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Wonder Woman

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"If it means interfering in an ensconced, outdated system, to help just one woman, man or child...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."


Allies

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.

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.

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.
  • All Amazons Want Gods: In her case The King of the Gods, Zeus.
  • And I Must Scream: Her destiny and the destiny of her amazons after Hera's punishment: she is turned in stone and her amazons are turned in snakes.
  • 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.
  • My Secret Pregnancy: In the New 52, Hippolyta made up the "clay" story to cover the fact that she'd gotten pregnant from Zeus.

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.

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 and arguably in the New 52 Universe.

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.

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.


Villains

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.

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.

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.

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).

Dark Angel

 

 AKA: Donna Troy of Earth-7

 

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. 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.

  • 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: To Donna Troy. She's really the Donna of a destroyed parallel Earth. 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.

Doctor Poison

 

 AKA: Maru

 

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

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.

Duke of Deception

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

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 Etta, though at least she got better.
  • Emotion Bomb: One of her powers, which she uses to turn Donna against Diana.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Causes this reaction even among the Secret Society of Super Villains, especially with Dr. Morrow who reveals that being of Polish descent means that he can't stomach having anything to do with Genocide.
  • Evil Me Scares Me: Genocide was created from the corpse of the future Wonder Woman.
  • Humans Are Bastards: The personification of this idea.
  • Never Found the Body: Because Ares took it.
  • 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.

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.

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.

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

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.


The Gods

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).

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.

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.

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.

Achilles Warkiller

  • Big Damn Heroes: Against the Citizenry's snake.
  • 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

Hades

Hera

  • Evil Matriarch: 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.

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