History Characters / WonderWomanMythicalFigures

** Earth Two Achilles is not a paragon of virtue, even by ancient Greek standards, but he isn't attacking the amazons out of malice. He's only around because of Giganta and because of her meddling doesn't realize the Trojan War has ended already. On Earth Two he also fought the amazons before they had settled on Paradise Island, when they were not quite yet the PerfectPacifistPeople they would be when Diana was born.

* ArrangedMarriage: Zeus's plan A was for Achilles Warkiller to marry Wonder Woman and takeover her mission while Diana enjoyed a much needed retirement raising Achilles's children. Provided that failed, plan B was to beat Wonder Woman into submission and take a willing amazon as queen until Diana came to her senses. Warkiller is not informed of this until weeks after he has been in opposition to Wonder Woman and the amazons.

* AdaptationalBadass: Post Crisis Circe is more martially inclined than her Golden Age and Silver Age counterparts. While she's nowhere near as skilled at hand to hand combat as the top tier amazons Post Crisis Circe is a capable Greco-Roman wrestler, while her older incarnations are physically feeble without magic. Post Crisis Circe is initially far more powerful than her pre crisis selves in magic as well due to being possessed by Hecate. She in fact curbstomps Wonder Woman the first two times they encounter each other, and while this was mostly due to Wonder Woman not even realizing Circe was after her at first, Circe was actively silencing anyone who could warn Diana, something her Golden Age counterpart failed to do. Even when Wonder Woman was ready for Circe she initially struggled to fight Circe out of fear Hecate's soul would try to possess her next at any moment. Only after realizing no such attempt was coming could Diana find the resolve to defeat Circe.

** She was also behind ''Amazons Betrayed'', being the betrayer who goaded the Bana-Mighdall into war with Themyscira with the lie she would give them control of the island while in reality planning to kill all the amazons in one fell swoop. Too bad Diana wasn't around.

* ClassicVillain: She is a Proud, narcissistic, shapeshifting WickedWitch who often uses lies and half-truths. Her opponent is a humble sincere warrior princess who carries the Lasso of Truth.

** After losing Hecate's powers in "War Of The Gods" Circe reduces her scope and settles for pushing The Bana-Mighdall amazon tribe into conflict with the Themyscira tribe, only to turn on The Bana-Mighdall now that she has all the amazons together and weakened, banishing them to a demonic realm in the hopes they will all be killed and tortured there.

** After losing her throne on Olympus, losing Hecate's powers, and having her banishment spell on the two amazon tribes undone by Wonder Woman, Circe [[VillainDecay settles]] on casting a memory charm on Hippolyta and removing Hippolyta from her island to subject the now clueless Themysciran amazon queen to the life of a domestic housewife, out of spite. Diana eventually gets an antidote for this as well.

* FrameUp: Post Crisis Circe had been fucking with the amazons long before Diana of Themyscira was a thing. She's in fact responsible for the Bana-Mighdall becoming the violent nomands they were, as founding queen Antiope successfully lead them to peace with Athens but Circe had Antiope assassinated by Theseus's exwife and then framed Theseus for it, causing The Bana-Mighdall to not only war with Athens but eventually all of Greece before pissing off to the deserts of North Africa.

* GraveRobbing: In the Silver Age Circe helps Nikos Aegeus steal the body of long dead amazon warmonger Artemis, so that she can be resurrected in an attempt to kill Diana. Post Crisis, Circe opens the tomb of Drakul Karfang after Diana invoked The Gods Of Olympus to keep it sealed, being directly related to those gods and all.

* PetTheDog: Circe arranges for the Bana-Mighdall to invade Themyscira before teleporting the entire island into a demon realm. As happy as the soon approaching deaths of all amazons makes Circe, Diana isn't among them, and Circe is willing to undo the spell if Diana will just violate her principals and kill ''one'' innocent stranger in cold blood. As Diana wrestles with this SadisticChoice she fails to save a pedestrian from a car accident, and Circe [[LoopholeAbuse is content]] to accuse Diana of and taunt her about MurderThroughInaction. [[EvilIsPetty That's]] what Post Crisis Circe looks like ''[[ALighterShadeOfBlack after]]'' creating the Donna Milton persona causes Circe to become [[DownPlayedTrope a better person]].

