#Valerie Beaudry

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the girlsss

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Wonder Woman and her Rogues Gallery By A.K.A Chime

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The many origins of Silver Swan

3 Silver Swans - 4 origins: 1.  Helen Alexandros: Wonder Woman #288 (February 1982)

2. Valerie Beaudry: Wonder Woman (vol. 2) #15 (March 1988)

3. Vanessa Kapatelis (as Silver Swan): Wonder Woman (vol. 2) #171 (June 2001)

3b. Vanessa Kapatelis: Wonder Woman (vol. 5) #38 (March 2018)

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Decided to post even more Vanessa art, this one showing her hanging out with Rose Wilson. It seems Rose wants to help Vanessa 'toughen up' a bit, perhaps her mother Lillian Worth can help. Their older selves clothing are based on stuff I've seen in thrift stores, don't they look fashionable?

Here's an older Vanessa wearing the Silver Swan outfit belonging to her predecessor Valerie Beaudry, it's a very beautiful outfit I must admit. Speaking of Valerie...

Here's Vanessa meeting Valerie and her gal pal Maxine Sterenbuch, along with a doodle of Vanessa and friends meeting her names sake the Loch Ness monster! Looks like a fun adventure they had. There's also a doodle of Vanessa's poor friend Lucy Spears. I felt so bad for her, I appreciate the comics tackling such a heavy topic.

Further context on Vanessa meeting Valerie, in my au after Vanessa is transformed into the Silver Swan, I imagine her breaking out and going into hiding. Shortly after Jason and friends manage to find her and convince her somehow to join the team, tho she's very standoffish at first. Jason finds her (along with a couple of other kids) a safe house to stay in, but later on she meets Valerie.

Valerie offers to let her stay with her and Maxine, Valerie knows better than anyone what Vanessa is going through and wants to help. Vanessa slowly with her learns to manage her powers better and eventually learns to control it. Being in a safe place and having friends helps stabilize her emotions better, thereby stabilizing her powers as well.

Should be noted that Diana and Julia Kapatelis are trying to find her and bring her home. I imagine word eventually gets through to them where Vanessa is, I'm not sure if Valerie/Maxine know where Vanessa comes from so they can't tell her family. I'm not sure about Jason actually, perhaps Vanessa tells him not to 'snitch", so he's probably in a bit of a moral dilemma I guess.

Vanessa didn't just meet Valerie, she also gets a chance to meet the first Silver Swan, Helen Alexandros! The story here is kinda vague but I wanted Vanessa to meet Helen, then forced to fight her. But because Vanessa shows her compassion, Helen is moved by this and somehow 'gifts' her divine power (that she got from Ares) and this transforms Vanessa into a sorta 'super form'.

Kinda resembles Sailor Moon a bit huh? Who is surprised, I showed this form in an earlier drawing I think. Anyways, this form only lasts for a short time, but its very powerful. Vanessa showing empathy to her enemy is ofc inspired by her hero Wonder Woman , I guess after being helped by her friends she ends up helping another victim like herself. So I guess she ends up getting a narrative arc of sorts in this au.

But I did think up an alternative way for her to get that 'super form" tho:

This is more obviously inspired by the swan lake story, but more specifically the 1994 movie The Swan Princess (Vanessa's hair is slightly modeled after Odette's). The story's even more vague here, so I guess I imagined a lake spirit taking the form of a swan, Vanessa helps it and it 'gifts' her extra power. It only lasts a short time as well. Which story do you think sounds better?

Well, that was a lot, so I hoped you liked all that!

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Wonder Woman #15 (1988) by Len Wein & George Pérez

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MAXINE & VALERIE/SILVER SWAN in WONDER WOMAN (1987)

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Silver Swan sketch.

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Wow, check out this AMAZING piece by artist Rich Bernatovech! What a great showcase of Wonder Woman's rogues gallery!

Here's a list of villains that I've managed to find among the over 100 villains:

