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Villainy Inc.
Top: Jinx, Giganta, Trinity. Bottom: Cyborgirl, Doctor Poison, Queen Clea
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	Wonder Woman #28 (vol. 1)
Created by	William Moulton Marston
In story information
Member(s)	Queen Clea Cyborgirl Doctor Poison Giganta Jinx Trinity Blue Snowman Cheetah Eviless Hypnota Zara

Villainy Inc. is a group comprised of villains who battle Wonder Woman. They originally appeared in the Golden Age, and have reappeared as a modern-age team with a revamped line-up. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Grammatical tense is a way languages express the time at which an event described by a sentence occurs. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company. ... In comic books, first appearance refers to first comic book to feature a character. ... For other uses, see Wonder Woman (disambiguation). ... 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. ... Queen Clea is a villain who battled Wonder Woman and has led Villainy Inc. ... Cyborgirl is a fictional character owned by the comic book company DC Comics. ... Doctor Poison is the name of two villains who have battled Wonder Woman. ... Giganta is a fictional character, a red-haired super-villainess appearing in DC Comics publications and related media. ... For other uses, see Jinx (disambiguation). ... Trinity is the name of a DC Comics supervillain. ... Blue Snowman (a. ... For the Marvel Comics character, see Cheetah (Marvel Comics). ... Eviless is a DC Comics supervillain, primarily known as an enemy of Wonder Woman. ... Hypnota the Great (aka Hypnotic Woman) was a villain who battled the Golden Age Wonder Woman and was a member of Villainy Inc. ... Zara, Priestess of the Crimson Flame is a villain who battled the Golden Age Wonder Woman. ... For other uses, see Wonder Woman (disambiguation). ...

Fictional history

Pre-crisis

Villainy Inc. debuted in Wonder Woman #28 (Vol. 1), in the last story written by series creator William Moulton Marston. 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. ...

The villains (who were individually sentenced to prison on the Amazon penal colony Transformation Island and soon escape) pool their talents as Villainy, Incorporated; led by the Saturnian slaver Eviless. They are defeated by Wonder Woman and return to Transformation Island. The team consisted of:

• Blue Snowman (Byrna Brilyant) - A woman disguised as a man who uses the invention of "blue snow," a special form of precipitation that freezes everything it touches.
• Cheetah (Priscilla Rich) - A debutante and thief whose terrible feeling of inferiority periodically causes her Cheetah self to seize control of her personality.
• Doctor Poison (Princess Maru) - Leader of a Nazi spy ring whose ultimate goal was to wreak havoc in the US Army by contaminating the army's water with "reverso," a drug that "confuses the brain centers… [making] soldiers do the exact opposite of what they are told."
• Eviless - Criminal from Saturn.
• Giganta - An ape who is artificially evolved into a human strongwoman by Professor Zool.
• Hypnota - A stage magician who conceals her gender via masculine costume and false facial hair, who has the ability to mesmerize others with a glance.
• Queen Clea - The cruel blonde monarch who is the ruler of the Atlantean nation of Venturia - a subsea realm situated somewhere beneath the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean (Comics Cavalcade No. 18, Dec/Jan '46/47: "The Menace of the Rebel Manlings" until she is deposed by Wonder Woman in Spring 1944.
• Zara - Priestess of the Crimson Flame.

Blue Snowman (a. ... For the Marvel Comics character, see Cheetah (Marvel Comics). ... Doctor Poison is the name of two villains who have battled Wonder Woman. ... Eviless is a DC Comics supervillain, primarily known as an enemy of Wonder Woman. ... This article is about the planet. ... Giganta is a fictional character, a red-haired super-villainess appearing in DC Comics publications and related media. ... Hypnota the Great (aka Hypnotic Woman) was a villain who battled the Golden Age Wonder Woman and was a member of Villainy Inc. ... Queen Clea is a villain who battled Wonder Woman and has led Villainy Inc. ... Zara, Priestess of the Crimson Flame is a villain who battled the Golden Age Wonder Woman. ...