** During ''War Of The Gods'' Circe loses the powers of Hecate and gets reduced to dust in the wind. She later [[FirstLawOfResurrection inexplicably shows up in a desert]], still weakner than she was before but strong enough to convince The Bana-Mighdall that she is a goddess who can grant them immortality if they do her the favor of conquering Themyscira. Still inexplicably strong enough to then send the entire island to a demonic realm and seemingly rid herself of all the amazons forever.

* TheDragon: To Altuum The Survivor in DC Rebirth, as it is his plan to release her from Doom's Doorway and send the contestants vying to be the door's new guardian to a mass grave where Echidna is waiting. Still, Echidna doesn't need much motivation to kill amazons and takes several liberties with Altuum's plan, including setting up her own trap which collapses the grave in the event she loses, something he probably didn't want since it is full of his people's remains.

* LoadBearingBoss: {{Invoked|Trope}}: As she has been directed to lye in wait for the would be amazon champions in a mass grave, to kill them, but having lost to Wonder Woman once already is ready to bring the whole thing down in the event Wonder Woman starts winning again.

* OvershadowedByAwesome: During ''ComicBook/TrialOfTheAmazons'' she's overshadowed by one of the few figures in classical mythology capable of doing so[[spoiler:the protogenoi Chaos]].

* TheRival: Like in classical myth, she's a rival to goddess Athena. Unlike classical myth the DC comics amazons venerate Athena, rather than Ares, putting them on Echidna's hitlist.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: During ''ComicBook/TrialOfTheAmazons'' Echidna's certainly trying to remove the amazons from Themyscira, starting with the murder of their four would be champions, but [[spoiler:their fight leads to the opening of Doom's Doorway and the unleashing of Chaos, who dashes out as Echdnia is shoved in and wants [[SerialEscalation to destroy the island itself]]. A step further than Altuum and Echidna intended.]]

* BodySurf: In DC Rebirth her shade escapes Hades, makes it past Doom's Door and begins possessing amazons on Themyscira as a ghost.

* DefeatMeansFriendship: It takes several defeats over the course of "Rebirth" but when Nubia hits her with a new weapon that proves capable of removing the Gorgon curse Medusa has a change of heart and decides to join the amazons of Themyscira.

* RedemptionDemotion: Medusa's HeelFaceTurn in Rebirth causes her to lose her gorgon body and powers. She does get to keep her semi immortality due to being made an official amazon of Themyscira, however.

* UngratefulBastard: When her shade gets past Doom's Door and she becomes a {{body surf}}ing ghost, Nubia asks her to stop on the condition the Hippolyta had preserved Medusa's head and they can use it to restore Medusa's body. While this does stop Medusa's ghost antics, it doesn't stop her attacks on the amazons, leading to a thrashing from Nubia. [[DownplayedTrope However]], when this leads to Medusa [[BeatTheCurseOutOfHim losing Athena's gorgon curse]] she does show gratitude to Nubia and offers to serve her as an amazon.

* BadassInANiceSuit: As of ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'' and as one can see in the page image above Circe seems to have gone in this direction, adopting a cream blazer/long coat, black leather slacks, and WaistcoatOfStyle ensemble paired with a bright red pixie cut. This is DependingOnTheArtist, however, as there is an equally strong push to give Rebirth Circe a more medieval or renaissance look and only have her wear business casual/lesbian chic when she's actually ''[[InActionSequence talking]]'' business.

The war hero who helped invade and sack Troy who was deified after his demise. He has appeared in numerous different ways over the many iterations of DC Comics. He first appeared as an opponent to Wonder Woman in the MediaNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks due to Giganta's meddling with Doctor's Zeul's machinery.\\

* ChestInsignia: Earth One Achilles weas the Greek letter "omega" on the chest plate of his armor.

* NighInvulnerability: Wonder Woman knocks and tosses Achilles around at will, but he isn't actually hurt by her in anything other than pride. The only way to physically hurt him is to attack his ankle.

