Doctor Cyber
Doctor Cyber | |
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Publication information | |
Publisher | DC Comics |
First appearance | Wonder Woman (vol. 1) #179 (November–December 1968) |
Created by | Dennis O'Neil Mike Sekowsky Dick Giordano |
In-story information | |
Alter ego | Cylvia Anita Cyber Dr. Adrianna Anderson |
Team affiliations | Secret Society of Super Villains Godwatch |
Abilities | Previously (via body armor): Superhuman strength and durability Energy blasts Energy absorption Invisibility Currently: Artificial intelligence physiology, able to hijack and control technology |
Doctor Cyber is a fictional character appearing in
In her Silver Age appearances, Dr. Cyber was the brilliant head of a vast global criminal network. Beautiful, vain and possibly British
After DC Comics rebooted its continuity in 1985 (a publication event known as the Crisis on Infinite Earths), Wonder Woman, her supporting cast and foes were re-imagined. Though originally absent from this revised mythos, Doctor Cyber would be reintroduced to the DC Comics canon in 2002, not in a Wonder Woman comic, but in issue #1 of Kurt Busiek and Tom Gummett's The Power Company, as the first arch-nemesis of the eponymous super-team. In DC's post-Rebirth era, the character would be reimagined as a powerful artificial intelligence with the memory and blithe personality of Dr. Adrianna Anderson, the deceased research and business partner of Wonder Woman's adversary Veronica Cale.
Fictional character biography
Pre-Crisis
Doctor Cyber was the beautiful and commanding presence behind a global criminal network around the same time when
In Hong Kong, Doctor Cyber's plan was to destroy the city and blackmail the world with a series of devices that could create
When Diana Prince teamed up with private detective
On an assignment at a Catskill Mountain resort as Diana Prince, Wonder Woman again discovered that Doctor Cyber had cheated death. While investigating a number of murders at the resort, Cyber battled Wonder Woman after an unsuccessful attempt to graft the Amazon's face onto her own. The ensuing melée ended with Cyber seemingly falling to her death from atop a ski lift.[9]
Doctor Cyber laid low for several months before capturing Wonder Girl in another attempt to capture Wonder Woman for a brain transplant. Wonder Woman agreed to trade her life for her adopted sister, but both were rescued by the Teen Titans. Cyber and her partner, Dr. Moon, were finally captured.[10]
It is unknown if Doctor Cyber was released or escaped from custody, but she disguised herself as Diana Prince, infiltrated the
During the Crisis on Infinite Earths, Brainiac assumedly retrieved Doctor Cyber sometime prior to her death and assigned her to team-up with several other villains to conquer Earth-S. Doctor Cyber was finally excised from the DC Universe after the conclusion of Crisis.
Post-Crisis
The second Doctor Cyber first appeared, chronologically, in post-Crisis continuity in The Power Company #1 (February 2002).
Cyber, together with several other scientific geniuses and robotic beings (Automan,
Cyber is later shown re-introduced into the Wonder Woman comic by battling Donna Troy (the new Wonder Woman) and Cassie Sandsmark (the current Wonder Girl).
During the
DC Rebirth
After the events of DC Rebirth, Doctor Cyber was reintroduced as Dr. Adrianna Anderson, a research scientist for Empire Industries and a close friend to the company's CEO, Veronica Cale.[13] Soon after Diana left Themyscira and returned Steve Trevor to the United States, Cale's daughter Isadore was kidnapped by the gods Deimos and Phobos. To reclaim her soul, the twin gods ordered Cale and Anderson to use the experimental Cyberwalker system to find the location of Themyscira from Wonder Woman. Adrianna immediately volunteered to use the Cyberwalker suit out of fear of losing her only friend. Connected to the Cyberwalker, Adrianna battled Wonder Woman, but the Cyberwalker suit began to malfunction with Adrianna's mind trapped inside. Despite efforts by Veronica Cale to save her friend, Adrianna died.[14]
Over a year later, Veronica Cale created an artificial construct of Adrianna using what was left of her neural map in the Cyberwalker system. After learning that her physical body had died, Adrianna chose to take the name Doctor Cyber. Veronica recruited Doctor Cyber into helping her get her daughter back. She was instrumental in the transformation of
As the search for Themyscira grew, Doctor Cyber worked as a member of Veronica Cale's Godwatch organization, often sharing intel with Doctor Poison and her agents. She also participated in the coercion of Barbara Ann Minerva returning to her Cheetah form.[17] When Wonder Woman and her allies journeyed to Veronica Cale's home for answers, they were confronted by Doctor Cyber, who revealed that she had been manipulating Diana for years. She accused Wonder Woman for murdering her by bringing her gods with her. After several taunts, her computers are smashed and destroyed by Ferdinand the Minotaur.[18]
Meanwhile, traveling over the Black Sea, Doctor Cyber apologized to Veronica Cale for not being able to stall Wonder Woman longer.[19] After finally reuniting with Isadore, Veronica Cale returned to her home where she dismissed Doctor Cyber as being simply an AI created from Adrianna Anderson. After erasing their illegal tracks, Doctor Cyber left Veronica Cale.[20]
Some time later, Doctor Cyber returned to Empire Industries to help Veronica Cale capture the Cheetah.[21]
Powers and abilities
The first Doctor Cyber had no powers but wore an armored suit that allowed her to physically fight Wonder Woman on near-equal terms. The suit enhanced her strength and endurance and also allowed her to redirect energy when fired at the suit. She also used a variety of weaponry that included laser pistols, mind control serum, an invisibility screen, rocket sleds, and myriad robot assassins. After her disfigurement she often used plain and unattractive women as henchmen so as not to be reminded of her lost beauty.
