Rossana Ortiz), come armed with a shopping list of Earth scientists whom they plan to abduct, setting stage for the most of the film's action, which involves Darna's efforts to thwart those abductions), Orang (played by Eva Linda), Maia and Kara. Darna and Ding (1980) was the final time Santos played Darna. For the first time, Ding was mentioned in the title. The film begins with a pre-credit sequence recounting Darna's origins. Apparently the notion of Darna's alter-ego having a bum leg, introduced in "Darna vs. the Planet Women", has since been abandoned. In this film, Darna is joined by Ding, who now has his own superpowers. Muhlach's Ding also becomes Darna in this film. Also, Lito Anzures' character stole the magic stone and transformed into Darna. Dr. Irene Vontesberg played by Marissa Delgado in an eye-flashing performance addressing a past injustice by raising the recently dead and setting them upon the villagers. This provides for a lot of creepy moments. Veronica Jones played Babaeng Lawin. As is typical of the series, the film shows Narda's tiny rural village to be the locus of every imaginable kind of extraterrestrial, criminal and paranormal activity—and shambling, green slime slobbering ghouls. Santos displayed her faux kung fu skills, but then it takes a darker turn, with one of the cons gunning down an innocent bystander. Much as with Dr. Vontesberg, there seems to be a tragic dimension to Lei Ming, as she follows many of her acts of evil with extended crying jags. Darna and Ding's final episode sees the pair following a trail of missing children to the doorstep of Lei Ming, an evil Chinese sorceress played—in a yet another eye-flashing performance by Celia Rodriguez. Darna in the 1970s: the male Darnas Chiquito was the first male Darna in Philippine films. In Vilma Santos' film Terribol Dobol (1974), he played the superhero in a short scene. He was considered the arch-rival of Comedy King, Dolphy, who later on also played Darna and Captain Barbell. In 1979, Regal Films produced a parody of the Darna films titled Darna, Kuno?. In this film, there were actually three Darnas: Dolphy, Brenda del Rio and Lotis Key. Del Rio's part was first offered to Vilma Santos. The story is about a poor underdog man Dondoy (Dolphy). The real Darna (Brenda del Rio) became pregnant by Japanese anime robots Mazinger Z and Voltes V. Darna lends Dondoy