Name: King Pluto
First Appearance: Wonder Woman #16 (1946)
Creators: H.G Peter and Joye Hummel
Abilities: A collection of flying black horses which can travel through space. A magic fork which allows him to control the planet pluto. Command of a planetary population of hooded wraiths. Can sense the existence of women who wish to commit suicide.
Backstory: Ruler of the planet Pluto which exists within a realm of outer space where the connection between ones soul and body are tenuous enough that they can become separated.
King Pluto ruling a realm of eternal ice, cold, and darkness was a cold and bitter fellow. Fearing the darkness and despising the cold, King Pluto would constantly demand his minions keep fires going to keep him from experiencing cold and darkness.
Able to somehow just know when a woman is wishing for death from a life of abject suffering from events such as a terrible grades in a college finals exam, King Pluto would journey to Earth on his chariot of magic horses, kidnap the one wishing for death, carry them back to his home planet of Pluto, separate the soul from the body, toss the body in an ice flow to keep it alive, and use the glimmering soul as a light source to keep his kingdom alit.
Souls being an eternal source of light, King Pluto would keep a collection of souls about solely for the purpose of giving life to his cold planetary realm. If he was to kill the body then they would become statues giving off eternal life.
If he was to dissolve their souls (because souls are water soluble) then the soul fluid would become a forever glowing liquid which could fill bulbs to provide light. Their bodies becoming the wraiths which populate his world and have consciousness of their own.
Motivated by the desire to make the planet Pluto a place of perpetual light and warmth, King Pluto didn’t care who had to suffer to make this a reality.
