Wonder Woman/Characters

Wonder Woman
"AKA: Princess Diana of Themyscira / Diana Prince"

Created for her mother with the wisdom of Athena, the strength of Demeter, the speed of Hermes, the beauty and loving heart of Aphrodite, the sisterhood with fire of Hestia and the hunters skill of Artemis, Princess Diana of the Amazons was sent to Patriarch's World to defeat Ares, and afterward stayed to deliver her message of love and peace.

''"If it means interfering in an ensconced, outdated system, to help just one woman, man or child... I'm willing to accept the consequences." ''


 * Action Girl
 * Author Appeal: With the bondage.
 * Ambiguously Bi: Depending on the Writer.
 * Badass: She poured snake venom in her eyes once to save the world. Then she promptly beheaded Medusa.
 * Badass Abnormal: She's regarded as one of the top fighters in the DCU, even without her powers.
 * Badass Princess
 * Blood Knight: She shows this tendency in the New 52 Universe, mostly in the Justice League title.
 * Boobs of Steel: Per Black Canary, she has the "second most famous bosom" in the superhero community after Power Girl.
 * The Chick: In the 1950s and 1960s, she was this for the Justice League.
 * Flying Brick
 * Friend to All Living Things: One of her least utilized powers is the ability to communicate empathically with animals.
 * Honor Before Reason: One of her vices is that she absolutely refuses to retreat or surrender, and a big enough Zerg Rush could occupy her until she collapses from exhaustion.
 * Hot Amazon: The original.
 * Hot Librarian: Poses as one occasionally.
 * Lady of War: Some of her incarnations.
 * Leotard of Power
 * Living Lie Detector: Even without her lasso.
 * Luke, I Am Your Father:
 * Made of Indestructium: Not even Superman or Captain Marvel can break her lasso. Her bracelets can withstand even Darkseid's Omega Beam.
 * More Hero Than Thou: On one occasion, after hearing a prophecy that said the entire JLA would perish while fighting an ancient evil, Diana decided to decommission the League (by force) and fight the monster solo, as a League of One, reasoning that her one death was preferable to the death of every one of her teammates.
 * Nigh Invulnerability: Though not to the same level as Superman, which is why she has those wristbands.
 * One Woman Army: Can and has taken on whole armies and even entire superhero teams single-handed.
 * Painted-On Pants: During the JMS penned series. She soon went back to the Leotard of Power.
 * Pride: Part of her Royal Heritage, and a strength and weakness in one.
 * Proud Warrior Race Girl
 * Ship Tease: With Superman, Batman and Aquaman at various times.
 * Star-Spangled Spandex
 * Super Reflexes: How else can she deflect machine gun fire with only her bracelets?
 * Super Speed: Not to the same level as The Flash, though she does still run much faster than normal humans.
 * Super Strength
 * Will Not Tell a Lie: Former Goddess of Truth, y'all.
 * Xenafication: Currently, but has gone through periods of Chickification and this trope Depending on the Writer.

The Amazons
"We are indeed a race of wonder women."

Reincarnations of abused women given incredible strength, the Amazons were charged to lead Ancient Greece into a better way of life. Unfortunately, when the Amazons were captured and violated by Heracles' tribe, they grew vengeful in their payback. The Gods charged them to keep guard of the demon Cottus on Themyscira is restitution. The Amazons are a race of warrior women, but they are very diverse and generally compassionate. The Egyptian sect, the Bana-Mighdall, was much more misandrist and kill-happy. Now that the Amazons are free from Cottus, they act as their own sovereign nation.


 * Ambiguously Gay: Some (Io) more than others.
 * Nothing ambiguous about it, it's canon that the majority if not all of the Amazons are either lesbian or bisexual and that Io was in love with Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman's own bisexuality has only been hinted at though, at least so far
 * Hot Amazon: All of them are. Duh.
 * Lady Land
 * Straw Feminist: In a few stories, much to the annoyance of the fans... don't even mention Amazons Attack.

Artemis / Wonder Woman II
Artemis was raised by the Bana-Mighdall, a rough and misandrist Egyptian sect of Amazons. She briefly took Diana's place as Wonder Woman, and was promptly killed. She got better, and despite her disdain towards men and warrior attitude, she's become a close and loyal ally of Diana's and a true hero.


 * Action Girl
 * Anti-Hero: Type III or IV, Depending on the Writer.
 * Anti-Hero Substitute
 * Badass
 * Fiery Redhead
 * Hot Amazon: Aren't they all?
 * Rapunzel Hair: To a ridiculous extent, almost to Starfire levels in some panels.
 * Redheaded Hero

Etta Candy
Etta Candy is Diana's best friend and plucky sidekick. Pre-Crisis, she was a college student who led the Holiday Girls, a sorority devoted to Wonder Woman. Post-Crisis, she is married to Steve Trevor and is a snarky Air Force lieutenant colonel.


