Originally posted by vansonbee
You sure the Cheetah carnation was a Goddess? I thought it was demon in origin. Seem you know alot about this character, can you direct me few comic titles to follow. Mostly that Goddess and Superman confrontation parts.
Superman confrontation, done by BoyCheetah:
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Aftermath
Basic story: This tribe had a history of human sacrifices (so while we're talking deity, we're talking dark deity, demon isn't *too* far off but at the same time, think more 'deadly like a predator in the jungle hunting prey' not 'corrupting evil'😉, to a plant god and his mate, the Cheetah, who'd protect the tribe.
Barbara Minerva (an anthropologist/explorer. Sorta like a redheaded ruthless Laura Croft, speaks a dozen language, genius) figured out how to gain the Cheetah's power via ritual with the help of the last survivor of the tribe. Interestingly she wasn't exactly evil herself so much as ruthless, willing to use human sacrifice but she viewed herself as doing Diana's dirty work but basically on the same side, with true antagonism coming later and sliding further to the dark side.
Barbara's had it ever since, save for a brief period where a guy named Sebastian hijacked it with some outside aid (I think Dr. Psycho), he was the one who fought Superman (at the behast of Circe, other WW foe and goddess of magic), and Barbara briefly got the power of another god (god of vengeance) to try and steal it back (which was pretty cool. I think it says something that she got the power of a god *just to get the Cheetahpower back*), and eventually sacrificing him to the plant god, resulting in the return of her powers.
Cheetah pretty much shows up just in Wonder Woman, Justice League, and the odd other one. Of recent titles... there's some great fights during the WW Rucka run when there's a crossover with Flash in the "Land of the Dead" TPB. Justice League America's "Injustice League" arc has her as one of the three villain commanders. Secret Six has her in the "Six Degrees of Devastation" TPB where she shows up as some very overpowered muscle who scares the heck out of the Six. Oh, and the Gail Simone Wonder Woman run has her in the "Rise of the Olympians" arc mostly in a mastermind's role due to her being a genius and all.
Most of her origin stuff is waaay back in the Perez run right after CoIE, which is I think in trades but I don't really have. I'm not sure if the BoyCheetah stuff is in trade, that's a bit latter. Modern writers haven't done as many Cheetah-centric stories and there hasn't really been one to focus on the god aspect since the BoyCheetah thing