Dark Angel is a DC Comics villain who battled Wonder Woman. She is a wandering spirit who inabited the body of Baroness Paula von Gunther during World War II. Recently it was revealed that Dark Angel, was in fact the Donna Troy of Earth-Seven, saved from certain death by the Anti-Monitor. DC Comics is one of the largest American companies in comic book and related media publishing. ... In comic books, first appearance refers to first comic book to feature a character. ... Dr. William Moulton Marston (May 9, 1893 – May 2, 1947) was a psychologist, feminist theorist, and comic book writer who created the Wonder Woman character with his wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston. ... John Lindley Byrne (born July 6, 1950) is a British-born naturalised American author and artist of comic books. ... Donna Troy is a fictional character, a superheroine in the DC Universe. ... DC Comics is one of the largest American companies in comic book and related media publishing. ... Wonder Woman is a fictional DC Comics superheroine co-created by William Moulton Marston and wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Donna Troy is a fictional character, a superheroine in the DC Universe. ... The Earths of the Multiverse and the different variations of The Flash inhabiting each one. ... The Anti-Monitor is the supervillain of the DC Comics mini-series Crisis on Infinite Earths. ...

Baroness Paula von Gunther originally debuted in Sensation Comics #4. Dark Angel debuted in Wonder Woman #131 (Vol. 2). Sensation Comics is the title of a comic book series published by DC Comics which ran for 109 issues between 1942 and 1952. ... Wonder Woman is a fictional DC Comics superheroine co-created by William Moulton Marston and wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston. ...

Character History

Pre-Crisis

Wonder Woman captures Baroness Paula von Gunther.

Baroness Paula von Gunther first appeared as a foe of Wonder Woman. She battled the Amazon numerous times as an agent of the Gestapo. She murdered many individuals, kept a small group of women as personal slaves, tortured them routinely, was for a time the leader of all Gestapo operations in the United States, forced American citizens into becoming Nazi spies, and once tried to monopolize America's milk supply so that its people would have weak bones and fall before the stronger-boned Nazis. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Wonder Woman is a fictional DC Comics superheroine co-created by William Moulton Marston and wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston. ...

Von Gunther went to trial, but Wonder Woman acted as her defense and got her off on a technicality. The Baroness had already been tried once and found guilty and even executed (Sensation Comics #7) and double jeopardy prevented her from being tried for those crimes again.

Eventually, she was rehabilitated by Wonder Woman and became the Amazon's chief scientist on Paradise Island. Her biggest contribution was the creation of the Purple Ray. The Purple Ray is a fictional healing device created in early Golden Age Wonder Woman comics by a German scientist and (former) spy, the Baroness Paula von Gunther. ...

Post-Crisis

Following the events of the Crisis on Infinite Earths, it is revealed that Baroness Paula von Gunther was the human host for the evil wandering spirit, Dark Angel. Crisis on Infinite Earths was a 12-issue comic book limited series (identified as a 12 part maxi-series) and crossover event, produced by DC Comics in 1985 in order to simplify their fifty-year-old continuity. ...

The bringer of doom known as Dark Angel has long bedevilled humans foolish enough to summon her. During World War II, Nazi occult mistress Baroness Paula von Gunther called forth this wandering evil spirit, who then took over Von Gunther's body and attacked Wonder Woman and the Justice Society with her mythical might. For the Marvel Comics character, see: Hippolyta (Marvel Comics). ... The Justice Society of America, or JSA, is a team of fictional superheroes whose adventures have been published by DC Comics. ...

Hippolyta battled Dark Angel on many occasions, and eventually Dark Angel appeared on Themyscira. She intended to kidnap Princess Diana, but instead kidnapped her magical double. She forced the double (whom she thought was Diana) to live thousands of lifetimes, each one ending in tragedy. She hoped the cumulative effect would drive Hippolyta insane. Instead, the double was able to grow stronger, and finally became an independent entity now known as Donna Troy. Themyscirian Amazons Art by Phil Jimenez Themyscira is a fictional island nation in the DC Comics universe. ... Donna Troy is a fictional character, a superheroine in the DC Universe. ...

Donna Troy was able to defeat Dark Angel, and at some point Dark Angel separated herself from von Gunther. The Baroness was last seen living among the Amazons.

Return of Donna Troy

Main article: Donna Troy

Dark Angel is revealed as the Earth-Seven Donna Troy in The Return of Donna Troy #4.

In the Return of Donna Troy mini-series, Donna Troy discovered that her sworn enemy of the past, Dark Angel, was in fact the Donna Troy of Earth-Seven, saved from certain death by the Anti-Monitor, as the Monitor had saved Harbinger, who was yet another alternate counterpart. When the Multiverse was reconfigured in one single Universe, Dark Angel, who had somehow escaped the compression of every Donna Troy into one single person in the new Earth, sought to kill her (every life she forced her to relive was in fact an aspect of an alternate Donna) as a way to avoid the merging and remain the last one standing. When she was defeated, Donna became the real sum of every Donna Troy that existed on every Earth, a living key to the lost Multiverse. Donna Troy is a fictional character, a superheroine in the DC Universe. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... The Earths of the Multiverse and the different variations of The Flash inhabiting each one. ... The Anti-Monitor is the supervillain of the DC Comics mini-series Crisis on Infinite Earths. ... The Monitor was a character created by comic book writer Marv Wolfman and comics artist George Pérez as one of the main characters of DC Comics Crisis on Infinite Earths limited series. ... Harbinger is a DC Comics character created in the early 1980s. ...

Powers and Abilities

Pre-Crisis, Paula von Gunther had no super powers but was a skilled hand-to-hand combatant.

Post-Crisis, Dark Angel has vast powers and is able to perform a variety of feats including mind control, altering her size, teleportation and altering the time stream.

Appearances in Other Media

Christine Belford as von Gunther (with Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman.

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External links

• Dark Angel Rapsheet
• Titans Tower Profile
• The Unofficial Baroness Paula von Gunther Biography
• The Unofficial Dark Angel Biography
• Wonder Woman Meets Baroness Paula von Gunther