Awesome New Female Characters: Delphyn Gorgon

[budige_at_home]

Created in the recent run of the Incredible Hercules, Delphyne Gorgon and her scrunchie of death.




Four scans from The Heroic Age Prince of Power 3 after the cut.

















Cold Blooded. Awesome. Snake hair that steals guns. Awesome.

Comments

[ravenous_raven]

Before Delphyne's human form was revealed, did anyone else think that she would be an African-American girl with dreads?

Also, how are people not turning to stone when they make eye contact with her?

[neuhallidae]

Marvel canon goes with the version of the myth that of the three, only Medusa could turn humans to stone, and she's not of Medusa's bloodline. The only reason she was able to temporarily turn Athena to stone was because she was wearing a helmet made from Athena's shield, granting her Medusa's powers.

[ravenous_raven]

But I thought the 2 other Gorgons were her sisters? And I heard that her sisters had the same curse too...

[neuhallidae]

Depends which version you're reading. They're always referred to as sisters, but either they were all gorgons to begin with, all had snakes for hair, all could turn to stone, or the other two were gorgons to begin with and Medusa was a human cursed by Athena who was adopted by the other two, was the only one of the three who wasn't immortal, was the only one who could turn people into stone, or they were all three gorgons to begin with and Medusa was merely cursed to have snakes for hair (the other two didn't) and all three could turn people to stone, and so on and so forth. To my memory, there's at least four different versions.

cf. Fontenrose....

[kosaginolegion]

There's also the version where Delphyne refers to one of the female serpents who lived near Delphi. Killed by Apollo, like the Python, for causing various problems. (Or because he wanted her cave, take your choice.)

It's a very very confused myth.