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| − | Following the [[Crisis on Infinite Earths]], a new version of reality was created with a different history of events. | + | Following the [[Crisis on Infinite Earths]], a new version of reality was created with a different history of events. Diana was the daughter of Queen Hippolyta and the first child born on Paradise Island in the three thousand year history that the immortal Amazons lived there. The Amazons had been created around 1200 B.C. when the Greek goddesses drew forth the souls of all women who had been murdered by men and placed them on the island. One soul was held back from creation, the one that would be born as Diana. That soul originally belonged to the unborn daughter of the first woman murdered by a man (whom Hippolyta was the reincarnation of). In the late 20th Century, Hippolyta was instructed to mold some clay from the shores of Paradise Island into the form of a baby girl. Six members of the Greek Pantheon then bonded the soul to the clay, giving it life. Each of the six also granted Diana a gift: Demeter, great strength; Athena, wisdom and courage; Artemis, a hunter's heart and a communion with animals; Aphrodite, beauty and a loving heart; Hestia, sisterhood with fire; Hermes, speed and the power of flight. Diana grew up surrounded by a legion of sisters and mothers. When she was a young woman, the gods decreed that the Amazons must send an emissary into Man's World, Diana who was bored of her surroundings and seeked adventure jumped at the opportunity to leave while following the mission to bring peace upon the world. Queen Hippolyta ordered a contest to be held, but forbade Diana from participating. Diana disobeyed and did so anyway in disguise, easily winning the contest and being named the Amazons' champion. She was given a uniform fashioned from the standard of someone who had visited the island a few decades earlier. (Wonder Woman v2 #1) |
===Post-Flashpoint=== | ===Post-Flashpoint=== | ||
Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events. Diana | Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events. Diana | ||
| − | + | According to legend, Diana of Themiscyra was born from her mother's strong desire for a child and came from a lump of clay brought to life in the form of a girl to be the perfect Amazon as she was born of no man. (Wonder Woman v4 #2) However, it was revealed that Queen Hippolyta had had an affair with Zeus with Diana's real parentage being kept hidden in order to protect them from the wrath of god's notoriously jealous wife Hera. (Wonder Woman v4 #3) Unknown to anyone, Diana had a twin brother who was given the name '''Jason''' but as he was a boy he was taken away from the island with his existence a closely guarded secret. (Justice League v2 #50) | |
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| + | Later on, the world came under attack from [[Parademons]] which began to storm the city of Metropolis. In that time, Wonder Woman was resolved to defend the city leading to her meeting the other heroes including Superman, Batman, Flash, Green Lantern and Aquaman. (Justice League v2 #3) | ||
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| + | Ares told Diana that he had been imprisoned by the other Gods of Olympus and bound in chains that were secured by Aphrodite through the power of her love. He also told her that years ago, Phobos and Deimos had implanted false memories of Themyscira into her mind, and these had caused her to imagine aspects of her past that had never happened in reality. Meanwhile, Phobos and Deimos entered Themyscira and battled with the Amazons. Diana knew what she had to do, and called Ares to unite her with Phobos and Deimos. He teleported them to her, and using her Lasso of Truth, Wonder Woman bound them through the power of her unconditional love for them, as Aphrodite had done to Ares. With the twin gods defeated, Diana attempted to leave Ares' prison along with Veronica and Izzy, however Izzy's essence had been attached to the realm and could not return to Earth. Izzy was forced to either live out the rest of her days in the prison or live in Themyscira as an Amazon for eternity. She chose the latter and Veronica said goodbye to her daughter. Diana was briefly reunited with her mother, for the first time since she left the island. (Wonder Woman v5 #23) | ||
==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
Revision as of 06:46, 13 August 2022
Wonder Woman is a female comic superhero who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Golden Age
Diana
Unknown to her, she actually had a twin sister named Nubia who had also been crafted from clay by Hippolyta and given life by Aphrodite. However, after being given life, the infants awaited the pantheon to come and give gifts to Hippolyta. However, the god of war Mars appeared where he stole the young Nubia from her cradle and disappeared from the world. Even the efforts of Aphrodite was unable to find the missing child with Hippolyta suffering from intense grief over the loss of her daughter. (Wonder Woman v1 #206)
