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 The Lyta Hall incarnation of Fury as depicted inInfinity, Inc. #16 (July 1985). Art byTodd McFarlane (penciler) andTony DeZuniga (inker). | |
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| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Wonder Woman #300 (February 1983) |
| Created by | Roy Thomas Danette Thomas Ross Andru |
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| Full name | Hippolyta "Lyta" Trevor-Hall |
| Team affiliations | Infinity, Inc. |
| Notable aliases | Lyta Hall Donna of Amazon Island (Earth 2) |
| Abilities | Superhuman strength, speed and endurance Enhanced senses and durability Animal empathy Regeneration Invulnerability to magic |
Fury is the codename shared by threeDC Comicssuperheroes, two of whom are mother and daughter, both of whom are directly connected with theFuries of mythology, and the third who is an altogether different character.
Lyta Hall appears in the drama seriesThe Sandman (2022), portrayed byRazane Jammal.
Originally Fury wasHippolyta "Lyta"Trevor, the daughter of theGolden AgeWonder Woman andSteve Trevor; Lyta inherited all her mother's powers. She was introduced inWonder Woman (vol. 1) #300. Like most Golden Age-related characters at the time, Lyta lived on the parallel world of "Earth-Two".[1]
Lyta later adopted the identity of "The Fury", named after the Furies ofmythology, and was one of the founding members ofInfinity Inc., in the book of the same name written byRoy Thomas.[2] She began a relationship with her teammateHector Hall, the Silver Scarab, whom she had met as a child; they reunited as classmates atUCLA. Shortly after their decision to marry, Hector was possessed by an enemy of his father,Hawkman, and killed. Fury was pregnant with Hector's child, and it was instrumental in the Silver Scarab's defeat. In52, a new Earth-2 with a similar history is created, and Lyta Trevor serves as a member of the Justice Society Infinity.
Lyta, like all her Infinity Inc. counterparts, briefly made an appearance during the DCConvergence crossover. Powerless and trapped on Telos, Lyta Trevor became a police officer before regaining her powers and taking on a Post-Crisis version of Jonah Hex. Eventually, Lyta and all of Infinity Inc. take over for the Justice Society on a returned Earth-2.
Following the 1985 miniseriesCrisis on Infinite Earths, the Golden Age Wonder Woman retroactively no longer existed, and Lyta was now the daughter of the newly created character Helena Kosmatos, the Golden Age Fury (a Greek superheroine and a member of theAll-Star Squadron, and anavatar of theFuryTisiphone) and had been raised by Joan Trevor (née Dale), theQuality Comics superheroineMiss America, and her husband, Derek.[1] Lyta was told of her mother's history byAlecto,[3] and visited yearly by the time-travellingHippolyta, who trained Lyta as a heroine.
For a while, Lyta served withInfinity, Inc., but eventually left the team to bear a child.[1] At home, Lyta was visited by a resurrected Hector Hall. After his death, Hall mistakenly believed he had been chosen as the Guardian of Dreams called theSandman following the suicide of Garrett Sandford and joined the real Sandman in the Dream Dimension where they had adventures masterminded by the two schemers Brute and Glob.[4]
InNeil Gaiman'sThe Sandman, it was revealed that the Dream Dimension was a portion of theDreaming enclosed by Brute and Glob duringMorpheus' imprisonment, as a Pocket Dream Dimension of their own. Upon Morpheus' return, Hector's soul was released and Lyta was sent back to Earth, where she gave birth to their son. Afterwards, Lyta blamed Morpheus for Hector's death;[5] but Morpheus visited the child, named himDaniel, and claimed him as an heir.[6] When Daniel was later captured byLoki andRobin Goodfellow, Lyta invoked theThree'sErinyes aspect to destroy Morpheus, whereupon Daniel became the new Lord of the Dreaming.[1]
Atthe wake held for Morpheus, Lyta met her son in his new role. He gave her his protection from the immortals offended by her, and returned her to the waking world.
Lyta's story continued in the graphic novelSandman Presents: The Furies. She appeared inJSA where she was reunited with Hector, now reincarnated asDoctor Fate. At some point between the graphic novel and her return inJSA, the evil wizardMordru had captured Lyta and imprisoned her in Dr. Fate's amulet. Once freed, she rejoined her husband and later regained her true memories of Daniel.
