Characters / Wonder Girl: Cassie Sandsmark

Wonder Woman Main Character Index
Title Character
Princess Diana of Themyscira/Diana Prince
Mythical Figures
Amazons | Gods (Ares)
Supporting Cast
Wonder Girl (Donna Troy | Cassie Sandsmark)
Villains
A-L (Cheetah) | M-Z

Teen Titans Main Character Index
Heroes
Original Teen Titans and Titans West (Dick Grayson | Wally West | Donna Troy | Roy Harper)
The New Teen Titans (Beast Boy | Starfire | Raven) | Arsenal's Titans | 1996 Teen Titans
2003 Teen Titans (Tim Drake | Conner Kent | Cassie Sandsmark | Mia Dearden) | Ancillary Titans
Post-Flashpoint Teen Titans | DC Rebirth Teen Titans | Teen Titans Academy students
Supporting Cast
Enemies
Deathstroke | Cheshire

Wonder Girl II

Cassandra "Cassie" Sandsmark

Created By: John Byrne

First Appearance: Wonder Woman Vol 2 #105

Appearances: Wonder Woman Vol 2 | Lifelines | Young Justice | Supergirl Vol 4 | Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. | Superboy Vol 4 | Impulse ^(guest) | Sins Of Youth | Our Worlds at War | Spyboy/Young Justice | Titans/Young Justice: Graduation Day | Teen Titans Vol 3 | Action Comics ^(guest) | Green Arrow Vol 3 ^(guest) | Outsiders Vol 3 | Supergirl Vol 5 | The Return Of Donna Troy | Infinite Crisis | Robin: The Virtual Cell | Life and Death | Wonder Woman Vol 3 | 52 ^(guest) | Rise of the Olympian | Amazons Attack! | Blue Beetle Vol 6 ^(guest) | Countdown to Final Crisis ^(guest) | Wonder Girl Vol 1 | Titans Vol 2 ^(guest) | Red Robin | Superboy: The Boy of Steel | Blackest Night: Titans ^(guest) | Wonder Girl Vol 2 | Teen Titans Vol 4 | Superboy Vol 6 | Legion Lost ^(guest) | The Culling | Red Hood and the Outlaws ^(guest) | Forever Evil ^(guest) | Teen Titans Vol 5 | Young Justice (2019) | Action Comics: Metropolis Burning ^(guest) | Dark Nights: Death Metal | Wonder Woman (Infinite Frontier) | Wonder Girl Vol 3 | Trial of the Amazons | Artemis: Wanted | Dark Crisis | Dark Crisis: Young Justice | Superboy: The Man Of Tomorrow | Wonder Woman (2023)

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"Hey, Mr. Zeus! 'Scuse me, your godship, but I need to talk to you!"

The Plucky Girl daughter of museum curator Dr. Helena Sandsmark and president of the Gateway City Wonder Woman Fan Club who was granted powers by the Greek gods in recognition for her bravery after she "borrowed" the magical Gauntlet of Atlas and Sandals of Hermes from her mother's exhibits to help Wonder Woman out in an emergency.

Wonder Girl was one of the first six members of Young Justice joining at the same time as the two other girls in the original six, Secret and Arrowette. Cassie became the second leader of the team following Robin leaving the position after the team lost their trust in him when Batman's plans to take out the Justice Leauge came to light. She is the only member of the "core four" not to have their own solo series.

In her earliest appearances she was easily mistaken for a ''boy'' out of her Civvie Spandex costume with her Boyish Short Hair and preference for comfortable baggy shirts and long cutoff jeans. Over the course of the series she is gifted a pair of vambraces by Donna Troy which she adds to her costume along with adding a pair of red pants in place of the bike shorts she started with. She stops wearing her black wig as a part of her Wonder Girl outfit as she grows her natural blonde hair long enough to put in twintails as she becomes more confident in her role after being acknowledged by her predecessor.

She changes her costume again after becoming the leader of Young Justice, wearing a black sleeveless turtleneck with the ⁼W⁼ emblazoned across the chest with red boot cut jeans which have white stars down the outer seams. At this time she also starts letting down her now much longer hair keeping it out of her face with her goggles.

Following the dissolution of Young Justice she joined the Teen Titans along with Kon, Tim and Bart and learned that her disappeared dad is Zeus. This revelation that she is a demigod means her powers were actually inherited and had been sealed in an attempt to Give Her a Normal Life before she jumped at being a hero regardless.

During the events of Infinite Crisis, her powers began to fluctuate and eventually disappear altogether.

Her New 52 incarnation is the daughter of Wonder Woman's half-brother Lennox, and derives her powers from an ancient armor named the 'Silent Armor' related to the demon Trigon. This character's provenance is called into question in Wonder Woman (Rebirth) by the revelation that the Olympians of the New 52 were fakes and implanted memories designed to hide the real Themyscira.

For her Earth One counterpart see Teen Titans: Earth One.

