History ComicBook / WonderGirl

* ''ComicBook/{{Wonder Girl|InfiniteFrontier}}'' (2021 - 2022)

The first appearance of Wonder Girl was in ''ComicBook/{{Wonder Woman|1942}}'' #105 of April 1958 where the title belonged to a young Diana. This Wonder Girl wore a very similar costume to the grown Wonder Woman: a red tank top with a golden eagle on the chest and golden crests on the edges, blue shorts with white stars, red ballet slippers to match Wonder Woman's boots, she wore her hair up in a ponytail, and wore Amazonian silver bracelets. The adventures of Wonder Girl seemed to capture the imagination of writers as her adventures on Themyscira (with a companion only dubbed Mer-boy) were often displayed in the Wonder Woman serial and she even starred next to Wonder Woman herself in some issues labeled ''Impossible Tales'' (which sometimes also featured an even younger Diana named Wonder Tot) that were composed by Queen Hippolyta as a sort of home movie spliced together from different periods of her daughter's life. While the impossible tales were not in continuity with the rest of the Wonder Woman series, Bob Haney brought Wonder Girl to the modern age of 1961 to fight alongside Wonder Woman and her friends the Comicbook/TeenTitans even though she was still canonically a young Diana.

* Amalgamation: ''Wonder Woman'' Annual #1 of volume 3 gives Donna a new origin based on elements of her last three origin stories. Donna was given life by Magala from Diana's reflection and kidnapped by Dark Angel under the mistaken identity of her sister. Dark Angel puts Donna in suspended animation and years pass until she is rescued. She is trained by the Amazons ''and'' the Titans of Myth and is raised as the second Princess of Themyscira. After a couple more years, she would follow her older sister into Man's World and adopt the name Wonder Girl and help create the Comicbook/TeenTitans.

* ''ComicBook/WonderGirl2007'' Vol. 1 (2007 - 2008)

* ''ComicBook/WonderGirlInfiniteFrontier''

* DivineParentage: In the golden age Diana is the "daughter" of the semi mortal Hyppolyte and immortal goddess Aphrodite when their combined love caused a clay statue to spring to life as an ideal daughter. Silver Age Diana ''may'' be the daughter of Heracles, though this would have been when he was still mortal, giving her a divine grand parent instead(The "Comicbook/EarthOne" series makes this officially canon, but despite the name is ''not'' the same as the Silver Age continuity) or may be the result of several goddess and one god(Hermes) blessing her statue(which is officially canon, post crisis). Cassie Sandsmark is the daughter of Zeus, which among other things, [[{{blessedwithsuck}} gifts]]" her with the power to cause [[PowerOfTheStorm lightning storms]] she [[PowerIncontinence can't control]] whenever she gets angry(Cassie is Zeus's granddaughter instead, New 52). Yara Flor is the daughter of an amazon woman and a yet to be revealed Brazilian river god which, among other things, "gifts" her with the power to cause nearby bodies of water [[MakingASplash to overflow]] when she gets angry. Like Sandsmark, Flor has no control over this. Zeus eventually gives Sandsmark a lasso to help keep her storm abilities under control. Flor gets bolas when the mermaid Iara takes pity on her, but [[YankTheDogsChain they do nothing to help her control her powers]].

* FightingYourFriend: Devastation and Genocide have turned Cassie and Donna against Diana, though their combined efforts fail to turn Donna against Diana in the Rebirth continuity... because Donna had been manipulated into fighting Diana several times already by the time they showed up in it. Donna in particular tends to be victim to misdirection or mind control. When she's first brought back to life in the post crisis continuity it is to attack her former team, The Teen Titans, which included Cassie. ''Comicbook/TrialOfTheAmazons'' puts Diana, all three Wonder Girls and most Amazons in general through some degree of this [[spoiler:thanks to Chaos having a {{misplaced|retribution}} grudge against Diana]].

"Wonder Girl" is a title passed down through four characters in Franchise/TheDCU: [[Franchise/WonderWoman Princess Diana of Themyscira/Diana Prince]], Donna Troy, Cassandra Sandsmark, and Yara Flor.