 * Ambiguously Gay: Pre-Crisis.
 * Badass Normal: When Simone is writing her. She manages to effectively blackmail Director Steel with his substance abuse habits in one of her first appearances.
 * Big Beautiful Woman: Under Simone, and Etta actually lost some weight a while before she was introduced, but is still a BBW
 * Catch Phrase: "Woo woo!"
 * Colonel Badass: Gail Simone turned her into one.
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Fat Best Friend
 * Plucky Comic Relief
 * Plucky Girl
 * Sidekick

Hippolyta
The Queen of the Amazons always longed for a child, because out of the Amazons, it was she who was reincarnated from a pregnant woman. In reward for her service and leadership, the Gods gifted her with Diana. Hippolyta is a stern leader, but she is also a nurturer who loves her daughter.


 * Action Girl
 * Action Mom
 * Adaptation Dye Job: Was originally blonde in the Golden Age, then became dark-haired like her daughter, was blonde in Justice League animated show but dark-haired in the direct-to-video movie, and is back to blonde again in the New 52.
 * : In her case.
 * The Atoner: Hippolyta's stint as her daughter's replacement was part of her penance for inadvertently causing Diana's death in the first place. (She had an Amazon sorceress cast a spell to transfer some of Diana's power to Artemis, and never had the spell reversed.) She later started to enjoy the role.
 * Ax Crazy: When she's written badly, most famously in Amazons Attack.
 * Bi the Way Hippolyta is canonically bisexual, having been in love with both men (Wildcat of the JSA) and women (Phillipus).
 * Hot Amazon
 * Hot Mom
 * I Want Grandkids: Occasionally shows this inclination around Diana.
 * Lady of War
 * Legacy Character: After Diana died and ascended to godhood, Hippolyta became Wonder Woman in her place.
 * Mama Bear: When she's written right.
 * : In the New 52,.
 * : In the New 52,.

Nemesis
"AKA: Tom Tresser"

Former vigilante and member of the Suicide Squad. Diana's coworker in Washington DC. He eventually learned her secret and became her lover. Holds the honor of being the only man to be officially inducted as an Amazon, with the title: Sir Thomas of Cleveland.


 * Badass Normal
 * Better as Friends: He broke up with Wonder Woman when he found out that she only wanted a kid.
 * Defector From Decadence: His past as a member of the Suicide Squad.
 * Master of Disguise

Steve Trevor
Pre-Crisis, Steve was Diana's love interest, and Diana decided to stay in America after delivering him back from crashing near her island. After years of dodging his advances (she'd only marry him when she got rid of all evil in the world, y'see) she eventually did get married to him.

Post-Crisis, Steve crash landed on Themyscira thanks to the machinations of Ares, and when Diana's mission was both to go to America to fight Ares, and deliver Steve to the hospital. Though initially distrustful, she struck up a close friendship with the older man, and he came to regard her as a like a sister.


 * The Ace: Steve is a high-flying, death-defying manly man—but unlike many other such characters, who are often womanizing pigs, he has the utmost respect for Wonder Woman and consistently defers to her.
 * Big Brother Mentor: Post-Crisis to Diana.
 * James Bondage: His defining trait.
 * Love Interest: Pre-Crisis.

Wonder Girl I / Troia / Wonder Woman IV
"AKA: Donna Troy"

Donna Troy's past is... complicated. But basically, she's Diana's sister. She is known for being a sweet woman and a good listener, but she's faced much tragedy and a tangled past in her life. She was originally Wonder Girl of the Teen Titans, and now she forges her own path as simply Donna Troy.


 * Action Girl: Most of the time.
 * The Chew Toy: She's pretty much literally doomed to suffer in her current incarnation.
 * The Chick: Of the Teen Titans, especially in the first incarnation.
 * Fan Nickname: Due to the aforementioned Continuity Snarl, one nickname for her is "Identity Crisis Lass".
 * Hot Amazon
 * Platonic Life Partners: With Dick Grayson (Robin I/Nightwing/Batman III). Considering she gets away with greeting Batman with a brofist, may also count as One of the Boys.
 * The Pollyanna
 * Star-Spangled Spandex
 * Team Mom: For the Titans. It's even lampshaded a few times.

Wonder Girl II
"AKA: Cassandra Sandsmark"

Cassie Sandsmark was the president of the Wonder Woman fan club in Gateway City. When she actually met Wonder Woman, she was so enthusiastic that she took artifacts from her mother's museum to help Wonder Woman fight. Impressed with her bravery, the Gods granted her powers of her own. Cassie became leader of Young Justice and the Teen Titans, and she eventually discovered that Zeus was her father.


