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[[folder:Adjudicator]]
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->''"You had the chance to live for eternity as my caged specimens of your dead planet's life--and you chose to throw it away on a feckless moment of empty self-sacrifice which you would call...heroism."''

An extradimensional being who has taken it upon himself to judge worlds and then destroy them across multiple universes at once when they fail his tests, which he does not allow any to pass no matter how they fare.\\
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->'''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] #291. (1982)
->'''Created By:''' Paul Levitz · Gene Colan
->'''Universes:''' [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Earth-One]], Prime Earth

* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: The extra-dimensional world destroying SufficientlyAdvancedAlien Adjudicator is taller than the Washington Monument.
* DeadlyGaze: The Adjudicator can turn disintegrate people or cause them to fade right out of existence with his gaze if he so chooses.
* DemBones: The henchmen the Adjudicator created as manifestations of his will modeled after the HorsemenOfTheApocalypse were each skeletal figures wearing cloaks.
* ElectiveMute: The Adjudicator lets his thoughts and subsequent actions do the talking for him, which infuriates Diana given he's decided to destroy every version of earth and all inhabitants. While Diana thinks he can talk he never actually does, even after he's been defeated and is being torn away from his intended victims by his peers so it's unclear if he can verbalize his thoughts.
* ExoticEyeDesigns: The Adjudicator's eyes are split into a check pattern of many constantly changing swirling colors each square of which seem to reflect bits of shadow from different scenes.
* EyeBeams: If the rays of multicolored light the Adjudicator can emit from its eyes hit a person they go through a quick transformation of turned crystalline solid and then disintegrated.
* HeartLight: The Adjudicator is an extra-dimensional OmnicidalManiac who has a bright glowing light in the middle of his chest.
* HorsemenOfTheApocalypse: When the Adjudicator decided to judge earth—which in his case meant he'd already decided to destroy every earth in the multiverse—he formed four deadly horsemen based on the Biblical ones as his agents through which to judge humanity via their reaction to them.
* HumanoidAbomination: The Adjudicator appears as 600' tall blue man with something like a star for a heart. He's also a mad ancient thing that exists between realities and goes around "judging" and casually destroying planets and all their inhabitants, by which he means all versions of a planet and its inhabitants across the multiverse at once after "judging" five representative versions. He's only stopped because his keepers let him play with worlds as a way to keep him from annoying them by thinking of them and Diana's use of her lasso on him while questioning who gave him the authority to destroy earth makes him think of his keepers, who summon him for punishment in response.
* JudgeJuryAndExecutioner: Ever since his SufficientlyAdvancedAlien people kicked him out for being nuts the Adjudicator has been traveling the multiverse "judging" the worthiness of planets, then wiping out every single version of said planet across the multiverse in one go when it inevitably fails.
* ObliviouslyEvil: The Adjudicator does not see his actions, which are the destruction of populated worlds by destroying a planet across multiple dimensions, as anything but just even after it's learned that he was given the duty of "judging" worlds by his fellows who couldn't stand him and essentially gave him the "task" of playing with worlds they didn't care about so long as he didn't annoy them by thinking of them.
* OmnicidalManiac: The Adjudicator justifies his actions as judgement on the peoples of whatever world he's currently destroying across the multiverse, but he "judges" the planets on a skewed scale; only sometimes sending minions to test the inhabitants of a handful of the representative versions of the planet and that judgement always calls for the destruction of the planet(s) and its/their inhabitants.
* SufficientlyAdvancedAlien: The Adjudicator is a multi-dimensional being who goes around destroying planets, across all dimensions at once. Right when the coalition of super-heroes from four different earths fail to stop him from destroying earth, his more powerful overseers step in and save the planet, considering him to have overstepped his bounds.
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[[folder:Aegeus]]
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->'''AKA:''' Nikos Aegeus
->''"I've had to '''scrape''' and '''fight'''... for everything... I always knew I was destined for something better. Well, I won't be denied any longer. It's time I got what I '''deserved'''."''