The first appearance of Wonder Girl was in ''ComicBook/{{Wonder Woman|1942}}'' #105 of April 1958 where the title belonged to a young Diana. This Wonder Girl wore a very similar costume to the grown Wonder Woman: a red tank top with a golden eagle on the chest and golden crests on the edges, blue shorts with white stars, red ballet slippers to match Wonder Woman's boots, she wore her hair up in a ponytail, and wore Amazonian silver bracelets. The adventures of Wonder Girl seemed to capture the imagination of writers as her adventures on Themyscira (with a companion only dubbed Mer-boy) were often displayed in the Wonder Woman serial and she even starred next to Wonder Woman herself in some issues labeled ''Impossible Tales'' (which sometimes also featured an even younger Diana named Wonder Tot) that were composed by Queen Hippolyta as a sort of home movie spliced together from different periods of her daughter's life. While the impossible tales were not in continuity with the rest of the Wonder Woman series, Bob Haney brought Wonder Girl to the modern age of 1961 to fight along side Wonder Woman and her friends the Comicbook/TeenTitans even though she was still canonically a young Diana.

With the Wonder Girl slot needing to be filled, John Byrne introduced Cassandra "Cassie" Sandsmark in 1996 ''Wonder Woman'' volume 2 #105. Cassie is the daughter of Archaeologist Helena Sandsmark and Wonder Woman fanatic. She is granted powers by the mythical objects of Hermes' sandals and Atlas' gauntlets. It is later revealed that she is a daughter of Zeus and asks for real powers be granted to her to fight the evil of man. She is granted them with the exception that her mother is given the choice to take them away if she feels it is necessary. Dr. Sandsmark, although initially alarmed by her daughters crime fighting, has never used this power as she respects her daughter's wish to be a super hero. Notably the only Wonder Girl to have her own comic series, Cassandra was given a six issue limited series titled ''Wonder Girl: Champion'' written by J. Torres. Cassandra has been a member of both Young Justice and the Teen Titans. As Wonder Girl Cassandra has worn many outfits, with these two being the best known: an ensemble including a black t-shirt with the Franchise/WonderWoman 'W' crest, a black leather jacket, gloves, red shorts, goggles, and a black wig to hide her identity. In her most recent outfit (pre-New 52), she wore a red shirt with varying sleeve length with the Wonder Woman 'W', jeans, and Amazonian bracelets.

** Donna Troy and Dick Grayson (ComicBook/{{Robin}}/ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}). They have been childhood friends and partners in the Franchise/TeenTitans and the Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica, but Donna is one of the few DC females who is ''not'' romantically interested in Dick.

* BigDamnHeroes: When divine intervention from Caipora fails to save Yara Flor from the Olympians the Esquecida Amazons enlist Donna Troy and Cassie Sandsmark to help them storm Olympus themselves. While Donna's confident, Cassie knows it's going to be a losing battle and instead flies directly to Zeus and [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath tells him to give Yara Flor a pass]] since it's not Flor's fault her mother had a child with another pantheon's god.

* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: The originals ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} -Kara Zor-El, blonde- Wonder Girl -Donna Troy, brunette- and ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} -Barbara Gordon, redhead- are this in the original universe and ''WesternAnimation/SuperBestFriendsForever''.

** Donna and Diana used to both wear red white and blue but Donna increasingly became associated with black, post crisis. Cassie Sandsmark was also strongly associated with black, but when Donna was brought BackFromTheDead Cassie became increasingly associated with red. Yara Flor wears several colors, but green is emphasized when distinguishing her from the rest.

* FightingYourFriend: Devastation and Genocide have turned Cassie and Donna against Diana, though their combined efforts fail to turn Donna against Diana in the Rebirth continuity... because Donna had been manipulated into fighting Diana several times already by the time they showed up in it. Donna in particular tends to be victim to misdirection or mind control. When she's first brought back to life in the post crisis continuity it is to attack her former team, The Teen Titans, which included Cassie. ''Comicbook/TrialOfTheAmazons'' puts Diana, all three Wonder Girls and most Amazons in general through some degree of this [[spoiler:thanks to Chaos having a {{misplaced|retribution]] grudge against Diana]].
* FlyingBrick: Wonder Girls have the Amazonian Pack: SuperStrength, SuperSpeed, SuperToughness and {{Flight}}. Except Yara Flor, who is a grounded brick. Yara does eventually become able to fly, somehow, in ''DC Future State'', but she's Wonder ''Woman'' there.

** Donna and Diana are this, and the two of them built a similar relationship with Cassie Sandsmark.

* UnusualPetsForUnusualPeople: In the golden age, Diana had a "[[DireBeast Saddle Rabbit]]" named "Long Ears". Later, seven year old Diana would defeat the alien [[SkyPirates Sky Riders]] when they [[AlienInvasion invaded]] Paradise Island, then take one of their "[[CallASmeerpARabbit Sky Kangas]]" as a pet she named "Jumpa". Long Ears and Jumpa are back following the end of New 52 and start of DC Rebirth. You can tell how usual Yara is by comparison when she "merely" has a WingedHorse named "Jerry", though [[JerkAss Faruka]] still thinks he's a mutant freak.