 * Action Girl: When at her best. Later writers have waffled between this and putting her as a Faux Action Girl.
 * Ascended Fangirl
 * Bare Your Midriff
 * The Captain: To the Teen Titans.
 * Chickification: And how. Mostly due to Geoff Johns' influence in Teen Titans, where she went from a smart, cool nerd to a bland, moody prom-queen.
 * Chest Insignia
 * Civvie Spandex: One of the few constants in her always-changing wardrobe is plain blue jeans.
 * Divine Parentage
 * Dysfunctional Family: With Zeus for a father and a mother who disapproves of your superhero career, it's understandable.
 * Flying Brick
 * Hair of Gold: Though she originally wore a black wig.
 * Headbutting Heroes: With Ravager on the Teen Titans, complete with Teeth-Clenched Teamwork.
 * Morality Pet: For Ares and Hercules.
 * Though with Ares it's debatable whether he has any REAL affection for her or if he just sees her as someone incredibly powerful that he can use.
 * Official Couple: With Conner Kent aka Superboy II.
 * Not anymore as of J.T. Krul's Teen Titans run.
 * Plucky Girl: When she was first introduced. She's since wavered between the Alpha Bitch and merely bland.
 * Painted-On Pants
 * Romantic Two-Girl Friendship: With Supergirl. They nearly kissed in the story Supergirl: Identity.
 * Shock and Awe: Her lasso can electrocute those it ties up.
 * Sidekick
 * Tsundere: Mostly in Sean McKeever's Teen Titans run.

Alkyone
A member of The Circle, Hippolyta's elite blood-sworn bodyguards, and a former weapons master. Alkyone calls Diana "The Dragon" and was convinced that she would destroy Themiscyra, and tried to kill the infant, resulting in her imprisonment with the other members of The Circle.


 * Ambiguously Gay: Averted.
 * Bald Women / Bald of Evil
 * Black Eyes of Evil:
 * Green-Eyed Monster: Hinted to be a major reason she despises Diana. Upon being defeated by Diana the first time, her words were
 * I Did What I Had to Do: Her justification for killing the Amazon Gennes after she went mad and thought a doll was her child.
 * Immortal Procreation Clause: A major source of angst not just for Alkyone, but all the Amazons, since none are able to have children.
 * Knight Templar: The Circle were well-known for being overzealous about protecting Hippolyta.
 * Psycho Lesbian: Sadly, the first in Amazon history.
 * Psycho Lesbian: Sadly, the first in Amazon history.

The Cheetah II
"AKA: Barbara Minerva"

Barbara Minerva was an archeologist who ran across an ancient ritual that gave her power, speed and immortality as a Cheetah. This had a price—because she was not a virgin as the god Urtzkartaga required, her body was frail and painful when not in Cheetah form. Her interest in rare artifacts caused her to clash with Diana when she tried to steal the magic lasso... the rest is history.


 * Adventurer Archaeologist: Only an evil one.
 * Catgirl
 * Chickification: And how.
 * Dark Action Girl: When not being chickified.
 * Diabolical Mastermind
 * Femme Fatalons: Of course.
 * Super Speed
 * Sidekick: Chuma.

The Cheetah III
"AKA: Sebastian Ballesteros"

Sebastian Ballesteros was a corporate raider who learned early on that true power inevitably trumps riches. Making a deal with Urtzkartaga, he had the powers of the Cheetah transferred from Barbara Minerva to himself. He later cut a deal with Circe, and had one of Diana's closest friends transformed into the third Silver Swan. Easily overpowering Minerva when she tried to regain the Cheetah powers from him, he was eventually killed by her while in human form.


 * Beast Man
 * Corrupt Corporate Executive
 * He-Man Woman Hater: He faked this in order to win over Urtzkartaga.
 * Super Speed
 * Super Strength
 * Unholy Matrimony: With Circe

Circe
Of all of Diana's mortal enemies, Circe is the most persistent and dangerous. The ancient Greek sorceress had a mad on for Diana thanks to an ancient prophecy. This hatred only got worse when Diana actually made Circe see the goodness inside her when Circe went into deep infiltration mode and became Diana's friend.


 * The Chessmaster: She orchestrated Amazons Attack by mind-controlling Hippolyta.
 * Go-Karting with Bowser: She was one of Diana's best friends once, in disguise.
 * Hot Witch
 * Motive Decay Okay so... why is she still trying to kill Wonder Woman? Sometimes it's because she hates the world of peace and equality that Diana wants to create, sometimes it's because of prophecy, sometimes it's because she thinks the Amazons stole her daughter, sometimes it's because she thinks that Wonder Woman doesn't do enough to stop the oppression of women despite the fact that pretty much directly contradicts one of the main reasons she gave for hating Wonder Woman's message of peace and tolerance during one of her Motive Rants.
 * Wizards Live Longer: Circe is several thousand years old.
 * You Gotta Have Purple Hair

Cottus
One of the Hekatonkheires (Hundred-Handed Ones) of ancient Greek myth, Cottus was sealed under Themyscira long ago, and watched over by the Amazons in case he ever escaped, which he has a few times. If both he and Alkyone are to be believed, he is Wonder Woman's father (the clay she was created from came from he).


