionary version of Themyscira. By all accounts, Grail should've faded from existence ages ago. |
| 1134 | * RoguesGalleryTransplant: Grail was introduced as a villain and true BigBad in ''ComicBook/DarkseidWar''; she later become an antagonist to Diana and the Amazons in ''ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth''. Wonder Woman's twin Jason also considered Grail to be his greatest enemy, on account of her betraying his trust and friendship. |
| 1135 | * WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Grail is initially prepared to kill Jason like all of the other children of Zeus but is stopped by Darkseid, who insists on turning Jason to their side and letting him live for a bit. |
| 1136 | [[/folder]] |
| 1137 | |
| 1138 | [[folder:Gundra]] |
| 1139 | !!Gundra |
| 1140 | [[quoteright:297:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gundra_772.jpg]] |
| 1141 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Comic Cavalcade'' Vol 1 #17. (1946) |
| 1142 | !!! '''Created By:''' William Moulton Marston & Harry G. Peter |
| 1143 | !!! '''Universes:''' [[MediaNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Earth-Two]], [[ComicBook/PostCrisis New Earth]], Prime Earth |
| 1144 | |
| 1145 | ->''" I was one of Odin's finest. A Valkyrie full of fire and strong mead. On a wager, I sought to discover -- by myself -- what the Jotuns were planning... and like a fool, I was captured... a victim of Groa's mad scheme to improve her race."'' |
| 1146 | |
| 1147 | Queen of the Valkyries, and one of the Norse gods' representatives on Earth, Gundra was summoned by UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler to do battle with the Golden Age Wonder Woman. They clashed several times, most notably during Gundra's assassination attempt on President UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt. She's been seen a few times since, and has come to blows with the modern Wonder Woman on occasion. |
| 1148 | |
| 1149 | To learn more, see her folder [[Characters/WonderWomanGods here]] |
| 1150 | [[/folder]] |
| 1151 | |
| 1152 | [[folder:Human Tank]] |
| 1153 | !!Human Tank |
| 1154 | [[quoteright:166:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/human_tank.jpg]] |
| 1155 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] #63. (1954) |
| 1156 | !!! '''Created By:''' Robert Kanigher & Harry G. Peter |
| 1157 | !!! '''Universes:''' [[MediaNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Earth-Two]], Prime Earth |
| 1158 | |
| 1159 | ->''"Wonder Woman may have caught me -- but no jail in the world can hold the Human Tank! Ha! Ha!"'' |
| 1160 | |
| 1161 | The Human Tank either acquired or developed an enamel-based compound that rendered his skin tougher than the hardest metal. |
| 1162 | ---- |
| 1163 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His real name hasn't been revealed. |
| 1164 | * SuperStrength: His skin's SuperToughness also somehow allowed him to batter down brick walls. |
| 1165 | * SuperToughness: The Human Tank was able to shrug off pistol and submachinegun fire without harm. |
| 1166 | * TattooedCrook: Post-Flashpoint his arms have many tattoos and remains a thug. |
| 1167 | [[/folder]] |
| 1168 | |
| 1169 | [[folder:Hypnota]] |
| 1170 | !!Hypnota |
| 1171 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hypnota.jpg]] |
| 1172 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] #11. (1944) |
| 1173 | !!! '''Created By:''' William Moulton Marston & Harry G. Peter |
| 1174 | !!! '''Universes:''' [[MediaNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Earth-Two]], [[ComicBook/PostCrisis New Earth]] |
| 1175 | |
| 1176 | ->''And now, my friends, I weel hypnotize anybody who daires step upon thees stage – I challenge any man or woman to reesist my hypnotic powair !"'' |
| 1177 | |
| 1178 | A magician and hypnotist who hides behind a male disguise. Hypnota was accidentally shot in the head by her assistant and twin sister Serva and received an experimental brain surgery to save her life. The surgery unlocked the ability to release a "blue hypnotic ray" from within her brain which she used on her sister and unsuspecting thousands to steal military secrets and sell people into slavery. She later joined Villainy Inc.. |
| 1179 | ---- |
| 1180 | * AmbiguousGenderIdentity: (Pre-Crisis) Hypnota is physically female but she and her sister usually use male pronouns to refer to Hypnota, they spend most of their time disguised as a male, and when they're not hiding their femininity wear a mustache and goatee anyway. Hypnota was like this long before surviving a gunshot to the head changed their personality and turned them villainous. |