One day, an airplane piloted by Captain Steve Trevor crashed on Paradise Island where he was found alive but unconscious by Diana and fellow Amazon and friend Mala. Diana was responsible for nursing the man back to health where in the process she came to fall in love with him. A competition was later held amongst all the Amazons by Queen Hippolyta in order to determine who was the most worthy of all the women to hold the responsibility of returning Steve Trevor back to Man's World and to fight for justice whilst there. Hippolyta though forbade her daughter Diana from entering the competition but the Amazon Princes took part nonetheless in secret. Wearing a mask to conceal her identity, Diana came to win the competition and revealed herself to everyone. This came to surprise Hippolyta who ultimately accepted her daughter's decision and gave in to her wish to go to Man's World. She then was awarded a special uniform made by her mother for her new role as Wonder Woman and safely returned Steve Trevor to his home country. (All-Star Comics v1 #8)
She and the Amazons came to receive a distress call from King Crystallar of the White Star planet who claimed that they were being terrorised by the Golden Women of the Red Planet. This led to Wonder Woman and a number of Amazons travelling into space to aid the beleaguered people but were captured by the Golden Policewomen. They mistakenly believed the Amazons to be from the White Star planet and had broken the ban from leaving their world leading to their arrest. It was then discovered that Crystallar of the Green Genii people had deliberately created a misunderstanding between the Amazons an the Golden Women in the hope that the two sides would fight one another. Upon learning, Queen Supreema of the Golden Women went to free the Amazons but Wonder Woman and her kin had escaped. The Amazons ended up being captured by the Green Genii who revealed their true nature and after Diana destroyed the Inhilerator it allowed them to rise up against the Golden Policewomen where they laid siege to the Gold Castle. Wonder Woman intervened where she helped stop the fighting by capturing the Green Genii's leader with her lasso and forced him to surrender. With the threat defeated, Diana parted in friendship with Queen Supreema and returned back to Earth. (Wonder Woman v1 #210)
Silver Age
Post-Crisis
Following the Crisis on Infinite Earths, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events. Diana was the daughter of Queen Hippolyta and the first child born on Paradise Island in the three thousand year history that the immortal Amazons lived there. The Amazons had been created around 1200 B.C. when the Greek goddesses drew forth the souls of all women who had been murdered by men and placed them on the island. One soul was held back from creation, the one that would be born as Diana. That soul originally belonged to the unborn daughter of the first woman murdered by a man (whom Hippolyta was the reincarnation of). In the late 20th Century, Hippolyta was instructed to mold some clay from the shores of Paradise Island into the form of a baby girl. Six members of the Greek Pantheon then bonded the soul to the clay, giving it life. Each of the six also granted Diana a gift: Demeter, great strength; Athena, wisdom and courage; Artemis, a hunter's heart and a communion with animals; Aphrodite, beauty and a loving heart; Hestia, sisterhood with fire; Hermes, speed and the power of flight. Diana grew up surrounded by a legion of sisters and mothers. When she was a young woman, the gods decreed that the Amazons must send an emissary into Man's World, Diana who was bored of her surroundings and seeked adventure jumped at the opportunity to leave while following the mission to bring peace upon the world. Queen Hippolyta ordered a contest to be held, but forbade Diana from participating. Diana disobeyed and did so anyway in disguise, easily winning the contest and being named the Amazons' champion. She was given a uniform fashioned from the standard of someone who had visited the island a few decades earlier. (Wonder Woman v2 #1)
Post-Flashpoint
Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events. Diana
According to legend, Diana of Themiscyra was born from her mother's strong desire for a child and came from a lump of clay brought to life in the form of a girl to be the perfect Amazon as she was born of no man. (Wonder Woman v4 #2) However, it was revealed that Queen Hippolyta had had an affair with Zeus with Diana's real parentage being kept hidden in order to protect them from the wrath of god's notoriously jealous wife Hera. (Wonder Woman v4 #3) Unknown to anyone, Diana had a twin brother who was given the name Jason but as he was a boy he was taken away from the island with his existence a closely guarded secret. (Justice League v2 #50)
Later on, the world came under attack from Parademons which began to storm the city of Metropolis. In that time, Wonder Woman was resolved to defend the city leading to her meeting the other heroes including Superman, Batman, Flash, Green Lantern and Aquaman. (Justice League v2 #3)