A terrorist from Greece who received magical weapons from the goddess Athena. Nikos revived a magical bridle, the Vulcan's Six Daggers that could cut through anything and a flying stallion named Pegasus. In the New 52, he is introduced as a usurper to Wonder Woman's role as the God of War.\\
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->'''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Women'' (Vol 1) #297 (1982)
->'''Created By:''' Paul Kupperberg & Curt Swan
->'''Universes:''' [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Earth-One]], [[ComicBook/PostCrisis New Earth]], Prime Earth
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* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Aegeus carries Vulcan's Daggers: blades forged by Vulcan himself that can slice through virtually any substance or material. They were able to cut through Wonder Woman's own lasso with ease and create a deep hole simply through slicing the ground a short number of times.
* DivineParentage: New 52 Aegues is a great grand nephew of Poseidon. Unfortunately for him Poseidon doesn't give two rats about whether Aegues lives or dies and he's too far down the family tree to have inhereted any godly powers.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: New 52 Nikos is no match of Wonder Woman. He has divined parentage but is too far removed from it for any benefit and his godly ancestor refuses to unlock his latent potential. It's not until an unknown benefactor gives him PowerAtAPrice that he can begin his mission of killing Wonder Woman in earnest.
* GatheringSteam: His benefactor in New 52 gives him a power boost every time he at least tries to kill Diana, even as he continues to fail. This cuts off once Nikos learns this is coming at a [[PowerAtAPrice price]].
* GoodFeelsGood: New 52 Aegeus initially hates Diana for being stuck on the straight and narrow, incensed that someone like her could be "gifted" with the title of war god. After nearly dying several times and being still alive largely because of Diana's mercy though he Aegeus does start to warm up to her a little...[[NiceJobBreakingItHero at exactly the moment she doesn't want him around at all.]]
* GreenEyedMonster: Why he initially hates Diana in the 52 comics. Nikos is descended from godhood too, but while Diana got nifty super powers and a purpose in life out of them, Nikos has gotten nothing but stories from his grand mother.
* HeelFaceTurn: Attempted by the New 52, who not only tries to stop killing Wonder Woman but tries to help her in her mission of spreading peace. Unfortunately he makes her angry for the first time, [[UnWantedAssistance the first time he tries to help]], when he shoots Donna Troy, who Wonder Woman was also trying to reform at the time.
* HorseArcher: New 52 makes his WeaponOfChoice arrows. This allows Diana, or rather Hephestus, to investigate his weaponry and determine just why this kid no one ever heard of has weapons that can kill gods.
* KillTheGod: His initial goal in New 52. Now that [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly lack of belief]] has rendered the Olympians and gods related to them mortal, now that he has seen Wonder Woman take the title "God Of War" by killing Ares, Nikos seeks to kill her believing he would be a better, less self righteous god of war. Ironically, when he gives up on this and tries to help Wonder Woman achieve her mission of peace he alomst foils Zeus's plans to restore immortality to the gods, all by accident!
* OlderHeroVersusYoungerVillain: While Diana retains the benefits of a youthful body, this is what keeps her from slaugtering Nikos in the New 52 continuity. He's just a kid who is clearly out of his depth.
* {{Pegasus}}: Bellerophon gifted Aegeus with the winged horse Pegasus.
* PerfectPoison: The post crisis version has a Lernaean Hydra Venom Spear, that can use its venom to stop a high-powered regenerator and slowly kill them.
* ShadowArchetype: In New 52 he is this to Donna Troy, as both are super powered problem "children" Wonder Woman is trying to "save" and set on a better path. While Donna Troy was manipulated into believing she was doing the right thing and became self destructively self loathing when she realized she had been lied to Aegeus didn't need much convincing to start down the path of bloodshed and is mostly being held back by his own sense of self preservation than by any notions of morality. Donna Troys attempts to be good in "man's world" get a girl killed however, causing her to relapse and attack Wonder Woman in her fury while being shown mercy by the woman he hates and scorn by someone he thought of as a friend causes Nikos Aegeus to turn over a new leaf and nearly kill Donna Troy to "protect" Wonder Woman.
* ShockAndAwe: Post Crisis Aegeus carries the Thunderbolts of Zeus, which transform into ligtning bolts when he throws them.
* TheDragon: New 52 Nikos is the pawn of an unknown deity that wants him to kill Diana and replace her as a more worthy god of war, but is totally content with Diana killing him in self defense, believing it will lead to her [[ItGetsEasier becoming a more worthy god of war]]. Nikos becomes a SpannerInTheWorks simply by deciding to "help" Diana in his own, non lethal manner after coming to respect her.
* {{Teleportation}}: As wells as ShockAndAwe, the Thunderbolts of Zeus can be used for teleportation by the post crisis version.
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[[folder:Alkyone]]
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->''"You were not there. You can’t know. What this place was like before she, before the dragon, was born. "Paradise Island", we called it. And it was.& Since then, it’s been endless war and invasions and death and pain. And yet the Amazons still love her. Still see her as the helpless baby in the rain."''