* AllCrimesAreEqual: Achilles leads the Gargareans to forcibly disarm the United States wherever its soldier provoke hostilities in a smaller nation. The biggest problem Diana has with this? Achilles kills the soldiers on ''both'' sides, complaining that it doesn't even make sense!
* ArrangedMarriage: Zeus's plan A was for Achilles Warkiller to marry Wonder Woman and takeover her mission and Diana enjoyed a much needed retirement raising Achilles's children. Provided that failed, plan B was to beat Wonder Woman into submission and take a willing amazon as queen until Diana came to her senses. Warkiller is not informed of this until weeks he has been in opposition to Wonder Woman and the amazons.

* BodyHorror: He's got the soul of Achilles, the legendary hero, but he's techically the mutilated possessed corpse of the polynesian god Kane Milohai, whom Zeus attempted to turn into a puppet.
* {{Flight}}: Achilles can fly, though he seems to like riding Mysia.

* HorseOfADifferentColor: He has a flying elephant with two tusks named Mysia.
* IHaveYourWife: In this case, Wonder Woman's mother Hippolyta. It's not a tactic Achilles wants to use, or even thinks will work, but Alkyone, who has no intentions of harming Hippolyta either, assures him that it will if he follows all of her instructions, which start with [[MakeAnExampleOfThem the skinning of three guards]] Diana had left with Hippolyta on Themyscira.

* SympathyForTheHero: Despite being opposed to Wonder Woman Achilles Warkiller sees the zombie android Genocide as an abomination and wants to help Wonder Woman kill it. He only stays his hand because Zeus tells Achilles to shut up and watch.

* AdaptationalBadass: Post Crisis Circe is more martially inclined than her Golden Age and Silver Age counterparts. While she's nowhere near as skilled at hand to hand combat Post Crisis Circe is a capable Greco-Roman wrestler, while her older incarnations are physically feeble without magic. Post Crisis Circe is initially far more powerful than them in magic as well due to being possessed by Hecate. She in fact curbstomps Wonder Woman the first two times they encounter each other, and while this was mostly due to Wonder Woman not even realizing Circe was after her at first, Circe was actively silencing anyone who could warn Diana, something her Golden Age counterpart failed to do. Even when Wonder Woman was ready for Circe she initially struggled to fight Circe out of fear Hecate's soul would try to possess her next at any moment. Only after realizing no such attempt was coming could Diana find the resolve to defeat Circe.
* AdaptationalDyeJob: On the Golden Age Earth Two Circe was a blonde. One the Silver Age Earth One her hair wavered between green and black, before settling on auburn towards the end of Earth One in the Bronze Age. Post Crisis Circe has purple hair. New 52 makes Circe's hair blood red, while DC Rebirth sometimes makes her hair a mix of red and purple but usually gives Circe natural shades of red hair, sometimes making her auburn again.

* AdaptationalSkimpiness: On the Golden Age Earth Two Circe wore long sleeved leg covering gowns of many colors. On the Silver Age Earth One Circe tended to wear sleeveless gowns. Later in the Bronze Age the Earth One Circe wore a robe over her gown but still showed more skin than her Earth Two counterpart by switching to gowns that left left her legs bare. Post Crisis Circe wore less of a "gown" than a dress that was both sleeveless, legless ''and'' had a plunging neckline, [[ZigZaggedTrope however]] this Circe did tend to switch to a one shoulder unitard or sleeveless catsuit when it was time to do a physical activity, with the skimpy dress seemingly being [[SlouchOfVillainy her longue wear]]. Circe hit the ''height'' of this in New 52, where Circe tended "wear" nothing but a towel, and sometimes [[GodivaHair even less than that]]. She ''did'' briefly put on a black and red sleeveless v neck dress slightly more modest than her post crisis dress, however.

** Donna Milton was perfectly fine with a hitwoman like Mayfly dying. She was even fine with a private investigator looking into her client "disappearing". Harm coming [[SympathyForTheHero to an investigator just doing her job]] was more than Milton could stomach, however, and she turned on Buchanan to prevent it.
** After Ares and Circe return to their original selves, Ares [[PetTheDog relents]] and tries to give Circe everything he thinks she wants with a place beside him as queen of Tartarus and a hand in raising the daughter they brought into the world while in disguise, Lyta, as his wife. "One Year Later" Circe can't help but try to get Diana killed by enchanting her enemies to be smarter and or more powerful before finally deciding she can be a better Wonder Woman than Diana, stealing her powers, and proceeding to hunt down and kill criminals who traffic women. She ''almost'' crosses over into AntiHero, but Circe unfortunately becomes an unwitting pawn of the New God Granny Goodness, who disguises herself as Athena and convinces Circe that Ares stole Lyta away while Circe was busy harassing Wonder Woman. This leads Circe to instigate "Amazons Attack".

