The Smark Avengers - From Ares to Egg Fu: The Wildest Wonder Woman Villains Explained

Episode Date: February 20, 2026

Wonder Woman has faced some truly iconic villains… and some absolutely bizarre ones. In this episode, Corey, Dylan, and Jon dive into a slideshow-led exploration of Wonder Woman’s rogue gallery, f...rom her most famous enemies to the obscure and downright weird. ⚔️ What’s covered in this episode: Legendary foes like Ares and Cheetah Lesser-known villains like Dr. Cyber and Silver Swan Unusual villains like Egg Fu and Mouse Man Villains so strange they barely appeared at all With Corey guiding the way, Dylan and Jon react to the wildest, most ridiculous moments in Wonder Woman’s comic history. Expect laughs, shocking reveals, and some deep dives into the weirdest corners of DC Comics. If you love Wonder Woman, DC Comics, or just want to see which comic book villains are truly off the rails, this episode is for you. 💬 Join the Discussion Which Wonder Woman villain is your favorite—or your least favorite? Did we miss any strange gems? Drop your thoughts in the comments! 👍 Like the video 🔔 Subscribe for more comic deep dives, weird villain breakdowns, and fun fandom debates Click the link for Dylan's radio show!: http://www.bouncedigitalradio.co.uk Click the link for Dylan's Twitch stream: http://Twitch.tv/spookylaroux Click the link for Jon's Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/bigjonbowski/ Click the link for Corey's project "Henry's Usual": https://www.tumblr.com/henrysusual Click the link for Corey's show "Large Old Cup": https://open.spotify.com/show/2YHMppnl9inQevwLIxR64f

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Starting point is 00:00:04 And if we were like, hey, smart avengers, not without a cat. I sure it's inappropriate has tits on it. What's, well, we'll just, you know. We can't see the tits. I'll lower it down. I just want to make sure that we're not being inappropriate. I don't want us to get flagged for adult content. Well, that's why John has this video camera off.
Starting point is 00:00:24 Yeah. Oh, yeah. Breasts are out always. Doesn't wear bra. Absolutely. Mm-hmm. Who is that slapping noise? That wasn't me.
Starting point is 00:00:36 It might have been me open on the can. Okay. We're just talking about John babbing his breast out and then there was a slap. I was like, did John just slap his tit for emphasis? Yeah, because people need to know. People need to know. Yeah. They can't see it, but they can hear it.
Starting point is 00:00:56 They can still interact with it. They can certainly hear it, that's for sure. Everybody, welcome to Smart Avengers. Name is Corey. With me is Dylan and John. How's it going, guys? Hello. No, that can't be the intro.
Starting point is 00:01:08 I don't know. We usually make... Jill and usually are a little clown that we have in the intro who says the silly and appropriate thing. Yeah, it's nice to be on the other side of the ones, isn't it? True.
Starting point is 00:01:20 That's easier. I don't think John likes it. It's fine. But anyway, welcome to the Smart Avengers. My name is Corey. And as I said before, with me is Dylan and John.
Starting point is 00:01:30 Guys, how's it going? Good. Good. Good. Glad to hear, glad to hear. So today, we've had a lot of episodes that have kind of like run together in one way or another. We've had the tournament. We've had the Kang two-parter.
Starting point is 00:01:46 And I kind of think it'd be cool if we went a little back to basics to a degree. And by that, I mean, I have prepared a PowerPoint presentation. Excellent. So a couple of months ago, we did a deep dive. into the world of Aquaman villains. We started with his more well-known villains, and then I kind of led you through some of his famous, but lesser-known villains,
Starting point is 00:02:14 and then I kind of incapped it with, here's some fucking weirdos. Usually they were only in like an issue or two, but they were just so weird that you just had to mention it. Like, Wacky Man, who was a clown who had a robot animals that he had, and he dressed like Aquaman, except with a W for a belt. And then there was the one.
Starting point is 00:02:33 woman, her name, I believe, was Carla. And she had flaming hair, but she was also underwater. So she had to wear an oxygen mask so that she could be underwater, but her hair was still on fire somehow. Yeah, like, none of that seems like a good idea, does it? No, no. And then there was the scavenger that seemed like a good idea on paper until the 90s where they reimagined him to be a pedophile who got his powers from like an eel god or something. So that was weird.
Starting point is 00:02:59 Listen, if you're going to make somebody clearly an eel. evil person. Yeah. You know? Absolutely. We had a drive by Dusty just then. A.k.a. he was going to start climbing on things and we don't want that.
Starting point is 00:03:14 So, Cat cam. Hold on. He might actually do it here. You're going to get it? There it is. There it is. There it is. The money shock.
Starting point is 00:03:25 They got to get the people in. There it is. They're going to want to see that ringed tail. Would it make sense if that was the thumbnail? Just a close up of a ring tail Yeah Us kind of like peeking around it You know Maybe
Starting point is 00:03:38 Fog's gonna do With the show's about it Or maybe One of these great characters That we're going to discover Today We'll inspire a thumbnail of its own With its own weird eccentricities
Starting point is 00:03:50 Because we're gonna take a look At another DC Comics Superheroes rogue gallery We're gonna go with Wonder Woman So Right off the top of your head What do you know about Wonder Woman villains? I would say pretty much zero.
Starting point is 00:04:08 I don't think I could name a single one. I've read quite a few Wonder Woman comics. Like pretty much from the start of the new 52 up until about maybe three years ago, three, four years ago. So I've read a lot of Wonder Woman comics, but I don't really think I absorbed them very much. so I can't really remember many villains outside of, like, the obvious ones. Like, is it Cheetah?
Starting point is 00:04:37 Yes. And then I want to say Circe. That's another one of them. We'll spoil it. We'll get into them. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because, again, I'm going to hit you with the major ones and I'm going to give you some kind of minor ones.
Starting point is 00:04:51 And I'm going to get you some weirdos that only showed up a time or two. And we're largely forgettable, if not for how weird they were. Because DC Comics are the Golden Age. and Silver Age were really fucking strange. I have a question. Yes. How many of them are pedophiles? Well, here's the thing about Wonder Woman.
Starting point is 00:05:11 The Greek gods are part of her canon, and the Greek gods are perverts in their own weird ways. So maybe. Well, I think there's a line between pervert and a lot of Pito. But I suspect that I wouldn't want to spoil anything. I think we'll naturally come across whoever we get to. Yes, maybe we have to guess which one of them is the p-de-fow. You're going to come away with some opinions on at least one of them for sure in regards to that.
Starting point is 00:05:42 I can guarantee it. So, okay. That being said, we're going to head over into my special Wonder Woman PowerPoint presentation that I made the other day. I totally didn't just use the same background I used for the Aquaman villains. What are you talking about? Different. Absolutely different. So, again, I have a friend who has been around me for years and years and years and years, and they know I read comics and they've seen superhero movies and stuff with me.
