Wonder Woman: Encyclopedia of Villains

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Name: Mouseman
First Appearance: Wonder Woman #141 (1963)
Creators: Robert Kanigher and Ross Andru
Abilities: Proportionate speed, strength, and size of a mouse. Can talk to mice. Mouse riding abilities. Can disguise himself as a mouse. Possesses voice activated stunning ‘electro discs’. Chemist with the ability to create shrinking potions.

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Backstory: A man who spent years wishing he was as small as a mouse so that he could fullfill all of his criminal desires. Succeeding in his efforts of making himself as small as a mouse and making the effects permanent, Mouseman would begin a life of crime.

An unexpected side effect of his change in stature granted him the power to talk to mice. This communication meaning the countless rodents around the world are at his beck and call so long as he can talk to them.

Initially using his talents towards assassinations, robberies, and driving people to insanity, Mouseman would become a crook for hire. Espionage, sabotage, and grand larceny for hire. If someone paid the right price, then Mouseman would carry out jobs which would allow him to use his diminutive stature to slip about unseen.

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Name: Mäuschen
First Appearance: Forever Evil: Argus #5 (2014)
Creators: Sterling Gates and Neil Edwards
Abilities: Mouse with the proportionate speed and strength of a mouse. Sword haver.

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Backstory: Part of Cheetahs animal themed supervillain team known as the ‘Menagerie’ Mauschen a tiny mouse-like mouse of a mousey individual who was in fact a mouse.

Speaking in rather broken English which may or may not be his native language, Mauschen served an undefined role on a team which possessed numerous other individuals.

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Name: Thought Master
First Appearance: Wonder Woman #64 (1953)
Creators: Robert Kanigher and H.G Peter
Abilities: Ability to create worlds of thought and trap victims within their own minds.

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Backstory: Psychic contractor for the criminal underworld. The Thought Master was a powerful mentalist who had the ability to create elaborate worlds within the minds of his victims, trapping them in their own minds.

The victim would only see what Thought Master wished them to see. Unable to interact with the real world as they percieved it save for those elements which the Thought Master projected as existing. Through this, Thought Master could leave someone just standing staring vacantly into space. A power limited in that he could not interact with the victims himself without putting himself at risk.

Rather than use his powers for an immediate pay off, Thought Master was a contractor who would perform jobs for other criminals in exchange for a tidy sum.

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Name: Mirage Maker
First Appearance: Wonder Woman #76 (1955)
Creators: Robert Kanigher and H.G Peter
Abilities: Commands a small gang of criminals. Possesses a mechanical illusion ray which can alter peoples perceptions. Possesses wrist communicator which allows him to keep in touch with his gang.

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Backstory: Criminal gangster with a penchant for robbing banks. The Mirage Maker after repeated failures to steal stuff thanks to Wonder Woman, would make the effort to aquire a ‘Mirage Ray’ a device which relying on line of sight, would allow him to project images into the mind of the target.

Thus so long as he pointed the ray at the victim, they would see bank robbers in place of regular citizens. Tanks in place of cars. He could make Wonder Woman go after innocent people while his gangsters casually walked in and out of banks with bags of money since there exists no means of stopping criminals in all the world save for Wonder Woman so long as he kept his ray trained on her during a heist.

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Name: Paulie Longo
First Appearance: Wonder Woman #85 (1994)
Creators: William Messner Loebs and Mike Deodato jr
Abilities: Criminal savvy as a mob boss. Vast laundered wealth. Commands a crew of demon gangsters. Limo driving skills. Gun haver.

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Backstory: Formerly a lieutenant working for the Sazia crime family. Paulie Longo was a mobster with dreams of making a name for himself and becoming a big man with a bigger chair.

Having worked for Antonio Sazia as a knee breaker since he was fifteen, Paulie claimed to have seen Antonio as a sort of father figure and imagined himself as the mobsters heir. Thus when the White Magician murdered Sazia and proclaimed Paulie Longo as his successor, the goon leaped at the chance to claim his criminal enterprise.

With White Magician ‘blessing’ his mobsters with powers through demonic pacts and blood sacrifice, Paulie Longo would have an army of superpowered goons which he would use to gobble up a good portion of Bostons criminal underworld, Becoming kingpin of the city. With a desire to expand his criminal empire nation wide, with dreams of even putting the worlds superheroes under his thumb.

