History IneffectualSympatheticVillain / WonderWoman

** The Duke of Deception and the Earl of Greed were two of Ares flunkies whose job was to keep the Earth in a perpetual state of war. Since this was during World War II, it's not clear why Ares even needed these buffoons, who always messed up. (DC may have been going for the VileVillainLaughableLackey angle here, but these guys were bigger failures than [[WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}} Pain and Panic.]]) DC seems to have given up on the Earl, but the Duke managed to eventually TakeALevelInBadass, pulling a successful coup on Ares. [[http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Tomas_Byde_(The_Legend_of_Wonder_Woman) (He still appears from time to time.)]]

* DC Rebirth/Infinite Frontier's ''Young Diana'' back up specials give this treatment to Persephone, queen of the underworld. Post Crisis, Persephone was a powerful warrior who stood on equal footing with her husband, Hades, and was in fact less likely to be hostile to heroes like Wonder Woman than he was. New 52, she was a tragic victim DrivenToSuicide when the gods lost their immortality and she took it as a chance to finally get away from her husband. But come Rebirth and Persephone is an ''almost'' successful thief that young Diana tracks, easily subdues and reduces to tears. It's to the point Diana actually feels bad for Persephone and wants to let her participate in the amazons celebration Persephone was ruining by stealing the candles of.

* DC Rebirth/Infinite Frontier's Young Diana back up specials give this treatment to Persephone, queen of the underworld. Post Crisis, Persephone was a powerful warrior who stood on equal footing with her husband, Hades, and was in fact less likely to be hostile to heroes like Wonder Woman than he was. New 52, she was a tragic victim DrivenToSuicide when the gods lost their immortality and she took it as a chance to finally get away from her husband. But come Rebirth and Persephone is an ''almost'' successful thief that young Diana tracks, easily subdues and reduces to tears. It's to the point Diana actually feels bad for Persephone and wants to let her participate in the amazons celebration Persephone was ruining by stealing the candles of.

** Angelo Bend, aka Angle Man, a villain with a... geometry theme. Obsessed with committing crimes with "unbeatable angles" this guy had a silly-looking weapon that looked like a Penrose triangle ("the Angler", he called it) but always got his ass handed to him by the heroine. Eventually, he modified the weapon so it could warp time and space in a variety of ways, ditched his silly costume (for a getup that made him look like a middle-aged accountant) and was killed in the Crisis.

** Paper Man, taking on the strongest woman in the world with the power of having a body made out of newspaper. In fairness, Paper Man's was a StalkerWithACrush whose goal was to take Wonder Woman out on a date, rather than defeat her in a battle or anything, but his odds of success weren't any higher because of it.

* The original Doctor Cyber was a criminal mastermind who successfully pulled off several heists, murdered an entire monastery, and only started facing real setbacks when she set her sights on conquering the world. She wasn't the most fearsome villain, at first, but Diana Prince didn't have any of her wonderful powers the time either, so Doctor Cyber was an approrpriate threat to her that proved quite challenging, and even when Wonder Woman did get her powers and supporting cast back Doctor Cyber got some PoweredArmor that allowed her to reasonably keep up. She even got the repowered Wonder Woman to surrender without a fight by capturing and torturing Wonder Woman's adopted sister, Wonder Girl Donna Troy, and only lost in that particular instance when Wonder Woman had to act to save the rest of the Teen Titans, who couldn't beat Doctor Cyber collectively. Post ''Comicbook/CrisisOnInfinteEarths'' Doctor Cyber became a lot less threatening and effective. Despite now having cyberntic implants to increase her physical performance in addition to her powered armor, Doctor Cyber was now a team filler villain at best, being used as [[BiologicalMashup material]] for the new villain Engine Head and being trounced by Wonder Woman's side kicks Donna Troy and Cassie Sandsmark after somehow getting free of that [[FusionDance merger]]. DC Rebirth had a new Doctor Cyber, who was a mostly harmless computer program before bringing back the original powered armor cyborg as a foe Superman couldn't be bothered to deal with, delegating her arrest to The Flash Barry Allen.

* The original "Blue Snowman" was a scientist who invented a suit of flying PoweredArmor and a veritable army of identical MechaMooks, that had a freeze ray that produced [[HarmlessFreezing blue snow]]. After her capture she managed to create a new set of PoweredArmor that made her look rather snowman-like (the actual "Blue Snowman" armor) while captive in Reformation Island to help her escape. A new version of the character in the Post-Crisis era was treated as an ineffective joke that died in her first appearance, and looked much sillier, adding a corncob pipe. Her ''ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth'' version is DarkerAndEdgier with a much more menacing GiantMecha in place of her PoweredArmor but still ends up defeated in a single fight, and is left in a coma due to the way she integrated herself with her mecha.

** Surprisingly ''averted'' in the comic spinoff for ''Western/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', where he is in fact the EldritchAbomination Y'ggphu-Soggoth.

** Surprisingly ''averted'' in ''ComicBook/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', where he is in fact the EldritchAbomination Y'ggphu-Soggoth.