Characters / Wonder Girl: Donna Troy

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Princess Diana of Themyscira/Diana Prince
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Wonder Girl (Donna Troy | Cassie Sandsmark)
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Enemies
Deathstroke | Cheshire

Wonder Girl I / Troia / Darkstar / Wonder Woman IV

Donna Hinckley Stacey Troy

Created By: Bob Haney · Bruno Premiani · Marv Wolfman · George Pérez · John Byrne · Phil Jimenez

First Appearance: The Brave and the Bold #60 (1965) ^note Or Wonder Woman #123. (1961). This is contested as some argue the Wonder Girl in that issue is depicted differently enough from young Diana, and similar enough to Donna that she's clearly an early appearance by the character.

Appearances: The Brave and the Bold | Teen Titans Vol 1 | Doom Patrol Vol 1 ^(guest) | Hawk and Dove Vol 1 ^(guest) | New Teen Titans Vol 1 | Terra Incognito | Tales Of The New Teen Titans | Who Is Donna Troy? | Vigilante Vol 1 ^(guest) | Tales of the Teen Titans | Supergirl Vol 2 ^(guest) | The Judas Contract | We Are Gathered Here Today | New Teen Titans Vol 2 | The Terror of Trigon | The Origin of Lilith | Red Tornado Vol 1 ^(guest) | Crisis on Infinite Earths | Fury of Firestorm Vol 1 ^(guest) | The Flash Vol 2 ^(guest) | Blue Beetle Vol 6 | Teen Titans Spotlight | Who Is Wonder Girl? | A Lonely Place Of Dying | Titans Hunt | War of the Gods | Armageddon: Inferno | Total Chaos | Team Titans | The Darkening | Darkstars | Zero Hour: Crisis in Time! | Green Lantern Vol 3 | Damage | Aquaman Vol 5 ^(guest) | Crimelord Syndicate War | New Titans | The Siege Of Zi Charam | Meltdown! | Wonder Woman Vol 2 | Wonder Woman: Donna Troy | JLA/Titans: The Technis Imperative | Titans Vol 1 | Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. ^(guest) | Who Is Troia | Young Justice: Sins Of Youth | Our Worlds at War | The Witch And The Warrior | Postcards From The Edge | Supergirl Vol 3 ^(guest) | Titans/Young Justice: Graduation Day | The Return Of Donna Troy | Infinite Crisis | Life and Death | 52 | World War III | Wonder Woman (2006) | Who Is Wonder Woman? | Ion | Amazons Attack! | Countdown | Countdown Presents: The Search for Ray Palmer | Titans East Special | Titans Vol 2 | Final Crisis | The Flash: Rebirth | Blackest Night | Justice League: Cry for Justice | The Rise Of Arsenal | Justice League of America Vol 2 | Wonder Woman Vol 4 | Titans Hunt (2015) | Titans Vol 3 | The Lazarus Contract | Justice League: No Justice | Drowned Earth | Justice League: Justice/Doom War ^(guest) | DC Year of the Villain | Wonder Woman: The Four Horsewoman | Dark Nights: Death Metal | Endless Winter | Wonder Woman (Infinite Frontier) | Teen Titans Academy | Trial of the Amazons | War for Earth-3 | Dark Crisis | Wonder Woman Vol 6 | Titans Vol 4 | Knight Terrors: Titans | Beast World

The Woman with the Starry Armour

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Donna Troy's past is... complicated. But basically, she's Diana's sister. She is known for being a sweet woman and a good listener, but she's faced much tragedy and a tangled past in her life. She was originally Wonder Girl of the Teen Titans, and now she forges her own path as simply Donna Troy. Comes equipped with the same bracelets as her sister, and a lasso that can override the mind of its victim provided that Donna's will is stronger than their own. She had stepped up to the plate as Wonder Woman when Diana was unavailable but is never strongly attached to that name and role.

Donna Troy was first created when Bob Haney forgot that Wonder Girl was actually meant to be a young version of Diana akin to the then running Superboy comic. She would then join the Teen Titans alongside her new-found friends Robin, Kid Flash, Aqualad and the flirtacious Speedy. She would gain her iconic red outfit in issue #22 of the series.

The New 52 attempted to uncomplicate Donna's origin, but the route taken of "evil clone of Wonder Woman" was despised by fans. DC Rebirth then did away with this origin and reinstated her traditional one as the former Wonder Girl of the Teen Titans who was adopted by Hippolyta after being rescued by Wondy... only for James Robinson's run on Wonder Woman (Rebirth) to start mucking up her past by attempting to reinstate her New52 origin while contradicting Titans (Rebirth) and the memories of Wally West, who is known to have some of the most incorrupted memories in the whole 'verse. For more on just who Donna is see her Continuity Snarl page.

