NOTE: This article is only for the rebooted version of Giganta. To see the article for the original version of her, go to Giganta.
Doris Zeul (also known as Giganta) is the secondary antagonist in the second generation of the DC Super Hero Girls franchise. Doris is a member of the Super Villain Girls and a student Metropolis High School, and an enemy to Wonder Woman & Bumblebee.
She was voiced by Grey Delisle, who who also voiced her G1 counterpart.
Appearance
Doris is a tall, medium-skinned teenage girl with a curvy and bulky built, with hazel eyes, burgundy lips, and puffy red-orange hair.
As a civilian, Doris has her hair in a big ponytail, and her attire consists of a yellow tracksuit with orange pockets (maroon in the stock art), and white slip-on sneakers (in the stock art her sneakers have grey straps, while in the show the straps don't appear).
As Giganta, her size increases dramatically, standing about 3 times her normal height and dwarfing many of the other characters. Her hair hangs halfway down her back. Whenever she transforms or flexes hard, orange veins can be seen across her skin. She wears a two-piece yellow loincloth (akin to a cavewoman) with dark golden wristlets on each wrist. She is also barefoot.
Personality
Doris Zeul is very mean, hot-tempered, and rude. She has a mindset very similar to the stereotypical jock. She has a complete disinterest in books, learning, or academics, often skipping class. She is also a big bully who always picks on those weaker than her, especially Karen, her favorite victim. She also is disrespectful to her parents and other adults as well. When not doing that, she is often seen working out and trying to increase her own muscle size. As Giganta, her villainous plans never go far past mindless destruction. On multiple occasions, she has shown to be concerned with her public perception as a super villain, sometimes even wanting to be seen as a monster.
Despite these strengths, her biggest weakness is her own stupidity. She is not very smart and typically attacks without thinking. This also applies to her own wit and humor. While most of her friend and even enemies can be quick to quip, she often struggles to keep up with conversations. She has trouble understanding the simplest of jokes, but often laughs anyway, even if she doesn't get them. Most jokes she says, if any, are usually nothing more than sports terms like "home run" or "strike", even if they don't mean anything within the context.
Like Kara, Doris is the powerhouse of Selina's team.
Biography
Season 1
In "She Might Be Giant", Doris appears along with her friend Leslie on the school football field bullying Karen. Doris and Leslie lead her to the locker room, where she locks Karen in the lockers. Tired of always being teased by Doris, Karen decides to upgrade her Bumblebee armor; meanwhile, Doris is at her house exercising while she was talking to Leslie, when suddenly the weights she was lifting fall on top of her. Since she was losing strength and to boost the effects of her weightlifting, Doris injects herself with a serum stolen from her parents' lab. When she goes to the mall to buy weights, the salesman shows her some small weights; which makes Doris think that he was making fun of her, enraging her and turning into Giganta for the first time. Diana, Kara and Babs, who by casuality happened to be at the mall helping Karen find upgrades to fix her armor, they fight against Giganta, but she easily defeats them. Karen manages to repair her armor, but the growth function enhancements malfunction again; so Giganta tries to crush Bumblebee with her hand. But because she was too big and Bumblebee was small as a insect, Bumblebee uses her tiny size to harass Giganta and trick her into knocking herself out. The next day at school, Doris (who wants to continue her routine of bullying Karen) she throws her football ball at Karen, who surprisingly catches it. Doris tells Karen to return her ball, but she shows off new confidence in standing up to Doris, even to call her "meathead", which makes Doris angry and runs after Karen all over the field.
In "Frenemies", she, Catwoman, Livewire, Star Sapphire and Poison Ivy befriends Harley Quinn in Part 1 and in the end of the episode, they've formed a villain team. In Part 2, they vandalize the city by stealing jewels, causing chaos and fear, and destroying buildings and properties of the city.
In "Beeline", Giganta is seen with the other girls, with Harley Quinn planning to destroy the bridge so Mrs. Johnson couldn't give her a math test the next day. The only remarkable thing she did was that she attempted to throw a punch at Bumblebee after she broke the detonator's plunger (thwarting Harley Quinn's plan), but she is stopped by Wonder Woman.
In "Soul Sisters", Katana snatches Giganta's soul, causing her inner body to fall on Jessica's van, destroying it. And along with the rest of the Super Villain Girls, she is taken to Babs' house, until her soul is returned to her after Katana realizes that being a hero doesn't mean taking someone's soul away.
