Hypnota

Hypnota (also sometimes Hypnotic Woman) is a fictional character appearing in DC Comics publications and related media, commonly as a recurring adversary of the superhero Wonder Woman. Created by writer William Moulton Marston and artist Harry G. Peter, the character debuted in 1944 in Wonder Woman #11 as a stage magician and human trafficker with powerful superhuman mind-control abilities. The gender presentation of her stage persona, Hypnota the Great, was that of an ostensibly male figure in Orientalized Middle-Eastern costume, complete with a false mustache and goatee. Though initially disguising her gender to deflect criminal suspicion (a genderplay trope Marston incorporated into several other foes he created to battle Wonder Woman, including Doctor Poison and the Blue Snowman), Hypnota made subsequent Golden Age appearances in her masculine stage garb; even after her supposedly "true" gender identity was revealed, she chose to present as a man – a move that might be understood in the 21st century as genderqueer. The Modern Age Hypnota has abandoned her false facial hair and is now depicted as a cisgender woman, albeit one who wears a somewhat masculine costume similar to her Golden Age look: a closed-front vest, salwar and a man's turban.

Hypnota
Hypnota/Hypnotic Woman in Suicide Squad (volume 7) #4, June 2021; illustration by Eduardo Pansica, inks by Julio Ferreira and colors by Marcelo Maiolo.
Publication information
PublisherDC Comics
First appearanceWonder Woman #11 (Winter 1944)
Created byWilliam Moulton Marston
Harry G. Peter
In-story information
Team affiliationsVillainy Inc.
Notable aliasesHypnota the Great
The Hypnotic Woman
AbilitiesMind control via hypnosis
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