List of DC Comics characters: E

Earthworm is a character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

Herbert Hynde is a criminal who ran a baby-selling ring while operating as Earthworm until it attracted the attention of Huntress. Though the ring is shut down, Earthworm escapes into the sewers.^[1]

During the "Underworld Unleashed" storyline, Earthworm sells his soul to Neron, gaining a worm-like body that allows him to dig rapidly and control vermin.^[2] He accompanied Blackguard and Cheetah in attacking the Warriors bar, but are thwarted by the bar's staff.^[3]

Echo is the name of three characters appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

John Economos is a character from DC Comics created by John Ostrander and Luke McDonnell, debuting in Suicide Squad #1 (1987).

Economos is the warden of Belle Reve Penitentiary, and from his position, he works aiding Amanda Waller in the formation of the Suicide Squad.

Vincent Edge is a character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

Vincent Edge is the father of Morgan Edge. After Morgan suffers a heart attack and is hospitalized, Vincent takes over Galaxy Communicates in his absence.^[9]

During the "Reign of the Supermen" storyline, Vincent Edge develops a scheme to maintain the exclusive rights to Superboy. He orders Tana Moon to stay close to Superboy and keep him posted about his activities. In addition, Edge wants Superboy to sign an exclusive contract with Galaxy Communications. As Tana Moon is uncomfortable with the contract, Edge states that Superboy gets ratings from Galaxy Communications and that she can be replaced.^[10]

Vincent Edge plans to assemble a new incarnation of Intergang, but is attacked by Moxie Mannheim. Edge is killed by Mannheim's minion Noose.^[11]

Eel is the name of several characters appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

Ember is a character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by writer Paul Dini and artist Stéphane Roux, she first appeared in Zatanna (vol. 2) #1 (July 2010). The character is an unborn dragon gestating in the body of an unnamed human, and a servant of Brother Night.

Grant Emerson is the first character known as Damage. He had just moved with his parents to a new home in suburban Atlanta. His parents moved often due to their work for the Symbolix Corporation, and Grant usually felt like an outsider among other kids. At his new school, Grant suddenly discovers he is a metahuman with incredible strength and the ability to produce explosive blasts when he accidentally levels his entire school.^[18] A superhero/supervillain battle involving Baron Blitzkrieg, Iron Munro, and others results in extensive damage to downtown Atlanta. Damage is arrested for his part in the event. However, Sarge Steel is able to cut a deal for him: he would be banned from Georgia for life and remanded into the custody of the Titans, led by Roy Harper.

After leaving the Titans to uncover his origins, Damage learns that he gained his powers as part of an experiment at Symbolix called Project: Telemachus, where he was imbued with the DNA of various superheroes by Vandal Savage. Around the same time, he learns that he is the son of Al Pratt, the original Atom, and his wife Mary.^[19][20] Roy Harper manage to erase Grant's criminal records, making him no longer a fugitive and allowing him to join the team.

Several members of the modern Freedom Fighters team are killed by the Injustice Society in Infinite Crisis. Damage survives, though his face is severely scarred by Zoom.^[21] Damage begins wearing a mask to hide his face and develops a gruffer and more cynical attitude in response to his trauma. Damage's face is later healed by Gog, but is restored to its damage state when Gog turns against the Justice Society and removes his blessings from them.^[22][23]

During the "Blackest Night" event, the JSA are attacked by their fallen members, who have been resurrected as Black Lanterns. Damage is saved from Black Lantern Al Pratt by Atom (Ray Palmer), but is killed by Black Lantern Jean Loring soon afterward. His death and the subsequent collection of his heart gives Black Hand enough power to summon Nekron.^[24] Damage is resurrected as a Black Lantern himself, but sacrifices himself to destroy the other Black Lanterns.^[25][26]

Damage is resurrected during the Doomsday Clock storyline, where he appears with the Justice Society of America after they are restored to the timeline.^[27]

Emperor Blackgate (Ignatius Ogilvy) is a character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. He appeared during "The New 52".