First Appearance: Wonder Woman Vol 2 #105. (1996)

Created By: John Byrne

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Cassie Sandsmark provides examples of:

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• Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder: (Pre-Flashpoint) After Superboy's death in Infinite Crisis, Cassie kissed Tim Drake (both of their significant others had just died as Spoiler had been murdered as well), though Cassie broke away and ran from the room crying. Then Superboy comes back from the dead. The pair are sure that he's going to be angry at them, but he's cool with it—hey, it's not like they knew his death was temporary.
• Accuser of the Brethren: Cassie has a very antagonistic relationship with Rose Wilson/Ravager. Cassie was also the one to think the worst of Rose Wilson, believe that she does not belong on the team and at times fight with her. Even when it looks like she is making peace with Rose, she reveals that she still dislikes her and considers her a one-eyed sociopath, stating that she is a murderer who is homicidal and warped beyond words and that she both cannot be helped and does not want to be helped.
• Action Heroine: When at her best. Later writers have waffled between this and putting her as a Faux Action Girl.
• Alternate Self:
  • The World Without Young Justice Cassie Sandsmark is the redheaded daughter of Dionysus, rather than Zeus, possesses Stout Strength and has the amazing ability to not be nearly as drunk as she should be with all the liquor she takes in.
  • On the Earth 3 of DC Rebirth, Cassie Sandsmark goes by Amaxon Thunder and leads a gang of super powered teenage delinquents. Infinite Frontier later reveals that this planet is where The Crime Syndicate reigns and its Sandsmark is one of the better adjusted residents, no where near as bad as its Donna Troy.
• Animated Armor: The Silent Armour, a magical alien armour forged in the heart of a star in order to fight Trigon.
• Ascended Fangirl: Cassie was introduced in the pages of Wonder Woman (1987) as a member of the local Wonder Woman fan-club in Gateway City. She later went on to help found Young Justice with several other superhero fans turned teen heroes, including Tim Drake and Bart Allen.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Rose and Cassie can generally work together during missions, despite their constant bickering.
  • When Bombshell accuses Rose of being a traitor and Rose runs off furious ready to leave the team, Cassie defends her.
  • After the Terror Titans destroyed a part of Titans Tower seemingly killing Rose, there was a panel where Cassie looked saddened at the thought that Rose may have died.
  • During DC Special: Cyborg #5, while fighting clones of Wildebeest and Equus, Rose and Cassie share a mutual moment of respect.
• Bait the Dog: Cassie Sandsmark often antagonized her teammate Rose Wilson/Ravager because of her past working with her father as a supervillain despite being brainwashed and drugged. Cassie would always say Rose does not belong on the team and doesn't trust her, and Rose would antagonize her for judging her for her past. There was a moment where the two of them appeared to make peace with each other when Rose was accused of betraying the team to work with her father. Cassie defended her, believing it to be unlikely after everything her father had done to Rose, but Rose did not appreciate this gesture because of their previous interactions. Rose even considered leaving the team before the betrayer was revealed. But later, when Rose is battling her father's supervillain team, Cassie saves her. Rose is surprised, but Cassie smiles and says that they are family. Unlike before, Rose did appreciate what Cassie did for her. In a later issue, Rose remarked that she was happy that Cassie was treating her nicely. It was implied that the two young women were burying the hatchet and becoming friends. But then, when one of their teammates goes missing, and Robin tells Cassie this, and that he believes that Rose is concerned, Cassie tells Robin that she does not believe that, saying that Rose does not care about anyone but herself, calls her a one-eyed sociopath, stating that Rosa cannot be help nor does not want to be help, which means that her previous kindness towards Rose was likely fake. The two of them continue to antagonize the relationship throughout the series, with Rosa quitting the team twice because of Cassie, and Cassie ironically puts her back on the team, not because she believes in Rose, she let her back on the team because she needs a more able-bodied teammate. It appears that even when Cassie genuinely tries to be nice to Rose, her hatred of Rose is too strong for her kindness to last.
• Bash Brothers: With Donna and Diana.
• Big Sister Instinct: She Invokes this at Bart Allen's funeral (Don’t worry, he gets better) when she says he was like a brother to her and that she intends to make whoever killed him suffer.
• Bling of War: Sported a pinkish (possibly copper) suit of bejeweled armor at one point, in contrast to Diana's gold one and Donna's silver one.
• Boxing Lessons for Superman: Post Crisis, Diana of Themyscira is unimpressed with Cassie Sandsmark's combat skills. Diana would train her if Helena wasn't arguing against it, if Diana's body didn't start turning back into clay, if she wasn't too busy dying/dead thanks to Neron, but since she can't Diana assigns Artemis of Bana-Mighdall to the instruction of Cassie. It's happy times for Cassie, as Diana also pushes Cassie's friend Kara Zor-El into training with Artemis. Rebirth Cassie doesn't even need any pushing to learn from Artemis, but Rebirth Artemis doesn't have the patience for Cassie.
• Boyish Short Hair: She starts out with close cropped hair which she keeps hidden under a black wig, eventually she grows it out long enough to put into short twintails and then she just keeps letting it get longer.
• Break Out the Museum Piece: In her first appearance she does this in order to use the magical properties of said pieces.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Infinite Frontier portays Cassie Sandsmark as an immature goofball who gets on the nerves of several amazons. Cassie Sandsmark nonetheless has the full confidence of Queens Hippolyta and Nubia for her knowledge of "Man's World" and her skills as an investigator.
• The Captain: To the Teen Titans after Robin made the decision to leave the team for an undetermined length of time in the wake of Batman's death, leaving Cassie with the task of assembling and leading a new team.
• The Champion: Post Crisis, Cassie becomes the champion of Ares after Zeus suppresses her innate powers again. Ares doesn't care what Cassie does with the title or perks that come with it, he just wants the recognition from his sister. She loses the title, perks and nearly her life however when Ares becomes god of the underworld and reconnects with his son Lycus, who he comes to favor over Cassie and allows to attack her.
• Chickification: Mostly due to Geoff Johns's influence in Teen Titans, where she went from a smart, cool nerd to a bland, moody prom-queen.
• Cheap Costume: In Young Justice (2019), her costume consists of just a Wonder Woman tank top, a brown jacket, a black skirt, leggings and tennis shoes; not really much of a superhero outfit. She still manages to make it look cool, especially in the first issue variant.
• Chest Insignia: Wonder Woman's double W usually, though at one point it was a heavily stylized eagle on a tank very similar to what Donna wore as Wonder Girl.
• Civvie Spandex:
  • (Pre-Flashpoint) One of the few constants in her always-changing wardrobe is plain blue jeans, or red dyed ones and (at first) a leather jacket save for a couple of Lady Legionnaire Wear pieces of armor for special occasions, see Unlimited Wardrobe below.
