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Diana Prince / Wonder Woman

The demigoddess daughter of Zeus and Queen Hippolyta, who, after helping save humanity in World War II, works to safeguard the planet from threats both human and supernatural.

Adaptational Badass: Wonder Woman is typically shown to be vulnerable to gunfire needing to block them with her bracelets. Here, after fully awakening her powers she is completely immune and only blocks gunfire out of habit. The author has noted that it doesn't make sense that someone who can tank hits from the likes of Superman and Darkseid should not be able to handle gunfire.
Adventurer Archaeologist: How does she spend her vacations away from her museum? Why, she goes traipsing in old temples and fighting monsters in order to collect new artifacts.
All Your Powers Combined: Zeus gave Diana not just his own legendary power, but the blessings and gifts of all the twelve main Olympians.
Always Someone Better: Captain America is the pinnacle of human potential, and Diana is stronger, faster and has better reflexes than him.
Ascended Extra: From the perspective of the team of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents investigating Mjölnir's arrival, Diana is one, with Fury appointing her command of the investigation despite her lacking an official position.
Authority in Name Only: She's acknowledged by numerous gods of other pantheons as the Heiress of Olympus and Zeus' rightful successor as ruler of the Greek Pantheon. However, the title is essentially meaningless as Olympus has long since been sealed off (currently being ruled over by Hestia, who is completely out of reach), with the rest of the Olympians, including her father, dead. With Ares dead as well, the only other living Greek Gods seen besides Diana are Circe and Herakles, neither of whom will submit to whatever theoretical authority she has for their own reasons. Diana could change this by unsealing Olympus and claiming the throne from Hestia, but is terrified by the prospect of so much power and the possibility it could change her.
Beauty Is Never Tarnished:
- Peggy is quite infuriated by Diana not having the decency of being a sweaty, disheveled mess after a workout.
- Jane gets somewhat jealous at seeing Diana, noting that despite the latter being in a torn dress and having messy hair (the result of her fight with Herakles), she still looks leagues above any supermodel or Hollywood actress.
Berserk Button: Herakles in general but especially people thinking he is a hero. Herakles enslaved the Amazons and raped her mother, so seeing him portrayed as a heroic figure understandably pisses her off. When she saw Disney announce they were making their Hercules movie, she punched a hole in her TV.
Beware the Nice Ones: Diana is extremely friendly and kind and usually has a pleasant disposition, but she is also one of the most powerful beings in Earth's history and can be merciless to enemies if they piss her off.
Big Good: Diana has served as humanity's greatest protector for a while by the time Tony becomes Iron Man.
Broken Bird: A lesser example of this in the 1990s storyline, as Diana felt that many of her allies in the Howling Commandos lost their way after Steve's death, such as with Howard's role in the Manhattan Project or Peggy condoning the plans to recruit Nazi scientists after the war ended, prompting her to withdraw from S.H.I.E.L.D. and her role as Wonder Woman after the war ended as she no longer knew if mankind was worth fighting for.
Cool Aunt:
- Granted they don't properly meet until Tony is an adult but Diana quickly fills this role for him. She tells him stories about what inspired humanity's myths, brings him gifts and occasionally mothers him.
- She is also this for Sharon, having helped Peggy raise her.
Cultured Badass: When Wonder Woman isn't busy kicking ass, Diana Prince is a museum curator — making sure that mankind won't forget their own story.
The Dreaded: Ares was terrifying enough that the wider universe basically "quarantined" Earth to avoid drawing his attention, and she killed him. Yeah, there's a reason why there's so few alien visitors on Earth these days, and her name is Diana. Loki is also very reluctant to face her directly and instead goes to Circe for assistance.
Dysfunctional Family: Diana seems to be the sole paragon on her father's side. It's implied that Zeus was not exactly a model parent, and so far, both of Diana's half-siblings that we have seen so far, Ares and Herakles, were both psychopaths with sociopathic ideals regarding mankind.
Everyone Has Standards: As much as Diana hates Herakles, even she acknowledges that Hera's treatment of him was inexcusable.
Experienced Protagonist: Not so much in the 1940s timeline, but definitely in the 90s and the New Tens.
Family of Choice: As well as her unconventional "family ties" to Tony and Natasha, Diana is officially considered an aunt by Sharon Carter, Peggy’s niece; Sharon muses at one point that when she was a child, Peggy was her role model while Diana was the "fun aunt" who played with her.
Friend to All Children: Diana adores children and shows a motherly side when dealing with a young Magneto and Black Widow.
Good Cannot Comprehend Evil:
- She's aghast by the discoveries made in Majdanek, insisting that Ares had to be responsible as she cannot imagine humans treating each other in such a monstrous manner.
- She's disgusted when the Mandarin callously declares he's ready to sacrifice his own son.
Head-Turning Beauty: People meeting her for the first time always feel their jaw drop.
Healing Factor: She's no Wolverine but is capable of healing from her battle with Sekhmet which left her a bloody mess in a day or two.
Innocent Fanservice Girl: Comes up more than once during her time with the Howling Commandos, after her centuries of living on Thermyscira, to the point that she doesn't realize why the twelve-year-old Erik Lensherr became uncomfortable at the idea of accompanying her and Peggy to the baths in Wakanda.
Lightning Bruiser: Extremely fast as well as one of the strongest beings on the planet.
Mayfly–December Friendship: As noted by Circe, Diana, as a god, is doomed to outlive every mortal she will ever care about. In fact, it's already happened with Howard, who Diana considered a brother in everything but blood.
Mistaken for Romance: Frequently with Tony, due to Tony's reputation. Even Pepper, Tony's actual love interest, mistook her for one of his flings, until she saw them interacting with each other as basically aunt and nephew (or even mother and son).
Muscles Are Meaningless: She's described as smaller than the more muscular men around her. She's also able to casually toss a tank around and knock the Iron Monger armor back with one hit.
Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Missed the events of the Kree incursion on Earth in the 1990s because she was busy thwarting a ritual in Japan at the same time.
Red Baron: "The Godkiller", both because that was what she was conceived to do and because that is what she did when she killed Ares.
Red Is Heroic: Her divine aura's colour is a vivid red.
Semi-Divine: Subverted. While she has mortal lineage, she's actually a full god, in part due to being blessed by eleven of the Twelve Olympians and deliberately empowered by her father so she would be able to kill Ares. "Demigod" is more to denote her heritage than her actual status.
Single Woman Seeks Good Man: She slowly falls in love with Steve, basically THE Nice Guy of the Marvel Universe.
Stop Worshipping Me: A good way to make her angry is to call her a goddess. And since the kind of people interested in worshipping her are delightful ones such as the Red Skull and Baroness von Gunther, it helps to make the idea even more repellent to Diana.
Strong and Skilled: Massively outclasses Captain America and Iron Man in raw power and is considered by Black Widow to be the most skilled fighter on the planet.
Superpower Lottery: Has Super-Strength on the same level as Hulk and Thor as well as Super-Speed, and is capable of taking hits from the likes of Ares and Herakles. Diana also has the Lasso of Hestia in addition to the Sword of Athena, the Shield of Achilles, and her armor. Her Bracelets of Submission are virtually indestructible but most devastatingly she has her divine powers which when fully unleashed can create enormous shockwaves which can form a miniature Grand Canyon.
Super-Toughness: Diana is extremely tough capable of shrugging of damage that even a Super-Soldier like Steve would be downed by. After fully unlocking her divinity she can take multiple blows from the likes of Herakles without a bruise. Lampshaded by Bucky who at one points asks what Diana is made of after seeing her smash through buildings with her body.
Team Mom: Diana seems set to become this for the Avengers, as she already considers Tony to basically be her nephew and is the Black Widow's adopted mother in all but name.
Wide-Eyed Idealist: Diana starts out like this, believing that all the evils in the world came from Ares and all she had to do was kill him and everything would be okay. After Steve's death and half a century of horrors following her killing Ares, she's long past this. She even muses how foolish and naïve she was back then.
World's Best Warrior: While there are some like Herakles and Circe that exceed her in physical strength or magical power, when it comes to skill Diana has no equal, and is unquestionably the greatest warrior on Earth.
World's Most Beautiful Woman: A dazed Bucky muses she might be this right after laying his eyes upon her. Peggy, Pepper, and Jane Foster virtually all think that Diana is so beautiful, she makes other beautiful women look average by comparison.

