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Lt. Steve Trevor

First Appearance: All-Star Comics #8 (1941)

Created By: William Moulton Marston · Harry G. Peter

Universes: Earth-One, Earth-Two, New Earth, Prime Earth, DCEU, DCAMU, DC Animated Universe, Earth-1, Wonder Woman (1975), The Legend of Wonder Woman, Bombshells, Generations, Sensation, Earth-167, Superfriends, DC Super Hero Girls, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, DC Super Hero Girls (Web), DC Nation, WW 2009, Wonder Woman: Black and Gold

A military man and intelligence operative, Steve Trevor is classically associated with his longtime ally (and frequent love interest) Wonder Woman. In most iterations, he's the first man Diana has ever seen, and is considered a rare male ally to the island of Themyscira.Throughout the years, Steve's involvement in the Wonder Woman mythos has varied, most notably in the post-Crisis years of Wonder Woman he was aged up and removed as a romantic possibility for Diana. Though originally introduced as a World War II-era figure, his origin has taken him as far back as World War I, or into the present-day.

• 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.
• Ace Pilot: His characterization has varied over the years but his excellent piloting skills generally remain consistent. In the post-Crisis continuity his mother was also an amazing pilot, and served as one of the Women Airforce Service Pilots and a flight trainer during WWII.
• Action Dad: Pre-Crisis Steve and Diana had a daughter named Hippolyta or "Lyta," while Steve was still serving in the Air Force as an intelligence officer.
• Adaptational Badass: In Golden Age comics, Steve was mainly a Distressed Dude. He could mostly handle minor Axis goons and gangsters, but most named villains tended to have their way with him. What competence he did have Steve tended to lose in the Silver and Bronze age comic books. Post Crisis On Infiniite Earths, Steve's skill as a pilot is reemphasized, and his investigative skills return during the New 52, but he's still out of his depth with super villains. In Post Rebirth comic books, Steve once again becomes an Ace Pilot with hand-to-hand combat skills (though still not on Wonder Woman's level), a gun expert, and even a spy capable of matching named villains like Doctor Poison, Saturna and Angle Man.
• Adaptational Jerkass: In some adaptations, Steve isn't the same humble, Nice Guy but a boorish, selfish jerk. New 52 in particular, but there was a lot of that going on then.
• Adaptational Skill: While the original Steve was an Ace Pilot and a crack shot who was fairly competent at recognizing subversive activities within his ranks, his own spy activities always had him as an Overt Operative which often resulted in him being captured and injured since his idea of a disguise was to walk into a villain's party in his full dress uniform. His Wonder Woman (2016) iteration is far better at disguising his identity when doing espionage work.
• The All-American Boy: Steve's backstory has been subject to alterations over the decades, but usually he is from a rural background, though he moved more than most due to being a Military Brat, idolized his mother, Post Crisis On Infinite Earths, and followed in her footsteps to become an Ace Pilot, has an older brother and a distant but caring veteran father, and has been a charming man who is incredibly respectful of everyone, save Nazis, for his entire life.
• Alternate Self: In addition to the various versions of Steve Trevor on the varies numbered Earths of the DC multiverse, in addition to the new versions of Steve Trevor created by cosmic retcons, there was also Derek Trevor, who was supposed to replace the Golden Age Earth Two Steve Trevor after Crisis On Infinite Earths, but Earth Two Trevor survived and lived along side Derek well into the Post Crisis continuity before the cosmic retcons finally caught up to Earth Two Steve and he faded form existence during Infinite Crisis.
• Amazon Chaser: Steve is an Ur-Example of this trope, for comic books anyway. The first woman in the original golden age books he shows any genuine attraction to who isn't Wonder Woman is still another literal Amazon! In all the pre-Crisis DCU comic books, he rarely showed concern about being overpowered.
• The Artifact: Since Marston, Hummel and Peter left the book, Steve has been adrift, but lingers (especially in adaptations) based on the name retaining some currency. Completely averted as of the New 52 and DC Rebirth, however, where Trevor has been upgraded to being the DCU's version of Nick Fury.
• Author Avatar: For his creator, William Marston, as his basic thematic purpose in the Golden Age was to go on about how great Wonder Woman was.
• Babies Ever After: In three separate realities, he and Diana have a daughter — two are named Lyta while the other is named Stephanie aka "Stevie". Technically four, as Trinity has some of his and Diana's genetic material, though she isn't naturally conceived like the prior daughters.
• Badass Normal: Steve has battled against supernatural forces on a regular basis. In the last Golden Age throwback before volume 2 starts Steve directly brawls with the soldiers of Atomia and even figures out how to destroy them by taking advantage of their Kryptonite Factor. During DC Infinite Frontier he plays a part in taking down the god of light, the titan Hyperion, even if Diana had to save him, and Siegfried did all of the damage, as Steve's still dodged several fireballs while riding a motor cycle as part of his plan.
• Battle Couple: With Wonder Woman aka Diana of Paradise Island/Themyscira. They're usually in a relationship and fought side-by-side in most continuities including the Pre-Crisis Earth-Two and post DC Rebirth Prime Earth.
• Because Destiny Says So: During the DC Rebirth storyline, Etta notes that Steve and Diana have an odd habit of getting caught up in the other's business, and wonders (har-har) whether something's drawing them together.
• The Berserker: As a muutorr, Steve Trevor simply attacks any people he can see or hear, unless he is wounded, at which point he will flee until the bleeding stops. Since he is Immune to Bullets in this state, making him bleed proves difficult.
• Best Served Cold: While attempting to escape Amanda Waller's Black Site, Steve steals a prison uniform, and then beats up Angle Man, who is also trying to escape. While this reinforces Steve's legitimacy with the other guards and allows him to figure out some of Waller's activities, Steve mainly did it to pay Angelo Bend back for letting Doctor Psycho into his mind.
• Big Brother Mentor: Post-Crisis, he looks after Diana as best as he can be expected to
• Boxing Lessons for Superman: Wonder Woman's brother Jason trained periodically with Hercules, but Diana is not impressed with what she sees and requests that Steve Trevor teach Jason some more, as she's too busy trying to save Themyscira at the time to do it herself.
• The Captain: Steve usually ends up promoted—in the Pre-Crisis days all the way to General before retiring after the Vietnam War—and has acted as the leader of several military units. Post-Flashpoint this includes rather secretive ones containing superpowered agents, such as the Odd Fellows, the Seven, ARGUS and Checkmate.
• Chick Magnet: Steve is usually considered very attractive in universe and despite him being a proper gentleman who only has eyes for Wonder Woman plenty of other women have made advances on him. This is played up in The Legend of Wonder Woman where newspapers comment on how attractive he is when interviewing him and Etta Candy calls him a "dreamboat".
• Commuting on a Bus: Post Crisis pre Flashpoint, Diana no longer develops romantic feelings for Steve Trevor, and thus does not go out of her way to stay around him after returning him to The United States. He still pops up, every once and while, either by virtue of being involved with Wonder Woman's friend Etta Candy, or because his job happens to put him in the same place as Diana, but the roles of Wonder Woman's regular army and government contact goes to Sarge Steel, a previously unrelated character published by a different company, with police officer Mike Schorr, social worker Trevor Barnes and Suicide Squad agent Nemesis, another previously unrelated character, serving as her love interests.
• Deadpan Snarker: Steve has shown to have a quick, dry sense of humor.
• Death Is Cheap: Resurrected twice during the Bronze age. Specifically, he was killed by Doctor Cyber, causing Wonder Woman to relinquish her powers. Seeing her grief, the god Eros inhabited the lifeless body with his spirit and operated as Steve Howard, until his spirit was extracted from the body and Steve "died" again. Several years later, Aphrodite extracted Steve's essence from her son's memory and implanted it in the body of a Steve from another universe, overriding that Steve's (already altered) personality.
• Demoted to Extra: Steve's visibility in comics varied through the 1970s to the 1990s, with his character either absent or sidelined in favour of fantasy and action-adventure Wonder Woman stories with different romantic interests, or almost no such interests, Post Crisis. Wonder Woman became less of a Madonna during New 52, but she drops Steve Trevor for Superman. Finally DC Rebirth had Diana and Steve get back together
• Depending on the Artist: Golden Age Steve Trevor is supposed to be a five ten blond man, but stories "returning" to Golden Age Earth 2 often make Steve Trevor a brown haired six foot or taller man. Especially those published while the television show was running.
• Depending on the Writer: Is he a United States Army Intelligence officer, or an Air Force pilot? Yes. The character was created when the US Air Force was established but predates the Air Force as an entirely separate branch from the US Army, so most writers keep in the army for tradition's sake. Roy Thomas, the man for whose work coined the term Retcon, prematurely put Trevor in the Air Force during the back up of Justice League of America #193 that also retroactively created the All-Star Squadron.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: In volume 6, Diana expresses surprise when she learns Steve's shade got in a fight with Charon, and won.
• Distressed Dude: His defining trait. His very first appearance has him get taken hostage and then nearly die after freeing himself. To be fair, the crash on Paradise Island was something the gods decided then and there should happen, as a round about way of informing the Amazons about the Axis Powers, but Steve would continue to get captured and need saving.
• Do-Anything Soldier: During the Golden Age of Comics Steve Trevor's job with the USAAF seemed to be a mishmash of spy, commando and ace pilot.
• Dumb Blonde: Inverted. Steve is often depicted as a clever man who keeps his wits about him when in dangerous situations. In the Golden Age especially Diana was typically depicted as smarter or more knowledgeable than him in virtually every subject, but not to the point Steve was made to look dumb.
• Empowered Badass Normal
  • He gets the ability to turn brain power into strength more than once in the original golden age run, once in a manner similar to Wonder Woman but in a fourth spacial dimension where it "physically"/spiritually transforms him, another time with an electronic globe in literally the same manner as her except less balanced. These never last, of course, and usually have even more obvious drawbacks than those two examples.
  • In one 1968 issue, Steve took a temporary Super Serum in the form of pills which gave him Flying Brick powers, and he took the name of "Patriot". Although the story ended with a hint of possible future adventures, "Patriot" never appeared again, likely due to the all-new mod Wonder Woman just being around the corner.
  • While possessed by the soul of Hefnakhti, Steve Trevor becomes strong enough to tackle Wonder Woman. She quickly subdues Steve though and uses him as a Human Shield to escape from Osira, knowing that Osira would never harm her lover(but cursing herself for both being forced to fall back to prevent Osira from surrounding her with the brainwashed Justice Society, and having to use such a low tactic to do so)
  • In Wonder Woman volume 1 #242, aliens known as Cerberons kidnap Steve Trevor and turn him into a gliding, grey skinned, grey eyed, pupil lacking, and gray haired being known as "ultimate man", who will spread his condition among humanity to turn them all into beings like him with Steve Trevor as the Hive Queen...king.
• A Father to His Men: Steve started out working solo missions, and rarely worked with the same group twice (outside of Di and Etta), but was always a firm believer in No Man Left Behind when he did have partners. With his promotions and eventually gaining a constant squad he's in charge of on espionage missions, he looks after them like family.
• First Love: To Diana in the New 52 Universe.
• Five-Second Foreshadowing: After Cheetah is driven (more)mad by gods from the Dark Matter Multiverse and Wonder Woman goes hunting for her, Steve Trevor advises against it, warning that if even Cheetah can be affected due to a little crisis of faith, then any number of other super humans might also be rampaging. After he says this, Wonder Woman is immediately sucker punched by Supergirl, who proclaims that Rao is dead and proves it's not just "humans" Diana has to be wary of.
• Forced Transformation: In volume 1 #234, Armaggeddon has Steve injected with a poison that by issue #235 has transformed Trevor into a muutorr, and artificial mutant.
• Freudian Slip: In Wonder Woman volume 6 #2, Steve Trevor reports to Sargent Steel that the US airstrike, artillery, armored cavalry and infantry aren't doing as well against Wonder Woman as "you" hoped, when he should have said "we". Luckily for Trevor, Steel already regards Steve as a compromised, "pussy whipped" asset, and is happy enough with Trevor not betraying the US altogether.
• Generation Xerox: Post Crisis, Pre Flashpoint, Steve is not the first member of his family to be a daredevil pilot that ended up washed ashore on Themyscira. That would be his mother who ended up dying there helping the Amazons defend Doom's Doorway.
• Ghost Memory: The version of Steve that was brought to Earth-One after the local Steve seemingly died a second time eventually gains the memories of the Earth-One Steve, who had not actually passed on but was trapped in Eros's mind until what was left of him merged with his multi-verse counterpart. Multi-Verse Steve's mind was already a mess, due to injuries sustained in his home dimension and false memories crafted by the Amazons without his or Diana's knowledge, so the merger actually made him feel like a more complete person.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Steve is usually a blond, humble, self sacrificing kind of fellow.
• The Handler: During Wonder Woman (Charles Moulton) Wonder Woman was essentially an extremely unique asset/agent of the USAAF, who was given intel and missions by Steve. This was an odd case as she worked with the military and was someone Darnell would direct Steve to deliver missions to but, as Wonder Woman, wasn't technically on their payroll. Instead she was on their payroll as Diana Prince, Darnell's secretary, but it was implied Darnell and Trevor suspected a connection or pretended not to know about her identity. This may have had to do with her unorthodox methods, which included refusing to kill enemy agents.
• Happily Married: To Wonder Woman on the Earth-2 verse (Golden Age), he was the father of their daughter Lyta/the Fury.
• Happy Ending Override: Golden Age Steve was supposed to be among the few DC characters to not be erased/replaced during Crisis On Infinite Earths, but come Infinite Crisis he got erased anyway. New Earth Steve Trevor remained, but still.
• Honey Trap: To Diana's displeasure, Steve has been playing this part since Sensation Comics #10 (1942) where he went on a number of dates with and played the part of a foolish drunk to "Dolly Dancer", an Axis spy. It's only occasionally, but he never stopped acting as a date to get close to and feed disinformation to his targets until the transition to the Silver Age Earth-1
• How Unscientific!: During Dawn of DC, Steve Trevor refuses to believe the heroes are really depowered when he witnesses Diana successfully block automatic gunfire. His incredulity changes to concern when he realizes the effort broke her arms.
• Humble Hero: Steve has shown to be a self-effacing person.
• Hunk: Seems most prominent in Wonder Woman's DC Rebirth run. You should see how many times he loses his shirt between issues. Yara Flor even calls him such in her private thoughts during DC Infinite Frontier.
• The Idealist: In the original golden age run, Steve Trevor is usually far less idealistic than Wonder Woman, especially concerning their enemies. In the return to Earth Two stories, at least under Gerry Conway's pen, Steve is often far more idealistic than her, at least about the United States, as now Wonder Woman is far less impressed with the country, particular after realizing there's an undeniable number of people in it who don't empathize with the Jews she has rescued from concentration camps. Steve insists that even if he and her don't live to see it, the country will change for the better and the children she saved will see it.
• Immune to Bullets: As a muutorr, Steve Trevor is impervious to assault rifle fire. He's not immune to tank shells, however.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: Steve Trevor is a crack shot with his service weapon, and has been shooting chains off of imprisoned allies and similar feats since the early days of Sensation Comics and Wonder Woman (1942).
• Improbable Piloting Skills: Steve has lived up to his Ace Pilot status fairly spectacularly on multiple occasions including when having to pilot while his co-pilot was possessed and on fire, while in a plane crashing into the sea, and while in a plane being torn apart by being ripped betwixt dimensions.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: He usually has blue eyes and is a gentleman.
• Interspecies Romance: The main love interest of Wonder Woman. He's a Badass Normal human while she's an Amazon who is only human in soul and superficial appearance. This doesn't apply to the Golden, Silver and Bronze Ages though, where Amazons are pretty much humans with Super Natural Martial Arts.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: New 52 Steve was a boorish man who couldn't maintain a personal relationship with Diana, but he didn't let that stop him from trying to help her, even when facing overwhelming odds like the Crime Syndicate and the Legion of Doom.
• Living MacGuffin: He was the reason why Diana left her island, Pre-Crisis. In the Golden Age and Post Rebirth comic books, Steve Trevor is becomes useful after he makes a full recovery from his plane crash, however.
• Living Memory: In the Silver Age he's killed by Doctor Cyber, but Eros knows Steve Trevor well enough to impersonate him before Aphrodite constructs a new personality from Eros's memories and gives it a body that is functionally but not literally the original Steve Trevor, having known what he went through but not having personally experienced it.
• The Lost Lenore: Was this to Wonder Woman during her "I-Ching" period.
• Love at First Sight: In the Golden Age, Steve fell in love with Diana at first sight, though he was suffering from a concussion and also had the knowledge that she had just saved his life. His further interactions with his "Angel" only cemented his affections.
• Love Interest:
  • Pre-Crisis and in the DC Rebirth Universe to Diana. He starts this way in the New 52, but she moves on from him there. Also in adaptations centered on Wonder Woman, such as the 2009 animated movie.
  • During George Perez's run, Steve was too old for the teenage Diana; he and Etta Candy had a romantic relationship instead.
• Loves My Alter Ego: Unlike many instances of the trope, he never suspected Diana Prince◊ was Wonder Woman◊ until being told. Diana Prince was a separate person Wonder Woman was impersonating to get close to him, and Steve doesn't immediately notice anything different about her.
• Mayfly–December Romance: An ordinary human who also happens to be an Air Force pilot and spy whose main love interest is an immortal Amazon warrior. In the Golden Age, Etta Candy would discover an immortality drug with some help from Wonder Woman, but Crisis On Infinite Earths ensure this future never came to pass, though it also gives the Golden Age Steve an extended lifespan of sorts anyway. Silver-Bronze Age and DC Rebirth Steve remain in the situation, however.
• Memory Wipe Exploitation: When the Steve Trevor of Earth-One (seemingly) died a second time, Hippolyta sought out a version of him from the multiverse who had suffered brain damage due to injury and brought him over and implanted false memories and patched him up to appear to be the local Steve so that her daughter would not mourn him.
• Military Brat: Steve grew up with two parents in the military, even though WASPs like his mother wouldn't be recognized as veterans until long after the service was disbanded. Steve himself is a noted Air Force pilot and military intelligence officer.
• Misplaced Wildlife: The Impossible Day is kicked off when Steve Trevor finds a cave painting and complains about Wonder Woman, Wonder Girl, Wonder Tot, cavemen and dinosaurs all being in it, since none of these things should have existed at the same time. No one ever is able to figure it out, and it leads to the series of "Impossible Tales" that resulted in the Plot Hole that Donna Troy was created to fill when a writer didn't realize they were all a big What If? joke.
• Mr. Fanservice: Tall, blonde, muscular, and good-looking. Diana is a lucky woman.
• Muggle–Mage Romance: Him (an ordinary human) and Diana (an Amazon warrior blessed by Greek gods).
• New Job as the Plot Demands: Steve Trevor is a captain, except when he is a lieutenant colonel. He is a pilot, when he is not a foot soldier, or a spy. And that's just Golden Age Steve Trevor, though Silver Age Trevor just goes from major to colonel. Post Crisis Trevor goes from colonel, to commercial pilot, to flight instructor, to politician. DC Rebirth Steve was a Navy Seal, the pilot of an anti meta human task force, then a liaison to The Justice League, then a member of Checkmate.
• Nice Guy: Steve is usually incredibly kind and humble. In The Legend of Wonder Woman (2016) Lt. Trevor is such a genuinely kind, honorable, self-effacing guy that when a ritual was done to magically pull in an innocent to sacrifice, he was the one the magic grabbed.
• No One Gets Left Behind: In the Golden Age Steve was usually on solo missions or paired up with Diana, but he absolutely refuses to leave anyone behind when on missions with larger groups. On missions to locate captured troops this has gotten him caught and/or injured on multiple occasions.
• Not What It Looks Like: Supergirl's enemy-ally Psi is an entity of extra dimensional origins who has No Mouth in the New 52 continuity, and can only communicate with humans through Touch Telepathy. When she lunges at Steve Trevor, Psi is quickly lunged on herself by ARGUS agents trying to protect Steve, by she meant him no harm, simply trying to tell Trevor how he could save Wonder Woman and the Justice League.
• The One Guy: He was the first man to visit Paradise Island/Themyscira and is often the only man in a group in Wonder Woman stories.
• One True Love: Wonder Woman's central love interest who she falls for in most media they're in.
• Only Mostly Dead: In the Golden Age retcon of his arrival, and the Silver age version, Steve Trevor crash landed and should have died if not for Diana inventing the purple healing ray, in the golden age version, or improving the purple healing ray to work on untrained humans in the silver age. Then Steve gets struck down by the Valkyrie Gundra, but he's not really dead, just temporarily without his soul while he's remade into one of Odin's Heroes. Aphrodite is able to undo this. Later Steve Trevor is killed by The Sly Fox Mob, but Paula Von Gunther's improvements to the Purple Healing Ray mean he can be revived, as she got to him before his body cooled. Golden Age Steve even manages to survive Crisis On Infinite Earths before finally being rendered Deader than Dead during Infinite Crisis, and between The Kingdom, Convergence, Doomsday Clock, DC Infinite Frontier and Dark Crisis, the golden age Steve Trevor is still probably still some degree of alive somewhere.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: He could be a pretty good Action Hero of his own, but he just happens to have literal gods sabotaging his efforts and what might be the most powerful Action Girlfriend in the entire DC Universe evening the odds for him.
• Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: During volume 6 #2, Steve assures Diana that facing the US Army is more dangerous than facing Doctor Psycho or the seven hells of Greek Absurdity. Despite dating Hippolyta's daughter Steve doesn't know the seven hells are a Roman concept, a Roman Catholic concept...
• Pretty Boy: Steve often gets comments in-universe about his attractive pretty features, though whether or not the artists get this across is another story. He becomes more ruggedly handsome over the years with his more "pretty" days tending to have been during WWII. In The Legend of Wonder Woman (2016): Steve's pretty eyes and boyish charm are emphasised in this iteration, with newspapers even commenting on his pretty eyes.
• Pyrrhic Victory: Originally the Golden Age comic books depicted Steve Trevor getting shot down by a Nazi Ace Pilot, who then escapes in a rematch when Steve runs out of fuel, and never showed up again. Later Golden Age stories instead have Wonder Woman search out and capture a Japanese spy who shot down Steve with an anti aircraft gun.
• Race Lift: The "Earth One" comic storyline has him as an African-American man.
• Real Men Cook: His original (Earth-Two) iteration does most of the cooking at their home after he and Diana get married. His food seems to be universally liked by the household and guests.
• Relationship Revolving Door: He and Diana seem back together again in DC Rebirth, but how long it lasts is up in the air.
• Ret-Canon: Even when the comic book returned to Earth Two the Steve Trevor there was now a brunet, when him being a natural blond had been a plot point in the original Golden Age run, because the actor playing Steve Trevor in the 1970s television show was a brunet.
• Ridiculously Average Guy: A few adaptions expand his Distressed Dude to having no skills or special traits other than being the first man Diana had met. To the point that some characters wonders what does she sees in him. The Silver/Bronze Age was infamous for swapping Steve from useful to useless with each change in creative team, when the new writer/editor didn't just kill him off.
• Secret Identity: During the Bronze Age Aphrodite retrieved his soul and fashioned him a new body so Diana could be with him again. Since he had been dead for so long though, he died his hair and called himself Steve Howard in public.
• Selective Obliviousness: Under Marston's pen Steve acting like he doesn't know "Di" and his "Angel" are one and the same is highly suspect, given he can recognize her by voice, can recognize her with her hair up, can recognize her with glasses on, regularly teases her about the similarities between the two and has called her by the wrong name while drugged or waking before taking note of what she's wearing. He maintains plausible deniability usually by neglecting confront her over his "suspicions" or dropping the issue with any pushback. Under later writers Steve seems to be legitimately clueless.
• Sexy Man, Instant Harem: While most of the women besides Diana who show interest in Steve Trevor are people he'd lock in prison or shoot in the face before speaking to if he didn't have to play Honey Trap to try to learn their plans, the Holliday Girls pretty much all agree he's delectable and spend a lot of time around him, even though they'd never make a move on him and he'd never reciprocate since they all know he's in love with Diana.
• Shirtless Captives: Steve loses his shirt a lot, and ends up captive without one rather often:
  • When Queen Clea captured Steve, Wonder Woman and the Holliday Girls she had him dressed in not but a loincloth before having him fight monsters in an arena for what she intended to be an amusing execution. He killed all her monsters and escaped alongside Diana instead.
  • When Giganta captured Steve after his mind had been thrown for a loop by Zool's malfunctioning evolution machine his shirt was nothing but tatters.
  • When the Saturnians nabbed all the men in the DC intelligence office after drugging them to sleep the next time Steve was seen he was in shorts and chains, and he and Wonder Woman broke each other's chains and freed all the slaves together.
  • When he tried to arrest Clea without knowing she'd teamed up with Giganta and was knocked out by the larger woman, he woke to find himself bound to a stake with his clothing torn to bits.
• Single-Target Sexuality: While Wonder Woman has had several boyfriends, and at least one girlfriend in most continuities Steve Trevor is interested in her and her alone, with exceptions being his post-Crisis iteration who was interested in Etta Candy and Etta Candy alone, and his Adaptational Jerkass New 52 iteration.
• The Sneaky Guy: Steve is quite good at scouting out an enemy fortification or hideout and then returning with the information without being noticed. As it's not his book though he usually finds that Diana's tactic of allowing herself to be captured and brought along by the bad guys has gotten her there first and on the rare occasions the villain has stumbled across a way of restraining her that is tricky for her to escape from he helps her out. In post Rebirth stories, he has often been a spy.
• Sole Survivor: His DC Rebirth incarnation was the only one to survive the crash onto Themyscira, which he usually crashes on or near alone.
• Spanner in the Works: The Sovereign is so confident in his plan to kill Wonder Woman that he gives the orders to Sarge Steel, who until then did not even know The Sovereign existed, personally. After the first attempt to kill Wonder Woman fails, Sarge recruits Steve Trevor to try and talk her into surrendering before the next attempt to execute her. Wonder Woman learns of The Sovereign from Sarge after his forces fail again, and then informs Steve Trevor who his real boss is. While Wonder Woman had been trying and failing to legally challenge The Sovereign's decrees until she learned of him, then just trying to find out where he was keeping Barbara Minerva, Steve was more than willing to ask for less legal favors to find out just who this Sovereign was and how to ruin him. While Sovereign respected Steve as a soldier, he only saw Steve as another tool to get at Wonder Woman, not a threat to Sovereign in of himself.
• Strong Girl, Smart Guy: Zigzagged with Wonder Woman. Both are skilled fighters and neither one is dumb but Diana is the obvious powerhouse of the two while he's The Sneaky Guy.
• Superdickery: Wonder Woman volume 1 #231 shows Steve Trevor smirking as he embraces a woman seemingly in the process of killing Diana. Steve is a victim of Mind Manipulation, but you have to open the comic book to find that out from it.
• Talented Princess, Regular Guy: Zigzagged with Wonder Woman. He's no ordinary guy, being an Air Force pilot and sometimes a spy, but he pales in comparison to Wondy's profile — An immortal Amazon warrior princess with divine powers who goes on to be a famous superhero.
• Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Depending on the Artist, as Diana can be seen as taller than Steven by an inch. More common in the Silver Age and onward, where she was bumped up to six feet tall due to being played by the 5'11 Lynda Carter on the television show than Golden Age throwbacks, since she was originally 5'8.
• Token Good Teammate: Tends to fall into this role in whichever Cloak and Dagger government organization he's a member of by virtue of being one of the most active members in such group with a sense of moral justice. As a member of Checkmate and especially A.R.G.U.S, Steve more often than not comes as the Only Sane Man member of each organization's leading power.
• Too Clever by Half: When Sarge Steel promotes Steve Trevor during Absolute Power (2024) and shows Steve his new intelligence office, Steve points out the obvious bugs in it and says Sarge Steel is clearly trying to make Steve look like a criminal so that Sarge can arrest Steve. Sarge admits he didn't expect Steve to figure it out, but since Steve just told Sarge he figured it out he just decides to arrest Steve without cause and come up with an explanation for Steve's disappearance/imprisonment later.
• Two First Names: "Steve" and "Trevor" can both be first names. Highlighted Post Crisis, Pre Flashpoint, where Trevor Barnes replaces him as Diana's boyfriend.
• Undying Loyalty: Steve has made it clear that he will follow Diana anywhere and will always trust her.
• Useless Boyfriend: During the Bronze Age, before Crisis On Infinite Earths, he was this trope's poster boy. He ended up rescued by Wonder Woman as often as Lois Lane was by Superman (which, of course, makes him no more "useless" than Lois, but sexist expectations are a thing). Eventually (pre-Infinite Crisis) they wrote him out of the series, even marrying him to Wonder Woman's female sidekick, Etta Candy. In the original Golden Age run it was more balanced, as he still got captured a lot but every recurring character who wasn't getting setup to die got captured, and he had enough moments of competence in combat, analysis and planning to prove more useful than hindering.
• Working with the Ex: With Diana in the Justice League in the New 52 Universe.
• You Need to Get Laid: New 52 Steve was a punching bag for various comedians due to his obvious attraction to Wonder Woman and inability to get in her pants.