| 1181 | * BeardOfEvil: It's fake, but even after her gender is exposed she keeps it included in her costume. |
| 1182 | * CombinationAttack: No matter how many times she fails to hypnotize Wonder Woman she never comes up with any new plan of attack. She's able to successfully do it once however when her blue ray mixes with Zara's crimson flame. |
| 1183 | * CreepyCrossdresser: She wears fake facial hair and dons a phony French accent to pass herself off as a man. In the Post-Crisis stories, this aspect was dropped and she's referred to as Hypnotic Woman. In the New 52, she has reverted to the name Hypnota. |
| 1184 | * EvilGenius: Blue Snowman and Dr. Poison qualify more for the evil geniuses of Villainy Inc., but when she, Giganta, Clea and Zara break away to do their own thing, she more comfortably fits into the role of the makeshift group. |
| 1185 | * EvilTwin: She once worked side by side with her sister but after getting shot and gaining powers quickly went drunk on the dark side, partially because she believed her sister had legitimately attempted to kill her for no apparent reason. |
| 1186 | * FreudianExcuse: She turned bad after she was shot in the face and believed Serva had legitimately tried to kill her. |
| 1187 | * GirlsWithMustaches: And beards. Subverted because they are fake. |
| 1188 | * HypnoticEyes: Her Blue Hypnotic Ray can be projected from her eyes and hands. |
| 1189 | %%* ManipulativeBitch: She tried to instigate a war between Earth and Saturn. |
| 1190 | * MassHypnosis: Though Wonder Woman is strong enough to resist Hypnota's power. |
| 1191 | * MindControlEyes: Inflicts blue ones sometimes, courtesy of her "blue hypnotic ray". |
| 1192 | * NotHimself: To their identical twin sister Serva the switch from being a considering, careful person in private to a sadistic villain after surviving a gunshot to the head is a huge change for Hypnota, and unfortunately one that seems permanent. The public don't notice as Hypnota and Serva have always presented a different persona to the public as a part of maintaining their stage magic act. |
| 1193 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Hypnota is her stage name for her and her sister's magic act; her true name is never revealed. |
| 1194 | * StageMagician: Her job, at which she ended up getting accidentally shot which led to the development of her powers. |
| 1195 | * TisOnlyABulletInTheBrain: Hypnota was accidentally shot in the head by their sister Serva while practicing for their stage show. While they survived their personality was drastically altered and they became a villain. |
| 1196 | * TwinSwitch: With Serva. Originally it was part of their magic act, but later used her power to make Serva forgot they were twins to further conceal herself whenever they switch places. |
| 1197 | [[/folder]] |
| 1198 | |
| 1199 | [[folder:Image-Maker]] |
| 1200 | !!Image-Maker |
| 1201 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_maker.jpg]] |
| 1202 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman''' (Vol 1) #134 (1968) |
| 1203 | !!! '''Created By:''' Robert Kanigher & Ross Andru |
| 1204 | !!! '''Universes:''' [[MediaNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Earth-One]], Prime Earth |
| 1205 | |
| 1206 | ->''"I am the Image-Maker, master and commander of Mirror-World. I have come to this pallid realm to take you home."'' |
| 1207 | |
| 1208 | The Image-Maker is the master and commander of the Mirror-World. When Wonder Woman fought her way back to the world of the living, she ended up wreaking havoc in the Mirror-World, invisible to outsiders, without her noticing. Image-Maker then wanted Diana to pay for the damage she caused, sending several mirror duplicates of her to our world to attack her and the people she loved, but instead of punishing Diana he wanted her to join him in his world, and that way their might would be unquestionable, and, in his words, they would restore the realm of reflections to what it always was, the one true reality. |
| 1209 | ---- |
| 1210 | * BigBadEnsemble: During Infinite Frontier Image-Maker and Dr. Psych(who is being manipulated by Hera), are both antagonizing Wonder Woman at the same time, in entirely different ways for entirely different reasons, bringing their respective puppets into conflict with one another. |
| 1211 | * DimensionLord: The Image-Maker is the master and commander of the Mirror-World. |