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[RexRebel]

I do enjoy reading these, thanks for all the hard work.

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Name: D’tasloo Parva
First Appearance: Wonder Woman #70 (1992)
Creators: William Messner Loeb and Paris Cullens
Abilities: Ruler of a vast space empire which rules a multitude of worlds. In posession of advanced alien technologies. Commands an army of insurmountable size.

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Backstory: Ruler of the vast and expansive Sangtee Empire. An empire which treats its founding species the Kreel as the elites and all other conquered peoples as second class lesser beings who exist to serve the empire.

Their empire having conquered their own race in its entirety, Sangtee became synonymous with the Kreel. A species which at one point had been known for its Sequential hermaphroditism, in that the species would be born male and over time members of its species would change gender to further their existence.

However the very philosophy of the Sangtee empire is that the female gender is lesser. Thus with the development and master of cloning technology, the Kreel species would see the extinction of the female gender as one of the core tenants of their empire.

Believing that the existence of the female gender in other species is a sign of their inferiority and need to be brought to heel, the alien Sangtee Empire would become expansionist, conquering worlds and conditioning those enslaved to the Sangtee Empire to either adopt their beliefs, or perish.

To ensure this, the women of the species would be enslaved and sent to prison planets where they would spend the rest of their miserable lives being worked to death mining for useless minerals for no other purpose than to keep them under heel. Granting a conquered world access to cloning technology to maintain their species existence only if they prove themselves dedicated to the principles of the Sangtee Empire.

The Sangtee Empire would continue to grow and prosper at the sufferance of the cosmos. Existing for over a thousand years, their empire expanding to include numerous worlds belonging to the Controllers and Khund amongst those enslaved to their rule.

D’tasloo Parva, the current ruler of the Sangtee Empire had been one of that rare 5% of the Kreel population which had been born female. A disgrace for a culture built around misogyny and hatred of women.

The 26 year old emperor spent the first fifteen years of their life undergoing drug therapy, genetic surgery, and mental conditioning to force them to conform to the male gender. Striving to be twice as viscious and capable as those emperors which came before, earning the audulation of the common citizens but the disdain of those aware of the dark truth of the emperor which was known only to a select few.

The empire would continue to expand, working to exterminate the female gender from the cosmos.

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[Shayera.Hol]

@RexRebel

I do enjoy reading these, thanks for all the hard work.

Ditto, fantastic work all around.

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Name: Time Master
First Appearance: Wonder Woman #101 (1958)
Creators: Robert Kanigher and Ross Andru
Abilities: Ability to freely travel through time instantaneously. Power to create pocket dimensions to trap people in. Can communicate with the past while existing a second into the future, rendering him immune to any and all harm.

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Backstory: The master of time itself.
Ty. M. Master is an all powerful figure with supreme mastery over the very concept of time. Able to grab whole regions out of time and seal them away in a mariad of pocket dimensions trapped away in time.

His motives unknown, the Time Master exists in ‘the Time Dimension’ a separate dimension from which he is able to freely monitor time in its entirety and do whatever strikes his fancy, for his powers are without limit.

The all powerful villain having a penchant for games, would give those he sought to destroy a sporting chance. A tiny sliver of a possibility of escaping his time traps. Not because he has any sense of fairness, but more because their failure to rise to the occasion amuses him to no end.

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Name: Professor Andro
First Appearance: Wonder Woman #116 (1960)
Creators: Robert Kanigher and Ross Andru
Abilities: Ability to freely travel through time. Ability to freeze people and objects in time or simply paralyze them. Super strength. Flight. Ability to take on alternate forms. Can cause volcanic erruptions, create earthquakes, produce fire, and destroy matter through thought alone.

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Backstory: A powerful alien entity constructed entirely from crystal. Professor Andro for reasons unknown wished to destroy mankind in its entirety.

Posessing numerous psychic based abilities including the power to travel through time itself, Professor Andro would cause numerous disasters in Earths history. The sinking of Atlantis, the destruction of Pompei, the Chicago fire, the Johnstown flood. The after effects of these disasters forever changing humanities history.

Taking on a human form as he travels through history to avoid discovery, this alien of the distant future would use his knowledge of advanced sciences to create a facade of great alturistic education when in reality he was attempting to doom the world itself.