Phillip Darnell/Colonel Darnell/General Darnell

First Appearance: All-Star Comics #8. (1941)

Created By: William Moulton Marston · Harry G. Peter

Universes: Earth-One, Earth-Two, New Earth, Earth-1, DCEU, Wonder Woman (1975)

The USAAF colonel to whom intelligence officer Lt. Steve Trevor and 2d Lt. Diana Prince answered to during WWII. He was promoted to General near the end of the war and remained in the military to become one of the first generals in the US Air Force when that was split off from the Army in 1947.

• Adaptational Job Change: He is a colonel on Earth Two but a general on Earth One
• Adaptation Name Change: In Wonder Woman (1975) his last name was changed to Blankenship.
• Adapted Out: Even in adaptations which do not change Wonder Woman first entering the world to bring back Steve Trevor and help the Allies fight the Axis powers in WWII, General Darnell is often left out, such as in The Legend of Wonder Woman (2016).
• All Love Is Unrequited: Subverted: Golden Age Philip Darnell is in love with Diana Prince, who is in love with Dan White. Little does he know the "Diana Prince" he's been interacting with all this time is really an entirely different woman, Diana of Paradise Island...or maybe he does know? Or at least suspect it? He eventually gets married and moves on from these feelings, just staying friends with "Diana Prince".
• Amazon Chaser: The Silver Age Earth One General Darnell is as in love with Wonder Woman as Colonel Steve Trevor is. The Golden Age Earth Two Colonel Darnell is Happily Married, but very appreciative of Wonder Woman's help.
• Demoted to Extra: When DC took a break from the Silver Age Earth One to return to the Golden Age Earth Two, Diana Prince was retconed from the assistant to Philip Darnell to the assistant of Major Steve Trevor, Colonel Darnell replaced entirely with General J Phillip Blankenship.
• Friends Like Family: Silver Age Darnell thinks of Steve Trevor as a brother
• Mistaken for Spies: Subverted: Steve Trevor immediately and correctly deduces that Doctor Psycho had impersonated Colonel Darnell when Phillip gives his alibi.
• Motor Mouth: In the Golden Age, Phillip Darnell didn't want Diana Prince to give up her promising nursing career to be his secretary, so he spoke as fast as he humanly could to "prove" the stenography skills needed to take his diction were sadly beyond her. Diana is somewhat impressed by Phillip's ability to speak 160 words a minute, and a little unimpressed that he's such a showoff. Phillip's more impressed at Diana's typing speed, and more still that she managed to type every word with no mistakes despite her sparse pen and paper notes.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: He's ridiculously calm about some of the crazier things Steve encounters and does, though perhaps Darnell realizes his "secretary" is actually Wonder Woman given just how often his commands make it seem like he's trying to allow her to go help Steve.
• The Stoic: He's serious and unruffled even with an enemy agent sitting on his desk threatening him, though given all the hints that he knows his secretary is Wonder Woman perhaps he feels he has no cause to be alarmed.

First Appearance: Sensation Comics #1, 1942

Created By: William Moulton Marston & Harry G. Peter

Universes: Earth-Two, Earth-One, New Earth

In the Pre Crisis continuity, Diana Prince was an army nurse who wanted to marry a man named Dan White, who had just gotten a job in Brazil. The couple did not yet have enough money for Diana Prince to travel to Brazil as well, so to more quickly reunite the lovers, Diana Prince agreed to sell her credentials to Diana of Paradise Island, who she bore an uncanny resemblance to, so that Wonder Woman could stick close to Diana Prince's patient, Steve Trevor. Post Crisis, Diana Prince was a diguise the god Proteus created for Diana of Themyscira as she tracked down The Cheetah, Barbara Anne Minerva. However, when Hippolyta was forced to Time Travel back to World War II, it turned out the diguise was based on a real woman, and the real Diana Prince became a good friend of Hippolyta.

