Giganta

Villainy Inc.

## **History**

### **Doris Zeul: 1995 - 2010**

Doris is the daughter of Francis and Beatrice Zuel, both veterinarians that emigrated from Vlatava in the early ’90s. At a young age, it became apparent that their daughter was a genius prodigy possessed by a peculiar mind and strong antisocial tendencies. Doris was prone to abnormal behavior, a morbid sense of humor, and acting out with little provocation. Her parents did eventually find an outlet for her strange forms of expression through animal therapy. The results were so promising that her parents decided to buy a small zoo, hoping that constant exposure to animals would further help their daughter… and it did, for the most part.

Doris’s life became more complicated when she was diagnosed with a rare blood disease. Doctors estimated she would be dead before she reached thirty. Though her parents took this news so hard that it eventually caused the two to get divorced, Doris seemed apathetic about her own short lifespan and continued to live her life as she had before. When Doris became symptomatic and grew weak, she put more focus on her academic studies and put in less time caring for the animals, though she insists son having daily visits with the zoo’s gorilla.

By the time Doris was a teenager, she was afforded a special scholarship to attend the special adolescent genius program at Ivy University. Specializing in anatomy, biology, zoology, and other biological sciences, Doris quickly became one of Ivy University’s treasured students, despite her awkward personality preventing her from being used to promote the program.

For whatever reason, Doris became infatuated with another participant in the program: Ryan Choi, and began to stalk him (I’m talking like borderline obsessive behavior here). Turns out that Ryan was just being too nice a guy to say something (or Doris was too unstable to get the message if he did) and Doris’ pursuits went on for months until her hounding got the best of Ryan and he blabbed the big secret that their professor, Ray Palmer, was The Atom. To keep Doris quiet, Ryan had to fork over dinner, a movie, and a tour of the Atom’s disappointing lair.

### **Giganta: 2010 - Present**

In 2010, when Ray Palmer’s Bio-Belt malfunctioned, young geniuses Doris Zeul and Ryan Choi attempted to repair the belt. During their attempt, the Bio-Belt sent out a shockwave that soaked the genes of Doris, Ryan, and Ray. The energy may have given Ray and Ryan the innate abilities to alter their size anywhere from microscopic to their normal size; it had an entirely different effect on Doris.

When first exposed to the energy, Doris grew several hundred feet tall, destroying her clothes and much of the Ivy University campus in her bewildered, gigantic form. Doris would then later discover she had the ability to reduce her size back to her original form, but also found that her original form had been altered. No longer was Doris a sickly, frail girl of unimpressive stature, she was a 6’6” tall girl with abs of steel and superstrength. Also, the childhood illness that had affected her for most of her youth was gone.

With a new rockin' bod and little reason to conceal it, Doris began to flaunt her goods with little regard for any concept of a secret identity. Doris discovered that there was no apparent limit to the size she could grow. Furthermore, growing had to affect her brain chemistry, causing Doris to feel more elation the bigger she grew; but that same euphoria would cause her to lose what little concept of morality or sanity she already had.

Seeing a need to correct this, Ryan Choi crafted a suit made with nanotechnology-based off the Martian bio-suits (that can be concealed as a leopard print belt when not in use). When worn, the suit did not only covered Doris’ naughty bits but could also grow up to three-hundred feet and stabilize the energy in her body dampening the effect on Doris’ brain. Armed with this suit, Doris decided to use her powers for bad (or at least to spend more time with Ryan) and took the name Giganta (which I heard she took from a gorilla at her parents’ zoo).

With her fellow student, Branson decided to use her powers to acquire the Atom Suit to increase.her powers. Finding out about this and unable to stop this Ray acquired help from The Justice League mainly Wonder Woman and her new protege Wonder Girl. An epic battle was fought between these two titanic women. Resulting in Wonder Woman winning and Giganta holding a grudge against her.

## **Personality**

Giganta is a cunning, deceptive, delusional, manipulative and ruthless person who hides her insanity behind a kindhearted and soft-spoken façade. Doris also displays characteristics of antisocial personality disorder, as she had no qualms or empathy in euthanizing Giganta has no problem killing people or selling them out. When Giganta was forcibly compelled to confess all of her fiendish doings, she expressed no regrets or remorse whatsoever. Giganta is rash, arrogant, and mostly relies on her strength to win fights. She has little compassion for others. She makes her own rules and is quick to anger when someone challenges her.

## **Powers, Abilities, and Weaknesses**

### **Powers**

**Metahuman Physiology:** Once a scrawny and frail girl with a weak immune system, Doris' power seems to have corrected this flaw, making her a 6'6" statuesque bombshell of a goddess with abs of steel and buns to match.

* **Personal Size Manipulation:** Doris has the ability to enhance the size and mass of her body to varying degrees. While her stable limit is around 300 feet tall and 5 tons, there is no known unstable limit to her powers. It is believed that she can "borrow" this extra mass from a pocket dimension, similar to how Ray Palmer and Ryan Choi can store their mass when shrinking. While she normally assumes larger sizes with her mass, they are not necessarily exclusively synchronized, As a result, Doris can draw in extra mass to inflate her muscles without increasing her vertical height and can grow to two dozen feet tall without altering her weight.
	+ **Strength Infinitum:** Without altering her size or mass, Doris is able to easily lift as much weight as enhanced persons such as Slade Wilson (ARGUS Class III: two to five tons (4,000 pounds US to 10,000 pounds US; 1,814.36 kilograms to 4,535.92 kilograms). When altering her mass, Doris can reached ARGUS Strength Classification levels as high as Class V or VI. At her stable maximum height, Doris can lift comparable weight to Kryptonians (Class VII and VIII).
	+ **Durability Infinitum:** Without altering her size or mass, Doris' skin is extremely dense and if she is tensed up, her skin with deflect blades wielded by non-enhanced persons and even some low-caliber bullets or arrowheads which are not straight-on direct shots. If Doris has enhanced her mass, she can become bulletproof to anything beyond the highest caliber rounds and can even shrug off some explosive forces (having once shielded the Team from a missile strike).
	+ **Speed Infinitum:** Though most people think that Doris is quite slow when in her enlarged state, that is completely false. She maintains her normal reflexes and due to the length of her stride, she can cover an incredible amount of ground in a short period of time. Doris does tend to move with more deliberation out of concern for the environment and the shorter people around her, which is likely where this myth of being a slow giant originated.