Aresia
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| Species: | Human |
| Hair: | Blond |
| Eyes: | Blue |
| Base: | Themyscira |
| Affiliations: | Injustice Gang |
| Rogue of: | Wonder Woman, The Justice League |
| Abilities: | Super-strength, durability, Martial arts |
| Voiced by: | Julie Bowen |
- Not to be confused with the Green Lantern Arisia.
Aresia was a rogue, man-hating Amazon who was determined to purge every male from the planet.
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[edit] History
Aresia was just a young girl when wars had ravaged and destroyed the lives and land of her home. The young girl and her mother barely escaped the two-ended massacre, traveling aboard a cargo ship as third-class passengers. In the middle of the ship's journey, bandits raided the ship for all the goods and supplies that were aboard before opening fire on the ship and destroying it. Having survived the brutal attack, Aresia who was barely conscience clutched onto a shard of the wooden ship as her mother and the other passengers died during the attack. Apart from Aresia, only the captain survived. The ship's captain took Aresia and swam her to safety at the cost of his own life; having suffered a fatal heart attack as a result of the strain put on his heart. He finally reached the island of Themyscira where he collapsed and died on the beach.
Hippolyta found Aresia and the captain on the beach. She buried the noble captain, the only man ever buried on Themyscira, but kept his existence a secret because she did not think the captain was important enough to mention. Aresia was raised and gifted by he gods during her stay on Themyscira — she was taught and trained alongside the rest of them, including Diana. As part of Aresia's final training and tests to truly become an Amazon was to live by herself in complete solitude; presumably to reflect upon whether or not she truly wanted to become an Amazon and truly renounce any ties to the outside world. During that time, no Amazon was allowed come check up on or talk with her — and Aresia took this time to read books she had somehow acquired from the outside world about biology, chemistry and magic, which she planned to use how to make a disease that affected only the males of the world. She escaped from the tower and began her plans. How she traveled to the outside world is unknown.
She took up the members of the then-defunct Injustice Gang, sans the lunatic Joker and the traitorous Ultra-Humanite and Cheetah, while recruiting a new female member, Tsukuri. The villains break into a museum when Batman interferred and defeated all the villians, leaving Aresia to fight Batman herself. She managed to defeat him and escape with the villains. Next, she defeated Superman easily and infected all the other male Leaguers with the virus. She put her plans in motion, creating the disease and testing it by infecting all the men in Gotham, leaving only the female fire-fighters, police officers, paramedics, and whatever job was required of them to take over. The first guinea pigs of the experiment were Injustice Gang members Shade, Copperhead and Solomon Grundy, though they survive to join other anti-Justice League organizations.
Right before setting her master plan to action, the unaffected Wonder Woman and Hawkgirl come with Hippolyta to confront Aresia, Star Sapphire and Tsukuri. Hippolyta tells of the captain's brave deeds and how Aresia would not have been alive if not for a man. Nevertheless, Aresia chalks it up for the fact that he was different and proceeds with her master plan.
During a pitched battle aboard a jet that is the key to the entire operation (gassing the whole world with the anti-male toxin using missiles), Star Sapphire is flung into the ocean. Shortly before the plane is about to crash into the ocean, Tsukuri jettisons the ship and escapes using a jet pack. Aresia dies with her twisted schemes when the plane drowns in the vast ocean.
[edit] Background Information
- This episode is titled after two DC Comics characters that went by the name of "Fury." The first version was Hippolyta "Lyta" Trevor, an Amazon and daughter of the Golden Age Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor. The second incarnation was Helena Kosmatos, a young Greek girl whose parents were murdered by the Nazis when they occupied Greece, while her brother collaborated with them. She made a pact with the Furies and became the host of the Fury Tisiphone, murdering her brother before she was stopped by Hippolyta, who was travelling through time as Wonder Woman. Helena eventually made her way to Themyscira and was made an honorary Amazon. The character of Aresia bears traits of both incarnations.
- Rich Fogel on Aresia: "I think that Aresia is one of our more interesting and original villains. Her hatred of men drives 'Fury.'"[2]
[edit] Appearance
Justice League
- "Fury"
[edit] Footnoes
- ↑ Justice League, "Fury"
- ↑ Toonzone.
[edit] External links
- Fury at the DC Database Project