Steve Rogers / Captain America

A World War II veteran who was enhanced to the peak of physical perfection by an experimental super soldier serum. He is the one to initially discover the Amazons and introduces Diana to man's world.

Composite Character: Captain America is essentially an amalgamation of himself and Steve Trevor, although they were both very similar anyway as soldiers dedicated to doing the right thing rather than make moral compromises, barring the obvious fact that Rogers has his super-soldier-enhanced physiology where Trevor was just very good at his job.
Heroic Willpower: He manages to briefly resist the Lasso of Hestia's compelling. Bucky also refuses to believe his month-long disappearance meant he was this, arguing that Steve is just too stubborn to die.
The Lost Lenore: Gender-flipped. He's this to Diana in the present, being her one true love who (as far as she knows) has been dead for decades.
Momma's Boy: He deeply admires Sarah Rogers for managing to raise him right, in spite of her being a widow and him being sick with every possible ailment.
Tragic Keepsake: His compass. He inherited it from his late father who died in the last months of the Great War, then Diana inherits it after he crashes into the Arctic circle.

Howling Commandos

An elite unit of allied soldiers working for the SSR that Steve and Diana lead against HYDRA in World War II.

James "Bucky" Barnes

Steve's best friend and wartime companion.

The Casanova: The first thing he does after meeting Diana is (unsuccessfully) try to hit on her. He later charms the Dora Milaje Ayo.
Mistaken for Gay: Diana confesses the strength of his bond with Steve led her to believe they were partners in the Spartan meaning - as the warriors casually indulged into homosexuality. Bucky immediately screams denials.

Agent Margaret "Peggy" Carter

A British agent of the Strategic Scientific Reserve (SSR) who becomes Diana's best friend and later one of the co-founders of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Brainy Brunette: By the time Peggy retires in the 1990s, she's gathered enough contacts to provide Diana with everything currently known about the Winter Soldier.
Love Triangle: Comes up when Diana admits to Peggy that she's in love with Steve, but Peggy uses the Lasso to affirm that she might care for Steve, but she isn't in love with him herself, and she assures Diana that she will accept Diana pursuing him.
Never Mess with Granny: By 2011, despite her potential senility, she is still coherent enough that she not only acts as Tony's 'guardian' while he's trying to find a treatment for his Palladium poisoning, but she then shows up at the Stark Expo and shoots Justin Hammer.
Scatterbrained Senior: Hinted at for Peggy in 2010; she starts to show signs of her future senility when she says that Howard always gets into trouble when she and Diana were talking about Tony.
Shipping Torpedo: When she realizes that Diana is in love with Steve, Peggy puts her own feelings aside after "testing" herself with the Lasso of Hestia, recognizing that Diana's love for Steve is stronger than what Peggy feels for him at this point.

Dum-Dum Dugan

A member of the Howling Commandos, known for his big red mustache and bowler hat.

Green Around the Gills: Poor guy really doesn't enjoy being on a plane.

Gabe Jones

A member of the Howling Commandos, an African-American soldier.

Jim Morita

A member of the Howling Commandos, a Japanese-American soldier from Fresco, California.

Percival "Pinky" Pinkerton

A member of the Howling Commandos.

Adaptational Early Appearance: Despite his character appearing in Season 1 of Agent Carter (which takes place in 1946), he appears in the place of James Montgomery Falsworth during the events of The First Avenger.

Jacques Dernier

A member of the Howling Commandos, a French explosive expert.

Stuff Blowing Up: The contents of his satchel make the other Commandos paranoid. Apparently, there's enough explosives inside to level a small city.

Howard Stark

A brilliant inventor who founded the technology company Stark Industries. He was a contributor to the SSR's war against HYDRA and later co-founded S.H.I.E.L.D.

