History Characters / WonderWomanRoguesGalleryAToL

* TheDragon: New 52 Nikos is the pawn of an unknown deity that wants him to kill Diana and replace her as a more worthy god of war, but is totally content with Diana killing him in self defense, believing it will lead to her [[ItGetsEasier becoming a more worthy god of war]]. Nikos becomes a SpannerInTheWorks simply by deciding to "help" Diana in his own, non lethal to her manner after coming to respect her.

* TheRival: In DC Rebirth he's said to have been killed by a {{costume copy cat}} going by Anglette, who stole his angler and used it to distract Wonder Woman on Veronica Cale's orders. Dawn of DC shows Angelo Bend is still alive, has gotten his angler back, and is using it as part of his own anti Wonder Woman team. Whatever details are missing, Wonder Woman clearly isn't a mutual enough enemy for Angle Man and Anglette to work together against.

* DeadlyGaze: The Adjudicator can turn disintegrate people or cause them to fade right out of existence with his gaze if he so chooses.

* GraveRobbing: On the "Pre Crisis" Earth One he digs up the remains of Artemis, an amazon who was supposed to become Wonder Woman three thousand years before Diana but decided to defy the goddess Athena instead, so that Circe can ressurect Artemis in the belief this "original" Wonder Woman can beat the current one(she can't, at least not in enough time to stop Diana from disrupt Circe's spell).

->''"I draw the underworld in on itself... I crush you in my damp embrace... I draw my daughters back into my womb..."''

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* BigCreepyCrawlies: She births an amry of giant arthropods just to screw with Donna Troy and Yara Flor, who hate bugs.
* 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.
* GreenAndMean: Her snake half is green and she's certainly not nice.
* ImmortalityImmorality: Echidna is immortal to the point destroying her nervous system only temporarily slows her down. Her children are usually losers of the SuperPowerLottery that are very much more killable but she'll birth dozens, hundreds, thousands of them with full knowledge they will suffer aggonizing deaths if it can get her what she wants.
* 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.
* 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.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: During ''ComicBook/TrialOfTheAmazons'' she's overshadowed by one of the few figures in classical mythology capable of doing so[[spoiler:the protogenoi Chaos]].
* SnakePeople: Echidna is a monstrous creature with the upper torso of a woman and the body and tail of a serpent.
* 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.
* WeaponizedOffspring: Completely willing to have children for no other purpose than attacking her enemies.
* 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.]]

Characters/WonderGirl ([[Characters/WonderGirlDonnaTroy Donna Troy]] | [[Characters/WonderGirlCassieSandsmark Cassie Sandsmark]]) | [[Characters/WonderWomanAmazons Amazons]]\\

'''A-L''' ([[Characters/WonderWomanCheetah Cheetah]]) | [[Characters/WonderWomanRoguesGalleryMToZ M-Z]] | [[Characters/WonderWomanGods Gods]] ([[Characters/WonderWomanAres Ares]])-]]]]]