** Donna Troy is chained up and hung around the neck of Giganta, who was out to show the world [[PretenderDiss Donna was an inadequate successor to Wonder Woman while trying to draw out the real thing]].

Here's where things get messy. As events such as ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths and ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis rewrote continuities and histories of heroes, Donna was a victim of multiple OriginStory syndrome:

* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Hercules and Devastation started primarily as menaces Diana dealt with but ended up regulated to being dealt with by Cassie Sandsmark. Hera ends up causing even more grief to Yara Flor in DC Rebirth than she did to Diana in New 52.

* UnusualPetsForUnusualPeople: In the golden age, Diana had a "[[DireBeast Saddle Rabbit]]" named "Long Ears". Later, seven year old Diana would defeat the alien [[SkyPirates Sky Riders]] when they [[AlienInvasion invaded]] Paradise Island, then take one of their "[[CallASmeerpARabbit Sky Kangas]]" as a pet she named "Jumpa". You can tell how usual Yara is by comparison when she "merely" has a WingedHorse named "Jerry".

** Donna Troy is chained up and hung around the neck of Giganta, who was out to show the world [[PretenderDiss Donna was an inadequate successor to Wonder Woman and trying to draw out the real thing]].

** Between ''DC Future State'', ''Wonder Woman Annual'', ''Wonder Girl'' Volume 3 and ''Trial Of The Amazons'', it's been beaten over the readers' heads that the Esquecida are tied to "the gods of Brazil", [[DependingOnTheWriter but no one has agreed who these "gods of Brazil" are]]. "Future State" mentioned Tupa opposite to Zeus and had Yara Flor's activities lead to the reemergence of the brother moon and sun gods Iae and Kuat. "Annual" tied the tribe to Pre-Incan gods of the Andes, moon goddess Ka-Ata-Killa in particular. ''Trial Of The Amazons'' makes their main deity Yacy, [[DistaffCounterpart a moon goddess akin]] to Jasy Jatere. The only consistency so far is that a lunar deity is their benefactor. ''Wonder Girl''(Vol 3) also portrays Anhangá, who means different things to different tribes, as a death god who prioritizes the forest over people, but might help a person if his spouse Tica pushes him.

* FightingYourFriend: Devastation and Genocide have turned Cassie and Donna against Diana, though their combined efforts fail to turn Donna against Diana in the Rebirth continuity... because Donna had been manipulated into fighting Diana several times already by the time they showed up in it. Donna in particular tends to be victim to misdirection or mind control. When she's first brought back to life in the post crisis continuity it is to attack her former team, The Teen Titans, which included Cassie. ''Comicbook/TrialOfTheAmazons'' puts Diana, all three Wonder Girls and most Amazons in general through some degree of this in ritual combat to crown a new queen.

* DivineParentage: In the golden age Diana is the "daughter" of the semi mortal Hyppolyte and immortal goddess Aphrodite when their combined love caused a clay statue to spring to life as an ideal daughter. Silver Age Diana ''may'' be the daughter of Heracles, though this would have been when he was still mortal, giving her a divine grand parent instead(The "Comicbook/EarthOne" makes this officially canon, but despite the name is ''not'' the same as the Silver Age continuity) or may be the result of several goddess and one god(Hermes) blessing her statue(which is officially canon, post crisis). Cassie Sandsmark is the daughter of Zeus, which among other things, [[{{blessedwithsuck}} gifts]]" her with the power to cause [[PowerOfTheStorm lightning storms]] she [[PowerIncontinence can't control]] whenever she gets angry(Cassie is Zeus's granddaughter instead, New 52). Yara Flor is the daughter of an amazon woman and a yet to be revealed Brazilian river god which, among other things, "gifts" her with the power to cause nearby bodies of water [[MakingASplash to overflow]] when she gets angry. Like Sandsmark, Flor has no control over this. Zeus eventually gives Sandsmark a lasso to help keep her storm abilities under control. Flor gets bolas when the mermaid Iara takes pity on her, but [[YankTheDogsChain they do nothing to help her control her powers]].

* ClarkKenting: Diana didn't have a secret identity until she grew up and began a mission in "Man's World". Donna Troy Originally Cassie had the ingenuity to wear a black wig and goggles, though even then her costume was mainly thrown together from what was already in her closet. She ditched them after a situation where she had to chose between maintaining disguise and saving the day. In the version of Teen Titans starting in 2003, she does not have a secret identity, which caused problems finding a school that would take her.