Ignatius Ogilvy is the son of a crook named Ed Ogilvy, who was killed alongside his wife during a negotiation.^[28] Ogilvy went on to become a henchman of the Penguin and gained a deep three-lined scar on his right arm after Batman attacked him with a Batarang.^[29]

When the Penguin is awaiting trial, Ogilvy takes over his operations and assumes the name Emperor Penguin.^[30] Oglivy uses a serum derived from the Man-Bat serum, Bane's Venom drug, and one of Poison Ivy's plant concoctions, which transforms him into a blue wood-skinned creature with superhuman strength, durability, and speed. Batman and Penguin work together to take down Emperor Penguin, with Penguin using a firebomb umbrella to defeat him. After being imprisoned in Blackgate Penitentiary, Emperor Penguin is taken to the cattle-like "prison boss" as Emperor Penguin tells his backstory to him. Afterwards, Emperor Penguin kills the "prison boss" and takes control of his operations while rebranding himself as Emperor Blackgate.^[31]

In "Forever Evil", Emperor Blackgate joins the Secret Society of Super Villains.^[32] He briefly allied with Bane before being double-crossed and brought to Penguin. Penguin tells Emperor Blackgate that the Arkham fighters are not afraid of Bane, as they are more afraid of Batman.^[33]

Enforcer is the name of several characters appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

Eraser is a character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

Leonard "Lenny" Fiasco was a low-grade student during his high school years and a classmate of Bruce Wayne. After dropping out of school, Fiasco becomes a criminal known as Eraser. As Eraser, Fiasco is hired by thugs to eliminate evidence from crime scenes. He managed to give some difficulty to Batman and Robin before they apprehended him.^[39]

Dr. Saul Erdel is a scientist in the DC Universe.

Erdel was a brilliant scientist who created a transmitter to communicate with other worlds, unintentionally transporting the Martian Manhunter to Earth. The shock of seeing J'onn causes Erdel to have a heart attack and die in his arms.^[40]

His DC Rebirth version appeared in a flashback renamed Mark Saul Erdel.^[41]

Shvaughn Erin is a fictional character in the 30th and 31st centuries of the DC Comics Universe, appearing primarily as a supporting character in the various Legion of Super-Heroes series. A native of Earth, she is a member of the Science Police, the law enforcement arm of the United Planets. She was one of the first characters in superhero comics to be identified as transgender.^[42]

In the 30th century, the Resources Raiders attack Earth just as a diplomatic crisis develops between the United Planets and the Dominion. These dual crises prevent neophyte Science Police officer Shvaughn Erin from informing the Legion of Super-Heroes that one of its enemies has escaped from imprisonment. Both events are precursors to the so-called "Earthwar", wherein the U.P. is attacked by the Khund empire and the Dark Circle. The architect behind the conflict is eventually revealed to be the sorcerer Mordru—the escaped foe about whom Shvaughn tried to warn the Legion. She and Karate Kid fend off Khund troops at the Science Police headquarters, which allows the combined forces of the Legion of Super-Heroes and the Legion of Substitute Heroes to defeat Mordru and end the war.^[43][44]

The following year, Shvaughn is appointed Science Police Liaison Officer to the Legion. On the first day of her new assignment, she is present when the rogue artificial intelligence Computo possesses Danielle Foccart and seizes control of Legion HQ. The crisis is averted when Danielle's older brother Jacques drinks the invisibility serum developed by Lyle Norg, allowing him to attack and immobilize Computo without being detected.^[45] Shvaughn works closely with and enters a relationship with Element Lad, a character whose sexual orientation had previously been ambiguous, and many readers had interpreted as gay.^[42][46]

Years later, Shvaughn has ended her relationship with Jan Arrah (Element Lad), and Earth's government has fallen under the covert control of the Dominion. When a Dominion soldier assassinates Earth President Tayla Wellington on live galaxy-wide video broadcast, full-scale war breaks out.^[47] During this period, it is revealed that Shvaughn was born a man named Sean Erin and used the medication Profem to complete his gender transition and biologically transform into a female.^[48][49][42] With open warfare across the planet, he is unable to maintain constant access to Profem. Jan is completely supportive when Sean physically reverts to his original gender.^[50] Ultimately the Dominators are defeated, and Sean is appointed chief of the Science Police contingent on New Earth.^[51]