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Donna Troy provides examples of:

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• Abhorrent Admirer: Teen Titans villain Bogeyman has always had a special interest in Donna Troy, and became more attracted to her after she flattened him in battle. Donna for her part can barely stomach the sight of him.
• Action Heroine: Donna Troy tends to be less of a Spirited Competitor and less of a Technical Pacifist than Diana, neither enjoying combat as much nor being patient enough for Diana's talk-restrain-wound-kill policy if given a reason to swing, usually settling for simply leaving the enemy's body in mostly one piece, if she can afford to. This puts Donna Troy more inline with most amazons of Themyscira in actions, if not in words.
• Adopted into Royalty: One of her backstories is that Donna was an orphaned toddler saved from a fire by Diana and taken to the princess's home to be treated, whereupon Queen Hippolyta took a shine to the child and adopted her into the royal family, making her an Amazon Warrior Princess.
• Adoptive Name Change: A subversion occurred in the Pre-Crisis Donna Troy backstory. After Diana rescued an infant with no documentation from a fire and took her home where she was adopted as Diana's sister, who would go on to become the first Wonder Girl, the Amazonian royal family thought they were renaming her by christening her Donna. The Teen Titans story Who Is Donna Troy? revealed that by some chance or by Diana's innate connection to the truth Donna was her birth name after all.
• Age-Gap Romance: Donna was in her late teens when she met her future (short-lived) husband Terry, who was 29 at the time, and her professor at that. Terry frequently joked about their age gap.
• Alternate Self
  • Dark Angel is an alternate Donna Troy who was raised by The Anitmoniter rather than Diana and Hippolyta, hates her dad, resents the Donna Troy we follow for her better life, and is determined to replace Donna's history of a loving family with one of suffering.
  • Donna's feud with Dark Angel was supposed to conclude with the removal of all other Donna Troys, besides them, from the entire DC multiverse. Despite this Belthera finds and recruits another alternate Donna Troy during Countdown To Final Crisis. A Donna Troy who snapped and strangled the Diana who adopted her with Diana's own lasso in a fit of envious rage. While the Donna we follow also envies Diana, she loves her sister despite it and shuts her counterpart up real quick when she insists killing Diana will make her feel better too.
  • An evil version of her from the future (similar to her son and her teammates) appears in Titans (Rebirth)
  • The Superwoman of DC Infinite Frontier is not an alternate Lois Lane this time but an alternate Donna Troy who is trying to build an army powerful enough to overthrow her mother Hippolyta, after learning Hippolyta killed her older sister Diana for being "soft".
• Amazonian Beauty: Depending on the Artist. She's always depicted as being very beautiful and is often given a toned musculature that doesn't detract from her attractiveness.
• An Ice Person: More so a cold person, as Donna Troy could cause temperatures to plummet during her time as a moon goddess, and raising them back up was far harder.
• Artificial Family Member: One version of her birth has her being a magically created clone of Diana to act as a friend. Since Amazons often refer to each other as sisters, Diana saw Donna as one as well.
• Back from the Dead: Donna Troy (alongside her friend Lilith Clay) died at a Superman robot's hands in Titans/Young Justice: Graduation Day and was reborn right before Infinite Crisis.
• Badass Cape
  • Wore one while serving as goddess of the moon. Combined with the cold and dark manipulating powers that came with the position, and the firmament The Titans of Myth had gifted her, Donna could create the illusion she had caused night to fall while bearing down on someone.
  • As Wonder Woman, Donna more commonly wore a cape than Diana had.
• Badass in Distress: Donna Troy tends to be targeted by villains after her more famous sister. Usually it turns out to be a fool's errand but sometimes...
  • Pre-Crisis Wonder Girl is held captive by Doctor Cyber, and while she can escape on her own, she realizes she can't get out of Cyber's confinement quickly enough to prevent Wonder Woman from taking the bait.
  • Post Crisis, it was assumed Dark Angel was after Diana and grabbed Donna by mistake, but it turned out Dark Angel understood Donna Troy better than the protagonists and was content to ruin Donna's family life, one way or the other. Giganta however was so uninterested she used Donna Troy as a necklace while publicly demanding the real Wonder Woman show up.
• Barrier Warrior: As a Titan Seed Donna Troy could create force fields.
• Bash Brothers: With Diana, Cassie, and in a cross-gender example, Dick Grayson.
• Bling of War: Sported a silver suit of Greek-style armor in one arc, and has silver markings on her Troia costume.
• Blush Sticker: For whatever reason, she has permanent blush stickers in Teen Titans: Year One.
• Brainwashed and Crazy:
  • When the Titans of Myth revived her following her death by the rogue Superman android, they altered her memories and made her believe she was married to Coeus. While she was technically the Token Good Teammate even while brainwashed, she nearly decimated the Titans and Outsiders when they came to rescue her, even telling Starfire "X'ahl spat on your kind ages ago."