• Action Mom: She has a child in Brazil, and in the Golden Age throwback stories Diana White attempts to apprehend spies in the USA despite it.
• Cerebus Retcon: In the original Golden Age comic books, Diana of Paradise Island and Diana Prince had a mutual agreement, and though there were some arguments between them, they always came to yet more mutual agreements. When volume one returns to Earth Two however, it is shown that Wonder Woman twice used the magic lasso to make Diana Prince forget that she sold her credentials to Wonder Woman and allowed Wonder Woman to impersonate her, out of a misguided attempt to keep the original Diana Prince "innocent".
• Chained to a Bed: She gets kidnapped by Doctor Cue's "World Peace Society", who were trying to kidnap her husband, Dan. Luckily for Mrs. White, Wonder Woman happened to be in Brazil to save her.
• Chandler's Law: Subverted: Wonder Woman in her guise of Diana Prince is surprised to find a mirror image of herself waiting in her office with a gun, in issue #237. The reader already knew the original Diana Prince was returning if they read issue 236.
• Clark Kenting: Diana White exists mostly to justify Wonder Woman getting away with this. Post Crisis, the two Dianas are no longer identical, and Wonder Woman initially underwent a physical transformation to look like the original Diana Prince...though the artists often don't bother drawing Wonder Woman with Diana White's actual new features, and in Wonder Woman volume 3 she just changes her clothing, hair and puts on sunglasses when acting as Diana Prince.
• Grandfather Clause: Even back in the Golden Age, Wonder Woman #1 retconned the events All-Star Comics #8 and Sensation Comics #1, mostly expanding on events, but also crucially having Wonder Woman develop the purple healing ray to bring Steve Trevor to a full recovery on Paradise Island. This removes the need for Diana of Paradise Island to impersonate Diana Prince soon to be White, as Wonder Woman mainly did so to stay close to Steve while he was in the hospital, but the two Dianas meeting and agreeing that Wonder Woman will pay for Diana Prince's trip to Brazil in exchange for Diana Prince's credentials remains, even though Wonder Woman originally made that money while waiting for Steve's discharge, because Diana White is too convenient a Plot Device. Several adaptations do due away with Diana White, however.
• Happily Married: In the Golden Age comic books Dan White and Diana initially have a rocky start, as both the US government and Brazilian army think his inventions are not practical, but he doesn't want Diana rejoining the workforce while they have a baby to raise. Once Dan finally starts making good money their issues disappear, however.
• Have a Gay Old Time: In volume 1 #237, we're treated to a return to Earth Two, where Diana White returns to the United States to stop a Nazi sabotage plot and begins speaking in 1940s slang as she becomes more comfortable around Wonder Woman. White goes back to simple phrases when she realizes the other Diana has no clue what she means.
• Hospital Hottie: Diana White doesn't really care about her appearance, most of the time, but when she put the effort in it turned out she is a stunner.
• Identical Stranger: Almost, as in the original Golden Age comic books one Diana was about two inches taller than the other. Harry Peter wasn't consistent on which one was supposed to be the taller, however.
• Mistaken for Spies: In the Golden Age throw back stories, Wonder Woman twice removes Diana White's memories of selling her credentials to Wonder Woman, so that Diana White won't get dragged into Wonder Woman's business. This fails because Diana White inevitably learns there's another Diana Prince in Army Intelligence and assumes her double is a spy. The throwback stories end up having Earth Two Wonder Woman abandon her secret identity altogether.
• Mook Carry Over: Red Shirt Army carry over. Etta Candy would do anything for the original nurse Diana Prince, except diet. When Etta learns Wonder Woman is Diana's friend, Wonder Woman gets that same loyalty, with the spies in training attending Holliday College eager to assist Wonder Woman whenever possible, and Etta Candy forming the pseudo sorority, Beeda Lamda, which is dedicated to Wonder Woman.
• Patriotic Fervor: Diana White might live in Brazil now, but she still loves USA and will gladly die for the country
• Secret-Keeper: Diana White, formerly Diana Prince, obviously knows that "Diana Prince" is really Wonder Woman, but she keeps that to herself, even helping Wonder Woman preserve the secret.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: Diana White tends to be too buried in her work to care too much about her appearance, but when she does try, well she looks almost identical to Wonder Woman.

Etta Candy

First Appearance: Sensation Comics #2. (1942)

Created By: William Moulton Marston · Harry G. Peter

Universes: Earth-One, Earth-Two, New Earth, Prime Earth, DCEU, DCAMU, Earth-1, Wonder Woman (1975), The Legend of Wonder Woman, Generations, Sensation, Earth-167,

Etta is Diana's best friend and plucky sidekick in her many adventures. Generally, she is a tough, fun-loving, proudly heavyset lady who loves to eat candy (it's in her name, after all) and will always come to Wonder Woman's aid when needed.

The character has received numerous interpretations over the years. Pre-Crisis, she was a college student who led the Holliday Girls, a sorority devoted to Wonder Woman. Post-Crisis, she was married to Diana's original love interest Steve Trevor (and hyphenated her name to Etta Candy-Trevor) and is a snarky Air Force lieutenant colonel. Etta's current post-Flashpoint and Rebirth characterization is vastly rewritten, as a tough Black woman who works with Diana and Steve.

Etta has appeared in numerous media over the years, most notably the 1975 television series, where she was played by Beatrice Colen and the 2017 feature film where she was portrayed by Lucy Davis.

• Abandoned Catch Phrase: Downplayed, Wonder Woman Rebirth shortens Etta's catch phrase to just "Whoo".
• Abhorrent Admirer: In DC Rebirth she's quick to forgive Barbara Minerva, who in this continuity was a mentally disturbed but mostly decent woman who was forced to become a super villain, and is even revealed to have dreams about Barbara secretly wanting to be her friend. However, Barabara unexpectedly kissing Candy was a step too far, even during the possible end of civilization as they knew it, and she warned Barbara to never do so again.
• Achilles' Heel: DC Rebirth Etta Candy remains an effective intelligence and field officer with one glaring exception. If she has to travel long distances on foot her cardio proves to be subpar, especially if stairs are involved.
• Action Girl: During the Golden Age she was this, being possibly the most capable non-superpowered fighter of Wonder Woman's supporting cast. When Robert Kanigher took over as writer he gradually stopped giving her moments of competence to offset her kidnappings, turning her into a Damsel in Distress instead. Other elements of this Chickification was later reverted Post-Crisis, during George Perez's reboot, where she's a military brat who enlists.
• Adaptational Attractiveness: In the Golden Age Etta Candy was a boisterous overweight short woman, who loved a good fight and leapt at chances to beat up Nazis. In the Silver Age she was reimagined as a thin conventionally attractive woman who tended to end up a Damsel in Distress.
• Adaptational Intelligence: In the Golden Age, she wasn't known for her smarts but Post Crisis stories show her as a capable and smart military personnel.
• Adaptational Sexuality: Golden Age Etta Candy was mostly uninterested in romance, sensuality or sex but was unquestionably of a heterosexual persuasion, trying fad dating strategies like attracting men with "Cupid's love drops", and having a few celebrity crushes. Silver Age Etta Candy was actively interested in men and Post Crisis Etta Candy was married to Steve Trevor. Post Rebirth Etta is strongly implied to be a lesbian, complete with her and Barbara calling each other "love". This also seems to be true of the alternate universe version of Etta from Grant Morrison's Wonder Woman: Earth One graphic novels, who is very intrigued to learn about Themyscira.
  Etta: So let me get this straight. You're from a paradise island of science fiction lesbians? With a side of bondage? Honey, I'll drink to that! Woo woo!
• Adaptational Wimp: Most recurring characters got captured in the original golden age run of Wonder Woman comic books, with a few notable exceptions like Aphrodite, but Etta Candy was one of the characters to last the longest before she started suffering regular kidnappings, to ensure she and her Holliday Girls were taken serious as an espionage and fighting force, in spite of their comedic natures, and she continued to have plenty moments of competence and victory to offset her inevitable scenes of bondage. That was until Robert Kanigher, Martin Pasko and Gerry Conway cut back on the scenes of Earth Two Etta Candy doing anything useful, while rarely giving Silver/Bronze Age Etta any to begin with.
• Adaptation Dye-Job
  • She had either red hair in the earlier comics, sometimes blonde when there were too many other red heads on panel, or in later continuties after the original golden age run. Then she becomes a brunette after being changed to African-American post Flashpoint.
  • Golden Age Earth Two Etta Candy appears to have brown eyes, though an extreme close up in Wonder Woman volume 1 #17 shows that they are very dark blue similar to Queen Hippolyte's. Silver Age Earth One Etta has eyes of a much lighter blue shade, as does her New Earth counterpart. New 52 and Rebirth give Etta true brown eyes.
• And This Is for...: During DC Rebirth,, Wonder Woman recognizes that Plastique's attempt to murder her with a time bomb was Nothing Personal and is content to gently subdue Plastique, in spite of Plastique's continued efforts to capture/kill her, viewing Plastique as a non threat who must be desperate for money. Etta Candy doesn't give Wonder Woman the chance, as that bomb could have easily killed most of Etta's known family, had Etta's niece not discovered it and decided to show Wonder Woman what she found, having no idea that it was a deadly weapon, had Diana not immediately recognized it for what it was and attempted to suppress the explosion, had the resulting shock waves from the explosion caused the building to collapse in a slightly different manner, and Etta is most upset that despite Wonder Woman's best efforts Plastique was still successful in ruining her brother's wedding.
• Arm Chair Military: In DC Rebirth Steve Trevor gets anxious viewing the battlefield through a drone camera and admits he feels useless. Etta Candy scolds him, pointing out reconnaissance is as old as warfare itself and these tools make it even more useful.
• Badass in Distress: In the Golden Age, The Holliday Girls would often be targeted by villains, sometimes incidentally, sometimes to draw out Wonder Woman specifically, and their leader Etta Candy was not immune, being taken captive by Nazi agents Olga and Keela, Mole Men, a lost Inca tribe, The Cheetah, their own ski instructor Zavia, Atomia and Badra's gang in particular, while Odin and Pluto had captured Wonder Woman specifically and took Etta too because she just happened to be around.
• Badass Normal
  • When Gail Simone is writing her, Post Crisis, Pre Flashpoint. She manages to effectively blackmail Director Steel with his substance abuse habits in one of her first appearances.
  • Rebirth Etta Candy has noted cardio issues, especially when it comes to stairs, but she still regularly exercises and has plenty of combat skill. Enough to beat the piss out of Plastique while still recovering from the life saving surgery Etta needed after being hit by the shock wave of one of Plastique's bombs.
• Beware the Silly Ones: The Golden Age Etta is a short fat girl band geek, who is always carting around a box of candy and cracking jokes. She also has a long record of fighting Nazis and evil aliens while unarmed and winning, spying for the US Government, is a decent pilot, good shot, and is nearly as good with a lasso as Diana. People underestimate her constantly, which she uses gleefully to her advantage.
• Big Beautiful Woman: With a loving personality in spite of her rotund appearance, this is implied.
• Big Brother Instinct: In both the Golden Age and DC Rebirth continuities, Etta Candy's brother is a soldier in his own right, but she's violently protective of him nonetheless. Justified in the Golden Age comic books, where Mint Candy was a fairly high priority target for the enemy, and wasn't too hard to dupe.
• Big Eater: Due to having a sweet tooth.
• Big Fun: Lovable overweight woman with a happy, bubbly and goofy personality.
• The Big Guy: Golden Age. While Etta Candy was not the strongest nor biggest of the trio consisting of she Wondy and Steve that dealt with most villains, she was the one who would confidently charge in and fight rather than try for sneakiness like Steve or talking the villains down or pretending to be captured in order to learn more about their opponents. For this reason she was often kept back to charge in once Steve and Diana's attempts at a less violent solution failed.
• Boisterous Bruiser: During the Golden Age. Combining a extroverted personality, comic relief and brawls. Her Rebirth self is pretty friendly too, but that completely disappears in combat or even at the hint of hostilities.
• Brainy Brunette: Thanks to Adaptation Dye-Job, Etta now has black hair and is someone with more knowledge in other fields.
• Catchphrase: Whenever Etta became excited or agitated, she always shouted her trademark catch phrase "Woo-Woo!", which was later explained as a sorority thing. Readers in the 1940s would recognize this as a reference to the now-forgotten comedian Hugh Herbert.
• Chickification: When Robert Kanigher took over as writer after Marston's death a lot of her "non womanly" strengths were either downplayed or portrayed as flaws. When H. G. Peter died too, Kanigher took the chance to retool Wonder Woman entirely (into what became her Earth-1 incarnation) and made Etta a conventionally 50's feminine (in both appearance and mannerism) Damsel in Distress whose only remaining character trait was liking candy.
• Colonel Badass: George Perez and Gail Simone turned her into one.
• Commanding Coolness: She is a naval Commander in Rebirth and Steve Trevor's superior.
• Commonality Connection
  • In the Golden Age comic books Etta Candy had an antagonistic relationship with the leprechaun Woggle due to him stealing her candy and cursing her for managing to get some of it back. After getting him to lift the curse they briefly became friends again due to their mutual admiration of Wonder Woman and mutual love of candy, which Etta was more than willing to share with whoever she could, on her own terms. Their relationship soured from there, as Woggle just couldn't stop stealing from Etta.
  • New 52 and several Wonder Woman adapatations following it give Diana herself a bit of a sweet tooth. While this started as a nod to the Wonder Girl of the 1970s show it was quickly used as a way to ease Diana and Etta into a friendship.
  • During DC Rebirth Etta Candy and Barbara Minerva bond over their love for Sappho of Lesbos and end up becoming friends from there. Their relationship gets intimate while they find themselves hiding in a safehouse from Veronica Cale's Godwatch, but then turns sour as Barbara becomes Cheetah again, refuses to be cured again, turns to The Dark Gods, then to Lex Luthor and then The Dark Fates.
• Composite Character
  • Post Crisis On Infinite Earths, pre Flashpoint, Etta Candy has the learner, build and short, blonde hair she often had in the Silver Age, but the more martial attitude of her Golden Age self. Furthermore, she starts out fat in the post Crisis, pre Flashpoint era, but gradually turns that fat into muscle.
  • Rebirth Etta Candy has the build of her Golden Age self and attitude of her Post Crisis, Pre Flashpoint self, but the mannerism and skintone of her New 52 self. She also has an unfufilled desire to lead the Holliday Girls, the group her Golden Age self did lead.
• Cowgirl: She's often depicted as one in the Golden Age, particularly in western-themed stories where she visits her family ranch in Texas, she's seen wearing a cowboy hat and boots. She also wore cowboy boots in Superman & Batman: Generations and The Legend of Wonder Woman.
• A Day in the Limelight: While Etta Candy is a part of most Golden Age tales she's the main character of "Etta Candy and Her Holliday Girls: The Toothache" in which Diana only makes an appearance for a couple of panels and the story is focused on Etta. She's also the main character of "Etta Candy and her Holliday Girls: Hard Candy's Ranch", which Wondy doesn't even appear in.
• Deadpan Snarker: Etta will snark at every opportunity, and she delivers her snark with a straight face. Her favorite target is, and always has been, Steve Trevor, who never seems to adjust enough to expect it.
• Demoted to Extra: Though appearing less frequently in the Silver and Bronze Age, Etta was a recurring presence in Wonder Woman's supporting cast throughout both periods.
• Depending on the Artist: Etta's hair color has shifted back and forth from being red and blonde in her various (Pre-Flashpoint) appearances, while her height and weight are also subject to vary.
• Depending on the Writer: Etta Candy's Golden Age incarnation is much more man hungry, less of a prankster and more submissive under Gerry Conway
• Dude Magnet: Wondy's best friend off her home island—attracts quite a few male admirers mostly without trying or particularly caring, though she has dated a number of them. While she's not considered conventionally attractive, she's buxom, outgoing, confident and a great fighter which many men have found attractive.
• Dumb Jock: Golden Age Etta Candy was good at music and bad at math. Great at sports that didn't involve a lot of running, and a skilled wrangling cowgirl, but terrible at even the most basic aspects of Greek despite starting a "sorority". Her sorority of was of the wacky hazing variety when not working for Wonder Woman or Army Intelligence. Despite having known the nurse Diana Prince longer than anyone else in the main cast, Etta Candy never shows any hint of catching on to the fact Wonder Woman is impersonating her good friend, something Steve Trevor and Philip Darnell occasionally speculated before their intelligence dropped under the pen of Robert Kanigher. Etta was fluent in Latin, however.
• Face Death with Dignity: DC Rebirth Etta Candy expresses confusion about why people want to come back to life and tells Diana of her plans to die broke and happy, so that she'll never be tempted to.
• Fat and Proud: Golden Age Etta Candy is quite plump and very happy with her body, being even more confident than Diana and calling out anyone who tries to get her to feel bad about the way she looks. Those who try to make fun of her for it are soundly decked. During the George Perez run, she has a mini-arc revolving around body image and she notes that Wonder Woman is an unrealistic physical ideal for her to pursue — and being a soldier, she's also philosophically unrealistic for her, too.
• Fat Best Friend: She was originally introduced as a Type A sidekick during the 1940s-1950s, being much less capable than the main character but still much better at what she does than most. She became more a Type B in the Silver Age being someone who just happens to be friends with the main character but isn't especially helpful or competent. Etta has mostly been restored to her original personality post Crisis ownward, albeit with less comedy and an alteration to her sexuality post Rebirth.
• Fat Comic Relief: The Golden Age comic books would frequently draw attention to Etta Candy's unappologetic gluttony and dislike of excercise. Rebirth Etta is a comparitively more serious character, but she still dreads doing cardio.
• Fiery Redhead: In the early comics, Etta had orange hair, an outgoing personality, and a bit of a temper if her friends were threatened, or her candy was taken.
• Foil: Rebirth Etta Candy has a much stronger Pay Evil unto Evil attitude than Diana, and would have gladly killed many of Diana's enemies if she had the power to.
• Formerly Fit: In the Golden Age comic books Wonder Woman knows Etta Candy from nurse Diana Prince's records before meeting Etta in person, and is surprised to see how far Etta's let herself go. Post DC Rebirth, Wonder Woman's memories of a fit Etta Candy are false. Doomsday Clock establishes the slimmer Etta Candy really does exist, but she is a completely different person from Wonder Woman's fat friend, existing on "Earth 52" in an Alternate Universe.
• The Friendly Texan: Her original iteration was a Texan, and very friendly, immediately deciding Wonder Woman was her friend if Wonder Woman was friends with nurse Diana Prince.
• Genius Bruiser: Post crisis, Etta has shown to have advanced hand-to-hand combat training and be an expert tactician, especially Post DC Rebirth
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: In Post-Crisis, Legend of Wonder Woman and Earth One stories, Etta Candy is a sweet, patient lady with blonde hair.
• Hypocrisy Nod
  • Golden Age Etta Candy is an athlete always wanting to try new sports, despite hating excercise. Etta Candy goes on to become a dietrician in the golden age, despite adamantly sticking to one of the worst diets of said age. DC Rebirth Etta also recognizes and expouses the importance of fitness, despite hating it, or at least hating cardio.
  • Golden Age Etta Candy is habitual prankster, but still tells off other Holliday Girls for causing trouble for the campus staff. Often this is an excuse to haze junior members of "Beeta Lamda", though sometimes it is warranted despite the hypocrisy, as with the Heyday triplets.
• The Leader: Etta Candy is the leader of the Holliday Girls, a group of young women usually numbering at least 30 who hunt down and fight Nazi spies and aliens, and look for missing persons when they're not busy with school or work. In the Golden Age Wonder Woman wanted exactly 100, with Etta Candy saying even that wouldn't be enough on account of every woman on campus likely wanting in on Wonder Woman's missions if word got around, with Etta often judging potential new members of "Beeta Lamda" after Wonder Woman's initial mission to thwart Doctor Poison was a success.
• Meaningful Name: Etta Candy is a Big Eater with a Sweet Tooth.
• Muggle Best Friend: Etta is a Badass Normal woman who is one of the closest friends to the Semi-Divine superhero, Wonder Woman.
• Mythology Gag: During Whatever Happened To The Warrior of Truth, it is shown Etta Candy periodically dreams about leading the Holliday Girls sorority, who she has no affiliation with in the "DC Infinite Frontier" continuity but had indeed lead in the Golden and Silver Ages. Her good dreams become nightmares when an envious Barbara Minerva attacks in a Cheetah suit, not unlike the one Priscilla Rich wore, rather than as the werebeast Barbara Minerva usually is. This nightmare Barbara is still able to beat up Wonder Woman and trounce Etta's sorority when they try to save Diana, but when the real Wonder Woman ends up trapped in Etta's psyche she's able to subdue and reform Cheetah, turning the nightmare back into a good dream.
• Nazi Hunter: In the Golden comics, Etta hunted down Nazis.
• Pair the Spares: Post-Crisis. Since the 1987 revamp, Etta has been romantically linked with, and eventually married to Steve Trevor, who is no longer Diana's love interest.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: During the Golden Age. She was over a head shorter than the 5'8 Wonder Woman, at least when Diana was in heels, but could knock out groups of armed criminals/Nazis with just her fists. Later iterations of Etta are sometimes taller, though, as later iterations of Wonder Woman are almost always at least as tall as Lynda Carter.
• Plucky Comic Relief: In the Golden Age her primary role is to serve as the butt to jokes about her appetite and the fact she is proudly overweight. It's not her only role, as Etta does prove to be a more useful sidekick to Wonder Woman than most despite all the jokes.
• Plucky Girl: Etta Candy has been abducted by Nazi spies, had her personal life infiltrated by Nazi spies, and seen her friends targeted by all manner of super villains, aliens and supernatural monsters. She even had her emotions literally separated from her body. Despite this Etta Candy remains cheerful and eager to jump into dangerous situations for others' sake. That's just Golden Age Etta, as other versions have been tortured, shot and even had internal organs pulverized. Etta Candy will always regain her optimism and enthusiasm, however.
• The Prankster: In The Golden Age of Comic Books Etta was a notorious prankster who drove her college professors mad. She stepped back the number and intensity of her pranks when one on some freshmen nearly turned deadly, and Wonder Woman scolded Etta, but Etta never stopped completely.
• Race Lift: Post-Flashpoint, she was redesigned to be a thinner, black woman and modeled after Traci Thoms' appearance in the rejected pilot for NBC. After Rebirth, she returned to being well-built, but remained black.
• Real Women Have Curves: In the '40s Etta was notable for being not the slightest bit insecure, and frequently important to the plot; although still serving as Plucky Comic Relief. Since the dawn of the Silver Age, her rare reappearances usually either depict her as insecure, or else slim her down a fair bit. During Perez's run, she started out overweight, but since she was a soldier, she decided to exercise more. Realistically, she didn't become slim; rather, she was a stocky muscle girl◊. The Legend Of Wonder Woman miniseries returned her original personality and body type, with some millennium polish that's actually quite appealing.
• Retcon: The throw back return to Earth Two stories of the Bronze Age made Etta Candy join US Army intelligence during World War II and become a WAC at the time she was still leading the Holliday Girls in the original Golden Age run. This could be explained by the time travel experiments of Red Panzer, and the accidental cross universe of Green Arrow and Black Canary, but the details for this particular change in the timeline weren't given. After the war is over though Etta returns to college and has her "Beeta Lamda" membership rushed...meaning someone else started the group this time around, but she's back to saying "Woo Woo!"
• Sidekick: Of Wonder Woman. Mostly in the Golden Age. Silver Age drastically reduced her frequency of appearances and competence, while Post Crisis made Etta more competent but shifted Wonder Woman away Steve Trevor and Etta Candy to the Kapatelis family, then the Sandsmarks. Post Flashpoint, Etta Candy pops in and out of the book, depending on who is writing.
• Signature Instrument: Etta Candy played a sousaphone as part of her disguises to remain Beneath Suspicion in the Golden Age.
• Stout Strength: Golden Age and DC Rebirth Etta Candy don't have the super human strength of even the "regular" amazons, she doesn't even have the strength of Glamora Treat and Roberta Strong, who had only done brain power training without taking oaths to Aphrodite, much less that of the prodigy Wonder Woman, but these takes on Etta Candy are nonetheless very strong by human standards, having plenty of muscle underneath their fat. Post Crisis Etta had more obvious musculature, but was still pretty stout.
• The Strategist: Etta Candy was the strategist of the Holliday Girls, even on missions that included Wondy and Steve, since she was the best at coming up with plans that took advantage of each teammate's specialties and their numbers and was good at altering them to fit a changing situation on the fly. On the other hand Wondy's plans usually boiled down to letting herself get captured to figure out the bad guys. Etta is more of an in the moment tactician, post DC Rebirth, observing situations at a distance and offering advice from there.
• Sudden Name Change: Has had her middle name vary from being "Marie" to "Olive". In the Earth One story her name is changed to Beth instead.
• Sweet Tooth: As the name might suggest, Etta tends to love sugary food and drink. Her very first appearance has her eating a whole box of chocolate. Several adaptations give Wonder Woman a sweet tooth as well, to help speed up their friendship, though Diana tried to stick to a diet in the Golden Age.
• Weight Woe:
  • In the Golden Age, Etta Candy said she would do anything for the nurse Diana Prince, except lose weight. When Diana of Paradise Island had mentioned to Etta the benefits of losing weight, Etta had made a compromise with Diana. If she lost ten pounds and felt better about herself, she'd lose fifty more. By the story's end, Etta had lost her ten pounds but was unhappy, so she simply asked Diana for her candy back.
  • Post-Crisis under George Perez, she was overweight but being in the military, turned fat into muscle, resulting in a stocky frame. Post-George Perez, however, Etta suffered from anorexia for a while. Feeling insecure about her weight, Etta developed an eating disorder that was kept secret from her friends. She was able to lose 20 pounds, but at the expense of her health. When she finally collapsed due to a lack of food in front of Wonder Woman while trying on wedding gowns, Diana advised her to take better care of herself and maintain a sensible diet. Since that time Etta has gained her original weight back.