  • (Post-Rebirth) Cassie wears black leggings with yellow star outlines, a skirt, a WW top and a leather WW jacket.
• Clark Kenting: 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.
• Custom Uniform of Sexy: When Diana, Donna and Cassie all armor up for another go at the monster Genocide, Cassie's eagle armor is the only one exposing her belly button.
• Dark Secret: Somewhere between the end of Teen Titans (New 52) and Young Justice (2019), Cassie went through something that made her not want to use her powers. Before she joins the battle, she's obviously crying because of it. Issue 2 reveals that Zeus tried to recruit her to be a guardian of the realm, she refused because she was tired of people telling her what she should be and The Call Knows Where You Live.
• Deal with the Devil: Subverted. When Cassie lost her powers, Ares offered to restore them. Instead of what would normally be expected, all he wanted in return was for her to call him and consider him her brother. Though this was kind of played straight when it turned out that his powers were driving her crazy he may not have been aware of how it would affect her.
• Depending on the Artist:
  • In her initial appearances, she was depicted as a scrawny kid in a frumpy and unflattering costume, in order to emphasize her youth and her dorky personality. In her Teen Titans days, however, both pre- and post-Flashpoint, some artists gave her a lot more cleavage and lower necklines than others. Post-Flashpont, there was even a tendency to make her breasts bigger than her head and so perfectly round they looked more like implants than natural breasts. To say that this change was controversial would be putting it mildly.
    • This was at least partly justified in one of the comics shortly before Infinite Crisis, when she remembers how she looked at the beginning of her hero career, and how she looks now only a few years later, the implication being that puberty and a few years of growing up were very kind to her. Being the daughter of Zeus, and thus part-god, probably doesn't hurt either.
  • Her leather jacket in Rebirth has been drawn with the ⁼W⁼ warping around the shoulders and with the sleeves left plain.
• Depower: Her powers are actually hers by birth, she was sealed to functionally be a normal human child growing up.
• Divine Parentage: She's the daughter of a human woman and Zeus.
• Dysfunctional Family: With Zeus for a father and a mother who disapproves of your superhero career, it's understandable.
• Emergency Weapon: When the situation is desperate Cassie grabs an adamatine sword similar to the scythe Chronus castrated Uranus with.
• Everyone Has Standards
  • Despite her dislike of Rose Wilson, when Bombshell accuses Rose of being a traitor, working for Deathstroke, Cassie defends her, believing after everything her father did to her, Rose would never work for him again.
  • When Rose seemingly dies after an attack of the Terror Titans on Titans Tower, Cassie is visibly saddened admitting that despite everything, Rose didn't deserve to die.
• Eye Scream: In Wonder Woman Volume 2 #175 she topples Giganta by punching Giganta in the eye while Monster Girl and Empress use Sylph to tie Giganta's angles together. This has the added benefit of causing Giganta to fall on Mustang Sally.
• Fast Ball Special: Whatever Happened To The Warrior Of Truth reveals Cassie's fantasies of beating up Darkseid with Diana. Diana is taken by surprise when it turns out Cassie's "brilliant" strategy is throwing Diana at Darkseid, but Diana plays along since she's been stranded in the dreams of her friends and rivals until she can make every last one of them feel better.
• Flight: In her first appearance she uses the Sandals of Hermes to achieve it but she is later granted flight of her own for her courage in the face of Zeus.
• Feminine Mother, Tomboyish Daughter: Helena Sandsmark is the prim feminine young mother of the very brash and tomboyish Cassie Sandsmark.
• Flying Brick: A nigh-invulnerable flyer like Wonder Woman.
• Genki Girl: For most of Young Justice, she's as unhinged and energetic as the rest of her team. This was unfortunately lost during Graduation Day.
• Girliness Upgrade: Cassie Sandsmark is initially a socially awkward nerd who has little social life beyond conversing with other nerds about the objects of their obsessions and would rather be studying or "exploring" those topics than talking about them. Once her identity as "Wonder Girl" is outed however, Cassie starts to care about her personal appearance and tries to look less like a dork. Cassie sees a future where her Titans team takeover, where Future Cassie is almost defined by her hair and boyfriend...and while she tries to keep the Titans from becoming despote otherwise sees nothing wrong with how she ends up.
• Girlish Pigtails: After Wonder Girl is exposed as Cassie Sandsmark, Cassie takes the opportunity to change her look, in an effort to look more mature and be taken more seriously. She doesn't realize the pigtails make her look more like a kid, but most take her new look as an improvement nonetheless.
• Give Him a Normal Life: Her mother wanted her to have a normal life and Zeus sealed her inherent powers at birth so Cassie could live as a regular human. Cassie obviously was entirely uninterested in a normal life by the time she entered high school, and was quite upset with everyone for lying to her when she learned her father's identity.
• God Couple: Cassie Sandsmark and Conner Kent (Superboy) are each other's main love interest and two of the most powerful heroes in The DCU.
• Goggles Do Nothing: She started out wearing goggles and a wig in an effort to protect her identity but kept wearing goggles even after she ditched the wig and was wearing the goggles up on her hair like a headband.
• Headbutting Heroes: With Ravager on the Teen Titans, complete with Teeth-Clenched Teamwork.
• Heroic BSoD
  • After the death of Superboy and the loss of her powers. She has distanced herself from her mother and her teammates, letting her grief and the influence of Ares make her bitter and more violent.
  • During 52 she also becomes involved in an online cult heavily influenced by Kryptonian culture with the goal of resurrecting Superboy. Elongated Man grows suspicious and with the help of other superheroes, disrupts the ceremony, destroying the Kryptonite which was essential to the process.
• Heroic Bastard: She's Zeus' daughter in Post-Crisis continuity and Lennox's daughter (himself an example of this) in the New 52.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Cissie King-Jones (Arrowette) in the original Young Justice comics.
• Hot-Blooded: Ebbs and flows with her, but particularly after Conner died and in New 52 she tended be the most passionate member of the Teen Titans.
• Hypocrite
  • Her constant bickering with Rose Wilson was the result of Rose betraying the Titans after her father Deathstroke drugged Rose into an Ax-Crazy Daddy's Girl. No matter what Rose did, Cassie was not willing to give her a second chance. Meanwhile, when Bombshell, a former Titan who freely chose to betray and subsequently attempted to kill the Titans, asked to be let back on the team, she gets a second chance from Wonder Girl and the other Titans. As Rose points out, it's telling that she let someone who betrayed the Titans out of their own free will back on the team, something even Bombshell acknowledges, while denying her, who only betrayed the team due to her free will being taken away, a second chance, too.
  • She also supported Wonder Woman with no reservations after she killed the villain Maxwell Lord while at the same time continuing to condemn Rose for her Blood Knight-tendecies towards some villains. Rose actually called her out for this.

