Doctor Psycho is a fictional character appearing in DC Comics publications and related media, commonly as a recurring adversary of the superhero Wonder Woman.
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37 Facts About Doctor Psycho
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Doctor Psycho made his animation debut as a regular in Harley Quinn, with his voice provided by actor and comedian Tony Hale.
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Character of Doctor Psycho was created by William Moulton Marston, creator of Wonder Woman and author of her original adventures, as an allegory of the folly of abnormal emotions such as misogyny and other hatreds, as well as to be another embodiment of what he called "less actively developed men" who needed emotional reform by a love leader.
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Doctor Psycho was one of several villains created for Wonder Woman who were occultists, beguiling the masses for their own self-enriching purposes.
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Deception called upon Doctor Psycho to set about eliminating women from the war effort.
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Doctor Psycho, known as Cyril Psycho was revealed in flashback to have been a medical student who was frequently humiliated by his peers.
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Doctor Psycho discovered that his fiancee Marva Jane Gray was in love with college athletic champion Ben Bradley.
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Doctor Psycho then kidnapped and tortured Marva, hypnotically compelling her to marry him, and then subjecting her to daily occult experiments.
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Doctor Psycho disguised himself as Colonel Darnell of Military Intelligence to frame female staff of military intelligence for espionage.
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Doctor Psycho was eventually imprisoned but escaped by faking his own death, kidnapping Marva and then his former secretary, Joan White, to use as mediums for his ectoplasmic power.
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Doctor Psycho attempted to court Etta Candy in a disguise, but his cover was blown by Etta's suitor Oscar Sweetgulper and he was returned to prison.
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Doctor Psycho eventually realized that he could use Steve Trevor as a medium.
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Post-Crisis Dr Doctor Psycho is introduced as Edgar Cizko, a telepath with the ability to enter and sometimes shape other people's dreams.
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Doctor Psycho was enlisted by Circe to create disturbing dreams for Wonder Woman's close friend, Vanessa Kapatelis, with the result that Wonder Woman would be forced to separate herself from her closest allies.
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Doctor Psycho later helps warp Kapatelis' damaged psyche to turn her into the new Silver Swan.
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Dr Doctor Psycho's plans are foiled and he subsequently spends some time as a patient in a mental facility, confined to a padded room and a straitjacket.
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Doctor Psycho spends time working with Deathstroke in order to capture one of the Marvel Family.
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Doctor Psycho takes control of Doomsday, and uses him to spearhead a supervillain assault on Metropolis.
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One Year Later, Doctor Psycho is arrested and put on trial with Kate Spencer as his defense attorney.
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Doctor Psycho uses his telepathy to hold the people in the courtroom hostage.
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Doctor Psycho then makes Kate put on her suit, but drops his guard to sneak a kiss with her, resulting in him being stabbed in the stomach and head.
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Doctor Psycho has lately been shown still in a position of authority with the Society in the Secret Six miniseries.
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Doctor Psycho has been working with former enemy Cheshire for Vandal Savage and hiring various villains to put out hits on other Secret Six members.
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Doctor Psycho resurfaced with his powers restored and amplified by Circe in the Wonder Woman series beginning in 2006.
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Later during the "Trinity War" storyline, Question gives Superman a newspaper clipping stating that Doctor Psycho was sighted in Khandaq the day when Doctor Light was killed.
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Doctor Psycho later appeared as a member of the Cabal alongside Per Degaton, Queen Bee, Amazo, and Hugo Strange.
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Later, Doctor Psycho was one of several powerful psychics kidnapped by Amanda Waller to hack into Brainiac's mind.
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Doctor Psycho is a skilled occultist, and uses psionic powers to traumatize and terrify those who stand in his way.
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Doctor Psycho used his victims to draw ectoplasm into the physical world, which he shaped into various beings and disguises.
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Doctor Psycho can overcome this weakness by siphoning mental energies from other individuals with psionic powers such as Superboy.
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Doctor Psycho appears in the second story from Wonder Woman '77, a series based on the Wonder Woman TV series, though he did not have any appearances in that television series.
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Doctor Psycho appears as a primary antagonist in the second volume of Wonder Woman: Earth One by writer Grant Morrison and artist Yanick Paquette.
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Doctor Psycho appears in the tie-in comics of Justice League: Gods and Monsters under the identity of Dr Jackson Alpert, who's working for a CIA project called MKUltra, where they used psychotropic drugs to experiment on human beings without their knowledge or permission, all because they wanted to control people, but Alpert wanted to set them free, bring them to the next level of evolution.
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Doctor Psycho was the one who created the Forever People, claiming to be the result of his efforts to develop humanity and lead them to a new world of peace and order, devoting to wipe out disease, poverty and war.
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Doctor Psycho was defeated and Bekka killed the evil doctor with her sword.
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Doctor Psycho appears in Dr Psycho's Circus of Crime, by Paul Kupperberg and published by Capstone as part of their DC Super Heroes line of illustrated children's books.
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