| “ | Even the gods could not destroy me... | „ |
| ~ Cythonna |
Cythonna is a Superman villain who first appeared in Superman: The Last God of Krypton. She is Rao's opposite counterpart. Her sheer power could only be contained. After centuries of imprisonment, she broke free and encountered Superman on earth.
Appearance[]
Usualy[]
Makeup[]
Tall, comparable to Superman. Curvey, trained, athletic-physic with light blue skin and white long hairs. Described as a "marvelous beauty of crystalline delight".
True Visage[]
Same body, but hands are now big claws similiar to her feets. Her face is monstrous, sharpe teeths and bigger, pointed ears. Her hair can grow rapidly, able to engulf opponents. Seems taller.
Personality[]
Aggressive, uncompromising nature, can easily be provocated (starts war after being reject). Due to her status as a "evil" goddess, arrogant and merciless, "demonstrated a complete contempt for life".
Biography[]
Kryptonian Mythology[]
Origin[]
The first Gods walked in the early light among the green hills of Kyrpton in the beginning of time. The Gods and Goddesses of dawn reigned over a world in harmony and they fathered the lineages of man to worship them and live in peace, but harmony is not the way of life, even among the gods and out of the frozen blackness beyond the furthest reaches of the light came evil. All the people were afraid. Cythonna was lovely as the hoar-frost in the vale, but her heart was cold and her hate was deep. For all that was warm and light. She alone of all the gods could bear no children but birthed only roaring monsters of ice and rime.
And so she bought fear, cold, despair, and finally death into the world. her curse to the radiant warmth of the living. When first she came, she was a marvelous beauty of crystalline delight. And she spoke to the sun, great Rao, tender words of love and yearning seeking to make him hers. But Rao's brilliance lit even the blackest corners of Cynthonna's heart and he saw that though she spoke of love she had no knowledge of it. She sought only his power to father her children, wild elementals she meant to send out into the wide, white world to corrupt the light and suborn the heat. Rao rejected her. So began the wars of ice and fire.
Wars of Ice & Fire[]
Cythonna was strong; the powers of the gods of dawn were new. And they had never fought in anger before. So across the space of many lifetimes darkness fell upon the face of Krypton. The days of dawn were over. In the end, the gods had mastery and they rendered judgement. They could not kill her but great Rao himself thrust her beyond the borders of existence through the iron gates of doom and they were sealed forever. She was said to wait in the eternal darkness of the frozen void and to gather unto herself the souls of the unforgiven dead but if the power of the gods ever weakens, she will return to finish what she started. Rao alone knows if she will succeed. The wars of ice and fire left scars that were never entirely healed.
End of Dawn and Rise of Darkness
Krypton's inhabitants became emotionless, branded for all time by the goddess's bitterness. Many of the young gods were dead. The rest, according to the legends, left Krypton for a distant realm where they might heal their hurts and recover. The faithful claimed that the gods would return to Krypton eventually and restore her. Apostates said that the gods had abandoned their former home and followers for all time. Skeptics said that there never were any gods, but an ancient race of protomen whose stories have come down to us. The origins of these tales are clouded in the mists of time. Their truth or falsity is beyond testing.
On Earth[]
A few years after Lois Lane & Clark Kent/Superman got married she managed to escape to frozen void. Proclaiming that she had won the war of light and darkness, however she sensed a spark of life somewhere in the cosmos, a lifeforce tied directly to Rao himself. Angered by this, Cythonna decided to find and eliminate the last trace of Rao in this universe and took off flying into deep space. Five days later she appeared at the Daily Planet and after killing a woman Superman decided to confront her...and with a "casual backhand" managed to best Superman.
New Ice Age
She claimed him as her mate and flew away saying that he was to meet her at "the roof of your world" in one hour. Lex Luthor then tried to meet with her and make a deal. He failed and had one of his men kill another. He drove away in great anger. Meanwhile, Superman was investigating Cythonna's claims. He found she was telling the truth. On his way to meet her, Luthor gave Superman kryptonite grenade to help him beat her.