I-Z

• Iconic Item: Her goggles and the silver vambraces with inlaid red stars Donna Troy gifted to her.
• Jumped at the Call: She really wanted to be a superhero despite seeming to be a normal girl, and dove into the lifestyle headfirst at the first opportunity. Even when she's trying to cut back on the super heroics for her mom's sake she's always eager to help anyone she can.
• Kid Sidekick: To Diana. She's spent more time being a sidekick to Diana than any other Wonder Girl.
• The Knights Who Say "Squee!": In DC Rebirth she gets into a fight on the streets of Sao Paulo, at first being annoyed at unprovoked sucker punch from a stranger, until she realizes she's fighting Artemis and becomes eager to learn her moves.
• Lady Looks Like a Dude: In her earliest appearances, DC representatives even described her as horse faced. Courtney Whitmore made fun of her ugly costume.
• The Leader: She is the second official leader of Young Justice after Robin stepped down.
• Legacy Character
  • The second Wonder Girl after Donna Troy. However, in the New 52 universe, she is the first until it got retconned back in with Titans Hunt (2015).
  • Cassie is identified as Wonder Woman, during the Titans Tomorrow arc, when The Teen Titans are sent ten years into the future, where Diana is dead.
• Lethally Stupid: After Diana gets a job at Helena Sandsmark's museum in Gateway City, Cassie quickly establishes why Helena's been having a hard time with her and what Diana can expect going forward when Cassie wakes up a golem that proceeds to rampage. Cassie's first three outings as "Wonder Girl", first to even the odds for Wonder Woman and Champion against synthoids of Sinestro, Doomsday and Barry Allen, two more against the monster Decay, ends up hindering the heroes more than helping them. Diana is eager to give Cassie some proper training, figuring it will make Cassie less of a nuisance and give her an outlet for her energy, but Helena strongly disagrees and forbids it until Zeus gives/restores Cassie's innate powers.
• Morality Pet: For her brothers Ares and Hercules. Though with Ares it's debatable whether he has any REAL affection for her or if he just sees her as someone incredibly powerful that he can use. As for Hercules, he implied the only reason he calmed himself around was that he wanted to have her as a sexual mate despite being her half-brother, even outright saying they should both repopulate Olympus after the Gods had disappeared. She becomes a genuine pet to her father, Zeus, when Cassie loses favor with Ares due to Ares's son Lycus returning to life and desiring Cassie's position as Ares's Champion, Zeus realizing it is his fault for suppressing Cassie's powers, that she ended up in such a situation.
• Most Common Super Power: When she first debuted, Cassie firmly subverted this trope. Not only was she naturally scrawny, but she declined Arrowette's offer to loan her a padded bra, stating that she believed a superheroine should have an IQ bigger than her bustline. But over the years, she became Progressively Prettier, to the point where she was eventually portrayed as having huge breasts for her age. Whether this was a logical development or a bastardization of the character fuels many debates among the Broken Base.
  • As of Young Justice (2019), however, she is back to being depicted with a less sexualized figure, signifying that her time with this trope could be over.
• Muscles Are Meaningless: Cassie is initially scrawny but can lift nearly twenty times her own weight and strike with an even greater force than that, thanks to the gauntlets of Atlas, and becomes even stronger when empowered by Zeus. Cassie does become musclar when aged up during Sins of Youth, however.
• Must Not Die a Virgin: She and Conner Kent had Their First Time in an effort to avert this, during Infinite Crisis. Given what was going on at the time, pretty understandable.
• My Sister Is Off-Limits: Falling under the "extended family" (Cassie is Diana's great aunt) category, Wonder Woman does not approve of Conner's relationship with Cassie. Demonstrated by the time the latter two were kissing in midair and Wonder Woman grabbed Superboy by the collar and flung him into a mountain range.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: Being a demigoddess has its advantages. During Teen Titans #65 she actually mocks amazon tradition and throws her bracelets away as being unnecessary...though Cassie puts them back on for Wonder Woman Volume 3 #28 when the amazons are facing Genocide.
• Official Couple: With Conner Kent aka Superboy II before he died. After his resurrection they have decided to put their feelings on hold to allow Cassie to better lead the Teen Titans, after Red Robin joined the team, however, she relinquished control of the Titans and still has not rekindled her relationship.
• One-Steve Limit: The second Batgirl is also called Cassandra. Usually she's just known as "Cassie" and Cassandra Cain is "Cass", but sometimes members of the Batfamily will also call Cassandra Cain "Cassie". This is only really confusing when Tim does it, as he is close to both girls and, if the context is unclear, could be referring to either of them.
• Overnight Age-Up: During Sins Of Youth, Cassie is involuntarily turned into an adult, technically becoming "Wonder Woman", even wearing Donna and Diana's old costumes she previously refused to touch out of fear of ruining them, just because she suddenly found herself in need of something that fit.
• Painted-On Pants: Starts wearing these after Graduation Day.