| 1212 | * {{Intangibility}}: As a living reflection, he can become intangible at will. Siegfried's sword Gram is able to cut his form regardless, but this still doesn't seem to hurt him so much as simply sever his link to the world of matter and send him back to that of reflections |
| 1213 | * MasterOfIllusion: Uses his mirror powers to creat illlusions. |
| 1214 | * MirrorBoss: Can create mirror duplicates of people and use them to attack. |
| 1215 | * MirrorMonster: The Image-Maker is the master and commander of the Mirror-World. |
| 1216 | * MultiversalConqueror: Wants to absord the real world into the Mirror-World. |
| 1217 | * PassingTheTorch: During Infinite Frontier he argues that Diana can give up her position to any one of numerous other people on Earth and live in paradise with him instead, or even a duplicate of Steve Trevor if that's more her fancy. |
| 1218 | [[/folder]] |
| 1219 | |
| 1220 | [[folder:Kung]] |
| 1221 | !!Kung |
| 1222 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kung.jpg]] |
| 1223 | !!! '''AKA:''' Thomas Morita |
| 1224 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman''' (Vol 1) #237 (1977) |
| 1225 | !!! '''Created By:''' Gerry Conway & Jose Delbo |
| 1226 | !!! '''Universes:''' [[MediaNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Earth-Two]], [[ComicBook/PostCrisis New Earth]] |
| 1227 | |
| 1228 | ->''"I despise your country, Robotman -- and if slaying Britain's Prime Minister will help my homeland defeat her -- then die he shall, though an army stood between us!"'' |
| 1229 | |
| 1230 | Born in the USA, Thomas Morita blamed the death of his Japanese immigrant parents and his other troubles on the alleged racial prejudice they encountered during the Great Depression. Hating America, Morita went to Japan and trained to be a Samurai. He also underwent a mystical experience that enabled him to transform into animals. Now known as Kung, the Assassin of a Thousand Claws, he was sent by the Japanese government during World War II on various missions in America. |
| 1231 | ---- |
| 1232 | * {{Animorphism}}: Kung has the ability to transform himself into animal forms through concentration. |
| 1233 | * LegacyCharacter: A second unidentified Kung (be it a descendant or an unrelated person) debuted in ''Wonder Woman (vol. 3) Annual'' #1 (2007) as a previously unrevealed foe of Wonder Woman. |
| 1234 | * MyCountryRightOrWrong: Kung is a fanatical Japanese super-patriot. |
| 1235 | * PurpleIsPowerful: His costume is mostly purple. |
| 1236 | * RedBaron: Kung is also known as 'the Assassin of a Thousand Claws'. |
| 1237 | * SecondaryColorNemesis: His costume is mostly purple. |
| 1238 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: Kung had the ability to transform himself into animal forms through concentration. Among the animals he transformed into were a man-sized insect, a tiger, and a rhinoceros. Kung was able to retain his human intelligence when transformed but reverted back to his human form if he somehow lost his concentration. |
| 1239 | [[/folder]] |
| 1240 | |
| 1241 | [[folder:Liar Liar]] |
| 1242 | !!Liar Liar |
| 1243 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/liar_liar_wonder_woman.jpg]] |
| 1244 | !!! '''AKA:''' Emma Deropalis |
| 1245 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman''' (Vol 1) #759 (2020) |
| 1246 | !!! '''Created By:''' Mariko Tamaki & Mikel Janín |
| 1247 | !!! '''Universes:''' Prime Earth |
| 1248 | |
| 1249 | ->''"You shouldn't tell me what to do. You tell me what to do and maybe I get so annoyed... I make these nice people turn their guns on themselves."'' |
| 1250 | |
| 1251 | Emma Deropalis is the terrorist Liar Liar. Daughter of Maxwell Lord, she started her criminal career to be acknowledged by her dad, trying to break him out of jail and also help him kill Wonder Woman. |
| 1252 | ---- |
| 1253 | * AbusiveParents: A controlling parent is bad enough without mind controlling powers to enforce their will, and that's outside of the resources for medical abuse when you've gotten into an accident. |
| 1254 | * DaddysLittleVillain: Daughter of Maxwell Lord, she started her criminal career to be acknowledged by her dad. |
| 1255 | * EnfantTerrible: She's only a girl and has become a pretty big threat for Diana. |
| 1256 | * MasterOfIllusion: Emma inherited psychic powers from her father, and with her voice she's able to make people see what she generates. |
| 1257 | * PsychicNosebleed: Just like her father her nose starts bleeding when she uses her powers. |
| 1258 | * PsychoPink: Her hair is dyed pink, and she can be even more unstable than her father. |
| 1259 | [[/folder]] |
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