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* [[Wonder Woman]]
** Wonder Woman was treated as essentially a brand-new character, coming to Man's World for the first time. She had no secret identity and no Lois-Lane-esque love interest, and received much stronger ties to Greek mythology. With ''[[Infinite Crisis]]'', though, when she came into Man's World was restored to before the JLA was first founded, but the rest of the changes remained.
** Unlike Superman, she was actually ''[[Power Creep, Power Seep|increased]]'' in power. She could fly under her own power, and lost several vulnerabilities, such as having her bracelets removed. Furthermore, [[Thou Shalt Not Kill|her compunction against using deadly force]] was removed (the only one among DC's "big three" that this happened to), making her willing to use that option [[I Did What I Had to Do|when she judges it necessary]].
** The Earth-2 Wonder Woman was erased from history. Initially, there had never been a Wonder Woman as part of the Justice Society of America; later, as part of a time-travel adventure, her mother Hippolyta took her place there.
** In addition, her [[Rogues Gallery]] was reimagined to make the members real threats. The key example is the Cheetah, who was changed from a normal woman in a silly cheetah costume to a ferocious were-cheetah who could be a deadly challenge to Diana.
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* [[Batman (Comic Book)|Batman]]
** [[Frank Miller]] told Batman's new origin in the storyline ''[[Batman: Year One]]'' (as part of the ''Batman'' ongoing series). His backstory was much less altered than Superman's or Wonder Woman's, though his weirder [[Silver Age]] adventures were quietly removed from continuity. The darker [[Bronze Age]] Batman was actually a return to his dark, noir-esque [[Golden Age]] days after the kid-friendly stamp of the [[Comics Code]] was dropped by DC [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|(to the consternation of no one)]]. While Batman's character was even further darkened [[Post-Crisis]], it was mostly compatible with the Bronze Age version of the character.
** In ''Zero Hour'', it was stated that the murderer of Bruce Wayne's parents was never caught. Dialogue in ''Infinite Crisis'' indicates that this has been [[Retcon|retconned]] out with the murderer, Joe Chill, arrested on the same night for the crime.
*** Also in ''Zero Hour'', the idea of Batman being an "urban legend" was introduced, stating that most people didn't think he actually existed. How true this is held to be has fluctuated. This urban legend part was undone by the 2004 story arc, "War Games".
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