Mala (Amazon)
Mala is a female comic superhero who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Pre-Crisis
Mala was a female Amazon who was an inhabitant of the island of Themyscira.
Mala was with Diana when they discovered Steve Trevor floating in the sea, and they worked together to bring him to shore. Mala was also the last Amazon standing alongside a masked Diana during the contest to determine who would venture into Man's World as the Amazon champion. (All-Star Comics v1 #8)
Mala was skilled enough in the Amazons' advanced science to be trusted by Wonder Woman to work alongside Paula to perfect a device Wonder Woman created to install telepathic controls in the invisible plane. (Sensation Comics v1 #24)
Post-Crisis
Following the Crisis on Infinite Earths, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.
In the illusion, Diana imagined herself on Themyscira where Mala and several other Amazons were debasing themselves before male visitors to the island. The real Mala was officially introduced later as a close friend of Diana's. It was revealed that Mala participated in the original Contest to become Wonder Woman losing to Diana. (Wonder Woman v2 #0)
Though Amazon born, her tribe was not blessed with immortality. Because of this she was born sometime in the early to mid-twentieth century and lived the general life-span of a common mortal. Within her tribe she is a historian and is sometimes referred to as "The Keeper" as she is also responsible for watching over a bust statue of her tribe's first queen, Antiope. Mala was already an old woman when the witch Circe granted her tribe immortality, but Mala's eyesight was greatly diminished after a battle with a demon who spit fire into her face. It was Mala who informed Wonder Woman that she looks identical to the long dead Antiope, Wonder Woman's aunt. As her tribe's historian Mala was shown standing with her people as they requested permission from Queen Hippolyta to participate in the Contest to choose a new Wonder Woman. (Wonder Woman v2 #91)
Post-Flashpoint
Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.
Overview
Personality and attributes
Powers and abilities
Mala has 3,000 years of combat experience providing her expertise in both hand-to-hand combat as well as with hand held weapons. As a Themyscirian Amazon she also possesses immortality that allows her to live indefinitely in a youthful form, but does leave her open to potential injury and death depending on her actions. (Wonder Woman v2 #1)
Mala, like all Themyscirian Amazons, possesses the ability to relieve her body of physical injury and toxins by becoming one with the Earth's soil and then reforming her body whole again. (Wonder Woman v2 #30)
Notes
- Mala was created by Charles Moulton and Harry G. Peter where she made her first appearance in All-Star Comics v1 #8 (December, 1941).
Alternate Versions
In other media
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Appearances
- All-Star Comics v1: (1941)
- Wonder Woman v2:
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