->''"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

* 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.
* AdaptationalModesty: After Circe's outfits got progressively skimpier with each continuity following DC's golden age she finally got her legs covered consistently again in DC Rebirth, even regularly having her arms in sleeves again. She even wears more full gowns at times!
* 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.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Homer described Circe as a dangerous, callous, territorial goddess who would curse sailors who trespassed on her island and use her wiles to seduce anyone who managed to get around her magic, but as unpleasant as she was Circe wasn't dangerous as long as she was avoided. Even when her wrath is triggered Circe doesn't do nearly as much damage to Odysseus's crew as Scylla or Polyphemus, and when she meets unexpected resistance, Circe relents, while Athena herself had to step in to make Calypso let Odysseus go. DC Comics Circe consistently travels far from her island to harm others and just won't quit no matter how many times she is outright defeated.
* AdaptationalWimp: In Homer's tales Circe was an island goddess, immortal and so charming it was flat out impossible for mortals to resist her seduction, if she took an interest. In DC Comic's she's consistently been a sorceress who ''convinced'' people she was a goddess before being exposed as less than, and can't even seduce Rip Hunter, Dane Dorrance, Biff Bailey, Lex Luthor or Green Arrow. In the Post Crisis continuity, Hecate is a BenevolentBoss who grants Circe the power of a goddess by possessing her body but leaving Circe in full control, reducing this somewhat, but Hecate still warns Circe that she will ''[[WizardsLiveLonger eventually]]'' suffer a mortal's death and that Hecate will move on after it happens. In the Rebirth continuity Circe is once again a SquishyWizard anyone with a working arm can kill with knife if they catch Circe by surprise, but Circe becomes a goddess by usurping Hecate.
* AllWomenHateEachOther: She expresses this view in issue #14 of ''Superman/Wonder Woman''.
-->What is it with women? With men I know what to expect. An initial spurt of bravura teamed in the end with cowardice. Even the best of men are driven by--at most--two or three desires. Easily manipulated. Like putty, but with too much hair. But women... women are as baffling and as dangerous to each other as we are to man. You can make no predictions on what we will do next, who we might crush... Who we might love.
* AmoralAttorney: Donna Milton is shamelessly ''a''moral. That does ''not'' mean that Donna Milton is ''i''mmoral. Ares Buchanan learns the difference the hard way. Donna is perfectly willing to use dirty tricks to keep Ares out of trouble, but she's not willing to let harm come to people who don't deserve it for his pleasure. For the same reason, Donna Milton ''hates'' Circe.
* AmbiguouslyBi: ComicBook/DCRebirth Circe still shows interest in men, but is all but stated to be dominating lesbians in off panel bondage sessions and uneasy about the prospect of being in the ropes. This is DependingOnTheWriter ''and'' DependingOnTheArtist, however as these lesbian chic/dom elements seem to abruptly disappear and return at random otherwise. Some people apparently wanted a complete break from New 52 Circe while some others are content on basically putting New Fifty Two Circe in more modest clothing.
* AmnesiacDissonance: "Donna Milton" ''hates'' Circe. When Diana finds out that they are one in the same and asks for Donna's ''help'' in saving Artemis from The White Magician, Donna is offended Diana dare insinuate Donna is that criminal.
* AnimalStereotypes: When Circe is feeling particularly whimsical she has her magic transform her victims turned slaves into creatures based on their "animal within", such as a particularly stubborn man turning into a bull headed man. Maj. Griggs, who is respectful but unquestionably a horndog, ends up turned into a goat-like monster that looks like a satyr.
* {{Animorphism}}: Circe, much like her mythological counterpart, has a nasty habit of turning men into animals against their will and erasing their sense of self while she does so. Sometimes she turns them fully into animals, which she did more often back in ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'', but from ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'' on she's more likely to turn them into animalistic monsters to serve her more usefully. She also [[ImAHumanitarian cooks and eats]] her Beast Men.
* AntiVillain:
** 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".
* ArchEnemy: She, Ares, and the various incarnations of The Cheetah are the three contenders for this title, as Diana's longest-running, most consistently dangerous, and deeply personal adversaries. When Luthor assembled the first Injustice Gang, Post-Crisis, he wanted it to include the worst enemies of every Justice League member and chose Circe to fill that spot for Wonder Woman.
* AscendedExtra: While Wonder Woman had to deal with Circe on both the "Golden Age" Earth Two and "Silver Age" Earth One Circe didn't become a persistent problem until after ''Crisis On Infinite Earths'', where screwing with Diana stopped being a means to an end and became an end unto itself.
* 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.
* AGodAmI: In ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueDark'' (vol. 2), she becomes the new Goddess of Magic of the DC Universe following the death of Hecate. Thanks in part due to her manipulations of events that led to [[DimensionLord The Upside Down Man]] eating Hecate and Circe inheriting Hecate's powers in the goddess's absence.
* 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.
* BadBoss: Consistently treats her Bestiamorphs like crap in every continuity.
* BarrierWarrior: Often creates shields in combat, once erecting one around a city.
* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler:When disguising herself as Donna Milton, the spell works a bit too well, and she comes to be Diana's good friend]].
* BeenThereShapedHistory: States she almost gave Homer his eyesight back for including her in ''Literature/TheOdyssey''.
* BerserkButton: Wonder Woman's idealism and speechifying is one for her. Mentioning her daughter Lyta, even indirectly, is an even bigger one. She fried an Amazon to the bone with magic lightning just for mentioning her.
* 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.
* BraidsOfAction: [[https://comicvine1.cbsistatic.com/uploads/scale_super/11140/111406684/7187786-circe%20and%20wonder%20woman.jpg Sports two of these in a form she takes]] in the ComicBook/New52 and ComicBook/DCRebirth
* 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.
* TheChessmaster: The most consistent when it comes to this of all of Wonder Woman's major rogues;
** During ''War of the Gods'' she manipulated the several pantheons of the DC Universe into war with one another
** 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.
** She orchestrated the events of ''ComicBook/AmazonsAttack'' by mind-controlling Hippolyta into believing Diana was being held captive by the U.S.
** In ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueDark'' (vol. 2) she manipulated the JLD into killing the Goddess Hecate so she could take over as the DC Universe's Goddess of Magic.
* 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.
* CorruptedCharacterCopy: Circe's stint as Wonder Woman was a corruption of Winged Victory, an ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' character of rival comic book company Image. Winged Victory cut back on the classical mythology and spy smashing of Wonder Woman to focus more on the mission to guide "Man's World" for the better, and she took particular interest in arresting men who targeted women. Still, Winged Victory was a law abiding vigilante who was simply compelled by her own powers to help women before men. Wonder Woman Circe was similarly rooted in "man's world", was similarly laser focused on male criminals targeting women, but rather than being granted power by a supernatural group Circe ''stole'' it and Wonder Circe was a {{Hanging|Judge}} JudgeJuryAndExecutioner performing mass extrajudicial executions, something Winged Victory had been ''framed'' for. No, it's not a TakeThat at ''Astro City''/Image, as the return of DC's Multiverse made Earth 34's Herculina an accurate, ''positive'' CaptainErsatz of Winged Victory. Writing that FrameUp as an actual rampage was just too tempting apparently.
* DealWithTheDevil
** 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.
** In DC Rebirth Circe herself is the devil summoned by Veronica Cale to free the soul of Veronica's daughter Ilsadore from the soulstone. Circe keeps to her end of the deal, but then bales on Veronica after learning Ilsadore is ''not'' in the soulstone but in the clutches of Ares, as Circe has no interest in freeing Ares from Themyscira.
** She becomes the devil again in DC Rebirth when she promises to raise an army from "The Pandora Pits" in exchange for the servitude of Lex Luthor and Ra's al Ghul. Once a demon with Superman's head arises from the "pits" Lex decides [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere he wants nothing more to do with Circe]] but Ra's al Ghul keeps serving her until he finds out "The Pandora Pits" are a portal to hell and that Circe is using him to get her soul back from a demon.
** It turns out this drives her actions in DC Rebirth, as having sold her soul to a demon for power Circe is now is terrified of what will happen when she dies. Circe's ultimate goal is to sacrifice Wonder Woman to get her soul back, which means she's forced to save Wonder Woman, Superman and Batman when they attempt to sacrifice themselves to stop the demon Entrigan and TheLegionsOfHell spilling out of her portal. When Circe's boss Hecate desires Wonder Woman's body, Circe seems to settle on using Diana to help her steal Hecate's power and replace her as goddess of magic, but then Circe starts putting together a "Dark League" to counter Wonder Woman's Justice League Dark, implying she still plans on sacrificing Diana to get her soul back.
* DeityOfHumanOrigin: Originally a princess from the island of Colchis as of ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueDark'' (vol. 2) she has become the new Goddess of Magic of the DC Universe. In Amazons Attack (volume 2) The Sovereign is a little weary of Sergeant Steel recruiting Circe, but convinces himself he can stop Circe from becoming a goddess again.
* DemonicPossession: Post Crisis Circe is possessed by the goddess of magic Hecate, although this is {{subverted|trope}} in that Hecate allows Circe to retain full control of her body. The only "catch" is that Hecate won't be giving Circe this gift forever and will eventually leave, admitting to being ''really'' tempted by the much stronger body of Diana, though Hecate stays loyal to Circe until Circe's misuse of Hecate's powers cause Hecate to attempt to flee into Diana's body, to stop the unexpected reemergence of The Titans.
* 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}}.
* DivideAndConquer
** 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.
** 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.
** She later takes over [[DoNotAdjustYourSet several television stations]] in order to have a global broadcast of Superman and Wonder Woman killing each other, after she turns Superman against Wonder Woman. The later is eventually able to break the spell over the former with her lasso, to Circe's disappointment. This is repeated in the New 52 continuity, though Circe doesn't waste time with the televisions there.
* DoesNotLikeMen: DependingOnTheWriter. Other times she's a MisanthropeSupreme.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: Rebirth Circe is the most devout and lavishly rewarded servant of the goddess Hecate. She recognizes Diana as someone Hecate has marked as needing alive. However, Circe's reasons for prolonging Diana's life are completely different than Hecate's, as while Hecate wants to use Diana's body as a super powered MeatPuppet Circe means to ritualistically sacrifice it to a denizen of hell.
* DragonAscendant: When Circe realizes Hecate has marked Wonder Woman in DC Rebirth Circe puts off her plan for sacrificing Diana in order to take Diana's mark and use it to take all of Hecate's power after Hecate's body is disposed of in Upside Down Man's digestive system.
* DreamWeaver: In between Circe's two attempts to catch Wonder Woman's death or discrediting on camera, Post Crisis, she tries to disrupt the sleep of Diana and Donna Troy by flooding their dreams with images of Hippolyta dying.
* DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Her end goal regardless of her motives has been to create a chaotic world of misery, conflict, and all-around vileness where she reigns supreme.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Her daughter, Lyta, is the only person ever shown that Circe genuinely cares about and loves enough to hold off on attacking Wonder Woman. She mentioned that Lyta is the only thing that makes her feel her long life was worth living.
* 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.
* EvilIsPetty
** 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.
** When Circe learns Hippolyta was killed by an Imperiex probe but that it and Imperiex himself is gone she decides Diana's time of mourning is the ''[[KickTheDog perfect]]'' time to start slowly destroying New York while taunting Diana about undoing all of her hard work as an ambassador.
** Circe [[StalkerWithoutACrush later films Diana while Diana is observing in the Parthenon]] in an attempt to discredit Wonder Woman's mission of peace [[ThanatosGambit by goading Diana into killing her on camera.]]
* 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.
* EvilRedhead: And Post Flashpoint we are talking ''crimson'' more often than not.
* EvilerThanThou: Has clashed with other Wonder Woman villains, and with the likes of [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]] and [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]] on occasion.
* FantasticFruitsAndVegetables: The moly herb is adapted into DC comics with the rest of classical myth, and here it is typically used in making "antidotes" for Circe's curses.
* FlamingHair: [[https://comicvine1.cbsistatic.com/uploads/original/11141/111415790/7315748-6177448281-aHR0cDovL3d3dy5uZXdzYXJhbWEuY29tL2ltYWdlcy9pLzAwMC8yNjYvOTEyL2kwMi9KTERfMTZfNS5qcGc%3D Has this in her'' Goddess of Magic form]] in ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueDark'' (vol. 2)
* {{Foil}}:
** Circe's attitudes towards men and the world are played in deliberate contrast to Diana's more compassionate view. Really exemplified after Circe briefly stole Diana's powers and became an EvilCounterpart to Wonder Woman.
** In her first Post-Crisis story, she herself points it out. Much like her, she too came to be to fulfill a mission from the gods - namely, Hecate, who wished to punish humanity for her mistreatment, which Circe did by driving divides between men and women further. She later invokes their similarities again when she explains how both she and Diana are powerful women who are outsiders feared by humans because the causes they fight are hidden beneath blood shed by their hands (Circe fought and killed to get her daughter back, while Diana fought and killed others like Maxwell Lord to protect her friends and herself).
** 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.
* FoodChains: The Golden Age Circe had tainted ''all'' the water on Sorca with a transformation formula. Not only could visitors not afford to drink anything, but simply getting too wet was trouble. Just staying on the planet would eventually result in a ForcedTransformation unless one had taken precautions to protect themselves from ''dew''.
* ForcedTransformation
** Her most common shtick is turning men into Bestiamorphs against their will. The level of consciousness she leaves the victims varies with her whims but they are forced to serve her and lose their human forms to become animalistic and monstrous, usually as MixAndMatchCritters but occasionally looking like an ordinary animal.
** 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* {{Gendercide}}: Not the first Wonder Woman antagonist to try this, and she won't be the last either.
* 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.
* GreenEyedMonster: Post Crisis it is eventually revealed that while Hecate has been rewarding Circe for her loyalty by giving Circe free reign of her powers, Hecate ultimately desires Diana's stronger body. Nonetheless Hecate remains loyal to Circe until Circe takes her "War Of The Gods" too far and involves Titans from an alternate reality where The Olympians never imprisoned them. At this Hecate freaks out, leaves Circe's body to try and take Diana's by force and in the ensuing struggle between Hecate and Diana [[SelfFulfillingProphecy Circe is killed.]]
* 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.
* HotWitch: A very conventionally attractive witch who often wears revealing clothes.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: In post-crisis. She started out as a villain. Then she tried to infiltrate Diana's life by posing as a woman named Donna Milton only to end up BecomingTheMask. For a brief time she was an ally to Diana but went back to being a villain. The end of Allan Heinberg's ''Who Is Wonder Woman?'' miniseries ended with her and Diana reaching a truce of sorts only for her to go back to being evil again in Jodi Picoult's run.
* HellBentForLeather: Wore a very revealing all-black leather getup in Rucka's first run.
* 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]].
* HotWitch: Circe is often depicted as wearing outfits that flatter her beautiful figure.
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Post Crisis Circe was ''slowly'' on the path to becoming a better person but Granny Goodness ruined all that by convincing Circe that Circe's daughter Lyta had been taken away from her.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: In the Silver Age Circe frequently switched from enemy to ally of Superman, Lois Lane and Supergirl. Circe finally settled on "heel" after learning of a prophecy about Hippolyta's child being Circe's undoing.
* 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.
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** Her misandry hasn't stopped her from conducting affairs with Hercules, Ares, and Ballesteros. Despite her pride and distaste in men, she even tried to seduce Lex Luthor to gain perks while he was acting as President of the United States.
** She hated Diana for separating her from her daughter Lyta. Diana points out that Circe did the same thing to Julia Kapataelis and her daughter Vanessa.
* IconicSequelCharacter: Circe is easily the most notable Wonder Woman villain who wasn't in the original Marston/Peters run (ex. Cheetah, Ares, Dr. Psycho, Giganta). Debuting under the subsequent writer Creator/RobertKanigher in 1949 and not becoming fully integrated into Wondy's mythos until the Creator/GeorgePerez reboot in the 80s.