A member of The Circle, Hippolyta's elite blood-sworn bodyguards, and a former weapons master. Alkyone calls Diana "The Dragon" and was convinced that she would destroy Themyscira, and tried to kill the infant, resulting in her imprisonment with the other members of The Circle.

->'''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman2006 Vol 3]] #14. (2008)
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* BaldOfEvil: Has no hair and no sense of benevolence in her.
* BlackEyesOfEvil: [[spoiler: After taking some of Genocide's powers, along with RedEyesTakeWarning. For extra emphasis on "evil", her pupils now look like skulls]].
* BodyguardBetrayal: Betrays Hippolyta by trying to kill her daughter.
* BodyguardCrush: On Hippolyta, which drives her turn to villainy.
* DarkActionGirl: Like any evil Amazon.
* ExoticEyeDesigns: [[spoiler: After taking some of Genocide's powers, her pupils now look like skulls.]]
* GreenEyedMonster: Hinted to be a major reason she despises Diana as she is the child all the Amazons wanted but could never have. Upon being defeated by Diana the first time, her words were [[spoiler: "You could have been mine."]]
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Her justification for killing the Amazon Gennes after she went mad and thought a doll was her child.
* ImmortalProcreationClause: A major source of angst not just for Alkyone, but all the Amazons, since none are able to have children.
* InterserviceRivalry: Was frequently at odds with Philippus, Captain of the General Guard.
* KnightTemplar: The Circle was well-known for being overzealous about protecting Hippolyta. Alkyone takes it even further with her obsession with defending what she sees as proper Amazon culture by destroying Diana.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Her secret love and intense loyalty to Hippolyta and the Amazon way of life led her to commit increasingly immoral actions to the point she became set on destroying anything that she felt threatened the "proper" Amazon way of life.
* NecessarilyEvil: How Alkyone views her own actions.
-->'''Alkyone:''' I did this to save our people, Diana! I have made terrible choices. I never wanted to be queen. I just wanted... I just wanted things to never change. Your beautiful mother, and my Circle to watch over her until the end of time!
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler: Meaning she comes back]].
* PraetorianGuard: She leads Queen Hippolyta's bodyguard, and like the real Praetorian Guard, ultimately betrays the person she is supposed to protect.
* PsychoLesbian: Sadly, the first in Amazon history. For Hippolyta, no less.
* SuperReflexes: Post crisis Amazons have a degree of these compare to pure humans, but much less than Wonder Woman until she [[spoiler:takes some of Genocide's power]]
* SuperSpeed: As a Post-Crisis Amazon she's been granted faster than human speed by the goddesses.
* SuperStrength: As an post crisis Amazon she can attain slightly higher levels of strength than a pure human, but has nothing on Wonder Woman [[spoiler:until taking some of Genocide's power]].
* StrawFeminist: Takes her misandry far further than even most other Amazons.
* TheRival: To Philippus. They should have mostly unrleated duties but Alkyone tends to overstep her boundaries and into Philipus's territory.
* WouldHurtAChild: Would try to kill a baby actually.
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[[folder:Angle Man]]
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->'''AKA: '''Angelo Bend
->''"Greetings, all. For those who've never had the pleasure of meeting me before, the name's Angle Man. I'm the gent who stole your space shuttle."''