* AssholeVictim: Their team up in DC Rebirth ends when Ra's al Ghul realizes Circe has been lying to him about whan the so called "Pandora Pits" actually are and betrays Circe by stabbing her InTheBack and leaving her for dead. Ra's al Ghul's goals at this point ''are'' less selfish than Circe's but have the potential to be far more destructive since Circe's merely apathetic to what damage she may cause, rather than actively trying to commit mass murder. Nonetheless Circe ''was'' lying to him about a very dangerous, selfish gambit and stopping Circe was a good thing.
* AttackAnimal: Golden Age circe trained dogs to herd the people she turned into animals.

* BadassInANiceSuit: As of ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'' and as one can see in the page image above Circe seems to have gone in this direction, adopting a cream blazer/long coat, black leather slacks, and WaistcoatOfStyle ensemble paired with a bright red pixie cut. This is DependingOnTheArtist, however, as there is an equally strong push to give Rebirth Circe a more medieval or rennisance look and only have her wear business casual/lesbian chic when she's actually ''talking'' business.

* BigBad: If somebody is screwing with Diana's life it will be one of Ares, Cheetah II, or Circe. She's been the mastermind behind ''Amazons Attack'', ''War of the Gods'', and more than a few other ugly little plots... though in Amazons attack she was revealed to be [[UnwittingPawn a pawn]] motivated by lies told by Granny Goodness disguised as Athena.

* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: DC Rebirth Circe alternates between CardCarryingVillain eager to execute Wonder Woman [[BondVillainStupidity in contrived manners]] for daring show herself in Circe's presence and FriendlyEnemy who enjoys screwing with Wonder Woman but doesn't ''really'' want to see her seriously hurt. In truth both are acts to keep Wonder Woman ignorant of ritualistic sacrifices Circe keeps trying to perform on her. Circe wouldn't ''just'' kill Wonder Woman outright even if she could but is in no way Diana's friend, not even when she's healing Diana's Justice League Dark.
* CerebusSyndrome: Her earliest DC Rebirth apperances protray Circe as a borderline PunchClockVillain, as she doesn't really ''need'' to be working for Veronica Cale but is helping her through the occasional dustup with Wonder Woman until Veronica asks for something Circe refuses to give her. One year later Rebirth Circe resurfaces as a desperate schemer trying to prepare Wonder Woman for a sacrifice to a demon.

** Post Crisis, after losing Hecate's powers and then failing to defeat The White Magician, Circe decides to sell her soul to Neron for more power. He actually takes away her power to turn women into other animals, restricting that ailement to men, but otherwise does seem to keep to his end of the deal.

** Post Crisis, after Hecate willingly gives Circe her power by possessing Circe's body while allowing Circe to keep full control of it, Circe decides [[{{Greed}} she wants more]] and pits the various pantheons of gods existing in the Post Crisis DC Universe against one another in order to steal their powers as they weaken in battle. She also undoes a the immortality of a weakned Hermes, where some of Diana's gifts come from and uses this opporitunity to also end Diana by reverting her to clay.

* EvilCounterpart: Wonder Woman loves everyone. Circe hates everyone. Both are magical and mythological superwomen empowered by higher beings who strive to change the world with their beliefs and powers. However, Wonder Woman wants a peaceful world of kindness and virtue, whereas Circe desires a world of cruelty and depravity. Even their behavior marks the contrast of a MadonnaWhoreComplex perception seen against women. Wonder Woman's rarely actually a madonna, but comes pretty close in the Post Crisis continuity.

* EvilParentsWantGoodKids: She goes out of her way to keep Lyta away from her villainous activities. This allows Granny Goodness to trick Circe into thinking Ares ran off with Lyta while Circe left Lyra behind to screw with Wonder Woman.

** Their modus operandi, as Wonder Woman is a truth seeker and spy smasher, while Circe is a deceptive {{chess master}}. Where Wonder Woman seeks to reform Circe seeks to transform for the sake of control or torment. Where Wonder Woman handles hostilities with striking, wrestling, tieing, even cutting if she has to, Circe prefers to have other people do those things for her, lay traps or cast spells from a distance if she has to get herself involved.