Glamora Treat

First Appearance: Sensation Comics #39. (1945)

Created By: William Moulton Marston · Harry G. Peter

Universes: Earth-Two, The Legend of Wonder Woman

One of the tallest Holliday Girls, and the owner of the heavily written on jalopy they often pile into as a transport.

• Adaptational Wimp: In the original Golden Age run, Glamora treat is one of the top two strongest Holliday Girls, having begun Amazon brain power training. She never gets up to making the oath to Aphrodite, and no one who does ever proves quite as strong as Wonder Woman, but treat is still one of the most powerful people on Diana's side not on Paradise Island. In comic books where Amazons don't get any actual super natural power from Super Natural Martial Arts Glamora doesn't get anything to compensate, just being an intrepid woman with all the human limitations that come with.
• Chained to a Rock: In Sensation Comics 39 Roberta "Bobby" Strong and Glamora Treat are bound hand and foot to stone pillars to be killed and devoured by hungry tigers.
• The Driver: As one of the few Holliday Girls with a car she ends up driving it crammed full of her fellow club members.
• Girly Bruiser: Glamora is demure, fashion conscious and highly aware of any attractive males near her. She also gleefully and eagerly joins on dangerous expeditions, is a crack shot with a rifle, can do a lot of damage with a spear, has trained in Amazonian martial arts and loves beating up Nazis.
• Lovable Sex Maniac: She and Bobby are quite into good looking boys, and Diana is concerned when they go on a mission with Steve Trevor that they're going to spend the whole time distracting him with their flirtations. Etta is nearly out of patience with listening to them go on about the various young men who they've gotten or plan to their paws on.
• Meaningful Name: Glamora is rather into being glamorous, wearing makeup and jewelry even on an expedition to an uncharted island.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Glamora Treat is the girly girl to her best pal Bobby Strong, another of the Holliday Girls. Glamora is demure and fashion conscious, Bobby is rough and tumble and loves to go hunting. They're both excellent fighters, crack shots with a riffle and a bit boy crazy.

Roberta "Bobby" Strong

First Appearance: Sensation Comics #39. (1945)

Created By: William Moulton Marston · Harry G. Peter

Universes: Earth-Two

One of the Holliday Girls, who is the only girl in her family with a whole slew of brothers. Best friends with Glamora Treat.

• Adaptational Wimp: She's not only the strongest recurring Holliday Girl in the original golden age run, but her strength is supernatural in nature, beyond what human biology is capable of. This is achieved through the brain power branch of the Amazon Supernatural Martial Arts, which can work for anyone even if they don't take the full steps of making an oath to Aphrodite and donning bracelets of submission. In the storylines where said arts aren't a factor in Amazon strength Bobby doesn't get any substitute to keep her as strong as her golden age self.
• The Baby of the Bunch: While she is definitely not treated in such a way by the Holliday Girls she is the little baby sister to a bunch of brothers who like to do whatever they can for her.
• Bring It: When brought before a fellow who fancies himself a modern Roman emperor who wants her to serve him or be fed to beasts she retorts "Any beast is a gentleman compared with you, you fat slob!" and when surrounded by foes who are hesitating to attack merrily tells them to "Come an inch nearer" so she can let them have it.
• Chained to a Rock: In Sensation Comics 39 Bobby and Glamora are bound hand and foot to stone pillars to be killed and devoured by hungry tigers. Bobby's reaction is to roll her eyes and basically say bring it.
• Don't Call Me "Sir": "Bobby" does not at all like to be called a "lady". Rather than just asking people not to call her such she'll argue that she is not one especially since men like to try to use it as an excuse to exclude and constrain her.
• I Have Brothers: Bobby will sometimes resort to explaining she's gone on safari and gone hunting with her older brothers as an explanation for why she's a viable candidate for adventurous outings if her own abilities and explanation of her skills isn't enough to convince those in charge. This often works better for her than explaining that she has been trained in martial arts by Wonder Woman and has defeated numerous Nazis herself.
• Leeroy Jenkins: If her friends are planning on retreating or surrendering but their are a bunch of bad guys right in front of her she's going to launch herself into the fight if she's not stopped.
• Lovable Sex Maniac: She and Glamora are quite into good looking boys, and Diana is concerned when they go on a mission with Steve Trevor that they're going to spend the whole time distracting him with their flirtations.
• Meaningful Name: Her last name is Strong and she's a very good brawler who has trained in Amazonian martial arts.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Bobby Strong is the tomboy to Glamora Treat's girly girl. Glamora is demure and fashion conscious, Bobby is rough and tumble and loves to go hunting. They're both excellent fighters, crack shots with a riffle and a bit boy crazy.
• Tomboyish Name: Bobby for Roberta.

Lillie, Millie & Tillie Heyday

First Appearance: Sensation Comics #43. (1945)

Created By: Joye Hummel · Harry G. Peter

Universes: Earth-Two, The Legend of Wonder Woman

• Adaptational Intelligence: In the original golden age run, Tillie is above average intelligence while Lillie and Millie are below so. In the The Legend of Wonder Woman volume 2, Tillie is instead the dumbest of the trio and of all the Holliday Girls
• Coordinated Clothes: The girls wear matching clothes most of the time in order to switch easily with each other, though they're all wearing different colored similar dresses for a masquerade.
• Dumb Blonde: Lillie and Millie are acknowledged to be reckless, foolish, and dangerously impulsive to the point that their grandmother leaves her estate only to the one of them who doesn't fit here as she feels Tillie will take care of her sisters with the money and that the other two will be better off that way than if she'd actually given them the money themselves.
• Finishing Each Other's Sentences: Lillie and Millie regularly finish each other's sentences, and Tillie occasionally does the same but usually only with things they've practiced.
• In-Series Nickname: Those Terrible Triplets
• Raised by Grandparents: The Heyday triplets were raised by their grandmother after their parents' deaths.
• Same-Sex Triplets: Identical triplet girls.
• Single-Minded Twins: The Heyday triplets play with this trope. The three are identical, wear matching outfits and get a kick of pulling twin switches, but only Lillie and Millie really act as one, to the point of speaking in unison, having the same phobias and reacting the same way to things even when they're in separate rooms. Tillie is actually much more practical, sarcastic and down to earth than her sisters.
• Theme Twin Naming: Their names all have the same ending.
• Trickster Twins: Trickster triplets. Their love of playing tricks on their classmates is part of why they fit in so well with the Holliday Girls, who are lead by notorious trickster Etta Candy.
• Twin Banter: The girls speak in unison and finish each other's sentences. They've actually practiced this to help them with their pranks.
• Twin Switch: Their favorite trick is posing as each other and ensuring no one can tell the three of them apart. Several of their professors require them to wear nametags to try to prevent this.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Lillie and Millie are terrified of ghosts, so of course the challenge/hazing they have to endure to join the Holliday Girls is a haunted house.

Thelma Tall

First Appearance: Wonder Woman Vol 1 #117. (1960)

Created By: Robert Kanigher · Ross Andru

Universes: Earth-One, Earth-1

Comfortably the tallest Holliday Girl of her time Thelma is a spectacled activist.

• Expy: A very different character otherwise, but fills the same role as Marya on the golden age Earth 2 as the "tall" Holliday Girl.
• '50s Hair: Thelma's short blunt bangs and long wavy hair ending in curls is a quintessential '50's style.
• Meaningful Name: Thelma Tall towers over the other characters.

I-Ching

First Appearance: Wonder Woman Vol 1 #179. (1968)

Created By: Denny O'Neil and Mike Sekowsky

Universes: Earth-One, Prime Earth

A blind old mystic who trained Diana in martial arts during a lengthy period when she had lost her powers. More recently, he has served as the mentor to Kenan Kong, the People's Republic of China's "New Super-Man".