 * Eldritch Abomination
 * Historical Villain Upgrade: He and his brothers were actually on the Gods' side during the Titanomachy and served as the Titans' jailers in Tartarus.
 * Luke, I Am Your Father
 * Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Is literally made of nothing but arms.
 * Person of Mass Destruction: He and his brothers were Anthropomorphic Personification(s) of natural disasters.
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning
 * Sealed Evil in a Can
 * Shape Shifter
 * Super Strength

Dark Angel
"AKA:"

A psychotic witch, or a wandering, demonic spirit who's got it out for Donna Troy, Dark Angel first appeared to vex the Golden Age Wonder Woman Hippolyta after being summoned by Paula von Gunther. She returned years later to try and get revenge on Hippolyta by cursing her daughter to live an infinite amount of lives, all ending in tragedy. She snatched her daughter's doppelganger, Donna Troy by mistake. Dark Angel had now made it her life's effort to make Donna as miserable as possible, either as revenge or just for the hell of it. Last seen under the employ of the Monitors.


 * Arch Enemy: To Donna Troy.
 * Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Was last seen escaping from Earth-33 in Countdown to Adventure #4. That was the last anyone saw of her.
 * Demonic Possession: First manifested on Earth by possessing Paula von Gunther's body.
 * Doppelganger Attack: In Teen Titans, she was able to make five alternate copies of herself to go into different points in Donna Troy's lifetime and kill her, including a cyborg, an old woman, a bat-like demon, a glam punk, and a teenage girl.
 * The Dragon: Was this for Adolf Hitler, currently for the Monitors. The Anti-Monitor groomed her to be this, but she escaped into the time stream.
 * Even Evil Has Standards: She made it clear that, while she was occupying the body of Paula von Gunther and under Hitler's control, she did not share in his Nazi dogma.
 * Evil Albino: Her skin is completely bone white.
 * Evil Counterpart:  Also to Harbinger, as she was meant to serve a similar role to the Anti-Monitor.
 * For the Evulz: It isn't clear if what she'd doing to Donna Troy is revenge or just because she likes screwing with her.
 * Hot Witch: She couldn't possibly pass for a Wicked Witch. Although a temporal doppelganger of herself was a white haired hag.
 * New Powers as the Plot Demands: In Countdown to Adventure #4, she could grow to giant size. This was the first and last time she ever demonstrated this power. She also demonstrated the power to bring the dead back to life in Supergirl.
 * Omnicidal Maniac: Wiped out the entire Forerunner race of Earth-48 with the shadow demons, then gloated to Viza Aziv that she enjoyed watching them die.
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning: Her eyes shift from black with red pupils, to black with white pupils.
 * Ret-Gone: In universe, she did this twice to Donna Troy. The first time, when she still believed Donna was really Diana. The second time, as revenge for killing her. However, the second time she took the opportunity to do this to every single Donna Troy in Hypertime, before doing it to the mainstream Donna. Both times the trick only worked on people currently in the main timeline.
 * Secret Test of Character: In Supergirl, she was ordered by the Monitors to test the current Kara Zor-El to see if she deserved the right to exist in the current DC Universe. She didn't take Kara passing the test with grace.
 * Unexplained Recovery: There's been no explanation offered as to how she came back after Donna Troy killed her in Wonder Woman.
 * Would Hurt a Child: Was more than willing to harm Donna Troy when she was a young girl. It's implied that she was responsible for the crash that killed Donna's ex-husband, her son, and stepdaughter.

Doctor Cyber
"AKA: Cylvia Cyber"

A scientist turned crime boss, Doctor Cyber replaced parts of her body with cybernetic implants and donned a power suit to battle Wonder Woman. Most of her plots revolve around global conquest and large-scale extortion schemes.


 * Cyborg
 * Evil Genius
 * Gadgeteer Genius
 * Genius Bruiser
 * Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate
 * Powered Armor
 * Steven Ulysses Perhero: Her real name is "Cylvia Cyber".
 * Super Strength

Doctor Poison
"AKA: Maru"

An outcast member of the Japanese imperial family, Doctor Poison is a diabolical genius who specializes in toxins and disease.


 * Evil Genius
 * Mad Doctor
 * Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate
 * Putting on the Reich The post crisis Dr Poison is basically a female Josef Mengele who is obsessed with cruel, pointless and often fatal "Experiments" For the Evulz
 * Slasher Smile
 * Yellow Peril: In her Golden Age appearances (later revealed to have been the modern Dr. Poison's grandmother).

Doctor Psycho
"AKA: Edgar Cizko"

Diana's most disgusting and diminutive foe can control people's minds and broadcast illusions. He's a complete misogynistic sadist... and it doesn't help that he has a creepy crush on Wonder Woman.


 * Card-Carrying Villain: He once went on a rampage because a woman called him "normal". He loves being a villain.
 * Depraved Dwarf
 * Foe Yay: He's expressed interest in Diana several times. Needless, to say, she doesn't return it.
 * I'm a Humanitarian: In Secret Six, they find out they're eating Solomon Grundy. Cheshire throws up. Psycho asks for more.
 * Kick the Dog: He does this a LOT.
 * Mass Hypnosis
 * Master of Illusion
 * Mind Rape: He's a fan. Especially the rape part.
 * Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate
 * The Napoleon
 * Nightmare Fetishist
 * Psychic Powers

Duke of Deception
The Duke of Deception is Ares' right hand man and most trusted disciple. He has the ability to create illusions.