* ImmortalityImmorality: Circe is one of the oldest humans in the DC Universe, and is among the most dangerous. In the Post Crisis continuity all of villainy is initially motivated by the desire to stay alive indefinitely... though she does undergo MotiveDecay.
* IrrationalHatred: Post Crisis, Ares has a change of heart and gives Circe everything she wants, ruling beside her as king and queen of Tartarus and agreeing to raise their daughter Lyta together as husband and wife. Everything HE thinks she wants. "One Year Later" Circe is using her powers to give powers to or enhance the existing powers of pretty much anyone she can find with a grudge against Wonder Woman, culminating in her stealing Wonder Woman's powers herself as going on a rampage through man's world to prove she can do the job better.
* 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.
* {{Jerkass}}: She is traditionally a cruel, self-centered egotistical jerk who enslaves and forcibly transforms others into her slaves and sees all of humanity as resources that she finds annoying at best in their current state.
* LadyOfBlackMagic: Villainous version. Circe packs enough magical power to level cities and affect hundreds of people at once with her transformation curses.
* MagicalBarefooter: She does not wear shoes save to complete a temporary disguise or mocking appearance; this, along with her overall appearance, is directly based on her prototype from Greek mythology.
* MamaBear: She's dangerously obsessive over her daughter Lyta, especially after Wonder Woman emphasized Lyta was the one person on Earth who unconditionally loved her despite her nasty personality. As such, she becomes thoroughly vicious to anyone who threatens her relationship with Lyta or Lyta herself, to the point she manipulated many of Wonder Woman's enemies like Veronica Cale, along with instigating "Amazons Attack" simply for revenge that the Amazons and the Gods took her daughter away from her.
* 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}}.
* MirrorCharacter: Since Creator/GeorgePerez's [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 1987 run of the comic]], Circe has been positioned as this to Diana. 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. ''ComicBook/WonderWomanBlackAndGold'': "The Acquaintance" directly comments on the similarities Diana and Circe share; both are demigoddess offspring of gods associated with the sky (Zeus and Helios), their immortality means they'll outlive most everyone they know, and they've been in relationships with headstrong muscle-bound types (Superman and Odysseus).
* MisanthropeSupreme: Believes that all humans are beasts at their core and should be treated as such.
* {{Mooks}}: The Beastiamorphs serve as Circe's monstrous minions.
* MookMaker: She turns people into Beastiamorphs to serve her.
* MoralMyopia: Post Crisis Circe enlists the help of Heracles in her plot to steal the powers of Diana, Donna Troy and Cassie Sandsmark only to turn on Heracles and steal his powers as well. Yet she's outraged when he tries to use her to steal all the powers of the Hellenistic gods.
* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Usually averted, given the male in Wonder Woman's books is usually God Of War Ares or Duke Of Deception. In Superman/Batman crossovers though, the males are usually Lex Luthor and or Rhas Al Ghuld, where Circe is easily the more deadly partner.
* MostCommonSuperPower: Circe is quite buxom and busty, fitting for a seductive sorceress.
* MotiveDecay Okay so... why is she still trying to kill Wonder Woman? Sometimes it's because she hates the world of peace and equality that Diana wants to create, sometimes it's because she hates everything Diana stands for which she sees as lies and attacks her out of hate-filled cynicism, sometimes it's because of a prophecy she probably misheard about Diana being the one to finally kill her or do something else Circe wants to avert even though later Circe apparently hates Diana so bad she's perfectly willing to die if her death can derail Wonder Woman's mission. Sometimes it's because she thinks the Amazons stole her daughter, sometimes it's because she thinks that Wonder Woman doesn't do enough to stop the oppression of women despite the fact that directly contradicts one of the main reasons she gave for hating Wonder Woman's message of peace and tolerance during one of her {{Motive Rant}}s. Most of all her actions simply just revolve around her hating Wonder Woman and just wanting to watch her squirm. Best exemplified by her banter:
-->'''Circe:''' Come back home. To New York. I've been making some changes to the Big Apple while you've been here. Turning Men into Animals. Women against Men. Lovers against Lovers. All the things you despise and fight against with a passion.\\
'''Wonder Woman:''' What! Why?!\\
'''Circe:''' Because it's what I do, sweetheart. It's the kind of world I want to live in. And because I '''hate''' you.
* MsFanservice: Circe is a buxom, leggy sorceress with a penchant for wearing [[{{Stripperiffic}} very revealing outfits]]. Her appearance in ''ComicBook/MenOfWar'' has her naked with only her GodivaHair preserving her modesty.
* MythologyGag
** The Post Crisis conflict between the two personalities, Circe and Donna Milton, is a throw back to Pre Crisis Wonder Woman stories where there was a conflict between Priscilla Rich and her alternate personality The Cheetah. Unfortunately for Wonder Woman Post Crisis Circe follows the path of the Golden Age Priscilla, where the criminal personality defeats the one who wants to reform, and Circe continues to antagonize Diana.
** Her Donna Milton disguise was a modestly dressed blonde, as Circe had been in DC's golden age.
* NavelDeepNeckline: Some of her costumes have featured plunging necklines. One of Circe's favorite outfits is [[https://dccontinuityproject.weebly.com/uploads/5/4/5/1/54516433/428724504_orig.jpg a floor-length slinky green dress with a v neck the lowest point of which is level with her hips and is slung with thin gold chains across the opening]].
* 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.
* NoSell
** After Donna Milton accepts that she ''is'' Circe, she attempts to help Diana and Artemsis fight The White Magician only to see her magic doesn't work on him. It's implied Circe is rusty from her time as "Donna" but she still ends up selling her soul to Neron for more power, after properly suppressing the "Donna" personality. To her displeasure, her forced beast metamorphosis powers no longer work on women as a tradeoff.
** Circe ends up constructing [[TailorMadePrison special prisons]] for Beastboy, Martian Manhunter and Plastic Man after seeing them shrug off her forced beast metamorphosis powers.
* 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.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Played straight and then subverted in ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueDark.'' She seemingly drops her hatred of Diana when she and JLD come to her asking for assistance on defeating the goddess Hecate but the end of the story however it's revealed Circe had been manipulating the team the whole time into destroying Hecate (and Diana as a possible bonus).
* OfCorsetsSexy: When Wonder Woman takes Justice League Dark on a visit to Circe's house Circe happens to be wearing a corset. By her outburst they were not the guests she had dressed up for.
* 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.
* PurpleIsPowerful: Her signature purple hair. In [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 the Post-Crisis continuity]] although she changed her appearance frequently her hair remained the same color. In [[ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth Rebirth]] however it's become more reddish-purple.
* PutOnABus: Following ''ComicBook/AmazonsAttack'' where Circe was banished to the Underworld, Circe would not appear in the main Wonder Woman book until ''ComicBook/{{Wonder Woman|Rebirth}}'' almost 10 years later. [[note]] Though she would pop up in related titles like the ''Superman/Wonder Woman'' book from ComicBook/New52 and out-continuity stories.[[/note]]
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Dates back to at least 1200 BC.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: She instigated all the events of the Amazons Attack arc, including the massive death toll of Americans and Amazons alike, irreparably damaging the reputation of the Amazons, and having Hippolyta banished as an exile. Why? Because when the gods left the mortal realm, Ares permanently took Lyta with them and Circe wanted to get revenge on the gods by tarnishing the reputation of their most ardent followers.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: On the Golden Age Earth Two she begins as an enemy to Wonder Woman, but on the Silver Age Earth One she starts out as an enemy of Rip Hunter before moving on to antagonizing The Sea Devils and then wavering as an enemy and ally to Superman and Supergirl before finally setting her sights on destroying Wonder Woman.
* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: Circe vocalizes an onomotopea for vomit([[IncreadiblyLamePun retch]]) in mockery of Diana's attempts to ''reach'' Vanessa Kapatelis through words during ''The Witch And The Warrior''.
* SecondaryColorNemesis: [[PurpleIsPowerful Purple]] and [[GreenAndMean green]] are Circe's most reoccurring {{Color Motif}}s. Sometimes she will be depicted with purple hair and a green outfit or wearing a purple robe. When she first appeared in the Perez run, she had black hair and a green dress. In Rebirth she's been increasingly depicted with increasingly reddish hair.
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: In the Silver Age and [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 post-Crisis continuities]], Circe learns of a prophecy that Diana would be her undoing. In the Silver Age Diana ends up accidentally unmaking Circe's immortality while defending herself from the witch, something she'd have had no reason to do otherwise, given that Diana hadn't even ''approached'' Circe before she started attacking her. In The Post Crisis continuity it turns out the prophecy said ''nothing'' about Hippolyta and that Circe merely misinterpreted it. Hecate warned Circe to watch for her death by studying the moon, but since Artemis has taken over the duties of moon goddess from the Titan Selene in Post Crisis and Hippolyta's daughter is named after Artemis's avatar Diana, [[InsaneTrollLogic she conlcuded "Diana must die"]]. When Diana hears the prophecy she mainly thinks that Hecate will eventually leave Circe's body, not that Circe will suffer any terrible fate at Diana's hands, but Circe refuses to accept Diana's alternate hypotheses, and is eventually killed by Diana on accident while Diana is defending herself from ''Hecate'', who is trying to take Diana's body because The Titans have unexpectly entered Circe's engineered war between gods and Diana's stronger body offers better protection.
* SelfServingMemory: Post Crisis, Circe mentions Diana coercing Circe into helping her as the meek and virtueos "Donna Milton" as justification for Circe tormenting Diana's mother Hippolyta, perhaps forgetting Circe created the "Donna Milton" persona specifically to become Diana's friend only for Donna Milton [[NiceJobFixingItVillain to like Diana so much]] that she came to ''[[IHatePastMe hate]]'' Circe.
* SinsOfTheFather: Circe having run-ins with Hippolyta in the past that ended for poorly for her has occasionally been presented as reason for her hatred of Diana;
** 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.
** In the ''Superman/Wonder Woman'' title from [[ComicBook/New52 The New 52]] it's revealed Hippolyta and Circe made an arrangement where Circe would enchant Themyscira's weapons so it could defend itself from invaders in-exchange for the Amazon's male children. Hippolyta than double-crossed Circe and made a deal with the Smith God Hephaestus where he would get the male children in-exchange for weapons that would defend Themyscira from Circe.
* SmugSuper: The Post Crisis Circe under George Perez's pen is a cold, matter of fact sadist who enjoys lording her superiority over those she does not like, then kills the sufficiently humiliated targets. Under Christopher Priest's pen she's malicious prankster confident no one can make her suffer any serious consequences for anything she does.
* SquishyWizard: Circe has a lot of magical firepower but lacks Diana's strength, speed and fighting skills. She can magically empower herself to match Diana in strength but even then the Amazon can still beat her with her proper training, and [[LogicalWeakness this takes away from other things Circe could be using her magic for]].
* TheStarscream: Was this to the Hecate, the Goddess of Magic, in ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueDark'' (vol. 2). In her past she originally became an acolyte of Hecate as a means of enacting a RoaringRampageOfRevenge but eventually manipulated Wonder Woman's Justice League Dark team into killing Hecate so her powers would be transferred to her, allowing her to become the new Goddess of Magic.
* StrawFeminist: Sometimes portrayed this way. More often just portrayed as TheCynic who only brings up differences between women and men as a means of driving them further apart than actually wanting any kind of equality or female superiority.
* StrawNihilist: By the end of her Post Crisis story, Circe begins to describe how everything in life from Wonder Woman to humanity live under illusions of falsehood, leaving actions of love and murder as the only things that could be called reality. As such she kills others indiscriminately in pursuit of her daughter, Lyta, the only being she loves.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Frequently dresses this way. Mainly as a way of throwing off male enemies through sex appeal. More rarely to entice male objects of her lust, or for bargaining purposes, since [[PublicDomainCharacter this IS Circe]].
* 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.
* {{Troll}}: Enjoys dicking with people out sheer amusement, especially Diana. Especially when written by Christopher Priest, though several writers attempted to capture Priest's "[[ItAmusedMe comedic]]" Circe until the New 52 CosmicRetcon reset things.
* UnholyMatrimony: With Ares, ComicBook/{{Hercules|Unbound}}, and Sebastian Ballesteros on occasion. She even tried to invoke this with Lex Luthor, but he flatly denied her.
* UnlimitedWardrobe: Circe's costumes are subject to change, even in the midst of battle.
* UnexplainedRecovery
** 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.
** During ''Amazons Attack'' Hippolyta overcomes Circe's brainwashing, impales Circe through the chest with a spear and confirms that she is dead. There is ''no'' explanation as to why Circe shows up alive and well a couple issues later.
* UngratefulBastard: Post Crisis, Wonder Woman delivered Donna Milton's baby, Lyta, who by extension is also Circe's baby. Circe does love Lyta, but still wants to torment and kill the woman who delivered Lyta to her.
* UnwittingPawn: Circe instigates ''Amazons Attack'' out of spite because she believes Athena ordered all of the Greek gods to retreat to another plane of reality, Ares taking their daughter with them, while stranding Circe and Hercules on Earth. This never happened and this "Athena" is actually Granny Goodness of the New Gods in disguise.
* TheVamp: Not afraid to use her sex appeal to get what she wants, at one point trying to seduce Green Arrow II on Luthor's orders.
* VillainTeamUp: Has often been either involved or the leader of such groups.
** She's been romantically involved with [[Characters/WonderWomanCheetah Sebastian Ballesteros]] as well, with the two of them acting as a BigBadDuumvirate.
** Led a LegionOfDoom made up of Wonder Woman's enemies, all of whom she empowered and has allied herself with the likes of Luthor's Injustice Gang in order to take on the Justice League.
** After being defeated by Diana on live television Circe is imprisoned but saved by the Gorgons on Themyscira. In repayment Circe resurrects their mortal sister Medusa, and the group become mutal enemies of Wonder Woman.
** In ComicBook/DCRebirth, she formed part an evil counterpart to the Trinity of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman with Lex Luthor, Ra's al Ghul, and herself.
** In ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueDark'' (vol. 2), she formed an Injustice League Dark comprised of herself, ComicBook/KlarionTheWitchBoy, [[Characters/GreenLantern1941 Solomon Grundy]], [[Characters/SwampThing Floronic Man]], and Papa Midnite
* VillainTeleportation: Circe, as one of the most powerful magic users in the 'verse, is fully capable of jumping between points and dimensions at will, though Paradise Island has defenses against this. Interestingly her most notable use of teleportation may have been when she used it to help the heroes by teleporting Diana and herself to try to save [[Characters/WonderWomanAllies Artemis]] from the White Magician.
* VillainousRescue: When Gaea decides to crush Post Crisis Bana-Mighdall for defiling her namesake girdle, Circe teleports the city away at the last second because its residents are her [[UnwittingPawn pawns]]. Pawns too valuable to be disposed of [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou just yet]].
* UnwittingPawn: Circe represses her own memories and creates the Donna Milton persona in order to befriend and get close to Diana. This plays right into the hands of Ares Buchanan, who wants someone to get close to Diana and hires Donna Milton, [[StrangeMindsThinkALike recognizing her as the perfect woman for the job]]. Donna willingly betrays Diana to Ares, thinking he just wants to stop her meddling investigations into him, but when it becomes clear to her Ares is going to torture Diana, [[NotWhatISignedUpFor Donna turns on him]] and [[MustMakeAmends tries to atone for putting Diana in that situation]] even after her betrayal of Ares gets her shot.
* WarriorVersusSorcerer: Circe is an evil witch whose archenemy is an Amazon {{Warrior Prince}}ss.
* WholePlotReference: In addition to nods to the prophecies of the Golden and especially Silver ages, Post Crisis Circe's jealous desire to keep Hecate's inhabitation and power from Wonder Woman is a direct reference to Eddie Brock's jealous desire to keep ComicBook/SpiderMan from getting the Venom symbiote. Only Circe's jealousy is even less justified than Eddie's and [[SelfFulfillingProphecy Circe ends up driving Hecate to try and take Diana through her own actions]].
* WickedWitch: One of the wickedest witches in comic books in fact.
* WizardsLiveLonger: Circe is [[OlderThanTheyLook several thousand years old]].
* 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.
* WomanScorned: She periodically puts off her destruction of New York to torture Lex Luthor, who had earlier spurned her advances while running for president.
* YouHaveFailedMe: One of Circe's Bestiamorphs failed to accomplish his assignment. What does Circe do? [[spoiler:[[ImAHumanitarian She turns him into a chicken dinner and eats him.]]]]