In "Scrambled Eggs" she is mentioned by Mr. Chapin as Carol's teammate for the assignment of taking care of the egg. But since she skipped class, Carol has to take care of the egg alone.
Super Shorts
- #TacoTuesday: TBA
- #LetThemEatPie: TBA
- #BigScreenBully: TBA
- #LostAndFound: TBA
- #ArtificialIntelligence: TBA
- #CandyCrushed: TBA
- #PhotoOops: TBA
- #TheBeeStandsAlone: TBA
- #FlashForwardFlashback: TBA
Season 2
In "Am Batgirl", Giganta appears wreaking havoc on Metropolis, but is defeated and captured by Batgirl, who was competing against Robin to prove that she is a better sidekick for Batman.
In "World's Finest", Giganta made a deal with Max Lord to be recognized as a great villain and thus become famous. But her ravages were thwarted by Batgirl and Supergirl, and Max Lord reneged on her part of her deal, so she kidnapped him to the Daily Planet to throw him off the roof. And then the duo of heroines go to stop Giganta; but when they find out that she had a deal with Max that he didn't keep, Batgirl and Supergirl decide to make a deal with Giganta to give her the recognition that Max Lord couldn't do it; letting her decide if she does it for the hard part or the fun part. Giganta opts for the second option and, with the help of the two heroines, she destroys the statue of Moofy the mole, the pet of Metropolis, and is recognized as a villain.
Teen Titans Go! & DC Super Hero Girls: Mayhem in the Multiverse
Giganta appears along with the Super Villain Girls during a fight against the Super Hero Girls on top of a moving train. She was encased in a magic bubble by Zatanna, but she is thrown off the train by Harley Quinn. Giganta kept fighting until she was tied up along with the other villains. Suddenly, the team was teleported and rescued by Lex Luthor for join to the Legion of Doom alongside him and other villains. It's then that Lex tells his team that he has the power to get rid of the superheroes by using the Amulet of Cythonna to lock them in the Phantom Zone. Giganta, along with Cheetah and Toyman, wreak havoc at the Metropolis Fair to lure Flash and Green Arrow, where she confronted them and locked both heroes in the Phantom Zone.
A little later, the Legion locked almost the entire Justice League in the Phantom Zone, where Riddler and Star Sapphire locked John Stewart and Aquaman there. She along with the Super Villain Girls corner Wonder Woman, but Harley Quinn lunges at her only to secretly help her escape from the Hall of Doom. After that, Giganta along with the Legion was controlled by Cythonna, and they fought against the superheroes. Again she was imprisoned by Zatanna in the magic bubble, but Luthor tries to attack Zatanna and is stopped by a reformed Harley, who returned to help the heroes. At the end, she appears tied up along with the rest of the villains, which were left out of the control of the evil Kryptonian goddess.
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Trivia
- According to Lauren Faust, each of the Super Villain Girls is associated with a deadly motivation in a similar vein to the seven deadly sins, with Giganta's being violence.
- Giganta's outfit as a villain is based on her Golden Age Comics counterpart.
- Giganta is the only member of the Super Villain Girls to maintain her supervillain role from generation one, as many of the other members were superheroes instead.
- She is the strongest member of the Super Villain Girls and the second powerful member along with Livewire.
- She is the only member of the Super Villain Girls whose parents appear. And as it turns out, they are scientists as a reference to the character in the comics.
- In the comics, Giganta is an enemy of Wonder Woman. And although this is reflected in the series, she now becomes Bumblebee's archenemy, contrasting in that the two can alter their sizes: Giganta becomes large, while Bumblebee becomes small.
- This makes her the second incarnation to not have Wonder Woman as a primary enemy, the first being her Super Friends incarnation, where she is Apache Chief's archenemy.
- She and Livewire are best friends, and they both enjoy hurting and harassing other people. Giganta does it physically, while Livewire does it emotionally.
- She can alter her size using her own anger, much like Bruce Banner's transformation into the Hulk. Even in "Lost And Found", she says the exclamation "Giganta smashes!" resembling the iconic Hulk catchphrase "Hulk smash!"
- Although only part of Doris' past was revealed in "She Might Be Giant" where she used to have Chemistry Class. But it's unknown of when she met Karen and what Karen actually did to her despite telling the latter that she irritates her and bugs her.
