Lya

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caption = Wonder Woman enslaved by Lya.
character_name = Lya
publisher = DC Comics
debut = "Comic Cavalcade" #26 (April-May 1948)
creators = William Moulton Marston (script)
Harry G. Peter (art)
homeworld = Mars
alliances = Children of Ares, Olympian Gods
powers = Master of lies
Immortality
Paralyzing ray gun

Lya is a fictional DC Comics villainous goddess who battled Wonder Woman in the Golden Age.

Character history

Lya, goddess of lies, is the daughter of the Duke of Deception and a granddaughter of Ares, God of War.

When Deception used his wiles to induce an army of Martian slave girls to make him their king, he asked his daughter Lya to further the deceit and consolidate his power over the slave girls. Lya pulled a double-cross and lied to the slave girl army, encouraging them to revolt. When the slaves had Deception bound in a spacecraft headed for a crash landing on Earth, Deception turned the tables on them and trapped Lya and some of her slaves on the craft.

When the craft entered Earth space, Lya triggered a false distress call to lure Wonder Woman into a trap. Capturing Wonder Woman in her own magic lasso, Lya ordered her to tunnel into a hidden world shielded by diamond in the center of the earth, which she planned to use as a hidden base for launching an assault on Mars.

Using some of her father's ectoplasmic clay, Lya fashioned a body for herself that allowed her to impersonate Wonder Woman. Lya tried to deceive American military leaders into releasing secret weapons to her, but her ruse failed. When she attempted to force the secrets from the leaders on pain of death, Wonder Woman managed to break free and capture Lya and her girls, whom she sent to Transformation Island.

Powers and abilities

Like her father, Lya could sculpt ectoplasmic clay into forms for her to inhabit. She was also a master of lies, deceiving even the god of deception himself.

See also

*List of Wonder Woman villains