Agent Scully: Being a scientist and engineer, Howard is baffled and annoyed by Diana's talking of gods and magic, and tries to find a more rational explanation to her abilities.
Everyone Has Standards:
- The Wakandans let him look at their tech as they can see Howard isn't interested in stealing it, he wants to make his own.
- When Howard learns about the nature of the Kree Supreme Intelligence, he reflects that if even he thinks something's too arrogant, it's really arrogant.
Girl on Girl Is Hot: He blurts he had a dream about Peggy and Diana when holding the Lasso of Truth. He later enjoys watching them sparring.
Hidden Depths:
- He shows surprising insight for women's fashion — he did date more than a few models, you know!
- When Natasha admits she cannot understand why Diana would be friends with such a drunk, self-centered womaniser, the Amazon's justification is this.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Howard may have been seen as an arrogant jerk who flirted with every pretty woman he met, but Diana nevertheless still considers him a good friend.
Mistaken for Romance: When Diana visits Tony immediately after his parents' funeral, he initially assumes that she is Howard's mistress before she violently corrects that assumption.
Parents as People: He let himself be absorbed by his work to the point that Tony outright believed he didn't care for his own flesh and blood, but the many letters he sent Diana to gush about Tony are proof he did — he just was awful at telling or showing it.
Platonic Life-Partners: Diana grew to consider him as the brother she never had, and losing him was enough for her to take back the Wonder Woman mantle.
Poor Communication Kills: Was worried about the signs that HYDRA remnants were planning something, so he was trying to recreate the Serum in the hopes of stopping it. He had a chance to tell Diana, but was distracted by Mar-Vell's arrival on Earth and delayed it, and apparently got killed before he could talk to her at all about it.

James 'Logan' Howlett

A soldier in World War II who is actually a mutant with retractable bone claws and an advanced healing factor that grants him a prolonged lifespan.

Body Horror: Infiltrates a concentration camp by hiding a radio inside himself so that he has to cut it out when he's ready to call for help.
- Apparently he was at ground zero at Nagasaki when the nuke dropped there went off, and had his flesh seared from his bones, but survived.
Cursed with Awesome: Even after Diana used her lasso to help him, there's still from fuzzy spots in his memories, but considering some of the fragments of those moments that he can remember, he's not exactly sad that he can't remember them.
Dark and Troubled Past: Between the end of the war and the present day, Logan was caught and 'programmed' by the Weapon X program, reverting to a feral mentality for some time until Diana was able to find and restore his memories.
Everyone Has Standards: The whole Shoah business was enough for him to align himself with the Allies, in spite of his personal distaste for playing the "good guy".
Healing Factor: Quite the potent one. As said by Peggy, if something can kill Logan, it hasn't been invented yet. He's survived a nuclear blast.
Heroic Sacrifice: Subverted when he detonates a grenade while battling a blue monster, as he can heal from this. Seeing him revive scares the piss out of Bucky and Dugan.
Implacable Man: Ran over by a tank, set on fire, blasted by a grenade and yet he just won't stop coming.
The Mole: Within Auschwitz, for Peggy Carter.
Older Than They Look: It's implied that he's been around for a while even before WWII, and he hasn't aged a day by the modern day.
One-Man Army: He's the future Wolverine, so this should be obvious.
Smoking Is Cool: He bemoans the lack of cigars in Auschwitz and lits up when Dugan offers him one. It's hinted it helps him to dull his oversensitive sense of smell.
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Is all but explicitly stated to have a fear of flying; just because a crash won't kill him doesn't mean he likes the idea of having to put himself back together afterwards.

Erik Lensherr

A young Jewish boy with mutant powers over metal that the Howling Commandos rescue from Auschwitz.

Child Soldiers: Downplayed. The Howling Commandos have to take him with them as they fear HYDRA trying to kidnap him again for his mutation, but they do their best to keep him safe.
Harmful to Minors: A Jewish preteen imprisoned in Auschwitz to be experimented upon and see his whole family die merely for their ethic origin.
Magnetism Manipulation: But of course.
Screams Like a Little Girl: Well, you would too if the warrior woman whom you just witnessed taking a blue abomination down grabbed you to jump through a window.
Tagalong Kid: To the Howling Commandos, in spite of already being a teenager.
Took a Level in Badass: Is a lot more skilled and powerful when he reappears in the modern day.
Tyke Bomb: He's already able to command metal to a significant degree.
Unskilled, but Strong: Young Erik has barely scratched the surface of what his abilities allow him to do.

HYDRA

The Nazi science division that seeks to separate itself from Adolf Hitler's regime in favor of carrying out their own plans for world domination, making use of supernatural artifacts and deities to do so.

Johann Schmidt / Red Skull

The head of HYDRA who was subjected to an earlier version of the super soldier serum, granting him enhanced strength and reflexes but emaciating his skull in the process. A firm believer in the supernatural, he hopes to win HYDRA's dominance using the power of the gods.

Affably Evil: Schmidt tries to present himself as such to Diana, but fails as she understands and hates his military ambitions.
Big Bad Duumvirate: He is (unknowingly) this with Ares during the fic's WWII arc. Though, it's fairly one-sided, as Schmidt arguably only became a big enough threat to Diana because of Ares' manipulations.
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Schmidt seemingly genuinely believes that he can win Diana to his side by offering her power, ignoring how she is introduced fighting against him alongside Captain America.
Evil Counterpart: Schmidt is this to Captain America, both of them being Super Soldiers who got their powers from the same source.
Red Herring: Young Diana firmly believes he's Ares in a mortal guise because he's Obviously Evil.
Unwitting Pawn: Schmidt is unaware that he is being aided and manipulated by Ares.

Doctor Armin Zola

The leading scientist in HYDRA and Schmidt's right-hand-man.

Composite Character: Just like Dr Poison, he's a Mad Scientist helping the German side to unleash more horrors on the battlefield, but his field is more esoteric weaponry than gases.
Fantastic Racism: He refers to Erik and his mother as things.
Mad Doctor: Zola often assists Schmidt in trying to come up with new weapons.
Would Hurt a Child: He gleefully experimented upon Erik Lensherr for having mutant abilities.

Fritz Klaue

An agent of HYDRA with a particular grudge against Wakanda.