  • In Justice, Donna and the rest of second-generation heroes (the Teen Titans, Supergirl, Batgirl, the Marvel family...) were mind-controlled by the Legion of Doom.
  • Following the revision in Wonder Woman (Rebirth) that the New 52 Amazons were fakes, in Titans Donna is now mentioning her earliest memories are of when she was adopted at age seven before being found the Amazons, even saying she has a stepmother. It's implied, much like with Diana, that Donna's actions and memories during her period as Derinoe's puppet were because she was brainwashed and had her personality altered.
• Brainwashed Bride: The Titans of Myth made Donna Troy into the wife of Coeus while having her fill in for Phoebe as moon goddess.
• Buxom Beauty Standard: She has the busty figure that's expected from an Amazon, and the cleavage in her outfits caught the eye of many of her teammates, and even some of her villains like Bogeyman, whom she has to warn to keep his eyes on her face when she confronts him in prison.
• Casting a Shadow: As a moon goddess Donna could suppress light sources and even manipulate the very shadows.
• Chest Insignia: As Wonder Girl, the insignia on her red shirt was a variation of the soaring eagle Wonder Woman uses.
• The Chew Toy: She's doomed to suffer in her Post-Crisis incarnation.
• Colour-Coded for Your Convenience
  • The lasso of persuasion was originally identical to the lasso of truth, only distinguished from it in how it functioned on those bound by it. It was later changed to silver and glowed blue when it powers where in affect, for scenes where Diana and Donna would each bind an individual at the same time◊.
  • When Donna Troy serves as Wonder Woman, as opposed to any of her other identities, she tends to wear a version of Diana's suit that is almost entirely gold(and has shoulder straps), besides the silver bracelets of course. Maybe she'll have a silver skirt too.
  • Donna has to wear a significantly different uniform from Diana, in order to differentiate them as adults (in stories where the two are physically twins anyway). During one story arc, when all three Wonder Women donned full Amazonian armor, Diana's was gold, Donna's silver, and Cassie's pink.
• Cool Big Sis: She tries to be a cool, older sister figure to Cassie Sandsmark, who does really look up to and admires Donna for being the first adult to take her seriously as a hero instead of trying to talk her out of it. Donna even gifted Cassie the bullet-proof bracelets she wore during her time as Wonder Girl.
• Continuity Snarl: The poster woman of this trope. Donna Troy had so many problems over the years that she got her own page. A recurring title for stories focused on her is "Who is... [insert name or codename here]", if that's any indication.
• Cosmic Retcon: Crisis On Infinite Earths was supposed to reset the entire DC Comics multiverse, but certain books were so popular that their creative teams were "spared" this reboot and allowed to continue on like nothing happened. One of those books was Teen Titans, which caused problems when Wonder Woman was changed from a World War II veteran who had lived for thousands of years, to a naive rookie to man's world who couldn't even speak any modern languages yet. This put a Plot Hole around Donna Troy too deep to ignore, since it made Wonder Woman saving her from a fire, trying and failing to find her an adoptive family in the US and taking Donna back to Paradise Island, which wasn't even called that anymore, impossible.
• Death Is Cheap: Died and came back, much like half the heroes out there.
• Deflector Shields: Her Darkstar exomantel came with a personal force field that enhanced Donna's durability.
• Depending on the Artist: Her hair has a nominally set appearance for each era of her life, but some artists stray from the norm:
  • Her bangs as Wonder Girl were originally fairly consistent blunt bangs, but artists doing flashbacks to this period tend to give her side bangs or a point cut fringe.
  • She also usually parts her hair on the left, but not all artists are consistent with this depiction.
  • The star field of her suit sometimes continues into her hair, and sometimes does not. The star field does serve a purpose in the setting and there's technically nothing stopping Donna from adding it to any sufficiently dark and malleable surface, but the hows and whys are rarely addressed in the plot.
• Depending on the Writer: Whether or not Donna Troy is as strong/fast as Diana by default or needs an extra boost from the Titans Of Myth or Darkstar equipment to equal Diana varies by writer. The official statements from DC tend to paint them as equals regardless, but there are more than a few comics where Donna is shown up or otherwise fails to perform as well as her adoptive or mirror sister without the extra gifts. In one of Donna's most pivotal Post Crisis stories she's seriously hindered by Giganta, one of Diana's middling foes. In another Donna is able to last in a prolonged battle with Eclipso, the former agent of God's wrath who is functionally and literally heavier than Giganta on the villain threat scale.
