Doctor Psycho

Few villains in DC's Modern Age carry quite the unsettling menace of Doctor Psycho, unleashed upon readers in 2003 by the acclaimed creative team of Greg Rucka and Drew Johnson in the pages of Wonder Woman. This is a character built for darkness, haunting some of DC's most consequential storylines — from the pages of Wonder Woman itself to the universe-shaking Villains United and Infinite Crisis — sharing those turbulent adventures with the likes of Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, and Firestorm. Nearly two decades of appearances confirm that Doctor Psycho is no throwaway antagonist but a persistent, malevolent presence woven into the fabric of DC villainy. If you're tracing the modern era's most compelling dark corners of the DC Universe, this is absolutely a character worth hunting down.