• Antagonistic Offspring: His daughter Lu Shan became an evil sorceress in Nehwon, of all places.
• Blind People Wear Sunglasses: He's blind and wears large shades to show it. Some Post Crisis artists try to make the shades more fashionable
• Boxing Lessons for Superman: Trained Diana in martial arts when she had lost her superhuman powers. Eagerly, as he correctly believed Diana's amazon training would make her an ideal student.
• Dark Is Not Evil: He is the embodiment of Yin, the 'dark' principle, and true to the concept, he carries its virtuous and peaceful aspects. His brother, All-Yang, on the other hand...
• Dramatic Irony: Diana is frustrated and embarrassed about her lack of progress with I-Ching's training while I-Ching himself thinks she is making remarkable progress and is most impressed with her discipline.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: In Pre-Crisis days, he died in a senseless act of violence, shot by a crazed sniper shooting at bystanders, and dying in Diana's arms. He reappeared after the Post-Crisis reboot years later, however. As of Dark Crisis, the sixth or so event to "undo" Crisis On Infinte Earths, Bronze Age and Rebirth I-Ching are still dead, while Post Crisis On Infinite Earths Ching is still alive.
• Handicapped Badass: An elderly mystic and martial arts master who is blind.
• Ignored Expert: Diana keeps blowing him off in Volume 1 issue #186, convinced that she doesn't have time for small talk while Morgana is causing chaos in New York City. To be fair, I-Ching should have probably let Diana know he could do magic long before now, and also, Diana's lost the wisdom of Athena and thus has become a lot more brash than she was before.
• Invocation: He halts Morgana's Magical Incantation by invoking Alim, Agla and Alta, then forbids Morgana from ever casting magic "here" again by calling on Ja, Roa, Hagios and Seyok. The latter doesn't really work, as Morgana does return and start casting magic again, but is effective in making her give up and depart. Morgana only returns because Supergirl wants her to.
• Magical Asian: An old Chinese man who knows his way around supernatural stuff.
• Meaningful Name: He is, of course, named after the Book of Changes. Decades later, Gene Luen Yang writing New Super-Man would establish that he and his brother All-Yang are the living embodiments of the concept of Yin and Yang, a position which he then passed on to Kenan Kong.
• Mentor Archetype: His role in pretty much any story where he appears. Besides Diana and Kenan, he also helped Superman in his conflict with the extradimensional Quarmerr during the Sand Superman saga (magic being one of Superman's major weaknesses).
• Mister Exposition: If he's not mentoring, he'll be doing this. "Ah, this is clearly the mystical Talisman of ABC, from the Land of DEF, that can magically do GHI! We must protect it from evil!" or some such.
• Move in the Frozen Time: I-Ching is able to cast a counter spell on Morgana's Time Freeze but pretends to be under its affects anyway until Morgana decides to place Diana under it as well, convinced that "Diana's way" just isn't going to work.
• Obfuscating Disability: I-Ching is elderly and disabled, but nowhere near as disabled as he wants people to think he is. He is both physically capable, if not to the same extent as the younger, taller Diana Prince, and mentally sharp, though Diana sometimes forgets since I-Ching likes to play dumb even with her.
• Old Shame: Creator Denny O'Neil later said that he was proud of the character, but he dearly wished he'd come up with a less awkward name.
• Parental Substitute: As he died, ^note He was Killed Off for Real in Pre-Crisis continuity, but then reintroduced after the Crisis. after years of their adventuring together in real world time, he told Diana he thought of her as a daughter, and Diana told him he was like the father she'd never had.

Catherine "Cathy" Perkins

First Appearance: Wonder Woman Vol 1 #184. (1969)

Created By: Mike Sekowsky

Universes: Earth-One

A teenage girl Diana rescued from human traffickers Cathy went on to act as a shopkeeper in Diana's clothing store Mod-Ly Modern, and dedicate her life to fighting for human rights. She eventually developed lung cancer, which was inoperable and well on its way to killing her by the time she told Diana. In her final days she reopened the little shop in New York as a vintage clothing store.

• Action Fashionista: Cathy is pretty casual about clothes, but she works in a clothing store, has a clear style, and fights alongside Wonder Woman using karate.
• Call to Adventure: Frequently Diana would just be dealing with the day to day runnings of Mod-Ly Modern and enjoying her time off if Cathy didn't come running to her with problems Cathy's friends or acquaintances were having. Sometimes she expects a little much of Diana, who wasn't Wonder Woman any longer and wasn't expecting to become The Amazing Amazon again, but Diana always ends up trying something regardless.
• Dramatic Necklace Removal: Cathy gets a necklace talisman that helps extend her life after learning she's dying of cancer. After realizing that the thing draws people to attack her, and those around her, and that she's not going to be able to ensure the safety of others using Diana's help she rips it off and breaks it while crying.
• Face Death with Dignity: She doesn't want to accept her death, but after realizing and accepting that she has no way to fight it, that doesn't endanger others, she has a cry on Diana's shoulder and accepts that she will pass on.
• Foil: Diana quickly becomes a smooth talking entrepreneur. Cathy remains mumble mouthed considerably longer, by contrast
• Granola Girl: Cathy ran away from home as a free spirited innocent left-leaning teen, but ended up kidnapped and forced into servitude.
• Gratuitous French: Not all of Cathy's snipes at Diana are in English
• Servile Snarker: Cathy Perkins loves Diana Prince as a friend and person in general, but not as an employer. Perkins is not shy about letting Prince hear it either.

Morgana

First Appearance: Wonder Woman Vol 1 #186. (1970)

Created By: Mike Sekowsky

Universes: Earth-One

A witch from another world accidentally summoned to Earth by classmates of Cathy Perkins. She claims to be the daughter of the more famous Morgain Le Fay.

• All-Loving Hero: Morgana has mood swings from causing havoc to ease boredom, to legitimately trying make the lives of all around her better.
• Ambiguously Human: Morgana appears to be human, but has indeterminate parentage and does not come from Earth, like her alleged mother Morgaine Le Fay. While Morgana reveals Supergirl villain Zond is just a human man in a stupid mask using Morgaine Le Fay's spell book to cause trouble, Morgana's own magic seems to be innate and a lot more powerful than anything that can be done with the book.
• Animal Eyes: Morgana's usually round pupils become cat like slits when she gets devious intentions
• Attack Animal: Frimost rips Diana's sleeve as a hawk before retreating back to Morgana
• Big Entrance: While exploring New York City for the first time Morgana charms a band to herald her every move.
• Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Supergirl, Diana and Morgana form such a trio after Morgana realizes they're after the same crook
• Dude Magnet: Morgana cast a love charm on an obsese New Yorker that causes men to flock to her. This unfortunately causes a crowd that gets in Diana's way.
• Enemy Mine: Morgana becomes a friend of Diana and Supergirl's when she learns that they are also enemies of Zond and that he has been building up a power base on their planet.
• Fad Super: Diana throws together for Morgana what can be described as a modernist "update" on Witch Classic. Pointed where it would classically be round and round where it would be pointed.
• Foil: To Enchantress, an Anti-Hero protagonist who was gradually turned into a Supergirl and Superman antagonist as her methods got more extreme, while Morgana is a Wonder Woman antagonist who became an ally after Supergirl insists on summoning her.
• Forced Transformation: Morgana first comes into conflict with Diana when Morgana turns Henry, a classmate of Diana's employee Cathy Perkins, into a frog to prevent Henry from performing a spell that would send her back home, as Morgana decides to explore Henry's world first. It's the one spell of Morgana's I-Ching can't undo, but a kiss from Henry's girlfriend ends up breaking it.
• Gladiator Games: Morgana turns the streets of New York City into a giant Tourney Field with motorists being forced to hit each other with jousting lances while hanging out of the windows of their vehicles.
• Just Like Robinhood: As she explores New York City Morgana causes a riot by charming bank tellers to give away money in the streets to those who need it most.
• Kind Hearted Cat Lover: Most of the time. Her pet Frimost's default form is a cat but he can become a hawk, mouse or fly at will.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: After I-Ching reveals he countered her Time Stands Still spell, Morgana gives up and agrees to return from whence she came...after she gives Diana Prince one last parting kick to the jaw.
• Kung-Fu Wizard: Even without her magic, Morgana throws good jabs, quick crosses, and is almost as skilled a wrestler as the Earth One Diana Prince. She manages to defeat Diana in hand to hand combat after using a magical double to determine Diana Prince's fighting style, though she admits Diana is pretty good.
• Living Toys: Morgana brings stuffed animals on display in a toy store to life because Morgana can't stand seeing them "locked up". Diana compares their ensuing stampede to being attacked with pillows.
• Magical Incantation: Morgana spends her first appearance simply performing magic at will, but once Diana manages to succesfully tackle her, Morgana decides to use a spoken spell. On a seemingly paralyzed Diana. What it is we don't know as I-Ching more quickly speaks a Counter Spell. Morgana uses another to bring one of Zond's would be disciples out of a coma, but we don't get to read what it was.
• Make an Example of Them: Turning Henry into a frog doesn't just stop him from exocising Morgana back to where she came from, but serves as a warning to Henry's friends not to bother her. It back fires, as Henry's friends are now desperate to turn Henry back into a boy before his parents arrive, before Henry has to take midterm exams.
• The Mentally Disturbed: I-Ching diagnoses Morgana with manic depressive disorder, lamenting that the psychological condition was discovered too late to adequately treat her.
• Me's a Crowd: Morgana can create duplicates of herself that the depowered Diana cannot tell from the real thing by sight, sound or touch. She uses one such double to learn Diana's fighting style and mocks Diana for thinking she's won.
• Mobile Menace: Diana's out to get Morgana to undo a curse she put on a student named Henry, who accidentally summoned Morgana while thinking nothing in a $1.98 book could be real. Morgana proceeds to "poof" away whenever she gets bored of her current surroundings, however, and Diana only keeps track of her by all the chaos Morgana causes, due to Morgana's lack of understand of modern cities. That and the marching band Morgana is forcing to follow her around.
• Oh, My Gods!: What her religion, if any is, isn't clear, her swears include "Blood of Banaal!" "By the sacred blood of Tetragrammation!"^note the ion might be a typo, as Retragrammation is spelled Retragrammaton in her second appearance and "By the britches of Beelzebub!"
• The Paralyzer: Morgana projects a yellowish green light that makes those that also glow it unable to move. The exact nature of this spell is unknown, but given Morgana and Frimost can travel through time, it's widely assumed to be a variation of time stop.
• Parts Unknown: Where exactly Morgana is being summoned from was never specified. Morgana claims to be the daughter of Morgaine Le Fay, but that just raises further questions since Silver Age Morgain Le Fay definitely lived on Earth and Morgana is almost completely unfamiliar with the planet, coming from her own world with it's own separate timeline.
• Redhead in Green: Morgana exclusively dressed in green dresses until Diana gives her a black minidress as a sort of payment for services.
• Set Right What Once Went Wrong: It turns out Morgana is so irritable because she and Frimost have been constantly time traveling in her world, trying to find where/when Zond, a thief who stole one of Morgain Le Fay's books, is hiding. When Diana reveals Zond is on Earth, Morgana becomes a lot less hostile to her and even does a favor for Diana's frind Supergirl in gratitude.
• Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: Morgana's rumored to be the daughter of Morgaine Le Fay and so powerful her own legendary mother fears what an unchecked Morgana may do. Morgana for her part, backs these rumors of power up. Morgana also has dark red hair and light green eyes which become the same shade as her cat's when Morgana gets devious.
• Smug Super: Diana goads Morgana into helping Supergirl by claiming any magic user who could beat Supergirl might be more powerful than Morgana herself. Morgana is eager to educate Diana on what a real spell caster can do, even more so when she realizes she was after the man anyway.
• Squishy Wizard: Morgana's ability to affect the world with magic is a lot more powerful than her physical body. It does not matter a whole lot though, as she encounters the Earth One Diana after she lost her powers, and before she's completed her training with I-Ching. Considering Morgana's cardiovascular shape, close quarters combat skill, and the fact she's just as tall as Diana, the only person who really makes Morgana look "squishy" is Supergirl.
• Statuesque Stunner: Morgana's at least as tall as Silver Age Earth One Diana, at least six foot, and in her second appearance Morgana wears high heels, making her look even taller while she gets a makeover from Diana.
• Summon Magic: Are you on Pre Crisis Earth One? Then draw a pentagram on the floor, place a lit candle at each point, read some variation of "Aglon-Vaycheon-Olyaram-Soter-Sabaoth-Retragrammation—by these names—straightaway appear!" aloud from the appropriate piece of paper, and await Morgana's wrath! Exocising her from the world is a lot harder!
• White-and-Grey Morality: Everything Morgana does in her initial appearance is either meant to be helpful, or be a temporary change for her own amusement. She proves more ignorant and immature than actively malicious. Then it turns out Morgana's after the same criminal Supergirl is, and becomes friends with her and Diana.
• The Worf Effect: She basically wreaks havoc for an entire issue to show how powerful I-Ching's magic is when he nullifys her powers. However, I-Ching can't undo all of Morgana's spells, admitting that she's still more powerful than he is in some ways.
• Who Dares?: Morgana always appears with some variation of this phrase, as she considers anyone who dare conjure her a fool

First Appearance: Wonder Woman #229. (1977)

Created By: Stanley Ralph Ross

Universes: Earth-Two

An army general who Major Steve Trevor reports to.

• Captain Ersatz: He is a version of General Phillip Blankenship from the 1970s series created for the comic books. Phillip Blankenship was himself an expy of comic book character Colonel Darnell
• Conflict Ball: He butts heads with Wonder Woman and chastises Diana Prince far more often than Colonel/General Darnell, and not often for good reasons. Sometimes it's because Colonel Belushi or General Douglas MacArthur have a problem, and Blankenship feels the need to take their side for the sake of protocal. He's also not so appreciative of Etta Candy, though she was being written as less useful at the time
• Doting Parent: He has a close and loving relationship with his son, Lee
• For Your Own Good: He becomes convinced Steve Trevor has died after losing contact with him while Steve was flying over enemy territory, and orders Yeoman Smith to keep watch over Diana Prince, while Diana Prince takes mandatory time off.
• Middle Name Basis: Whenever anyone calls him anything other than "General" or "Blankenship" the call him Phillip, which is his middle name. We are never told what the "J" his first name starts with stands for.
• Put on a Bus: J. Blankenship was going to retire, but decided to stay in the service when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and Germany declared war on the United States. Once World War II is over however, he takes that retirement he had been putting off.
• Remember the New Guy?: Everyone talks about him like he's always been in the comic book, and while it is plausible the army officers would at least know of one of the generals, the reader had been given no information that ever hinted at this man's existence beyond the assumption someone must be serving as one of the army's several generals before Philip Darnel's promotion, and that some of them might be fictional.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: His appearance in the comic books coincided with the unexplained disappearance of Colonel Darnell and remains in place even during the time frame was originally promoted to a general
• Took a Level in Kindness: One he realizes that Duke of Deception has been operating in the US, and intentionally pitting the army against Wonder Woman, General Blakenship becomes kinder not just to her but to everyone around him
• Unwanted Assistance: His job is to try to be helpful to Yeoman Diana Prince while in actuality making things more difficult for her

First Appearance: Wonder Woman #233. (1977)

Created By: Gerry Conway

Universes: Earth-Two

A German Jewish widower who managed to save his children by agreeing to work for Captain Wilhelm Strung on U-Boat 211 and give Captain Strung all of the credit for his services.

• Achilles' Heel: The smaller the brain to body size ratio, the easier it is to misdirect animals under the sway of his call
• Anti-Villain: Freidrich hates the Nazi Party, but he commits murders for them with his powers because the Nazis killed his wife and then took his son and daughter hostage.
• Combat Tentacles: His leviathan has antenna, and due to it's extreme size, Freidrich can command it to use them to grab Nazi sailors
• Go Out with a Smile: Freidrich dies happy, knowing that his children Horst and Freida are safe, and he finally got to strike back at some of the Nazis who tormented his people.
• Manly Tears: Freidrich cries after confessing his sins to Wonder Woman, particularly having been responsible for the deaths of hundreds of merchants and sailors for the sake of saving his two children.
• Monster Whale: He managed to capsize the USS Newport by commanding three whales capable of rending steel.
• My God, What Have I Done?: He speaks a prayer of remorse to Yaweh when Freidrich believes he has killed Wonder Woman
• Papa Wolf: Once Wonder Woman rescues his children from the concentration camp, Freidrich's attitude immediately changes from submissive self loathing to a passionate desire to fight Nazis to the death
• Powers Do the Fighting: Freidrich never physically fights for himself, only commanding other creatures to violence for him
• Prehistoric Monster: Freidrich's leviathan is as old as Original Man, which means it's actually younger than the beast of Job, but still pretty old.
• Psychic Powers: Freidrich has the power to locate and control marine life throught telepathy. He can command entire schools and even get different species to work together, but he has to be careful about accidentally dragging in too many with his mental calls
• Rock Beats Laser: Freidrich locates and disrupts the flight of Wonder Woman's invisible plane using a school of flying fish. And that was Freidrich doing his best to lose.
• Sea Serpents: He commands an air breathing giant spentine creature that had been sleeping in an air filled cave at the bottom of the ocean. He and the narrator liken it to the Leviathan from the Tanakh, though the narrator calls it a behemoth a couple panels later, even though The Behemoth is the ArchEnemy of The Leviathan. The creature is merely a leviathan besides, not the Beast of the Apocalypse, definitely possessing the strength but lacking the Nigh-Invulnerability and fire breath of the Biblical beast, not that the latter would have done much to Wonder Woman.
• Springtime for Hitler: He intentionally tries to lose to Wonder Woman by sending a mere mutated whale after her, but his call is instead answered by an ancient sea serpent that is just as strong and fast as she is, while being better suited for marine combat.
• Threatening Shark: At Captain Strung's command he creats a feeding frenzy involving several species of shark to capsize a merchant vessel and devor the passengers on board. No people die this time as Wonder Woman dives in and wrangles the fish.

