Hypnota

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caption=Hypnota on the cover of "Wonder Woman" #11.
comic_color=background:#8080ff
publisher=DC Comics
debut="Wonder Woman" vol. 1 #11
creators=
character_name=Hypnota the Great
alliance_color=background:#c0c0ff
real_name=Hypnota
alliances=Villainy Inc.
aliases=Hypnotic Woman
powers=Mind control; master of stage tricks|

Hypnota the Great (aka Hypnotic Woman) is a fictional character, a comic book supervillainess who battled the Golden Age Wonder Woman and was a member of Villainy Inc., an enemy team. She first appeared in "Wonder Woman" #11 (Vol. 1)

Fictional character history

Pre-Crisis

A stage magician who conceals her gender via masculine costume and false facial hair, Hypnota was accidentally shot in the head during the rehearsal of one of her act's illusions. Experimental surgery saved her life, but it also released a "blue electric ray of dominance" from her "mid-brain," granting her the ability to mesmerize others with a glance.

Hypnota uses this new talent both in her stage act and in crime, including the selling of her mesmerized victims to slave merchants from the planet Saturn. When Saturn's slave trade in Earthlings is banned as part of a peace treaty with Earth, Hypnota, hoping to revitalize her source of revenue, steals America's contingency defense plans against the ringed world in order to foment hostility and break the treaty. Her warmongering efforts are thwarted by the heroic Wonder Woman with the aid of Hypnota's twin sister Serva, who had been her magician's assistant as well as an unwilling aide in her crimes.

Hypnota, like many of Wonder Woman's enemies, is sentenced to prison on the Amazon penal colony Transformation Island, but in 1948 she and seven other female super-villains escape and pool their talents as Villainy Inc. Led by the Saturnian slaver Eviless, the evil eight are again defeated by Wonder Woman. Whether or not Hypnota's masculine garb, which concealed her true gender throughout most of her first appearance and which she retained in her second appearance, is to be taken as anything more than a stage affectation is unclear.

Post-Crisis

Post-Crisis, Hypnota is referred to as Hypnotic Woman. ("Wonder Woman: Our Worlds at War" #1)

Powers and abilities

Hypnota could project "blue hypnotic rays" from her eyes and hands, which could control the minds of anyone who fell under the rays' influence.

ee also

*List of Wonder Woman enemies

External links

* [http://www.gayleague.com/gay/characters/display.php?id=96 Gay League Profile]