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[[File:Wonder_Woman2.jpg|frame|That's right, [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny|look at]] the [[Everything's Better with Sparkles|sparklies...]] [[Megaton Punch|*Punch!* ]]]]
{{quote|''"[[Girls Need Role Models|Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power.]] Not wanting to be girls, they don't want to be tender, submissive, peace-loving as good women are. Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of [[Superman]] plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman."''
|'''William Moulton Marston''', 1943}}
The Princess of Truth. [[Hot Amazon|The Princess of the Amazons]]. '''''[[Trope Codifier|The]]''''' [[Action Girl|Female]] [[Superhero]].
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She was created in 1941 by psychologist William Moulton Marston (then an educational consultant to DC Comics) along with his wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston, as a deliberate counterpoint to the all-male stable of "''Übermenschen''" published by DC at the time. Marston was remarkably free of the era's usual prejudices about and disdain for women (though this was partly because he was an admitted masochist who ''fetishized'' powerful women), and intentionally designed the character to embody his image of an idealized strong, unconventional and independent female. The character first appeared in ''"All Star Comics''" #8 (December, 1941).
As a historical note, Marston was also vital in the development of the polygraph ("lie detector") -- which may be why Wonder Woman's lasso forces criminals to speak the truth. Marston also had unconventional sexual views (He and his wife had a third partner, Olive Byrne -- unconventional by today's standards, grounds for arrest or even [[Torches and Pitchforks|public stoning]] in 1941). He also practiced [[BDSM]] and/or bondage, thus many of his stories had elements of this; see the [https://web.archive.org/web/20131005103732/http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=34&Itemid=51 "Suffering Sappho!"] section of [
He also had very unconventional views on how the world should be run for the time he lived in, believing a Matriarchy would be superior to the male-dominated world of the 1940s. This was the basis for Paradise Island.
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* [[Action Girl]]: Despite some times of [[Unfortunate Implications]], Diana has never been depicted as incapable.
* [[Action Mom]]: Hippolyta
* [[Adaptational Personality Adjustment]]: Not Wonder Woman herself so much, but her supporting characters. During the Golden Age, Hercules/Heracles suffered this unfortunately. He did cause either Hippolyta's death or Theseus kidnapping her in the original myth, but either was an accident owing to Hera stirring up war with the Amazons on framing him for kidnapping Hippolyta. Hercules in Golden Age Wonder Woman seduces Hippolyta to steal her girdle and enslave the Amazons, just because Mars convinced him it was a good idea, rather than needing her girdle to complete his twelve labors. Hippolyta as a result is more of a [[Broken Bird]] compared to her portrayal in Greek mythology or ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'', vowing to never trust a man again per Aphrodite's edict.
* [[Amazon Admirer]]: Nearly every incarnation has a literal example, dating all the way back to the Golden Age.
** Hippolyta tells Diana that the Amazons hide from the world of men per orders from the gods because men are obsessed with conquering them. The Amazons once lived in harmony with other humans, provided they never let men seduce or trick them. Then Hercules, under the influence of Mars, decided to steal Hippolyta's divine girdle, a gift from Aphrodite in an attempt to subdue the Amazons. He proceeded to enslave them while breaking Hippolyta's heart. Aphrodite took pity on them when the Amazons repented the moment of weakness, helping free them and relocate them to a remote island. As a reminder of the betrayal, however, they have to wear bulletproof bracelets. It's also why Hippolyta is at first reluctant to let Diana go help Steve in the world of men, fearing history will repeat itself. (The bracelets end up coming in handy because Diana learns they can repel gunfire.)
** Steve Trevor plays this straight. He recognizes Diana as the woman who saved him from a plane crash, and she goes with him back to the mainland to see if humans are worthy of her protection. They proceed to fight Nazis and have each other's backs. In the Golden Age, at least before he started dying on a regular basis in DC continuity, he said he was fine if Wonder Woman never returns his feelings; knowing she was saving the world was enough for him.
* [[Amazonian Beauty]]: She is a literal Amazon and she is definitely beautiful. Even when she's [[Depending on the Artist|portrayed]] as muscular.
* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Paradise Island has fueled slash for decades.
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* [[Heroic BSOD]]: She's not prone to these, but one instance happened when she was forced to confront two equally valid but conflicting truths (which of the parents had the rights to a child, one of whom was a supervillain dictator). The lasso actually snapped and for a brief time, truth itself became totally unbound on the world.
* [[Hidden Elf Village]]: Paradise Island, though it is accessible to the outside world in certain arcs.
* [[High Heel Hurt]]: The 2006 incarnation of Wonder Woman had Diana complain about the stilettos as part of the disguise Canary issued to her.
* [[Hot Amazon]]: Super example.
* [[Hourglass Hottie]]: Even [[Depending on the Artist|the versions]] that are muscular and athletic generally have a wasp-waisted hourglass figure.
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