Wonder Woman (Diana Prince) [LEADER]

Real Name: Diana
Aliases: Diana Prince
Former Aliases: Princess Diana of Themiscyra, Miss America, Goddess of Truth
First Appearance: All Star Comics #8
Death: Wonder Woman (2nd series) #127
Deification: Wonder Woman (2nd series) #128
Mortalisation: Wonder Woman (2nd series) #136
Known Relatives: Zeus (great-grandfather), Hera (great-grandmother), Poseidon (great-granduncle), Hades (great-granduncle), Ares (grandfather), Aphrodite (grandaunt), Apollo (granduncle), Artemis (grandaunt), Athena (grandaunt), Hephaestus (granduncle), Hermes (granduncle), Heracles (granduncle), Hippolyta (Wonder Woman III, mother, deceased), Antiope (aunt, deceased), Donna Troy (Troia, sister, deceased), Troy Long (nephew), Helena Kosmatos (Fury I, adoptive sister), Lyta Hall (Fury II, adoptive niece), Hector Hall (Dr. Fate IV, adoptive nephew-in-law), Daniel Hall (Dream II, adoptive grandnephew).
Group Affiliation: Amazons of Themyscira, Justice League of America III, formerly Justice League Europe, the Olympians, Justice League of Amazons
Known Allies: Julia Kapatelis, Wonder Girl II, Requiem, Heracles, Superman I, Batman I.
Major Enemies: Circe, Ares, Cheetah III.
Height: 5'11
Weight: 140lbs
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Wonderous Black


From the souls of slain women, the five Olympian goddesses, Aphrodite, Artemis, Athena, Demeter, and Hestia created a race called the Amazons from rain and clay. Though the headstrong god of war, Ares, was vehemently against this idea, and so he meddled in their creation by secretly fathering the first two Amazons, the sisters Hippolyta and Antiope. For three thousand years, the Amazons lived away from the corruption of man on Themyscira, or what man would later call "Paradise Island." As Amazons could be born from clay, they had no need for man, and could find pleasure within each other. One day, a female World War II pilot named Diana Trevor crash-landed on Themyscira and found the Amazonian women nearly defeated at the hands of a horrible monster. She helped them defeat the beast, though at the cost of her own life. The Amazons revered her as a hero, and kept her memory dear to their ongoing survival. When the Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta, decided that she wanted a daughter, she made a clay statue, and with the help of the goddess Gaea, imbued life into her and named her Diana in memory of the hero Diana Trevor.

Like her brethren, Princess Diana received extensive physical training from a very early age. But during her adolescence, Diana was lonely, and longed for a playmate of her own age. The Amazon sorceress Magala granted her this wish and created a duplicate. Though her existence was kept secret from the other Amazons, the young Diana now had her own Amazon sister to play with. But their relationship would not last long. When Hippolyta's nemesis, Dark Angel, came to Themyscira to abduct the young Diana, she mistakenly took her duplicate, and made her live the confusing life of Donna Troy. The two would not see each other again for many years.

With globalisation in tow and Themyscira found by mankind, a little manipulation by the gods and a need for a hero to counter Ares' machinations in mankind's world, Queen Hippolyta of the Amazons declared that a champion of a contest would become their ambassador to the rest of the world. When Diana expressed her interest, Hippolyta refused her daughter's inclusion. But Diana was determined and entered the contest disguised. She won the contest and surprised her Amazon sisters. With reluctance, Hippolyta had no choice but to bestow the position of official Amazon ambassador to her daughter Diana. And with the help of the gods, Diana was bestowed magical powers, weapons, and armour to aid her in her duties. Diana's last task to prove her worth was to beat the Olympian gods' champion, Heracles (Hercules), in several tests of strength and endurance. It wasn't an easy task, but Diana came out on top, and was given the title of Wonder Woman.

Diana eventually defeated Ares and convinced him that destroying mankind would leave no one to worship him. With the threat of Ares contained, Diana remained in mankind's world to spread the values of peace, love, and harmony. Diana's strong constitution and instilled principals did not make it easy for her to adjust to mankind's strange values and culture. It was all... Greek to her. But with the help of her friend, Julia Kapatelis, and public relations manager, Myndi Mayer, Diana used her natural political talents to spread her message. Wonder Woman and her cause quickly became a household name throughout the world. She even garnered a fanatical cult following to champion her cause. On the flipside, right-wing Christian conservatives abhorred her existence as her benefactors, the Olympian gods, threatened their own Christian beliefs.

Her first years in mankind's world were a time of discovery for Diana, not only in values and principals, but personal relationships with people very different from her Amazon sisters. She was touched by the American fighter pilot, Lieutenant Steve Trevor, son of Diana Trevor, who saved the Amazons so many years ago. Though nothing deep had ever come out of this relationship. She also soon met Superman. And while the two did not get along at first, there was undeniable sexual tension between the "ultimate" male hero and the "ultimate" female hero that continues to this day. To her surprise, Diana found her erstwhile sister, Donna, as a member of the fledgling superhero team called the Teen Titans. The sisters were finally reunited. Diana herself soon joined the Justice League, and even became its leader for a while.

