Wonder Woman (DC Comics) Character Review
Wonder Woman is a fictional DC Comics superheroine created by American psychologist and writer William Moulton Marston. She first appeared in All Star Comics (December–January 1941). The Wonder Woman title has been published by DC Comics almost continuously except for a brief hiatus in 1986. Her depiction as a heroine fighting for justice, love, peace, and sexual equality has also led to Wonder Woman being widely considered a feminist icon. Wonder Woman is a warrior princess of the Amazons (based on the Amazons of Greek mythology) and is known in her homeland as Diana of Themyscira.
She is gifted with a wide range of superhuman powers and superior
combat and battle skills. She also possesses an arsenal of weapons,
including the Lasso of Truth, a pair of indestructible bracelets, a tiara which serves as a projectile, and, in some stories, an invisible airplane. More about Wonder Woman (DC Comics) Character Review - keep on reading !!
Created during World War II, the Character was initially depicted fighting the Axis military forces, as well as an assortment of supervillains.
Since then, Wonder Woman has gained a formidable cast of enemies bent
on eliminating the Amazon, including classic villains such as Cheetah, Ares and Alkyone and The Circe and newer ones like Genocide and The Circle,
as well as many gods and monsters from Greek mythology. Wonder Woman
has also regularly appeared in comic books featuring the superhero teams
Justice Society (from 1941) and Justice League (from 1960).
In addition to the comics, the character has appeared in other media; most notably, the 1975–1979 Wonder Woman TV series starring Lynda Carter, as well as animated series such as the Super Friends and Justice League. Although a number of attempts have been made to adapt the character to live-action film, none have yet emerged. An animated film was released in 2009, with Keri Russell voicing the title role.
Attempts to return Wonder Woman to television have also faced problems, with a failed NBC Wonder Woman pilot in 2011 counting among more recent attempts. In September 2012, it was revealed that The CW, home of the long-running Superman TV series Smallville, was developing a potential Wonder Woman origin TV series titled Amazon. Wonder Woman has also appeared in the form of a variety of toys, merchandise and pin-ups.
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Secret Identity
Wonder Woman uses the alias Diana Prince, which was created by William Moulton Marston, as her secret identity.
During Marston's run, Diana Prince was the name of an army nurse whom
Wonder Woman met. The nurse wanted to meet her fiancé, who was
transferred to South America, but was unable to arrange for money to do
so. As Wonder Woman needed a secret identity to monitor and look after
Steve (who was admitted in the same army hospital Diana Prince worked
at), and because both of them looked identical, Wonder Woman gave the
nurse money to go to her fiancé in exchange for the nurse's credentials
and took Diana Prince as her alias. She also started to work as an army nurse and later as an Air Force secretary.
The identity of Diana Prince played an important part in Wonder
Woman's adventures during the 1960s, which featured a de-powered Diana
fighting crime without her mystic powers. As she was no longer Wonder
Woman, she used the Diana Prince alias while fighting crime and ran a
mod boutique as a business.
The "Diana Prince" alias again gained an important role to play in
Wonder Woman's adventures after the events of Infinite Crisis. Wonder
Woman was broadcast worldwide killing a villain named Maxwell Lord,
as he was mind controlling Superman into killing Batman. When Wonder
Woman caught him in her lasso, demanding to know how to stop Superman,
Maxwell revealed that the only way to stop him was to kill him, so as a
last resort Diana snapped his neck. Due to the trauma of killing another person, the Amazon went into a year's exile in order to rediscover herself. Once she returned to public life, Diana realized that her life as a
full-time celebrity superhero and ambassador had kept her removed from
humanity. Because of this she donned the persona of Diana Prince and
became an agent at the Department of Metahuman Affairs. During a later
battle with Circe, the witch placed a spell on Diana leaving Wonder Woman powerless when in the role of Diana Prince.
In the current New 52 universe, Diana does not have a secret identity
as stated in an interview by series writer Brian Azzarello.
Characterization
While many writers have depicted Diana in different personalities,
what has remained constant is her ability to feel compassion and give
love without discrimination. This trait had been the reason for her
induction into the Star Sapphires. The modern version of the character has been shown to perform lethal
and fatal actions when left with no other alternative. A primary example
of this is when she killed Maxwell Lord in order to save Batman's life.