• Plucky Girl: When she was first introduced. Since the Young Justice was disbanded she's wavered between emotionally unstable Alpha Bitch and merely bland. In DC Rebirth she's usually goofy, cheerful or both, slow to fall into any other emotion and while these emotional outbursts can be quite powerful Cassie's quick to snap right back to cheerful or jovial.
• Power Incontinence: When Cassie is upset for long periods it sometimes leads to electrical storms blanketing the area. She has no control over this and does not gain a method for channeling her Shock and Awe powers for quite some time.
• Practically Different Generations: As a consequence of her father being Zeus, many Greek gods are her half-siblings despite being millennia older than her. She's also Wonder Woman's great aunt, despite being much younger and being treated more like a niece.
• Progressively Prettier: Cassie Sandsmark starts off as a thin lipped, baggy eyed, pencil necked, flat chested kid deliberately designed to be uglier than her mother, but develops into a curvy bombshell more conventionally attractive than Helena. Some of this is justified by more regular exercise, better sleep habits and puberty, but it's mostly due to changing Cassie's character from "unremarkable child who asked for and gained power" to "demigoddess under a Restraining Bolt".
• Psycho Electro: She is only able to tap into her electrical powers consistently when she's absolutely furious, and the item she originally used to channel them was warping her personality to make her more cruel.
• Pursued Protagonist: In her mini series Cassie is blamed for The President of the United States being wounded while she was taking him to a meeting with Queen Hippolyta, leading to Cassie and Helena going into hiding in two different locations. In addition to United States law enforcement wanting Cassie the Female Furies are also after Cassie for their own reasons.
• Recognition Failure: During Circe's campaign to destroy New York in The Witch And The Warrior arc, Cassie Sandsmark is among those who show up to stop it, and despite being a Wonder Woman fan fails to recognize persistent Wonder Woman foe Giganta, calling her "Bigga". To be fair, Oracle also fails to recognize Giganta and Oracle's computer stalls out when she tries to find a match in her database. Giganta by contrast immediately recognizes "Wonder Girl" in spite of Cassie having yet another outfit.
• Red Is Heroic: Most of her costumes use red. While her first thrown together outfit had no red on it, once Cassie started putting some thought into what she'd be wearing as Wonder Girl she added a small sliver of red and is sometimes retroactively depicted with red shorts by some artists flashing back to her early days.
• The Runt at the End: With the introduction of Yara Flor, Cassie is no longer the last Wonder Girl but she's still 5'3, an inch below average height in the US while every other Wonder Girl is far taller, and somehow manages to be the most modest and tackiest dresser among them at the same time.
• Secret Identity
  • The George Town Virginia resident Drusilla Priam is really Cassie Sandsmark, who'd have thought? Drusilla's glasses, overly baggy hooded sweat shirts and business suits do a slightly better job of deterring her pursuers than Helena's attempts, however.
  • During 52 #12 Cassie disguises herself as "Donna Prince".
• Sensual Spandex: Compared to her Pre-Flashpoint costumes, which were often fairly modest and at first deliberately ugly, her appearances in the New 52 era of Teen Titans dressed her in a very form-fitting red dress with very prominent cleavage.
• Shock and Awe: Her lasso can electrocute those it ties up. This because, unlike Wonder Woman's Lasso of Truth, Cassie's is a weapon which channels Zeus' lightning in response to her rage. Without it an angry Cassie will cause electrical storms she cannot control.
• Sidekick: She acts as one to Wonder Woman when one is needed, otherwise she tends to be busy with her own things as she ended up leading her own team not too long after her introduction.
• Smug Super: Post Crisis, Cassie goes on a power high after getting her powers back from Zeus, lording them over her would be murderer Lycus and throwing away her bracelets of submission, mocking the amazons for being dependent on such things. Cassie comes back down to Earth, mostly, when the monster Genocide is unleashed and is threatening to live up to her name at the expense of the amazons. Cassie still doesn't bother to fully armor up while preparing a defense, unlike Donna and Diana.
• Stereotypical Nerd: Cassie started out fairly nerdy—not spending any time concerned about her appearance and clothing, being very interested in history and feeling awkward in most social situations—but she grew out of this characterization.
• Super-Reflexes: Helped by her Super-Speed, Cassie is able to react to and deflect bullets with great comfort.
• Super-Speed: Demigod. The extent of her speed is unknown but decidedly fast. She's able to go from the US to the Mediterranean to Brazil and scour the nation all in a matter of days.
• Super-Strength: Part of the demigod child of Zeus power pack. Her Olympian flesh and bone is about one and a half times as dense as similar human tissue, contributing to the Olympians' superhuman strength and weight
• Tank-Top Tomboy: After Superboy's death, she adopted a WW-themed tank top with jeans similar to what she had worn as leader of Young Justice but without the jacket she wore then and with plainer jeans.
• Tomboy: She started out as one, a dorky mythology buff who made zero attempts to appear feminine and kept her hair really short.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Post-Graduation Day, she was a lot more rude and abrasive. This got worse after Conner's death, when a lot of her role in Teen Titans was just being angry at everyone, justified or not. This would continue long into the New 52, where Cassie was retooled as being an angry Jerkass from the start, and only got rectified during Young Justice (2019).
