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* ''[[Wonder Woman]]'' had a few, most from [[The Golden Age of Comic Books]]:
** The Blue Snowman. This was a scientist who invented a suit of [[Powered Armor]] that made her (yes, ''her'') look like a snowman, and it had a freeze ray that produced ''blue snow''. A new version of the character in the more modern era tried to be [[Darker and Edgier]], but only looked ''sillier'', adding a corncob pipe.
** The Duke of Deception and the Earl of Greed were two of Ares' flunkies whose job was to keep the Earth in a perpetual state of war. Since this was during World War II, it's not clear why Ares even needed these buffoons, who always messed up. DC may have been going for the [[Halfhearted Henchman]] angle here, but these guys were bigger failures than [[Hercules (1997 film)|Pain and Panic.]] DC seems to have given up on the Earl, but the Duke managed to eventually [[Took a Level in Badass|Take a Level in Badass]], pulling a successful coup on Ares. [http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Tomas_Byde_(The_Legend_of_Wonder_Woman)|
** Angelo Bend, aka Angle Man, a villain with a... geometry theme. Obsessed with committing crimes with "unbeatable angles" this guy had a silly-looking costume covered with mathematics symbols and a sillier-looking weapon that looked like a Penrose triangle ("the Angler", he called it) but always got his ass handed to him by the heroine. Eventually he modified the weapon so it could warp time and space in a variety of ways, ditched his silly costume (for a getup that made him look like a middle-aged accountant) and was killed in the Crisis.
** Egg Fu may have been in a class of himself among Diana's enemies:
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