supervillainess
English
editEtymology
editFrom supervillain + -ess or super- + villainess.
Noun
editsupervillainess (plural supervillainesses)
- A female supervillain.
- 1987, Shirley Rogers Radl, Mother's Day is Over:
- On the everlasting As the World Turns, Lisa was another kind of person, a sort of supervillainess of the soaps. Yet she was always saved from damnation...
- 1996, Trina Robbins, The Great Women Superheroes:
- Disappointingly, Valkyrie turns out really to be the Enchantress, a supervillainess whose intention is the destruction of both sexes.
- 2005, Lois H Gresh, Robert E Weinberg, The Science of Supervillains:
- Created by DC Comics and featured in Batman, supervillainess Poison Ivy is a potent femme fatale.