• True Companions: With the others who made up the rest of the first six members of Young Justice, but especially the rest of the "Core Four"; Kon, Tim and Bart.
• Tsundere: Mostly in Sean McKeever's Teen Titans run.
• The Unchosen One: When she first debuted. Unlike Donna or Diana, there was nothing inherently special about Cassie: she just really liked Wonder Woman and Wonder Woman just so happened to have taken a day job at a museum curated by Cassie's mother. When the Olympians wanted an audience with the mortals closest to their champion, Steve Trevor, Etta Candy, the Kapatelis family and the Sandsmarks, Cassie used the opportunity to request a private audience with Zeus and ask him for superpowers. This was retconned after a few years, however, as Cassie always having powers and Zeus simply releasing the Restraining Bolt she didn't know was placed on her(much to the annoyance of her creator, John Byrne).
• Unlimited Wardrobe: Prior to Flashpoint Cassie's costume changed frequently, originally with only her leather jacket and goggles staying constant but the Teen Titans writers jettisoned those iconic parts of her uniform:
  • 1^st costume:◊ modified black WW shirt with a G superimposed over the ⁼W⁼ paired with goggles, bicycle shorts, gloves, sneakers, and either a denim vest or a leather jacket. (plus a Gauntlet of Atlas and Sandals of Hermes in her first outing)
  • 2^nd costume: Jeans with white stars scattered on the hips and at the ankles paired with a black WW crop top, goggles, gloves, sneakers, a leather jacket, and vambraces. (jacket optional)
  • 3^rd costume:◊ Red jeans with white stars scattered on the hips paired with a black ⁼W⁼ crop top with spaghetti straps or black ⁼W⁼ t-shirt with a superimposed G, goggles, sneakers, a necklace which says "girl" and vambraces.
  • 4^th costume:◊ Red jeans with white stars down the outer seam (or scattered on hips) paired with a black high neck sleeveless WW top, goggles, boots and vambraces.
  • 5^th costume: (Teen Titan) Red jeans with 2/3 white stars in a line down the hips paired with a short sleeve red WW crop top with a metal W, boots, a lasso and vambraces.
  • 6^th costume:◊ Jeans with a star on each hip paired with a red tank with a stylized eagle and constantly descending neckline, boots, a ⁼W⁼ belt, red star earrings, a lasso and vambraces.
  • 7^th costume: Armor gifted to her by her half-brother Hercules with red star earrings, a lasso and vambraces. (the first thing on this list which isn't Civvie Spandex).
  • 8^th costume: Her own version of Diana's armor in what appears to be copper or bronze with a lasso and vambraces.(not Civvie Spandex).
  • 9^th costume: Plain blue jeans paired with a red three quarter length sweater with a metallic ⁼W⁼ across the chest which has its bands somehow wrapping around her upper arm without restraining movement which is possibly a Magical Accessory gift from her father, boots, an eagle belt, red star earrings, a lasso and (eventually) vambraces.
• Unreliable Narrator: During Trial Of The Amazons she claims to be conducting her investigation of Hippolyta's murder as delicately as possible in the thought box while the panel itself shows her screaming and slamming a table. Her recap of events also make Nubia more sarcastic and Faruka II more childish than they actually are.
• What the Hell, Hero?:
  • Against Cassie as a Teen Titan. Some of her verbal punches against Rose are below the metaphorical waistline such as when she mocks Rose for gouging out her own eye while under Deathstroke's control.
  • After Infinite Crisis, Diana decided to retire for a while and takes off for parts unknown without explaining to Donna and Cassandra why. In issue #2 of Wonder Woman (2006), Cassie vents her anger on her:
  Cassie: Diana...? Is it really you?
  Diana: It's really me, Cass. You okay?
  Cassie: Am I okay? Let's see... The gods abandoned us. Paradise Island disappeared. My boyfriend was murdered... and the person I looked up to more than anyone else in the world... left without saying a word.
  Diana: I was trying to protect you.
  Cassie: You deserted me. Me AND Donna. And now, for all we know, she could be dead.
• Weak Sauce Weakness: During the Pre-Flashpoint continuity, her weakness is that she can have all of her powers taken away on command by her parents. Even if Helena Sandsmark doesn't invoked this weakness, Cassie's super strength and speed fade away if used against Helena, allowing Helena to easily restrain Cassie. Regardless of continuity, Cassie consistently doesn't have whatever Wonder Woman's weakness might be, having some completely different drawback. Before becoming "goddess of truth" Wonder Woman was initially vulnerable to piercing and cutting attacks, but demi-goddess!Cassie was never particularly bothered by them, for example.
• Weather Manipulation: When Cassie was upset in Wonder Girl Vol 1, thundering clouds rain clouds would start to build, though she's usually limited to just lightning and electric attacks inherited through her father Zeus, and she can't control it beyond using the lasso to suppress it, or shock someone.
• You Fight Like a Cow: In DC Rebirth she gets sucker punched by Artemis in their first meeting on assignment to Sao Paulo due to a genuine misunderstanding, but continues to be attacked by Artemis because she won't shut up even while Artemis uses a forearm to compress Cassies windpipe. More assasins from Themyscira, unaware of who Cassie is or that she was sent to aid them, try to evict both from the country for "bringing shame to our kind".

