Giganta

Giganta (Real name Doris Zuel) is a powerful DC Comics supervillainess with the ability to grow into a towering, incredibly strong giantess. She has appeared in comics and in TV adaptations. Her origin and powers have varied in different versions.

The original version of Giganta was a foe of the Golden Age Wonder Woman, first appearing in Wonder Woman Vol. 1 #9 where the ape Giganta is artificially evolved into a large red-headed human woman by Professor Zool. After some complicated adventures she is eventually subdued by Wonder Woman and taken to Paradise Island for rehabilitation. It is there that she joins a rebellion of prisoners in issue #28 who call themselves Villainy Inc.

Giganta is not seen again until issue #163 where her origin is revamped to include Doctor Psycho and she becomes even larger (though not yet a giant) and blonde.

Modern Age

In the current DC universe, Dr. Zuel first appeared in Wonder Woman (vol 2) #127 (Nov 1997), during a period when Wonder Woman was in a coma, and being kept at the experimental medical facility where Dr Zuel worked. Suffering from a fatal blood disease, she planned, much like her pre-Crisis self, to transfer her life-essence into the Amazon’s body. They were discovered by the second Wonder Girl halfway through the experiment, and both women were declared dead. Subsequently her assistant, Branson, discovered Zuel’s essence had been stored in the transference machine’s buffer module, and put her in the body of one of the test animals, a gorilla named Giganta.

Desperate to return her mind to a human body, Zuel/Giganta abducted a comatose, beautiful red-haired ‘strong woman’ named Olga from a traveling circus. She apparently succeeded in transferring her mind into Olga’s body, and most likely, Olga’s mind into the body of the gorilla (although the fate of Olga, the gorilla, and Zuel’s original body have never been revealed).

Giganta now possesses the ability to grow to gigantic size, like the animated Superfriends version. The origin of this new form and powers was not revealed in vol. 2 of Wonder Woman, but according to issue #1 of vol. 3 Olga already possessed this power when Zuel stole her body. It was further noted in issue #2 that Dr. Zuel formerly lost much of her intellect as she grew in size (becoming more brutish and prone to violence), but currently seems to have transcended that limitation and retains her full intelligence at any size.

Originally Posted by Kain Darkwind of the Dicefreaks forums.

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Giganta
Medium Giant (Augmented Human)
Wounds	19 WP, 157 VP (15d10+90)
Initiative	+3
Speed	30 ft.
AC	11 (+1 Dexterity) touch 11, flat footed 11
Base Attack/Grapple	+11/+20
Attack	Slam +17 melee (1d8 + 7)
Full Attack	Overwhelming blow +17 melee (2d8 + 14)
Space/Reach	5 ft. /5 ft.
Special Attacks	Improved grab, overwhelming blow, sweeping blow
Special Qualities	Alter size, powerful build
Saves	Fort +13, Ref +8, Will +4
Abilities	Strength 20, Dexterity 12, Constitution 19, Intelligence 17, Wisdom 9, Charisma 15
Skills	Climb +23, Jump +23, Knowledge (earth and life science) +21, Listen +8, Research +21, Spot +8, Swim +23
Feats	Awesome Blow, Great Fortitude, Improved Grapple, Large and in Charge, Power Attack, Trample, Weapon Focus (slam)
Climate/Terrain	USA
Organization	Solitary (unique)
Challenge Rating	13
Treasure	None
Alignment	Chaotic Neutral

Alter Size Giganta can increase her size as a standard action, taking any size between Medium and Titanic.

Each size catgegory larger than Medium grants Giganta a +10 enhancement bonus to Strength and a +5 enhancement to Constitution, as well as increasing her slam damage. The Constitution increase grants Giganta an additional 37 vitality points per size category above Medium. Giganta gains a natural armor bonus of +1 per size category larger than Medium, as well as damage reduction 1/-.

• Large Slam +21 melee (2d6 + 15), 24 WP
• Huge Slam +25 melee (3d6 + 22), 58 WP
• Gargantuan Slam +28 melee (4d6 + 30), 136 WP
• Colossal Slam +29 melee (6d6 + 37), 312 WP
• Titanic Slam +27 melee (8d6 + 45), 704 WP