Nemesis/Tom Tresser

Former vigilante and member of the Suicide Squad Operatives. 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.

Lisa Abernathy

First Appearance: Wonder Woman Vol 1 #306. (1985)

Created By: Dan Mishkin · Don Heck

Universes: Earth-One

A reporter whose daughter befriended the alien "Glitch" and whose ex-senator father gave her a number of connections. Later on her some of her father's less savory actions while senator resulted in the family being targeted.

• Broken Pedestal: Lisa is quite upset and surprised to learn of her father's "mistakes" as senator.
• Glamorous Single Mother: Played With. Lisa seems to have her life very well together, and always makes an effort to appear fashionable and unfluttered but she does have some difficulties with her daughter Eloise as she doesn't have much time with her due to working. Eloise's father is never mentioned, and is not involved in his daughter's life.

Julia Kapatelis

First Appearance: Wonder Woman Vol 2 #3. (1987)

Created By: George Pérez

Universes: New Earth

An archeologist who is Diana's first friend in "Mans World" in the Post-Crisis continuity. Diana moves in with Julia and her daughter Vanessa while living in Boston.

• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Pre Flashpoint, Julia is Diana's mentor and land lady. Post Flashpoint, Diana is a caretaker working for Julia pro bono.
• Adventurer Archaeologist: She's far more respectful of the items and cultures she's studying than most examples, but given the often magical and sought after by villains nature of archeological artifacts in the DCU pretty much all archaeologists therein have to be rather adventurous. After her husband David dies, Julia decides to back off of archaeology and settle down as a professor at Harvard, but she can't resist the pull of an expidition sometimes, and now has a Wonder Woman to call on if things go wrong.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Julia once shot Cheetah when she tried to kill Diana◊. She also◊ once tried to shoot Circe.
• Commonality Connection: Julia Kapatelis is also an immigrant to the United States, albeit from Greece rather than Themyscira.
• Cool Old Lady: Despite her age, she's not above leading a group of rowdy villagers into an angry sorceress' tower. In general, she's very willing to put herself in harm's way if it means helping Wonder Woman.
• Cunning Linguist: It ends up falling on Julia to make sense of what Diana is saying and teach Diana modern languages, starting with English.
• Demoted to Extra: After being Adapted Out in volume 4, volume 5 brings her back mainly to show that Julia's death is the final thing that causes her daughter, Vanessa, to breakdown and lose control of her nano bots.
• Divine Intervention: Julia Kapatelis would have died at a young age if not for the intervention of a sea Nymph, Thetis of the Nereids. Thetis used Time Travel to hide that Julia had not only fallen overboard into the Aegean sea but had then been taken to the shores of Themyscira and introduced to the amazon Pythia. Hermes also arranges for Diana to meet Julia when Diana arrives in The United States.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: In volume five, Julia is introduced to the Post Rebirth setting, and soon meets her end in a car crash.
• Harmful to Minors: Julia lived through Greece's war with Fascist Italy and Greece's defeat and occupation by Nazi Germany, losing her brother to the latter. As such Julia handles the danger that comes from being associated with Wonder Woman quite well. However she finally snaps and wants nothing more to do with Diana after Vanessa is converted into a killer cyborg.
• Mama Bear: Despite her devotion to Wonder Woman, she makes it very clear that she will not tolerate putting her child in harm's way.
• Minored in Ass-Kicking: Julia minored archeology actually, which became her primary profession after marrying her husband, who majored in it. Julia and David developed a love for rifle skeet shooting off the clock, however, and a hunting rifle is Julia's favorite weapon when she moves to defend herself and her own.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Julia's failed efforts to save Diana from Circe result in Circe kidnapping Julia in a future campaign against Diana.
• Parental Substitute: Julia becomes a maternal figure for Diana when she's off the island. Hippolyta gets occasional bouts of jealously over the time Julia spends with her daughter.
• Parents as People: She is often shown questioning herself when it comes to taking care of and raising Vanessa, but she tries her very best.
• Parent with New Paramour: She starts dating one of Vanessa's teachers, which ticks her off. Especially since it won't help her get any better grades.
• Rebuilt Pedestal: She disowns Diana for not doing enough in her eyes to protect Vanessa, after Circe, Doctor Psycho and Sebastion Ballesteros have Vanessa forcibly converted into a killer cyborg, but Julia reconsiders after Vanessa is saved, fully unconverted and graduates college.
• The Chosen One: Chosen by Hermes to be Diana's mentor in the world of man.

Myndi Mayer

First Appearance: Wonder Woman Vol 2 #7. (1987)

Created By: George Pérez

Universes: New Earth, Sensational

A Boston-based publicist who managed to get Diana to be one of her clients early in the heroine's career upon her arrival in Man's World in the Post-Crisis continuity.

• Adaptational Attractiveness: One one hand, the "Sensational" Myndi Mayer seems to be less physically conditioned than her Pre Flashpoint counterpart, on the other hand she appears to be taking better care of her skin and clothing, suggesting this one may not be a substance abuser.
• Brought to You by the Letter "S": Wonder Woman's "WW" was the symbol of a charitable foundation that begged Wonder Woman to wear it for the sake of promoting their activism. Myndi Mayer's Sensational Wonder Woman "MM" is this foundation's symbol turned upside down because Myndi could get away with it. Diana is not amused.
• Catchphrase: "Sweet thing" and "darling".
• Drugs Are Bad: Her entire appearance is a massive anti-drug aesop, since her exposure to cocaine turned her from an exuberant publicist to an unstable addict.
• Establishing Character Moment: The very cover of the comic introducing Myndi Mayer to Sensational Wonder Woman features her taking selfies at a disaster site, getting in the way of fire fighters and drawing Wonder Woman's ire. In the pages themselves Myndi nearly gets herself killed trying to get Wonder Woman's attention.
• Heroic BSoD: Her death via a cocaine overdose shook a still naïve and young Diana to her core as, coming from an island where the only drug was liquor full of people almost immune to it, she had largely no concept of such happenings.
• Hidden Depths
  • Appears on the surface as a very shallow glory-seeking publicity agent looking to ride off Diana's fame as a superheroine but brings up many valid points about how Diana's image be used in altruistic ways.
  • She also proudly supported her brother coming out as gay and threatened to make a big stink in the media if her sister didn't invite him to her wedding. As well as also taking care of her Alzheimer's-afflicted father in later years even though he largely disowned her and couldn't even remember who she was.
• Jewish American Princess: Seems on the surface to be a grown up version of one but is actually estranged from most of her family (save for her brother) who she never got along with well due to her boisterous and extravagant personality.
• Ms Vice Girl
  • She means well, genuinely respects Wonder Woman, and fiercely supports downtrodden family members like her gay brother, but she presents herself as a shallow glory-seeking publicity agent, a massive jerkass to her employees, and as revealed later a cocaine addict who slept with and fired various male workers and covered up a drug-peddling scandal in her business before dying from an overdose.
  • Pre Flashpoint Myndi was already a fundamentally dishonest and greedy individual, and the Sensational Wonder Woman Mayer is even more so! While Diana is put off by Myndi's sleeze, Myndi could just be making money off of unlicensed Wonder Woman merchandise like so many others already are. Myndi isn't just interested in crushing competition to increasing her bottom line but is sincere about getting rid of merchandise that is unsafe for children or produced with child labor. For these reason, Diana considers Myndi's offer.
• My Greatest Failure: Diana wasn't responsible for Myndi's drug overdose but her death via a drug overdose shook Diana to her core. Years later Diana would bring up Myndi's death as a sign of when she still young had much to learn.
• Smooth-Talking Talent Agent: A much more nuanced take on this trope. She launches a massive publicity campaign and merchandising empire in the name of spreading Diana's fame (and message of peace) across Man's World. While frequently tacky and egotistical, Myndi does legitimately like Diana as a person, and never willingly antagonizes her before her sudden death via drug overdose.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: What ultimately broke her and caused her to find comfort in drugs was the lack of love from her father. At a certain point her father was put in her care, but no matter who much Myndi cared for him, he never showed her any love. To make matters worse, her life was completely fine before he entered it, which means that he indirectly ruined her life.

Natasha Teranova

First Appearance: Wonder Woman Vol 2 #66. (1992)

Created By: William Messner-Loebs · Paris Cullins

Universes: New Earth

A Russian cosmonaut Natasha Teranova was stranded on a malfunctioning space station when Wonder Woman was asked to rescue her in suspicious circumstances. After Wonder Woman arrived the mission was sabotaged and the two women were sent careening out of control through space where they were picked up and enslaved by the Sangtee Empire.

Natasha becomes part of Diana's high command when she starts a slave revolt that leads to an all out rebellion that forces the Sangtee Empire to abolish slavery.

• Childish Tooth Gap: In one of her photos of her daughter Aleksis the girl is grinning to reveal she's missing two front teeth.
• Gratuitous Russian: When Diana starts teaching her English her lines become mixtures of Russian and English as opposed to simply translated between brackets as before.
• Loyal Animal Companion: The "lizard" Yuri is loyal to his new human owner.
• Made a Slave: Natasha and Diana are forced into slavery by the Sangtee Empire.
• Missing Mom: She is a missing mom, and it breaks her heart that her daughter will likely never know what has happened to her and regrets that she didn't spend more time with her before the mission that went haywire.
• Pirate Girl: Diana's whole space pirate/revolutionary crew is made up of women. They're granted clemency by the emperor after they win their revolution.
• Pirate Parrot: Natasha trains herself up "Yuri, the magic lizard", a creature that looks like a small dragon mixed with a salamander that has some protrusions reminiscent of feathers. He's not actually magic in the least, she just uses him during her little magic shows for the crew.
• Sleight of Handiness: Natasha uses her stage magic tricks to act as a decoy, allowing herself to be captured by Sangtee soldiers then slipping her bonds and sliding a hidden weapon out of her sleeve to defend herself with the same way she would a fake bouquet of flowers.
• Stage Magician: Natasha practices stage magic and card tricks for fun, which comes in handy during the long days stranded in space and later as a bit of fun for the revolutionaries.

Camille Sly/Camilly Spry

First Appearance: Wonder Woman Vol 2 #73. (1993)

Created By: William Messner-Loebs · Lee Moder

Universes: New Earth

A silent movie star who became Diana's landlady later in life.

• Cool Old Lady: Somewhat eccentric old woman with a facinating past she'll share if asked, who tries to protect her tenants.
• Drop-In Landlord: Camille reveals more eccentric bits in every appearance, and lives in the same building as Diana and shares a common room with her tenants.
• Hidden Depths: Camille seems like a kind doddering elderly woman, so it comes as a surprise that she is trained in fencing and has not lost all ability with age.
• I Was Quite a Looker: It takes a while for it to come to light but Camille was a beautiful Hollywood star in her youth.

Peony McGill/Star Blossom

First Appearance: Wonder Woman and the Star Riders. (1993)

Created By: José Luis García-López

Universes: Star Riders, DC Rebirth

A young girl with the ability to control flowers and a big fan of Wonder Woman.

• Adaptation Name Change: She's a very obvious adaptation of Star Lily from the doomed Wonder Woman and the Star Riders line.
• Age Lift: Her first appearance has her as an adult. Her recent incarnation is a young girl.
• Ascended Fangirl: She has a Wonder Woman action figure and states as such when she first meets the heroine.
• Childish Tooth Gap: A noticeable tooth gap and an energetic, friendly girl.
• Cosmic Motifs: A star on her shirt and star-shaped earrings.
• Flowers of Nature: Peony McGill/Star Blossom keeps her double buns ringed in delicate pink flowers that are kept fresh by her Green Thumb powers.
• Girlish Pig Tails: Peony has afro puffs, but visiually kept in a manner pigtails would be.
• Glass Cannon: She doesn't even have a fully developed bone structure and is unfit for getting directly involved in disaster scenarios. Still, she can sprout enough flowers to support the weight of several adult humans falling at near terminal velocities, breaking their falls and letting them safely slide to the ground.
• Going to Give It More Energy: She stops a fire by letting it burn itself out on plants she causes to sprout while directing it away from other buildings...which unfortunately still leaves people trapped in that smoke filled, collapsing building. Wonder Woman arrives and is able to save them, however.
• Green Thumb: Peony has the power of chlorokinesis.
• Intergenerational Friendship: She's a child but forms a friendship with Wonder Woman, an Amazon warrior who has lived for at least a century in the Rebirth setting.
• Kid Hero: Peony appears to be elementary aged and uses her powers to help others.
• Nice Girl: Peony is a sweet, friendly, and brave young girl.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Surviving promotional materials make it clear Star Lily was meant to be the more cool headed rational best friend of the emotionally driven Spicy Latina Solara.
• Shipper on Deck: She's a fan of Wonder Woman with Superman, but is a Cosmic Retcon or two too late to see it.

First Apperance: Wonder Woman Vol 2 #101 (1995)

Created By: John Byrne

Universe: New Earth

• All Love Is Unrequited: Mike's infatuated with Diana, but Diana hasn't quite moved on from Superman, even though she knows it's never going to happen, and Batman, even though she knows it's best for both of them that it never happens. Then she gets the hots for Trevor Barnes, who isn't interested in her. Diana likes Mike too, but not like that.
• Friend on the Force: Mike and Diana are all too happy to have each other's help when their problems overlap, Mike's knowledge, resources and connections proving valuable to her, Diana's super natural abilities and tools being quite useful to him. Helena Sandsmark's museum, which like most in the DCU happens to attract super natural problems and daring heists, is a place the police are quite happy to have someone like Diana hanging around in particular, even before one factors in Mike's crush.
• Genre Blind: Mike often uses the logic of a police procedural. While he recognizes Diana's supernatural powers, and appreciates her assistance, he views her more so as both an asset to the force and a foreign diplomat to ensure the safety of, rather than a super hero whose primary role is to put herself in danger. To a lesser extent, he's like this with Jason Blood, viewing him as another archive curator like Helena Sandsmark, rather than a man tied to a powerful demon.
• Good Cop/Bad Cop: Mike is usually the "good cop", but Diana, with her Lasso of Truth and super hero diplomat reputation, gives him chances to play the "bad cop" when they interrogate a suspect together.
• Huge Girl, Tiny Guy: At an imperial, 5'9 Mike's more "average" for men in the United States rather than "tiny", and has some noticeable muscle definition, but that makes him look short and skinny next to all the tall super heroes with heroic builds, that Diana knows, and shorter than Diana, who is taller than the average female super hero and well above the average woman's height.
• Hunk: Downplayed: Mike is clean shaven, strong jawed and muscular. He's just less of all those things than Superman, Batman and Champion.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: Mike might just be the finest police officer in Gateway City, but he can't compete with the super human princess of Themyscira. He wants to do quite the opposite of compete with her, but he does have to compete with super special men who also have her attention, like Champion.

Georgia "George" Redmond

First Appearance: Wonder Woman Vol 2 #128. (1997)

Created By: John Byrne

Universes: New Earth

Cassandra Sandsmark's classmate and best friend. She's quite a bit more cool-headed and intellectual than her bestie, but they have similar interests and tastes and trust each other completely.

• Black and Nerdy: George is a hacker, who at one point managed to hack into an Apokoliptian Supercomputer even while complaining about how it shouldn't work and real life is not like Independence Day. She later realizes it only worked because the extraterrestrial tech started modifying her hardware as soon as she managed to attach it to the motherboard's interface. She also dresses like a Japanese Schoolgirl for fun when not wearing more gender disguising clothes.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: After Phil Jimenez left Wonder Woman George was never seen nor mentioned again, even at points when Cassie's friendships were part of larger stories elsewhere it seemed the writers and editors all forgot she had any outside the costumed superhero community.
• Companion Cube: George takes her laptop with her everywhere and is quite upset, even if she understands the reasoning, when the thing is confiscated after it's been fused with New God tech.
• Muggle Best Friend: She's the normal human best friend and Secret-Keeper to the demi-god superhero Cassie Sandsmark.
• Nerd Glasses: Black and Nerdy hacker extraordinaire Georgia Redmond wears large wire-framed glasses.
• Social Circle Filler: Later writers seemed to forget that Cassie had friends outside of the superhero community, most notably her best friend, secret keeper and fellow androgynous tomboy George Redmond. First her last name was forgotten and then she never appeared or was spoken about again in any book despite Cassie appearing all over the DCU. In her case it likely happened because Cassie's personality was given a swift and shallow makeover in Teen Titans that left no room for friends or concerns outside her boyfriend and her hair.
• Sudden Name Change: George had the surname "Redmond", but a later writer inexplicably gave her last name as "Neville".
• Token Black Friend: George is African American and is Cassie's best and only recurring friend outside of Young Justice and other superheroes.