• Depending on the Writer: Whether or not Donna Troy is as strong/fast as Diana by default or needs an extra boost from the Titans Of Myth or Darkstar equipment to equal Diana varies by writer. The official statements from DC aren't even consistent, as when Wonder Woman is the subject the two are usually painted as equals regardless, but in Teen Titans Donna is often described as weaker than Starfire without the extra gifts. Since Tamaranians were established early on to be inferior to Kryptonians when it comes to solar powers and Wonder Woman was supposed to be "every bit as strong as Superman" since at least 1945, this would put unboosted Donna far behind big sis. In one of Donna's most pivotal Post Crisis stories she's seriously hindered by Giganta, one of Diana's middling foes. In another Donna is able to last in a prolonged battle with Eclipso, the former agent of God's wrath who is functionally and literally heavier than Giganta on the villain threat scale.
• Determinator: She's known for having an iron will (Mainly because of all the horrors she has endured in her tenure), which is actually weaponized by her Lasso of Persuasion, which she can use to command those caught in it as long as her willpower is stronger.
• Diving Save: Starfire's flight tends to overtake all local air currents and force a gliding Donna Troy to follow her. This also means Donna is usually the first one in position to catch Starfire when Starfire gets into trouble, often ending with Donna holding her in a Bridal Carry.
• Drowning Their Sorrows: After the initial Fab Five team disband in Titans (Rebirth), Dick finds Donna to be day-drinking whilst exercising. Later on, she does this one more time when Roy Harper dies during Heroes in Crisis, although it later goes away.
• Energy Weapon: The main weapons of the Darkstar Exomantle were wrist mounted "maser systems". Donna also had a Shoulder Cannon if that proved insufficient.
• Fanservice Pack: The Return of Donna Troy featured Donna wearing the same star field leotard she had in the late 1990s on the cover, but the outfit she actually started wearing on panel didn't come with the necklace, replacing it with a choker and a plunging neckline.
• Flying Brick: Like Wonder Woman, though not as consistently. She started out only able to glide in the Silver Age, Post Crisis and Rebirth continuities, while New 52 Donna couldn't fly at all.
• Friendly Address Privileges: She takes offense to Chaos identifying her as "Troia" and "Darkstar", telling him "It's Donna to you!" Post Crisis Donna even applied this to an alternate version of herself Belthera recruited. The other Donna was listing all of Donna's previous identities and insisting nothing would ever "stick" as long as there was an older sister in her life.
• Friendly Rivalry: She has a friendly rivalry with Starfire over who's the better Action Girl in Teen Titans.
• God Of Human Origin: She was resurrected by The Titans of Myth to fill in for Phoebe as moon goddess. She was also turned into a goddess of goddess in New 52 by Zeus, who healed her by turning Donna into a Fate after their murders left the position open.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Donna Troy becomes bitter over the fact that while her life was saved, Dark Angel had all but destroyed it otherwise. It lead to Donna snapping at one of her benefactors, Wally West, about not being grateful enough for having an identity, history and place in the world. A son of Trigon exploited this to defeat them both by egging them on until he could become that which they envy most; Diana of Themyscira and Barry Allen.
• Hand Blast: Donna Troy's most consistent use of her Titan Seed photon powers was shooting light from her hands. As a Darkstar she had the technological variant.
• Happily Adopted: She's satisfied with her upbringing in the continuities where she's been adopted by Hippolyta, even though she has little interest in the Amazon throne or being a princess.
• The Heart: Due to her kind and empathetic personality, she's usually the emotional pillar of the Teen Titans, especially in the first incarnation.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: Donna Troy finds a kindred spirit in Starfire, another Warrior Princess overshadowed by her older sister. Starfire is the sister Donna Troy doesn't feel the need to compare herself to. Donna Troy is the sister that doesn't return Starfire's kindness with cruelty. Even during the Titan Seed period where Donna technically had nothing to do with Diana, Donna could still relate to Starfire having her life changed by conquerors and having to adapt to a new world.
• Human Weapon: The Esquecida boast to have a weapon, which when ready will breach the barriers of Olympus, beat back the forces of Hera within and allow them to rescue Yara Flor. To Cassie Sandsmark's surprise the weapon turns out to be Donna Troy, who had been sent Brazil to retrieve Cassie after Hippolyta lost contact with Cassie, and found the hidden city of Akahim during her search.
• Hypocrisy Nod: It's not entirely lost on Donna that she's trying to solve a perceived problem by coercing Diana into The Lasso of Truth during Dawn of DC after Donna was one of many amazons refusing to be bound to solve a known problem back in DC Infinite Frontier.
• Hypocritical Heartwarming
  • During Trial of the Amazons she snaps at Diana for treating her "like an outsider" when Diana wants to put every amazon in the lasso of truth to find out who killed Hippolyta. However Donna accepts the outsider Bana-Mighdall's offer to be their champion in the upcoming Contest, in an effort to bring equality to Themyscira and the "outcast" tribe.
  • During the contest she snaps at Diana again for trying to "coddle" her after a fall, insisting that Diana treat her like an opponent. However, Donna is the only competitor who has to be convinced to leave Diana behind after Diana holds up a collapsing cavern so the others can get out.

