Name: Gault
First Appearance: Wonder Woman tv series: SE:3 EP:12 (1978)
Portrayed by: John Carradine
Abilities: Telekinesis. Advanced intellect. The ability to cloud the minds of others. Memory erasure. The ability to claim the bodies of others, making them his own. Possession of a robot body. Vast wealth.
Backstory: Harlow Gault was an aging industrialist in the munitions industry and founder of Gault Industries. Reaching his 70s, was considered to olde and ancient for the competitive life of corporate blood feuds, was ousted from the company by his board of directors, with his replacement Stryker taking over the company.
Swearing to live on so he may reclaim his company, Harlow Gault invested his money into tapping the secrets of immortality, until his efforts chance upon Doctor Crippin, a mad scientist who professed a means of removing brains and preserving them, ensuring they would become immortal.
Thus putting his aide Tara Landon in charge of managing his assets and public appearances, Harlow Gault underwent the procedure which led to his brain being removed. Leading to surprising side effects.
For as everyone knows, brains like koi fish will grow to fit the size of their containiner. Thus no longer being constrained by the limits of the human skull, Gault rapidly gained new mental abilities. He could move things with his mind to an incredible degree. It became childs play to perform incredible calculations. With further psychic powers continuing to develop as his brain enlarged!
Driven by the twin desires of reclaiming his company through bloody sabotage, and claiming a new younger fitter model of the human body to claim as his own, Gault was a psychic terror.