** Post Crisis Circe develops a Nostrum of Regression potion that is part of a ritual that will revert Wonder Woman back into clay. Julia Kapatelis disrupts the ritual with moly herbs, but during ''War Of The Gods'' Circe becomes powerful enough to turn her back to clay with just a spell after catching Diana on the beach wear she was shaped.

* FriendlyEnemy: Sometimes behaves this way towards Diana. Like many other things about Circe, this is [[DependingOnTheWriter dependent upon the writer]]. It stems from a story where she wanted to get close to Diana, to ruin her, but to get around the lasso of truth Circe couldn't just change how just looked and sounded but also had to banish the feelings of hatred she had for Diana from her heart, mind and guts. While these did come back, some writers portray this as having [[GoneHorriblyWrong gone wrong]], with Circe unable to rid herself of genuine feelings of friendship she formed for Diana in the interrim, causing internal conflict within Circe.

* GreenThumb: In The Earth Two Circe could command plant life to come to life and obstruct Wonder Woman, except for the "molu"([[SpellMyNameWithAnS moly]]) herb, which she couldn't control and was an antitode to her transformation formula.

* HeroKiller: [[spoiler: Actually manages to kill Wonder Woman during War of the Gods by using a spell designed to revert her into clay]]. [[spoiler: This makes her the only villain amongst the DC Trinity's rogues gallery who has actually succeeded in killing the hero she opposes in main continuity]].

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Post Crisis, Circe rigs and airship to give her daughter, Lyta Milton, the best possible view of Superman and Wonder Woman's fight that will hopefully end in Diana's death or MutualKill. Circe's [[EvilCannotComprehendGood gleefully oblivious]] to the fact Lyta does not share Circe's {{sadis|t}}m.

* ItAmusedMe: Written by Christopher Priest, Post Crisis Circe is out to ruin Wonder Woman's mission and demolish the world of men because it's funny enough to make the inevitable backlash she gets WorthIt. Rebirth Circe ''claims'' to be playing super villain just to pass the time, but in the latter continuity she is lying and really out to sacrifce Wonder Woman to a demon, a demon she sold her soul to and wants to it back from.

* MasterOfIllusion: It's not explored too often, as Circe is dedicated to fighting a spy smasher adept at spotting lies, who later gets a lie/illusion/falsehood dispelling weapon when Diana trades in the lasso of compulsion for the lasso of truth, and in some continuities Diana houses or becomes the outright spirit or goddess of truth. Still, Circe can change the appearance of her hair, clothing, body shape, the sound of her voice and even her scent at a whim. Sometimes ''just'' perceceptions, sometimes outright, if temporary, transformations. Sometimes she needs a MagicMirror to pull this off, and sometimes that mirror is stolen by or lent to ComicBook/{{Hercules| Unbound}}.

* NearVillainVictory: During ''War of The Gods'' Circe is out to kill the protogenoi Gaia, believing that's what Hecate wants, but takes a detour when she sees the perfect opporitunity to lure Diana back to the beach where Hippolyta formed her and reverts Diana back into clay. Gaia is now actively paying attention to Circe, however, and holds onto Diana's soul, to make undoing Circe's undoing of Diana as easy as possible.

* NothingPersonal: During Circe's earlies Rebirth appearances in "The Truth" and "God Watch" arcs Circe's secretly working for Veronica Cale and has no personal animosity towards Wonder Woman, dramatically antagonising her just to keep up the facade. Circe even cuts a deal with Diana to undo Barbara Miverva's Cheetah transformation, even though Veronica Cale wants Barbara that way, as Diana is willing to give up the lasso of truth for it, but when Circe's spell fails due to Barbara's refusal to cooperate Circe gives the lasso back to Wonder Woman, having secretly gotten everything she needs out of it to advance Veronica's plans.

