Greta Karbone
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Greta Karbone is a fictional Biologist that first appeared in the 1996 comic, Gamera: The Guardian of the Universe by Dark Horse Comics. She serves as the series' main antagonist.
History
Gamera: The Guardian of the Universe
Gamera: The Guardian of the Universe #1
At one point in her life, Karbone was regarded as a "brilliant yet demented" Biologist, who at one point in her career faked her death, and allowed the world to believe she had been carried off by wild apes, in an attempt to divert the scientific regulatory agencies from her work. After moving to a private island in Guanajota, Mexico, and securing a great deal of contraband materials such as Gyaos DNA, and radioactive materials at low prices through Ukraine, she and her assistants Gusano and Carlos successfully were able to clone Gyaos and create several other mutants. However, one day, the Gyaos clone grew too big for its containment jar and escaped. It managed to eat Carlos before flying through the roof. Karbone then, under the alias of Patty Smith, invited Mayumi Nagamine, an Ornithologist who had been instrumental in Gyaos' defeat one year prior, to the island under the guise of having seen a thought-to-be extinct bird: the Emerald-Crested Dapplinger. As they sailed to "Smith"'s island, Gusano suggested that they should search for the bird in the morning, which roused Nagamine's suspicion. Karbone quickly swept this under the rug as it being Gusno's fear of the dark resulting from an encounter with a nocturnal creature. As they hiked through the jungle to the laboratory, Nagamine found a pile of Gyaos droppings, which lead to her telling Gusano to inform the mainland that Gyaos had returned. Karbone played dumb and allowed Nagamine to explain Gyaos to her before showing her the lab with the mutants. There she and Gusano described their predicament. Karbone then unmasked herself and revealed her plan to Nagamine: to force her into creating new Supermonsters under their control.
Gamera: The Guardian of the Universe #2
On learning that her clone of Gyaos had been incinerated by Gamera at Guanajota harbor, Greta went to where Gusano was holding Dr. Nagamine captive to tell her that no harm had been done as a result of her experiments. Nagamine shot her down, and claimed that Karbone was responsible for the damages and loss of life Gyaos had caused. Karbone then reminded Nagamine that the point of her experiments was to create controllable monsters, but Nagamine claimed that monsters could not be controlled, as they had minds of their own. Karbone then grew angry and stormed out, bidding Gusano to tie Nagamine to her chair. Gusano then revealed to Nagamine the story of how he had met Greta. Nagamine came to Mexico to work in solitude on her unorthodox projects, and they had met while she was drunk at a nightclub. They began to work together, and had great fun doing so until they were successful in creating life. At that point, she became cold and obsessed with her work, particularly with the specimen she called Viras. Even Greta noticed that her dedication to Viras was causing her to neglect the other specimens, and eventually, unbeknownst to her, Viras took over her mind and made her a pawn in its plan for world domination. Shortly after he had finished the story, the laboratory exploded due to Nagamine's ticking Gusano. Karbone waited for Gusano to reach her, and ordered that he save Viras, and when he asked about the other mutations, she told him to leave them. The two then escaped to their mini-submarine, and with Viras in tow, Gusano apologized for having lost all of their work, but Karbone assured him that they had saved the only thing that mattered: Viras.
Gamera: The Guardian of the Universe #3
Gamera: The Guardian of the Universe #4
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