Wonder Woman has had many mostly in The Golden Age of Comic Books.
Comic Books
- Wonder Woman (1942):
- The Duke of Deception, the Earl of Greed and Count of Conquest were three of Ares flunkies whose job was to keep the Earth in a perpetual state of war. Since this was during World War II, it's not clear why Ares even needed these buffoons, who always messed up. (DC may have been going for the Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey angle here, but these guys were bigger failures than Pain and Panic.) DC seems to have given up on the Earl and Count, but the Duke managed to eventually Take a Level in Badass, pulling a successful coup on Ares. (He still appears from time to time.)
- Tora Rivvers, a wealthy socialite out to sabotage a Hollywood production completely staffed by women being shot on Paradise Island, because they would not give Tora Rivvers the starring role with her lack of acting experience. Essentially a less malicious, less competent Priscilla Rich, it's doubtful that with an island full of helpful amazons Tora's efforts would have had long term consequences even if Wonder Woman wasn't around to thwart them.
- Angelo Bend, aka Angle Man, a villain with a... geometry theme. Obsessed with committing crimes with "unbeatable angles" this guy, had nothing but overly complicated schemes going for him. Later he gained a silly-looking weapon that looked like a Penrose triangle ("the Angler", he called it) but always got his ass handed to him by the heroine. Eventually, he modified the weapon so it could warp time and space in a variety of ways, ditched his silly costume (for a getup that made him look like a middle-aged accountant) and was killed in the Crisis.
- Mouse Man, a villain who is the size of a mouse and permanently stuck that way, versus a woman stronger than Hercules, faster than Mercury and as wise as Athena. In fairness he did not initially set out to antagonize Wonder Woman, just scare women in general, by using his small size to sneak around. He was mildly successful in that endeavor.
- Paper Man, taking on the strongest woman in the world with the power of having a body made out of newspaper. In fairness, Paper Man's was a Stalker with a Crush whose goal was to steal gifts to give to Lt. Diana Prince, rather than defeat Wonder Woman in a battle or anything, but his odds of success weren't any higher because of it.
- The Duke of Deception, the Earl of Greed and Count of Conquest were three of Ares flunkies whose job was to keep the Earth in a perpetual state of war. Since this was during World War II, it's not clear why Ares even needed these buffoons, who always messed up. (DC may have been going for the Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey angle here, but these guys were bigger failures than Pain and Panic.) DC seems to have given up on the Earl and Count, but the Duke managed to eventually Take a Level in Badass, pulling a successful coup on Ares. (He still appears from time to time.)
- Wonder Woman villain Egg Fu became this over time. He was a huge egg with a face who was killed in the second issue he appeared in, but this was after killing Wonder Woman and Steve by disintegrating them on the atomic level and then smashing them against each other when they were revived, which almost killed them again.
- DC felt a need to revamp him, bringing in Egg Foo the Fifth. This one was less competent than the first, managing to capture the heroine by binding her with her lasso but was done in when she got too close by offering to dance for him.
- Brought back in Wonder Woman (1987) as an Apocaliptian supercomputer, that ended up defeated not by the efforts of the heroes so much as by Wonder Girl's casual hacker friend, who lampshaded the ridiculousness of the whole thing.
- Eventually a robot version of Egg Foo called Dr. Yes (a Shout-Out to Dr. No) as an enemy of the Metal Men survived and escaped after his plans were foiled, but didn't return.
- DC would come up with another version post-Crisis, one that gave him a robotic body and a scheme that involved summoning the Horsemen of the Apocalypse using technology. Sadly, it was still hard to take a giant, living egg seriously., so he didn't last, until...
- Finally, the most recent version was named Edgar Fullerton Yeung (get it?) who became a regular in Harley Quinn's own title. The nature of the title made him more acceptable, but he was a truly incompetent villain who was much happier when Harley hired him as a handyman.
- Surprisingly averted in the comic spinoff for Batman: The Brave and the Bold, where he is in fact the Eldritch Abomination Y'ggphu-Soggoth.
- The original "Blue Snowman" was a scientist who invented a suit of flying Powered Armor and a veritable army of identical Mecha-Mooks, that had a freeze ray that produced blue snow. After her capture she managed to create a new set of Powered Armor that made her look rather snowman-like (the actual "Blue Snowman" armor) while captive in Reformation Island to help her escape. A new version of the character in the Post-Crisis era was treated as an ineffective joke that died in her first appearance, and looked much sillier, adding a corncob pipe. Her Wonder Woman (Rebirth) version is Darker and Edgier with a much more menacing Giant Mecha in place of her Powered Armor but still ends up defeated in a single fight, and is left in a coma due to the way she integrated herself with her mecha. DC Rebirth goes back to silly, giving Blue Snowman a variation of her Post Crisis armor, but is merciful not to have her die in her first appearance this time around. She's otherwise no more successful.
- The original Doctor Cyber was a criminal mastermind who successfully pulled off several heists, murdered an entire monastery, and only started facing real setbacks when she set her sights on conquering the world. She wasn't the most fearsome villain, at first, but Diana Prince didn't have any of her wonderful powers the time either, so Doctor Cyber was an approrpriate threat to her that proved quite challenging, and even when Wonder Woman did get her powers and supporting cast back Doctor Cyber got some Powered Armor that allowed her to reasonably keep up. She even got the repowered Wonder Woman to surrender without a fight by capturing and torturing Wonder Woman's adopted sister, Wonder Girl Donna Troy, and only lost in that particular instance when Wonder Woman had to act to save the rest of the Teen Titans, who couldn't beat Doctor Cyber collectively. Post Crisis on Infinite Earths Doctor Cyber became a lot less threatening and effective. Despite now having cyberntic implants to increase her physical performance in addition to her powered armor, Doctor Cyber was now a team filler villain at best, being used as material for the new villain Engine Head and being trounced by Wonder Woman's side kicks Donna Troy and Cassie Sandsmark after somehow getting free of that merger. DC Rebirth had a new Doctor Cyber, who was a mostly harmless computer program before bringing back the original powered armor cyborg as a foe Superman couldn't be bothered to deal with, delegating her arrest to The Flash Barry Allen.
- DC Rebirth/Infinite Frontier's Young Diana back up specials give this treatment to Persephone, queen of the underworld. Post Crisis, Persephone was a powerful warrior who stood on equal footing with her husband, Hades, and was in fact less likely to be hostile to heroes like Wonder Woman than he was. New 52, she was a tragic victim Driven to Suicide when the gods lost their immortality and she took it as a chance to finally get away from her husband. But come Rebirth and Persephone is an almost successful thief that young Diana tracks, easily subdues and reduces to tears. It's to the point Diana actually feels bad for Persephone and wants to let her participate in the amazon's celebration Persephone was ruining by stealing the candles of.