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[SteveTrevor2.0]

This was a good issue. I love how he always knew just where to stand and smirk. That’s a rare talent.

[creekee88]

This is awesome

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Name: The Chauvinist
First Appearance: Wonder Woman #95 (1995)
Creators: William Messner Loebs and Mike Deodato
Abilities: Super strength. Invulnerability. Impressive acting skills.

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Backstory: Based out of Yorba Linda, California. William ‘Bill’ Baker was your run of the mill struggling actor trying to make his name in Hollywood. That big break would come when himself and several other hopefuls were contacted by ‘Meta Promotions’ a talent agency that specialized in metahuman publicity.

They were hired by White Magician to create some new metahuman talent and when William Baker proved himself in auditions, he would be granted magically imbued muscle, size, strength and invulnerability which he would be permanent.

Told that he was to play the part of ‘The Chauvinist’ a villainous hater of women who would attack Rec centers with an army of abusive husbands, he would be directed to ham it up for the hidden cameras and warned not to talk to the actress playing Wonder Woman out of character because she was ‘method’

Thus William Baker would go along with the villainy. Unaware that the victims were real, the attacks not faked, and that he was an unwitting villain. Able to finally make it big in Hollywood with his new look and dark rep, landing him a spot on Melrose Place and the lead role in ‘Dawn of the Dragon Killer’

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[Shayera.Hol]

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Name: Muck the Unknowable
First Appearance: Wonder Woman #34 (2009)
Creators: Gail Simone and Aaron Lopresti
Abilities: Exists as a living humanoid muck. Able to reform his body to a limited degree. Capable of ignoring most forms of harm. Is unknowable.

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Backstory: The history of the mysterious Muck is utterly unknowable. How he got his abilities. What led him to a life of villainy. Whether he is faking that southern drawl. Even the question of his species is up for debate.

What is known about Muck is that he is like a living muck. Blunt force damage dents his shape, but can instantly be reformed without harm. Blows destroying his head leave him utterly unphased and go right through him. Utterly invulnerable so long as his core remains undamaged.

Able to reform his limbs to suffocate and drown his victims, Muck freely kills for sport and pleasure. Acting like an utter creep as he does so.

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[Razzzcat]

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Decay

You’re in luck @MaxRoboto! I was literally just working on Phobos, and started in on that one since they’re linked! S​N.

[Razzzcat]

First Appearance: Wonder Woman 183 (1969)
Creators: Mike Sekowsky and Dick Giordano
Abilities: A master of chaos and doubt, this immortal Olympian wields all the inconceivable power of the Old Gods, and literally lives to stir the pot.

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Backstory: Based on the Greek mythological figure, Eris (also known as Strife) is the Goddess chaos and discord, daughter of Nyx (or Zeus, depending on the tale), and creator of the mayhem-inducing Golden Apple of Discord which started the infamous Trojan War.

Unsurprisingly, Eris would make her comic debut as a venomous, mettlesome figure, able to confuse and deceive with illusions, spells, and telepathy, aiming to sew the seeds of distrust and bitterness by tampering in the affairs of others, particularly Diana’s.

She has come to be known as one of the Children of Ares, along with Phobos and Deimos, but Eris was first known as sister to the God of War. She first joined her brother, Ares, in an attack on the Amazons, cursing Queen Hippolyta into a coma-like sleep, and would continue to wreak havoc across the comics landscape—kidnapping Diana, nearly killing Lois Lane, causing fights among UN dignitaries, and helping Circe to start a war among the pantheon, which ultimately cost Eris her life (since she made the mistake of trusting Circe)! She landed in the Tartarus as a result, but her spirit resurfaced years later when she would escape the infernal realm with her Deimos and Phobos, and possessed the body of Gotham City villain, Poison Ivy—until Diana is called to help restore order and defeat the deific antagonists.

Like many characters, Eris has been redesigned several times, and was most recently depicted as a sarcastic young woman, a less overtly evil entity, who feeds on acts of dissonance and chaos, and once again, is known as Ares’ sister.

Gods of Gotham

Wonder Woman (2011)

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[Razzzcat]

First Appearance: Wonder Woman 183 (1969)
Creators: Mike Sekowsky and Dick Giordano
Abilities: Master of terror and manipulation, with all the super strength, speed and endurance one can expect from a god—and a mane of venomous snakes.