[[folder:Cottus]]
!!Cottus
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!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Vol 2]] #10. (1987)
!!! '''Created By:''' Creator/GeorgePerez
!!! '''Universes:''' New Earth

One of the Hekatonkheires (Hundred-Handed Ones) of ancient Greek myth, Cottus was sealed behind Doom's Door under Themyscira long ago, and watched over by the Amazons in case he ever escaped, which he has a few times. If both he and Alkyone are to be believed, he is Wonder Woman's father (the clay she was created from supposedly came from he).

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: His comic book form is better looking than his mythological one by greatly reducing the amounts of heads he had, clearly going more for a more streamlined "threatening" than bumpy "ugly".
* AdaptationalVillainy: In the stories recorded by the Athenians Cottus is just one of many jailers who make sure those put in Tartarus stay there. In the Wonder Woman comics he's the one who is in jail and making sure he doesn't get out is one of the heroes' jobs.
* CreepyCentipedes: As originally designed Cottus is essentially a giant centipede made of humanoid arms of shadow with different sized faces all down his stomach/front and a back made up of rectangular bone pieces that are mistaken at one point as a marble staircase while he's asleep.
* EldritchAbomination: Similar to his mythological counterpart, but with less emphasis on the eldritch and more on the abomination. He's a hundred handed nigh-unkillable avatar of natural disaster who looks like he's made out of shadow save for his glowing eyes and mouths. In his and Diana's first encounter she breaks what looks like a huge staircase he's clinging to the underside of only for it to turn out to be his ''spine''.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: His "eyes" seem to be nothing but light emitted from eye shaped opening in his body.
* 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.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Is ''made'' of nothing but arms.
* MythologyUpgrade: In DC Comics he has some limited shape sifting abilities.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: He and his brothers were AnthropomorphicPersonification(s) of natural disasters.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: He is not nice at all and has glowing red eyes.
* RockMonster: One who can "soften" into a clay monster and reshape his body.
* SadlyMythtaken: He and his brothers were actually on the Olympians' side during the Titanomachy and served as the Titans' jailers in Tartarus.
* SealedEvilInACan: He is the main thing sealed behind Doom's Doorway that the Amazons have spent many centuries combating and keeping contained as their mission and purpose.
* {{Shapeshifting}}: Starts out as a centipede-like monster made of shadow, light and stone, but can become a writhing mass of arms and light.
* SuperStrength: A power of The Hekatonkheires in myth that carried over to the comic books. He's strong enough to hold and throw hundreds of mountaints at once. Whether those mountains stay intact during the process or not [[SquareCubeLaw is another matter entirely]].
* ThroatLight: When he actually has a "mouth".
* VisualPun: He starts off as a centipede. Centimanes is an alternate name for the Hekatonkheires.

[[folder:Crimson Centipede]]
!!Crimson Centipede
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[[caption-width-right:350:Post-Flashpoint]]
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] #169. (1967)
!!! '''Created By:''' Robert Kanigher & Ross Andru
!!! '''Universes:''' Earth-One, Prime Earth

->''"The fools -- thinking to stop the Crimson Centipede! All they have is one chance against my hundred!"''

The Silver Age Crimson Centipede was created by the God of War as a superpowerful entity to plague Wonder Woman. He would rob banks to fund widespread criminal enterprises to undermine Wonder Woman's efforts to bring peace to Earth.

The current version of the Crimson Centipede is a bio-engineered weapon created by S.T.A.R. Labs and accidentally unleashed by a terrorist group.

* ADogNamedDog: The Rebirth Crimson Centipede ''is'' a crimson centipede, albeit an abnormally one.
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: The Silver Age Centipede has green skin.
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: The Silver Age version had the powers of a centipede.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: The modern version is a giant, mutated centipede.
* ColorAnimalCodename: Crimson Centipede
* CreepyCentipedes: The modern version embodies this, being a giant, mutated centipede. The Silver Age version, not so much.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The Silver Age version was a fairly goofy supervillain. The modern version is a rampaging monstrosity.
* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: The modern Centipede was created by S.T.A.R. Labs via "transpecies modification for military application."
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: The Silver Age version could use his multiple arms to fire multiple guns at once, or deliver multiple punches simultaneously.
* SuperSpeed: The Silver Age version's multiple legs made him much faster than a normal human.

