Red Panzer
Red Panzer is the name of several characters in the DC Universe.
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Red Panzer I
- Main Article: Helmut Streicher
Helmut Streicher was a male human where he was an inhabitant of Earth-Two where he was a member of Nazi Germany in 1943. (Wonder Woman v1 #228)
High Command came to believe him to be a mere scientist and dispatched him as a spy to America to design advanced espionage tools for their operatives in Washington. (Wonder Woman v1 #228)
In 1943, the Nazi High Command sent scientist Helmut Streicher to the United States in order to design state of the art espionage tools for Nazi spies working in Washington, D.C.. One of Helmut's first inventions was a time-scanner. With it, he could view events destined to take place in the near future. Using his time scanner, Helmut learned that the Allied Forces would win a decisive victory over the Nazis on Normandy Beach on June 6th 1944. Helmut's foresight convinced him that this invasion would spell the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany. In the hopes of forestalling this inevitable future, Helmut designed a sophisticated battle suit and assumed the identity of the Red Panzer.
The Red Panzer developed a time-grappling device that could physically project himself and his flying Panzer-ship into the future. On his first attempt however, he actually crossed the dimensional barrier and arrived on Earth-One of the modern era. Almost immediately, he crossed paths with the heroine, Wonder Woman, and was astonished to see that she was "still alive" thirty years into his own future. After a brief altercation, the Panzer realized that this was in fact the dimensional counterpart to the Wonder Woman from his own era.
The Panzer activated his time-grappler, which pulled both Wonder Woman and himself back to the environment of 1943 Earth-Two. While Wonder Woman was disoriented, the Red Panzer escaped and made his way back to his lair. The time-lost Wonder Woman eventually found her 1943 duplicate, and together they faced Red Panzer, ultimately defeating him.
Red Panzer II
- Main Article: Unknown
An unknown male in the modern age came to emerge where he took the name of the Nazi General who fought Wonder Woman of the Justice Society of America in the 1940s. As the Red Panzer, he aimed to carry on his name and his belief in fighting for the power to punish their enemies. At the head of a Nazi cell, they looked to eliminate 'deviants' and believed themselves to be untainted by America's permissive ways. (Wonder Woman: Donna Troy v1 #1)
The Red Panzer and his Neo-Nazi cell came to attack a city with the intention of killing people and even deploying a biological weapon in the form of sarin gas. Their attack drew the attention of Wonder Woman, Captain Marvel and Wonder Girl Donna Troy. They came to battle the Nazis with Troia managing to confront Red Panzer. During their fight, the Lasso of Truth was used on the Red Panzer where he came to be crippled as a result. As a last act of spite, he intended to detonate his sarin gas bomb with Donna Troy managing to contain the explosion which killed the Red Panzer. (Wonder Woman: Donna Troy v1 #1)
Red Panzer III
- Main Article: Unknown
A male human born the son of a Neo-Nazi who had taken the mantle of the Red Panzer. Upon his birth, the colouring of his skin was off in the eyes of his father who at first believed his wife had an affair. It was only later that he learnt that it was because his wife was half-black in origin. In a rage, he came to kill her leading to his arrest. Meanwhile, his son was left to be raised in foster homes where he grew up embracing his fathers beliefs and lived in fear that his skin would reveal his heritage. As the son of the previous Red Panzer, he came to assume the mantle after the death of his father and preached his creed. (Titans v1 #6)
Panzer was later approached by Vandal Savage to join Tartarus. He accepted the invitation, and Vandal promised him and the other members an opportunity to control mankind’s destiny. (Secret Origins of Super-Villains 80-Page Giant v1 #1)
Ultimately, he came to be killed by H.I.V.E. leader Damien Darhk. (Titans v1 #12)
Red Panzer IV
- Main Article: Justin
Justin was a human male nihilist came to be recruited by Vandal Savage to assume the identity of the Red Panzer. (Titans v1 #14)
At some point, the Red Panzer came to be arrested by the Science Police in Metropolis. (Superman: Secret Files 2009 v1 #1)
Overview
The original was a human with white hair and a scar on his left eye that was dead white. (Wonder Woman v1 #228)
Individuals that became the Red Panzer were people living with a mind so distorted and warped that the only world they could imagine was the one envisioned by Adolf Hitler himself. The only truth that they could comprehend was the hatred held for those unlike them. According to them, they were driven by the power of hatred that empowered them and so long as it existed then the Red Panzer to would live in the world. (Wonder Woman: Donna Troy v1 #1)
The Red Panzer was a metallic costume suit create from indestructible armor that was stronger than even a panzer division. (Wonder Woman v1 #228) Thus, the body armor acted as an indestructible shell that protected its wearer. (Wonder Woman: Donna Troy v1 #1)
From his fingertips, he could fire a burst of bullets. (Wonder Woman v1 #228) A cannon was located on the arm that could be reloaded for repeated weapon fire. (Wonder Woman: Donna Troy v1 #1)
A genius, Streicher had developed a time-scanner that could see into the future which he used to change history and make advanced weaponry for Nazi Germany. He had developed a panzer-ship that was an aircraft capable of flying through the time-barrier into the future. (Wonder Woman v1 #228)
The original Red Panzer was shown to have had a pet cat that he named Friedrich. (Wonder Woman v1 #228)
Notes
- The concept of the Red Pazner was created by Mark Pasko and José Delbo where it made its first appearance in Wonder Woman v1 #228 (February, 1977).
- In Justice League v2 #42 (2015), the Amazon Myrina Black in the Post-Flashpoint continuity was said to had fought the scourge of the Red Panzer and his fascists.
Alternate Versions
- In Wonder Woman '77 Special v1 #2 (2015), the Red Panzer appeared in the setting of the comic tie-in of the live-action television series. A statue of him was present at the Madisonian Institute in Washington, D.C. which was used to show all the villains that had been fought by Wonder Woman.
- In Wonder Woman 75th Anniversary Special v1 #1 (2016), the Red Panzer appeared in the setting of the Legend of Wonder Woman reality. He was deployed to assist Baroness von Gunther when she was sent on a mission to Poland in 1945. The armored warrior was dispatched to fight against Wonder Woman on-board the Nazi airship only for them to be defeated by the Amazon.
Appearances
- Wonder Woman v1: (1977)
- Wonder Girl: Donna Troy v1:
- Titans v1:
- Secret Origins of Super-Villains 80-Page Giant v1:
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