Alana Dominguez

First Appearance: Wonder Woman Vol 2 #195. (2003)

Created By: Greg Rucka · Drew Johnson

Universes: New Earth

Diana's secretary at the Themysciran Embassy. Because Diana was quite busy as Wonder Woman it fell to Alana to do most of the paperwork and organization at the Embassy, choosing which things were brought to Diana's attention. When Medusa attacked the embassy Alana helped try to evacuate and keep everyone out of the way of the fight between Wonder Woman and the gorgon.

• Paperworkaholic: Alana pretty much never leaves the embassy, essentially runs it through the heavy loads of paperwork she does and on at least one occasion added a bunch more paperwork to her load to help track down a potential threat to Diana that was not part of her job nor something Diana asked her to do or knew she was doing.

Dr. Leslie Anderson

First Appearance: Wonder Woman Vol 2 #196. (2003)

Created By: Greg Rucka · Drew Johnson

Universes: New Earth, Prime Earth

A Pharmaceutical researcher who was fast friends and business partners with Veronica Cale, until Cale showed her true colors and threatened Anderson to get her to leave in order to protect her only friend. Anderson went straight to Wonder Woman with her suspicions about Cale and to aid in Vanessa Kapatelis's recovery. While allied with Diana Leslie started a romantic relationship with Ferdinand.

In the Post-Convergence continuity Anderson's first name is changed to Adrianna and she dies trying to help Veronica recover her daughter.

• Adaptation Name Change: Her Prime Earth iteration is renamed Adrianna Anderson.
• Adaptation Origin Connection: Adriana Anderson's manner of death leads directly to the creation of the AI based on a digital map of her mind that will become the Prime Earth version of Dr. Cyber, a character that previously had no connection to Anderson. Worlds Finest reveals their is another Doctor Cyber much closer to the original in continuity, as of Infinite Frontier.
• Death by Adaptation: Adrianna Anderson dies off in an experiment of Cale's early on. This drives Cale to further desperation and she ends up building an AI based on her one true friend's mental map. Leslie Anderson had given up on her amoral friend and was living happily in a relationship with Ferdinand last she was seen.
• For Your Own Good: Both Lelsie, Post Crisis, and Adrianna, Rebirth, are genuine friends who want the best for Veronica Cale. And both, in their own separate ways, are willing to go against Cale's wishes to ensure she gets what she really needs.
• Interspecies Romance: Leslie Anderson falls in love with the Kythotaur Ferdinand.

Ronno/Mer-Boy/Mer-Mite/Mer-Man/Manno

First Appearance: Wonder Woman Vol 1 #107. (1959)

Created By: Robert Kanigher · Ross Andru · Mike Esposito

Universes: Earth-One, Earth-124.1

Ronno is one of the mer-folk who live in the ocean off the coast of Paradise Island. He's had an unreciprocated crush on Diana since they were teenagers.

• Adaptation Dye-Job: His hair is brown as Mer-Boy but in his later appearances as Mer-Man he becomes blond.
• Distressed Dude: Frequently has to be saved by Diana due to his recklessness and helplessness on land.
• Ear Fins: Ronno has ear fins rather than pointed humanoid ones, especially as drawn in the out of continuity Impossible Tales.
• Graceful in Their Element: He's very competent in water and can swim and fight well. However, lacking legs, he is clumsy on land and can only hop on his fin.
• Inconsistent Spelling: His name is spelled alternatly as Ronno and Renno, by the same writing and editing team.
• Our Mermaids Are Different: Pretty-boy merman. He also has knee joints in his tail and can stand up and hop around on land.
• Ret-Gone: As Diana's time as Wonder Girl was erased from continuity even before Donna was made to be the first Wonder Girl even Ronno's adventures with Wonder Girl that weren't "Impossible Tales" were erased from continuity.
• Sudden Name Change: Is known as Ronno the Mer-boy in his youth but becomes Manno the Mer-man as an adult.
• Tailfin Walking: Ronno is commonly depicted standing up on his fins when on land. However, he doesn't walk, he hops.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: Well, hopping and swimming as Ronno can't walk, but he never once wears a shirt and doesn't own any.

Fury I

AKA: Hippolyta "Lyta" Trevor-Hall

First Appearance: Wonder Woman (Vol 1) #300. (1983)

Created By: Roy Thomas · Dann Thomas · Ross Andru

Universes: Earth-One, Earth-Two, Earth-2, Generations

Originally Fury was Hippolyta "Lyta" Trevor, the daughter of Earth II's Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor; she inherited all her mother's powers. Lyta adopted the identity of "The Fury", named after the Furies of mythology, and was one of the founding members of Infinity, Inc.. Post-Crisis she was reinvented as the daughter of Helena Kosmatos (Young All Stars' Fury) and mother of the current Dream, Daniel Hall. Post Flashpoint, she again is Earth-2 Wonder Woman's daughter.

• Adaptation Name Change: In Superman & Batman: Generations Steve and Diana's superhero daughter is named Stephanie Trevor instead of Hippolyta.
• Child Prodigy: Just like her mother Lyta turns out to be a prodigy in Amazon Supernatural Martial Arts and "Brain Power", capable of playfully lifting dozens of times her own weight as a child.
• Decomposite Character: Post Crisis, "Fury" was split into two characters, neither of which is the daughter of Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor. Helena Kosmatos has the direct link to the amazons, is convinced a time displaced Hippolyta being forced to serve as Wonder Woman in the past is her mother, and initially hates Diana for "trying" to replace her, while Lyta Trevor has the personality and appearance of her Pre Crisis self, and a father with the last name of "Trevor", but no direct connection to Diana and Hippolyta.
• Depending on the Artist: Officially Pre Crisis Earth Two Fury is supposed to be more musclar than her mother as a young adult, but good luck finding any art that shows it.
• Determinator: When her application to join the Justice Society of America was rejected she didn't skip a beat, and ended up founding Infinity, Inc. alongside some other second generation heroes.
• The Empath: She can tell when those who have a close relationship with her are feeling pain.
• Expy
  • Fury is basically the Pre Crisis Earth Two counterpart of Donna Troy. This Earth Two does have a Donna Troy, but she is successfully saved by firefighters and adopted to a domestic family, having no connection to Wonder Woman and the amazons. On the New 52 version of Earth Two, Fury's first name is Donna instead of Lyta, and she has black hair like Diana...and Donna Troy.
  • Fury's first and most commonly worn outfit is based on the most common one worn by X-Men and The Avengers character Scarlet Witch.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: Asymmetry tends to be the most noticeable aspect of Fury's costumes.
• Happily Married: To Hector Hall, until his untimely demise.
• Master of None: Fury is powerful compared to the average amazon but is much less so than Power Girl. Fury is strong but Hourman is stronger...for an hour. Fury can talk to other species of animal but Brainwave II has outright telepathy. Fury can glide on air currents but Jade, Obsidian and Northwind can fly.
• Not Quite Flight: She learns to glide on air currents, something her mother cannot do, but her mother's Earth One counterpart can.
• Overshadowed by Awesome
  • Fury is one of the strongest amazons on Earth 2, but she's still a distant second to her mother, only being half as strong, fast and tough at best. Faster than Mercury and stronger than Hercules she aint, and she doesn't have a magic lasso or invisible jet either. Unlike her biological mother Fury can glide on air currents, but her biological mother can reduce the gravitational pull larger objects have on her, so unless it's a strong air current going exactly where Fury wants it to, it's usually not much of an advantage.
  • Post Crisis is the same, as Lyta Trevor is noticeably less powerful than Helena Kosmatos used to be, and Helena then comes out of retirement more powerful than ever! However Lyta has the concrete advantages of not being so easily able to lose her powers, not being mentally ill, and not vulnerable to being taken over by a literal Fury.
• Parental Abandonment: Fury actually made it through Crisis on Infinite Earths in tact while her parents did not. Not that it mattered, as the remaining universes then condensed and reset, resetting Fury along with them, to the point Fury had all new parents. A murdered father, and a mother who gave her up to protect her daughter from herself and give Lyta a normal life. An effort that was in vain.
• Ret-Gone: The Fury who was the Daughter of Diana and Steve Trevor was erased by Crisis On Infinite Earths. Technically she's been brought back three to five times as several writers have penned tales reversing the events of the crisis, but no one has been interested in using the original Lyta Trevor.

Ectreba

First Appearance: Wonder Woman Vol 2 #67. (1992)

Created By: William Messner-Loebs · Paris Cullins

Universes: New Earth

A khund warrior woman who was enslaved on the same Sangtee Empire slave planet as Diana and became part of her high command during the revolution.

• Pirate Girl: Diana's whole pirate crew is made up of women, though they're given a pardon by the emperor after they win their revolution. She becomes the new captain after Diana returns home, but now she's part of an official check against the empire slipping back to practicing slavery and part of the empire's plan to return slaves to their home planets.
• Proud Warrior Race Girl: She seems at first unapologetically devoted to Khund philosophy of might makes right and her dedication to a warrior lifestyle is an extension of her culture.
• Slave Liberation: While Ectreba was not part of Diana's group that planned the initial revolt she was a huge part of its success, arming herself with large rocks to crush heads and helping hijack a Sangtee ship.

H'Elgn

First Appearance: Wonder Woman Vol 2 #67. (1992)

Created By: William Messner-Loebs · Paris Cullins

Universes: New Earth

An elderly teal skinned Velosian woman who was the first to befriend Diana and Natasha on the Sangtee Empire slave planet and helped them learn the language used to communicate by the slaves and that of the Empire itself.

• Alien Hair: She has thin strips growing in a sort of skirt on the back of her head in place of any hair.
• Eccentric Mentor: This only really becomes evident after their escape from slavery since she knew better than to mess around on the slave planet but once their free she really likes her pranks, including introducing Diana to the new hologram tech by making it look like they were being attacked by the Empire and getting a good laugh out of Diana taking a flying leap at the intangible holograms.
• Gadgeteer Genius: H'Elgn is able to reverse engineer captured Sangtee tech to create holograms that can be projected across the star system, new weapons with more non-lethal applications, the ability to track Sangtee Empire ships and cloak their own ships from them and much more.
• Hair Substitute Feature: She has thin strips growing in a sort of skirt on the back of her head in place of any hair.
• Miniature Senior Citizens: She's elderly and hunched and comes up to about Diana's waist.
• Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Elderly Space Pirate Girl Inventor.
• Pirate Girl: Diana's whole pirate crew is made up of women, though they're given a pardon by the emperor after they win their revolution.
• Punctuation Shaker: Her name is H'Elgn.
• Slave Liberation: Part of the group that helped plan Diana's initial slave revolt. H'Elgn went on to become the primary technician for the revolution.
• Translator Buddy: She doesn't speak any earth languages but she and Diana are able to start understanding each other due to both of their large repertoires of known languages and Diana's ability to quickly pick up new ones. She also helps Natasha learn the pidgin langue spoken by the slaves.

Julia/The Daxamite

First Appearance: Wonder Woman Vol 2 #68. (1992)

Created By: William Messner-Loebs · Paris Cullins

Universes: New Earth

A Daxamite woman who was tortured, imprisoned and displayed on a Sangtee Empire slave planet. After Diana freed her she eventually came to join Diana's rebellion and her power was an important asset in forcing the abolition of slavery in the Empire.

• Electronic Eyes: H'Elgn is able to design an electronic eye to replace one of her missing eyes. It doesn't have the potential powers of a natural Daxamite eye but it allows her to see.
• Eyepatch of Power: Julia wears an eyepatch over her missing eye that does not have a robotic replacement, and she is undeniably an excellent and powerful fighter who commands respect through her insistence on respecting life despite all the horrible things she's gone through.
• Eye Scream: Julia's eyes were cut out during her torture, partially to ensure she'd never be able to use her race's inherent eye based powers on her captors.
• Human Aliens: Daxamite are extraterrestrials who look incredibly human, rather like Kryptonians who are part of their heritage.
• Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Amnesiac Cyborg Daxamite Space Pirate Revolutionary.
• Pirate Girl: Diana's whole pirate crew is made up of women, though they're granted clemency by the emperor after they win their revolution.

The Durlan/Nol Lapp]]

First Appearance: Wonder Woman Vol 2 #66. (1992)

Created By: William Messner-Loebs · Paris Cullins

Universes: New Earth

A durlan woman who befriends Diana on the Sangtee Empire's slave planet and becomes part of Diana's high command during their revolution.

• No Need for Names: By the time Diana meets her on the slave planet she's acting as "The Durlan", and seems to be part of the group of Durlans who forswore names after their genetics were scrambled in the Six-Minute War, keeping her form loose and tentacley and going by the "name" the entire subculture uses. She starts occasionally showing her true face when in private with Diana and the rest of her high command months after she's escaped slavery revealing she's not part of this group and her name is finally revealed to be Nol Lapp, though it's easy to miss since it's only used once.
• Pirate Girl: Diana's whole pirate crew is made up of women, though they're given a pardon by the emperor after they win their revolution.
• Shapeshifter Default Form: She intentionally hides hers, though after the initial slave revolt she starts using a body shape that's closer to it even though she keeps her head a mass of tentacles most of the time.
• Shapeshifting: She's a durlan and maintains the shapeshifting ablilities of her race, even if she can't ignore Shapeshifter Baggage like some of the more famous durlans like Reep Daggle.
• Slave Liberation: Part of the group that helped plan Diana's initial slave revolt.
• Warrior Poet: Nol Lapp is a revolutionary and poet. The only piece of her poetry given to the reader is about getting revenge on the empire that enslaved her. Unfortunately for the reader there's some translation betwixt the original poetry and what is on page as Lapp is not writing in any earth languages.

Sakritt

First Appearance: Wonder Woman Vol 2 #68. (1992)

Created By: William Messner-Loebs · Paris Cullins

Universes: New Earth

A Dominator who defected from the empire and ended up enslaved on the same Sangtee Empire slave planet as Diana and became part of her high command during the revolution.

• Defector from Decadence: Sakritt left the Dominators and their culture behind long before she was enslaved by the kreel, she even adopted her own name despite the Dominator stance of No Need for Names and talks about her people disparagingly on occasion with no desire to return to them.
• Good Lips, Evil Jaws: Sakritt takes full advantage of the creepy look Dominators have due to their long pointed teeth and complete lack of lips.
• Pirate Girl: Diana's whole pirate crew is made up of women, though they're given a pardon by the emperor after they win their revolution. She stays on as Ectreba's first mate when the crew becomes an official check against slavery in the Sangtee Empire and Diana returns to earth.
• Sword and Gun: Sakritt wields a Laser Blade and blaster together. In combination with her long sharp teeth she makes a great imposing factor when Diana is trying to convince pilots and their crews to surrender.
• Treacherous Advisor: Sakritt likes to play up this role but she's honestly quite devoted to Diana, and is easily talked down from her plans for mutiny. She later relishes getting to play this role to the Emperor to help Diana and the group infiltrate the capitol.

Hippolyta "Lyta" Milton

First Appearance: Wonder Woman Vol 2 #84. (1994)

Created By: William Messner-Loebs

Universes: New Earth

The daughter of Circe and Ares who was conceived when both the villains in question were posing as humans, Lyta is loved by both her parents but was taken to be raised by the Amazons after one of Circe's defeats.

• Children Are Innocent: She doesn't like seeing her mom attack Wondy, but she also doesn't want her mom to get hurt. She's all-around a sweetheart who deeply cares for others in a huge contrast to her parents.
• Deflector Shields: She can block off Superman if she so chooses.
• Evil Parents Want Good Kids: Ares generally just wants his kids to be true to themselves but Circe wants to protect her daughter from her misdeeds, which serves Lyta just fine since she is a very kind soul at heart.
• Half-Human Hybrid: Circe is technically a human, though she's intrinsically tied to magic and immortal, and Ares is a Greek god.
• In-Series Nickname: Lyta, short for Hippolyta.
• Mage Marksman: Lyta has some of her mother's magical powers and is trained in use of the bow and arrow.
• One-Steve Limit: She is one of three Hippolytas included on this very page and is a definite aversion.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Taking after her father, she can seemingly sport red-eyes when she wishes.
• Ret-Gone: As of Flashpoint and with the different histories of both Circe and Ares in New 52 and DC Rebirth, it is unlikely she exists in the new continuity.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Lyta has been gifted with a lot more natural power than her mother, but she has neither Circe's skills in magic, knowledge in spells nor Circe's willingness to make deals with goddesses and devils to increase her power, making her much less effective in most combat situations.

Wonder Girl II

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AKA: Cassandra Sandsmark

First Appearance: Wonder Woman Vol 2 #105. (1996)

Created By: John Byrne

Universes: New Earth, Prime Earth, DCAMU, Earth-16, Earth 1, DCeased, Tiny Titans, Bombshells, DC Universe Online, LEGO Batman Series, Teen Titans Go! (2003)

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.

Her New 52 incarnation is the daughter of Wonder Woman's half-brother Lennox, and derives her powers from an ancient armor named the 'Silent Armor' related to the demon Trigon. This character's provenance is called into question by the reveal that the Olympians of the New 52 were fakes and implanted memories designed to hide the real Themyscira.

