Barbara Minerva

Barbara Minerva has the appearance of an humanoid cheetah, having feline facial features. She is a tall and imposing. Her ears are rounded, she has slit pupils, yellowish eyes, and a muscular physique. Fur covers her entirely. She has no hair in this form.

Her fur is a tawny, pale buff color, with underparts that are paler and whiter. Black spots are spread out in her body. A black tear mark runs from the inner corner of each eye down to the mouth. She has claws instead of nails.

{{Barbara Ann Minerva is the Cheetah, a feline foe of Wonder Woman and a member of the Legion of Doom, the Suicide Squad, and the Checkmate organization. Prior to her transformation, Barbara was a gifted archeologist and close friend of Wonder Woman, until she was captured by the plant god Urzkartaga and imbued with the powers of the Cheetah.}}

{{Physically Barbara has taken on a more feral appearance than normally, her facial features have been flattened with a strong jaw to resemble one of the great cats more closely.}}

{{One could say she's a feline femme fatale who is scratching for a fight.}}

{{Cheetah recalls Barbara Minerva as her identity before she was changed. The nature of the Cheetah is also somewhat of a curse due to Barbara's lack of purity, something she is now acutely aware of, along with the insatiable hunger for human flesh and how little of 'Barbara' there is now left of her.}}

{{While she outwardly blames Diana for her current state of being, she is quietly well aware that it was her own stubbornness that is to blame.}}

{{Barbara Minerva took the power of the hunting goddess Cheetah of the San tribe in Congo, whose previous host was killed by a hunter with the Godslayer knife, which the goddess possessed and cursed and ended up in the hands of Minerva, who used it to become the new Cheetah.}}

{{"She has zero hesitation in her movements and a no mercy mindset, which helps her stay focused on her goal-a swift kill. Her unrelenting drive makes her one of the fastest threats around.}}

{{Currently Cheetah makes her home in the Bwundian rainforest, along with other werebeasts and primitive tribesmen. While the beasts and tribesmen revere her as a goddess, they are not above attacking her or anyone she accompanies.}}

{{Barbara Minerva was born in Oakstone Abbey, Nottinghamshire. After the death of her mother, she became more and more introverted. She became interested in Greek mythology, especially the Amazons. Her father considered it escapism, and would rather teach her the world was cruel and unfair.}}

{{She wasn't deterred, and at 26, she had received two PhDs and was working as an archeologist in Ukraine. Though she was mocked by her colleagues, she found her first solid evidence of Amazons the tomb of Lysippe, 12th Queen of the Amazons.}}

{{Unfortunately, heavy rains caused the cave to collapse. Some of her research was stolen by foreman Viktor Yakuvic. She chased him around the Mediterranean, until she came to Tunisia. She had traced a route which she thought was the route the Amazons followed. But when she found Viktor's corpse and received nourishment from an old crone, she realized she had it backwards; the route was not where they migrated to, it was where they came from. However, when she came to the end of her track, an uncharted island in the Black Sea, she found no sign of civilization.}}

{{Disheartened by her failure, Barbara went on to teach archeology at a university. She was contacted by Etta Candy to help translate the unique dialect of Diana, who had recently arrived on U.S. soil. Barbara befriended Diana and taught her about the culture of mankind.}}

{{After helping Diana settle into her role as Wonder Woman, Barbara was contacted by Veronica Cale, who offered to fund an expedition to Africa to investigate the plant god Urzkartaga. Diana was worried for Barbara's safety and gave her a GPS beacon to contact her if she was in trouble, but Doctor Cyber deactivated it on Veronica Cale's orders.}}

{{To distract Wonder Woman, Cale and Doctor Cyber staged disasters around the world. When Diana finally arrived to check on Barbara, she was stunned to discover that Urzkartaga had made her his wife and transformed her into the Cheetah. Cheetah was furious at Diana for abandoning her, and joined Cale's Godwatch team, which worked against Wonder Woman.}}