5 Favorite DC Villainesses / Female Adversaries?

[MajorHoy]

Bad girls
Talking about the sad girls
Sad girls
Talking about bad girls, yeah

We have a thread for naming your five favorite DC characters, but that one seems a bit heavy with the goody-two-shoes types.

Let's be a bit naughty now . . . who are your five favorite DC villainesses / female adversaries? (They don't have to be stone-cold evil, but they should at least be those who create problems for our heroes in some way.)

Please make sure to specify which one you mean if the pre-CoIE version may differ from the post-CoIE version or from the post-Flashpoint version. Also, has more than one lady used an alias that you name? (For example, there have been a few people to go by the name Cheetah, such as Priscilla Rich, Deborah Domaine, and Barbara Minerva.)

[Lee Stone]

Catwoman (pretty much any version)
Queen Bee (the JLI/JLE version)
Cheshire
Poison Ivy
Phobia

[Confuzzled]

Poison Ivy
Catwoman
Granny Goodness
Circe
Junior (Secret Six)

[Avi]

1. Catwoman (Selina Kyle): Golden Age & post-CoIE, New52/especially Valentine's)
2. Talia Al-Ghul: Any version but Morrison's
3. Cheetah (Barbara Minerva): post-CoIE
4. Lady Shiva (Sandra Wu-San): post-CoIE
5. Queen Bee: YJ-Version/Earth 16

[protege]

In no particular order'
1) Circe
2) Killer Frost
3) Cheetah
4) Queen bee
5)Poison Ivy

[mathew101281]

Circe
Killer Frost
Ivy
Lady Shiva
The female Furies(as a group)

Honorable mention
Catwoman: would have been on the list in years past but isn't much of a villian anymore.
Star sapphire: same situation as Catwoman.

Come to think about it DC seems to always defang their villainesses when they get popular (see Harley Quinn)

[Herowatcher]

Before the New 52 /DC You

1. Cheetah
2. Chesire
3. Killer Frost
4. Circe
5. Doctor Cyber (underused IMHO)

Note: Yeah...Catwoman (#1) has felt like an anti-hero for a long time now.

[Robotman]

1. Harley Quinn (she's basically a hero now but started as a villain so I'm including her)
2. Strife
3. Lashina
4. Faora
5. tie between Poison Ivy and Talia

[vartox]

Circe
Cheetah
Granny Goodness
Killer Frost
Poison Ivy

[SiegePerilous02]

Cheetah (Barbara Minerva and Priscilla Rich kind of flip flop between being my favorite)
Catwoman
Poison Ivy
Harley Quinn
Blackfire

[poroto678]

ok. No particular order.

1. Circe
2. Stryfe
3. Agent Zero (Grayson)
4. Talia Al Ghul (only Morrison's)
5. Lady Shiva (only in Cassie Cain's Batgirl)

[Hawkman]

1. Satanna the Tiger Girl
2. Roulette
3. Tigress (Artemis Crock)
4. Lashina
5. Hummingbird

[John Venus]

I believe the ones in the second scan reappeared in Alan Grant's Shadow of the Bat Annual 3 'Poison Ivy Year One' where they were background singers at a club Bruce was attending. They had a grand total of one page appearance.

Anyway, favorites villainess's in no particular order:

1) Poison Ivy

2) Catwoman

3) Talia

4) Cheshire

5) Lady Shiva

Honorable mention: Cheetah (Barbara Minerva), Giganta, Blackfire, Granny Goodness and the Female Furies (especially Lashina).

[Doctor Know]

1. Granny Goodness

2. Blackfire

3. Faora-Ul (Ursa has been ruined forever for me since War of the Supermen and Last Son)

4. Talia al Ghul

5. Circe


Honorable mentions: Emerald Empress, Inque (Batman Beyond), Tara Markov, the Sirens of Gotham: Ivy, Harley and Selina (they've walked the line of hero for several years now), Silver Banshee, Lady Shiva, Giganta, Killer Frost, Volcana, Live Wire

[MajorHoy]

[COLOR="#B22222"]I believe the ones in the second scan reappeared in Alan Grant's Shadow of the Bat Annual 3 'Poison Ivy Year One' where they were background singers at a club Bruce was attending. They had a grand total of one page appearance.

I didn't read PI:Y1, but they became more prominent in Grant Morrison's run on Batman.