[[folder:Cyborgirl]]
!!Cyborgirl
!!! '''AKA:''' [=LeTonya=] Charles
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!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Vol 2]] #179. (2002)
!!! '''Created By:''' Phil Jimenez · Roy Allan Martinez

->''"Back up! I ''can'' control my power! I just needed help for a minute."''

[=LeTonya=] Charles was a young woman who had destroyed her body with the drug Tar, but was granted a second chance when her aunt, Sarah Charles, one of the scientists who helped repair [[Characters/TeenTitansNewTeenTitans Cyborg]], saved and augmented her with powerful cybernetic implants. Rather than use her newfound gifts to earn herself a HeelFaceTurn, [=LeTonya=] chose to focus on personal gain as Cyborgirl. Soon after, she joined the Cyborg Revenge Squad and was one of several such beings to wage an attack against Wonder Woman, and later on, Cyborg himself.

* AfroAsskicker: Possesses an afro and became a member of Villainy, Inc., teaming up with several seasoned Wonder Woman villains. She and her teammates tried to overthrow Skartaris, but were stopped by Wonder Woman.
* ArmCannon: She has a gauntlet implanted in her arm that fires electrical blasts. And she can morph her hand into the barrel of a powerful white sound generator packing the punch of a cannon.
* ArtificialLimbs: Much of her body has been replaced with mechanical parts, as she destroyed her human body with the drug Tar.
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Being repaired with advanced cybernetics has made her more machine than human. And much like Victor Stone, being part-machine is something she hates. She resents the people who saved her life but turned her into this. But unlike Cyborg, who has since been well-adapted to his cybernetics to become a force for good, [=LeTonya=] chose to remain in her old habits.
* {{Cyborg}}: [=LeTonya=] Charles destroyed her body with the drug Tar, so her aunt replaced much of her body with robotic parts. But rather than use them to reform herself, she was back into her old habits. Most of her body has been replaced with advanced prosthetics that grant superhuman strength and numerous other functions, such as sensors and built-in weapons. These built-in sensors can scan in infrared, ultraviolet/night vision, densimetry and electricity detection.
* DarkActionGirl: One whose cybernetic enhancements let her be a physical threat to Wonder Woman.
* DescentIntoAddiction: A former drug addict, [=LeTonya=] destroyed her health and body due to overusing a drug called Tar, a concoction that provides users with temporary super-strength. Though she was saved by her aunt by replacing much of her body with robotic parts, she took on the name Cybergirl, [[RedemptionRejection opting for a life of villainy rather than heroism]]. Although her initial target was Wonder Woman, Cyborgirl later joined the Cyborg Revenge Squad, teaming with other cybernetic bad guys to attack and destroy Vic Stone.
* ElectronicEyes: She has an electronic implant attached to her left eye.
* EvilCounterpart: While she is a foe of Wonder Woman, [[RobotGirl Cyborgirl]] also happens to be an evil version of [[Characters/TeenTitansNewTeenTitans Cyborg]], as she had permanently damaged her body by overdosing on the drug Tar. But her aunt, who happened to be one of the scientists who repaired Victor Stone, saved her with [[WeCanRebuildHim powerful]] [[UnwillingRoboticisation cybernetic implants]], hoping that this would reform her and give her a second chance in life. However, rather than use her newfound gifts for redeem herself, [=LeTonya=] chose to focus more on personal gain, essentially becoming [[RoboticPsychopath more machine than human]], unlike Cyborg, who accepted his fate and chose to use his cybernetics to become a force for good, eventually joining the Teen Titans and later on, the Justice League.
* EvilNephew: Evil Niece but fits, since she rejected her aunt Sarah's good intentions to help her rehabilitate by becoming a supervillain.
* FatalFlaw: [[ATragedyOfImpulsiveness Impulsiveness]], [[NeverMyFault irresponsibility]] and {{Greed}}. Her life is just a haphazard mudslide over which she has relatively little control due to her own failures, and choosing to destroy her body with Tar is what led her to become a cyborg. The only thing she can do is blindly let her past control herself and allow current excesses, mistakes and self-indulgences catch up with her. She bribes, she steals, she plunders – and she's still out for a rush due to her greed.
* {{Jerkass}}: Even after being robotized, she still has an abrasive attitude.
* MadeOfIron: Parts of her are made of metal, making her much more durable thanks to being automated.
* NeverMyFault: Although she resents the people who turned her into a cyborg, part of the blame lies within her, as she destroyed much of her body through drug addiction. Despite this, Cyborgirl seems to be constantly jonesing for Tar, but since the physical component of the addiction has been removed, this has left her with just the psychological craving. And she is well aware that actually using Tar would slowly but surely tear her apart.
* PurpleIsPowerful: Her cyborg body is now purple and she's quite strong.
* PsychoForHire: She was first drafted by Queen Clea to become a member of the newly reformed [[LegionOfDoom Villainy Inc.]] as Cyborgirl. The team attempted to overthrow Skartaris, however they were ultimately defeated by Wonder Woman. Cyborgirl was then seen as a member of [[LegionOfDoom the Secret Society of Super Villains]]. Later, in DC Special: Cyborg #6, it shows her as a member of [[LegionOfDoom the Cyborg Revenge Squad]] to destroy Vic Stone.
* RedemptionRejection: Rather than use her newfound gifts to earn herself a HeelFaceTurn, [=LeTonya=] chose to focus on personal gain as Cyborgirl.
* RobotGirl: A dark example. What she is now, having chosen to go on a path of villainy, becoming more machine than human.
* RoboticPsychopath: Unlike Cyborg, Cyborgirl is more machine than human. For all intents and purposes, she's an insane psychopath even after being robotized.
* SuperStrength: Her cybernetic enhancements make her stronger than the average human.
* {{Technopath}}: She has "computepathic" abilities, which enables her brain to communicate with all sorts of computers, even unusual ones such as ancient Atlantean tech. And her built-in sensors can scan in infrared, ultraviolet/night vision, densimetry and electricity detection. Plus, her hands can morph into other configurations, as it once became ten tentacle-like computer connectors for a technology she just came into contact with.
* TelescopingRobot: She has a wide array of gadgets and weapons housed within her robotic body, including her SwissArmyAppendage.
* UnwillingRoboticisation: Cyborgirl destroyed much of her original body with the drug Tar, but was granted a second chance when her aunt, Sarah Charles, one of the scientists who helped repair [[Characters/TeenTitansNewTeenTitans Cyborg]], saved her with powerful cybernetic implants.
* WeCanRebuildHim: The major impetus behind giving [=LeTonya=] robotic body parts was to save her life, as she destroyed much of her body with the drug Tar.

[[folder:Dark Angel]]
!!Dark Angel
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!!! '''AKA:''' Donna Troy of Earth-7
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Vol 2]] #131. (1998)
!!! '''Created By:''' John Byrne

->''"We both can't exist any longer... I'm going to remove you from this world and take your place in the cosmic balance."''

A psychotic witch/a wandering, demonic spirit who's got it out for [[ComicBook/WonderGirl Donna Troy]], Dark Angel first appeared to vex the Golden Age Wonder Woman (Hippolyta, given her Post-Crisis origin) after being summoned by Paula von Gunther. She returned years later to try getting revenge on Hippolyta by cursing her daughter to live an infinite amount of lives, all ending in tragedy. She snatched her daughter's doppelganger, Donna Troy by mistake. Dark Angel had now made it her life's effort to make Donna as miserable as possible, [[DependingOnTheWriter either]] as revenge or just for the hell of it. Last seen under the employ of the Monitors. [[spoiler: It turned out she's really the Donna Troy of Earth-7, from the Multiverse that was destroyed in ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths''. The Anti-Monitor saved her in order to make her his own harbinger, but she was too difficult to control and fled.]]