Ares told Diana that he had been imprisoned by the other Gods of Olympus and bound in chains that were secured by Aphrodite through the power of her love. He also told her that years ago, Phobos and Deimos had implanted false memories of Themyscira into her mind, and these had caused her to imagine aspects of her past that had never happened in reality. Meanwhile, Phobos and Deimos entered Themyscira and battled with the Amazons. Diana knew what she had to do, and called Ares to unite her with Phobos and Deimos. He teleported them to her, and using her Lasso of Truth, Wonder Woman bound them through the power of her unconditional love for them, as Aphrodite had done to Ares. With the twin gods defeated, Diana attempted to leave Ares' prison along with Veronica and Izzy, however Izzy's essence had been attached to the realm and could not return to Earth. Izzy was forced to either live out the rest of her days in the prison or live in Themyscira as an Amazon for eternity. She chose the latter and Veronica said goodbye to her daughter. Diana was briefly reunited with her mother, for the first time since she left the island. (Wonder Woman v5 #23)
Overview
Personality and attributes
It was said that she was named Diana after the Olympian goddess of the Moon who was her godmother. (All-Star Comics v1 #8)
as Wonder Woman, she served as a symbol of integrity and humanity so that the world of men would know what it meant to be an Amazon. (All-Star Comics v1 #8)
In this role, she was said to avenge injustice or right a wrong. (All-Star Comics v1 #8)
Diana was said to be as lovely as the goddess Aphrodite and as wise as the goddess Athena. (All-Star Comics v1 #8)
She was said to had adhered to an Amazon code of helping any in need, even misogynistic people, and never accepting a reward for saving someone. (Wonder Woman v1 #38)
According to one account, she was the daughter of her mother Hippolyta's affair with he Olympian god Zeus. (Wonder Woman v4 #3)
One account revealed that she had a twin brother named Jason. (Justice League v2 #50)
Powers and abilities
Diana was born a member of the Amazon tribe who were a hidden race of entirely female warriors. She had the speed of Mercury and the strength of Hercules with these traits giving her superhuman abilities. It was said she possessed hundred times the agility and strength of the best human male athletes and strongest wrestlers. (All-Star Comics v1 #8) According to one account, she was actually a demigod due to her father being Zeus. (Wonder Woman v4 #3)
Batman would comment that she best melee fighter in the world. (Justice League of America v2 #13)
They were in fact composed of the godly Eighth Metal that was one of the strongest elements in the Multiverse. (Dark Nights: Metal v1 #5) Some accounts showed that she entered into an uncontrollable frenzy if she was separated from her bracelets. (Comic Cavalcade v1 #18)
According to one account, the lasso was created from Aphrodite's Magic Girdle by the Amazons craftswoman Metala at the behest of Queen Hippolyte, and its magical properties were granted by the Goddess herself and by Athena: the lasso forced whoever was bound within it to obey the commands of the user. (Sensation Comics v1 #6)
Unknown to her, she came to be marked as a child by the goddess Hecate and given a fraction of her magical ability. (Wonder Woman and Justice League Dark: The Witching Hour v1 #1)
Her strong feelings of love made her a candidate for a violet Power Ring and induct her briefly into the ranks of the Star Sapphires. (Blackest Night v1 #6)
Notes
- Wonder Woman was created by William Moulton Marston and H. G. Peter where she made her first appearance in All Star Comics v1 #8 (October, 1941).
Alternate Versions
In other media
Television
- In Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman featured in the setting of the 1970s live-action television series where she was portrayed by actress Lynda Carter.
- In Justice League, Wonder Woman appeared in the setting of the animated television series set in the DC Animated Universe where she was voiced by actress Susan Eisenberg.
Films
- In Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman featured in the setting of the 2009 animated film where she was voiced by actress Keri Russell.
- In Wonder Woman, Wonder Man featured in the setting of the live-action film where she was portrayed by actress Gal Gadot.
Video games
- In DC Universe Online, Wonder Woman appeared in the setting of the MMORPG video game where she was originally voiced by actress Gina Torres before being voiced by actress Susan Eisenberg.
- In Infinite Crisis, Wonder Woman appeared as a playable champion in the setting of the MOBA video game where she was voiced by actress Vanessa Marshall.
Appearances
- All Star Comics v1: (1941)
- Wonder Woman v1:
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- Wonder Woman v5:
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