Doctor Sivana
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Doctor Thaddeus Bodog Sivana is a fictional comic book supervillain. Created by Bill Parker and C.C. Beck, he first appeared opposite superhero Captain Marvel in Whiz Comics #2 (February 1940) by Fawcett Comics. Sivana was soon established as Captain Marvel's archenemy and most frequent foe, a role that he continues to hold to this day in his appearances in DC Comics, who eventually acquired the rights to those characters from Fawcett.
Character history
Sivana is a short, bald, self-described "mad scientist" with a penchant for developing unusual technologies, and who often plots to do away with Captain Marvel and his Marvel Family, but is often thwarted in his plans. His trademark phrases are "Curses! Foiled again!" and his mocking laughter "Heh! Heh! Heh!" He also coined the insulting name "Big Red Cheese" to refer to Captain Marvel, a name which the Captain's friends have adopted to light-heartedly tease him with.Originally, Sivana had four children: good-natured adult offspring Beautia and Magnificus, and evil teenagers Georgia and Thaddeus, Jr. (aka Sivana, Jr.) Sivana, Sivana, Jr., and Georgia constitued the supervillain group The Sivana Family, the evil counterpoint to the Marvel Family. Magnificus and Beautia, however, were not enemies to the Marvels; in fact, Beautia has an unrequited crush on Captain Marvel (who she does not realize is really an adolescent boy, Billy Batson). In post-Crisis DC Universe continuty, Magnificus and Beautia are Sivana's only children, and Georgia and Sivana, Jr. have been retconned out of existence. In addition, the post-Crisis Sivana has been established as the former CEO of Sivana Industries. Sivana was a powerful and influential tycoon whose corruption and crossing of Captain Marvel led to his own destruction and his intense hatred of the Marvel Family.
In Outsiders #13 -15 (August-October 2004), Sivana became the leader of the supervillain group The Fearsome Five. He freed surviving members Gizmo, Mammoth, Psimon and Jinx from prison, and used his genius to reconstitute Shimmer, who had been turned into glass and shattered by Psimon. The evil scientist appears briefly in DC's Infinite Crisis and 52 miniseries. In the latter, he is one of several "mad scientists" kidnapped by an unidentified party. Sivana also recently appeared along with Lex Luthor in the four-issue 2005 limited series Superman/Shazam: First Thunder by Judd Winick and Joshua Middleton, which depicts the historic first meeting between those two superheroes.
Other media
Doctor Sivana first appeared outside of comics in live-action, as a villain in Legends of the Superheroes (1979), played by Howard Morris. He later appeared as a regular villain in the 1981 Shazam! Saturday morning cartoon, aired as one-half of The Kid Superpower Hour with Shazam! Sivana does not appear in any other animated form, although he appears as a villain in issue 15 of the Justice League Unlimited comic book.External link
- [Doctor Sivana's "Who's Who" file] at The Marvel Family Web
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