I-Z

• Iconic Item: Her small silver bullet-deflecting bracelets and silver lasso.
• I Have Many Names: Wonder Girl (the second, Pre Crisis, the first, Post Crisis and Rebirth), Troia, Darkstar, Goddess of the Moon, Wonder Woman, Donna Prince, Fate, Deathbringer.
• I Just Want to Be Special: The reason she cannot seem to stay normal. Even when she gave up her powers to be with her husband and son, she found being a regular human to be intolerable and sought out any way to return to superheroism, even becoming neglectful to her family by joining the Darkstars and going into space.
• Immediate Self-Contradiction: While serving as Wonder Woman in Diana's absence Donna Troy claimed to be a kinder, gentler Wonder Woman...before cutting the arms off an aggressor and deflecting bullets shot back into another. To be fair, Donna was talking about Artemis but everyone else was thinking of Diana.
• Kid Hero All Grown-Up: Donna started her hero career as a Kid Sidekick to Diana, but over time she has grown up, gotten married, had a child, become a widow and outlived her child. And that's just skimming the surface. Gal's had it rough.
• Knows the Ropes: Donna Troy technically wields the original magic lasso Diana once had, ignoring the cosmic retcons that have altered their history, and has proven just as good as Diana when it comes to snaring targets. During Trial of The Amazons Donna embarrassingly admitted to Philippus that she never really learned the art of untying knots, however, and required assistance. Donna possses the Lasso of Persuasion, which can compel those who are captured by it to answer the questions of its wielder truthfully so long as the Donna's willpower is stronger.
• Kryptonite Factor: In the Silver Age Donna Troy's powers came from the purple healing ray, and prolonged usage of the purple healing ray could weaken Donna, for some reason. This first happened when the amazons had left the mortal plane altogether and the other Teen Titans were under the mistaken assumption Donna was weakning because she did not go with them.
• Light 'em Up: One of her Titan Seed powers was the ability to generate and manipulate photons.
• Like Brother and Sister: She and Dick Grayson are often written this way. Given that he's the DCU Chick Magnet and she looks like Wonder Woman this is somewhat surprising, but he really prefers redheads.
• Living Lie Detector: She's able to telepathically sense when she's being lied to.
• Made of Indestructium: Her bracelets and lasso are completely indestructible.
• Manchurian Agent: Post Crisis, the monster known as Genocide plants an Emotion Bomb in Donna that causes Donna to lash out at Diana whenever Donna comes close to The Lasso of Truth, which is what Diana normally uses to undo Mind Manipulation. Genocide also cursed the lariat to burn the sisters on contact, trying her very hardest to make sure it would play no role in "fixing" Donna.
• Mid-Season Upgrade: In the DC Rebirth continuity, Donna Troy did not have true unaided flight but merely glided on air currents, as it had come to be expected of her. Then she figured out how to fly while brainwashed by The Batman Who Laughs.
• Mind-Control Device: The Lasso of Persuasion can compel those Donna binds in it to follow whatever commands she gives so long as she holds it. It's not as good at deprogramming someone already under the affects of Mind Manipulation, but is otherwise more versatile than The Lasso of Truth in this respect.
• Mind over Manners: Enforced. One of her privileges as a Titan Seed was the ability to see into other people's memories, but this only worked if the subject didn't resist Donna Troy. Combined with her light powers she could create three dimensional projections of these memories for the masses to see, which meant those who might be willing to share with Donna might not trust her with other people present.
• Most Common Super Power: While often not as buxom as Diana, she's still drawn with a lot of cleavage. Especially in the yellow starred Wonder Girl suit she started wearing in the 1970s and the black leotard she wore after returning from death, Post Crisis.
• Ms. Fanservice: During her time with Titans, she often ran around in bikinis. In the mid-2000s, her outfit also developed a plunging neckline.
• My Kung-Fu Is Stronger Than Yours: Pre-Crisis, Wonder Girl initially took Starfire aside for sparring, after being told Starfire had endured harsh training from some apparently fearsome interplanetary warlords, in order to prove the amazons were the most fearsome warriors anyone could be trained by.
• My Suit Is Also Super: The star fields in Donna Troy's Titan Seed outfits aren't just fancy designs but pieces of firmament that allow Donna to navigate the cosmos when in outer space. These are the only gifts Troy has consistently kept from the Titans of Myth and she frequently weaves them into her new outfits.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: In the post-crisis series she was mostly immune to harm, but learned too late that lasers can hurt her. She was killed by the lasers of a Superman robot, which are typically inferior to Superman himself, while Diana has survived the heat vision of Superman when he was made more powerful and brainwashed to hate her by Circe. In fact that same arc had Donna survive lasers In the Back from Trinity in a scene parallel to Diana being blasted by Super Doomsday. Why Donna suddenly could not handle a last ditch attack from the Superman robot she was dismantling was not explained. Usually Donna is as tough as Diana, however tough that may happen to be at the moment.