Starting point is 00:06:11 And when I told them this was the topic, their response was, you know, I actually don't think I can name a Wonder Woman villain. And that's kind of a thing because most people, at least in their experience, they associate Wonder Woman with, like, fighting alongside Superman. and Batman and whoever the fuck they're fighting. They don't think about she has her own villains and her own problems to deal with. So, that being said, let's get started. With the obvious, the big one, Aries. Aries first debuted in Wonder Woman number one
Starting point is 00:06:45 in July of 1942. He is the Greek god of war and is considered Wonder Woman's half-brother. He's immortal, he's invulnerable, he could shape-shift, teleport. He's got god powers that include apparently getting stronger and faster by absorbing violence, energies. And for fun, I decided to put that he was voiced by Dylan, your favorite Dr. Octopus, Alfred Molina, in an animated Wonder Woman movie, and played by David Thuleus in the 2017 Wonder Woman
Starting point is 00:07:11 movie. But Aries is kind of considered her big bad. John, you read the new 52, where he had a very different look, where he was bald with a big long beard. That, from I understand, was the artist making fun of the writer Brian Azarello by drawing Aries to look like him. So, nice. Like I said, there are a couple more Greek gods on here and Greek characters. Wonder Woman is very much fed off of Greek mythology. But I didn't want to fill up the whole presentation
Starting point is 00:07:43 with listing every single god she's had a problem with because there are numerous ones. Okay. So I wanted to make sure I least captured Ares. Like I said, this is her, this is her Lex Luthor. This is her Joker. This is her big bad, in my opinion. There are other more, there are other Wonder Woman villains that are female that a lot of people want to pair her with because, you know, the idea that she's a female hero and should have a top female villain.
Starting point is 00:08:11 I get it. But, I mean, Ares is the embodiment of war. He's the exact opposite of Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman is all about, you know, peace and love and everyone were living together. And Aries is the god of bloodshed. He's not the god of war and strategy. That's Athena. God of Aries is God of violence and blood.
Starting point is 00:08:29 So he's her exact contrast. So they have fought each other in every continuity in D.C. Um, pre-crisis, post-crisis, new 52 and rebirth. He's been there constantly the whole time. Has Wonder Woman ever ripped Aries in half? I don't know if she's ripped him in half. I know he has died in her continuity. But, of course, he came back.
Starting point is 00:08:58 I do wonder, though, I think he is stronger than the Marvel Comics Aries, though. That doesn't surprise me. The Marvel Aries isn't that impressive for any? Yeah. All right, so we'll move forward. This is her next most iconic villain. This is the Cheetah. So Cheetah originally debuted in Wonder Woman No. 6, which is in September of 1943.
Starting point is 00:09:25 three. However, there have been five versions of the Cheetah. The two most famous ones are the first one, Priscilla Rich, and the third one, Barbara Minerva. So Priscilla Rich was a debutant who basically had a Cheetah costume that gave her like shark claws and she was like an acrobat already. And when they went into, I believe it was pre post crisis when they switched to Minerva, she was an archivac. like a anthropologist that tried to perform a ritual, but failed because she wasn't a virgin. And she was cursed to have her body trapped inside of this lichen-thrope cheetah form where she's like bloodthirsty and stuff. So she actually has powers. So she has, you know, superhuman abilities, sharp claws. And in the past, has had the ability to transform other people into cheetah people by biting them.
Starting point is 00:10:25 And she was played by Kristen Wigg. in the Wonder Woman 1984 movie, which I did not see, but I didn't hear great things about. No, you didn't miss much. I gathered that. Why did they think it was good for them to make five different versions of this card?
Starting point is 00:10:45 Well, so here's the thing. Whenever they have come about with doing like the relaunches and creating new continuities, they have this kind of like play with the formula a little bit. Like what can we do to make the character different? Because this is an all new, all different, you know, continuity that we're in. So like the first cheetah was Priscilla Rich.
Starting point is 00:11:08 The second cheetah was like her niece that found the costume and did the same thing, basically. The third cheetah was Barbara Minerva. The fourth cheetah was a dude who Barbara Minerva killed and then took the powers back from. And then the fifth version is, considered the new 52 version of the character that has kind of been merged in with the Barbara Minerva and rebirth continuity see but yeah ultimately people believe this is wonder woman's top female villain uh in other media like video games and stuff like the justice league task force Sega Genesis fighting game in the um injustice gods among us video game she has
Starting point is 00:11:50 been the um one of the wonder woman villains that got brought into the game as well areas also did as well. Okay. So yeah, that would be, I would say, her second top villain of all time. And this is where it's going to start to get a little weird. Good. So here's Dr. Psycho.
Starting point is 00:12:12 Okay. Dr. Psycho is, I would say, her third most famous villain. He first debuted in Wonder Woman number 5 in July of 1943. He is a powerful psychic who can shape dreams, cast illusions, hypnotize people. He is a little person. And he was created by William Marston, who created Wonder Woman, to represent the fragile male ego and masculinity. Basically, he represents the immature, the emotionally immature man who's not grown up. And there have been a lot of Dr. Psycho's
Starting point is 00:12:43 storylines that involve sort of like him being like a representative of like men's rights and stuff. And like appealing to the worst sides of masculinity to have people rise up against. Wonder Woman. So he's basically Andrew Tate then. Yes. He is Andrew Tate with shaggy hair. I don't think Andrew
Starting point is 00:13:08 take a grow hair. He doesn't have a chin either, but... Yeah, this guy's go way more for going for him than Andrew Tate does. Yeah. He was also voiced by Tony Hale in the Harley Quinn animated series. Also, this guy's a doctor?
Starting point is 00:13:24 Yes, he's a psychiatrist. Part of his fall from grace is he is a psychiatrist who became obsessed with the idea of the power of the mind and he was ridiculed by his peers. So his name, I believe, is Edgar Sisko, but his friend, his people called him Dr. Psycho. Well, that's what I was going to say. Imagine you went to a psychiatrist under a surname of Psycho. You were like, I don't know, but that's like going to a surgeon whose surname is
Starting point is 00:13:55 out of being a surgeon. You're like, I don't want Dr. Bada being a surgeon to be my surgeon. Yeah, so, doctor. I couldn't think of a snap year way to say that. Yeah, no worries. Just so you know, whenever I said like, oh, guess which one's the pedophile? Dr. Psycho might be. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:14:14 Just gives me the vibe. Three in. That's why, Biddy. What do you say might be? Is that just because he'd look at him? I mean, you just look at the state of him. Yeah. This was the best picture I could find of him as well.
Starting point is 00:14:32 Every other, like, picture I found of him, he was, like, frothing at the mouth or had giant bulging eyes. And I'm like, listen. What's the worst photo you could have photo of find of him? You know? So if, like, Aries and the cheater, basically, they're fighters. They can kind of, I guess, go toe to toe with Wonder Woman. I'm guessing Dr. Psycho isn't really anywhere nearer.
Starting point is 00:14:59 physical match for her. No. No, Dr. Psycho strikes up alliances with other villains, either by appealing to their own needs or by manipulating them. He also, because of his abilities, can raise mobs and basically send an army people after Wonder Woman and has had the ability to kind of fuck with her head as well, just using his own psychic abilities. So he's not good at fighting? No, he's not good at fighting. He is sort of in that, he's in that Cassandra Nova school. He is just like Andrew Tia. All right. So yeah, that would be number three. Now, here's the thing that you may have noticed. Her top three villains all debuted in the single digits of her original run in the 1940s. So that is like a sign of like kind of weird staying power in William Marston's character creation.
Starting point is 00:15:51 Like that's the thing I took away when I was doing this. Like a lot of these characters that he created and brought in, they're the ones that lasted. So, props to him for that. I mean, the man was a pervert, but props to him. So, moving on. Our next one on the list, Giganta. Giganta first debuted in Wonder Woman number nine, which is June of 1944. So this is where I start really laying into how in every time they reset the continuity, they kind of mess with the characters a tiny bit. So as you could see, Giganta is a, I giant woman. However, that was not originally the case.