The second Doctor Cyber also wore an armored suit, but while its full abilities and limitations are as yet unknown, in keeping with her name they are more implicitly cybernetic in nature. As her limbs were able to stretch to impossible lengths it does seem that she is a cyborg and not merely a person in armor.
Post-Rebirth, Doctor Cyber developed a device that would enable her to remotely interface with mechanical components. This automated robotics system could physically interface with the neurological mechanics of the brain from a world away, but ran the risk of subsuming a human mind who piloted it in the virtual reality.
After her body died, Veronica uploaded whats left of her neural imprint from the C.Y.B.E.R system into a computer interface, Adriana now functioned primarily as an artificial intelligence being. She used metallic spheres to emit holograms of her physical appearance, often changing them at will to reflect her sarcastic attitude. She had access to the majority of technology in the world, able to transfer into and hack digitized equipment instantaneously.
Other versions
Wonder Woman: Black and Gold
Doctor Cyber appears in the anthology series Wonder Woman: Black & Gold. In the story "How the Wonder Woman Was Brought Low by a Mouse But Captured the Stars" by
In other media
Television
Doctor Cyber makes minor non-speaking appearances in Justice League Unlimited as a member of Gorilla Grodd's Secret Society. Prior to and during the episode "Alive!", Lex Luthor takes over the Society, but Grodd mounts a mutiny. Cyber sides with the latter, only to be frozen by Killer Frost and killed by Darkseid along with Grodd's other loyalists.
Film
Doctor Cyber appears in Wonder Woman: Bloodlines, voiced by Mozhan Marnò.[23] This version is an artificial intelligence and co-leader of Villainy Inc. They search for Themyscira and resurrect Medusa to help them invade the island and steal their technology for profit, but the Gorgon betrays them and destroys Cyber.
Video games
Doctor Cyber appears as a character summon in Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure.
Miscellaneous
- Doctor Cyber appears in Batman: The Brave and the Bold #4.
- Doctor Cyber appears in DC Super Friends #24.[24]
- Gloria Marquez, who previously appeared in Wonder Woman (1975), is revealed to be Doctor Cyber in Wonder Woman '77 Meets The Bionic Woman.
See also
References
- ISBN 0-8160-1356-X.
- ISBN 978-1605490557.
- ^ Strickland, Carol A. (2021). Star-Spangled Panties: A Guide to the World's Greatest Superhero. Carol A. Strickland. p. 149.
- ISBN 978-0345501073.
- ISBN 978-1788314114.
- ^ Wonder Woman #179-182 (November–December 1968—May–June 1969)
- ^ Wonder Woman #187-188 (March–April 1970—May–June 1970)
- ^ Wonder Woman #200 (May–June 1972)
- ^ Wonder Woman #221 (December 1975-January 1976)
- ^ Wonder Woman #287 (January 1982)
- ^ Wonder Woman #319-321 (September–November 1984)
- ^ Enginehead #1-6 (2004)
- ^ Wonder Woman (vol. 5) #15 (March 2017)
- ^ Wonder Woman (vol. 5) #16 (April 2017)
- ^ Wonder Woman (vol. 5) #18 (May 2017)
- ^ Wonder Woman (vol. 5) #20 (June 2017)
- ^ Wonder Woman (vol. 5) #17 (April 2017)
- ^ Wonder Woman (vol. 5) #19 (May 2017)
- ^ Wonder Woman (vol. 5) #21 (June 2017)
- ^ Wonder Woman (vol. 5) #24 (August 2017)
- ^ Wonder Woman (vol. 5) #46 (July 2018)
- ^ Wonder Woman: Black and Gold #5 (2021). DC Comics.
- ^ "Wonder Woman Bloodlines Gets Synopsis, Art, Voice Cast". comicbookresources. July 29, 2019. Retrieved August 15, 2019.
- ^ DC Super Friends #24 (2010)