Fury (DC Comics)

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Fury
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The Lyta Hall incarnation of Fury as depicted in Infinity, Inc. #16 (July 1985). Art by Todd McFarlane (penciler) and Tony DeZuniga (inker).
Publication information
Publisher DC Comics
First appearance Wonder Woman #300 (February 1983)
Created by Roy Thomas
Danette Thomas
Ross Andru
In-story information
Full nameHippolyta "Lyta" Trevor-Hall
Team affiliations Infinity, Inc.
Notable aliasesLyta Hall
Donna of Amazon Island (Earth 2)
AbilitiesSuperhuman strength, speed and endurance
Enhanced senses and durability
Animal empathy
Regeneration
Invulnerability to magic

Fury is the codename shared by three DC Comics superheroes, two of whom are mother and daughter, both of whom are directly connected with the Furies of mythology, and the third who is an altogether different character.

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Lyta Hall appears in the drama series The Sandman (2022), portrayed by Razane Jammal.

Fictional character biography

Hippolyta "Lyta" Trevor

Pre-Crisis

Originally Fury was Hippolyta "Lyta" Trevor, the daughter of the Golden Age Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor; Lyta inherited all her mother's powers. She was introduced in Wonder Woman (vol. 1) #300. Like most Golden Age-related characters at the time, Lyta lived on the parallel world of "Earth-Two". [1]

Lyta later adopted the identity of "The Fury", named after the Furies of mythology, and was one of the founding members of Infinity Inc., in the book of the same name written by Roy Thomas. [2] She began a relationship with her teammate Hector Hall, the Silver Scarab, whom she had met as a child; they reunited as classmates at UCLA. Shortly after their decision to marry, Hector was possessed by an enemy of his father, Hawkman, and killed. Fury was pregnant with Hector's child, and it was instrumental in the Silver Scarab's defeat. In 52 , a new Earth-2 with a similar history is created, and Lyta Trevor serves as a member of the Justice Society Infinity.

Lyta, like all her Infinity Inc. counterparts, briefly made an appearance during the DC Convergence crossover. Powerless and trapped on Telos, Lyta Trevor became a police officer before regaining her powers and taking on a Post-Crisis version of Jonah Hex. Eventually, Lyta and all of Infinity Inc. take over for the Justice Society on a returned Earth-2.

Post-Crisis

Following the 1985 miniseries Crisis on Infinite Earths , the Golden Age Wonder Woman retroactively no longer existed, and Lyta was now the daughter of the newly created character Helena Kosmatos, the Golden Age Fury (a Greek superheroine and a member of the All-Star Squadron, and an avatar of the Fury Tisiphone) and had been raised by Joan Trevor (née Dale), the Quality Comics superheroine Miss America, and her husband, Derek. [1] Lyta was told of her mother's history by Alecto, [3] and visited yearly by the time-travelling Hippolyta, who trained Lyta as a heroine.

For a while, Lyta served with Infinity, Inc., but eventually left the team to bear a child. [1] At home, Lyta was visited by a resurrected Hector Hall. After his death, Hall mistakenly believed he had been chosen as the Guardian of Dreams, the Sandman, and joined the real Sandman in the Dream Dimension, where they had adventures masterminded by the two schemers Brute and Glob. [4]

After suffering a nervous breakdown, Lyta Hall searches for her baby Daniel in The Sandman #60; pencils by Marc Hempel, inks by D'Israeli. Lyta-Hall-Fury.png
After suffering a nervous breakdown, Lyta Hall searches for her baby Daniel in The Sandman #60; pencils by Marc Hempel, inks by D'Israeli.

In Neil Gaiman's The Sandman , it was revealed that the Dream Dimension was a portion of the Dreaming enclosed by Brute and Glob during Morpheus' imprisonment, as a domain of their own. Upon Morpheus' return, Hector's soul was released and Lyta was sent back to Earth, where she gave birth to their son. Afterwards, Lyta blamed Morpheus for Hector's death; [5] but Morpheus visited the child, named him Daniel, and claimed him as an heir. [6] When Daniel was later captured by Loki and Robin Goodfellow, Lyta invoked the Furies to destroy Morpheus, whereupon Daniel became the new Lord of the Dreaming. [1]

At the wake held for Morpheus, Lyta met her son in his new role. He gave her his protection from the immortals offended by her, and returned her to the waking world.

Hector and Lyta's spirits depart into the Dreaming in JSA #80, art by Don Kramer. HecDreaming.jpg
Hector and Lyta's spirits depart into the Dreaming in JSA #80, art by Don Kramer.

Lyta's story continued in the graphic novel Sandman Presents: The Furies. She appeared in JSA where she was reunited with Hector, now reincarnated as Doctor Fate. At some point between the graphic novel and her return in JSA, the evil wizard Mordru had captured Lyta and imprisoned her in Dr. Fate's amulet. Once freed, she rejoined her husband and later regained her true memories of Daniel.