Both Diana and Donna became instrumental figures during the War of the Gods. When the demi-god sorceress Circe sought more power for herself, she manipulated many pantheons such as the Greek, Roman, Egyptian, New Gods, and many other deities, into warring with one another. Circe's plan was to have them kill one another, so the plane of deities would become easy pickings for herself. Wonder Woman's toughest battle came when the Greek and Roman gods pitted their respective champions, herself and Captain Marvel, against each other. During the holy battles, all of Earth's heroes banded together to keep the mighty gods at bay from destroying the whole world and its innocent people. Even supervillains assisted by attempting to take down Circe, but to no avail. Meanwhile, Diana became aware of Circe's manipulations and, with the help of Captain Marvel, was able to finally defeat her.

One day, Hippolyta was overcome by horrible premonitions of Wonder Woman's death, and saw it as a sign from the gods. Fearing for her daughter's safety, she quickly declared a contest for the replacement of Wonder Woman, to Diana's astonishment. Hippolyta rigged the contest so that the Amazon Artemis (not the Greek goddess) would win the contest and take on the Wonder Woman costume, while Diana refused to lay low and remained a superhero using her own name. But as long as another adopted the Wonder Woman mantle, Hippolyta felt relatively at ease. Much to Diana's chagrin, however, Artemis tarnished the Wonder Woman name with her more aggressive and brash methods of spreading justice and equality. Though as Hippolyta's premonitions urged, Wonder Woman (Artemis) was soon killed in battle against the White Magician. Diana regained the Wonder Woman title and found out about her mother's manipulations. She then descended into the Underworld of Hades to rescue Artemis.

But with Artemis' resurrection, fate still needed for Wonder Woman to die. In a battle with the demon Neron, Diana was blasted into a coma, and eventual death. The Olympian gods would not have their greatest champion fade out of existence and rewarded her with immortality as the Goddess of Truth to stand by their side. The gods also made Hippolyta take on the role of Wonder Woman as penance for her manipulations of fate in casting Artemis to die as Wonder Woman. During her tenure, Hippolyta went back in time momentarily to World War II, joined other heroes in the Justice Society of America, and became the first Wonder Woman known to humankind. Meanwhile, her daughter Diana was not having an easy time adjusting to her godhood. Though warned by her fellow gods and goddesses not to meddle too much in human's affairs, Diana could not stand by watching idly whenever her friends and family needed her help. Eventually, the angry Zeus expelled her from her godhood and returned her to a mortal life, which deep down is what Diana desired anyway.

Diana returned from Olympus and once more adopted the Wonder Woman guise. Nor could Hippolyta stay away from doing good as Wonder Woman after her experiences in World War II. Her absence from ruling Themyscira eventually led to a full-blown civil war between the Amazon tribes, and the monarchy system was abolished from the Amazons. During Imperiex's attempts to destroy Earth, Hippolyta fell during a battle with one of his probes. Soon after, tragedy struck a second time when Donna was killed by a rogue Superman robot. Diana was devastated with the sudden loss of both her mother and sister in such a short span of time. But she is determined to move on, carefully watching the new Wonder Girl to pass on her legacy, and even writing a best-seller book called Reflection to further her cause of peace, love, and harmony.

From Aphrodite, Diana has received grace, from Artemis agility, from Athena intellect, from Hermes flight and superspeed, and from other Olympian gods the powers of superstrength and high physical and magical resistance, with the exception of piercing attacks. The tiara from her mother, Hippolyta, can be used as a boomerang-like long-distance weapon. From Gaea's girdle, she was given the Lasso of Truth, which can be used not only as an effective support weapon in combat, but also force anyone caught within it to tell the truth. From Hephaestus was forged her indestructible defensive bracelets. And from the Olympian goddesses, she was bestowed her breast plate armour. Diana was trained in Ancient Greek methods of combat from a very early age, that included hand-to-hand and the mastery of weapon combat using sword and shield, spear, and bow and arrow. She is also adept in large-scale war strategies and tactics. For her role as Themyscira's ambassador to mankind, Diana has mastered the art of politics and diplomacy.