• No Infantile Amnesia: In Who Is Donna Troy?, Donna has pretty clear memories of events that happened when she was 3 years old.
• Not Quite Flight: In the silver age Donna Troy could glide on air currents, just like Diana. A consequence of Teen Titans being spared the Crisis On Infinite Earths Cosmic Retcon was that Post Crisis, Donna was still limited to guiding on air currents while Diana went on to gain actual flight. Donna did get actual flight with the added boost of becoming a titan seed, during her stint as a moon goddess and again while wearing the Darkstar exomantel, but none of that lasted. Due to the nature of Starfire's actual flight, an airborne Donna would often find herself at the mercy of what she called "Kori's backwash".
• Parental Neglect: All things considered, Donna was shown to be considerably neglectful to her husband Terry Long and their son and step-daughter in favor of superheroism to the point where she turned Terry's farm into a summer camp for the Teen Titans without her husband's permission, with him deconstructing her Team Mom status by declaring she was a better mother to the Titans than she was to her own son. It escalated to the point her husband filed for divorce and was the defining cause for her family's eventual death because she was traveling in space with Kyle Rayner. Her awful mothering skills were mentioned again later in various stories as "Reason You Suck" Speech points.
• Platonic Life-Partners: With Dick Grayson (Robin I/Nightwing/Batman III). They have been Childhood Friends and partners in the Teen Titans and the Justice League of America, but Donna is one of the few DC females who is not romantically interested in Dick. Considering she gets away with greeting ''Batman'' with a brofist◊, may also count as One of the Boys.
• Playing Possum: Pre Crisis Donna Troy had been captured by Doctor Cyber, who proceeded to torture Donna with lasers and toxic gas in order to lure big sister Wonder Woman into a trap. After recalling her amazon training, Wonder Girl tries to prevent this by putting herself into a trance, which convinces Doctor Cyber she had gone too far and killed Donna. Wonder Woman still shows up though, and with a little motivation from The Teen Titans, beats Doctor Cyber.
• Plot Hole: In 1961 Wonder Girl was suddenly acting like and being addressed as a different person from Wonder Woman entirely. The establishment of Donna Troy closed this plot hole, but after Crisis on Infinite Earths DC editorial let another plot hole open with Wonder Girl and Wonder Woman being complete strangers while using the same equipment that should have been limited to an exclusive club.
• The Pollyanna: Nothing can seem to dent Donna's optimism. Though it's implied that she is actually a Stepford Smiler because of the various traumas she has been through to the point she can become brutally vicious and morose when pushed far enough.
• Quit Your Whining: Donna Troy spent many of her formative years as an amazon while Cassie Sandsmark did not. Nonetheless Troy was insistent on Sandsmark acting like an amazon so long as Sandsmark thought herself good enough to wear the symbol of one. Donna does end up softening towards Cassie, however.
• The Real Remington Steele: The character of "Wonder Girl" originally appeared as the teenaged incarnation of Wonder Woman in Wonder Woman (1942) (just as the original Superboy was the youthful identity of Superman). When the Teen Titans were created in the 1960s, Wonder Girl was added to the team... but the Titans were contemporaries of the Justice League of America, and by extension of Wonder Woman. Thus the Titans' Wonder Girl was explained four years later to be Donna Troy, an orphan rescued by Wonder Woman and raised among the Amazons. (This explanation would be subjected to repeated further revisions due to The DCU's constant reboots and retoolings, with the result being that Donna has an impossibly convoluted history even for a comic book character. For a while it was even said that she is left over from The Multiverse as it existed before most dimensions were destroyed and the survivors merged during Crisis on Infinite Earths, making her a walking Temporal Paradox who has multiple conflicting histories by nature! However, DC's continued inability to leave well enough alone means that that is now no longer true and she's still getting new origins every few years - some of which are actually impossible due to the revised histories of related characters!)
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: She's the first Wonder Girl (now Troia). Initially she was the adopted daughter of the Amazon's queen, making her functionally a princess, though she had no interest in the throne and returned to "Man's World" to become a photographer.
• Save the Villain: Post Crisis, Angle Man unwittingly transports himself to Donna Troy's location while fleeing a Fury empowered Barbara Minerva and begs Donna to save him. Donna does just that
