Female Furies
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The Female Furies are a group of fictional women warriors appearing in comic published by DC Comics. They first appeared in Mister Miracle #6 (February 1972), and were created by Jack Kirby.
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[edit] Team history
The Female Furies, trained and led by Granny Goodness, are fanatically loyal to Darkseid. However, infighting among the Furies is commonplace.
Big Barda was a member until she escaped to Earth with Mister Miracle. Other former members include Knockout, Seera (abandoned Granny to help Al Bizarro), Twilight's Mother, and Supergirl (Kara Zor-El).
A woman named Alianna Hubbard is the only human ever trained as a Female Fury; she was ordered to kill Mister Miracle by Granny Goodness. She appeared in Mister Miracle #25, part one of an uncompleted story. According to Mister Miracle Alianna's strength was equal to that of his wife Big Barda, and her reflexes and speed were superhuman.
Stompa, Mad Harriet, and Lashina appear on the cover of Firestorm: The Nuclear Man #34 (2007).
[edit] Members
Known Female Furies include:
- Artemiz, an archer with bio-seeking arrows. Not to be confused with the Amazon Artemis, who took the identity of Wonder Woman for a time.
- Bernadeth, sister of Desaad, armed with a burning "fahren-knife". Often challenges Lashina's leadership.
- Bloody Mary, a vampire-like character with energy-draining eye-beams.
- Gilotina, a young Fury who could slice through things with karate chops, later abandoned the Furies to work with Project Cadmus.
- Knockout, a Superboy villain who, like Barda, escaped the Furies. She has super-strength and views life-or-death battle as flirting.
- Lashina is the field leader of the Furies. She is armed with flexible steel bands which she can control mentally. On one occasion, during a Furies mission to fetch the disgraced Glorious Godfrey for Darkseid, Lashina was betrayed by her teammate Bernadeth and became stranded on Earth. During her Earth exile, she joined the Suicide Squad under the name "Duchess". She eventually led the Suicide Squad on a mission to Apokalips, where she killed Bernadeth. Darkseid brought Bernadeth back to life and slew Lashina in turn, but has since resurrected Lashina as well.
- Mad Harriet, a cackling madwoman with razor-sharp claws.
- Malice Vundabar, the niece of Virman Vundabar. Apparently even younger than Gilotina, she resembles Alice in Wonderland, and controls a savage, disembodied mouth called Chessure (see Cheshire Cat).
- Speed Queen, as her name suggests, has super-speed.
- Stompa, who creates earthquakes by stamping her foot.
- Twilight's mother. Name unknown, she escaped the Furies centuries ago, and left her daughter to be raised on Earth, where she eventually became a Supergirl villain/supporting character.
- Wunda, the most recent Fury a black woman with light-based powers.
[edit] Other media
Bernadeth, Lashina, Stompa and Mad Harriet are the core members of the group, with others appearing only occasionally. These Furies (sans Bernadeth) appeared in Superman: The Animated Series episode Little Girl Lost part 1, where Supergirl Kara In-Ze, in an attempt to prove herself to Superman by challenging Intergang with the help of Jimmy Olsen, unwitting stumbles upon Granny Goodness's connections with Apokolips. After trashing Intergang, Kara so inspires the wrath of Granny Goodness that the latter summons the Furies to personally annihilate Supergirl.
They also appeared in the series finale, Legacy, where at least Lashina had a relationship with Superman when he was brainwashed by Darkseid.
The Furies lastly appeared in Justice League Unlimited (this time with Bernadeth) serving Granny Goodness in her power struggle against Virman Vundabar and his lieutenants Kanto and Mantis. Shortly afterwards, a resurrected Darkseid (following his death at the end of the Justice League episode Twilight) returns and puts an end to the war.