 * The Dragon: To Ares.
 * Manipulative Bastard
 * Master of Illusion

Genocide
Created by the Secret Society of Super Villains from the soil of the sites of the world's worst atrocities, Genocide has the strength of a god and nothing even resembling human compassion.


 * Cold-Blooded Torture: Poor, poor, though at least she got better.
 * Emotion Bomb: One of her powers, which she uses to turn against Diana.
 * Even Evil Has Standards: Causes this reaction even among the Secret Society of Super Villains, especially with Dr. Morrow
 * Evil Me Scares Me:.
 * Humans Are the Real Monsters: The personification of this idea.
 * Never Found the Body:
 * Omnicidal Maniac: The true purpose behind her creation is to kill and kill and kill, without ever stopping.

Giganta
"AKA: Doris Zeul"

Exceptionally strong even at her normal height of 7 feet, Giganta has the power to grow to over 50 feet tall.

Pre-Crisis, Giganta was a gorilla who was transformed into a human by a well-intentioned Mad Scientist only to go on a rampage.

Post-Crisis, Giganta is Doctor Doris Zeul, a mousy scientist who was dying from a fatal disease. After trying and failing to place her mind in Wonder Woman's body, Dr. Zeul instead switched bodies with a circus strongwoman who just happened to have mystical size-changing powers. In addition to her feud with Wonder Woman, Giganta is also a long-time member of the Secret Society of Super-Villains and Injustice League and has a crush on her one-time colleague Ryan Choi, the fourth Atom.


 * Amazonian Beauty: Giganta is commonly drawn with a fair amount of muscles, at least until One Year Later where she got a lot slimmer in a lot of (but not all) depictions.
 * Dating Catwoman: She's the Catwoman in this case; she was once involved with Ryan Choi, the fourth Atom. In a bit of irony, their powers are opposite.
 * Fiery Redhead
 * Genius Bruiser: Minus the bit described in Weaksauce Weakness below, there's a reason she's Dr. Doris Zeul.
 * Go-Karting with Bowser: She went on a few dates with the Atom even after they found out each others' identities.
 * Kick the Son of a Bitch: She tortured and crippled the supervillain Dwarfstar after he killed her boyfriend.
 * Sizeshifter: Bigger than normal only.
 * Statuesque Stunner
 * Super Strength: Only in giant form.
 * Weaksauce Weakness: Originally, the bigger Giganta got, the stupider she became, making her easier to defeat. She lost this ability thanks to Circe (and got a more sensible outfit out of the deal).

Paula von Gunther
An enemy of Queen Hippolyta when she went back in time to World War Two, Baroness Paula von Gunther was a Nazi spymaster whose plots to undermine America were constantly defeated by the queen and her allies in the JSA. Finally, though, von Gunther was shown the error of her ways and became Hippolyta's closest friend and ally. She retired to Themyscira, where she became an honorary Amazon and created the healing Purple Ray. At one point, she was the host of the evil spirit Dark Angel.


 * Blondes Are Evil: What with the whole Aryan thing...
 * Evil Genius
 * Heel Face Turn
 * Those Wacky Nazis

The Queen of Fables
"AKA: Tsaritsa"

Tsaritsa was the actual evil queen from "Snow White". Awakening in modern times, this cruel tyrant hopes to reawaken her empire.


 * God Save Us From the Queen
 * Immortality
 * Mage in Manhattan: She can conjure up any storybook creature or prop to do her bidding. She can also trap people inside fairy tale worlds.
 * Refugee From TV Land
 * Rogues Gallery Transplant: She occasionally harasses Superman, trying to force "Prince Charming" to marry her.
 * Sealed Evil in a Can: She was once defeated by being trapped in a U.S. Tax Records book.
 * Thoroughly Mistaken Identity: She thinks Wonder Woman is Snow White and Superman is Prince Charming. Nothing can convince her that she is mistaken, not their powers, not the fact that the story of Snow White happened hundreds of years ago, nothing.
 * Vain Sorceress

Red Panzer (I-IV)
"AKA: Helmut Streicher (1st); unknown (2nd and 3rd); Justin (4th, last name unknown)"

Originally a Nazi general, and a foe of the Golden Age Wonder Woman, the Red Panzer's legacy has long survived his death, and the fall of the Third Reich, being adopted by various Neo-Nazis and fanatics. All of them have, at some point, come into conflict with Wonder Woman and Donna.


