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== Wonder Woman ==

 

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.

 

== Allies ==

''"We are indeed a race of wonder women."''

 

* [[Straw Feminist]]: In a few stories, much to the annoyance of the fans... don't even mention ''Amazons Attack''.

 

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 [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|warrior attitude]], she's become a close and loyal ally of Diana's and a true hero.

 

* [[Redheaded Hero]]

 

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.

 

* [[Sidekick]]

 

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.

 

* {{spoiler|[[My Secret Pregnancy]]}}: In the New 52, {{spoiler|Hippolyta made up the "clay" story to cover the fact that she'd gotten pregnant from Zeus}}.

 

 

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.

* [[Master of Disguise]]

 

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.

 

* [[Love Interest]]: Pre-Crisis {{spoiler|and arguably in the New 52 Universe}}.

 

 

Donna Troy's past is... [[Continuity Snarl|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 (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]], and now she forges her own path as simply Donna Troy.

* [[Team Mom]]: For the Titans. It's even lampshaded a few times.

 

 

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 (comics)|Young Justice]] and the [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]], and she eventually discovered that Zeus was her father.

 

== Villains ==

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.

 

* [[Psycho Lesbian]]: Sadly, the first in Amazon history.

 

 

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.

* [[Sidekick]]: Chuma.

 

 

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.

* [[Unholy Matrimony]]: With 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 [[Becoming the Mask|Diana's friend]].

 

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|You Gotta Have Purple Hair]]

 

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).

 

* [[Super Strength]]

 

 

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. {{spoiler|It turned out she's really the Donna Troy of Earth-7, from the Multiverse that was destroyed in ''[[Crisis on Infinite Earths]]''. The Anti-Monitor saved her in order to make her his own harbinger, but she was too difficult to control and fled.}}

* [[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.

 

 

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.

* [[Super Strength]]

 

 

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

* [[Yellow Peril]]: In her [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|Golden Age]] appearances (later revealed to have been the modern Dr. Poison's grandmother).

 

 

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.

* [[Psychic Powers]]

 

 

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

* [[Master of Illusion]]

 

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.

 

* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]: The true purpose behind her creation is to kill and kill and kill, without ever stopping.

 

 

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

* [[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).

 

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 [[Justice Society of America|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.

 

* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]

 

 

Tsaritsa was the actual evil queen from "[[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (novel)|Snow White]]". Awakening in modern times, this cruel tyrant hopes to reawaken her empire.

* [[Vain Sorceress]]

 

 

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.

* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]

 

 

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

* [[Winged Humanoid]]

 

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 Scientist]]s in the Yellow Sea off the coast of China.

 

* [[All for Nothing]]: What Ms. Cale feels she'd done with all the years of [[Stalker Without a Crush|spying on Diana]], [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|tricking Ms. Minerva into becoming the Cheetah twice, turning her deceased friend into a killer A.I.]] while essentially [[Sympathy for Lady Vengeance|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 [[Driven to Villainy|scrutiny]] pre-Flashpoint.

* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: A big money chief executive officer who flagrantly devotes her fortune and resources to larcenous ends out of sheer envy.

* [[Expy]]: She's effectively Wonder Woman's version of Lex Luthor.

** 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.

 

== The Gods ==

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).

 

* [[Physical God]]

 

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.

 

* [[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.

 

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.

 

* [[The Obi-Wan]]

 

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 [[Shazam|Captain Marvel]].

 

* [[Truly Single Parent]]: Zeus gave birth to Athena by himself.

 

 

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: {{spoiler|Against the Citizenry's snake.}}

* [[Cool Pet]]: What else do you call an elephant that flies and has two trunks?

 

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.

 

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Hercules delivered one to Wonder Woman during ''One Year Later'' after he found out that she had [[I Just Want to Be Normal|run away from her duties as a superhero]] and left Donna, Cassie and himself to do all the work.

 

 

* {{spoiler|[[Eldritch Abomination]]}}: In The New 52 Universe.

 

 

* {{spoiler|[[Creepy Child]]}}: In The New 52 Universe.

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

 

 

* {{spoiler|[[Evil Matriarch]]}}: In The New 52 Universe, unlike her previous incarnations.

* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: {{spoiler|Either Diana joins her as part of the Morrigan, allowing Nemesis to [[Kill'Em All]], or [[You Kill It, You Bought It|Diana kills her and is forced into the position herself.]] Either way Nemesis gets what she wants.}}