Gloria Marquez, also known as Doctor Cyber, is the secondary antagonist of the Wonder Woman episode "The Return of Wonder Woman", and the main antagonist of the comic book series Wonder Woman '77 Meets The Bionic Woman.
History[]
Gloria had been a biophysiologist prior to meeting her partner in crime; Dr. Thiago Solano. They worked together in an attempt to steal a nuclear power plant being transported to Samarra, and use it to disrupt the geopolitical power in Latin America, and eventually, the world. Aided by Gloria, Solano had worked to install himself as a puppet master for the leaders of Guanaray.
Solano's robot was a complicated servo-mechanism powered by a miniature bomb for its heart, and he suspected the new Wonder Woman was an automaton as well. So Gloria and Solano captured I.A.D.C. agent Steve Trevor and replaced him with a surgically-altered duplicate, knowing he could lead them to the top secret plans for the power plant relocation.
However, Wonder Woman interfered and fought the robot, believing it to be Solano, but eventually, the truth was revealed and she launched the robot at Gloria and him. The explosion from the robot very nearly did end their lives. Instead, they were left as shells of theirselves. While Solano was paralyzed, Gloria was burned over half of her body. Lying in the hospital recuperating, the two had months to plot, and plan their revenge.
While Solano was having his body rehabilitated, Gloria could not be. Her muscles and motor functions were too badly damaged, and her nerves were in constant pain. Gloria knew that many scientists were studying the melding of cybernetic technology and human bodies. She bribed those could, and threatened others, assembling a brilliant team of surgeons and computer technicians (which includes the toymaker Orlich Hoffman and the Nazi Captain Horst Radl) at their base on Lauray. They rebuilt her, piece by piece, covering her withered and mangled arm and leg and damaged organs with a cybernetic shell, and since the she became known as "Doctor Cyber". They later joined Dr. Carl Franklin's CASTRA in an attempt to destroy both Wonder Woman and Bionic Woman.
External Links[]
- Gloria Marquez on the DC Wiki
