Gamemnae
| Gamemnae | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | JLA #69 (September 2002) |
| Created by |
Joe Kelly Doug Mahnke |
| In-story information | |
| Team affiliations | The Ancients |
| Abilities | Powerful magic wielder |
Gamemnae is a fictional character in the DC Comics Universe, who was an enemy of the Justice League.
Born over three thousand years ago, Gamemnae was an Atlantean, exiled at birth for having blonde hair - considered a curse in Atlantean culture. Surviving her exile, Gamemnae went on to learn powerful magics, which she later used to not only raise Atlantis from the seas, but turn the entire population into air-breathers as opposed to the water-breathing race they had been for centuries. Convinced that it was her destiny to lead the people of Atlantis in conquest of the world, Gamemnae soon established herself as ruler of her people, gradually learning further spells to increase her power.
However, Gamemnae learned that all her efforts would be for nothing when Aquaman and the Atlanteans of the twenty-first century were banished back to the past by Tempest's desperate attempt to save the city from an Imperiex probe during the Our Worlds at War storyline. Outraged to learn that Atlantis would become a race of water-breathers once again in the future, she seduced Aquaman and tricked him into drinking a potion that turned him into a water spirit, subsequently confining him in a pool of water in the middle of Atlantis while his people were forced to work as slave labor underwater, building foundations to keep Atlantis above the water.
Having read Aquaman's mind, Gamemnae knew of the Justice League that existed in the future, and also knew that they would inevitably seek to rescue their fallen comrade. Determined to defeat them, Gamemnae created her own 'League of Ancients', consisting of various people in the world who might become a threat to Atlantis in the future. This League's members included:
With this 'League of Ancients' behind her, Gamemnae fed false visions of the future to Rama Khan, causing him to believe that he had foreseen a future where Earth would be threatened by a seven-headed hydra destroyer — the remaining members of the Justice League — and that a team would have to be assembled to defeat the threat posed by this destroyer. When the Justice League eventually arrived in the past to rescue Aquaman and the Atlanteans, the Ancients managed to prevail over the League — their willingness to kill granting them a significant advantage — but Manitou Raven, having witnessed Green Lantern turn from the fight to save innocent Atlanteans, as well as 'testing' Batman with his tomahawk that could not pierce the skin of a good man, realized that the League were genuinely good people and confronted Gamemnae with the truth of her betrayal. Learning that Gamemnae had used a quagmire spell to absorb the other members of the League, thus adding to her power, Manitou used the souls of the deceased Leaguers — the spell reinforced by Kyle's willingly-sacrificed heart — to create a spell of containment that would trap Gamemnae in Atlantis until, paradoxically, his past self broke it by traveling back to the past following a trip to the future.
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