• Adjudicator • Aegeus • Alkyone • Anann • Andres Cadulo • Angle Man • Anglette • Apollo • Ares • Armageddon • Astarte • Atomia • Badra • Baroness Von Gunther • Barremargox • Baundo • Bellona • Blue Snowman • Cassandra • Cassie Arnold • Cat Eye • Cheetah (Barbara Ann Minerva) • Cheetah (Debbi Domaine) • Cheetah (Priscilla Rich) • Circe • Crimson Centipede • Cronus • Cyborgirl • Dark Angel • Decay • Deimos • Devastation • Disdain • Doctor Cyber • Doctor Poison • Doctor Psycho • Drax • Dreadnought • Duke of Deception • Earl of Greed • Echidna • Egg Fu • Eris • Euryale • Eviless • Fausta Grables • Fireworks Man • First Born • Genocide • Giganta • Glop • God With No Name • Grail • Gundra • Hades • Harrier • Hecate • Hera • Hercules • Hypnota • Inventa • Janus • Julianna Sazia • Karnell • Liar Liar • Lord Conquest • Mask • Mayfly • Medusa • Minister Blizzard • Mob God • Mouse Man • Nemesis • Oblivion • Osira • Paper-Man • Phobos • Queen Clea • Queen of Fables • Red Panzer • Savage Fire • Sharkeeta • Silver Swan (Helen Alexandros) • Silver Swan (Valerie Beaudry) • Silver Swan (Vanessa Kapatelis) • Slaughter • Sontag Henya • Stheno • Superwoman • Tigra Tropica • Titan • Trinity • Veronica Cale • White Magician • Zara

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Thinking about current continuity Vanessa and just getting pissed off again

Like one, LET HER REST oh my god dc you ruin her FUCKING life like an asshole only to bring her back as a villain after she finally got out oh my god-

But also like its just so bad. This is a whole other woman with her name like why are we doing this. Like first you kill her mom (JULIA NOOO) and erase her YEARS of history growing up around diana (the thing that actually made her villain turn [if you can call it that w the level of manipulation involved] interesting and fucking heartbreaking) for some shitty "oh I saved you we were friends" run of the mill whatever. Then to use that and say Nessie had a crush on her OWN SISTER (Diana, so like informally adopted, but still 😡) now????

And then they took away her curls and made her a redhead but not even the realistic kind. DC SHE DOESNT LOOK LIKE THAT

It just makes me so mad. Freaking guys. They could have used another name like oh my god. She's not even the first silver swan why the fuck would they do that if they're not going to explore her history w diana (which she no longer has!!!!) or how intensely fucked up everything got for her. What is even the fucking point of this then other to drag a main character of the ww supporting cast through the mud again for genuinely no reason. They could have easily had her be Valerie Beaudry (sorry Val) instead or just MADE UP ANOTHER NAME because it's obvious that no one actually cared about her as a character they just wanted the wondy villain back so like !!!!!!!!!! Why even bother

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Name: Silver Swan (Valerie Beaudry) First Appearance: Wonder Woman #15 (1988) Creators: George Perez and Len Wein Abilities: Flight, capable of producing a sonic scream which can be projected as a concentrated blast or a large wave of force. With increasing force and potency in proportion with its increase of radius. Can project around her person a shield made up of sonic sound by humming, rendering her immune to harm.

Backstory: Born with mild metahuman sound based abilities and a disfigured appearance due to radiation exposure, Valerie Beaudry would catch the attention of Henry Cobb Armbuster, the owner of a munitions company who wished to branch out by weaponizing metahumans to turn into weapons of mass destruction.

Seducing Valerie whom he considered the most ugly and unlikable creature in all of existence, he convinced her to unconditionally do anything he told her, no matter how horribly he treated her through word or violence.

Thus she agreed to be experimented on, and Henry would proceed to have scientists remake her body on a molecular level, changing her so that her appearance was more pleasing to his base standards for beauty, while also greatly increasing the power of her metahuman abilities so that she could be used like a gun to point at any problem he needed resolved. Regardless of the risk to her life such experimentation would pose.

Thus Valerie would carry out Henry Armbusters demands as his enforcer. Utterly unaware that she was little more than an unloved pawn in his schemes.

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Swan Song

Wonder Woman #15

Basic but engrossing.

The story of Maxine Sterenbuch and Valerie Beaudry.

Not much really happens but we see that Diana is infatuated with Superman, and we meet an ordinary woman who's apparently best friends with a super-villain.

On Sale Date: December 8, 1987.

George Pérez (15 of 65).

Len Wein (13 of 14).

6/10

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⭐️ Wonder Woman vs. The World ⭐️ Part 2 of David Jamison’s Wonder Woman The Animated Series concept!

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Silver Swan

-Real name: Valerie Beaudry

-A.k.a.: Val

-Publisher: DC Comics

-Type: Mutant

-Afilliations: Captains of Industry, Suicide Squad

-Powers: Flight, force field, sonic scream, voice-induced manipulation, wings.

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Outfit for Valerie Beaudry “Silver Swan”

Vivetta Spring 2019

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Silver Swan custom figurine

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DC Cosmic Cards - Series 1 (1991)

#107 Silver Swan