** Donna and Diana used to both wear red white and blue but Donna increasing became associated with black, post crisis. Cassie Sandsmark was also strongly associated with black, but when Donna was brought BackFromTheDead Cassie became increasingly associated with red. Yara Flor wears several colors, but green is emphasized when distinguishing her from the rest.

* DivineParentage: In the golden age Diana is the "daughter" of the semi mortal Hyppolyte immortal goddess Aphrodite when their combined love caused a clay statue to spring to life as an ideal daughter. Silver Age Diana ''may'' be the daughter of Heracles, though this would have been when he was still mortal, giving her a divine grand parent instead.(The "Comicbook/EarthOne" makes this officially canon, but despite the name is ''not'' the same as the Silver Age continuity). Cassie Sandsmark is the daughter of Zeus, which among other things, [[{{blessedwithsuck}} gifts]]" her with the power to cause lightning storms she [[PowerIncontinence can't control]] whenever she gets angry. Yara Flor is the daughter of an amazon woman and a yet to be revealed Brazilian river god which, among other things, "blesses" her with the power to cause nearby bodies of water to overflow when she gets angry. Like Sandsmark, Flor has no control over this. Zeus eventually gives Sandsmark a lasso to help keep her storm abilities under control. Flor gets bolas from an unrelated river goddess that takes pity on her, but [[YankTheDogsChain they fail when it comes to preventing floods]].

* LadyLand: The Amazons were one before splitting into two known as Themyscira, since no one was using the name anymore, and Bana-Mighdall. The Esquecida were a warrior woman tribe even before an Amazon who broke off before two tribes split up to join their ranks, and [[MightyWhitey seemingly direct their culture from then on]].
* LegacyCharacter: Donna and Cassie are Diana's successors. Donna was Wonder Woman for one year after ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', while Cassie is ''just'' this to Donna as Wonder Girl in this particular continuity, but in publication is still Diana's successor as Wonder Girl, CosmicRetcon ignored. Yara Flor has mixed feelings, appreciating the sentiment but not the ''title''. She didn't like being called boy even from a guy calling ''himself'' "boy".
* PoorCommunicationKills: All three Amazonian Tribes want Yara Flor once they realize Hera has her sights set on Floor but ''assume'' that they each have a different reasons for getting to her before Hera and attack each other, with two Amazons from Themyscira even attacking Cassie Sandsmark because they didn't know Hyppolyta sent Cassie to help them. It turns out the only difference between them is that the Esquecida don't consider killing Flor a valid solution to the Hera problem. Caipora also tries to help Flor but proves no better when the messengers she sent just so happen to be giant monsters that scare Flor away.
* RefusalOfTheCall: Yara Flor rejects Caipora's call to guard the jungles of the Amazon. For one, Caipora probably shouldn't [[FaceOfAThug sent three giant monsters]], two of which were a [[SavageWolves wolf]] and a [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile crocodile]], as messengers. For two, Flor had also being struct by an arrow of Eros at the time, making ''his'' call more alluring. Yara ends up rejecting his too, though, when it turns out it involves serving Hera for all eternity.

* LegacyCharacter: Donna and Cassie are Diana's successors. Donna was Wonder Woman for one year after ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', while Cassie is ''just'' this to Donna as Wonder Girl this particular continuity, but in publication is still Diana's successor as Wonder Girl, CosmicRetcon ignored. Yara Flor has mixed feelings, appreciating the sentiment but not the ''title''.
* PoorCommunicationKills: All three Amazonian Tribes want Yara Flor once they realize Hera has her sights set on her but ASSUME that they each have a different reasons for getting to her before Hera and attack each other, with two Amazons from Themicyra even attacking Cassie Sandsmark because they didn't know Hyppolyta sent her to help them. It turns out the only difference between them is that the Esquecida don't consider killing Flor a valid solution to the Hera problem. Caipora also tries to help but proves no better when the messengers she sent just so happen to be giant monsters that scare Flor away.

* BeneathTheEarth: The Esquecida built their city, Akahim, underground in an attempt to hide from the world after suffering their first massacre. Donna Troy manages to find it anyway while on a mission from Hyppolyta to retrieve Cassie Sandsmark, who had [[PoorCommunicationKills been accosted]] by an Esquecida but not brought "home" yet due ''that'' Esquecida being accosted by Artemis.