* AbortedArc: It was implied at some point during ''Countdown'' she was going to find Donna's group and fight her, but the confrontation never happened.
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: She has chalk white skin for no real reason. When Dark Angel works for The Monitors she suddenly has plain peachy skin, but retains the red eyes.
* ArchEnemy: To Donna Troy. She wants nothing more than to see Donna squirm.
* TheBadGuyWins: No matter how one looks at it, Dark Angel basically succeeded at destroying Donna's past. The poor woman's backstory has become such a tangled mess it'll likely never be fixed. It was already troubled by ''Crisis On Infinite Earths'' but it only became irreprable thanks to Dark Angel's curse.
* CaptainErsatz: It was very likely this wasn't intentional, but Dark Angel racks up a lot of comparison points with Queen Nehellenia from ''Franchise/SailorMoon''. She considers herself the dark to Donna's light and the way she says it mirrors a similar conversation Nehellenia had with Queen Serenity in the manga. Like Nehellenia sought to hurt Queen Serenity through her daughter, Dark Angel sought revenge on Hippolyta by cursing her daughter Diana. She operates out of an otherworldly dimension she has total control over like Nehellenia, and it's reached the point that she wants to make Donna suffer for no reason other than she enjoys it, just as Nehellenia wants Sailor Moon to suffer. What further strengthens this is that Donna is linked to the moon, and was at one point the literal goddess of the moon.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Was last seen escaping from Earth-33 in ''Countdown to Adventure'' #4. At this point, we've no idea what her status is now that the Monitors are gone, but has managed to come back before, no matter what happened to her...
* DarkActionGirl: She's an insanely powerful witch capable of using advanced spells and disguises, but she's also willing to get her hands dirty and physically engage her foes.
* DeadPersonImpersonation: Dark Angel takes on the form of Kara Zor-El's father while trying to convince Supergirl to kill Superman and or herself.
* DemonicPossession: First manifested on Earth by possessing Paula von Gunther's body.
* {{Determinator}}: It's possible to incapacitate her and even kill her, but she'll always get back up for more. The only way the Titans were able to stop her second attempt on Donna's existence was by sealing her inside Nightstar's "tree house" dimension.
* DoppelgangerAttack: In ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'', she was able to make five alternate copies of herself to go into different points in Donna Troy's lifetime and kill her, including a cyborg, an old woman, a bat-like demon, a glam punk, and a teenage girl.
* TheDragon: Was this for Adolf Hitler, [[TokenEvilTeammate later for the Monitors]]. The Anti-Monitor groomed her to be this, but she escaped into the time stream.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: She made it clear that, while she was occupying the body of Paula von Gunther and under Hitler's control, she did not share in his Nazi dogma. Subverted as, while she has no racial beliefs personally, she'll personally engage in the genocide of an entire race if ordered to do so. Just ask the Forerunners-[[ForegoneConclusion oh wait.]]
* EvilCounterpart: She was supposed to be one to Harbinger, under the Anti-Monitor's control, but she escaped before it happened. Later she was supposed to be a ''replacement'' to Harbinger, after Harbinger died, but [[TyrantTakesTheHelm ended up living up to her original purpose instead]].
* EvilTwin: [[spoiler: To Donna Troy. She's really the Donna of a destroyed parallel Earth]].
* ForTheEvulz: It isn't clear if what she's doing to Donna Troy is simple revenge, because she likes screwing with her, or [[spoiler: because she's evious of Donna living a life Dark Angel could have had if not for the Anti-Monitor kidnapping Dark Angel]].
* HotWitch: Although a temporal doppelganger of herself was a white haired hag.
* MirrorMatch: Dark Angel transformers into a duplicate of Kara Zor-El and starts beating up the original, trying to get Kara to admit she's a sorry Supergirl who should retire. Dark Angel ends up reverting to her true form out of frustration, screaming that she will prove Kara is a cancer that needs be to cut out of reality before [[AntiClimax a Monitor drags Dark Angel away]].
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: In ''Countdown to Adventure'' #4, she could grow to giant size. This was the first and last time she ever demonstrated this power. She also demonstrated the power to bring the dead back to life in ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}''.
* OmnicidalManiac: Wiped out the entire Forerunner race of Earth-48 with the shadow demons, then gloated to Viza Aziv that she enjoyed watching them die.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Characterized by her long black hair and red dress and she's incredibly dangerous.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Her eyes shift from black with red pupils, to black with white pupils.
* TheResenter: The source of her hatred of Donna Troy is due to the fact she got to live the life that was forever taken from Earth-7 Donna after ''Crisis of Infinite Earths'' wiped her world from existence. All efforts by her have been made for the sake of either destroying Donna out of resentful jealousy or taking Donna's life as her own.
* RetGone: She did this twice to Donna Troy. The first time, when she still believed Donna was really Diana and subjected her to a multitude of lives ending in tragedy. The second time, as revenge for killing her, she erased the memory of Donna from everyone in the DCU, but did so to every other version of Donna ''before'' the one in the main DC timelines. However, the trick doesn't work on time travelers because it means they're outside of the revisions when they occur.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: From Donna Troy to Kara Zor-El(Supergirl). This was ''supposed'' to be a HeelFaceTurn, [[TokenEvilTeammate but old habits die hard]].
* SecretTestOfCharacter: In ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'', she was ordered by the Monitors to test the current Kara Zor-El to see if she deserved the right to exist in the current DC Universe. Dark Angel didn't take Kara passing the test with grace.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Working for The Monitors rather than the Anti-Monitor, or herself, makes Dark Angel less destructive, but it doesn't make her any better from a moral standpoint. She doesn't flee The Monitors the way she did The Anti-Monitor, she doesn't even disobey them directly, [[DrunkWithPower but she does everything in her power to ensure her subjects will fail her examinations]]. Her last appearance is being dragged off by a Monitor who is apologizing to Supergirl
* UnexplainedRecovery: There's been no explanation offered as to how Dark Angel came back after Donna Troy killed her in ''Wonder Woman''.
* WouldHurtAChild: Was more than willing to harm Donna Troy when Donna was a still young girl. It's implied that Dark Angel was responsible for the crash that killed Donna's ex-husband, her son, and stepdaughter.

[[folder:Decay]]
!!Decay
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!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' (Vol 2) #3
!!! '''Created By:''' George Pérez

->''"How '''ironic''', Amazon -- that this new '''refuge''' should become your '''final resting place!'''"''

A creature born from the heart of Medusa, Decay was sent by Phobos, son of Ares, to destroy Wonder Woman.

* EvilCounterpart: Decay was shaped from the Gorgon's seething heart much as Diana was shaped from clay. She shares many of Diana's powers including {{Flight}}, SuperStrength and SuperToughness.
* {{Flight}}: Decay can fly.
* {{Golem}}: Phobos shaped Decay from the molten material of Medusa's heart.
* LeanAndMean: Looks like a skin suit draped over a skeleton.
* MakeThemRot: As indicated by her name, Decay's touch causes things to decompose.
* ReducedToDust: Decay's touch can do this.
* ReviveKillsZombie: Decay, who is a essentially a zombie made from Medusa's heart, is destroyed by the restorative powers of Diana's lasso.
* SuperStrength: Decay possesses superhuman strength equivalent to Wonder Woman's.
* SuperToughness: Decay possesses durability equivalent to Wonder Woman's.
* TouchOfDeath: As the embodiment of Death, Decay can kill with her touch.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Devastation]]
!!Devastation
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!!! '''AKA:''' Deva
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Vol 2]] #143. (1999)
!!! '''Created By:''' Eric Luke & Yanick Paquette

->''"You can't fight somebody you care for... that you're afraid of hurting! Excuse me for crowing, Diana, but game... set... and match!"''

A clay golem brought to life by the Titan Cronus, Devastation is effectively an evil Wonder Woman, possessing all of her powers and more, and none of her morality. Realizing that Diana would be too difficult to defeat on her own, Devastation has repeatedly tried to strike at her through Cassie Sandsmark.
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* AdaptationalUgliness: She's a lot less cute than usual in DC Rebirth to [[BeautyEqualsGoodness reinforce]] Donna Troy's status as the TokenGoodTeammate.
* AdaptationalWimp: DC Rebirth Devastation is nowhere near as effective as her post crisis incarnation, however the new version does get a nice sword.
* ArchEnemy: She was created to oppose Wonder Woman, but Post Crisis Devastation takes it upon herself to torment Sandsmark, often without even considering her long term mission against Wonder Woman.
* ArmorIsUseless: Diana dons her golden eagle armor only for Devastation to effortlessly shred through it...[[CoversAlwaysLie on cover of the comic]]. The two were and continue to be portrayed as relative equals in the comic's actual pages.
* DeliberatelyCuteChild: Is not afraid of taking on the shape of a child to lull enemies into a false sense of security, or goad people into giving her what she wants. Post Crisis it was her modus operandi.
* DishingOutDirt: Her connection to the planet she's on allows Devastation to cause earthquakes, appropriately.
* EnfantTerrible: Often takes this form, though she can be as old as she wants.
* EvilCounterpart: To Diana, having been created by Cronus in the same way that Diana was created by Aphrodite, Athena and Artemis. They even share DNA.
* FakeMemories: Devastation has the power to change a target's memories to whatever she wants them to be. This works [[AntagonistAbilities independent to the targets will power and bypasses usual resistances or immunities to psychic powers]]. [[ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaMan Diana]], with her inclination towards the truth and her lasso that enforces to truth to assert itself, she tends to not have to worry about this directly affecting her, and also has the means of removing these fake memories, but Donna Troy and Cassie Sandsmark aren't so lucky.
* FisherKingdom: Devastation is literally as strong and tough as the planet she happens to be residing on... though what that "literally" means depends on the writer. As long as Earth has a functioning ecosphere she doesn't even need to eat, but apparently still has to hold her breath underwater so Devastation still has some level of human respiration.
* HealThySelf: She can reshape her body into "any woman she wants", and use this ability to mend damage done to it.
* HoistHeroOverHead: CoversAlwaysLie but her inroductory comic shows her holding a defeated Diana over her head with one hand.
* HumanShifting: Her default height is an imperial 4'2. She can make herself smaller, though nowhere near as small as Atomia, and make herself larger, but no where near as large as Giganta, being limited to realistic human proportions. But when coupling this ability with a few illusions she can impersonate any number of people.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: You might be a better fighter or smarter tactician than Devastation, but she can make you forget what makes you so.
* LegionOfDoom: In the Rebirth continuity Paul Von Gunther recruits Devastation, Genocide, and Donna Troy, three "anti wonder women" along with Armageddon II to serve as her "four horsewomen" in an attempt to destroy Themyscira and avenge [[FeudingFamilies The Valkyries killed by The Amazons ages ago]]. Donna Troy doesn't play along, however.
* MadeOfEvil: {{Defied|Trope}}, as Wonder Woman made use of TimeTravel to alter Devastation's creation. Devastation ''can'' choose to be good now, even if she usually doesn't.
* TheManBehindTheMan: To Doctor Poison II during the latter's first appearance.
* ManipulativeBastard: The reason she prefers to torment Cassie Sandsmark instead of Diana. Devastation finds Sandsmark harder to hurt physically, but far easier to manipulate psychologically and emotinoally.
* MundaneSolution: She can't beat Wonder Woman with her powers during their first fight, but manages to send her into retreat with serious injuries after shooting her with a handgun. Wonder Woman being seriously injured by low caliber round was {{retcon}}ned after fans complained but Devastation making use of mundane weaponry was not. Even if it does prove ineffective against her superpowered opponents she'll still put it to great use against [[{{muggles}} their intended targets]].
* OriginalGeneration: She was empowered by a generation of Titans, [[EatsBabies released from the bowels of Cronus willingly]] after he was imprisoned, that did not exist in classical mythology, created specifically for the comic.
* SuperPowerLottery: A major winner. She is a FlyingBrick and MasterOfIllusion with NighInvulnerability and the ability to insert FalseMemories into a target. She has SuperReflexes, SuperSpeed and SuperStrength.
* SuperSpeed: She can move faster than her own bullets.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Doctor Cyber]]
!!Doctor Cyber
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!!! '''AKA:''' Cylvia Cyber, Adrianna Anderson
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] #179. (1968)
!!! '''Created By:''' Dennis O'Neil & Mike Sekowsky

->''"I'm a fully realized, entirely liberated, cognitive neural-network in digital form... what you would call an artificial intelligence... so, I'm not just a machine... I'm the woman of your dreams, baby, I'm a digital goddess in a quantum-optical mainframe."''