Starting point is 00:16:33 Her golden age origin is that she was a gorilla who evolved into a beautiful redhead woman that had superhuman strength, but she didn't have that ability to grow large. Why? I don't know. Why was she a gorilla? If I had to guess,
Starting point is 00:16:49 this was going to be William Marston's exploration of the id and the idea of like raw animal turning into like this kind of sexy woman and like commenting on like the untested libido like I said the man's a pervert like a lot of Wonder Woman's like backstory is about like she lives on an island full of of beautiful Amazonian women that routinely tie each other up for fun he was in a polyamorous
Starting point is 00:17:17 marriage and routinely practiced bondage that's big big aspects of it and when Grant Morrison did uh their earth one graphic novel where basically it was like they got free reign of Wonder Woman, what do you want to do with it? Grant really leaned into the bondage aspect of Wonder Woman from William Marston. So, you know, this is like, Wonder Woman's origins and sex are always really odd, and sometimes we'll make people uncomfortable. So, now, her golden age origin, she was a gorilla that turned into a beautiful red-headed woman.
Starting point is 00:17:52 Post-crisis, she was a scientist who had a failing body, so she transferred her brain into the body of a circus strong woman named Olga after it had briefly been placed in the body of a gorilla named Giganta. Also, Olga had the ability to grow big. I don't know why. Okay. So she was a doctor, and she's like, I'm going to put my brain in a gorilla named Giganta.
Starting point is 00:18:19 And then when that wasn't working out, she's like, I'm going to put my brain out of the gorilla into the Circus Strong Woman body, but I really grew to like the name Giganta. So I'm just going to keep that. Right. all of this makes sense so far. Yep.
Starting point is 00:18:33 And there you go. Also, Olga can get big. So, right. Also, and when they relaunched to the new 52, Gigantic got her size changing powers due to a side effect, attempting to cure herself of a disease. Was the disease being a gorilla? It seems to, oddly enough,
Starting point is 00:18:52 it's the only one of her origins that doesn't involve a gorilla. Interesting. But she grew to prominence. in the 1970s when she was a big part of the Super Friends cartoon. So her current origin seems to have stuck with the new 52 version. We're not switching bodies with gorillas and strong women in current gigantic continuity. You know, people just don't switch their bodies with gorillas enough anymore. You just don't see it in comics.
Starting point is 00:19:26 We're not as obsessed with gorillas in the jungle as we used to be as well. used to be really obsessed with gorillas in comics. What's that? You don't see them anymore. Yeah, it's really weird. Yeah. I have a quick question about giganta. How tall does she actually grow?
Starting point is 00:19:46 I mean, I think we're looking at her full height right now where she's like the size of like a Godzilla. Like she's like, she's like Kaiju sized when she can grow as tall. So she's like routinely she could be taller than Giant Man if we're going to look at a Marvel comparison. because Giant Man normal doesn't go that big. How tall are those guys behind her then in that picture? I believe they're supposed to be the same size as her. It's just perspective. That's some bad perspective.
Starting point is 00:20:11 So let's move on to Dr. Poison. Jesus Christ. Dr. Poison first debuted in Sensation Comics number two, February 1942. I don't have to look at it. Dr. Poison is an expert chemist who specialized in poison and chemical warfare and was also a sadist. In her original origin, she was a Japanese princess who disguised her gender with bulky clothing in order to practice her sadism by poisoning people. In her post-crisis origin, she was the granddaughter of the original who had died because of taking her own poisons. and in the new 52, she was a white woman
Starting point is 00:20:56 who had Russian super scientist parents who died during the Cold War, and then, of course, in Rebirth, we changed it a fourth time, where now she's just a colonel in the Japanese military. She was also portrayed by Elena Anya in the 2017 Wonder Woman movie. Again, I'm not looking at it.
Starting point is 00:21:19 So far, all five of these characters have debuted in the early 1940s. I feel like they're all doctors. we've got what two doctors two out of five last one was like a scientist yeah I would say I would give depending on what can't
Starting point is 00:21:33 what continuity you're looking at what giganta yeah we're looking at you know because she's either a scientist or she's a gorilla so I mean that's three out of five those are two
Starting point is 00:21:45 why can't she be both if she lived in a gorilla city she could be right she wasn't for your time because she was a scientist's brain in a gorilla body correct and Barbara Minerva was an anthropologist as well
Starting point is 00:21:59 so that's a kind of science yeah Darius is just a god but he probably was smart enough to become a doctor he just chose not to if doctors were like a thing in the Greek god pantheon I reckon he could have been a doctor so I give him half a point
Starting point is 00:22:16 I'd say four and a half of these five people have been doctors well I will tell you we are not out of doctors yet Good. You were talking about how a lot of these are from the original run. Yes. Yeah. Lots of gorillas, lots of doctors.
Starting point is 00:22:34 Yes. And we have our first, we have our first incidents of Asian people now with Dr. Poison. Is that the last or is there going to be more? No, there will be more. Well, you know of one that's already coming up, bud. Do I?
Starting point is 00:22:48 You do. Did I armless Tiger Man? No, we talked about it. about before though. All right. We're ready to pass Dr. Poison or unless you would keep looking at this face. Oh, I don't. But what? So it's just a woman that has poison?
Starting point is 00:23:02 Yeah, yeah. She just is really good at making poison. She doesn't have powers. She's just really good to making poison. He has an odd face. I hope that's okay for me to say. I think that's fine. All right.
Starting point is 00:23:13 Is the face a result of the poison or is it? No, I think it's just to illustrate that she's out of her fucking gourd. Is it one of the things like because you have a face like that, have no choice but to go into deadly poison. You know, you can't, you know. The name Dr. Psycho was already taken. So she's like, oh, stop a bitch. She was like, wait.
Starting point is 00:23:34 Nice try, woman. This is February 1942. When was Dr. Psycho? 1945? Yep. So she came first. Yeah, but she wasn't smart enough to grab the Dr. Psycho.
Starting point is 00:23:45 Yeah, that's the same. Well, she was insane. Look at her. Yeah, look at the state of her. All right, moving forward. CERCy, we're back to the Greek Pantheon. So we have Wonder Woman number 37, September 1949. We are still in the 40s right now.
Starting point is 00:24:04 But Circe is a witch slash deity from the Greek mythology. And her original origin, she had been banned from, well, she'd been banned from Earth to an island in space by Wonder Woman's mother, Hopalita, before she came back to Earth for revenge. she tends to manipulate other Wonder Woman villains into aiding her, partly because she can't use her powers against other immortals, which Wonder Woman technically is, because she's part God. Her other big thing is that she can alter people's physiology, with her favorite is she loves turning men into animals, specifically pigs. But yeah, no, standard witch powers aside from that reality altering, teleporting, clairvoyant, etc.
Starting point is 00:24:46 Okay, why pigs and not gorillas? I think it's a comment on chauvinism. Okay, which I think gorillas would also work. Chauvinist gorillas? Yeah. Sure. They're always big, strong showing off, showing off their muscles, like trying to big time everybody. There you go.
Starting point is 00:25:07 She also, if I'm not mistaken, was sort of the red herring of the creature commandos cartoon. Okay. Okay. I thought you were going to explain that a bit more, but I guess. Not really. I mean, that without going to the plot. creature commandos, which I can't be bothered to. All right.
Starting point is 00:25:25 Just that at the beginning of the show, it made it seem like she was the main threat and she wasn't. Okay. All right. We'll work with it. Moving forward. We have our first time of a character outside of the 1940s all the way in 2011.