* BeneathTheEarth: The Esquecida built their city, Akahim, underground in an attempt to hide from the world after suffering their first massacre. Donna Troy manages to find it anyway while on a mission to retrieve Cassie Sandsmark, who had been accosted by an Esquecida but not brought "home" yet due ''that'' Esquecida being accosted by Artemis.

* RefusalOfTheCall: Yara Flor rejects Caipora's call to guard the jungles of the Amazon. For one, Caipora probably shouldn't [[FaceOfAThug sent three giant monsters]], two of which were a [[SavageWolves wolf]] and a [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile crocodile]], as messengers but Flor was also being brainwashed by Eros at the time, making ''his'' call more alluring. Yara ends up rejecting his too, though, when it turns out it involves serving Hera for all eternity.

* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Donna Troy and Cassie Sandsmark are major {{jerkass}}es in "New 52", being a murderer turned DeathSeeker, and a thief, respectively. Yara Flor is as almost much of a jerkass as them in "DC Future State", being a poacher and thief willing to commit murder, but at least ''her'' [[WellIntentionedExtremist crimes are for the sake of her tribe's continued survival]] rather than misplaced hatred like Donna or personal gain like Cassie. While all three undergo CharacterDevelopment in these stories and [[TookALevelInKindess and become more kind]] over time, "DC Rebirth" wipes the slate clean with all three and makes them kinder people from the start.

* FlyingBrick: Wonder Girls have the Amazonian Pack: SuperStrength, SuperSpeed, SuperToughness and {{Flight}}. Except Yara Flor, who is a grounded brick.

* BabyOfTheBunch: Diana was initially this among the other Amazons, and could outperform them even as a child. Cassie Sandsmark is usually in this role among the succeeding Wonder "Girls", as she tends to show up after Donna has already grown up and Yara Flor doesn't get the title until she's an adult already, but this gets confusing in the continuities where Donna is BornAsAnAdult and technically the youngest in age even while Cassie is physically the youngest in physical maturity.

* UnusualPetsForUnusualPeople: In the golden age, Diana had a giant rabbit named "Long Ears". Later, seven year old Diana would defeat the alien [[SkyPirates Sky Riders]] when they [[AlienInvasion invaded]] Paradise Island, then take one of their flying "[[CallASmeerpARabbit Kangas]]" as a pet she named "Jumpa". You can tell how usual Yara is by comparison when she "merely" has a FlyingHorse named "Jerry".

* UnusualPetsForUnusualPeople: In the golden age, Diana had a giant rabbit named "Long Ears". Later, seven year old Diana would defeat the alien [[SkyPirates Sky Riders]] when they [[AlienInvasion invaded]] Paradise Island, then take one of their flying "[[CallASmeerpARabit Kangas]]" as a pet she named "Jumpa". You can tell how usual Yara is by comparison when she "merely" has a FlyingHorse named "Jerry".

* FightingYourFriend: Devastation and Genocide have turned Donna and Cassie against Diana, though their combined efforts fail to turn Donna against Diana in the Rebirth continuity... because Donna had been manipulated into fighting Diana several times already by the time they showed up in it. Donna in particular tends to be victim to misdirection or direct control. When she's first brought back to life in the post crisis continuity it is to attack her former team, The Teen Titans, which included Cassie. ''Comicbook/TrialOfTheAmazons'' puts Diana, all three Wonder Girls and most Amazons in general through some degree of this in ritual combat to crown a new queen.

* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Hercules and Devastation started primarily as menaces Diana dealt with but ended up regulated to dealing with Cassie Sandsmark.

* ClarkKenting: Originally Cassie had the ingenuity to wear a black wig and goggles, though even then her costume was mainly thrown together from what was already in her closet. She ditched them after a situation where she had to chose between maintaining disguise and saving the day. In the version of Teen Titans starting in 2003, she does not have a secret identity, which caused problems finding a school that would take her.

* FlyingBrick: Wonder Girls have the Amazonian Pack: SuperStrength, SuperSpeed, SuperToughness and {{Flight}}.

* KnowsTheRopes: Both Donna and Cassie use lassos just like Diana, though Cassie didn't originally start out with one.
* LegacyCharacter: Donna and Cassie are Diana's successors. Donna was Wonder Woman for one year after ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis''.

Post-''ComicBook/DarkNightsDeathMetal'', a new Wonder Girl was introduced. In fact, she was originally introduced as a new Wonder ''Woman'' in ''ComicBook/DCFutureState'', but a younger version was added to regular continuity immediately afterwards. While little has been revealed about her so far, Yara Flor is a young woman of Brazilian descent whose ancestors may be an offshoot of the Amazons who settled in, yes, the Amazon.