Fury (DC Comics)
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Fury was the codename of two DC Comics superheroines, who are mother and daughter.
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Pre-Crisis
Originally Fury was Hippolyta "Lyta" Trevor, the daughter of the Golden Age Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor; as a result of this lineage, Lyta had all her mother's powers. She was introduced in Wonder Woman (vol. 1) #300. Like all Golden Age related characters at the time, Lyta was stated to live on the parallel world of "Earth-Two".
Lyta later adopted the identity of the Fury, named after the Furies of mythology, and was one of the founding members of Infinity Inc., in the book of the same name written by Roy Thomas. She also began a relationship with her teammate Hector Hall, the Silver Scarab, who she had met as a child, and now shared classes with at UCLA, which led to their engagement. Shortly after their decision to marry, Hector was possessed by an enemy of his father, Hawkman, and killed. It turned out that Fury was pregnant with Hector's child, and it was instrumental in the Silver Scarab's defeat.
Post-Crisis
Helena Kosmatos
Following the 1985 miniseries Crisis on Infinite Earths, the Golden Age Wonder Woman retroactively no longer existed, although Lyta still did. Lyta was now the daughter of Helena Kosmatos, the Golden Age Fury (a Greek superheroine and member of the All-Star Squadron) and had been raised by Joan Trevor (nee Dale), the Quality Comics superheroine Miss America and her husband, Derek. Lyta was also visited on a yearly basis by the time travelling Hippolyta who trained Lyta and even brought her to Themyscira on occasion. Apart from this, her history was relatively unchanged.
Image:HelenaKosmatos.jpg Helena (a new character created to replace the Golden Age Wonder Woman as Lyta's biological mother) began appearing in Thomas' Young All-Stars, a book set in World War II, and her backstory was revealed in an issue of Secret Origins. She was a Greek national who had learned her brother was co-operating with Italian Fascists. Tisiphone, one of the Eumenides or Furies, gave her a suit of magic armor, which increased her strength, speed and stamina. When angered, she became an avatar of Tisiphone, and in this state she killed her brother. This made her a highly unpredictable heroine. She was later briefly released from this possession, and retained the other powers, but as seen in Infinite Crisis #2, she is once again acting as Tisiphone's avatar.
At one point the Amazon Queen Hippolyta took over the role of Wonder Woman and traveled back in time to aid the JSA against the nazis. During this time Helena began to look to Hippolyta as a mother figure and began a strange fixation that she was indeed the daughter of the Amazon Queen, despite the knowledge that her true parents were killed in the war. When Queen Hippolyta returned to her own time Helena's fixation began to get more and more bizarre. She sought out a magical means to gain eternal youth in order to be with Queen Hippolyta in the future. After this was done she met Hippolyta's true daughter Diana and took an immidiate disliking to her. By this point Helena's mental state was near collapse as she began to act on irrational thoughts. Not wanting her to be on her own in the world, Diana took her to Themyscira to be placed in Queen Hippolyta's care. Helena liked this arrangement very much and stayed on the island as an honorary Amazon. And though they are not physically related, Hippolyta began to refer to Helena as a daughter in order to help her sort out her fragile psyche. After Hippolyta's death during the Our Worlds At War saga, Helena went into mourning and much of her mental imbalance went away. Still a resident of Themyscira, she served the island's present rulers Artemis and Phillipus as a trusted aide.
Recently, OMACs had engaged the Amazons of Themyscira in battle, resulting in a conflict which saw no end until Wonder Woman asked the Gods to relocate Themyscira to another plane of existence along with all of her sisters, leaving her to face the OMACs alone. This meant Helena Kosmatos left along with all the Amazons. In addition, Infinite Crisis writer Geoff Johns stated in an interview with Wizard magazine that all characters introduced post-Crisis were characters which would've resided on Earth-Eight. This would include the Golden Age Fury.
Lyta Trevor-Hall
For a while, Lyta continued to serve with Infinity, Inc., but eventually left the team, to go home and bear her child. Once she had returned home, Lyta was visited by a mysterious costumed figure at night. This turned out to be Hector, who, after his death, had been chosen as the Guardian of Dreams, the Sandman. Hector and Lyta got married and she joined him in the Dream Dimension, together with his sidekicks Brute and Glob.
In Neil Gaiman's The Sandman, it was revealed that the Dream Dimension was a pocket of the Dreaming that Brute and Glob had shut off during Morpheus' imprisonment, intending to create their own King of Dreams. Upon Morpheus' return, Hector's soul was released and Lyta was sent back to Earth where she gave birth to their son, Daniel. After this incident, Lyta hated Morpheus and blamed him for her husband's death (although he was already dead to begin with). Morpheus visited the child and informed Lyta that he was destined to be in the Dreaming. When Daniel later mysteriously disappeared, Lyta lost her mind and sought to destroy Morpheus, aided by the mythical Furies. Ironically, it was this that began the chain of events which lead to Daniel becoming the new Lord of the Dreaming.
Showing up at the the Wake held for Morpheus, Lyta was still very much mentally unhinged. She eventually met her son in his new role, and although normally, Dream would've enacted some kind of revenge, he instead gave her his protection. Lyta was returned to the waking world, her experiences having changed her.
Lyta's story continued in the graphic novel Sandman Presents: The Furies. Following this she appeared in JSA where she was reunited with Hector, now reincarnated as Doctor Fate. Evidently at some point between the graphic novel and her return in JSA, the evil wizard Mordru had captured Lyta and imprisoned her in Dr. Fate's amulet. Once freed, she rejoined her husband and later regained her true memories about their son Daniel.
During the Spectre's quest to destroy magic throughout the DC Universe, he banished Doctor Fate and Lyta to a freezing mountain, later identified as part of hell. In JSA #80, Lyta recalls being visited by her son Daniel in a dream, where he offers to bring Lyta and Hector to the Dreaming for all eternity, but they can never return to Earth. Seeing that Hector is unconscious and near-dying, Lyta takes Daniel up on his offer. Daniel appears through a mystic doorway, and Lyta carries the unconscious Hector through it. In the next panel we see the bodies of both Lyta and Hector, unconscious in the snow, presumably dead, signifying that their spirits are now in the Dreaming. Template:Endspoiler
Other media
A character loosely based on the Fury appears as a villainess named Aresia in the Justice League animated series.