Starting point is 00:25:41 John, you'd probably be a little more familiar with her because she is from the Wonder Woman number one from the new 52. It's Hera, who is the Greek goddess of women in marriage. Hates Wonder Woman, as she's a product of Zeus's infidelities was the major antagonist of the new 52 Wonder Woman
Starting point is 00:25:56 and in her retcon it was stated she was the mother of the Amazons but they have sense undone that. So kind of like Aries a lot of god powers, a lot of conniving and scheming. Okay. Yeah, yeah. I vaguely remember her from the comics I read.
Starting point is 00:26:16 Major villain apparently. I can't remember her. How did you not remember her? She's got a cool cape. I mean, yeah, she's pretty stylish. I'll give her that. Do you like how she did her hair? You know, she's about to kill people, but she's still like, I got to make sure that this.
Starting point is 00:26:34 She looks like she's about to go into the course of Rock Lobster, to be completely honest with you. I would mind that. Wait, wait, go to the last one, the one before this? I'm not doing that because if I can only go forward. I can't go back. I'm just saying I can. Yeah. She also looks like she's been a beautiful.
Starting point is 00:26:51 Oh, my God. Oh, boy, now we just need a guy to look like, was it, Fred Schneider? Here it comes Dr. Psycho. Here it is. Sorry, that's very rude because I actually really like the B-52s. I am a big fan of the B-52s as well. We're just showing our love. In a normal way.
Starting point is 00:27:11 In a normal way. All right, moving past Hera. You have Hercules. First debuted in... It's an alpha picture. It certainly is. So this is first debuted in All-Star Comics number 8 in January in 1942. So is the Greek hero Hercules, traditionally shown as a hero.
Starting point is 00:27:27 In DC Comics, Hercules is a villain. He had captured and enslaved the Amazons. This woman right here is Apollita, Wonder Woman's mother, who he kept in chains. He was used to deconstruct the traditional masculine hero and often used when he's been used more recently as a foil to like Superman to kind of show the difference between the traditional takes on masculinity versus more of a modern sensibility of it. But yes, Hercules was very good.
Starting point is 00:27:53 brash and arrogant and an asshole. He enslaved all of the Amazons, and Apollita eventually outsmarted him, and that's what led to them aligning themselves with Aphrodite and Aphrodite hiding Themisgira away from the world of man. It's a hell of a picture.
Starting point is 00:28:10 It certainly is. This is from, if I'm not mistaken, this is going to be from the post-crisis Wonder Woman series by Perez, if I'm not mistaken. The art looks like it. It looks like he's about to like I mean if this is wrestling it looks like he's wrapped the chain around his face
Starting point is 00:28:31 he's ready to hit her with it and she's begging him off like Rick Flair he's going to get a thumb to the eye in no time well I was going to say she's like this and then she's just about to like not shot him with the chain and then he's going to look stupid yeah he's going to drop the chain and she's going to like yank it up and knock him on the floor you know and then she's going to hit all four turnbuckles and win the match yeah exactly I mean it should be a traditional hook spot And that's the most
Starting point is 00:28:56 We have to justify the name somewhat Sometimes, yeah Any other comments on Hercules Especially how he's very different From the Marvel Comics version I think it's a cool idea Honestly, I think the idea of like making him into a bad guy And making him into like that foil for Superman I think is a good idea
Starting point is 00:29:15 But I don't hate that He also looks very similar to the Marvel version as well that could have been intentional if I'm not mistaken especially at the time by I don't want to say for sure I have another question yes
Starting point is 00:29:31 it kind of looks like he has three legs what's going on here so he's wearing a lion's skin across his back that's part of the original trials of Hercules he had to kill Leo the lion so okay I get to yeah that's what that thing that you're seeing is
Starting point is 00:29:45 is the lion's tail okay because for a moment there I'm like he's got three legs and one of these legs is not part of him Yep. It's very clean. I understand now. Nah, you're good.
Starting point is 00:29:56 All right, moving forward. Silver Swan. Hello. I had to give a lot of space for this one. So she first debuted in Wonder Woman number 32, February, 1982. She snuck in right before the crisis. Serbian three versions of Silver Swan. Pre-crisis was Helen Alexandros, a valerina who was passed up on opportunities due to being plain-looking.
Starting point is 00:30:17 Struck a deal with Aries to become beautiful in return to destroy. in return to destroy Wonder Woman. Post-crisis was Valerie Bodry, a woman who was deformed in the womb by radiation exposure while her mother was pregnant with her. She volunteered for experimentation that led her becoming the second Silver Swan, where she received beauty and powers.
Starting point is 00:30:37 And then the third was a depressed woman named Vanessa Capitellus, who was manipulated by Circe into being magically altered. In rebirth, they took back Capitellus, but they decided she was a young woman was paralyzed during a villain attack and signed up for an experimental nanite treatment that turned her into Silver Swan.
Starting point is 00:30:55 So Silver Swan obviously has flight powers. Shasta has like a supersonic scream. Which one is this? If I'm not mistaken, I think this is the Capitellus version. Okay. Interesting costume. Yes.
Starting point is 00:31:12 Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. All right. Next up. That's it. Dr. Cyber. Hey. The doctor.
Starting point is 00:31:22 So this Dr. Cyber first debuted in Wonder Woman 178 in November of 1968. In pre-crisis, she was a leader of a criminal organization that rose to prominence after Wonder Woman gave up her powers and the Amazon's vanished. I will explain that in a couple of slides, because there's a more fitting reason to explain it. She had a robotic suit that gave her strength and other abilities. In post-crisis, she was just a living computer, and in rebirth, she was a scientist who died while trying to protect a friend in a cyberdetic suit, and then she was resurrected as living artificial intelligence. So this isn't the same villain who was in one of the Superman movies, is it? Might have been a, wait, which, are we talking about one of the anime at superhuman Superman movies?
Starting point is 00:32:08 No, one of the live action ones where, like Gene Hackman's Lex Luthor had like a couple of sidekicks, and one of them was a woman. And then the woman ended up getting stuck in a machine, which basically, turned her into like this evil kind of like living machine. I don't think that was intended to be her. Okay. It was just a coincidence. Just a coincidence. Yes, we got another doctor. He's just like a robot? Yeah, the modern version is basically living AI.
Starting point is 00:32:46 Okay. Yep. It's moving forward. Alcyon. Alkion first debuted in Wonder Woman number 14, January 2008. She is a former captain of Apolitus guard. She hated Diana as a child and believed she was the cause of the Amazon's problems and tried and failed to murder Diana
Starting point is 00:33:09 as a child multiple times was imprisoned. She inevitably married Achilles and for a short time ruled Themisgira before she was killed by Wonder Woman and Apollita. Is it onlers? Yes, as part of her helmet. Okay. So she was,
Starting point is 00:33:26 she is another Amazon. She was very well trained in skilled. She was captain of Queen Apolitas, basically her honor guard, and was tasked with protecting the royal family. However, Wonder Woman's original, so, okay, we'll stop her here. Do you know what Wonder Woman's original origin was? She was a doctor. Failed out of medical school.
Starting point is 00:33:48 Wasn't she made out of clay or something by Zeus? So essentially what happened was Hapolita Because the Amazons were ever living They were no young Amazons They were all the same age as they always have been Hapolita wanted a daughter So she carved a statue out of clay
Starting point is 00:34:07 And prayed to Aphrodite To basically give her a daughter And Aphrodite basically granted her life And so Wonder Woman From the statue became a living, breathing little girl Who grew up modern day origins have wonder woman as the daughter of zeus and apolitah there we go
Starting point is 00:34:29 so um basically right when wonder woman was born is when the amazon started having you know like they started having more issues and alkyon thought that it was a sign that wonder woman was Diana was evil and needed to be killed and basically blamed her for all of the woes that were happening in themisgira So does she not have any, like, extra powers aside from the usual kind of, you know, Amazonian super strength and whatnot? Pretty much that.
