Red Sonja
Red Sonja is a female comic character who features in Conan.
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Biography
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Red Sonja
Red Sonja lived with her family in a humble home in the Western Hyrkanian Steppes. When she had just turned 17 years old, a group of cruel mercenaries killed her father Ivor, her mother and two younger brothers and burned their house and all their possessions. She survived but at the cost of her own virginity after she was brutally raped by the leader of the group, leaving her in shame. After all this, the goddess Scathach then appeared to her, and instilled in her incredible skill in handling swords and other weapons on the condition that she would not allow herself to be loved by another man unless he defeated her in fair combat. (Kull and the Barbarians v1 #3)
Years later, an adult Sonja wastes her talents thieving, fighting, and drinking - trying in vain to drown her pain in blood and liquor. Sonja hunts the badlands of Hyrkania as a mercenary. At one point, she falls in with Ozzyus and his band of misfit mercenaries. As Ozzyus could never replace the father Sonja lost, she moves more jaded than before after a falling out where his moral flaws were laid bare.
Despite her nomadic tendencies, Sonja does have a quest - to find and kill those responsible for killing her family. Along the way, Sonja will settle for killing anyone who reminds her of her tormenters. Ultimately, she learns that her tormentors are agents of the dark sorcerer Kulan Gath, and their greatest goal is to return their master to the Hyborean world. Freeing the world from Kulan's oppression becomes her life's work. Until that is done, she cannot find closer, but along that journey, she develops into a master strategist and matures into a leader. In later years, she frees the kingdom of Sogoria from its oppression and rules it as queen. Throughout the years, a number of royals have offered her a throne, but she always turned it down; she will only sit on a throne she earns for herself.
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Overview
Personality and attributes
She was given the name Red Sonja on account of her flame-red hair, and for the smoldering fire of her pride. Such was her reputation as a warrior that she came to be known by the epithet of She-Devil of The Hyrkanian Steppes.
Because of her history, Sonja has a large circle of compatriots from various backgrounds. She has allies in every land and tribe, but true friends she has few. Too many who have gotten close have died, she has been wounded too deep, so now she rarely lets anyone in.
Powers and abilities
She was noted for being intelligent, witty and a master with a blade.
Notes
- Red Sonja was created by Roy Thomas and Barry Smith where she made her first appearance in Marvel Comics Conan the Barbarian v1 #23 (February, 1973).
- The character was partially based on Robert E. Howard's characters Red Sonya of Rogatino and Dark Agnes de Chastillon.
In other media
Television
Films
Appearances
- Conan the Barbarian v1: (1973)
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