 * Arm Cannon
 * Avenging the Villain: Red Panzer III sought to avenge his father, Red Panzer II.
 * Four-Star Badass: Red Panzer I was an actual Nazi general, and a capable fighter. The later versions... not to so much.
 * Freudian Excuse: Red Panzer III watched his father kill his mother over supposed imperfections in her bloodstream. This screwed him up pretty badly to say the least.
 * Gratuitous German: The name. It should either be "Rote Panzer", or "Red Armour," not the mishmash that is "Red Panzer."
 * Hypocrite: The third Red Panzer had African-American ancestry. He was aware of this, and loathed himself for it. Then there's IV whose actually an anarchist, but wears the Red Panzer armour because Vandal Savage told him to.
 * Law of Chromatic Superiority: Red Panzer.
 * Legacy Character: Four men have worn the Red Panzer's armour: Nazi leader Helmut von Streicher (I), an unrevealed father (II) and son (III) and teenage Justin (IV).
 * No Name Given: Red Panzers II and III.
 * Only One Name: Red Panzer IV is known only as Justin.
 * Powered Armour
 * Stupid Jetpack Hitler: Where'd he get Powered Armour in 1940?
 * Tank Goodness: Panzer is German for armour; it's also short for Panzerkampfwagen, aka "Armoured War Vehicle", aka the tank.
 * Teens Are Monsters: Teenage anarchist Justin was recruited by Vandal Savage to become the fourth Red Panzer.
 * Those Wacky Nazis

Silver Swan
"AKA: Helen Alexandros (1st); Valerie Beaudry (2nd); Vanessa Kapatelis (3rd)"

There have been four of these of these so far. They pack metallic armor and wings, and a powerful scream. They each have a Freudian Excuse to fight Wonder Woman, except for the fourth who didn't even get an origin story


 * Ax Crazy
 * Closer to Earth: Before being turned into Silver Swan, George Perez wrote and illustrated Vanessa as a realistic teenage girl.
 * Compelling Voice
 * Deal with the Devil
 * Earn Your Happy Ending: Vanessa's story was finished in Wonder Woman #600 at her graduation, having completely recovered from her time as a cyborg and grown as a person.
 * Heel Face Turn: Valerie and Vanessa. Valerie actually kept the Silver Swan name for a while and acted as a member of the superhero team called the Captains of Industry, as well as the Suicide Squad.
 * Legacy Character
 * Make Me Wanna Shout
 * More Than Mind Control: In Vanessa's case. Circe and Dr. Psycho played on her feelings of resentment and abandonment towards Wonder Woman in order to turn her into the third Swan.
 * Winged Humanoid

Veronica Cale
A billionaire perfume magnate that just happens to also be an Omnidisciplinary Scientist. She is currently the leader of Oolong Island, a commune of Mad Scientists in the Yellow Sea off the coast of China.