New 52 Continuity

• A Lighter Shade of Black: Cassie is a kleptomaniac who will kill her foes if pushed to it, but is not an indiscriminate Life Drinker like the Silent Armor and put it on to keep it under control, as it is capable of moving on its own and attacking people otherwise. The Silent Armor itself is less of a threat than Trigon, only trying to drain enough Life Energy to stop him.
• Achievements in Ignorance: Cassie had no idea that she was a divinely gifted demigoddess and that The Silent Armor was actively trying and failing to take her life force. Trigon finds this amusing, but only taunts Cassie about knowing more about who she is than Cassie herself does. It's not until Cassie meets Cassandra and Diana that she gets some straight answers, though Trigon does inspire Cassie to go on a futile search for an explanation on her own before then.
• Adaptational Jerkass: Post Crisis Cassie caused trouble for her mother through being too hyper, curious, brave and naive for her own good. New 52 Cassie causes more trouble for her mother through compulsive larceny, a sharp temper and violent tendencies.
• Amazonian Beauty: Cassie has an extremely muscular build with gigantic biceps, toned legs, and a voluptuous bust. Nevertheless, she has no problem picking up a variety of admirers ranging from Tim Drake to Conner Kent.
• Anguished Declaration of Love: She declares that she loves her mentor in thievery, Diesel, giving him one last chance to give up The Silent Armor before she drains the life out of him, since she doesn't trust him to use it responsibly even after he learns how to control it.
• Animal Lover: Despite her tough, short-tempered personality, Cassie is noticeably fond of animals as she rescued a dinosaur ensnared in a trap in Teen Titans #10, and saved a deer from being shot by a hunter in Teen Titans #17.
• Arch-Enemy: Cassie's arch enemy is Harvest, who targets homeless, or in Cassie's case, runaway teenagers in the name of "the greater good". The Silent Armor's and War Bracelets' arch enemy is Trigon, to the point the former compels her to rush into battle against him without the rest of her team.
• Composite Character: This version of Cassie's Wonder Girl uniform borrows heavily from Donna Troy's pre-Flashpoint aesthetic; Donna wore a red jumpsuit, metal on both her upper and lower arms, and the starry field fabric, all before Cassie did, but Cassie's the first to style all three at once.
• Cosmic Motifs: Cassie Sandsmark has the star fields on her outfit usually associated with Donna Troy, though if hers serve any purpose in this continuity or are just cosmetic, was never delved into. At any rate they don't seem to be manually sown in by her and definitely did not need to be woven onto a dark surface.
• Curb-Stomp Battle
  • Cassie gets swatteed around by Trigon when The Silent Armor compels her to attack him. Trigon is in fact there to neutralize it while he can still curbstomp it and its wearer.
  • Cassie easily defeats the Jon Kent Superboy when he attacks her in confusion, believing himself to be abducted. The Kon-El Superboy who Jon was unknowingly swapped with proves far tougher for Cassie when he returns to his timeline.
• Darker and Edgier: In this continuity, Cassie is a disrespectful thief who is powered by an Artifact of Doom and who ran away from her mother after nearly ruining her mother's career.
• Deflector Shields: Used together The Silent Armor and War Bracelets can produce force fields
• Et Tu, Brute?: Cassie is left stammering when her aunt Cassandra betrays her, after she trusted in Cassandra over Diana no less.
• Healing Shiv: The Rod of Asclepius, which Cassie uses to repair Cassandra's throat...after having ripped Cassandra's throat out. specifically as a way of saving Cassandra's life in a way that won't let her keep her Compelling Voice.
• Hypocrite Has a Point: It might seem a little hypocritical of a violent thief like Cassie Sandsmark to disapprove of Wonder Woman, but she isn't wrong about New 52 Wonder Woman herself being intimidating and brutal.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Cassie isn't the most amiable individual and it takes time to gain her trust, but she has a good heart and is always willing to do the right thing and help others.
• Life Drain: The Silent Armor produces barbed tendrils that stick to and drain the Life Energy of all near them, including the wearer. Cassie Sandsmark, being a demigoddess, just no sells the effect, pulls one off, and uses it as a lariat. Rebirth shows these lariats are distinct from The Lasso of Lightning she gained from The Olympians, and she rarely uses the Silent Armor Tendril in the Rebirth stories.
• Love Craftian Super Power: Subverted. The Silent Armor is supposed to be an even more horrific version of The Symbiote from Spider-Man, but Cassie's demigoddess status means it can't take nearly as much control over her as it would like to.
• Most Common Superpower: Cassie's breasts were generally drawn at least as big as her head, and were infamously drawn like implants rather than natural breasts by Kenneth Rocafort.
• Obliviously Super Powered: Cassie Sandsmark thinks all of her special powers come from The Silent Armor and War Bracelets, even as she's using the Silent Armor's life draining tendril she ripped off to kill a man who stole it from her and was successfully managing to control it.
• Oh, My Gods!: Cassie swears by Hela, for some reason. It's later confirmed that she is still connected to the Greco-Roman pantheon.
• Omni Glot: Cassie's divine gift is an innate understanding of human languages, which is further developed by being around her archeologist mother, and even into some alien languages, which is why she can communicate so well with The War Bracelets and parasitic Silent Armor.
