"I am the REAL you-the Cheetah-a treacherous, relentless huntress!" The image commands her to fashion a costume from a cheetah-skin rug. "Don't you know me?" replies the reflection. "Horrors!" she cries, as she gazes at her evil inner-self for the first time. There she sees an image of a woman dressed like a cheetah. After being eclipsed by Wonder Woman at a charity event and failing to kill her during an escapology act, Priscilla retreats to her room and collapses before her makeup mirror. debutante of aristocratic upbringing who also has an overwhelming inferiority complex and suffers from a split personality. The first woman to become the Cheetah is Priscilla Rich, a 1940s-era blonde Washington, D.C. The Golden Age Cheetah Priscilla Rich grapples with Wonder Woman on the cover of Wonder Woman vol. While the Pre- Crisis Cheetahs are simply women in costumes, the Post- Crisis Cheetahs have taken on a more mystical note, being champions of a god much as Wonder Woman is to her patrons, actually morphing into powerfully ferocious human-cheetah hybrids with great strength, agility, and deadly claws and fangs which make them challenging opponents to Wonder Woman and other powerful superheroes in battle.
There are two Post- Crisis Cheetahs: Barbara Ann Minerva and Sebastian Ballesteros, Minerva being the more prominent of the two. While modern incarnations of the Cheetah possess superhuman powers, Rich and Domaine do not.
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Wonder Woman #6 (autumn 1943) and Sensation Comics #22 (October 1943) 1įictional character biography Golden Age, Silver Age, and Post-Crisis comics history īefore the 12-issue DC Comics series Crisis on Infinite Earths in 1985 (which is regarded as the starting point for DC's continuity before the 2011 New 52 reboot), there were two women who donned spotted cat costumes to fight Wonder Woman as the Cheetah: socialite Priscilla Rich and her niece Deborah Domaine. Barbara Ann Minerva version of the character in the 2020 DC Extended Universe film Wonder Woman 1984, marking the character's live-action debut. Since her conception, the Cheetah character has been adapted in various forms of media outside of comics, including animated series, films, and video games. In 2009, The Cheetah was ranked as IGN's 69th-greatest comic book villain of all time.
Barbara Ann Minerva (the Post- Crisis and current Cheetah), and Sebastian Ballesteros (a male usurper who briefly assumed the role in 2001). There have been four different incarnations of the Cheetah since the character's debut: Priscilla Rich (the Golden and Silver Age Cheetah), Deborah Domaine (the Bronze Age Cheetah), Dr. With her distinctive sleek, spotted appearance, she is recognized as "one of Wonder Woman's most iconic enemies", and has been featured significantly as a persistent foe throughout every era of the hero's comic book adventures. Peter, originally debuting in the autumn of 1943 in Wonder Woman (volume 1) #6. Like her nemesis, she was created by William Moulton Marston & H. The Cheetah is a fictional character appearing in DC Comics publications and related media, commonly as a major recurring adversary of the superhero Wonder Woman.
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