An Arm and a Leg: He loses a hand in HYDRA's failed assault against Wakanda, which drives him to swear vengeance against the country itself.
Token Good Teammate: In as much as any member of HYDRA can be considered "good"; where most of HYDRA's forces believed in Schmidt's vision, Klaue is established as a mercenary who only joined HYDRA for the money.

Red Room

A secret Soviet military operation centered around indoctrinating young girls and molding them into elite assassins.

Madame B

The supervisor for the Red Room assassins.

For the Evulz: Admits that she had one of her students kill the girl's own sister because she thought it was funny.

Natalia Alianovna Romanoff / Natasha Romanoff

One of the Red Room's most successful assassins who is brought to the side of good by Diana, who takes the girl under her wing and trains her to be her mole inside of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Action Girl: After being taught by Diana in the ways of Amazon fighting.
Combat Pragmatist: After training with Diana for years, Natasha has learned to be willing to use any trick to achieve victory in battle; when an opponent calls her out on her lack of honour, Natasha muses that battle only has rules in tournaments rather than true conflict.
Cool and Unusual Punishment: Once Fury learns about her joint loyalty to him and Diana, he 'punishes' Natasha by assigning her the role of Tony Stark's PA as an undercover assignment.
Defusing the Tyke-Bomb: Natalia was so heavily damaged by the Red Room that Diana found herself doing that.
Happily Adopted: There are no signs that it was ever legally ratified, and Natasha never explicitly calls Diana 'Mom' or any variations thereof, but she has mused in private that she considers Ares, Diana's brother, to be her uncle, and at least once talks about 'Uncle Apollo'.
Like Brother and Sister: A variation of this is the best way to describe Tony's initial assumption that Natasha is the daughter of Diana and Steve Rogers, before Natasha clarifies that she's adopted.
Spit Take: Chokes on her champagne when Clint states to Diana (who unbeknownst to him is Zeus' daughter) that in his view most of the problems in Greek mythology came from Zeus being unable to keep it in his pants.
Stating the Simple Solution: Points out to Tony that Diana has plenty of contacts that could help heal him even if she can't herself.
Training from Hell: Spent months training in the wilderness with Logan as a child, which included an event where she had to sleep inside a bear carcass.

Stark Enterprises

A multinational technology conglomerate originally founded by Howard Stark in World War II, and later inherited by his son Tony after his death in 1991.

Anthony "Tony" Stark / Iron Man

The son of Howard Stark and the heir to Stark Enterprises, who is just as intelligent and arrogant as his father. After his kidnapping in Afghanistan, he chooses to take his company in a more benevolent direction, using his technology and resources to battle terrorists and supernatural entities (with some guidance from Diana) that hope to use them for nefarious purposes.

Boxing Lessons for Superman: After Diana witnesses Tony in action as Iron Man, she insists on giving him some lessons in hand-to-hand combat so that he's prepared in case he either has to fight without the armor or faces someone who can physically match him in it. By the time Stane tries to take him out to steal the Arc Reactor, Stark has become skilled enough that he throws Stane off and captures him without even needing to put the armor on.
Drowning My Sorrows: As in canon, Tony spends his birthday party getting drunk to escape his fears about his potentially imminent death.
It's All My Fault: Tony blames himself for the deaths caused by Vanko's attack even as Diana assures him that men like Vanko would find some reason to kill even if he didn't choose to focus on Tony.
Like Father, Like Son: Diana comments on the fact Starks are annoying, lusty engineers who create chaos everywhere they go. Nonetheless, Natasha reminds her that Tony being like Howard isn't Tony being Howard.
Mistaken for Romance: When Diana attends Tony's charity gala, everyone assumes she's his newest fling. With Pepper, at least, she takes steps to correct this misconception. Of course, this doesn't stop at least one tabloid later speculating that Diana, Tony and Pepper left a party to have a threesome...
Took a Level in Badass: Diana gives Tony some training in hand-to-hand combat so that he can do more with the suit than just hit things really hard, allowing Tony to overpower Stane in a direct fight without even needing to put the armour on.
"Well Done, Son" Guy: For all his apparent indifference towards Howard, Tony was actually rather pissed off and anguished over the fact that his father couldn't or wouldn't show him love. Diana giving him the letters Howard sent her to gush about his son helps a bit.

Virginia "Pepper" Potts

Tony's assistant and love interest.

Hypercompetent Sidekick: For years, she was basically the one who kept Tony's excesses under control when he interacted with other people.
Secret-Keeper: Pepper is basically the only other person at Stark Enterprises, apart from Tony and Natasha, who knows Diana's full history.

Harold "Happy" Hogan

Officially Tony's bodyguard and a former boxer.

Actor Allusion: Happy Hogan's reflection on his boxing career can also be seen as a reference to Jon Favreau's character arc as Pete Becker in Friends, as both attempted a career as a professional fighter only to find that they actually weren't that good at it (with the exception that Happy accepted that he wasn't good at it and moved on where Pete refused to give up despite taking numerous painful beatings).
Everyone Went to School Together: One of Happy's last fights as a boxer was against Jack Murdock, the father of Matt Murdock (Daredevil (2015)).

S.H.I.E.L.D.

The international peacekeeping agency that succeeded the SSR after World War II. Their goal is the protect the Earth from threats, be it human, alien, or magical.

Nick Fury

The current director of S.H.I.E.L.D., who, unlike his predecessors, is wearier of Diana and sees her as a potential threat that needs to be controlled.

Break the Haughty: While not quite so overtly, encountering Diana and all of the happenings that concern her really shakes his confidence in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s ability to maintain global peace. He never counted on literal gods, monsters, and alien super-beings and he hates that.
Curiosity Is a Crapshoot: Peggy underestimated just how nosy Fury truly was when she handed him S.H.I.E.L.D.'s reins.
Manipulative Bastard: Fury basically tries to be this, but his efforts are thrown because he initially has no knowledge of the Godkiller/Wonder Woman beyond that Howard Stark and Peggy Carter must have edited S.H.I.E.L.D. records about her to keep such knowledge secret.
Properly Paranoid: In a sense; Fury is so paranoid he is even concerned about his lack of knowledge of Wonder Woman despite the fact that he knows that only Howard Stark and Peggy Carter could be responsible for the lack of information on her he's found so far.