Starting point is 00:35:03 She has that and she also has access to our next character. Codice. Whoa. Codas debuted originally in Wonder Woman number 10 in November 1987. he is a hundred-handed primordial son of Gaia. He lived under Themisgira for thousands of years before he was awoken by Alcyon, and he claims to be Wonder Woman's father in the post-crisis continuity, as the clay that was used to mold statue came from his body.
Starting point is 00:35:34 Hmm. So that is Wonder Woman fighting Codas. I like that guy. Pretty horrific. That's a cool fucking guy right there. I like that. Ah, man, I can't wait for you see some of the other cool guys. I wouldn't like to go out on a night out with him.
Starting point is 00:35:53 I think he'd be quite handsy. Yeah, but think about how many pints he could buy you. He could carry loads back from the bar. That would be a good thing. Yeah, I would assume he's going to pay for some of them. Or he could just steal a bunch of them. There you go. There you go.
Starting point is 00:36:10 You know? I mean, he could easily cause a distraction. I mean, look at him. 100%. I don't know if he'd be able to fit into the bar, but, like, we'll make it work. we'll make it work all right moving forward
Starting point is 00:36:22 is his power does he has loads of hands no I mean he's he's a primordial being so he has like size strength considered immortal for all intends of purposes I need to loads of hands
Starting point is 00:36:34 lots of hands good okay all right making clear up next we have Gundra gunnra first debuted in comics cavalcade number 17 in October of 1946
Starting point is 00:36:45 she's the queen of the valkyries and was originally called upon by Adolf Hitler to assassinate Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Awkward. She fought Wonder Woman over Steve Trevor, who was being held in Valhalla, and she is basically kind of a carbon copy
Starting point is 00:36:58 of Wonder Woman except for like the Norse mythology to kind of give you a difference between good and evil. Like here's an evil version of Wonder Woman. Okay. Doesn't get used a lot. And that's a sign that things are about to start getting weird. Oh, this is a turning point?
Starting point is 00:37:15 This is the turning point. Okay. Up next. Egg Fu. Oh. This is who we were talking about earlier. I forgot about him. So Egg Fu first debuted in Wonder Woman 157 in October of 1965. The original Egg Fu was a Chinese communist agent who happened to be a giant yellow egg that was the size of a house.
Starting point is 00:37:40 Who used his Fu Manchu mustache like a whip. The second egg foo was Egg Fu the fifth, who was a relatively, the original egg foe who had captured Wonder Woman but was defeated after Wonder Woman just said that she'd do a little dance for him and it got him a little too hot and bothered and she was able to beat him at that point. That really quickly before you go any further. Yes. There was the original egg food was an egg.
Starting point is 00:38:05 Yes. An egg food, the fifth. Also an egg. So the second, third, and fourth were also eggs. You had to have been. They just didn't do anything. No, they had like normal jobs. Okay.
Starting point is 00:38:18 One is an accountant. Another guy who owns like a laundromat. He's a bus driver? It's a bus driver. It's a very big bus. Okay. But they were still called... Egg foo.
Starting point is 00:38:28 Egg food. Yes. Okay. Just making it clear that that exists. All right. The third egg foo was named Dr. Yes. Who's a robotic twin of the original egg foo.
Starting point is 00:38:42 Can you guess what he was a parody of? Eggs? I was going to say. Dr. No from James Bond. Exactly. In post-crisis continuity, Egg Fu became a supercomputer that was created from Apocalypse Technology.
Starting point is 00:38:58 And in the new 50, in the, well, not in the new 52, in the event called 52, which was a weekly comic book series that was put out by an all-star team, including Grant Morrison and Mark Wade and such, that was this big year-long, overreaching storyline. Egg Fu
Starting point is 00:39:13 became an apocalypse scientist named Cheng Zhu, who captured metahumans and committed really horrific experiments on them. But he was an egg? He was an, well, yes, he was a giant alien demigod egg with spider legs.
Starting point is 00:39:30 Right. And then finally, in the new 52, Edgar Eggie Fullerton Young is a deformed egg-shaped person who tried to manipulate poison ivy into creating a potion that would make more people like him, but he ended up making friends with Harley Quinn and worked in a freak show. Okay.
Starting point is 00:39:49 that's kind of nice try to redeem him a little bit there yeah let's redeem this horrible monster and making him a freak this is horrible original example of yellow face that we keep trying to move past but we can't keep making them a giant yellow egg what exactly is going on in this picture
Starting point is 00:40:09 so he has captured two characters one is Captain Boomerang Jr well the second Captain Boomerang who was kind of a hero and then another character who I believe her name was like Belatrix or something like that. And basically he just fucked him up.
Starting point is 00:40:25 Yes, I would imagine a lot of up-fucking is going on in this picture. Yeah, yeah. It's pretty grisly. Yeah, he's just holding an arm. Yeah, he's just holding him just a... That looks like a ponytail, maybe that he's also grabbed or a scrap of fabric. I don't know. Half a mask.
Starting point is 00:40:42 Which egg food is this? This would be the egg food that is a scientist from Apocalypse named Cheng Zoo. Okay, cool. Making sure we get the right egg food. Yep. I didn't put the original egg food because I would have felt really racist. Which I think they already showed an image of on the show, but still, I don't like it. The original one on, we might have got the thumbnail.
Starting point is 00:41:05 I don't think Corey wants out into thumbnail. I don't think I do. No. All right, moving forward. The Blue Snowman. First debuted in Sensation Comics number 59 in November of 19. Despite the gendered name, Berna Brilliant,
Starting point is 00:41:26 inherited her father's technology after he died experimenting on blue snow, a substance that could instantly freeze whatever it touched. She attempted to ransom farmers out of their life savings by freezing their crops, but was defeated. And in post-crisis continuity, she was a member of an ice-themed villains gang, but was kicked out for not being cool enough. That's fun.
Starting point is 00:41:47 The name of the villains, the villains gang, by the way, was ice pack. when they say she's not cool enough like she's literally made out of fucking snow no no that's all metal what that is a metal suit of armor that can shoot out blue snow
Starting point is 00:42:04 right but the blue snow is coming out of her yes so she would be pretty cool no they didn't think she was cool enough maybe they just thought like the little hat in the pipe was bad was like kind of corny I mean I'm not gonna like she's got cold buttons
Starting point is 00:42:20 she didn't have to be the blue snowman but she chose to be what else are you going to call yourself yeah i don't know i mean you could have also just not chosen that particular costume you know what else i love about that costume is that they were like well i got to show i mean business i'm going to design angry eyes into the costume frowny face that's part of the design that i'm not happy blue snowman was the reason that i wanted to do this list with you guys to be frank, because I was like, this is just dumb enough.
Starting point is 00:42:57 You picked a good one. I got to say, this is something else. All right. Moving forward. Next we have mouse man. First debuted in Wonder Woman number 141 of October of 1963.
Starting point is 00:43:13 He has the ability to shrink small and control mice. He once stole Wonder Woman's magic lasso and uses his mice to scare women into dropping their jewelry. One time he drunk Wonder Woman to his size, thinking he would have an advantage, but was then beaten by a block of cheese and was also defeated one time by a regular-sized Wonder Woman who sneezed. I have a question.