* OneSteveLimit: Post Crisis, Circe the witch shares her name with Circe The Tattooist. The tattoo artist Circe ''also'' likes to turn men into animals, but she has no grudge against Wonder Woman, in fact having a vaguely similar fashion sense, and is content to make an honest living in London rather than wreak havoc across the globe. There's also a masked Batman villain in the Post Crisis continuity known as Circe The Red Witch, but that Circe has no magical abilities and is merely a hypnotist.
* PetTheDog: Circe arranges for the Bana-Mighdall to invade Themyscira before teleporting the entire island into a demon realm. As happy soon approaching deaths of all amazons makes Circe, Diana isn't among them, and Circe is willing to undo the spell if Diana will just violate her principals and kill ''one'' innocent stranger in cold blood. As Diana wrestles with this SadisticChoice she fails to save a predestrian from a car accident, and Circe [[LoopholeAbuse is content]] to accuse Diana of and taunt her about MurderThroughInaction. [[EvilIsPetty That's]] what Post Crisis Circe looks like ''[[ALighterShadeOfBlack after]]'' creating the Donna Milton persona causes Circe to become [[DownPlayedTrope a better person]].
* PracticallyJoker: This has been Circe's depiction from the 90s up until the 2020s, where still ''acts'' this way to some extent but it now ''just'' an act to disguise the fact she seriously scared of dying while a demon has her soul. In addition to being a StrawNihilist who enjoys spreading chaos, Circe also enjoys striking at Diana through her loved ones like the time when she brainwashed Vanessa Kapatelis into becoming the Silver Swan. During the 90s and early 2000s she was even depicted with purple hair and a green outfit, a visual inversion of the Joker's iconic look.
* PublicDomainCharacter: Modeled after the sorceress who sought to bewitch Odysseus' crew in ''Literature/TheOdyssey''. Since the original Circe is one of the oldest characters in fiction, she's well into the public domain. Post Crisis plays with this, as in that continuity this Circe is ''not'' the only Circe in the Earth, and not even the only Circe turning people into animals. The Circe of the Wonder Woman books is the ''closest'' Circe to the public domain Cice in the Post Crisis continuity, but there are still some deliberate differences.

** On the Golden Age Earth Two, Hippolyte banishes Circe to the "island planet" of Sorca, where Circe "can do no harm", to punish Circe for her misdeeds. Circe decides the best revenge is to make the child of Hippolyte her prisoner for eternity.
** In WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited, Hippolyta had her banished to Hades for turning people into animals.

* SuperPowerLottery: A loser of it by birth, as Circe's father is immortal, Circe's mother is functionally immortal but death comes much easier to their daughter. Circe's magic, without artifacts like Grimoire, gifts from Hecate and deals with demons, is fairly weak and even with all of those things can often be undone with the moly herb, which tends to grow wherever she decides to reside. Her own daughter Lyta is far more powerful than Circe, without Circe's enhancements. Still, Circe did get magic out of her parentatge and children of gods have come out worse.
* SuperPoweredMooks: During "War Of The Gods" Circe takes over Olympus and stars using the Greek and Roman gods as her army. The heroes of Earth are in a bind until Diana and Donna Troy open a portal to an alternate reality where The Olympians never imprissoned The Titans, and luckily for them these Titans are willing to help.

** She's been romantically involved with [[Characters/WonderWomanCheetah Sebastian Ballesteros]] as well, with the two of them acting as a BigBadDuumvirate.

* WorldsStrongestMan: During the 1990s she discovers a spell that makes her "The strongest woman on Earth" but still ended up getting her butt kicked by Diana. During the 2000s she discovers another but this time it "only" makes her Diana's physical equal. Nonetheless Circe harasses Diana while the latter is [[ReligiousBruiser observing]] in The Parthenon, goading Diana into a fight that Circe is [[DoNotAdjustYourSet broadcasting around the world.]] In the second instance Circe half expects to lose and is hoping that if she does she can at least discredit Wonder Woman by [[ThanatosGambit forcing Diana to kill her]], but Wonder Woman is still able to subdue Circe nonlethally.

* MonsterProgenitor: As indicated by her title, she birthed most of the most famous monsters of Greek Mythology. In Classical Mythology she's much closer to MotherOfAThousandYoung, with children that look nothing like her or each other, but in the comic books she's usually seem mass birthing monsters of a specific type in short times spans.

* TheAgeless: Being of divine blood, she and her sisters do not age.

