- I can't wait to turn your despicable world to ash. This place only makes me feel of the more homesick for Krypton!
- — Cythonna src
Cythonna is the goddess of darkness, blight and suffering. She was known on Krypton to be a cruel, evil, ambitious, and sadistic Goddess who delighted in filling the hearts of her victims with evil in order to become stronger.
History
Early Life
Thousands of years ago, Cythonna ruled Krypton causing terror in the locals of the planet and desolating it as a garbage dump. That is, until her brother Rao, the Sun God, encased her in an amulet and sent her out into space. For eons, the Kryptonians spread the story of the Goddess of Darkness as a legend and that if they saw a shooting star in the sky they said it was Cythonna, coming for them. After the destruction of Krypton, the Amulet of Cythonna was found by one of Lex Luthor's satellites while searching the remains of the dead planet.
Controlling Lex Luthor
Locked in her gem-crystal prison, Cythonna manipulated Lex Luthor into gathering various villains and forming the Legion of Doom in order to free herself of her and possess a new Kryptonian vessel.
Following Cythonna's orders, Luthor imprisons Superman in a box made of kryptonite while the Legion locks John Stewart and Aquaman in the Phantom Zone. For her part, Harley Quinn helps Wonder Woman escape from the Hall of Doom. The United Nations gives the world to the Legion of Doom, while Lex is controlled by the Kryptonian goddess who asks him to show her his new host. But seeing Superman, she rejects him revealing that she wanted the strongest Kryptonian: Supergirl. Nonetheless, she decides to use Superman as bait to lure Kara out.
Attempting Supergirl
When Supergirl arrives at the Hall of Doom, the Legion tries to trap her, but they are stopped by Cythonna, who controls them with her power. Cythonna asks Supergirl to join her in showing the world the true meaning of the power; but when the latter rejects her alliance, Cythonna again uses a weakened Superman to make her change her mind, or else she would kill him. And to top it off, she locks Supergirl in the box to let her think about her decision. Overloaded with the Legion's evil, the Amulet shatters, freeing the heroes. Under the control of the goddess, the Legion fought against the Super Hero Girls, the Invincibros, and the Justice League who defeated them. Seeing Cythonna break free from her prison, Supergirl having no choice, decides give up to the goddess, who enters her and puts the Legion out of her reach.
Final battle
Cythonna, inside Kara's body as her host, fights the Super Hero Girls, easily defeating them. But when she was about to hit Bumblebee, she then yells for Kara telling her to stop. Kara comes to her senses upon hearing Bumblebee, and then confronts the evil Kryptonian goddess inside her mind. But soon she is overpowered and again fights Supergirl's friends. Batman attempts to use a Kryptonite Batarang to save Kara and stop Cythonna, but is stopped by Wonder Woman. She, along with her friends call Kara to keep fighting Cythonna. Superman still weak, encourages her to defeat the goddess. Supergirl then pulls out a crystal and imprisons Cythonna inside the crystal, freeing herself. Supergirl, along with Zatanna, banish the evil goddess out of her universe, and together, the team share a victory hug.
Later in Sweet Justice, the Super Hero Girls along with their new member, Harley Quinn (whom they accepted into the team), celebrate their victory over Cythonna. At that, Jessica question Zee where she sent the Cythonna crystal, to which Zee confirms that she left it up to her to decide; and it is revealed that the goddess traveled from Earth 96 to the dimension of Teen Titans Go!, where Beast Boy used the crystal to use as a support for an old television; and would also reveal that she possessed to Control Freak to retrieve the crystal again. The Teen Titans foil her attempt to destroy their universe, and she is once again banished by Raven. Robin question Raven where did send Cythonna and the crystal go. Raven told him "Somewhere", lefting Robin shocked.
Later, the crystal ends up stranded in Earth 1956. The Super Friends plan to send it back, but they take one look at the Teen Titans fighting over the remote and decide not to.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
- Kryptonian Goddess' Physiology: Cythonna being a goddess has all the standard attributes of one such as great strength, agility, and reflexes.
- Omnipotence
- Superhuman Strength
- Flight
- Superhuman Speed
- Invulnerability
- Superhuman Reflexes
- Telepathy
- Superhuman Agility
- Immortality: Being a Goddess, Cythonna cannot die in any way she can only be locked up but never killed.
- Self-Sustenance
- Worship Empowerment: As a goddess Cythonna receives more power the more she is worshiped in her case the while more hate and evil she consumes from her victims and followers.
- Mind Control: Cythonna can control the minds of her victims and turn them evil or their servants.
- Astral Projection: Cythonna can project her spirit outside of her prison.
- Possession: Cythonna can possess people and make them her hosts.
- Dark Magic: Cythonna is also known as the goddess of darkness as she can manipulate dark magic and negative energy.
- Energy Projection: Cythonna can fire powerful beams of dark energy from her hands.
- Portal Creation: Cythonna is capable of creating portals capable of tearing the fabric of reality and traveling between multiple universes and dimensions.
- Telekinesis: Cythonna can move objects and people with just her mind or a movement of her hands.
Abilities
- Charisma: With her charisma, Cythonna can be quite manipulative and persuasive, as she was able to persuade and manipulate Lex Luthor himself.
- Hand-to-Hand Combat (Advanced)
Notes
- This version of the character is exclusive to the continuity of the television series DC Super Hero Girls and is an adaptation of Cythonna. The original character was created by Walt Simonson, Greg Hildebrandt, and Tim Hildebrandt and first appeared in Superman: The Last God of Krypton.
- Cythonna was voiced by Missi Pyle
Related
- 1 Appearances of Cythonna (DC Super Hero Girls TV Series)
- 1 Images featuring Cythonna (DC Super Hero Girls TV Series)
- 1 Quotations by or about Cythonna (DC Super Hero Girls TV Series)
- Character Gallery: Cythonna (DC Super Hero Girls TV Series)
Footnotes
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