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: The Silent Amor and War Braclets have misleading names, as The Silent Armor doesn't actually care about keeping is wearer safe, only taking control of them and draining their life and the life of those around them in its mission to become powerful enough to kill Trigon. The War Bracelets have no offensive applications, only existing to make sure the wearer is protected from all things that aren't The Silent Armor.
• Promoted to Love Interest: She and Tim had something bordering a romantic relationship in the pre-Flashpoint continuity, but nothing really came of it (they kissed and then Cassie ran off crying) and it was essentially two grieving friends trying to find solace after the deaths of their respective significant others and friends (Kon-El and Stephanie Brown). In this continuity, they start dating after deciding they liked it when Trigon used Tim to rape Cassie.
• Rape by Proxy: In the New 52, the demon Trigon takes control of Tim Drake (Robin) and uses the opportunity to seduce both her and Solstice into sex. All three parties are shocked when this is discovered, but all agreed that they enjoyed it. Tim and Wonder Girl later begin a relationship proper due to lingering passions from the night they shared together.
• Related in the Adaptation: Technically Cassie was already related to Diana pre-Flashpoint, since Zeus is Cassie's father and Diana's great-grandfather as Ares is her mother's father, but writers often forget Ares' familial relationship to Diana. In the New 52 Diana is Cassie's aunt since Diana is Zeus's daughter (the writers again forgetting that Zeus is her mother's grandfather) and Cassie's father is now one of Zeus's other illegitimate children. Since that version of Zeus and his offspring were later proven to be false memories, it seemed Cassie and Diana were back to their original family relation, until James Robinson decided to claim Zeus was still Diana's father despite it now contradicting canon. Cassie alternates between calling Zeus "grand father" and "pop pop" in Young Justice (2019). The Wonder Girl title it still seemed she was his granddaughter before landing on her being his daughter again during Infinite Frontier.
• The Runaway: She ran away to become a thief full time after her criminal activities ruined her mother's reputation as an archeologist when Cassie destroyed a temple trying to steal artifacts from it with her boyfriend.
• Sensual Spandex: Her costume is skin tight, low-cut, and strapless, revealing a disturbing amount of cleavage intended to tantalize the reader for a high school aged character.
• Skewed Priorities: When The Teen Titans are defeated by The Crime Syndicate and sentence to be scattered through the time stream, Cassie Sandsmark sees it as an opporitunity to find out who her Disappeared Dad was. This distraction leads to Kon-El being stranded in the future when future Superboy Jon Kent is swpped with him.
• Spider-Sense: Cassie's War Bracelets are designed to work with The Silent Armor. Unlike The Silent Armor, their primary concern is keeping their wearer safe(from everything that isn't The Silent Armor itself), retracting when they discern the wearer is in no danger and expanding when a threat is detected. Rebirth shows that these are distinct from the bracelets of submission Cassie got from the amazons of Themyscira, and she rarely uses The War Bracelets anymore.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Cassie looks like a smaller version of the New 52 Wonder Woman villain Cassandra, to the point people thought that as a daughter of Zeus Cassandra was the New 52 Cassie Sandsmark. Cassandra is actually Cassie's aunt, and helped murder Cassie's father.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Cassie's normally a very brash, hotheaded young woman who's prone to violence and sarcastic comments. However, she does have moments of kindness, mainly towards innocent animals and her friends, particularly Tim. In Teen Titans #10, despite her tough, overconfident nature, Cassie gently comforts Tim after Danny the Street sacrifices himself to save the Teen Titans.
• Superpowered Evil Side: The Silent Armor only cares about fighting Trigon, and will drain the life of anyone it can to become powerful enough to do so. It and Cassie Sandsmark are in a constant struggle for control, one she is usually casually winning, but if the armor ever completely covers her that means it happens to be winning for the time being.
• Trophy Room: Cassie largely steals for its own sake, rarely selling anything she obtains.
• Undying Loyalty: While initially starting out as a more self-interested character, Cassie slowly starts to become quite loyal, supportive, and fiercely protective of Tim Drake. In Teen Titans #8, Cassie refuses to leave Tim in the clutches of Omen and attempts to break him out of the air chamber he's trapped in without a second thought. Even with the possibility of her perishing in direct result of breaking the bubble, Cassie still tries her hardest to save Tim out of her genuine devotion to him.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: It's not wise to mess with Tim when Cassie's around. In Teen Titans #2, Tim is about to be attacked by an animalistic Skitter, until a furious Cassie intervenes in order to protect him.
  Cassie: (Punches the living daylights out of Skitter) BACK OFF, ROACH!
  Tim: (To himself) If I'm not careful, I could fall in love with that girl!

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