Starting point is 00:43:36 Yes. Just one singular question, although I might think of some others later. Was beaten by a block of cheese? Yes. As in she wielded a block of cheese and beat him with it. Okay. She beat him up with the cheese. Yes.
Starting point is 00:43:51 She used the cheese as a weapon. cheese outsmarted him or something. Yes, I thought that the cheese that grew arms and just started punching him. Oh, we can only be so fortunate. I don't want to cast aspersions to like any furries who might listen to this show, but this guy definitely looks like a pervert. He certainly does, doesn't he? Yeah, that's not a cool costume.
Starting point is 00:44:21 Not good. Yep. Straddling a mouse as well. Like, come on, dude. Talking about going to the nearest mouse hole. Like, that's just no need for that. Squee, squee, squee. Don't need this in our lives.
Starting point is 00:44:34 All right, next up. Inversion, the inside out man. What? First debuted in Wonder Woman number 247 of September 1978. His body turned inside out after failure with a matter-transporter experiment, and his mission was to turn the world inside out, like him. What is that what supposed to mean? I don't know, but he was only in one comic ever.
Starting point is 00:44:59 That's a shame. I would bring that guy back. He seems like, don't worry about mice man can stay away. Mouse man got featured in more comics than Inversion. People are idiots. Look at this guy and look at Mice Man and go, who do you think we'd be better in a comic? Yeah, right. You know?
Starting point is 00:45:18 All right. Now, next up, after Inversion, we have fireworks, man. did they just like forget how to come up with ideas? Like I told you, they used all the good ideas in the 1940s. So I first to use up all the good designs. They're just like, I can't be bothered drawing anything. Just make it this. All right.
Starting point is 00:45:39 He first debuted in Wonder Woman 141 in October 1963. He's a chemist who transformed his body into a living series of explosions. While trying to kill Wonder Woman, he collided with a stray meteor and his entire body exploded, though. A stray meteor. Yep. That's a straight meteor. Pop them. Okay.
Starting point is 00:45:58 Again, this guy, you can't do anything with this guy? Like, what's going on with people? I can write a story with that guy. All right. Next up, we've got the gentleman killer. Debuting in Wonder Woman number 14 in September of 1945, he was described as a vicious spy killer and expert marksman, fought a Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor in a pocket dimension called Happy Shamrockland.
Starting point is 00:46:23 and he was armed with a handgun, a quote, surprising amount of grenades and magic darts he received after manipulating leprechauns. Clearly the worst one. We still have many to go, Dylan. We're not at the end yet. I will tell you why this, so far this is the worst one.
Starting point is 00:46:42 Right? Because you've got happy Shamrock land and magic lepracons and all that shit. Do you feel ostracized? Which is supposed to be, which is supposed to be some sort of Irish terrier type and yet he looks like an English gentleman and those are
Starting point is 00:46:57 two things he's not going he's an English gentleman he's an English gentleman he's an English gentleman who manipulated the leprechauns into giving him magic darts which again obviously for a lot of reasons would not sit well with me
Starting point is 00:47:12 because I'm familiar with the concept of horrible British people coming over and manipulated other people. Yeah John not John John John has never been over here. John had nothing to do with the troubles, no matter what you may want to agamize.
Starting point is 00:47:32 It wasn't me. No. But he might, maybe he didn't stop it. Sure. I don't know that. But I don't think he's... Did I just slap his kid again for emphasis? You know how it can.
Starting point is 00:47:46 That's a shame. I don't like this guy. I don't like him. What makes his, uh, darts, magic? I don't really know. They do tricks or? No, I mean, he was only really in this one issue of Wonder Woman as well. So they didn't really, you know, oddly enough when they were like, all right, we've got Dr. Psycho, we've got Ares, we've got Cheetah, we've got Dr. Poison.
Starting point is 00:48:07 Like, these are characters we can keep using again again. Gentlemen Killer. That's probably one and done. You can see why. Yeah. I mean, the design is really uninspired. It's really bad. I don't like how his ties.
Starting point is 00:48:22 the same color as his shirt. Yeah. Not good. All right. Next up after a gentleman killer, we have Paper Man. First debuted in Wonder Woman number 165, October 1960s.
Starting point is 00:48:41 He transformed into sentient paper by accident after following into a vat of, quote, special paper the military was experimenting with. He has the ability to manipulate this form into an airplane, a wadded up ball or a blowpipe and he stole items hoping to win the love of Diana Prince aka Wonder Woman
Starting point is 00:48:58 So that's him stealing a fur coat to give to her Question The writing on him Yes Is that from a specific book Or does he have the power to just be like Today I'm going to show How much of a literary genius I am
Starting point is 00:49:14 By manifesting By own different like This is the Bible today Or this is you know I think it was I think it was the artist wanting to show off their copy and paste technique, to be frank. Because I think every panel I saw the writing was different.
Starting point is 00:49:30 Right. It's what I mean. Like, does he do that? Or is it a byproduct of... I know I saw one panel where he had apparently disguised himself in the background because like this guy had walked into a room where the walls looked like newspaper print and he popped out and got him. That is a really, really terrible idea because I would argue that very few rooms.
Starting point is 00:49:51 so you walk into wall paper newspapers yeah yeah also this guy can't really go out when it's raining
Starting point is 00:50:01 no right there's so many problems with this guy like if you're met out of paper is your first idea like I gotta steal stuff
Starting point is 00:50:09 to give to Wonder Woman well it's not to give to Wonder Woman it's to give to Diana Prince at the time Wonder Woman had a secret identity where she was Diana Prince and she worked for
Starting point is 00:50:18 the United States military as kind of like a second I don't think that has changed my question, Corey. You were made out of paper, but you'd be like, I got to steal all this shit just to give to a woman. Well, I will. So he accidentally fell into the, he basically what happened is he accidentally fell, you know how like the Joker fell into the vatic chemicals that turned him into the Joker because
Starting point is 00:50:41 of like the interaction with Batman? It was kind of the same thing except like Diana Prince gave him a compliment and he was so overwhelmed that this attractive woman gave him a compliment. he fell backwards into a vat of special chemical paper. I understand that completely. I do. We should all be so fortunate as to be complimented by a beautiful woman that turns us into a paper monster man. It's a dream.
Starting point is 00:51:05 It certainly is. All right. One of these days will happen to me. All right, moving forward. The Crimson Centipede. What? First debut in Wonder Woman 169. April of 1967.
Starting point is 00:51:22 He was created by Aries to undermine Wonder Woman's attempts to save the world of man. He ran a criminal empire despite his obvious appearance and was an expert marksman why he had so many guns. I like the idea where it says, ran a criminal empire despite his obvious appearance as if like the guy that's a human centipede, the police are always knocking at his door.
