| “ | I do not kill for trophies. The Basilisk's soul was soaked in the blood of the innocent. But that is not why I killed it. Zeus, apparently angry that I was still alive, had tasked it with killing me. It regularly appeared on the Wild Isle trying to fulfill its mission. | „ |
| ~ Diana talking about the Basilisk to Hades. |
The Last Basilisk is a minor antagonist in the Absolute Wonder Woman series.
It is a vicious monster that lives deep within a cave, can kill those who look it in the eyes, and was tasked by Zeus more than once to kill Diana, the Last Amazon. It was later killed by her and its blood used to make the Nemesis Lasso.
Biography[]
The Basilisk is a mythological being explicitly stated to be "drenched in the blood of innocent", showing it is vicious and has claimed many lives. A gigantic snake, it has the ability to kill those who see it eye to eye. This one in specific was the last of the species.
Many times it was tasked by Zeus, unhappy with Diana of Temyschira still being alive, to go to the lonely Island she lived at with her mother Circe, though both managed to defend themselves all the times.
Eventually, for both ending its trheat and using its blood to make a magical weapon in the Nemesis Lasso. Using a spell, Diana blinded herself temporarily, allowing her to fight without being instantly killed. She attacked its senses with foul smells, before cutting its head off with an axe.
Diana exclaims to Hades that she doesn't feel any remorse for killing it, countering the god's claims that it went against her previous talk of justice by pointing out it was an evil being that killed in the past, further showing it as one of the most clearly evil monster Diana had to face, rather than an amoral creature.
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