Phil Coulson

A premier agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. who likes to believe in the more positive aspects of the organization.

Ascended Fanboy: As per usual he's a huge Captain America fan, something Diana notes and likes.

Clint Barton

An elite shadow agent and master archer.

Ascended Fanboy: Clint is shown to have an interest in Greek mythology even before he learns Diana's true identity, mentioning that Achilles was always his favorite.
Badass Normal: Has no superpowers and is a normal human but manages to be one of S.H.I.E.D.'s best agents with pure skill.
Happily Married: Clint is happily married to Laura Barton and by his own admission would sooner stick an explosive arrow in his eye then be unfaithful. He manages to mostly ignore the flirtations of the Nymphs of Aeaea despite their superhuman beauty.
In Spite of a Nail: Natasha is now a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent from the beginning rather than Clint bringing her in himself, but they are still close friends.
Mistaken for Romance: When meeting Diana for the first time, Clint wonders if she and Natasha are dating as he's ignorant of their more detailed history, prompting exaggerated expressions of disgust from both.
Overshadowed by Awesome: Clint is probably the best marksmen on the planet and is a deadly close range fighter as well, but at the end of the day he is still a regular human with no special powers. As such when he accompanies Thor and Diana to Aeaea, he is almost completely ignored by Circe as he is in the company of two gods.

Sharon Carter

An agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Diana's honorary niece.

Honorary Aunt: She considers Diana to be the "fun aunt" who played with her when she was a child.

Jasper Sitwell

A long-time agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., but also a secret agent of HYDRA.

Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance: While certain parties of HYDRA are at least aware that there is something significant about Diana, Sitwell has no knowledge of her true history.

Scientists

A research team who encounter Thor and become affiliated with S.H.I.E.L.D. and Diana as a result.

Doctor Erik Selvig

Jane's mentor.

Papa Wolf: Selvig clearly considers himself this for Jane, initially wanting to discourage a relationship with Thor to stop her being drawn into his ‘delusion’.

Doctor Jane Foster

An astrophysicist pursuing her wormhole theories.

Insecure Love Interest: Even early in her relationship with Thor, Jane immediately feels jealous when Diana shows up and Thor recognizes her in turn.

Darcy Lewis

A political science student who took a role as Jane's intern because she needed extra college credits.

Open Mouth, Insert Foot: Darcy basically does this when she calls "Hercules" a hero and is immediately corrected by Diana.
Wrong Genre Savvy:
- Briefly applies to Darcy when Diana reveals that Herakles tried to claim Mjölnir; Darcy immediately thinks of the Disney movie before Diana corrects her, giving Darcy a chance to remember what Herakles did to the Amazons in the original myth.
- She also assumes that the reason all records of Diana having fought in World War II were erased was because the patriarchy couldn't handle the idea of a powerful woman before it's explained that Peggy and Howard did that in order for Diana to better blend in among mortals. She admits she was influenced by a documentary she watched recently.

Masters of the Mystic Arts

A secret order of magic practitioners that safeguard the Earth from mystical and extradimensional threats.

The Ancient One

The head of the Masters of the Mystic Arts, and an old acquaintance of Diana's.

Offscreen Moment of Awesome: She is unavailable to help Tony directly as she is dealing with an other-dimensional invasion during the events around the Expo.

Wong

A member of the Masters of the Mystic Arts.

Adaptational Early Appearance: Appears to provide Tony with a temporary antidote to the palladium poisoning to give him more time to find a substitute power source.

Avengers

A special operations team comprising powerful individuals of various skills and powers that S.H.I.E.L.D. puts together to protect Earth from hostile threats.

Doctor Robert "Bruce" Banner, AKA Hulk

A scientist working on a new version of the super-soldier serum, which led to him becoming the Hulk.

Professor Guinea Pig: The fact that he tested his serum on himself when he thought it was just a treatment for radiation sickness is seen as an example of him being a good person, as he chose not to risk the life of a volunteer.

Thor Odinson

The son of Odin of Asgard, initially exiled to Earth for nearly provoking a war.

Age Lift: Whilst Thor in the MCU is around 1500 years old, this Thor has been aged up to 5000 years old (the same age as Diana), for Word of God confirms that it would have made more sense for Earth to have worshipped him as a god around 1500 years ago if he were old enough to interact with humanity and inspire stories, which he can't do if he was a baby.
Blood Knight:
- Thor debuts with this attitude, angry at being exiled to Earth for trying to attack the Frost Giants. When he engages the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents guarding Mjölnir, Thor initially enjoys fighting them in his currently powerless state as it gives him an actual challenge for the first time in centuries.
- That being said, he's also a lot more sensible than the standard Blood Knight. While he admits he'd love nothing more than to scrap with Herakles, that's only after his divinity is restored. Otherwise, he'd be slaughtered.
Empathic Weapon: When Mjölnir is separated from Thor, Diana senses it reaching out to her.
Expecting Someone Taller: His first comment upon meeting Diana is that he was expecting the Godkiller to be bigger.
Legendary Weapon: Diana immediately recognizes Mjölnir when Fury sends her an image of it.
Mood Whiplash: Thor's thrill at a challenging fight is ended when he finds himself unable to lift Mjölnir.
Not Afraid to Die: Considering Diana as a potential opponent, Thor acknowledges that he would have enjoyed the challenge of fighting her in his prime, but deprived of his power, he would have feared losing to her and endangering his new friends. Luckily, Diana is not hostile and Thor's new-found humility allows them to become fast friends.

Colonel James "Rhodey" Rhodes, AKA War Machine

A long-time friend of Tony Stark's, Rhodey is entrusted with another version of the Iron Man armor.

Unskilled, but Strong: During his first use of the War Machine armor, Rhodey takes various blows from Vanko because he lacks experience using the armor and in facing more-than-human adversaries.

Peter Parker

A child who attended the Stark Expo in 2011, but all evidence indicates that he will still become Spider-Man in future.

Early-Bird Cameo: Appears at the Stark Expo, where Tony gives him a replica Iron Man helmet to replace the plastic one he was wearing.
Heroic Lineage: His grandfather, also named Peter Parker, was a private in the US Army who served in WW2, being in the first wave ashore at Omaha Beach and meeting both Captain America and Diana while fighting the HYDRA forces guarding Omaha.

