The original supervillain, at least in DC Comics, was Ultra-Humanite. Before Lex Luthor stole the limelight forevermore, it was Ultra that first showed the world that bald can be beautiful. Or bedeviling. And be that as it may, since Ultra has assumed many forms we're going to recap some of the more prominent ones, and their Earth-One doppelgängers.
On Earth-One, an android named Brainiac was created based on the brain patterns of a scientist from the planet Colu-One. Having shrunken and collected several cities across the galaxy including Kandor, this brought Brainiac to the attention of Superman who freed those cities and began opposing the android's schemes. On Earth-Two, a bald scientist formerly a vagrant named Bill Dunn, who has been subjected to experimentation enabling him to gain grand intellect as well as an aptitude to assume various bodies throughout the decades.
This genius known only as the Ultra-Humanite used various technologies to plunder and try amassing power, for which he had several battles versus Superman. A variation of Ultra's psyche was replicated as a synthetic being on the planet of Colu-Two as an assistant of Vandal Savage, who created that world to trap Superman. In his next form, Ultra would gain the ability to absorb energy and wield tremendous energy.
When old man Ultra lost his body thanks to his own deadly backfiring purple plague ray, he was forced to have his brain transplanted into the body of kidnapped victim Delores Winters, an actress. She attempted to seduce atomic scientist Terry Curtis to build for her a deadly weapon on Earth-Two. On Earth-One, the Kryptonian serial killer Faora Hu-Ul used her martial arts mastery along with her superhuman abilities to battle Superman again and agsin
One tool Faoraused was a piece of Jewel Kryptonianite, which magnified her mental might, Likewise, Delores=Ultra gained superhuman strength and the ability to project mental energy derived from Powerstone. Both Faora and Delores with their mind-bolts and peak physique were more than a match for their respective Supermen, who along with their fellow superheroes battled these femme fatales each time they appeared.
The next transplanted body for Ultra was in a flying ant, mutated thanks to the power of Lana Lang aka Insect Queen. Her counterpart had a part to play as well, coaching a boy named Kim mutated to save his life into Bee-Boy! Thankfully, this lad had a brief criminal career before being healed.
Throughout the decades, Ultra would reappear in various bodies, which he and/or his henchmen kidnapped to implant his brain into. The reason for this was due to his mutated mental might, which would eventually burn out each human body as it had his original body decades earlier. During these occasions, he would face Superman countless times in a variety of identities, often assuming the identities of scientists whose lives were lost so that his could remain alive. Despite his genius, the Humanite like his counterpart Brainiac continued to fail to outmanuever the Men of Steel... as Superman had intellect matching theirs with superpowers far exceeding them!
Finally, we meet the sinister simians string along the Secret Society of Super-Villains! Gorilla Grodd was a deviant of Gorilla City, wanting to do harm rather than good to his fellow kind. Banished from his land, he became a perpetual thorn in the side of the Flash. Eventually, he branched out and made enemies among all the Justice Leaguers, causing him to join and soon lead the Secret Society for a period of time. Ultra-Humanite himself soon learned that the scores of bodies he claimed for his malicious mind were burning out to quickly, so he mutated an ape to house his brain. Immediately, he too recruited villains for his own Secret Society. While Ultra remained in this form from then one, Grodd sought escape from entrapment by transplanting his brains in bodies such human as Drew Drowden and William Dawson, but ultimately reverted back to his natural form.
The names of Ultra's other bodies have never been revealed, although one of Grodd's once known as William Dawson had a doppelgänger in Johnny Bonman, who lie Dawson had briefly possessed mental powers before returning to normal thanks to the intention of a Flash in each case.
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