Lady Styx
Lady Styx is a female cosmic being who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Origin
Lady Styx
Her armies came to conquer a world on the frontier where Captain Comet attempted to protect it but fell in battle where he came to be dissected and killed. This incursion was detected by the Guardians of the Universe who deemed it a threat from beyond the gates of spacetime itself. The scale of the danger led to them pulling back their Green Lantern Corps who they deemed unable to combat such a menace. Despite that, Green Lantern Xax remained behind to fight the invaders where he held them off for 5 days until his Power Ring was nearly depleted. He then requested support but the Guardians could not risk their officers being infected by an extra-universal contaminant and thus denied his request with honors. They then remotely shut off his ring and the Green Lantern was killed by Lady Styx's followers where their Power Ring was consumed by her. (52 v1 #31)
Seeing the destruction wrought by her, a trio of heroes consisting of Adam Strange, Animal Man and Starfire came to fear the fate of their homeworlds. Thus, they decided to make a stand against her and begrudgingly were aided by former intergalactic bounty hunter Lobo. He suggested that their means of getting close to Lady Styx was under the pretense of him collecting on their bounty. Arriving in her throne room, Lady Styx though stated that their was no bounty and all she offered was death. She came to insult Lobo to the point that he broke his vow of pacifism leading to an open fight with these intruders. During the battle, she seemingly came to kill Animal Man by infecting him with her necrotoxin. The fight was interrupted though by the emerald head of Ekron who looked to end the threat of Lady Styx by plunging both himself and her into a Sun-Eater. (52 v1 #36) Despite her apparent demise, she was able to resurrect herself through the body of one of the pregnant captives held by her followers. (52 v1 #43)
Once again, she tries growing new flesh from the bodies of her followers. Using the stones as a focus, she recreates a new, giant body, combining and reshaping her supplicants' bodies. She is stopped in her plan by the Omega Men and finally killed by a resurrected and empowered "Felicity" (wife of the Omega Men's commander-in-chief Tigorr), now re-christened "Nimbus". However, Lady Styx was apparently able to hold her consciousness together within Felicity's subconscious. There, the Lady waited to strike again.
In "Countdown to Adventure," Styx was able to infect both Earth and Rann with her Stygian Virus creating a band of radicalistic followers. On Earth, there were many random outbursts of people acting homicidal and psychopathic, and on Rann the public united under a new hero with her guidance, an Earthman named Champ Hazard, who was much more destructive and violent than Adam Strange.
More recently, although the direct influence of Lady Styx was purged from the Rannians, they have continued to worship her as a deity, although not quite as devoutly. Her influence on Rannian culture plays a big role in the event "Rann-Thanagar: Holy War."
Post-Flashpoint
Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.
Overview
Personality and attributes
She did not offer financial rewards to those that offered her and instead gave them death. (52 v1 #36)
Powers and abilities
Those that fell to her were broken down into bio-mass to serve her needs where she was able to take information directly from their nervous systems. (52 v1 #36)
She had the ability to resurrect herself by being born through one of her followers with her ripping through their bodies. (52 v1 #43)
More than anything, she wanted to be worshipped and surrounded herself with a small army of super-powered religious fanatics. Among her followers were those she called the Darkstars who took care of most of the wetwork. (Mystery in Space v2 #4) Another were the Glorifiers who were unstoppable walking dead men that changed Lady Styx's creed. Her armies grew the more worlds fell to her and continued to spread the living word of Lady Styx like a contagion. They made use of void technology to power their weapons which contaminated the flesh of anything struck by it. (52 v1 #31)
Lady Styx commanded an empire called the Tenebrian Dominion that were a rival of the Reach. (Blue Beetle v8 #15)
During an invasion, giant white Believer Cubes were dropped on a world and anchored themselves to the surface with this shattering the ecosystem irreparably in the process. (52 v1 #31)
Notes
- Lady Styx was created by Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka and Mark Waid where she made her first appearance in 52 v1 #31 (December, 2006).
Appearances
- 52 v1: (2006)
- Mystery in Space v2:
- Blue Beetle:
- The Hunted:
- Blue Beetle:
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