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Eviless

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Eviless
Publication information
PublisherDC Comics
First appearanceWonder Woman vol. 1 #10 (Fall 1944)
Created byWilliam Moulton Marston (writer), Harry G. Peter (artist)
In-story information
Team affiliationsSaturnian Invasion Force
Villainy Inc.
Notable aliasesSaturna
AbilitiesSkilled hand-to-hand combatant, wields a bullwhip

Eviless (also sometimes Saturna) is a fictional character appearing in DC Comics publications and related media, commonly as a recurring adversary of the superhero Wonder Woman.[1] A slave driver from the planet Saturn, she had several Golden Age clashes with Wonder Woman before founding the first incarnation of Villainy Inc., a team of supervillains composed of several of Wonder Woman's foes, including the Cheetah, Doctor Poison, Giganta and Queen Clea.


Fictional character biography

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Pre-Crisis

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Eviless was introduced in Wonder Woman #10 (1944), but not formally by name until issue #28.

A slave driver from Saturn (later retconned as a subatomic earthlike world near or within Saturn), Eviless and Duke Mephisto Saturno (of the Saturnian Invasion Force) battled Wonder Woman.[2][3] Although defeated by Wonder Woman, she later returned after being taken to Transformation Island. She pretended to die by controlling her heartbeat and stole the Golden Lasso. She placed a splinter in the lock of the Venus Girdle, meaning it did not affect her, though she pretended she had reformed. After taking control of a guard using the lasso, she freed several prisoners from Transformation Island (criminals previously captured by Wonder Woman) and banded them together as Villainy Inc. The team was unsuccessful against Wonder Woman, despite kidnapping her mother, and were defeated and captured.[4]

Post-Crisis

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Post-Crisis, Villainy Inc. was led by Queen Clea and the existence of Eviless has not yet been revealed, even in Post-Infinite Crisis continuity.

DC Rebirth

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After the events of DC Rebirth, Eviless' history was altered. She took the name Saturna and became the leader of the Crimson Men, a doomsday cult. She possessed necromantic abilities, such as forming black wings on her body or controlling the dead. Saturna battled Steve Trevor and his team while investigating a mystical island inhabited by children. Steve Trevor defeated Saturna twice, the second of which left her deep within a chasm, covered with rocks. However, drops of the island's magical water fell into Saturna's unconscious mouth, implying her possible return.[5]

Powers and abilities

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Eviless does not appear to have any superpowers, but skillfully uses a whip to control her subjects. At times, she has appeared to put herself into a deathlike trance at will by stopping her heart.

Post-Rebirth, Saturna has an array of magical necrotic abilities.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Held, Jacob M.; Irwin, William (2017). Wonder Woman and Philosophy: The Amazonian Mystique. Wiley. p. 192. ISBN 9781119280774.
  2. ^ Wonder Woman #10 (1944)
  3. ^ Jimenez, Phil; Wells, John (2010). The Essential Wonder Woman Encyclopedia. Del Rey. p. 139. ISBN 978-0345501073.
  4. ^ Wonder Woman #28 (1948)
  5. ^ Wonder Woman: Steve Trevor Special #1 (2017)