 * All for Nothing: What Ms. Cale feels she'd done with all the years of spying on Diana, tricking Ms. Minerva into becoming the Cheetah twice, turning her deceased friend into a killer A.I. while essentially having been enslaved by a pair of despicable false gods in exchange for her daughters soul. Only to be cheated by the fact that she was as much bound to the island of warrior women as was the focus of Cale's exploits in villainy in the first place.
 * Ambition Is Evil: Ultimately her desire to be the ideal woman in the eyes of everyone everywhere is the driving force of her scrutiny pre-Flashpoint.
 * Big Bad Wannabe: Often on the receiving end of this due to having plenty of connections, reach and intellect yet hideously lacking any real power as well as common sense. Adding to the similarity vein between herself and Lex Luthor.
 * Magnanimously subverted post Rebirth. For while she was initially drafted against her consent to go against Wonder Woman by the bratty Twin God's of terror. She ended up getting back at them by trapping them in powerless animal host's, forcing their obedience to her instead.
 * Corrupt Corporate Executive: A big money chief executive officer who flagrantly devotes her fortune and resources to larcenous ends out of sheer envy.
 * The Dragon: Played with twice in Wonder Woman Comics; the first is during the 52 even where Chang Tzu/Egg-Fu pressed her into his services on Oolong Island where she winds up as his henchwoman/accomplice in engineering the revival of the Four Horsemen of Apokolips against her will.
 * And again in Rebirth where hated Deimos & Phobos, the divine twin sons of Ares the God of War, employed Veronica Cale's assistance in subverting Wonder Woman in order to find her lost home. Which sub-sequentially served as the prison of their father which they wished to locate so they could usurp his power for themselves.
 * Dragon Ascendant: Deimos & Phobos would attempt to press-gang Cale into finding Diana's home for them by stealing Isadore's Soul, but shirking the deal they had made with one of the smartest and wealthiest business owners of her time proved to be a calamitous mistake. As they never believed she would rent out magic of her own to trap them into more servile forms until they released the child back onto her mother. Effectively taking full command of the Godwatch initiative she'd created to track Diana and discover the whereabouts of Themyscira for them.
 * Expy: She's effectively Wonder Woman's version of Lex Luthor.
 * Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Surprising given her Lack of Empathy and insidious moral insanity, Veronica loved her mother enough to blackmail her deadbeat dad into loaning them enough cash to live life easier, too bad momma died of cancer not too long afterwards. She even used to have a best friend whom helped her start the pharmaceutical conglomerate they build together, that is until Leslie offered her services in mending the psychologically damaged Silver Swan after Diana successfully talked her down.
 * Played again in Rebirth with her young daughter Isadore Cale. Whom had her soul stolen by the bastard sons of Ares Deimos & Phobos to use as a bargaining chip to coerce her into helping them find Paradise Island. She also deeply loved her business partner and best bud, Adrianna Anderson; who killed herself using faulty cybernetic interfacing tech to siphon information from Wonder Woman's mind. Veronica patterned an A.I. after the mental engrams of her deceased friend whom would later come to call herself Doctor Cyber.
 * Foe Yay: Oddly with Doc Magnus.
 * Freudian Excuse: Subverted in the initial post crisis imprint as her main motivations was merely egocentrically driven jealousy towards someone whom she deemed a threat to her Status Quo of being the one true Wonder Woman.
 * Played straight in Rebirth given how Jerkass Gods stole her daughters life from her and she blamed Diana for bringing her brand of pagan craziness into her and Adriana's lives because of it.
 * Green-Eyed Monster: Her motivation for loathing Wonder Woman is essentially this. Wonder Woman is an immortal superpowerful princess who can talk to animals while Veronica had to work her way up from being white trash.
 * Love Makes You Evil: Veronica's love for her daughter has driven her to commit some pretty horrible acts in order to appease the sleazy divine whom stole Isadore from her.
 * Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: When the petty gods' Deimos and Phobos welshed on returning Izzy's soul to her after their attempt at finding the lost isle of the Amazons after having successfully converted Barbara Minerva into the Cheetah. Cale would make a Faustian Bargain with the immortal witch Circe to isolate they're powers and bind them within a pair of Doberman puppies as revenge for screwing with her and her's.
 * Ms. Fanservice: Rocks extremely stylish businesswear and an immaculate manicure, is pictured on one cover leading a guy on a leash and has the attitude to match. She also seems to get tied up by other villains enough to make William Moulton Marsden proud.
 * My God, What Have I Done?: She came to really regret her part in the construction of the Four Horsemen of Apokolips, enough to attempt a Suicide by Cop.
 * Omnidisciplinary Scientist
 * President Evil: Of Oolong Island, post-52.
 * Start of Darkness: During the New 52/Rebirth publishing, Veronica Cale was simply a stern and taciturn corporate head whom only committed atrocities as a labor of love. Her only daughter Isadore's soul had been stolen by the evil Deimos & Phobos who forced her to help them find Themyscira and she was left without options and her best friend after she put herself in a dangerously unstable robotics hub that fried her body & mind. Things didn't get much better for the jaundiced billionaire was finally reunited with her daughter only to be told that Izzy could never leave the place Veronica hopelessly spent decades trying to find.
 * Took A Level In Badass: Took several levels in badass as of recent productions. Prior works depicted Cale as an adept yet incompetent foil to her Arch-nemesis Wonder Woman whose malignant plans were often swiped from under her by a bigger bad later in the story. As of Rebirth she went from a bemoaned slave to the master of a pair of bratty lesser divinity by trapping them in a couple of guard dogs and making them her bitches instead for what they did to Esadore Cale. In Wonder Woman: Bloodlines; Veronica had successfully played everything and everyone to the letter and achieved her ultimate goal; revealing the location of Paradise Island so she can plunder it's resources for profit at a later date.
 * Villain Respect: Post Rebirth shows Ares admits that Cale was really impressive as far as humans go, saying for all their faults that mankind will move mountains in order to achieve their goals. Such was the case with Veronica as she'd managed to supplant her demanding whip masters into her personal enforcers and finding the hidden Themyscira while others could not.

The Olympians
The Greek Gods from myth, who created the Amazons and Diana (well, only the female gods and Hermes, but Zeus liked to pretend it was his idea afterward).


 * All Myths Are True
 * Gods Need Prayer Badly
 * Incest Is Relative: More evident in The New 52 Universe.
 * Physical God

Ares/War
Arguably Wonder Woman's archnemesis, Ares, the God of War, is a cunning schemer who thrives on conflict and seeks to perpetuate endless war. Despite his bloodthirsty nature, Ares is a genius tactician and master manipulator.


 * Adaptational Badass: Ares in Greek Mythology was a Dumb Muscle bruiser who left the thinking to Athena, and occasionally got his rear handed to him by mortals. This version, on the other hand, is bright, motivated, and extremely dangerous.
 * Ax Crazy
 * Big Bad
 * Blond Guys Are Evil
 * The Chessmaster
 * Evil Old Folks: in The New 52 Universe.
 * God of Evil
 * Consummate Liar: Wonder Woman calls him the Deceiver for a reason.
 * Necromancer
 * Manipulative Bastard
 * Omnicidal Maniac: Came within a few minutes of starting a world-ending nuclear war before Diana pointed out the flaws in that plan. Did it again years later when he didn't need to worry about running out of people to worship him.
 * Pet the Dog: When Cassie lost her powers, Ares offered to restore them. Instead of a Deal with the Devil, all he wanted in return
 * Though this was kind of subverted when it turned out that his powers were driving her crazy. Though he may not have known that, so it could still count.
 * Pragmatic Villainy: With a little help from Wonder Woman, he realized that, thanks to nukes, starting World War III would destroy the world and leave no one left to fight his wars.
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning
 * Smug Snake (in Rucka's run)
 * Villains Blend in Better: Unlike most of the other Gods, he has adjusted to the modern world and is comfortable with wearing modern clothing if the situation calls for it.
 * Villains Blend in Better: Unlike most of the other Gods, he has adjusted to the modern world and is comfortable with wearing modern clothing if the situation calls for it.