• Sibling Team: With Diana. The few stories where they aren't siblings are usually where they aren't a team.
• Sidekick Graduations Stick: Whether as Troia, Wonder Woman IV, or plain old Donna Troy, Donna's been a superheroine in her own right for years.
• The Spook: Donna tells her first origin story when she's overcome by an unidentified illness The Teen Titans think is linked to the weakening of the amazons, to Wonder Woman losing her powers, and Donna has to explain that she's only an adopted amazon, so it can't be related. Turns out no one knew who Donna Troy's parents were, how they got into an apartment room that wasn't being rented by anyone, their bodies were too charred by the apartment fire to be identified and no one could find the baby in any of the records. Wonder Woman gives up on trying to find out who the child is, and then gives up on finding her a place in man's world, dubbing her Donna Troy and taking her to Paradise Island. Donna does eventually decide to do her own investigating into her biological family as she gets older, however.
• Star-Spangled Spandex: One of the few constants among Donna's costumes is that she will have stars on it somewhere. Post Titan Seed she'll usually have a star field on it somewhere.
• Statuesque Stunner: Given that she's built exactly like her sister, this isn't surprising. Versions of Donna that aren't twins of Diana tend to be about three inches shorter(imperial 5'9 if Diana is 6 even, etc.), which still tends to be well above the average woman's height.
• Successful Sibling Syndrome: In Whatever Happened To The Warrior Of Truth it is revealed Donna Troy has dreams of talking to her adoptive older sister Diana, where she confesses that she feels inadequate, that she thinks everything seems to come so easy to Diana while Donna feels she works twice as hard for half the results. Unbeknownst to Donna a comatose Diana is being forced to experience the dreams of her troubled friends and rivals until she can make them feel better, has long caught on to it, and knew just how to encourage Donna if Donna's dreams happened to be among those she was required to inhabit.
• Super-Reflexes: Like her sister she can deflect machine gun fire with only her bracelets. Post Crisis she's even able to dodge an attack by Wally West while both are being driven to hostility by a son of Trigon...though Wally still lands far more hits than Donna.
• Super-Speed: Much faster than normal humans.
• Super-Strength: One of the strongest heroines around, in the same category as Diana, Supergirl, and Power Girl.
• Talking the Monster to Death: In Wonder Woman volume 2 Donna Troy descides to appeal to Urzkartaga face to face while Diana tries to protect civilians(and Angle Man) endangered by a fight between Sebastian Ballesteros and Barbara Minerva over The Cheetah powers. Urzkartaga ends up beating Donna up but he relents when she makes a sound arguement that Sebastian is as lousy a host as Barbara was. Ultimately Diana manges to beat Sebastian and Barbara down on her own, since they've worn each other out so much, and all Donna's talk accomplishes long term is Urzkartarga giving Barbara a second chance as Cheetah after she finally kills Sebastian, but he does peacefully back down from Donna.
• Team Mom: For the Titans, growing more mom-like with each generation of the team that she mentors. It's even lampshaded a few times to the point of deconstruction when Donna angrily berates her team on how being the one who is constantly asked for counsel like a parent by her teammates is unbearably stressful since she has her own problems to resolve.
• The Thing That Would Not Leave: After the amazons depart from Earth to restore their strength in the Silver Age, Donna Troy tries to hide the fact she has no place to bunk by hiding in Titan Tower until everyone else has left and then sleeping. Kid Flash catches on to this but lets Donna be until she comes down with an illness no one can explain. He declares this life style is not helping her health and demands she find proper living quarters.
• Token Flyer: Token glider, but Donna was functionally this to the original four Titans. She lost this role as the team expanded and more flyers were added.
• Touched by Vorlons: In one version of her origins, she was granted powers similar to Diana by the Amazons' Purple Ray. In another, she was a "Titan Seed", an orphan who had been rescued by the Titans of Myth and granted superpowers. After her death in Titans/Young Justice: Graduation Day, she was resurrected as a Moon Goddess by the Titans of Myth.
• Tuck and Cover: Ray Palmer resigns himself to death after seeing an atomic bomb go off in his city but Donna Troy refuses to let him perish, attempting to shield Ray from the incoming shock waves.
• Twin Telepathy: In stories where Donna and Diana are twins, the two can share dreams and feel when the other is in danger. Whatever Happened To The Warrior Of Truth is a case where they're not twins and the fact the dream sharing shouldn't be happening is an issue for Diana.
• Warrior Princess: As Diana's little sister, Donna's also a Princess of Themyscira, and follows in her big sister's footsteps when it comes to asskicking.
• Wrestler in All of Us: Post Crisis Donna's used variations of the Polish Hammer, battering ram and spear tackle.