Starting point is 00:51:42 Like he's got to be up to something. No way that fucking guy is not up to something. This is profiling and this is wrong. Yeah, yeah. He's like he has to be. up to something like they look at him he's a fucking freak right and then he's like hey I'm just trying to run a legitimate
Starting point is 00:51:56 business here you know I'm just trying to run this gas station my kids need brace I love I love the guy in the background where his hat fell off yeah I mean to be frank I'd be I lost my hat too if I saw this monstrosity yeah I'm out of a big bunch of guns like what the fuck is that guy
Starting point is 00:52:12 who runs a laundromat do and stealing a lot money the fools I thought he was a nice guy you know also the top half of that body I can understand it doesn't seem to it doesn't seem to connect anywhere right
Starting point is 00:52:28 no no I feel like at some point they were like I don't know how to do the connection so we just won't we'll just fuck it up I don't think whoever drew this has ever seen the centipede before
Starting point is 00:52:42 they ever seen anything before I don't I mean those bags of money look pretty convincing I don't even think they do The gums do it No, even they look like Peanets or something
Starting point is 00:52:54 He looks really odd Like they're in odd shape All right Moving past the Crimson Cineepid We have them What? Yep Them
Starting point is 00:53:05 It's them First debuted in Wonder Woman Number 185 in December of 1969 They were a trio Of cross-dressing hippies With their leader Top Hat and muscle
Starting point is 00:53:15 Moose Mama Top Hat forces women To wear a dog collar And Moose Mama is shown taking pills and passing out in a stupor. They are problematic to say the least. I mean, you say problematic,
Starting point is 00:53:27 but I don't see any other comic like highlighting cross-dressers in such a prominent manner. So this is the thing I have to explain Wonder Woman in the 60s for you, at least in this time period. We have talked in the past about Dennis O'Neill, Denny O'Neill,
Starting point is 00:53:46 who is one of my favorite comic book writers of all time. Denny was the Batman editor at the time of the 80s and 90s during the transition where Batman got more grim and introduced all these great characters he was the guy who was the architect for nightfall and such his run on the question is one of my favorite of all time so Denny O'Neill was a beatnik he was a black turtleneck
Starting point is 00:54:13 piece button wearing hippie poet and he was his first big comic book assignment They said, Denny, you got Wonder Woman. What are you going to do for Wonder Woman? He's like, I got this great idea. Let's make her a modern day girl. Like, let's, like, embrace feminism and make Wonder Woman like an icon. And he did it by taking away all of her powers, getting rid of all the things that made her special, and just turned her to a mod super spy.
Starting point is 00:54:40 So Wonder Woman had no powers. She didn't have a lasso. She didn't have her outfit. The Amazon's all disappeared. And for a period of time, she had no powers and was basically a woman that worked at a shop. And you can see how that backfired really badly for Denny. So another thing that Denny tried is Denny was really into the counterculture. And because the Comics Code Authority was still in charge at the time, counterculture had to be villainized.
Starting point is 00:55:11 So his attempt at showing cross-dressing and lesbians, they had to be villains. So, and an attempt to like introduce this like subculture to the world, he did a lot of harm by suggesting they're all pill-popping addicts and weird bondage freaks. Enjoy. Okay. Well, I will also argue, yes, that does seem problematic. But in the decades before that, it did a really, really bad job of highlighting doctors. Yes. so you know I also have one more question
Starting point is 00:55:49 yes so there are three women in this group yes one of them is top hat yes I assume it's the
Starting point is 00:55:56 woman who wears the top hat yes one of them is moose mama I'm going to I don't know who the third is
Starting point is 00:56:04 I couldn't find any information that was my question by the way they were in one issue and that was it a third one's the most stylish one
Starting point is 00:56:13 yeah yeah I don't know. Are you saying the top hat looking like a pimp, Willy Wanka, and that cool? No, that's exactly. Not as cool as that other, the black hat. Yeah. Okay. It's a little bit like a pirate hat. Yeah. Okay. I didn't expect us to get into a fashion talk.
Starting point is 00:56:31 No, live for Moose. Look at them. How can we not talk over their fashion? By the way, the young woman whose neck is breaking at an unusual angle, that is how Wonder Woman was portrayed in Danny O'Neill's run. Okay. She's a beautiful young woman. mod girl of the 60s. Fair enough. Yep.
Starting point is 00:56:48 All right. We'll move past them. And to Glop. So, Glop first debuted in Wonder Woman number 151, which is January 1965. This was before Danny O'Neill took over. And he was a foul-smelling amorphous alien creature that could turn into anything he consumed. And that's about it. What the hell did he consume that to turn into that?
Starting point is 00:57:14 See, I thought maybe he was what was inside of Egg Fu. originally saw this picture. That's grim. So what else does he turn into? I mean, you know, I think he like turns into a car at one point because he absorbs a car. Okay. Corey? It's kind of like Kirby in a sense, but instead of like, yeah, I mean, it's kind of like Kirby in a sense.
Starting point is 00:57:40 Okay. I think you might find the thumbnail. Oh, we found Bloss. Fair enough. I was wondering who you were going to, who your eyes were going to cast on. maybe you redraw us as them. This guy's gonna be the most fun to draw. That's fair.
Starting point is 00:57:54 Maybe the least racist. So that's also fair. Let's go with that. All right. I like this. What else is this? What else happened to Glop? He was in one issue and that was it.
Starting point is 00:58:06 Ah, Firework Man and Glop. They're not doing it with the cool guys. This is bullshit. Fucking out, man. All right. Moving next. We got the Purple Priestess.
Starting point is 00:58:17 First debuted in Wonder Woman number 25. in September 1947. She's a former Nazi who poses as a priestess that brainwashed her followers with a purple gas. There are a lot of Nazis
Starting point is 00:58:27 villains in the 1940s. That's it. It's the style of the time, man. So many Nazis. Do a little time. Yep. There really much else
Starting point is 00:58:35 to say about her. Okay. We started to get really skin and bones here towards the end. Yeah, I can see. We glossed over glop, you know?
Starting point is 00:58:45 Yeah. I really want that word to say. Yeah. All right, next up. Sharkita. She first debuted in comics Cavalcade number 21 in June of 1947. She is a shark
Starting point is 00:58:59 that was transformed to a mermaid to fight Wonder Woman. All right. Magic. All right. That's all the questions I had. She also has butter. Who did the magic, though? Believe it was Circe. Okay.
Starting point is 00:59:16 You'll find that a lot of that Circe or Dr. Psycho was involved in some of these villains' backstories. Okay. I like how it's a shark that was transformed into a mermaid and you were like, you thought a mermaid was a good way to fight somebody? You didn't think a shark had like a bunch of really good ways to kill people. Yeah, you've got to be.
Starting point is 00:59:39 Severely reduced the amount of like mouth diameter and teeth. Like deadliness that a shark would have. Yeah, don't need it. But titty's got to get. get them in there. They're in. That's what we need. And our final member, Dr. Domino.
Starting point is 00:59:58 First debuted in Wonder Woman number 205, April of 1973. He's ahead of a terrorist organization. He has a domino for a head. I'm not sure if it's a mask or not. And this is the only comic he appeared in. We will never find out why.
Starting point is 01:00:14 Well, that's as frustrating because that was going to be my number one question. We don't know. in the 70s, did they just have like no ideas at all? Listen, the crisis happened for a reason. It was a reset that was needed.
Starting point is 01:00:33 Because at that point, they had three cheetahs. Yeah, you can just kill off a lot of these people. You don't have to like reset the whole comic. They did. That's why I'd keep couple new ones. I look his gloves, though.
Starting point is 01:00:46 Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. This kind of looks like he should be more of it. a villain for the tick than Wonder Woman. I mean, he's sitting in a wicker chair for God's sake. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, this is not a serious
Starting point is 01:00:57 character. No, no. But he's the last of our Wonder Woman villains. We end up with Dr. Domino? We end with Dr. Domino. Wow. Yep. Guys, that was a brief foray into the world of Wonder Woman villains. Now, I left out some
Starting point is 01:01:15 bigger ones there, like you said. There are a lot of Greek villains. the characters from Greek mythology, whether they're gods. She's messed around with other gods as well. But I wanted to give you kind of an example of like, here are the classics, here's some lesser known ones, and then here's some fucking offbeat ones that she had. Kind of like what we did with Aquaman. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:01:35 So, John, what would you say is your main takeaway from this rundown of Wonder Woman villains? It definitely seems to be a whole lot of doctors who have an issue with the Wonder Woman. woman. I'm not sure why this is. She's anti-vaccine. Oh, okay, that explains it. Wonder Woman's all about that tallow. She's like, you don't need to cook in seed oil.
