Doctor Psycho (DC)

Villain Overview

“	Ladies, gentlemen, others, creatures of indeterminate inner demons and fixations--My name is Dr. Psycho. And you're going to help me with a little experiment. All I ask? That you keep an open mind.	„
	~ Doctor Psycho

Edgar Cizko, better known as Doctor Psycho, is a major antagonist in the DC Comics universe, being a major antagonist in the Wonder Woman franchise and a supporting antagonist in the Justice League franchise.

He is a sadistic, dwarfish criminal with control over occult magic; although he would later be reinvented as having vast psychic powers instead. He is known for his intense hatred and contempt of women, with many of his crimes reflecting his misogynistic beliefs. He is one of Wonder Woman's oldest and most enduring foes, and has served as an enemy to several other heroes, such as the Legion of Superheroes, Manhunter, the Secret Six, and Superboy.

Biography[]

Modern Age[]

As a schoolboy, Doctor Psycho was laughed at by his classmates because of his diminutive stature and unusually large head. Psycho especially took offense to being laughed at by girls. Throughout his subsequent life, Psycho felt both desire for beautiful women and a psychotic hatred of all women.

Psycho went to medical school and began research into psionics. He fell in love with a young woman named Marva, who regarded him merely as a friend. Psycho decided to hypnotize Marva into loving him. He then discovered that he could use Marva as a medium through which he could draw ectoplasm, the substance found in the spirit world, and materialize it on Earth in whatever form he willed. Psycho uses the ectoplasm to form a heroic body around himself and has battled Wonder Woman under the identity of Captain Wonder.

The New 52[]

Doctor Psycho is a diminutive psychologist and con man with psionic abilities, who carried out séances to telepathically steal his clients' identities and data, and used his illusion-casting abilities to seduce women. Overwhelmingly arrogant, Psycho has clashed with many super-heroes, including Wonder Woman, Superboy, The Question, and Superman. He has also joined numerous criminal groups such as the Secret Society of Super-Villains and the League of Villainy. However, he never received the respect he felt was his due. In recent times he allied with Hugo Strange, Queen Bee, Per Degaton, and the android Amazo in a clandestine organization dubbed the Cabal, but was again abused and physically humiliated; this time by the absurd super-hero Plastic Man.

Powers and Abilities[]

Psycho is a skilled occultist and uses psionic powers to traumatize and terrify those who stand in his way. In his Pre-Crisis appearances, he was a hypnotist skilled in the occult who used his victims to draw ectoplasm into the physical world, which he shaped into various beings and disguises.

In The New 52 continuity, Doctor Psycho possesses psychic abilities including the regular telepathy, mind control, astral projection, telekinesis, levitation, projecting destructive blasts of psionic energy and creating psionic energy constructs such as armor, although Edgar has stated that he possesses every psionic power imaginable. However, he does not have the energy required to use his abilities to their fullest. He can overcome this weakness by siphoning mental energies from other individuals with psionic powers such as Superboy.

In other media[]

DC Universe Online[]

Lex Luthor hires him to work on the DNA experiments at his metahuman hospital, particularly Supergirl. Later on, the patients breakout and Supergirl captures Psycho. As a villain, the player must make it past the escaped patients and Supergirl in order to free Psycho. As a hero, they must free the patients and overcome Psycho to free Supergirl.

Harley Quinn (2019)[]

Main article: Doctor Psycho (Harley Quinn TV Series)

Justice League: Gods and Monsters[]

Main article: Imperiex

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