PSYCHO-WOMAN
Real Name: Unrevealed
Identity/Class: Extradimensional (Microverse) (Traanian)
technology user
Occupation: Seeker of vengeance
Group Membership: None
Affiliations: None
Enemies: Amy Brys, Fantastic Four (Human
Torch/Johnny Storm, Invisible Woman/Susan Storm Richards, Mister
Fantastic/Reed Richards, Thing/Ben Grimm)
Known Relatives: Psycho-Man
(father)
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Microverse
First Appearance: Fantastic Four Annual III#32
(August, 2010)
Powers/Abilities: A being from the Microverse, a dimension accessed via the energies of shrinking, Psycho-Woman is tiny in Earth's universe and wears a (relatively) gigantic armored suit to interact with our universe. The armor provides her with superhuman strength and durability, can fire energy blasts and incorporates a signal-jamming device.
Her primary weapon is her emotion-manipulating
Control Box. Unlike her father's, which generates fear, doubt and
anger, she designed hers to magnify the emotions she felt after the
Fantastic Four destroyed him: envy, disgust and total emotional
nullity.
She also controls a number of Microverse cyborgs.
Height:
Variable
Weight: Variable
Eyes: Unrevealed; armor's eyes are pink
Hair: Unrevealed; armor has none
History: (Fantastic Four Annual III#32 (fb)) -
Seeking revenge on the heroes who had repeatedly foiled her father's
plans, Psycho-Woman used a human-mimicking android body to drug Johnny
Storm and another clubgoer, Amy Brys. She then used micro-cyborgs to
collect Storm's DNA and impregnate Brys with it. She intended to use the
Torch's tissue and that of his offspring to grow an army of cosmic
warriors. She hid within Storm's body herself, hoping to lure the rest
of the FF inside. While there, she used her Control Box to cloud Mister
Fantastic's mind with envy, preventing him from deducing her scheme.
(Fantastic Four Annual III#32) - As planned, Brys found herself pregnant and came to the Baxter Building. Finding cyborgs inside the Torch, the Invisible Woman and the Thing miniaturized themselves and ventured inside the Torch's body to eliminate them. Inside, they found Psycho-Woman lying in wait for them. While Mr. Fantastic miniaturized himself to join the others inside Johnny, Psycho-Woman sent one of her cyborgs to attack, capture and lobotomize the Torch and Brys. She blasted a small hole in Storm's body from the inside, forcing Reed to stitch it up with his own malleable body, then turned the Thing mad with disgust and deadened all of the Invisible Woman's emotions.
Although Psycho-Woman
claimed the effect was irreversible, the Thing overcame his disgust and
counterattacked while Sue was snapped out of it when she heard her
children, Franklin and Valeria. The Thing then smashed Psycho-Woman's armor, stealing her
heat-shield and using it to shield himself and his teammates. Reed finally
commanded Johnny to flame on, apparently incinerating Psycho-Woman
inside him as he destroyed her last cyborg.
Comments: Created by Joe Ahearne, Bryan Hitch, and Andrew Currie.
Psycho-Woman claims the FF "destroyed" her father - I'm
not sure if she means literally or figuratively, via their multiple
defeats of his schemes. If it's the former, he was currently alive when
this Annual came out but maybe news travels slowly in the Microverse.
Psycho-Woman's coloration is misleading for most of the
issue, as seen in the main image - given that it takes place inside a
human body, the lighting is, understandably, a little weird. When the
Invisible Woman uses her powers on her, as seen in the second image, we
can see that Psycho-Woman's armor has the same green-and-white color
scheme as her father's.
Profile by Minor Irritant.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Psycho-Woman, Microverse villain, should not be confused with:
...but has no known connections to:
(Fantastic Four Annual III#32 (fb)) -
Psycho-Woman brought a number of cyborgs with her from the Microverse
to get revenge on the Fantastic Four. A number of them extracted DNA
from a drugged Human Torch and
implanted it in Amy Brys,
impregnating her.
(Fantastic Four Annual III#32) -
Psycho-Woman's cyborgs attacked the Torch and Amy Brys out in the
street and were soon engaged by the rest of the Fantastic Four. The
FF destroyed the creatures and Mr. Fantastic recognized their
Microverse origins. He sent a miniaturized Invisible Woman inside
Johnny, where she battled and destroyed a number of the cyborgs. Later,
after both the Thing and Mr. Fantastic also ventured inside Johnny to
battle Psycho-Woman, one final cyborg invaded the Baxter Building,
looking for the Torch and intending to lobotomize him. Unable to flame
on due to the people inside him, the Torch and Brys evaded the creature
until the rest of the FF defeated Psycho-Woman and stole her heat
shield, allowing Johnny to use his powers to destroy the creature and
incinerate its mistress within him.
Psycho-Woman's cyborgs were crustacean-like
creatures that could fire paralysis rays or destructive energy beams.
They also had hard shells and long tentacles.
--Fantastic Four Annual III#32
images: (without ads)
Fantastic Four Annual III#32,
p23, pan1 (main image)
Fantastic Four Annual
III#32, p43, pan1 (better view of color scheme)
Fantastic Four Annual
III#32, p7, pan4 (cyborgs)
Appearances:
Fantastic Four Annual III#32 (August, 2010) - Joe Ahearne (writer),
Bryan Hitch (pencils/inks), Andrew Currie (inks), Tom Brevoort (editor)
First posted: 03/03/2023
Last updated: 03/03/2023
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