A scientist turned crime boss, Doctor Cyber replaced parts of her body with cybernetic implants and donned a power suit to battle Wonder Woman. A major enemy during MediaNotes/{{the Bronze Age|OfComicBooks}}, she's faded from the public eye since then, battling Wonder Woman only once in Post-Crisis continuity. Most of her plots revolve around global conquest and large-scale extortion schemes.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: Gundra is a good guy post-Flashpoint and she even befriends Wonder Woman.
* AdaptationalVillainy: First of all The Valkyries, who have unpleasant methods but ultimately work for the good of humanity in Norse religion, being antagonistic villains is this already. Furthermore, Golden Age Earth Two Gundra is just the servant of a War God collecting souls for Valhalla, and just so happens to side with The Axis over the Allies because the Axis were the ones to summon them. Post Crisis Gudra is a Nazi lover and continues to fight for them after they lose the war and Odin rejects her for it.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: She was the inspiration for the Vakyrie Gunnr.
* BreastPlate: One she wears ''over'' a suit of mail, as if she just wants to let people know she has boobs.
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: In the Golden Age both Gundra and Odin wanted Wonder Woman dead, but Odin wanted her dead on a much shorter schedule, so Gundra had to save Wonder Woman from him to keep her plans on rails.
* TheChampion: Was originally the champion of Wotan/Odin. Later could be said to be the champion of Adolf Hitler.
* DarkActionGirl: The Valkyries, like the Amazons, are a race of warrior women. So when one goes bad, you get this trope.
* DemotedToExtra: Pre-Crisis Gundra was a major enemy of the 1940s Wonder Woman. Post-Crisis she's appeared only once in the modern era, as part of Circe's vast collective of Wonder Woman villains.
* DivineDate: Valkyries are technically goddesses, albeit Norse goddesses without the inherent immortality of their Greek counterparts and far more at the mercy of the SuperPowerLottery. Still, she technically takes Steve Trevor on one in the Golden Age. Post Crisis, she wanted to take Ubermensch on one.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: In ''Young All-Stars'' she falls in love with Ubermensch, convincing Iron Munro to spare him in exchange for reviving recently slain Tigress. Gundra explains that she views Ubermensch as the Teutonic warrior befitting a Valkyrie such as herself.
* EvilCounterpart: As a Valkyrie who fought for the Nazis during WWII, Gundra makes for a solid EvilCounterpart of Diana in the Golden Age and Hippolyta, who was the first Wonder Woman of the post crisis continuity, both cases being an Amazon who fought for the Americans and the British. When [[ThePsychoRangers Axis Amerika]] formed their first lineup, she was even brought in to serve as their equivalent of Wonder Woman.
* TheExile: Exiled from Valhalla for allying with the Nazis.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: When portrayed as the (former) Queen of the Valkyries.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Golden Age Gundra filled Valhalla with atomic power sources because the Norse gods were immune to the radiation they produced. She even tried to poison Wonder Woman by sabotaging one. Wonder Woman not only escapes unscathed but accidentally sets off a chain reaction that leaves Valhalla in ruins.
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Pre-Crisis Gundra tried this on Steve Trevor after stealing his soul and taking it back to Valhalla with her.
* LightningBruiser: To what degree [[DependingOnTheWriter depends on the writer]]. When she first appeared in the comics she was obviously stronger and faster than the axis and allied soldiers, but strongly implied to not be as strong as Wonder Woman, the Valkyries in general only having an edge because the Golden Age Wonder Woman couldn't fly on her own. In the Justice Society Of America books she's able to give both The Flash(Jay Garrick) and Green Lantern(Alan Scott) trouble but can't break Superman's grip when he intervened and restrained her. Post Crisis Gudra is roughly equal to Wonder Woman.
* MasterSwordsman: One of the best swordfighters associated with the Norse pantheon.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: Golden Age Gundra's ultimate goal, after humiliating the hypotenuse in front of the other leg.
* {{Necromancer}}: Can raise the dead to do her bidding.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Even if Aphrodite hadn't interferred with Gundra's {{brainwashing}} in the Golden Age Gundra would have still made winning Steve Trevor's heart harder than she needed to by being unnecessarily cruel to Wonder Woman. Gundra was also most responsible for the destruction of Valhalla by exposing Wonder Woman, Odin's guests and Odin's heroes to what were supposed to be secure atomic power sources in an attempt to give Wonder Woman radiation poisoning, leading to a chain reaction that leveled her home as Wonder Woman escaped it.
* {{Pegasus}}: Has a winged horse named Stormwind.
* ThePowerOfLove: Golden Age Gundra can alter Steve Trevor's memories by manipulating his captured soul, but she cannot remove his love for anyone, that's something he has to do on his own. So she sets about trying to make him stop loving Wonder Woman, so that she can have this spot in his heart instead. [[DivineIntervention Aphrodite wasn't having it.]]
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: In the ''Rebirth'' universe, she's the ancestor of the von Gunther family, who were originally "von Gundra".
* {{Revision}}: In Wonder Woman's books no one seems to know where The Valkyries came from or when they started helping the Axis Powers. Hippolyte thinks all the figures of "Nordic Myth" were the creation of the Nazis, which is proven false when we see things from Odin's point of view but it's not until The Justice Society Of America that we learned Hitler summoned the Valkyries using The Spear Of Destiny to kill the JSA. Jay Garrick believes Hitler didn't actually know what he was doing, as the Valkyries don't follow his orders, taking it upon themselves to attack the allied nations, only fighting the JSA where opposed.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: A Golden Age Wonder Woman villain who became a Justice Society Of America villain. While the Wonder Woman stories were published first, the Justice Society stories took place earlier chronologically. From an in universe perspective she started as a Justice Society foe but became an Wonder Woman enemy, before Wonder Woman joined the society herself.
* SadlyMythtaken: In-universe. Gundra sees the Nazi neo-Norse Wotan worship as being a valid expression of the religion she represents. Her own gods would disagree.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Has been Gundra and Gudra depending upon the writer.
* StatuesqueStunner: Golden Age Gundra was the same height as Wonder Woman, so about five foot eight. Post Crisis Wonder Woman is four inches taller than her golden age counterpart and still shorter than Post Crisis Gudra, meaning Post Crisis Gundra's over six feet tall, and still very good-looking. Infinite Frontier Gundra is at least ten feet tall, towering over ''Thor'', who nonetheless becomes smitten with her.
* SuperReflexes: Agile enough to dodge bullets or deflect them with her sword.
* SuperSpeed: Much faster than normal humans.
* SuperStrength: Her strength is above what is possible for an unmodified human. In the golden age how much so is variable by writer, being weaker than Wonder Woman and Superman being the only constants. Post crisis Gundra's strength is consistently comparable to Wonder Woman's.
* ThoseWackyNazis: Was originally summoned by the Nazis, and Post Crisis, continues to espouse their ideals long after the end of WWII (which caused Odin to disown her, post crisis).
* UnholyMatrimony: Developed a crush on Ubermensch, the leader of Axis Amerika.
* {{Valkyries}}: DependingOnTheWriter she may in fact be their Queen.
* VillainTeamUp: Has been a member of both Axis Amerika and Circe's collective of Wonder Woman villains.
* VillainousCrush: Pre-Crisis Gundra had one on Steve Trevor.
* VillainessesWantHeroes: As a Valkyrie she is supposed to recruit heroes for the service of Valhalla. She is not supposed to fall in love with, much less pursue relations with those heroes, but that's exactly what Golden Age Gundra did with Steve Trevor.
* VillainousLineage: She is the ancestor of Paula von Gunther (her DC Rebirth version) and her spear passes on to her.
* WingedHumanoid: In her first appearance she and her valkyries can fly without wings. In her second appearance, she and all other Valkyries have wings, and their wings even become a plot point. Since then Gundra and The Valkyries are usually drawn without wings.
* YourSoulIsMine: Can steal the souls of those she kills. Keeping Steve Trevor's soul hostage is how she makes Wonder Woman surrender in the golden age.
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[[folder:Human Tank]]
!!Human Tank
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!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] #63. (1954)
!!! '''Created By:''' Robert Kanigher & Harry G. Peter
!!! '''Universes:''' [[MediaNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Earth-Two]], Prime Earth

->''"Wonder Woman may have caught me -- but no jail in the world can hold the Human Tank! Ha! Ha!"''

The Human Tank either acquired or developed an enamel-based compound that rendered his skin tougher than the hardest metal.
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->''"You were not there. You can't know. What this place was like before she, before the dragon, was born. "Paradise Island", we called it. And it was. Since then, it's been endless war and invasions and death and pain. And yet the Amazons still love her. Still see her as the helpless baby in the rain."''