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Backstory: Deimos*, the god of dread, is based on the Greek mythological figure and is the son of none other than Ares and Aphrodite. He and his brother, Phobos, the god of fear, primarily dwell in the Underworld, where they aide their father in plans of conquest and violence in order to bring destruction upon the mortals of Earth.

Naturally, gods of fear and horror would have a ruthless nature, and often seek their fathers approval, so like their father, they despise the Amazons as well as other Olympian Gods. Deimos, usually seen with his serpentine hair, achieves fear projections through the venom of his enchanted helm of snakes, and has been tasked by Ares to manipulate key political and military leaders in order to bring the planet to the brink of World War Three.

First seen along side his father, brother and (then) aunt, attacking Themyscira, he and his brother Phobos would also later attack Diana on her mission in Man’s World, but the Amazon was able to behead Deimos with her tiara. Years later, along with his also dead family members, Phobos and Eris, he would escape the Tartarus and head to Gotham City, where his spirit took possession of the Joker, but was eventually returned back to the Underworld. He would later reappear with an altered appearance as a twin, attempting to blackmail a grieving Veronica Cale, in order to free his father from a prison on Themyscira…where Circe turned him into dog, because of course she did.

*Not to be confused with Deimos, a powerful necromancer and sworn enemy of Travis Morgan, the Warlord.

No Home For You Here

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[Razzzcat]

First Appearance: Wonder Woman 183 (1969)
Creators: Mike Sekowsky and Dock Giordano
Abilities: Master of fear, weaponry, and precognition, with all the super strength, speed and endurance one can expect from a god.

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Phobos, the god of fear, is based on the Greek mythological figure and is the son of Ares and Aphrodite. He and his brother, Deimos, the god of dread, primarily dwell in the Underworld, where they aide their father in plans of conquest and violence in order to bring destruction upon the mortals of Earth.

Naturally, gods of fear and horror would have a ruthless nature, and often seek their fathers approval, so like their father, they despise the Amazons as well as other Olympian Gods. First appearing alongside Deimos and Eris, Phobos, is a robust, troll-like creature of great size and strength, who possesses so such power that his hands and hair are aflame and can alter his appearance. After an initial attack on Wonder Woman, ending with the decapitation of his brother, Phobos later sent Ixion and the Gorgon, Euryale to attack the Amazon out of revenge. The plot failed and he was imprisoned in the Tartarus; But the sorceress, Circe freed Phobos, convincing him to aid her during the events of the War of the Gods which like his sister, Eris, ended in death.

He later joined his brother and sister in escaping the Tartarus and heading to Gotham City, where he would possess the body of the villain, Scarecrow, and more recently attempted to blackmail Veronica Cale in an attempt ti free his father from imprisonment at the hands of the Amazons.

Phobos would also create the monster, Decay, by mixing his power with that of Medusa’s heart and sent it to attack Wonder Woman and her friend, Vanessa Kapatelis.

Wonder Woman (1986)

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[Razzzcat]

First Appearance: Wonder Woman 14 (1945)
Creators: Alice Marble and HG Peter
Abilities: Nazi spy armed with pistols, grenades, and good old-fashioned greed and charm.

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Backstory: Rudolph Hessenpfeffer was a clever Nazi spy and murderer known as the “Gentleman Killer”. Like any good spy, The Gentleman Killer was manipulative and relied on a number of natural abilities, like lies and deceit, to keep himself ahead of his pursuers. In a series of escalating conflicts, he would menace Wonder Woman and the denizens of a new mysterious realm.

While on the run from Wonder Woman and her allies, the Gentleman Killer and Diana are transported to a pocket dimension known as Shamrock Land, where the native Leprechauns are technically just as troublesome as Hessenpfeffer, but that doesn’t mean they don’t need rescuing! The Gentleman Killer manages to elude Diana, and escape to underground caves. Not knowing that he is an invader and criminal, he is welcomed by the Princess Elaine. Both charming and masterful in his deceptions, he would lie his way into a position of power, becoming the new Prime Minister of Shamrock Land, who rules with a greedy hand- even convincing the tribe of leprechauns to trade away their magical darts. Diana must shake off the stupor created by magic moonbeams to oppose him and rid the realm of the menacing Nazi thug.

Wonder Woman (1942)

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[Jurisdiction]

Is there any update on this?