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Show 225 having Wonder Woman float around entirely visible sitting in the pilot seat of an invisible plane defeated much of the purpose of invisibility, to speak nothing of the inconveniences of parking a jet like that.) While her abstract opponents were tyranny and oppression, Wonder Woman also faced a number of more material villains, many of whom were women. Her first recurring villain was called the Baroness Paula von Gunther, a tall, blonde Nazi woman perpetually smoking a long cigarette. The Baroness stays calm even in the threat of violence, and is quick to kill. She is the first one to leam two of Wonder Woman's secrets: that when her bracelets are bound by a man, she loses her strength, and the truth-forcing abilities of the magic lasso. Both of these she uses against Wonder Woman. Other villains included Giganta, a former ape turned into a large redhead by a perverse scientist; Dr. Psycho, a diminutive misogynist who reached his breaking point when he was framed for robbery, and his fiancee Marva not only testified against him but married his accuser, the real thief. After escaping from prison, Dr. Psycho killed the thief, and used hypnosis to trick Marva into marrying him. His campaign, like several of Wonder Woman's nemeses, is no more complicated or specific than anti-woman. Lastly, there is Priscilla Rich, a high society debutante who develops from raging jealousy of Wonder Woman an alternate personality who wears a Cheetah costume and exists mainly to destroy Wonder Woman. Encouraging them all is Ares, the God of War. In an interesting blend of mythology, science fiction, and American propaganda, Ares rales the planet Mars |