Fall Of A Goddess[]
With his plan set in motion Superman went on to challenge Cythonna. However his second fight with her didn't go exactly as planned. During the fight Superman was manhandled by Cythonna and barely managed to work up a small offense against her, and all the while as she was overwhelming him with her own might/powers fairly easily.
True Visage
Only a combination of things would bring Cythonna to an end, when Superman would flee for his life to the sun. The powers of the sun, deriving from Rao, and being the universal opposite of Cythonna, was enough to weaken her down a level much closer to Superman's as he was also amped up to his full potential. Cythonna however still seemed to be slightly stronger, and then finally showing Superman her true monstrous form and continued physically controlling most of the fight, saved in the last moment by Lois in a Kryptonian battle armor, then Superman uses the Kyrptonite grenade to safe Lois. Both managed to escape and Cythonna since weakened by heat and the Kryptonite bomb is stunned, out of control and finally pulled into the suns core. Where she remains to this day, trapped in a prison of eternal fire, watched over by Rao himself.
Powers and Abilities[]
| “ | Incredible! She is far more dangerous than Superman! What I wouldn't give for that kind of power! | „ |
| ~ Lex Luthor |
Godly Physiology: Cythonna has seemingly limitless power which is unopposed in the DC universe even by the likes of Superman and the kryptonian gods, given her unmatched physical prowess and destructive capacity. She was able to almost knock out Superman with a casual backhand slap, before he could react and dominated the gods of dawn for centuries. Superman himself stated she has "strength beyond everything I've ever encountered", refering to her backhand slap as powerful as the three Supervillians he ones was forced to execute, "and this was... a backhand. A casual backhand!". Meaning that she is stronger than Doomsday, Darkseid and Mongul, plus all the opponents he has faced over the years. Even while weakened vastly, she was still controlling the fight with Superman at his full potential, nearly killed him with her "embrace". It needs the full "power of the gods" to stop and seal her.
- Invulnerability (Divine): Cythonna cannot seemingly be hurt, "untouched" by Supermans punches, even at his full potential while she herself vastly weakened, he couldn't hurt her. Even Rao and the other gods of dawn "could not kill her".
- Telepathy (Divine): She nearly killed Superman using her power of telepathy to break his will and soul, the goddess own will is described as "eating into mine", her control means "certain death!". A "mortal" cannot withstand her "call", the voice is like an echo in the mind, becoming stronger. An average human or Kryptonian would instantly lost their own will and soul, doing everything in her will.
- Immortality: She can live indefinitely as she is a goddess. Survived all other gods, lives in a time all other gods of dawn no longer exist in the universe.
- Shape-shifting: Showed her true form to Superman, meaning she has control of her appearance.
- True Visage: In this form, her overall powers reached an even greater extent.
- Cyrokinesis (Divine): As godess of Ice and darkness she has divine control over the element. "Instant conversion of energy to matter with a thermo dynamic twist". Rapidly creates a new ice age on earth, forming the planet into her own image. Even Superman could feel the "could's cutting right through". Further enhanced in her true form, the "killing cold" radiating from her body is feeled by Superman on the sun's surface.
- Soul Freezing: When in her embrace, she is able to absorbe the "life will" to restore a part of her powers, by freezing the soul. Would able to break out of the sun's core with a part of her powers restored.
Superman feels the cold
- Self-Sustenance: Cythonna can survive in harsh environments without air, sleep, food or water and survive within the vakuum of space.
- Flight: Cythonna can fly faster than Superman. Easily catched up, with no chance for him to escape.
- Language Assimilation: Understands the language of all humans in less than a day, by assimilating the "tongues" of their world.
Hand-to-Hand Combatant: Cythonna has fought Rao and other gods of dawn for centuries, dominated and ends their age of dawn. They only managed to defeat her together. "Many of the young gods were dead" and all other surviving gods are "hurt" to the point they need time to "recover". Outclassed and beats Superman with ease.
Cythonna mauling Superman!
Weakness[]
Only direct contact with the heat of a Sun can weakening her, but not enough to kill her. Can counteract in her true form, becomes instantly stronger and her cold suppressed the Sun's heat.
