Crimson Centipede (Earth-One)

Crimson Centipede
Mainstream Universe‎, 1950s-1986
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Real Name	Unknown
Main Alias	Crimson Centipede
Affiliation	Mars
Status
Alignment	Bad
Marital Status	Single
Occupation	Mars's agent
Characteristics
Gender	Male
Eyes	Black
Skin	Green
Origin
Universe	Earth-One
Creators	Robert Kanigher · Ross Andru
First Appearance	Wonder Woman #169 (April, 1967)
Last Appearance	Wonder Woman #244 (June, 1978)

The Crimson Centipede was created by the god of war Mars to destroy Wonder Woman.

History

Having been created by the god of war himself in defiance of the goddess Aphrodite, the bizarre creature with a myriad of limbs was endowed with powers that made him a match for the Amazon Princess — she herself admitted that the Crimson Centipede was the mightiest threat she had ever faced so far.

Unable to be stopped by Washington police, the Centipede distributed the money from his bank robberies among criminals in the underworld, and thus spread a wave of crime and injustice, as desired by Mars.

Diana was defeated in the first two encounters between the two, but in their third and final battle, after much effort the Centipede managed to overthrow Diana and took the opportunity to remove her Bracelets of Submission in order to leave her without protection against the next volley of bullets he would fire at her. But the Crimson Centipede did not know that, by taking her bracelets off, he would unleash all the mighty Amazon's powers.

Now out of control of her own strength, Diana managed to defeat the Crimson Centipede, but her menacing fury could only be contained when Steve Trevor was able to put her bracelets back on her.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

• Divine Empowerment
  • Superhuman Agility
  • Superhuman Speed
  • Superhuman Strength

Abilities

• Hand-to-Hand Combat (Basic)
• Firearms
• Thievery
  

Paraphernalia

Weapons

• Guns

Notes

• This version of Crimson Centipede, including all history and corresponding appearances, was erased from existence following the collapse of the original Multiverse in the 1985–86 Crisis on Infinite Earths event and later restored following the rebirth of the infinite Multiverse during the Dark Crisis of 2022-2023. Even though other versions of the character may have appeared, this information does not apply to those versions.

Related

• 3 Appearances of Crimson Centipede (Earth-One)
• 1 Images featuring Crimson Centipede (Earth-One)
• Quotations by or about Crimson Centipede (Earth-One)
• Character Gallery: Crimson Centipede (Earth-One)

External Links

• Crimson Centipede at Wikipedia.org

Footnotes

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