* SuperNotDrowningSkills: He can at the very least operate under water far longer than Wonder Woman can an deliberately exploits this advantage in battle against her. [[DidntSeeThatComing Unluckily for him]] Themyscira is patrolled by megalodons, one of which retrieves The Lasso of Truth that had been discarded in the sea Cottus moved the fight to.

* ReligiousBruiser: Siegfried is a devout follower of Odin, praying to him even as the gods were making war on humanity. As it turns out Siegfried wasn't entire wrong too, as Skadi was the only Norse deity to side against humanity, with most like Odin deciding to stay neutral and some helping the humans even.

** Post Crisis Circe develops a Nostrum of Regression potion that is part of a ritual that will revert Wonder Woman back into clay. Julia Kapatelis disrupts the ritual with moly herbs, but during ''War Of The Gods'' Circe becomes powerful enough, and is Wonder Woman weakened enough, for Circe to turn her back to clay with just a spell.

* DependingOnTheWriter: DC Rebirth Circe ranges from a PunchClockVillain who only antagonizes Wonder Woman because its her job and is absolutely against wrecklessly endagering the masses to desperate AntiVillain out to regain her lost soul through any means necessary, who believes sacrificing Wonder Woman is one such acceptable means to get it back and will endanger all life on Earth if it means she personally has a chance at escaping {{hell}}.

ComicBook/WonderWoman drew from Myth/ClassicalMythology and several characters were ripped right from the {{public domain|character}}, though there are some {{original|generation}} additions to established groups.

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!!Medusa
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!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane'' #52. (1964)
!!! '''Universes:''' [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Earth-One]], [[ComicBook/PostCrisis New Earth]], Prime Earth

->''"Pain can bring out your most animalistic qualities. Athena thought she cursed me, but she blessed me with the power I needed to survive this world and this prison."''

Medusa is the chief of the Gorgons. She could turn people into stone with her eyes, a punishment from Athena for making love to Poseidon in a temple of the goddess of Wisdom. She was eventually beheaded by the hero Perseus. Through the actions of a jealous Hera, Medusa's two gorgon sisters were set free from their prison on Themyscira, and immediately schemed to resurrect their sister.

ComicBook/WonderWoman drew from Myth/ClassicalMythology and several characters were ripped right from the public domain, though there are some {{original|generation}} additions to established groups.

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->First Appearance: ''Lucifer Volume 3'' #12 (2019)

* BloodKnight: Siegfriend admits in private to Steve Trevor that he's enjoying Hera's war against humanity so much he doesn't want to go back to Valhalla until it is over. All the same, Siegfried is trying to prevent civilian casualties and collatoral damage.

->'''First DCU Appearance:''' ''Whiz Comics'' #2. (1940)

* ACallToAgriculture: He became a war hero because Achilles thought it was needed and did not fear death. What he really wanted to do is spend his life as a farmer, however.

->'''First DCU Appearance:''' ''Whiz Comics'' #2. (1940)

!!! Achilles Warkiller (Post Crisis)

[[WMG:Achilles Warkiller/Olympian]]

** Earth One Achilles is a defender of the weak, but he still grants Hercules the same NighInvulnerabilityhe has to help Hercules gain an edge on Superman. Achilles makes sure Hercules has the same ankle weakness that plagued Achilles before his ascension to Olympus, so that Superman still has a fighting chance. Achilles later gifts another Superman enemy, Zha-Vam, with NighInvulnerabilitytoo but again leaves on of Zha-Vam's ankles unprotected.

* ResurrectionSickness: Siegfried initially has poor stamina due to being forced into combat immediately after being brought back to life. Poor stamina by einhejar standards, so he's still able to hunt Wonder Woman for days before finally collapsing.

* DeathSeaker: Since being brought back to life by Doctor Psycho Siegfried joined Checkmate and has tried very hard to die. Honorably he must die though, so he doesn't just stand still and let his enemies kill him. To his bemusement the dark magic involved in his resurrection has caused Siegfried to maintain his NighInvulnerability from his time as an Einhejar, so there's really no benefit to going back to Valhalla for him other than Earth occasionally being boring.

* NightInvulnerability: He complains about the heat of lava, but it does not cause him any serious burns and doesn't even really hurt him at all so long as he avoids touching it directly.

* RecurringDream: Every night Sigurd dreams about being torn apart by Jotnar and or trolls during Ragnarok. He gets a little variation during ''Whatever Happened To The Warrior Of Truth'' when Wonder Woman is forced to share his dream and decides to help him survive the battle for a change.