Athena
Diana's patron goddess is Athena, the daughter of Zeus and goddess of wisdom, skill, and military strategy. She's as wise and warlike as in myth, and even once dethroned her father and took over Olympus.


 * Brainy Brunette
 * Lady of War
 * The Obi-Wan
 * The Obi-Wan

Zeus
Generally leader of the gods, and he acts just like in myth, complete with the jerkass tendencies and the Attempted Rape. Even so, he's among the most powerful beings in the cosmos and commands the respect (if not the admiration) of every pantheon of gods, even Darkseid. He's spawned countless offspring over the ages, including the gods Ares, Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, and Hephaestus; and the demigods Hercules and Cassandra Sandsmark (the second Wonder Girl). Just as the goddesses of Olympus lend their powers to Diana, Zeus has also empowered other heroes, such as the Olympian and Captain Marvel.


 * Attempted Rape: He was going to try this on WONDER WOMAN of all people.
 * Grandpa God
 * Jerkass: Even when he acts nice it ends up being a Double Subversion as his jerkassness comes back tenfold whenever he doesn't get what he considers to be the proper gratitude for his "gifts", which have included the chance to be impregnated with yet another one of his illegitimate children, or having your entire society be pushed aside to make way for his newest favorites.
 * Really the only reason he's not a Complete Monster is that he does at least sometimes learn from his mistakes and even eventually accepts that his daughter has taken over from him when he realises that she deserves it more than he does.
 * Really Gets Around
 * Truly Single Parent: Zeus gave birth to Athena by himself.
 * Truly Single Parent: Zeus gave birth to Athena by himself.

Achilles Warkiller

 * Big Damn Heroes:
 * Bi the Way: Fans were amused when Achilles met a man named Patrick (Patroclus) and thanked Wonder Woman for setting them up.
 * Cool Pet: What else do you call an elephant that flies and has two trunks?

Hercules
The bastard demigod son of Zeus, now an immortal himself with powers on par with Wonder Woman's. In ancient times, Hercules seduced and raped Diana's mother, Queen Hippolyta, a source of constant enmity between the Amazons and this brute. Over the centuries, Hercules has become slightly more noble, but his rash nature and love of violence make him a frequent thorn in Wonder Woman's side.


 * Brother-Sister Incest: When Zeus and the other gods were abducted by Darkseid's minions, he suggested to his sister Cassandra that they might have to start a new pantheon themselves.
 * The Brute / The Big Guy
 * Dumb Muscle: Not dumb, per se, but Herc rarely thinks before he swings his fists.
 * Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: He truly cares about his mother, Alcmene, and his sister, Cassie Sandsmark.
 * A little TOO much in Cassie's case. Squick.
 * Face Heel Turn: Was revealed to be working with Circe in a plot to conquer the entire world. And then tried to rape Circe and Wonder Woman. And worst of all seems to have got a Karma Houdini as he's never actually faced justice for anything he did
 * Heel Face Turn: Hippolyta forgave him in the end for what he did and he was actually a (Sort of) hero for a little bit. Until... well, see above.
 * Super Strength
 * Ungrateful Bastard: He elbowed Superman in the face for saving him from Gog, the Godslayer.
 * What the Hell, Hero?: Hercules delivered one to Wonder Woman during One Year Later after he found out that she had run away from her duties as a superhero and left Donna, Cassie and himself to do all the work.

Poseidon

 * : In The New 52 Universe.

Hades

 * : In The New 52 Universe.
 * Everybody Hates Hades: Wonderfully deconstructed in The New 52 Universe.

Hera

 * : In The New 52 Universe, unlike her previous incarnations.

Nemesis/Strife
The Goddess of Retribution. Nemesis was driven mad by the cries of the unjustly slain, while simultaneously being empowered by them. Every murder, and every casualty of war made her stronger and more fanatical, until she was strong enough to drive all other gods out of reality itself. Seeing Diana as the last obstacle to her own domination, Nemesis sought to remove her by any means necessary.


 * Affably Evil: In The New 52 Universe, although she is more Affably Amoral.
 * Artifact of Doom: The Flashing Blade, created by the Titans to kill gods themselves. It's a semi-sentient sword that longs to punish murderers and warmongers.
 * Big Bad: Of the Odyssey arc.
 * Demonic Possession:
 * Humans Are the Real Monsters: She couldn't exist without it.
 * Omnicidal Maniac: Since humanity is the source of murder, Nemesis reasoned that she could only fulfill her purpose by destroying them entirely.
 * : Her ultimate goal.
 * With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: With every unjust death, her power grew until she could reign alone out of all the gods. It also drove her completely mad.
 * Xanatos Gambit: