Eviless
{{Short description|DC Comics supervillain}}{{Infobox comics character
|image=Eviless.png
|caption=Eviless as depicted in Wonder Woman #28 (April 1948). Art by Harry G. Peter.
|publisher=DC Comics
|debut=Wonder Woman #10 (Fall 1944)
|creators=William Moulton Marston (writer), Harry G. Peter (artist)
|character_name=Eviless
|real_name=
|alliances=Saturnian Invasion Force
Villainy Inc.
|aliases=Saturna
|powers=Skilled hand-to-hand combatant, wields a bullwhip
}}
Eviless (also called Saturna) is a fictional character appearing in DC Comics publications and related media, commonly as a recurring adversary of the superhero Wonder Woman.{{cite book |last1=Held |first1=Jacob M. |last2=Irwin |first2=William |title=Wonder Woman and Philosophy: The Amazonian Mystique |date=2017 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=9781119280774 |page=192}} A slave driver from the planet Saturn, she had several Golden Age clashes with Wonder Woman before founding the first incarnation of Villainy Inc. alongside the Cheetah, Doctor Poison, Giganta, and Queen Clea.
Fictional character biography
Eviless is originally depicted as a slave driver from a subatomic world on Saturn.Wonder Woman #10 (1944){{cite book |last1=Jimenez |first1=Phil |last2=Wells |first2=John |title=The Essential Wonder Woman Encyclopedia |date=2010 |publisher=Del Rey |isbn=978-0345501073 |page=139}}Wonder Woman #28 (1948) Following the DC Rebirth relaunch, Eviless is renamed Saturna and is the leader of the Crimson Men cult. She possesses necromantic abilities, such as forming black wings and controlling the dead.Wonder Woman: Steve Trevor Special #1 (2017)
Powers and abilities
Eviless does not 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
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20150626131956/http://amazonarchives.com/index2.htm AmazonArchives.com]
- [http://www.dcuguide.com/who.php?name=zara The Unofficial Zara Biography]
- {{Cite book |title=Wonder Woman: The Ultimate Guide to the Amazon Princess |last=Beatty |first=Scott |year=2009 |publisher=Dorling Kindersley Publishing |isbn=978-0-7894-9616-4 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/wonderwomanultim00beat/page/76 76–77] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/wonderwomanultim00beat/page/76}}
- Jett, Brett. [http://www.mediafire.com/view/38n6bhda988zen7/WhoIsWonderWoman_PDF--bonus.pdf/ "Who Is Wonder Woman?--Bonus PDF"]", (2009): "Major Villains", 1–17.
- Marston, William Moulton. Emotions Of Normal People. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, Ltd. 1928. {{ISBN|1406701165}}
- Valcour, Francinne. [http://www.mediafire.com/file/g5gv1h6doc2ernn/FValcour+scholar-TLL.pdf/ "Training "love leaders": William Moulton Marston, Wonder Woman and the "new woman" of the 1940s"], (Dissertation) (1999): 1–150.
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