Ferdinand

First Appearance: Wonder Woman Vol 2 #195. (2003)

Created By: Greg Rucka · Drew Johnson

Universes: New Earth, Prime Earth, DCAMU

A Kythotaur who serves as the chef at the Themysciran Embassy.

• His Own Worst Enemy: He feels like being a minotaur is a curse, and even nearly dies aiding Diana in a quest for the chance to ask the gods to remove his curse, but he gets told it can't be removed as it's just what he is. After he realizes Dr. Anderson doesn't care that he's a minotaur he starts being less hard on himself.
• Insistent Terminology: He's sometimes called a minotaur, but since he's from Kythira he prefers to be called a Kythotaur. For the curious the original minotaur was the minotaur of Crete and it's species name did not reflect it's location but instead the king, Minos terming it the bull of Minos.
• Interspecies Romance: He and Dr. Leslie Anderson, a human woman, fall in love.
• Our Minotaurs Are Different: He is a Kythotaur, and built like his distant relation the Minotaur. The Minotaur resulted from cursed Interspecies Romance, while Kythotaurs are a naturally evolved...supernaturally evolved species.
• Supreme Chef: He is a top quality chef with a specialty in vegetarian dishes.

Jason

First Appearance: Justice League Wonder Woman Vol 2 #50. (2016)

Created By: Geoff Johns · Jason Fabok

Universes: Prime Earth

In the post-Flashpoint continuity where Diana is claimed to be Zeus' daughter he is son of Hippolyta and Zeus and Diana’s twin brother, sperated at birth. Not to be confused with Diana's twin sister Nubia, seperated at "birth" from earlier continuities.

• Always Second Best: Jason seems impossibly powerful at first, but then his dad Zeus shows up to defend him and Diana from Darkseid, and it turns out they've both got a long way to go before they can match dad. Darkseid then springs a trap he had prepared for Zeus, one Jason and Diana weren't worth triggering.
• Ambiguously Bi: When Diana meets Jason she asks if he has a boyfriend, girlfriend, wife or husband. Jason merely replies that he has "lovers". It becomes less ambiguous, as Jason moves into Diana's apartment and hosts wild parties that prove he'll take pretty much anyone who will have him.
• Annoying Younger Sibling: After realizing he was deceived by Grail, Jason decides to make amnends by moving in with Diana and helping her in anyway he can. On the battlefield he is just barely helpful, and in domestic life he is less than that to the point he genuinely angers his older sister. All the same, Diana is furious when her mind altered friend Vanessa Kapatelis nearly kills Jason, and genuienly sad when he moves out with an apology letter for being so useless.
• Arch-Enemy: Jason's first true enemies were The Deep Six. Darkseid and King Best are arguably more powerful enemies, and The Dark Fates are undeniably so. Silver Swan came closer to killing him than she ever did, but Jason's most hated enemy is nonetheless Grail, who manipulated him into helping her kill his brother and father figure Hercules, and nearly did the same with his sister Diana. This is onesided, as Grail views Jason as insignificant and did not kill him in his sleep right away because Darkseid saw something in Jason worth saving. By constrast, Grail was all too eager to kill Hercules and Perseus in honorable battles.
• Blow You Away: Jason has a particular affinity for "air". He is able to interfere with aerobic respiration in those around him, with up windstorms that tear down virtually all standing in his line of sight and raise up tsunamis purely from atmospheric activity.
• The Chosen One: The Amazon Myrina sought out and seduced Darkseid for the purpose of giving birth to a child that could one day kill Darkseid and prevent the events of Amazons Attacked. Then Hippolyta gave birth to Jason and Myrina realized her efforts were in vein, concluding he would be the one to save Themyscira rather than Grail. Jason indeed does come to fight against Darkseid, and Grail's existence just makes things harder for him.
• Consummate Liar: Jason uses his armor to duplicate the mannerisms of Dolos, god of deception. With this he is able to fool Diana, five gods from the Dark Matter Multiverse and even three Fates from that same multiverse despite their ability to see the future. Luckily for Diana Jason's lying for her sake, determined to get the gods out of his multiverse and out of his sister's life.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: The first fight between Diana and Jason is quick and onesided in Jason's favor. Their second fight is more of the same, only it's in Diana's favor, as without the element of surprise Jason's more combat applicable powers do not make up for his lack of combat skill and instincts. Getting brushed aside and nearly killed by Silver Swan, whom Diana has to save him from, is more than Jason's ego can take, and he decides to leave Diana's life so she has one less burden to carry.
• Driven by Envy: Glaucus and Hercules advised Jason not to use his demi god powers unless he absolutely had to, in order to avoid attention from the dangers of the DCU, Jerk Ass Gods chief among them. Instead of learning from Hercules's story in particular Jason instead picked fights with pretty much every perceived threat he came across in order to prove he was just as capable as his Warrior Princess sister Diana. This escalated in adulthood when Diana became the world famous Wonder Woman and culminated in Jason beating up Diana herself.
• Elemental Shapeshifter: Jason can convert every molecule in his body into water vapor and other atmospheric gasses, temperature and pressure be damned. Doing so, Jason can even evade the supposedly Always Accurate Attack that is Darkseid's Omega Effect.
• Explaining Your Powers to the Enemy: During his first meeting with Diana, Jason shifts the conversation away from his well being and lifestyle to what godly gifted powers she has that he might share. Diana happily tells them all, not yet realizing Jason is an enemy until he decides she's really not that special and attacks.
• Fake Defector: Jason pretends to serve King Best and four other gods of The Dark Matter Multiverse in order to save his world from them. He later becomes a fake follower of Dark Matter Fates when they cross over into the know matter multiverse after Wonder Woman establishes a Themysicran Embassy and they dislike the reconcillation they forsee it sowing.
• Flying Brick: Jason can fly in several different ways, but most commonly imitates Diana's, method and is capable of keeping pace with her. Jason was also strong enough to knock out The Minotaur with one punch as a child and has gotten into fights with New Gods without immediately being reduced to dust in the wind.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Diana of Themyscira is the greatest warrior among a tribe of warriors. She goes on to represent them among an inferior world of mortals that she regularly defends from other worldly dangers as the beloved Wonder Woman. Jason is a fisherman who is not quite famous for almost stopping some sea monsters. He longs to be as loved as his sister. That is until he learns to appreciate the love his family has for him through his sister.
• Happily Adopted: "Happy" is a bit of a stretch, as Jason grew up resenting his sister growing up as a Warrior Princess on an island populated by inhumanly powerful warriors while he came up as a nobody among mortal seamen, but Jason does love his father figures Glaucus and Heracles.
• Healing Factor: Jason passes out from blood and air loss after Silver Swan slits his throat, but then he wakes up with nothing but a scar on his neck. A scar that quickly starts to fade.
• Heel–Face Turn: He starts out as a petty rival to Diana but becomes her earnest supporter after seeing the depraved individuals she strives to protect the world from for himself.
• Heroes Fight Bare Handed: Jason has been fighting monsters with little more than his closed fist since childhood. When he really wants something dead Jason grabs his spear, but for the most part Jason does not kill his enemies so he's usually got nothing in his hands.
• Hero of Another Story: Jason has been picking fights with perceived threats as soon as he discoved he was gifted with supernatural powers as a demigod while Diana had been going on her own adventures. Jason's actions were rarely "heroic" however. After meeting Diana Jason has tasked himself with keeping gods and then Fates from the Dark Matter Multiverse out of his multiverse altogether and out of his sister's life in particular.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Jason legitimately had no prior knowledge of Darkseid, The Deep Six or Grail, so he can be forgiven for assuming the strange woman aiding him "against" stranger sea monsters was on his side. When he lead her to his brother Hercules to "borrow" some of his energy and she claimed Hercules's death was an accident though, Jason really should have caught on that something was wrong. It's not until Jason sees Darkseid and Grail going to work on Diana that he realizes she's going to die to and that Grail has been lying to him.
• I Call It "Vera": Jason owns a seemingly unbreakable spear modeled after the one wielded by goddess of the hunt Artemis. He calls it "Poly", after his mother.
• Incompletely Trained: A sea god like Glaucus wasn't qualified to train a land walking demi god who won the Super Power Lottery and had an affinity for air like Jason, and Hercules did not put too much effort into it, believing it would be better for Jason if Jason did not draw attention to himself. They did not even explain to Jason what his powers were, Jason figured out most of them on his own, and though his powers are impressive he proves to be far less effective in battle than his competently trained and more experienced sister Diana.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: Jason doesn't think Diana's powers are so wonderful compared to his own and eager to prove it at first. At the same time he believes Diana has earned the right to be called a Wonder Woman from the strength of her character, which he is unsure he'll show when put under pressure.
• IronicName: Jason, winner of the Super Power Lottery and wrongful inheritor of an equally super powered suit of armor, is named after the least gifted member of the Argonauts. Justified, as only Myrina knew Jason was The Chosen One at the time of Jason's birth and died before she could pass the information along. Working on the logic he was to be denied the "paradise" of Themyscira, "Jason" would have been spot on.
• Legacy Seeker: Jason is convinced Diana will leave behind a lasting legacy of greatness an initially fantasizes of doing so himself. After a few adventures involving hostile gods, a killer cyborg and peace hating Fates Jason only cares about taking care of his family, deciding that will be legacy enough.
• Meaningful Name: He betrays his more talented family member just like the man he was named after did. Luckily for this Jason, Diana of Themyscira is much more forgiving than Medea. This Jason is also far more remorseful.
• Mundane Utility: Jason primarily uses The Armor of Zeus, capable of duplicating one ability or attribute from any god in the Greco-Roman pantheon at a time...to make smarter decisions through the Wisdom of Athena, better descern the feelings of his family through the love of Hestia and mislead those that would harass his sister with the lying skills of Dolos.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Jason is forever remorseful for inadverdently helping Grail kill one of his father figures in Hercules and almost helping Darkseid subject Diana to the same fate.
• My Suit Is Also Super: When Gods from the Dark Multiverse break into the multiverse we follow and start corrupting people suffering crises of faith, mostly driving them to kill Wonder Woman, Zeus sends Diana a special suit of armor that Jason accidentally intercepts. It lets him take on one attribute or ability from any one member of the Greco-Roman pantheon. He can take on Demeter's tracking ability or Fertile Feet, but not both at once. Jason can also bolster demi-god powers he already has, like taking on the speed of Hermes to greatly out pace Diana, who he can already keep up with, or the strength of Heracles to increase his already great strength. What Jason can't do is convince the armor to let someone else use it, due to tampering form unspecified members of The Olympus Twelve who didn't want Diana to have it and were thrilled to see Jason get in the way. Realizing he is an idiot being played by forces beyond him, Jason mainly spams "Wisdom Of Athena" in hopes he can make better decisions with it going forward.
• Named After Somebody Famous: Hippolyta and Glaucus named Jason after the captain of the Argonauts.
• Older Than They Look: Jason is younger than Diana, but he's still over a hundred years old, and while Diana looks like a fully mature woman he still looks like an older teen.
• Parental Abandonment: Hippolyta gave Jason up for adoption, as to be expected of an Amazon, and Zeus is a legendary for having much greater interest in loving women than taking care of the children they produce. Zeus does arrive to save his son, when he learns Jason and Diana are being threatened by Darkseid, but he makes no effort to bond with or teach his son anything once that problem is resolved. Hippolyta does form a positive connection with Jason, but he still has to make the effort to seek her out first.
• The Poorly Chosen One: When gods from the Dark Matter Multiverse intrude into the multiverse his children live in, due to a poorly worded prayer of Diana's, Zeus takes pity on her and fashions her a suit of armor that can duplicate an aspect of every god in the Greco-Roman pantheon, knowing the Dark Matter gods won't be grateful to her giving them entry. Unfortunately Jason gets in the way as the Armor of Zeus is speeding towards Diana's posisition and unspecified members of The Olympus Twelve conspire to make sure the armor bonds to Jason and is bound to serving only Jason from then on out. By this point Jason has no delusions about Diana being more qualified for the armor, especially since the very existence of the Dark Matter Multiverse is the fault of The Monitors and The Hands. Diana's gaffe is something she was never warned about while Jason has made many more stupid mistakes that simply didn't cause as much damage because he was just lucky enough existence doesn't work that way. Unfortunately he can't give away the armor, so Jason has to use it to help Diana or let it go to waste.
• Put on a Bus: Jason initially envies the fame and acclaim his sister has earned, but once it's beaten into his head just how many enemies it has also earned her and how powerful some of them are Jason willingly exciles himself to the Dark Matter Multiverse to keep at least some of his hapless sisters foes away. He returns to Earth when The Dark Fates manage to start sabotaging Diana's peace making efforts, but is still providing most of his aide from a distance.
• Reckless Sidekick: After Jason decides he's going to do everything he can to help Diana, he ends up hindering her just as much in the process. He doesn't just get in the way during fights and rescues either, but potentially compromises her apartment by inviting several stranger over. Jason becomes a Hyper-Competent Sidekick after gaining the Armor of Zeus, but he still feels shame for his blunders and wished Diana had gotten it instead.
• Shock and Awe: Jason can generate electral currents in his body independent of his nervous system and electrocute people from miles away.
• Sibling Rivalry: Jason is out to humble Diana and prove his worth to the world. He's not out to see her seriously harmed, however, and turns against Grail and Darkseid to save her, forgetting his rivalry in the process.
• Successful Sibling Syndrome: Jason technically has several more successful siblings, but the shadow he is most bothered by is the one cast by his sister of the same mother, Diana of Themyscira. Jason is conflicted internally, both wishing for the chance to prove to the public he can be just as great as she is and terrified of the prospect of going through what she has.
• Super-Breath: Jason can store in and expell inhuman amounts of air from his lungs with the force of the worst wind storms.
• Super-Toughness: Jason gets utterly thrashed by Diana in their second fight, but quickly returns to action with no lasting injuries.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Jason's demi god powers are flat out superior to Diana's. Jason also claims to have been trained by Hercules, but after Diana observes him in battle a couple of times she becomes throghouly unimpressed and tasks Steve Trevor with teaching Jason how to better defend himself, as she is too preoccupied with the coming extirpation of Themyscira to do so herself.
• Weather Manipulation: Earth's weather is largely Jason's to command, particularly when it comes to the winds and to electrical activity. The liquid and solid aspects are harder for him to grasp.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Most of Jasons's familial and envy issues could have been solved by sending him to live with the Gargarean Tribe, as Amazons usually did in Classical Mythology in the event they gave birth to a boy. But the Gargareans have barely existed throughout most of DC's publication history, and Rebirth has proven no different.

Conan

Trope Codifier for the Barbarian Hero, created by Robert E. Howard in 1932. In 2017, Dark Horse comics and DC had a cross-over miniseries written by Gail Simone, where an amnesiac Wonder Woman is transported to the Hyborian Age and meets the World's Most Famous Barbarian. It was the last Conan comic Dark Horse published before the rights were bought back by Marvel, who previously had them from the 70s to the 90s.

• Alternate Continuity: The miniseries is this to both the main Wonder Woman and Conan books.
• Barbarian Hero: It's Conan and this version is rather more heroic at his current age than in the Howard stories.
• It Was a Gift: Early in their relationship, Diana and Conan bickered amongst each other. They do become closer to the point, where when Diana had to return to the modern world and leave Conan to fight the crow demons alone, she gives him one of her bracelets and the golden lasso! Queen Hippolyta was very displeased about this, especially for a man who's been dead so far in the past that even Amazon magic had a hard time reaching his era.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Conan and Wonder Woman successfully rescue Yanna. Unfortunately for Conan, it turns out that during her travels she got married and has kids. Wonder Woman is sad for Conan, but Conan brushes this off. He's just happy to see that Yanna's alive and happy with her life, to him how could this be anything but a victory.
• The Lost Lenore: When he was 12, he saw Yanna again and she stole his first kiss. When he found that she was running away from her tribe, he followed her. The pair would soon be set upon by bandits and Yanna had an Uncertain Doom. Years later when Conan found Wonder Woman, he sees in her Yanna all grown up and is hoping it really is her.
• Love at First Sight: When Conan was 8, he and his blacksmith father went to a gathering of the tribes of Cimmeria. There he met Yanna, a mysterious little girl from an all-women tribe, and for him it was love at first sight.
• Reincarnation Romance: Once Yanna talked to Conan and wondered if there were echoes of their lives elsewhere. Diana wondered about this is too, when she returned to the modern world and sat in a cafe. While she was doing this, she bumps into a very big, long-haired FAMILIAR man in a business suit. Diana quickly asks if he wants to go out for a coffee and he agrees.
• Thoroughly Mistaken Identity: With her height, pale skin, black hair and blue eyes, Wonder Woman could be mistaken for a Cimmerian by the people of Hyborian Age. Conan is no exception as he believes she's his first love, Yanna. Wonder Woman may have amnesia, but she's not happy about him hovering over her all the time.
• Took a Level in Kindness: After his encounter with Wonder Woman, those who know Conan remark that he's become much more cheerful and kinder.