Courtesy of the lovely @DC89, some Wonder Woman 3 news!
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Thats what happens when you get a political cartoonist to shift over to comic books. 
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Really looking forward to discussing this in more detail when the news is offically announced
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Name: Professor Buggo
First Appearance: Sensation Comics #55 (1946)
Creators: Joye Hummel and H.G. Peter
Abilities: Brilliant scientific mind, flight, The respect and deference of his Bughuman people.
Backstory: Foremost scientific mind amongst the population of the Bughumans. Professor Buggo was well regarded by his entire species who would not hesitate to follow his commands for there was little doubt that Professor Buggos sole motivation was to build a better tommorow for Bughuman kind!
The Bughumans themselves were a parasitic multi-cellular microsorganism which had evolved characteristics which are a most unusual blending of human and insect. Viewing all other life as lesser and to either be subjugated or consumed, they were a dangerous force and stymied only by the simple fact that their smaller size limited what they were capable of.
Enter Gerta Von Gunther! The daughter of Baroness Paula Von Gunther, Gerta having been rescued from the nazis holding her hostage as a toddler, had lived amongst the Amazons mastering Amazonian super strength, and grew up in America with her mother who became a professor at Holliday College.
Gerta reaching young adulthood, came down with that most troubling of maladies for the genius prone ‘FOR SCIENCE!’ syndrome in which one does things not for good or for evil, but purely for the sake of scientific inquiry. A desire to learn regardless of the consequences which may follow.
Upon discovering the Bughumans, Gerta invented a size changing device to enlarge them to human size so she could enlarge a specimen, study it, then return it to normal size. Recording her results and repeating this process on multiple specimens.
The Bughumans were in a panic as this was occuring, but Professor Buggo studying this process came to a conclusion that this could work in their favor and allow their microscopic civilization to prosper to impossible heights!
Thus deducing the process by which Gerta selected test subjects, Professor Buggo organized a plan for the ones enlarged to overpower Gerta and enlarge several more. Then take the device used to enlarge them into the skies, enlarging their entire civilization to exist within Earths skies!
The Bughumans would succeed in their efforts and with Professor Buggo leading them, they would see the Earth as their feeding ground. Safe in the knowledge that there were no predators which could impede their efforts. Confident that any species other than their own was easy pickings for the giant microorganisms and their fully established civilization.
Professor Buggo would lead his people to greatness!
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@Razzzcat and @nuuninuunani I never realized until you started doing this how varied and strange Wonder Woman’s rouge gallery use to be. It is a bit more generic and repetitive nowadays.
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Yeah, People know a couple of the more regularly used ones, but unless ones done a read of those stories, you never quite realize just how wild things used to be.
Part of it is because people saw Perez’s excellent run and assumed that EVERY RUN should use mythological villains.
Part of it is because DC simply took a more grounded and serious stance after post crisis and limited what was allowed.
And a significent part of it is because many of the Wonder Woman villains people DO know about today are dramatically more grounded than they used to be and lack alot of the crazier elements they used to possess.
Did you know that Ares used to rule the planet Mars? Anyone who died in a war be it soldier or civilian would become his slaves in the afterlife, and he would have his followers drag their eternal souls to the planet Mars to become his soldiers of war. Restoring them to life to further the cause of war across the universe, increasing his strength further.
Did you know Doctor Psychos powers used to work completely differently? Back in pre crisis, he wasn’t simply a psychic. He had the power to steal the psychic powers of other people and could use it to secrete ectoplasm which allowed him to reshape reality. Creating anything he could imagine from weapons and traps to giving himself a hunky invulnerable tall form. Powers which he received from his patron god, the Duke of Deception.
Did you know that Circe used to rule an entire planet called Sorca which she reshaped to her own whim and would transmorgify traveling spacemen?
Or that Giganta was originally a hyper evolved gorilla mom who was stronger than Wonder Woman?
There is alot of missed opportunity
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No, I didn’t know most of that, I need to do some more reading.
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Name: Minister Blizzard
First Appearance: Wonder Woman #29 (1948)
Creators: H.G Peter and Joye Hummel
Abilities: Political and administration skills, Paralysis ray gun, sword haver, access to a climate changing machine, and later the power of ice themed wizardry.