Starting point is 01:02:03 Drink some bleach. Just drink some bleach. Drink raw milk. It's good for you. She's been the villain all the time then. She's the real villain. John, I have a question. Okay. Out of all of the
Starting point is 01:02:22 Wonder Woman villains that we saw, now that we've got to the end of it, which one of them do you think is a pedophile? Now, we'll gloss over Dr. Psycho because we covered that. Now that we've seen the rest of them, we're like... He seems the obvious choice in my opinion.
Starting point is 01:02:39 It's definitely Dr. Domino, right? I don't know. I'm still leaning towards, what was it? Mouse man? Mouse man? Yeah, mouse man. 100%.
Starting point is 01:02:48 Definitely, Mike's man. He's up to something. Yeah. He's up to something. He was a little too gleefully riding on those mice. You know what I mean? Just don't check his hard drive. Or do, and send him to prison.
Starting point is 01:03:01 Jesus Christ. God's sake. 20 years from now, some filmmaker will make a thing where a character is going to dress up like Mouse Man and people in America are going to be like, oh, what a cool, unique look. Let me dress up like him and go see the movie. Not know who the fuck he is.
Starting point is 01:03:15 Or they knew exactly who he was, and he's their new hero, because by that point, America will have devolved, into like something. It was a bit of a de-evolution going on over here as well. That is very true. That is very true. Good luck with that.
Starting point is 01:03:28 All right. Well. My slants would be like the 50th pres of the United States. John or Dylan, I was going to ask, were your, any takeaways you had that we didn't already cover? Glop,
Starting point is 01:03:41 glop, glop's my favorite. Gloop's your favorite. I forgot all about egg food. And I'm a little annoyed that you reminded me of him. I'm happy not going down that. road. Dr. Domino was a lovely end. You had to know there was five of them, you know, five or six of them. I love how there were five of them, but not the five that were actually called egg food, which is perfect, isn't it? Yeah, the first one, the fifth one was the fifth one. Three other dudes. Yeah,
Starting point is 01:04:07 like one of them, one's the computer, one's like a scientist from another planet. The other's just a guy. Yeah, fucking, Nicknamed him happened to have something to do with eggs. I'm like, well, that's good enough for me. Yeah, that's fine. Don't worry about it. Your egg, you know. Like, I wouldn't like that. No. Your nickname's eggs. Well, now you're a giant egg. You're like, oh, shit.
Starting point is 01:04:25 I didn't pick my nickname. That's not fair. No. You know? Um, I really like Firework Man as well. I feel like, there was a bunch there that I'm like, oh, if I was writing this shit, I would have a great time of Firework Man and Glop.
Starting point is 01:04:38 I would team them together. You know, actually, we did an episode a couple of months ago where we took like kind of lame villain characters and we had to kind of make them cool. Mm-hmm. Maybe that's something. we need to do is we need to look at these wonder we'll look at these wonder woman and aquaman villains and randomly assign them out like we did previously and like you got to make fireworks man cool i would argue that a lot of those aquaman villains are unintended dead in the water
Starting point is 01:05:07 not like the purple was it that the purple creatures are uh bugula not boogala it just i i think there's nothing we can do for them that's fair you know i don't think they're beyond rehabilitation. But I'm sure I can do something with Firework Man. I can fix him. I can change him. Or was it like Mr. Electric
Starting point is 01:05:32 or Electric Man that Aquaman had that he could only go out during thunderstorms? Yeah. He could manipulate electricity but he couldn't generate it. Yeah, that's problematic. That one's going to be tough. Yeah. All right.
Starting point is 01:05:46 John, as you wrap things up, what are we sitting out on your movie count for the year? So at the moment, my movie count for 2026 is 105 movies. Already in triple digits and is still, well, the time of recording January, by the time of the release February, which is still kind of fucking early when you think about it. Considering, I think, like, the number of movies I watched last year was like 15. Oh, how many? I don't watch movies. John, what was the last movie that you watched, though?
Starting point is 01:06:28 The last one I watched was The World's End. Oh, the Cornet trilogy? Yes, the final chapter in it. Probably the weakest of the bunch, I think. Really?
Starting point is 01:06:45 Yeah, I think Sean of the Dead and Hot Fuzz are both like classics. They're both sort of war-to-war funny. whereas this one is a bit more kind of, I don't know, depressing in a way. I was just going to say it's not an indictment on that movie. It's just sort of like how good the other two are.
Starting point is 01:07:04 That's like it's a perfect fine movie. It's just the other two are so like well done and well received. Because I think Sean of the Dead kind of captures the same kind of tone that at the world end kind of like was doing as well but better. Because like shot in the Dead was real fucking grim at times. well yeah but i i think the like sort of laugh ratio was better definitely in shorn of the dead than it is in the world's end and i think simon peg in the world's end is just his character is not a fun character and when he's like you know basically the suicidal character yeah so it's a bit of a
Starting point is 01:07:48 a tough sell compared to the other two but you know like you say i said the exact same thing in my review. It's still good, just not as good as the others. What did you give it out of five? I gave it three and a half. Respectable. Respectable three out of five.
Starting point is 01:08:05 Or three and a half out of five. So John, where can they see that review as well as the other 104 movies you've watched? They can find it on Letterboxed at Big John Bowsky, Ormwood.
Starting point is 01:08:20 And Dylan, what have you been get us to you lately. Well, me and Dr. Dominov in forming a book club, which is tough because it's hard to talk about the books because he doesn't have a mouth. No. Or eyes.
Starting point is 01:08:38 We can't read the books. He looks like he has six holes, but they're just filled in little like crevices. Yeah. Are they eyes? Are they, is myth? I don't know. I didn't ask. I don't think we're going to have a second book club. I'll be honest with you. Not a fun vibe.
Starting point is 01:08:54 Other than that, though, I do a radio show that we do every Monday nights, 9 o'clock to 11 o'clock, UK time. And find to digital radio.com. You can find a link somewhere. A lot of fun music. So check that out if you like music. And I stream sometimes on Twitch at Spooky LaRue, and I draw pictures there, and I animate those pictures and make them into animations on Team Crows and I. on YouTube. I don't know TikTok,
Starting point is 01:09:23 but I think we might be getting off TikTok because once again, everything fucking sucks. I heard weird stuff was happening with TikTok over the weekend. Yeah, it doesn't sound good. So when we say over the weekend, we mean a month ago.
Starting point is 01:09:39 Literally, a month ago. The weird thing has already happened. Yeah, at the time of this release, people are like, what the fuck is TikTok? It's already been mind wiped from us. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:09:51 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, that's what I do. All right. I have my other show, Large Old Cup, which has come back in recent weeks, except a month ago. So there's more episodes likely.
Starting point is 01:10:02 And, yeah, that's what I got going on. That's a link to that in the description, as well as a writing project that may or may not also be coming back. I'm not too sure quite yet. In the meantime, though, we're going to get the fuck out of here and go look at some more obscure Wonder Woman villains to redeem. Until then, we'll see you guys next time. Goodbye.
Starting point is 01:10:22 Goodbye. Bye-bye. That was glop.

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