During theSpectre's quest to destroy magic throughout the DC Universe, he banished Doctor Fate and Lyta to a freezing mountain, later identified as part ofHell. InJSA #80, Lyta recalls being visited byDaniel in a dream, where he offers to bring Lyta and Hector to the Dreaming for all eternity; because Hector is dying, Lyta accepts the offer.[1]
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.png) Helena Kosmatos as "Golden Age" Fury, as she appeared on the cover ofYoung All-Stars #12, art by Michael Bair and Mark Beachum. | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Infinity Inc. #35 (February 1987) |
| Created by | Roy Thomas Danette Thomas Todd McFarlane |
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| Full name | Helena Kosmatos |
| Team affiliations | Young All-Stars All-Star Squadron Amazons of Themyscira |
| Abilities | Superhuman strength, leaping, speed, and durability Magical document provides ageless immortality Ties to the Fury Tisiphone provide a secondary form, granting her greater strength, invulnerability, flight, and heat vision that can survive in the vacuum of space Wears a suit of magical armor |
Helena Kosmatos was a new character named "Fury", created to replace the Golden Age Wonder Woman as Lyta Trevor's biological mother.[7] She began appearing in Thomas'Young All-Stars, a book set inWorld War II, and her backstory was revealed inSecret Origins #12. She was a Greek national who had learned her brother was co-operating with Italian Fascists who previously killed her father. When she confronted her brother with this revelation in front of their mother, it was too much for the widow to take and she died of an instant heart attack. Wishing revenge upon her brother, she was approached byTisiphone, one of theEumenides or Furies, who gave her a suit of magicarmor, which increased her strength, speed and stamina. When angered, she became anavatar of Tisiphone, and it was in this state that she killed her brother.[7]
She was later briefly released from this possession, and retained the other powers, but is once again acting as Tisiphone's avatar.[8]
At one point, theAmazonQueen Hippolyta took over the role ofWonder Woman and traveled back in time to aid theJSA against the Nazis. During this time, Helena began to look to Hippolyta as a mother figure and believed that she was indeed the daughter of the Amazon queen, despite the knowledge that her true parents were killed during the war. When Queen Hippolyta returned to her own time, Helena sought a magical means to gain eternal youth; this was accomplished via a magical document that, if destroyed, would revert Helena to her true age and possible death. After this was done, Helena met Hippolyta's true daughter Diana and took an immediate dislike to her. By this point, Helena's mental state was near collapse, as she began to behave irrationally.[1] Diana took her toThemyscira, where Hippolyta addressed Helena as a daughter to support her fragile psyche.[9] After Hippolyta's death during theOur Worlds At War saga, Helena went into mourning and much of her mental imbalance was resolved.[10] Thereafter she servedArtemis andPhilippus as a trusted aide. Her powers were briefly stolen from her byBarbara Minerva whose role as the Cheetah had been usurped bySebastian Ballesteros. Minerva used the power of Tisiphone to kill Ballestros, regaining her Cheetah form, and restored Helena's powers.[11]
During the events ofInfinite Crisis,OMACs engaged the Amazons of Themyscira in battle, and the Amazons relocated their island home to another plane of existence. Helena Kosmatos is shown leaving with the other Amazons.[12] A year after their departure, the Amazons return to wage war on the U.S., which takes place in theAmazons Attack storyline. Helena is never shown as part of this return.
In52 Week 21, a newInfinity Inc. created byLex Luthor was introduced, with a male hero going by the name of Fury. The newest Fury had been given blackened skin and razor-sharp claws from submitting to Luthor's Everyman Project.Infinity Inc. #1 (Sept. 2007) reveals that, after Luthor's arrest and after the project was shut down, Erik has become depressed when his powers were shut down and has developed a stuttering problem. He is also suffering fromhot flashes and mistakenly took his mother's clothes from the laundry one day. InInfinity Inc. #3, Erik reveals that the stutter is adefense mechanism to hide his desire for self-castration. He also transforms into a fighting woman named "Erika". In #8, Erik/Erika is given a costume and the superhero name "Amazing Woman".
Erik is later found and tortured byCodename: Assassin, having discovered, and shared withJimmy Olsen, precious information aboutProject 7734, the secret agenda of GeneralSam Lane for Kryptonians. Shifting one last time to the all-powerful Erika body, Erik is able to put Jimmy in contact with Natasha Irons before dying.[13]
Fury has superhuman strength, speed and endurance, enhanced senses and durability, animal empathy, and regenerative healing factor. She is also invulnerable to magic.
An alternate universe variant of Fury from Earth-2 appears in"The New 52". This version is the daughter of Wonder Woman andSteppenwolf and the last living Amazon after the others were killed during anApokoliptian invasion.[14][15]
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