MisterDinoMan: True, maybe everytime that Lois and Jack Lane are in the same room, introductions would include “Definitely no relation.”
Character Contest 36: Superman Villain
Final entry: Danse Macabre. One of my favorite designs and stories. I am including my Superman villain backstory from the contest. However, I intend to re-visit her origin and powers to include her into my meta-verse.
Danse Macabre
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Alessandra Popovich grew up in Moscow. She was always different from the other children, especially her ears and purple eyes. Teased and ostracized by the other children, Alessandra’s parents enrolled her in an exclusive Russian ballet school. She thought her parents were strict. The teachers were perfectionists.
She proved to be a quick learner with amazing balance and grace. While attempting an impossible aerial, Alessandra discovered that she could fly! She was afraid of what her parents would think, but she told them anyway. Her parents were not shocked at all. In fact, they were most pleased.
Alessandra is a genetically-engineered hybrid. Her father Boris is a renowned astrophysicist; her mother Ivanova is a disgraced genetic engineer. It was the creation of Alessandra that caused the international scientific community to ban her research.
Boris and Ivanova are also hard-core Communists longing for the return of the Soviet Union. Boris knows in order to bring about Russian world domination, he would have to defeat Superman. He was able to come in contact with Darkseid.
Darkseid agreed to help the Popoviches. He provided them with alien DNA collected from an undisclosed planet that had a red sun. The result of the gene-splicing was Alessandra.
Alessandra is Danse Macabre. Like Superman, her powers derive from earth’s yellow sun. She can fly, has super-strength, near invulnerability, ultra-sonic hearing, and super-breath. Though her human DNA makes her slightly less powerful than Superman. She does not have his heat vision. Instead, her vision simulates the light energy of a red sun. Which she uses to weaken the Son of Krypton. And, like Superman, she is vulnerable to Kryptonite.