Post-crisis

Following the retcons in Crisis on Infinite Earths, the group's history began when they first menaced Hippolyta in the Golden Age. Cheetah, Zara, Doctor Poison and Hypnotic Woman (formerly Hypnota) were assembled by Queen Clea (it has not been revealed if Eviless or Blue Snowman were members, and Giganta was retconned into a modern-age villainess who joined later). The Atlantean monarch of the city Venturia enlisted the others to defeat her rival city, Aurania. They were repeatedly foiled by Hippolyta. (Wonder Woman: Our Worlds at War #1) Retroactive continuity – commonly contracted to the portmanteau word retcon – refers to the act of changing previously established details of a fictional setting, often without providing an explanation for the changes within the context of that setting. ... Crisis on Infinite Earths was a 12-issue American comic book limited series (identified as a 12-part maxi-series) and crossover event, produced by DC Comics in 1985 to simplify their then-55-year-old continuity. ... For the Marvel Comics character, see: Hippolyta (Marvel Comics). ...

Later, Hippolyta's daughter Diana traveled back in time and discovered them in battle. Clea was defeated by Diana (who disguised herself as Miss America) and Clea's own daughter, Ptra. Miss America is a DC Comics superhero. ...

Clea was not seen again for many years, save once. With a host of other villains, she allied with King Kull against the Justice League and Justice Society. She and her subjects fought alongside Blockbuster, but were easily defeated (Justice League of America #135). For the animated television series, see Justice League (TV series) or Justice League Unlimited. ... The Justice Society of America, or JSA, is a team of fictional superheroes whose adventures have been published by DC Comics. ... Blockbuster is the name of three fictional characters in the DC Comics Universe. ...

In recent times, when all of Atlantis disappeared from the Earth, Clea again set out to conquer a land to rule. She assembled a new Villainy, Inc. consisting of: Atlantis is a fictional location in the DC Comics Universe and the Marvel Comics Universe. ...

• Cyborgirl (LeTonya Charles) - The niece of Dr. Sarah Charles, who required emergency surgery after a reaction to the "super-steroid" Tar. Her cybernetic implants give her all the same abilities as Victor Stone (Cyborg), but she has none of his sense of responsibility.
• Doctor Poison - The grandchild of the original Doctor Poison who continues her grandmother's grudge against Wonder Woman, though she holds her grandmother in contempt.
• Giganta (Doris Zuel) - A scientist whose mind was transferred first into the body of an ape, and later into the body of a circus strongwoman. She has the ability to grow in size, and she is now a modern-age villainess and did not exist in the Golden Age).
• Jinx - An elemental sorceress whose powers include the ability to command elements such as air, the manipulation of magical energy that she can manifest as offensive force bolts and green flame, the ability to dissolve matter, and create ground tremors.
• Trinity - A woman with three faces which are Time, War, and Chaos, each of which possesses its own power.

Together they descended upon the other-dimensional Skartaris. She used Cyborgirl to take control of the entire dimension. Clea's entire plan, however, was commandeered by Trinity. Trinity was in fact revealed to be a virus, engineered by the founders of Skartaris. When the "Trinity Virus" was reintroduced into Skartaris' governing computer system, the whole land began to regress and "devolve" to its origins. Wonder Woman managed to stop the process from becoming permanent, but still, some of Skartaris' inhabitants (including Clea) were lost in the de-evolution. (Wonder Woman #179-183, Vol. 2) Cyborgirl is a fictional character owned by the comic book company DC Comics. ... This article is about the Teen Titans member. ... Doctor Poison is the name of two villains who have battled Wonder Woman. ... Giganta is a fictional character, a red-haired super-villainess appearing in DC Comics publications and related media. ... For other uses, see Jinx (disambiguation). ... Trinity is the name of a DC Comics supervillain. ... Skartaris is a fictional Hollow Earth milieu invented by comic book writer/artist Mike Grell for his sword and sorcery comic book Warlord, published from 1976-1989. ...

The team has not appeared since.

See also

• List of Wonder Woman enemies

This is a list of fictional characters from DC Comics who are or have been enemies of Wonder Woman. ...

External links

• Cosmic Teams Profile
• The Unofficial Villainy Inc. Biography
• Wonder Woman Villains Rapsheets