Villains

Ares

The literal Greek God of War and Diana's half-brother who is secretly manipulating the Axis powers of World War II.

Arc Villain: For the 1940s portion of the story.
Big Bad Duumvirate: With the Red Skull in the 40s portion, though Ares is clearly the more dangerous and powerful of the pair, and Schmidt is only at his current level of threat thanks to Ares' unknowing assistance.
Don't You Dare Pity Me!: He's infuriated when Thoth laments how deep he sunk into his own Domain, to the point he's nothing more but an extension of War itself.
The Dreaded: Ares' war was so devastating that most of the universe basically put Earth in quarantine rather than risk drawing the attention of something as powerful as him, and even decades after his death the quarantine is still in effect as those civilisations are now afraid of the very thing that killed him.
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Ares makes it clear that he believes Diana will inevitably serve him as she is nothing but Zeus's weapon against him while he is the master of all weapons, unable to comprehend how her humanity will drive her to oppose him.
Fallen Hero: He used to be a great protector for mankind before allowing his Domain to sink its claws deep inside his mindset.
The Man Behind the Man: Is secretly manipulating HYDRA from behind the scenes.
Nigh-Invulnerable: As a result of how deeply he's merged with his War domain, getting run through with a sword doesn't even phase him, and he just absorbs the sword to repair his armor.
Not Quite Dead: Until he surfaced again in WWII, the Asgardians, even Odin and Heimdall, thought that he was either dead or suffering from a complete De-power.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: They come out when he feels particularly pissed off or bloodthirsty.

Paula von Gunther

A religious fanatic and terrorist who idolizes Diana and hopes to subjugate mankind in her reverence.

Affably Evil: Like the Skull, Paula tries and fails to come across as this to Diana.
An Arm and a Leg: In their final duel, despite Paula wielding the Gauntlet of Atlas, Diana defeats her by cutting off her arms at the elbows.
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Explicitly invoked; Diana muses that if Paula can't comprehend why Diana would never work with the woman who killed Howard Stark, a man that Diana considered a brother, than no answer she can give would make Paula understand.

Sekhmet

An Heliopolitan, sister to the Panther Goddess of Wakanda, Bast, and the Cheetah Goddess of Wrath.

Animal Motifs: Not only was Sekhmet a Cheetah Goddess, but she could change into the form of a true Cheetah.
Composite Character: Sekhmet serves the same role as Cheetah, Wonder Woman's archenemy from the comics.

Obadiah Stane

A former friend of Howard Stark and business partner of Tony who is secretly supplying terrorists with weapons technology in order to usurp the latter's place in Stark Enterprises.

And I Must Scream: Gets used as a living battery for the Iron Monger suit by Raza. When first shown in this state, he begs Tony to kill him.
Demoted to Extra: Goes from being the MCU's first Big Bad to being easily overpowered and exposed by Tony, only to then be used as a living battery by Raza.
Irony: Tony ponders this when Stane becomes the very power source he was trying to acquire, after Circe and Raza force him into the Iron Monger suit and power it with Stane's life energy.
It's All About Me: Stane’s inner thoughts make it clear that he considers himself the true head of Stark Industries, while regarding Tony as nothing more than a skilled employee who shows up occasionally and brings in a few brilliant ideas while Stane deals with the hard parts of running the business.

Raza

The head of the Ten Rings, a terrorist organization working against Stark Enterprises.

Be Careful What You Wish For: Orders the Djinn to give him "the power to kill a god". It responds by turning him into an explosive powerful enough to do so, then detonates him.
Genre Savvy: At the least, he knows enough of myths and legends to be terrified when Circe recruits him as her minion in a scheme against Diana — gods are infamously whimsical, and said whims tend to end very badly for any mortals caught in it.
Spared by the Adaptation: Subverted. Circe saves him from his canonical fate of being killed by Stane's mercenaries after outliving his usefulness, only for him to die anyway shortly after when a wish to the Djinn she gives him backfires.

Circe

An Olympian sorceress who is manipulating the military debacle between Stark Enterprises and the Ten Rings for her own personal motives.