In post-Zero Hour continuity, Shvaughn Erin is once again a Science Police officer. In the aftermath of a battle with an Emerald Eye-enthralled Shrinking Violet, Shvaughn is transported back in time to 20th century Earth, along with Workforce member Inferno and a faction of eight Legionnaires.^[52][53] After many months and several encounters with 20th-century Earth's superhero community, Shvaughn and the Legionnaires eventually find their way back to their own era.

Sarah Essen, also named Sarah Essen Gordon, is a character in DC Comics.

Appearing in Batman #405, part of the Batman: Year One storyline, she is a detective partnered with then-lieutenant James Gordon.^[54] A woman of German descent, her age is never revealed, but in Greg Rucka's novelization of the "No Man's Land" storyline she is said to be 12 years younger than Gordon. Sarah's detective skills are shown during her attempts with Gordon to catch Batman, by deducing that he is Bruce Wayne by virtue of his history and the money needed for Batman's arsenal. She and Gordon, who was married at the time, start a brief affair, but a corrupt Commissioner Gillian B. Loeb attempts to blackmail them; Gordon ends the affair and confesses his actions to his wife Barbara. Sarah leaves Gotham City for New York City soon afterwards.^[55]

Sarah returns in Batman #458 (January 1991), where it is explained that she had married a New York cop who was killed during a drug bust. Gordon had long since divorced and the two begin a relationship, resulting in Gordon's proposing to her on a night when the police station is under attack by a trio of supervillains with electrical powers. The two get married in Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight Annual #2 (1992).

When James Gordon is demoted by Mayor Armand Krol in Batman #519, Sarah is given the job in his stead. Gordon later resigns from the Gotham City Police Department in the same issue. She takes on Gordon's collaboration with Batman and Robin, but does not like the job. Sarah is later fired from the GCPD by Krol, who is now "a lame duck" after losing the mayoral election against Marion Grange. Essen is replaced as Commissioner by Andrew Howe, a close friend of Krol. Grange later re-instates James Gordon as Commissioner and hires Sarah to serve as liaison between the GCPD and the mayor's office.^[56]

Sarah is murdered by the Joker in Detective Comics #741, at the end of the "No Man's Land" story arc. Her stepdaughter Barbara attends her funeral, feeling regret to call her as Sarah rather than Mom.^[57]

In post-Infinite Crisis continuity (as seen in flashbacks in Detective Comics #875), Gordon and Essen were married much earlier, when Gordon was still a lieutenant, and she had a more active role in raising her stepdaughter.

In The New 52-rebooted DC continuity, Sarah's marriage with James Gordon never took place, even after the DC Rebirth event, but she returned in the "Infinite Frontier" relaunch.

Ron Evers is a character in DC Comics.

First appearing in Tales of the New Teen Titans #1, Ron Evers is a childhood friend of Victor Stone and grew up in the slums of New York City. As Ron grew older, his upbringing steered him towards a life of crime.

Technicians from S.T.A.R. Labs recover Ron's body. Under the guidance of robotics engineers Elias Orr, Ron is converted into a cyborg and used as a weapon for the US military.

Orr put Ron's abilities to use in the field, and he served with a military unit in the Middle East. He later returned to the United States, but was determined to avenge himself against those who created him. Unable to strike back against Orr, Evers began conducting hit and run raids against various S.T.A.R. Labs buildings in search of Deshaun. This path of destruction brought him into conflict with two teams of Titans and a second battle with his former friend Vic Stone. By the end of this conflict, Vic forcibly removed Ron's cybernetic implants, rendering him powerless.^[61]

Following this event, Ron becomes a minister in a radical Harlem-based religious organization known as the First Church of Anti-Technocracy. Denouncing all forms of technological advancement, Ron petitions his followers to excise all modern technology from their life.^[62]

Executioner is the name of several characters appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.