* BaldOfEvil: Has no hair and no sense of benevolence in her.
* BlackEyesOfEvil: [[spoiler: After taking some of Genocide's powers, along with RedEyesTakeWarning. For extra emphasis on "evil", her pupils now look like skulls]].
* BodyguardBetrayal: Betrays Hippolyta by trying to kill her daughter.
* BodyguardCrush: On Hippolyta, which drives her turn to villainy.
* DarkActionGirl: Like any evil Amazon.
* DealWithTheDevil: Alkyone made a deal with Ares that bore no fruit [[spoiler:until Ares died and Alkyone and The Circle were granted some of Genocide's power. Alkyone also made a deal to free Cottus from Themyscira]], on the grounds he take what he wants from it and go away.
* DeathOfAThousandCuts: The Circle's first plan to kill the adult Wonder Woman is to gang up on her in an ambush and do as much damage as they can to Diana, hoping it will add up. Alkyone later contemplates manipulating Achilles Warkiller in order to get his spear, which is capable of impaling Diana outright.
* ExoticEyeDesigns: [[spoiler: After taking some of Genocide's powers, her pupils now look like skulls.]]
* FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence: Alkyone already has a trump card in Hippolyta guaranteed to make Wonder Woman surrender, but can't resist the temptation of arranging a DuelToTheDeath between Diana and Donna Troy, seeing it as a fitting punishment for them daring to be born. After Diana pacifies Donna Alkyone is willing to settle for just getting rid of Diana.
* ForYourOwnGood: Alkyone has Hippolyta restrained and displayed as a means of luring Diana to her death, justifying it to Hippolyta that Hippolyta sometimes does not know what is good for her.
* GreenEyedMonster: Hinted to be a major reason she despises Diana as she is the child all the Amazons wanted but could never have. Upon being defeated by Diana the first time, her words were [[spoiler: "You could have been mine."]]
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Her justification for killing the Amazon Gennes after she went mad and thought a doll was her child.
* IHaveYourWife: After Achilles Warkiller is twice repelled by Diana in battle Alkyone commands that he take Hippolyta hostage and threaten Hippolyta's life to make Wonder Woman surrender. Alkyone has no intention of letting any harm actually come to Hippolyta but tells Achilles [[MakeAnExampleOfThem that skinning the body guards]] Diana left behind on Themyscira to protect Hippolyta, will be enough to convince Diana that they mean business.
* IgnoredEpiphany: Alkyone starts to reconsider her stance on Diana after a broken, bleeding and burnt Diana travels miles across the sea to defend Themyscira from an invasion by sea monsters, but seeing Diana violently reject Zeus for his "{{gift|givinggaffe}}" of husband made from the [[YouKilledMyFather remains]] of Diana's [[HappilyAdopted adoptive father]] cements the idea in Alkyone's head that Diana is The Dragon that must be slain.
* ImmortalProcreationClause: A major source of angst not just for Alkyone, but all the Amazons, since none are able to have children.
* InterserviceRivalry: Was frequently at odds with Philippus, Captain of the General Guard.
* KnightTemplar: The Circle was well-known for being overzealous about protecting Hippolyta. Alkyone takes it even further with her obsession with defending what she sees as proper Amazon culture by destroying Diana.
* LoopholeAbuse: Alkyone agrees to taking Achilles Warkiller as king of Themyscira on condition he preserve as many of the island's laws as possible, while not telling him how these laws can be used to undermine his rule.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Her secret love and intense loyalty to Hippolyta and the Amazon way of life led her to commit increasingly immoral actions to the point she became set on destroying anything that she felt threatened the "proper" Amazon way of life.
* NecessarilyEvil: How Alkyone views her own actions.
-->'''Alkyone:''' I did this to save our people, Diana! I have made terrible choices. I never wanted to be queen. I just wanted... I just wanted things to never change. Your beautiful mother, and my Circle to watch over her until the end of time!
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler: Meaning she comes back]].
* PraetorianGuard: She leads Queen Hippolyta's bodyguard, and like the real Praetorian Guard, ultimately betrays the person she is supposed to protect.
* PsychoLesbian: Sadly, the first in Amazon history. For Hippolyta, no less.
* SuperReflexes: Post crisis Amazons have a degree of these compare to pure humans, but much less than Wonder Woman until she [[spoiler:takes some of Genocide's power]]
* SuperSpeed: As a Post-Crisis Amazon she's been granted faster than human speed by the goddesses.
* SuperStrength: As an post crisis Amazon she can attain slightly higher levels of strength than a pure human, but has nothing on Wonder Woman [[spoiler:until taking some of Genocide's power]].
* StrawFeminist: Takes her misandry far further than even most other Amazons.
* TheRival: To Philippus. They should have mostly unrelated duties but Alkyone tends to overstep her boundaries and into Philipus's territory.
* WouldHurtAChild: Would try to kill a baby actually.
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[[folder:Angle Man]]
!!Angle Man
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!!! '''AKA:''' Angelo Bend
!!! '''First Appearance:''' Wonder Woman [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] #62. (1953)
!!! '''Created By:''' Robert Kanigher & Harry G. Peter
!!! '''Universes:''' [[MediaNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Earth-Two]], [[MediaNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Earth-One]], [[ComicBook/PostCrisis New Earth]], Prime Earth, Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse, [[WesternAnimation/DCSuperFriends Earth-508]], WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold

->''"Greetings, all. For those who've never had the pleasure of meeting me before, the name's Angle Man. I'm the gent who stole your space shuttle."''

Originally an Italian conman and master thief obsessed with knowing all the angles, Angelo Bend later gained a magic Penrose triangle that enabled him to warp space time, manipulating geometry to his advantage. He has fought Diana, Donna, and Cassie at various points in his career, and has a bit of a crush on Donna.
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* HeroKiller: During DC Rebirth Grail starts hunting and killing the offspring of Zeus in order to feed them to Darkseid and induce RapidAging after he was reborn as a baby. Zeus takes notice and steps in before she and Darkseid can killed Diana and Jason, but not before Grail singlehandedly killed dozens of demigods, including Perseus and Hercules.

* NoSell: She's able to refrain from speaking while caught in the lasso of truth and even escape being tied from it entirely with a little concentration. Grail credits the latter to her amazon blood, but she still [[DownPlayedTrope cannot tell a lie while touching the lasso]].

* OutGambited: During the Rebirth ''Return of The Amazons'' two parter, Grail successfully conquers Themyscira, puts herself on the throne, and [[InTheirOwnImage reshapes the island as she sees fit]]. Grail's "redecorating" temporarily weakens Themyscira's barriers enough for [[EvilVersusEvil Lex Luthor to sneak a drone through]] and steal The God Killer from Grail, however. Before Grail can get the weapon back Grail's [[FakeDefector most trusted advisor]] Nubia [[AntiClimax ends Grail's reign]] by spearing Grail InTheBack.

* StatuesqueStunner: Golden Age Gundra was the same height as Wonder Woman, so about five foot eight. Post Crisis Wonder Woman is four inches taller than her golden age counterpart and still shorter than Post Crisis Gudra, meaning Post Crisis Gundra's over six feet tall, and still very good-looking.

* {{Intangibility}}: As a living reflection, he can become intangible at will. Siegfried's sword gram is able to cut his form regardless, but this still doesn't seem to hurt him so much as simply sever his link to the world of matter and send him back to that of reflections

* PassingTheTorch: He argues that Diana can give up her position to any one of numerous other people on Earth and live in paradise with him instead, or even a duplicate of Steve Trevor if that's more her fancy.

* ManipulativeBastard: Duke of Decption is a bit of an idiot, which is a good thing for life everywhere, because he has deceived everything from humans, to gods to {{cosmic being}}s with barely recognizable thought processes across various continuties.

* ThematicRoguesGallery: The Duke of Deception versus the wielder of the Lasso of Truth.
* VillanousLineage: In the Golden Age his daughter Lya also antagonizes Wonder Woman. In Lya's case without and orders to or instigation from Wonder Woman, just because she knows of her from Duke of Deception.

* UnwittingPawn: Circe represses her own memories and creates the Donna Milton persona in order to befriend and get close to Diana. This plays right into the hands of Ares Buchanan, who wants someone to get close to Diana and hires Donna Milton, [[StrangeMindsThinkALike recognizing her as the perfect woman for the job]]. Donna willingly betrays Diana to Ares, thinking he just wants to stop her meddling investigations into him, but when it becomes clear to her Ares is going to torture Diana, [[NotWhatISignedUpFor Donna turns on him]] and [[IMustMakeAmends tries to atone for putting Diana in that situation]] even after her betray of Ares gets her shot.

* SayingTheSoundEffectOutLoud: Circe vocalizes an onomotopea for vomit([[IncreadiblyLamePun retch]]) in mockery of Diana's attempts to ''reach'' Vanessa Kapatelis through words during ''The Witch And The Warrior''.

* SayingTheSoundEffectsOutLoud: Circe vocalizes an onomotopea for vomit in mockery of Diana's attempts to reach Vanessa Kapatelis during ''The Witch And The Warrior''.

* EnemyMine: Doctor Psycho helps get Pele a spot in one of Roulette's unlicensed {{fight club|bing}}s and even arranges a handicap match between Pele and "The Orphan Sisters" since they both want half of the TagTeam dead. [[BrainsAndBrawn Pele is the power but Psycho has the connections]].

* UnwittingPawn: Wonder Woman accuses him of heading a scam religious revival movement during DC Rebirth. As it turns out Dr. Psycho ''is'' in contact with a god, but it's not the god he thinks nor is it for the purposes he thinks, with most of what he says being made up as his god isn't even bothering to answer him most of the time.

* KilledOffForReal: The original Angle Man died in the first "Crisis", apparently as a result of attempting to use his Angler during the massive dimensional upheavals caused by that event. His death is undone as a result of Wonder Woman's Post-Crisis reboot.

* RealityWarper: His magic angle can warp geometry.

* SpaceMaster: His magic angle can warp geometry.

* BodySwap: The biggest thing keeping Post Crisis Giganta a villain is that she won't give the body back and no interested in making her has found a way to yet.

* CompositeCharacter: She has the powers and supervillain identity of the original Giganta, but the name of the scientist (Zool/Zeul)[[note]]originally male[[/note]] who created her.

* TheDreaded: While Wonder Woman views Giganta as irriating, Giganta legitimately scares Diana's side kicks like Cassie Sandsmark and utterly terrifie the civilians, mundane law enforcers and conventional militaries allied with Wonder Woman.

* MadScientist: Though this has more to do with her origins than how she currently operates.