Wonder Woman's personality and tone has wavered between that of a
typical warrior, a highly compassionate and calm Ambassador, and
sometimes also as a naive and innocent person. Writer Gail Simone was applauded for her portrayal of Wonder Woman during her run on the series, with comic book reviewer Dan Phillips of IGN noting that "she's molded Diana into a very relatable and sympathetic character."
The New 52 version of the character has been portrayed to be a more
young, headstrong, loving, fierce and wilful person. Brian Azzarello
stated in a video interview with DC Comics that they're building a very
"confident", "impulsive" and "good-hearted" character in her. He also
referred to her trait of feeling compassion as her strength and weakness
both.
Powers and Abilities
Pre-Crisis - The Golden Age Wonder Woman,
compared to a normal human being, was much stronger – an example of
this is when she was able to tear a steel door off its hinges. In one of her earliest appearances, she is shown running easily at
60 mph, and later jumps from a building and lands on the balls of her
feet.
Her powers would be removed in accordance with "Aphrodite's Law" if
she allowed herself to be bound or chained by a male. However the
effects of this varied.
Wonder Woman (vol. 1) revealed that Diana was formed from clay by the Queen of the Amazons and was imbued with the attributes of the Greek and Roman gods by Athena – "beautiful as Aphrodite, wise as Athena, as swift as Hermes, and as strong as Hercules." Wonder Woman's Amazon training also gave her limited telepathy, profound scientific knowledge, and the ability to speak every language known to man and beyond – even caveman and Martian language.
Between 1966 and 1967, new powers were added, such as super breath and telepathy.
In the Silver and Bronze
ages of comics, Wonder Woman was able to further increase her strength.
In times of great need, removing her bracelets would temporarily
augment her power tenfold, but cause her to go insane in the process.
These powers received changes after the events of Crisis on Infinite Earths.
Post-Crisis - In the Post-Crisis universe, Wonder Woman receives her powers as a blessing from the Olympian deities.
Demeter, the goddess of agriculture and fertility, blessed Diana with strength drawn from the Earth spirit Gaea, making her one of the physically strongest heroes in the DC Universe and the strongest female heroine of all in the DC Universe.
Her connection to the earth allows her to heal at an accelerated rate
so long as she is in contact with the planet. In rare cases where she
has been gravely injured, Diana showed the ability to physically merge
with the earth, causing whatever injuries or poisons to be expelled from
her body; such an act is considered sacred, and can only be used in
extreme cases. Pallas Athena,
the goddess of wisdom and war, granted Diana great wisdom,
intelligence, and military prowess. Athena's gift has enabled Diana to
master over a dozen languages (including those of alien origin),
multiple complex crafts, sciences and philosophies, as well as
leadership, military strategy, and armed and unarmed combat. More
recently, Athena bound her own eyesight to Diana's, granting her
increased empathy. Artemis,
goddess of the hunt, animals, and the Moon, graced Diana with the Eyes
of the Hunter and unity with beasts. The Eyes of the Hunter ability
gives Diana a full range of enhanced senses, including telescopic vision
and super hearing. Hestia,
goddess of hearth and home, granted Diana sisterhood with fire. This
power has been shown to control the "Fires of Truth," which Diana wields
through her lasso, making anyone bound by it unable to lie. This ability also grants her resistance to both normal and supernatural fire. Hermes, the messenger god of speed, granted Diana superhuman speed and the ability to fly. She is capable of flying at speeds approaching half the speed of light. She can react quickly enough to deflect bullets, lasers, and other
projectiles with her virtually impenetrable bracelets. After the 2011
relaunch of the character, Wonder Woman does not naturally possess the
power of flight. She gains it once she is hit by a feather thrown by
Hermes. Aphrodite, goddess of love, bestowed Diana with stunning beauty, as well as a kind heart.
While not invulnerable, she is highly resistant to great amounts of
concussive force and extreme temperatures. Edged weapons or projectiles
applied with sufficient force, though, are able to pierce her skin. Due to her divine origins, Diana can resist many forms of magical manipulation.