Arch-Enemy: She seems to be working her way to becoming this for Diana and the original Avengers, given that she has been the catalyst so far for every major event related to the Phase One segment of the MCU.
Arc Villain: For the 2010s portion of the story, hijacking the climax of the Iron Man arc for her own plans, which are set to continue even afterwards. She also plays a part in Loki's scheme, giving him the information that enables him to locate and free Herakles.
Bad Boss: Sends Raza to what she expects to be his death and finds the manner of his death hilarious. She is also horrible to the Djinn.
Beneath Notice: How she views Clint barely even looking at him when he arrives at her island with Thor and Diana. When she does address him it she refers to him as Diana's mortal.
Big Bad: She is shaping up to be this for the Phase One portion of the story, as she was responsible for the Grootslang attack, Obadiah and Raza's campaign against Tony, and giving Loki the information that allowed him to release Herakles (though she admits the latter was largely unintentional). It is also implied that she knows about Thanos and his plans to attack Earth to acquire the Tesseract, and plans to take advantage of the inevitable assault for her own gain.
The Chessmaster: Successfully plays Diana, the Djinn, and Raza to find the Temple of Lilith while not revealing her existence to Diana.
Does Not Like Men: Either she kills them on the spot, or she mercilessly sends them to die as her puppets. Her first appearance has her musing that no real difference exists between men and pigs.
The Dreaded: Even Diana, the Godkiller, is wary of dealing with her. She's not certain whether or not seeking out Circe's help or waiting for Herakles to reappear is better, which is really saying something.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: While she may despise most humans she genuinely loved both Odysseus and the three sons they had and was heartbroken when they all died. She also seems sincere in her desire to befriend Diana and even offers to teach her magic.
Even Evil Has Standards: Even she considers Ares an animal for killing his fellow gods, which she views as barbaric, and is grateful to Diana for killing him. She also clearly despises Herakles as she refers to him as a brute (though she was the one who gave Loki the idea of releasing him).
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good:
- While Circe certainly understands that Diana cares for mortals, she doesn't seem to understand why, or just how much she cares, and seems to assume that Diana will stop caring as much once she chooses a Domain.
- She exploits Diana's compassion to find a magical artifact, but doesn't seem to think that Diana would take issue with her enslavement and torture of the Djinn she used in said plan.
- She is legitimately confused as to why Diana would object to forcing Thor to have a child with her pointing out that such a child would not only be unimaginably powerful but also heir to both Olympus and Asgard and could be raised to be completely loyal to her.
Evil Redhead: She has very long, dark red hair and she's one hell of a bitch.
Genre Savvy: She sees through Loki's lies about Odin's supposed death by pointing out that if he had died there would be a lot more ripples in the Universe. Notably this is one of the few times where Loki is actually outsmarted by someone.
Gorgeous Greek: Raza describes her in very flattering terms.
Jerkass Gods: She doesn't even bother to put a façade of caring for mankind, blatantly considering them as pawns or pets.
Manipulative Bitch: She's quite good at predicting people. Just look at her whole gambit with the Djinn. She also gets Raza on her side without much effort.
Pet the Dog: Circe shows genuine sympathy for Thor when she reveals that Loki has lied and betrayed him and even gives him and Diana some privacy while he comes to terms with it. She also provides Thor and Diana with the information on how to return Thor's powers to him in addition to giving Diana some harsh but not untrue advice about what she is.
Purple Is Powerful: The Goddess of Magic has purple eyes, enjoys dressing in purple, and the Djinn under her commands has purple markings.
Villain Has a Point: Circe does make several compelling points as to why Diana should claim the Throne of Olympus. That she could end all human conflict with ease. Also if she does not claim the throne then someone far less heroic like Thanos could, which would be a disaster for everyone. She's also right when she points out that Diana is not a mortal and that she will outlive all the humans she cares about.
Villains Never Lie: She's not afraid of holding Diana's whip in order to prove she's genuine when giving her and Thor distressing information.
The Woman Behind the Man: She mainly prefers to act through proxies and agents, and won't hesitate to discard them.

Justin Hammer

The head of Hammer Industries, Hammer aspires to basically be the 'new' Tony Stark, but ignores the fact that he isn't as good as Tony.

Always Someone Better: Resents how Tony can out-perform his company without even trying.
Didn't Think This Through: He honestly thought that he could get Ivan Vanko to just make weapons for his company when the man was a terrorist responsible for over sixty deaths.
Never My Fault: Protests that he's not responsible for Ivan Vanko taking control of his drones even though he broke a known terrorist out of prison.

Ivan Vanko

The son of a Russian scientist who assisted Howard Stark on the arc reactor project, he now seeks vengeance on Tony for Howard's role in his father's death.

Adaptational Villainy: In canon Vanko only attacks Tony in Monaco, here his actions result in dozens of innocent civilians dead.
Hoist by His Own Petard: Vanko is indirectly destroyed by his own suit when his final attack allows Tony to supercharge his own armor using the energy from Vanko's weapons and hit him with a more powerful attack that destroys Vanko's arc reactor.
Killed Off for Real: Peggy checked, Tony definitely killed him the second time around.
Made of Iron: Natasha observes that Vanko's suit includes a magnetic forcefield that deflects bullets, justifying how he could walk around with so much skin exposed and still not get hurt.
Shut Up, Hannibal!: When Vanko tries his Badass Boast during the Stark Expo, Tony fires back that, for all his boasting, Vanko is just blaming the Starks for his own mistakes.

Loki

The adopted son of Odin and brother of Thor, Loki is a Frost giant by birth but raised all his life as a prince of Asgard.

Astral Projection: Can project his astral form between worlds to spy on Thor on Earth.
Blatant Lies: From Circe's perspective, his claim that Odin is dead is this, as she would have sensed if a god as powerful as Odin was dead.
Didn't See That Coming: Diana's presence completely catches him off guard, and he narrowly avoids getting his astral form snared by her.
Didn't Think This Through: While getting Circe involved in his plot against Thor may have provided him with important information about Diana it also gave Circe information about him which she doesn't hesitate to give to Diana and Thor making them aware of his role in Herakles release and how he lied to Thor about Odin dying.
Glamour Failure: Doesn't directly experience this, but recognizes that the Lasso of Hestia would have been able to pierce his disguise if he hadn't evaded it.
In Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves: Firmly believes this of humanity, thinking that they need to be ruled by gods. Namely him.
Loophole Abuse: Exploited when he frees Herakles from his prison, since it only could be done by a King of Gods. Of course it was intended for Zeus, but Loki acting as Asgard's regent is considered suitable.

Herakles

The Ancient Greek God of Strength, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, and the man who originally enslaved the Amazons thousands of years ago during his Twelve Labors.