Backstory: In the frozen north beyond the lands ruled by humankind lay the secret kingdom of Iceburg Land. A nation of people made from ice and snow who made a technologically advanced civilization by realizing you can make Anything out of ice.
Ruling over this nation was Queen Snowina who was well aware that her nation was in dire straits. For being a people born from the cold, warmer temperatures were actually fatal to their kind. With global warming rearing its ugly head, the people of Iceburg land were facing a potential extinction thanks to humanities efforts.
Minister Blizzard was the prime minister of Iceburg land. Answering directly to Queen Snowina, Minister Blizzard handled all of the necessary errata that actually went into managing a country and its administration.
When the brilliant minds of Holliday College would seek to singly handedly bring an end to global warming, Minister Blizzard caught wind of it and reported to the queen about the climate changing machine. However he twisted the truth, claiming that the humans intended to use it to melt all of the ice in the north pole, exterminating them all!
Thus Queen Snowina giving Minister Blizzard command of her nations military for the sake of stealing the machine and using it to maintain the cold temperatures they need for their survival.
However Minister Blizzard being far less alturistic than he may appear, had a seconary goal. He saw this machine capable of creating an everlasting winter and saw an opportunity…For conquest!
Thus cooking up false orders in his queens name, Minister Blizzard led the army of Iceburg land with the intention of bringing about a world wide ice age in which the people of ice and snow would flourish while humanity perished. Allowing him to conquer the world with massive iceburgs that devastated cityscapes.
In the modern era Minister Blizzard would be tweaked, becoming a human wizard who kept the title of minister despite lacking an authoritative position. All of his magic being based around the ice and snow, he had no connection to Iceburg land in this iteration and simply sought world domination with an ice theme for its own sake
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Name: Wade Dazzle
First Appearance: Wonder Woman #222 (1976)
Creators: Martin Pasko and Jose Delbo
Abilities: One of the wealthiest men in the world. Owner of one of the wealthiest companies in the world. Beloved by millions the world over. Can drink of the life force of his victims to maintain his life. Controls a seemingly endless number of clones to do his bidding. Ownership of Dazzleland, the happiest place on Earth. Writer, animator, producer, voice actor.
Backstory: World renowned figure in the realm of entertainment. Wade Dazzle is famed for a plethora of things. The home of ideas. The domain of tommorow. His series of ‘Dazzleland’ theme parks. The world recognized rodent mascot for his massive multimedia empire.
In order to perfect his entertainment business, Wade Dazzle had invented a device known as the ‘duplicate manufacturer’ which could make duplicates of ANYONE so long as there was a basis. Regardless of whether or not they were real. An invention so great that he would fool people into thinking his creations were animatronics or paid actors in suits. Not realizing that the Jerry Gerbil they were speaking to was the actual Jerry Gerbil. Cloned to life with all the memories he should have if he was flesh and blood!
Unfortunately, things would take a dire turn for Wade Dazzle who would discover that he had a rare and incurable disease. Deciding the answer to this was cryogenic suspension until a cure could be found, Wade realized that the costs of maintaining such a system would bleed him dry.
Thus Wade Dazzle concieved of an elaborate plot to convert his theme parks into power plants by inventing a machine which would drain the essence from theme park goers, using them as living batteries to maintain his life. With a portion of that energy being used to power the duplicate manufacturer. Allowing him to create perfect copies of his victims who would go out into the world behaving as if they were entirely normal. Not even themselves aware that they were but copies whose every sense was being monitored by Dazzleland computers, and that they could freely be controlled with the flick of a switch.
With his preperations complete, Wade Dazzle would make copies of himself and go into cryogenic suspension. Safe in the knowledge that while he slumbered, his ever expanding empire would grow and consume. Striving to dominate the planet itself under the steely gaze of his army of clones which each ran one of his franchise theme parks.
With hundreds of thousands of people visiting a Dazzleland somewhere in the world and countless lives being sacrificed in order to maintain Wade Dazzles terrifying immortality, there seemed no limit to Wade Dazzles reach. Theater troops, superheroes, even space empires. None were safe from becoming victims of the Wade Dazzle Company.