During the Spectre's quest to destroy magic throughout the DC Universe, he banished Doctor Fate and Lyta to a freezing mountain, later identified as part of Hell. In JSA #80, Lyta recalls being visited by Daniel in a dream, where he offers to bring Lyta and Hector to the Dreaming for all eternity; because Hector is dying, Lyta accepts the offer. [1]

Helena Kosmatos

Fury
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Helena Kosmatos as "Golden Age" Fury, as she appeared on the cover of Young All-Stars #12, art by Michael Bair and Mark Beachum.
Publication information
Publisher DC Comics
First appearance Infinity Inc. #35 (February 1987)
Created by Roy Thomas
Danette Thomas
Todd McFarlane
In-story information
Full nameHelena Kosmatos
Team affiliations Young All-Stars
All-Star Squadron
Amazons of Themyscira
AbilitiesSuperhuman strength, leaping, speed, and durability
Magical document provides ageless immortality
Ties to the Fury Tisiphone provide a secondary form, granting her greater strength, invulnerability, flight, and heat vision that can survive in the vacuum of space
Wears a suit of magical armor

Helena Kosmatos was a new character named "Fury", created to replace the Golden Age Wonder Woman as Lyta Trevor's biological mother. [7] She began appearing in Thomas' Young All-Stars , a book set in World War II, and her backstory was revealed in Secret Origins #12. She was a Greek national who had learned her brother was co-operating with Italian Fascists who previously killed her father. When she confronted her brother with this revelation in front of their mother, it was too much for the widow to take and she died of an instant heart attack. Wishing revenge upon her brother, she was approached by Tisiphone, one of the Eumenides or Furies, who gave her a suit of magic armor, which increased her strength, speed and stamina. When angered, she became an avatar of Tisiphone, and it was in this state that she killed her brother. [7]

She was later briefly released from this possession, and retained the other powers, but is once again acting as Tisiphone's avatar. [8]

At one point, the Amazon Queen Hippolyta took over the role of Wonder Woman and traveled back in time to aid the JSA against the Nazis. During this time, Helena began to look to Hippolyta as a mother figure and believed that she was indeed the daughter of the Amazon queen, despite the knowledge that her true parents were killed during the war. When Queen Hippolyta returned to her own time, Helena sought a magical means to gain eternal youth; this was accomplished via a magical document that, if destroyed, would revert Helena to her true age and possible death. After this was done, Helena met Hippolyta's true daughter Diana and took an immediate dislike to her. By this point, Helena's mental state was near collapse, as she began to behave irrationally. [1] Diana took her to Themyscira, where Hippolyta addressed Helena as a daughter to support her fragile psyche. [9] After Hippolyta's death during the Our Worlds At War saga, Helena went into mourning and much of her mental imbalance was resolved. [10] Thereafter she served Artemis and Philippus as a trusted aide. Her powers were briefly stolen from her by Barbara Ann Minerva whose role as the Cheetah had been usurped by Sebastian Ballestros. Minerva used the power of Tisiphone to kill Ballestros, regaining her Cheetah form, and restored Helena's powers. [11]

During the events of Infinite Crisis , OMACs engaged the Amazons of Themyscira in battle, and the Amazons relocated their island home to another plane of existence. Helena Kosmatos is shown leaving with the other Amazons. [12] A year after their departure, the Amazons return to wage war on the U.S., which takes place in the Amazons Attack storyline. Helena is never shown as part of this return.

Erik Storn

In 52 Week 21, a new Infinity Inc. created by Lex Luthor was introduced, with a male hero going by the name of Fury. The newest Fury had been given blackened skin and razor-sharp claws from submitting to Luthor's Everyman Project. Infinity Inc. #1 (Sept. 2007) reveals that, after Luthor's arrest and after the project was shut down, Erik has become depressed when his powers were shut down and has developed a stuttering problem. He is also suffering from hot flashes and mistakenly took his mother's clothes from the laundry one day. In Infinity Inc. #3, Erik reveals that the stutter is a defense mechanism to hide his desire for self-castration. He also transforms into a fighting woman named "Erika". In #8, Erik/Erika is given a costume and the superhero name "Amazing Woman".

Erik is later found and tortured by Codename: Assassin, having discovered, and shared with Jimmy Olsen, precious information about Project 7734, the secret agenda of General Sam Lane for Kryptonians. Shifting one last time to the all-powerful Erika body, Erik is able to put Jimmy in contact with Natasha Irons before dying. [13]

Powers and abilities

Fury has superhuman strength, speed and endurance, enhanced senses and durability, animal empathy, and regenerative healing factor. She is also invulnerable to magic.

Donna as Fury in Earth 2: Society #2. Fury Earth 2.JPG
Donna as Fury in Earth 2: Society #2.

Other versions

An alternate universe variant of Fury from Earth-2 appears in " The New 52". This version is the daughter of Wonder Woman and Steppenwolf and the last living Amazon after the others were killed during an Apokoliptian invasion. [14] [15]

In other media

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Aresia as she appears in Justice League.

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