Ambiguous Situation: To this day it's not entirely clear what caused the temporary madness that made him kill his family. Either Hera cursed him, or the artifacts that he stole from her temple cursed him, or it was just the Fates themselves intervening.
Antagonistic Offspring: To Zeus. Zeus was hardly an innocent but he did work to protect humanity and stop Ares, and ultimately what happened to Herakles was largely of his own doing more than anyone else's. The worst Zeus was guilty of was not doing more to stop Hera from antagonizing his son. Nonetheless, Herakles still despises his father even long after the god's death, and anything even remotely related to Zeus is liable to set him off.
Arch-Enemy:
- Diana views him as this and despises him more than any of her other enemies. Almost all of the suffering her mother and sisters experienced is due to him. With Ares she saw it as her duty to stop him but with Herakles, It's Personal.
- He had his own Arch-Enemy in Hera, the Goddess of Marriage, Queen of the Gods and the wife of his father Zeus. Hera had essentially been trying murder him since the day he was born, but Herakles could never retaliate because of both her status as a god and because of her marriage to Zeus. Eventually, drunk off his latest victory over a city that worshipped Hera, he headed to one of her temples and ransacked the place (including killing all of the followers who worshipped there), an action that began his fall from grace. While she still condemns his actions and hates him with every fiber of her being, even Diana acknowledges that Herakles' hatred of Hera was more than justified.
Berserk Button: Anything related to Zeus sets him off. The minute he realizes that Diana is a child of Zeus, he immediately attacks her.
Beyond the Impossible: Even by the standards of the time, Herakles' feats are considered absolutely absurd. They include ripping off the head of the giant Alyconeus — who was bigger than a mountain — and throwing both it and his corpse into the sun, splitting Africa and Europe to create the Straits of Gibraltar with a mace and his bare hands, defeating both Ares and Apollo — only sparing their lives due to the intervention of Zeus — and that's not even counting his twelve labors. His only recorded loss was to Zeus himself. Even Diana, who hates Herakles passionately, acknowledges him as one of the most powerful beings to have ever lived.
Blood Knight: Clearly enjoys his battle with Diana.
Broken Ace: Herakles is without a doubt the greatest and most legendary figure of Ancient Greece who more than earned the enormous amount of fame he has even in the modern world. However, following him being tricked into killing his family, the grief and guilt drove him nearly insane, he ended up committing all sorts of terrible crimes — the most horrific of which was the enslavement of the Amazons, which eventually led him to being imprisoned under Mount Olympus for five thousand years.
Cain and Abel: The Cain to Diana's Abel, being her half-brother via their father Zeus.
Composite Character: Takes aspects of both his Marvel and DC incarnations.
The Dreaded: One of the most feared beings in the cosmos. Diana is far more weary of her chances against him than she ever was against Ares or Sekhmet and admits that if there was even the slightest distraction in a fight with him, she would lose.
Dysfunctional Family: He clearly loathes his father Zeus passionately and his first meeting with his little sister Diana consisted of trying to kill her. Plus, he is responsible for the enslavement of Diana's mother and people.
Evil Counterpart: To Thor. They are both the sons of Kings of Gods, they are both some of the mightiest warriors of their era, they both love to fight, and they have both been punished by their fathers for their misdeeds. However, Thor has learnt from his mistakes and has grown to be a better and more humble person, while Herakles just doubled down on his rage and brutality.
Fallen Hero: Herakles is defined as this, as he was initially a true hero before he became corrupted by his power.
Hero's Evil Predecessor: He was the original Heir of Olympus before Diana, and was so strong that it is very likely that if he had been around, he could've stopped Ares from slaughtering the Greek Pantheon. His fall from grace is one of the reasons why Diana was conceived in the first place.
Ignored Epiphany: According to Diana, the Twelve Labors were intended to help Herakles learn humility after he was temporarily driven mad and killed his family, but instead he viewed them as an opportunity to hone his skills and avenge his family by training to kill the gods themselves.
Made of Iron: Is as tough as he is strong. Takes multiple blows from Diana without even flinching and it's only until she fully unleashes her divine powers that her blows start to make an impact; even then, he still tanks plenty of direct hits including a blast so powerful it created a miniature Grand Canyon. Diana later tells Fury that a nuke would do nothing against him as he has been hit by more powerful weapons and lived.
Mirror Character: For all that he and Hera hated each other, they had a lot in common. Hera was unable to retaliate against Zeus for his constant public infidelity and so took her rage out on his children. Herakles was unable to retaliate against Hera for constantly messing with his life so he took his rage out on her worshippers. Finally, their rivalry ends disastrously for both of them: had Herakles not attacked her temple then it's possible that she would not have cursed him with the madness that caused him to kill his family and eventually led to him being sealed beneath Mount Olympus for five thousand years. Had Hera not (supposedly) cursed Herakles then he might have been there to fight Ares and she and the other Olympians might have avoided their deaths.
Physical God: He's strong enough to go toe-to-toe with Diana at her best. Diana flat-out admits he's physically stronger than her.
Scarily Competent Tracker: As a hunter, Herakles is second only to the Artemis, Goddess of the Hunt. When Coulson suggests that S.H.I.E.L.D. can hide a de-powered Thor from him, Diana dismisses the idea, recounting how Herakles' Third Labor involved him hunting down and capturing the Ceryneian Hind which was so fast that it could run from one end of the globe to the other in the time it takes to blink — with one arrow. Compared to that, tracking down Thor, even with him being hidden by the world's greatest intelligence agency, would be child's play.
Super-Strength: Possibly the strongest being from Greek Mythology and clearly has Diana outmatched in raw strength.
Tangled Family Tree: Hippolyta and him used to be lovers, their relationship ending when he had her and the rest of the Amazons enslaved. This crime is one of the reasons why Zeus had Herakles sealed within Mount Olympus after defeating him. Subsequently, during Ares's rampage, Zeus slept with his son's former lover in order to conceive Diana.
Unbalanced By Rival's Kid: What causes him to lose his first fight with Diana is seeing her resemblance to her mother Hippolyta, his former lover and the woman he eventually betrayed and enslaved.
World's Strongest Man: This guy makes the Hulk look like a joke. He managed to almost kill all the Olympian gods, and it took Zeus himself to stop him -- and unlike Ares, who was jumped up on an empowered domain, he did it with his natural abilities, with his famous Twelve Labors acting as his Training from Hell. According to both Diana and Thor, there is no theoretical limit to his strength, and Diana (at this point the World's Best Warrior) admits that if she fought him, all it would take is one mistake for him to kill her. Note that Diana is empowered with the blessings of all twelve of the Olympians and was specifically conceived to kill gods like Herakles. That's how strong Herakles is.
Worthy Opponent: After his battle with Diana notches into high gear, he proclaims her as this.
The Wrongful Heir to the Throne: His heroism, particularly during the Gigantomachy, earned him praise from all around the world and even from the Olympians themselves. There was no doubt in anyone's mind that one day he would succeed Zeus as the King of Olympus. Then he pillaged and destroyed one of Hera's temples and it was all downhill from there.
Written by the Winners: Upon learning of Herakles' status as a villain, Clint initially assumes that this applies to the historical/mythological interpretation of him as a hero before Diana explains his true history.
You Are What You Hate: Despises Diana for being "Zeus's spawn" when he is a child of him as well.

Thanos the Mad Titan

An interplanetary warlord who is also the son of A'Lars, a Titan half-brother of Zeus. This makes him a distant cousin of Diana of Themyscira and one of the possible contenders for the throne of Olympus.

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