Doctor Poison

DC Comics Villain

Doctor Poison is the name of two fictional characters, supervillains who appear in DC Comics publications and related media. Both villains were members of the super-villain team Villainy, Inc. and have appeared as major recurring enemies for Wonder Woman.

Depicted as a sadistic bioterrorist with a ghoulish face, the character first appeared in Sensation Comics #2 (1942) and was created by William Moulton Marston and Harry G. Peter. The second Doctor Poison first appeared in Wonder Woman Vol. 2 #151 and was created by Eric Luke and Matthew Clark.

There have been at least four different incarnations of the character since her debut: (1) the Golden Age Doctor Poison Princess Maru; (2) the unnamed Post-Crisis Doctor Poison and Maru’s granddaughter, first appearing in 1999’s Wonder Woman (vol. 2) #151; (3) the short-lived New 52 Doctor Poison, a Russian scientist known only as Dr. Maru, first appearing in 2016’s Wonder Woman (vol. 4) #48; and (4) Colonel Marina Maru, a Post-Rebirth reformulation of the character who heads an elite team of mercenaries known as "Poison", first appearing in 2017’s Wonder Woman (vol. 5) #13.

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The original Princess Maru incarnation of the character made her first movie appearance in Wonder Woman (2017), played by Spanish actress Elena Anaya.[1]

References

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  1. O'Hara, Helen (April 2017). "Alpha Female". Empire. pp. 60–67.

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