New 52 Continuity

A version of Donna that briefly existed in Wonder Woman (2011) before being Ret-Gone away.

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• Adaptational Backstory Change: This version of Donna Troy was never Wonder Girl and was Born as an Adult by the murderous misandrist Derinoe, who disliked their new Queen's decision to allow their Amazon brothers to live amongst them, and created Donna to be a Evil Knockoff of Diana and led a Amazon rebellion. This change was undone in Wonder Woman (Rebirth) and Titans (Rebirth) where it's revealed her mind was tampered with and her past as Wonder Girl did really occur.
• Adaptational Villainy: This Donna Troy was created to be an Evil Counterpart replacement for Diana rather than her sister and ally, with her introductory story arc having her lead a rebellious Amazon faction.
• Adaptational Wimp: She's not a Flying Brick, being unable to fly and being much weaker and slower than most versions of Donna.
• Alleged Lookalikes: She's supposed to be an exact Evil Knockoff copy of Diana, but was often drawn with a different face and is sometimes a little shorter.
• Artificial Human: She was artificially created by Derinoe to replicate the clay origin of Diana herself.
• Beauty Equals Goodness: In DC Rebirth Donna Troy is the only one of the three Wonder Woman counterparts Warmaster recruits who reforms from her murderous ways, and the only one without any outwardly inhuman traits.
• Born as an Adult: This version of Donna was never a child but an Artificial Human created as an adult using magic and clay. Then the Teen Titans being founded by a group including a younger version of Donna as Wonder Girl was confirmed, even though it contradicted her new backstory and DC Rebirth clung to it, revealing her New 52 origin as an entirely false fabrication and confirming she was an orphan raised by the Amazons. Robinson then tried to claim her New 52 origin was true and her childhood was falsely implanted memories despite it contradicting canon and the memories of Wally West, whose memory the Amazons simply could not have tampered with. As Robinson shoehorning in bits of the New 52 was not well received this is generally ignored.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Following the revision in Wonder Woman (Rebirth) that the New 52 Amazons were fakes, in Titans Donna is now mentioning her earliest memories are of when she was adopted at age seven before being found the Amazons, even saying she has a stepmother. It's implied, much like with Diana, that Donna's actions and memories during her period as Derinoe's puppet were because she was brainwashed and had her personality altered.
• Defeat Means Respect: After a brief relapse into raging homicidal misandry, Donna Troy not only forgives Nikos Aegeus for nearly killing Donna while he was trying to save Diana from her, but even makes friends with his Winged Horse Discordia, who becomes fiercely loyal to Donna.
• Divine Intervention: Reforming Donna Troy is ultimately beyond Diana. She comes really close but ultimately Zeus himself has to step in to save Donna's life and set her right.
• Evil Counterpart: She was created In-Universe to be a replacement for Diana by Amazons who disliked their new Queen's decision to allow their Amazon brothers to live amongst them.
• Evil Knockoff: Donna Troy was deliberately made as one for Diana. She even has Diana's original backstory of being made of clay.
• Lady Legionnaire Wear: Her outfit includes pteruges over pants.
• Legion of Doom: In DC Rebirth Paula Von Gunther recruits Donna Troy to serve alongside Devastation, Genocide and Armageddon II as her "Four Horsewomen" in Paula's mission to destroy Themyscira in revenge for an ancient slaughter the Amazons lead against the Valkyries. Donna is not amused and refuses them entry to the island but Genocide forces her way in anyway, leading to Donna helping Diana subdue Genocide.
• Naked on Arrival: Since was created by Derinoe and Born as an Adult, her very first appearance has her emerging naked from a Magic Cauldron (which is played for fanservice) with only Censor Steam covering her body.
• Pulling Themselves Together: This Donna takes "made of clay" a lot more literally than Diana did in previous continuities. As long as her vital organs are preserved and she's well hydrated Donna can piece herself back together, however this does allow Diana to put quite a hurting on her without fear of Donna dying.
• Redemption Rejection: By the time Diana had defeated Donna, Diana had seen several criminals reform and decided killing should not be a first resort. Unfortunately telling Donna what she did was wrong turned Donna into a Death Seeker who had to be imprisoned for her own safety. Even after Donna gets out of her cell and tries to live a law-abiding life, the first criminal she decides to spare winds up killing Donna's first civilian friend, causing Donna to not only become murderous again but also blame Diana for everything and beat her up out of frustration. All the same, Diana DOES succeed in giving Donna a stronger sense of empathy and morality. She just fails at making Donna a functional member of society.
• Ret-Gone: This version of Donna was very badly received, and she has been slowly retconned out of existence by a Broad Strokes claim that she was just Brainwashed and Crazy (even though it doesn't explain her clay Pulling Themselves Together powers).
• Shadow Archetype: To the New 52 Nikos Aegeus, another super-powered problem "child" to the Long-Lived Diana, whom Diana spares the life in belief he can be reformed. While attempting to reform Donna causes Donna to want to kill herself, it's his own sense of self preservation that helps make Nikos's redemption possible. While Donna is quicker to see the truth in Diana's words than Nikos is, she also has a much harder time sticking to them than he does once he sees the error of his ways, and while Nikos was resentful of Diana before reforming, Donna becomes more so after trying and failing. This leads to Nikos almost killing Donna while trying to protect Diana from her, almost causing Diana to lose her patience with him.
• Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter: After being sprung from prison Donna Troy tracks down The Fates and demands that they cut her thread. The Crossover Cosmology of the DCU betrays her, as too much outside of their sphere of influence went into Donna Troy's creation, leaving her with no "thread" to cut.
• Variant Power Copying: While Diana owes her wonderful powers to her parentage in the New 52 continuity, the amazons who created Donna Troy tried to duplicate them with magic spells and invocations. They did a decent job, but couldn't duplicate Diana's ability to fly.
• Winds of Destiny, Change!: After "Zeek" saves her life by turning her into a Fate, Donna Troy uses her newfound gifts to restore Zeus to adulthood and restore immortality to the Greek Pantheon. This saves Diana, who is being killed by her own War God powers, but has the side effect of bringing Ares back to life.

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