** Earth One Achilles is a defender of the weak, but he still grants Hercules the same NighInvulernability he has to help Hercules gain an edge on Superman. Achilles makes sure Hercules has the same ankle weakness that plagued Achilles before his ascention to Olympus, so that Superman still has a fighting chance. Achilles later gifts another Superman enemy, Zha-Vam, with NightInvulnerability too but again leaves on of Zha-Vam's ankles unprotected.

->'''Affiliation:''' Asgard. Valhalla.

* CoolSword: His sword Gram. He gifts it to Diana on their last night together.

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->''" I have done many misdeeds. But I will not allow you to sacrifice yourself."''

The war hero who helped invade and sack Troy who was deified after his demise. He has appeared in numerous different ways over the many iterations of DC Comics.

He first appeared as an opponent to Wonder Woman in the MediaNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks due to Giganta's meddling with Doctor's Zeul's machinery.

Post Crisis he appeared as part in an effort to take control of Themyscira Zeus tried to create a Themysciran King loyal to only himself. Using the ancient warrior's soul to make "Achilles Warkiller" from the remains of Kane Milohai. Achilles ended up freeing Wonder Woman himself once he realized how he was being used. He later joined ComicBook/{{The Outsiders|DCComics}} with the code name Olympian.\\
Unlike Hercules he's tried to adapt with the times and has done his best to become heroic in a modern sense of the word rather than remaining a violent, proud and self-obsessed Greek hero.\\

->'''First DCU Appearance:''' ''Whiz Comics'' #2. (1940)
->'''Affiliation:''' Elysium. Olympus. Gargareans. ComicBook/{{The Outsiders|DCComics}}.

ComicBook/WonderWoman has roots in Myth/ClassicalMythology and several characters are ripped right from the public domain, though even here there are some {{original|generation}} additions to established groups.

[[folder:Circe]]
!!Circe
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[[caption-width-right:350:Circe's preferred appearance as of DC Rebirth. ''[[ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth Wonder Woman]]'' #20 (vol. 5), 2017. Art by Bilquis Evely]]
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'' #37. (1949)
!!! '''Created By:''' Robert Kanigher & Harry G. Peter
!!! '''Universes:''' Earth-Two, Earth-One, New Earth, Prime Earth, Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse

->''"When I heard you had killed [[Characters/WonderWomanAres Ares]] and began strutting around as the "God of War," I thought to myself... now that is the arrogance of an Amazon. Taking what doesn't belong to them all while acting like a god's gift to women."''
-->-- Circe to Wonder Woman, ''Superman/Wonder Woman'' #16

Creator/DCComics' version of the Ancient Greek sorceress from Myth/ClassicalMythology and Creator/{{Homer}}'s ''Literature/TheOdyssey''. Circe would at first only make a variety of scattered and intermittent appearances in multiple DC Comics books, not just Wonder Woman's, but when the [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Wonder Woman title would be relaunched]] under Creator/GeorgePerez, Circe would go on to become one of Diana's most persistent and dangerous foes [[note]] Surpassed only by [[Characters/WonderWomanCheetah Cheetah]] and [[Characters/WonderWomanAres Ares]] in terms of prominence[[/note]], being the source of a many calamitous events in her history.

* HealThyself: He can manually repair damage done to his body by turning his stone "bones" into clay and pushing it back into shape.
* LukeIAmYourFather: The clay that was used to create Wonder Woman came from his imprisoned body.

!! Heroes and Monsters

[[folder:Medusa]]
!!Medusa
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!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane'' #52. (1964)
!!! '''Universes:''' [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Earth-One]], [[ComicBook/PostCrisis New Earth]], Prime Earth

->''"Pain can bring out your most animalistic qualities. Athena thought she cursed me, but she blessed me with the power I needed to survive this world and this prison."''

Medusa is the chief of the Gorgons. She could turn people into stone with her eyes, a punishment from Athena for making love to Poseidon in a temple of the goddess of Wisdom. She was eventually beheaded by the hero Perseus. Through the actions of a jealous Hera, Medusa's two gorgon sisters were set free from their prison on Themyscira, and immediately schemed to resurrect their sister.