APPEARANCES:
Action Comics #585, 598, 600, 666, 670, 675-676, 690, 753-754, 761, 781-782, 792
Adventures of Superman #440, 475, 488-489, 522, 565, 567
Adventures of Superman Annual #4, 6
Anarky #1
Aquaman (2nd series) #4
Aquaman (3rd series) #16, 50, 65-69
Aquaman Annual #1
Artemis: Requiem #1-2
The Atom Special
Aztek: The Ultimate Man #10
Batman Annual #15
Batman/Superman/Wonder Woman: Trinity #1-3
Bizarro Comics
Blasters Special
Bloodbath #1-2
Darkstars #0
The Demon (1st series) #17, 31-32
Doctor Fate (1st series) #32, 40
Eclipson: The Darkness Within #2, 15-16, 18
Final Night #1-4
Firestorm: The Nuclear Man #69
The Flash (2nd series) #55, 127-129, 136-138, 140, 142, 158-159
Flashpoint #2-3
The Further Adventures of Wonder Woman
Genesis #1-4
Girlfrenzy! Wonder Woman: Tomorrow Woman
Girlfrenzy! Wonder Woman: Troia
Green Arrow (1st series) #132-133
Green Arrow (2nd series) #4
Green Lantern (3rd series) #55, 69, 73-74, 81, 87, 101, 103, 108, 125, 129, 134-136, 149
Green Lantern: Circle of Fire #1-2
Green Lantern Corps #220
Green Lantern & Power Girl: Circle of Fire
Green Lantern Secret Files #1
Guy Gardner #15-16
Guy Gardner: Warrior #17-18, 20-21, 29, 32-34, 39
Haven: The Broken City #1-2
Hawkman (4th series) #4-6, 16
Hawkworld #16
Impulse #14, 67, 86
Infinity Inc. #25, 27
Invasion! #2-3
JLA #1-10, 13-33, 35-64, 66-68, 70, 72-
JLA 80-Page Giant #1-2
JLA: A League of One
JLA: Act of God #1-3
JLA Annual #2-4
JLA: Black Baptism #1-4
JLA: Created Equal #1-2
JLA: Gods & Monsters
JLA/Haven: Anathema
JLA/Haven: Arrival
JLA: Heaven's Ladder
JLA: Incarnations #6-7
JLA/JSA Secret Files & Origins #1
JLA/JSA: Virtue & Vice
JLA: Our Worlds at War
JLA: Paradise Lost #1
JLA: Primeval
JLA: Scary Monsters #1-6
JLA: Secret Files & Origins #1-3
JLA: Secret Origins
JLA: Seven Caskets
JLA Showcase 80-Page Giant #1
JLA: Superpower
JLA: The Gatekeeper #1-3
JLA/The Spectre: Soul War #1-2
JLA/Titans #1-3
JLA vs. Predator
JLA: Welcome to the Working Week
JLA/Wildcats
JLA/Witchblade
JLA: World Without Grown-Ups #1-2
Joker: Last Laugh #2
JSA #33-37
Justice League: A Midsummer's Nightmare #1-3
Justice League America #0, 48, 70-71, 73-75, 78-91, 93-102, 104-113
Justice League America Annual #6-8
Justice League Europe #0-1, 21, 41-42, 49-50, 65-67
Justice League International #9, 22, 24
Justice League of America 100-Page Super Spectacular
Justice League of America: Wonder Woman -- Mythos
Justice League Quarterly #11, 17
Justice League Task Force #8, 13-15, 30, 37
Legends #1-6
Legends of the DC Universe #4-5, 30-32
Legends of the DC Universe 80-Page Giant #2
LEGION '90 #12
Martian Manhunter #0, 2, 4, 6-9, 13-14, 16, 24
Martian Manhunter Annual #2
Millenium #1-8
Mister Miracle #1-3, 5-6
Orion #13
Planetary/JLA: Terra Occulta
Plastic Man (2nd series) #3
Plastic Man Special
Power Company: Josiah Power
Power Company: Sapphire
Power Company: Witchfire
The Power of Shazam! #15, 45
Primal Force #7
Resurrection Man #2, 21, 26-27
Showcase '93 #11
Sins of Youth: JLA Jr.
Sins of Youth: Kid Flash & Impulse
Sins of Youth: Wonder Girls
Sins of Youth: Young Justice #1-2
Sins of Youth: Young Justice Secret Files & Origins #1
The Spectre (3rd series) #23-24
Starman (3rd series) #43, 76
Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. #8
Superboy (2nd series) #5, 60-62, 65
Superboy Annual #1
Supergirl (3rd series) #1
Supergirl (4th series) #65
Superman (2nd series) #5, 65-66, 70, 83, 118, 120, 138, 156, 165, 173, 209
Superman 80-Page Giant #2
Superman: Distant Fires
Superman: Doomsday Wars #1-3
Superman: Man of Steel #10, 20, 35, 88-89, 117, 127
Superman Secret Files #1
Superman: The Man of Tomorrow #13
Superman: The Wedding Album
Superman Villains Secret Files #1
Team Titans #21
Team Titans Annual #1
Teen Titans (3rd series) #6
Teen Titans/Outsiders Secret Files & Origins 2003
The Kingdom #1-2
The Titans #23-25
The Titans Secret Files & Origins #1
Total Justice #1-3
Underworld Unleashed #1-3
War of the Gods #1-4
Wonder Woman (2nd series) #0-
Wonder Woman 80-Page Giant #1
Wonder Woman Annual #1-8
Wonder Woman: Gods and Goddesses
Wonder Woman: Our Worlds at War
Wonder Woman Plus
Wonder Woman Secret Files & Origins #1-3
Wonder Woman: Spirit of Truth
Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia
Wonder Woman: The Once and Future Story
Young Justice #5-6, 20