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I still have plenty more villains to cover but just out of curiosity, does anyone have any favorites?
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It’s pretty fun, right? 
I have an idea @nuuninuunani. Probably DM you about it soon.
Just gonna leave these covers while I’m here since I was just looking at them…
We’ll have a discussion for this one when it comes out. 
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That cover! 
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When I first read this I was kind of shocked at the blatant Disney attack. It is partly parody and partly right on the nose… or ears as the case may be. (Ba-dum-tss).
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My Queen! 
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Ooo~ Color me intrigued. 
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Yes! Only Wonder Woman can stand in the way of Disneys efforts to conquer the world!
I want to see Wade Dazzle come back just for the sheer topicalness of it all. XD
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Name: King Tassel
First Appearance: Wonder Woman #25 (1947)
Creators: Joye Hummel and H.G Peter
Abilities: Ruler of planet Rykornia and its people, the Rykornians. Uses deadly corn cob based technology. Can propagate and spread, consuming the nutrients and life of others to spread infinitely.
Backstory: Existing upon a planetoid which lay hidden away within Earths atmosphere ruled King Tassel, the ruler of his alien species, the Rykornians. A race of geometric corn peope, the Rykornians were born from giant stalks of rykorn which could grow was big as redwoods overnight and in the process sap decades of nutrients from the surrounding soil to accomplish this. The Rykorn itself utterly lacking in any nutritional value, this made the Rykorn and its associated Rykornian people a vile paraside which sought to steal the life of planets, giving nothing back in turn.
The planet Rykornia from which the Rykornians dwelled was at one point a rich and fertile world with a wide and diverse ecosystem. However the Rykorn and its progeny the Rykornians quickly spread and consumed. Leeching all other life until the world was nothing but pure Rykorn and the Rykornians.
King Tassel the ruler of the Rykornians saw their world which was covered in vast forests of rykorn and wept for there was nothing more to conquer. With no more space for his people to grow and consume, King Tassel set his sights on Earth and its bountiful resources. Dreaming of the Earth with every living thing on it reduced to feed for the giant stalks of Rykorn. Every other plant choked to death by the invasive species.
Thus King Tassel plotted and schemed to invade the Earth! Enslaving humanity to aid in their planets inevitable demise at the hands of their new Rykornian overlords!
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Name: Strogo the Magician
First Appearance: Wonder Woman #52 (1952)
Creators: Robert Kanigher and H.G. Peter
Abilities: Master of black magic capable of seemingly anything. Leads an army of fairy tale villains.
Backstory: Deep in astral space which is the outer space of the astral plane which is so thin that it connects to outer space, lay the planet of thought. A world that was the origin for all fairy tales such as Cinderella.
The nature of the planet of Thought was such that any events which occured there would send out thought waves, beaming directly into the brains of creatives who would produce creative works based on those events.
This would work in reverse as well, with writers on the planet of Thought chronicling stories that they received in dreams about Wonder Woman and other real life figures which the denizens of the Planet of Thought simply assumed were fictional themselves.
Upon this world lived Strogo. Wielder of dark magic which he stored within his wand, he was considered the mightiest practioner of dark magic on the World of Thought. Ruling a nation of witches, giants, goblins, and changlings.
However Strogo was suffering a great crisis. For the magic which Strogo and his people harnessed was powered by a rare mineral known as ‘Xium’ which was not only the source of all of their powers, but literally what made them the villains they were.
The worlds Xium supply nearly drained, Strogo and his people would do anything they could to get their hands on more. For should their supply run out, no one knew what could occur. Perhaps even death.
Thus Strogo and his army wielding what limited power they had to spare, began to wage war upon the other fairytale kingsoms of the Planet of Thought. Desperate to grasp the last vestiges of evil magic for the sake of their very survival.
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The Astral Plane is a whole weird thing in Wonder Woman comics one could probably write a hefty essay about. It was like the afterlife, the realm of the gods, and the world of dreams all rolled into one. And it had its own planets and civilizations, with the barrier between the astral plane and reality being so paper thin that people could accidentally just wind up crossing over from one to another without even trying.
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