Legion of Doom Team Member
Giganta | |
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Species: | Amazon (formerly Gorilla) |
Homeworld: | Earth |
Universe: | Earth-1A |
Hair: | red |
Affiliations: | Legion of Doom |
Rogue of: | Apache Chief |
Voiced/Played: | Ruth Forman Louise Williams - young |
Giganta Gallery |
Giganta is a supervillain who has the ability to grow into a giantess.
She was a member of the Legion of Doom.
History
Giganta was originally a female zoo ape who was transformed into a blond haired human amazon by an evolution ray, which made her seven feet tall young woman and arguably the world's strongest woman.[1]
Not long later, while horseback riding in the woods, Giganta saw a young Apache and the Chief of the Apache tribe using what appeared to be ‘magic powder’, which the Chief said would amplify one's thoughts. Apache Chief used this powder to increase his size and dispose of a grizzly bear who was threatening the old chief without resorting to violence, simply picking up the bear and putting it in another part of the mountains. Seeing what the ‘magic powder’ does to the young Apache she tried to kill them so she can have it for herself, in which case she wants to be famous as the world's biggest woman. She used her super strength to push a boulder on the old chief, but Apache Chief rescues his mentor from danger. Unsuccessful, she uses her rope to lasso the pouch around the old chief’s waist. Although the old chief warned her not to use that powder as her thoughts were selfish, she sprinkled the powder on her head and grew. As expected, her attitude was multiplied as well and she then desired to be a supervillain, She looked over at the young Apache and said that she is now "50-foot of evil to match his 50-foot of good".[2]
Powers and Abilities
Super powers
- Size Alteration: She has the ability to increase her size, a power she stole from Apache Chief.
- Superhuman Strength: Even without growing to the size of a giant, she is already incredibly strong, having gorilla-like strength, as she was once a gorilla.
Abilities
Legion of Doom Team Members
Members of the Legion of Doom |
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Episode Appearances
Notes
- Giganta's first appearance was in Wonder Woman, vol. 1 #9,[3] published in 1944, written by Wonder Woman creator William Moulton Marston.
- Her first appearance is during DC's Golden Age.
- Marston presents her as a brutish strongwoman with no super powers other than unusual strength.
- Her appearance on the SuperFriends marks the first time Giganta was seen outside comics. She was portrayed as a powerful member of the Legion of Doom.
- In the TV series, she has the ability to grow to giant size (with accompanying superhuman strength) simply by willing it. At the time, she did not yet possess this ability in the comics. She didn't get her size increasing powers until her re-introduction in the nineties comics.
- In the comics she is portrayed as the enemy of Wonder Woman, in the SuperFriends continuity, she is portrayed as the enemy of Apache Chief. Yet, on the "Challenge of the Superfriends" DVD set, her bio calls her an enemy of both Wonder Woman and Apache Chief.
- Giganta is portrayed by Aleshia Brevard in her Legends of the Superheroes (1979) live-action appearance.
- Giganta is the 2nd female giant in the series after Amy Zahn.
- In the comics,
External Links
- See Giganta at wikipedia.org
- See Giganta at the Comic Vine
- See Giganta at Seanbaby's SuperFriends page
- See Giganta at DCAU wiki
- See Giganta at the DC Database
References
- ↑ As seen in the Legends of the Superheroes episode The Challenge (1979) and in Super Friends # 30 (1980).
- ↑ As depicted on the Superfriends Season 3 episode: History of Doom (1978).
- ↑ Go to DC Database for more on Wonder Woman, vol. 1 #9 published in 1944.