She is able to astrally project
herself into various lands of myth. Her physical body reacts to
whatever happens to her on the mythical astral plane, leaving her body
cut, bruised, or sometimes strengthened once her mind and body are
reunited. She can apparently leave the planet through meditation, and
did this once to rescue Artemis while she was in hell.
After the 2011 relaunch,
Diana has gained new powers. As the natural born daughter of Hippolyta
and Zeus, she has inherited some of her father's powers, which is
suppressed by wearing her bracelets. She uses these powers in battle
against Artemis (the Goddess; not the Amazon) and quickly renders her
unconscious with a series of carefully positioned counterattacks. While
using her godly strength, her costume and accoutrements lit up and her
eyes glowed like her father's.
Skills and Resources
Diana is depicted as a masterful athlete, acrobat, fighter and
strategist, trained and experienced in many ancient and modern forms of
armed and unarmed combat, including exclusively Amazonian martial arts.
In some versions, her mother trained her, as Wonder Girl, for a future
career as Wonder Woman. From the beginning, she is portrayed as highly
skilled in using her Amazon bracelets to stop bullets and in wielding
her golden lasso. Batman once called her the "best melee fighter in the world". The modern version of the character is known to use lethal force when she deems it necessary. In The New 52 continuity, her superior combat skills are the product of her training with Ares in her childhood.
Diana has an arsenal of powerful god-forged weapons at her disposal,
but her signature weapons are her indestructible bracelets and the Lasso of Truth.
Her bulletproof bracelets were formed from the remnants of Athena's legendary shield, the Aegis,
to be awarded to her champion. The shield was made from the
indestructible hide of the great she-goat, Amalthea, who suckled Zeus as
an infant. These forearm guards have thus far proven indestructible and
able to absorb the impact of incoming attacks, allowing Wonder Woman to
deflect automatic weapon fire and energy blasts. Diana can also slam the bracelets together to create a wave of
concussive force capable of making strong beings like Superman's ears
bleed. Recently, she gained the ability to channel Zeus's lightning through
her bracelets as well. Zeus explained to her that this power had been
contained within the bracelets since their creation, because they were
once part of the Aegis, and that he had only recently unlocked it for
her use. After the 2011 relaunch of the character, it was revealed that Diana was the daughter of Zeus and Hippolyta and that the bracelets are able to keep the powers she has inherited from Zeus in check.
The Lasso of Truth, or Lariat of Hestia, was forged by Hephaestus from the golden girdle of Gaea. It compels all beings who come into contact with it to tell the absolute truth and is virtually indestructible; the only times it has been broken were when Wonder Woman herself
refused to accept the truth revealed by the lasso, such as when she
confronted Rama Khan of Jarhanpur, and by Bizarro in Matt Wagner's non-canonical Batman/Superman/Wonder Woman: Trinity. It also at one time had the power to force anyone caught to obey any
command given them, even overriding other kinds of mind control; this
was effective enough to defeat strong-willed beings like Captain Marvel (Shazam). Diana wields the lasso with great precision and accuracy and can use it as a whip or noose.
As early as the 1950s, Wonder Woman's Golden Tiara has also been used as a razor-edged throwing weapon, returning to her like a boomerang. It is also possible for Diana to contact Amazons back on Themyscira using the telepathic power of the red star ruby in the centre of her tiara.
The Golden, Silver, and Bronze Age portrayals of Wonder Woman showed her using an Invisible plane that could be controlled by mental command. Its appearance has varied over time; originally it had a propeller, while later it was drawn as a jet aircraft resembling a stealth aircraft.
Diana occasionally uses additional weaponry in formal battle, such as
ceremonial golden armour with golden wings, pteruges, chest-plate, and
golden helmet in the shape of an eagle's head. She also possesses a
magic sword forged by Hephaestus that is sharp enough to cut the electrons off an atom.
As a recent temporary inductee into the Star Sapphires,
Wonder Woman gained access to the violet power ring of love. This ring
allowed her to alter her costume at will, create solid-light energy
constructs, and reveal a person's true love to them. She was able to
combine the energy with her lasso to enhance its ability.
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