Originally an Italian conman and master thief obsessed with knowing all the angles, Angelo Bend later gained a magic Penrose triangle that enabled him to warp space time, manipulating geometry to his advantage. He has fought Diana, Donna, and Cassie at various points in his career, and has a bit of a crush on Donna.\\
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->'''First Appearance:''' Wonder Woman [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] #62. (1953)
->'''Created By:''' Robert Kanigher & Harry G. Peter
->'''Universes:''' [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Earth-Two]], [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Earth-One]], [[ComicBook/PostCrisis New Earth]], Prime Earth, Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse, [[WesternAnimation/DCSuperFriends Earth-508]], WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold
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* BadassInANiceSuit: Post-Crisis he did most of his crimes in a suit and tie, though he did eventually redone his Pre-Crisis green and orange tights.
* ConMan: The original Golden Age Angle Man was a con man and thief with no powers or magic items.
* GentlemanThief: As of ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'' Angle Man has gotten a revamp that includes a nice suit and hat and become a friendly if more unpredictable thief who always does his best to compliment the ladies. He also pays back his debts when Donna helps save his life.
* KilledOffForReal: The original Angle Man died in the first "Crisis", apparently as a result of attempting to use his Angler during the massive dimensional upheavals caused by that event. His death is undone as a result of Wonder Woman's Post-Crisis reboot.
* ManipulativeBastard: The original golden age Angle Man was all about cheating people who thought he was helping them out of their money, sometimes even if this meant Angle Man would be losing money in the long term, so long as he could bear the cost of his fun.
* PhantomThief: A GentlemanThief who likes challenging himself by announcing he what he's going to steal, and then pulling of flamboyant theatrical heists often right in plain view while avoiding capture. He does however steal for a profit, he just likes clients with more odd requests.
* RealityWarper: His magic angle can warp geometry.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: The ''New 52'' version is the son of [[Characters/DCComicsVandalSavage Vandal Savage]].
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Became more associated with Characters/{{Catwoman|SelinaKyle}} for a time after Donna's death, before returning to Wonder Woman's rogues.
* SecondaryColorNemesis: His original costume was green and was a surprisingly competent criminal.
* StevenUlyssesPerhero: "Angelo Bend"? Seriously?
* SpaceMaster: His magic angle can warp geometry.
* VillainInAWhiteSuit: Angle Man was originally a thief with ties to organized crime who wore a light suit and matching fedora, before being suited up in green spandex in the Silver Age. He returned to his white suit and fedora and became a GentlemanThief ComicBook/PostCrisis.
* VillainTeamUp: Headed the Secret Society, and was a member of Circe's massive collective of Wonder Woman villains.
* VillainousCrush: He was caught by Donna Troy while trying to steal an ancient artifact from a museum. Despite this, Angle Man formed a bit of a crush on the Amazon. He became so enamored with her that he instinctively transported himself to Themyscira seeking Donna's help when he was savagely attacked by a Fury possessed Barbara Minerva.
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[[folder:Arachne]]
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->'''A.K.A.:''' Richard Agoras
->''"Prepare to die, little godspawn! So prideful and self-important, striving to hold back the tide of death! Feel the wrath of Arachne, whom the gods cursed for pride! My venom flows straight from the font of the universe!"''

An ordinary office worker, kidnapped and experimented upon by Doctor Poison. Under influence of the Pandora virus, he could transform into a massive spider.

->'''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' vol. 2 #151 (1999)
->'''Created By:''' Gerry Conway & Don Heck
->'''Universes:''' [[ComicBook/PostCrisis New Earth]]
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* GiantSpider: After exposure to the Pandora virus, Richard Agoras uncontrollably changes into a giant spider.
* InvoluntaryShapeshifter: Has no control over his transformations.
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[[folder:Armageddon I & III]]
[[WMG:Armageddon I]]
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->''"Glad you could rejoin us, my dear. You're just in time for my final act of sabotage in America...Perhaps my greatest blow for international freedom!"''

Armageddon was Nazi mastermind who used advanced technology, such as boots that enabled him to stomp powerful vibrations and a toxin that turned men into mindless ogres he called Muutorrs.

->'''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' vol. 1 #234 (1977)
->'''Created By:''' Gerry Conway & Don Heck
->'''Universes:''' [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Earth-Two]], [[ComicBook/PostCrisis New Earth]]
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* BadassNormal: He actually doesn't have any powers but his strength with the axe makes him more than a match for most opposition.
* TheFaceless: Never seen without his mask.
* PsychoSerum: Stole an experimental biochemical formula, which was capable of turning human beings into hulking, berserker-type monsters that would be more effective in combat that he called Muutorrs.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: He dresses in black and red and he's an enforcer of the Nazis and an evil mastermind.
* ShockwaveStomp: Wore boots that enabled him to stomp powerful vibrations.
* TrickedOutShoes: Wore boots that enabled him to stomp powerful vibrations.
* WeaponSpecialization: Carried a doubled-bladed executioner's axe as his personal weapon.

[[WMG:Armageddon III]]
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->''"I know why I am here. I lost everything...My humanity, my life, even the memory of my name...to be a tool for my father's hatred of Wonder Woman."''

Armageddon is a descendant of an unknown race of Ogres. Her father and grandfather had both been enemies of Wonder Woman. Making her home in the wilderness of Canada, Armageddon was tracked down by Warmaster and recruited into her Four Horsewomen.

->'''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' vol. 1 #753 (2020)
->'''Created By:''' Steve Orlando & Max Raynor
->'''Universes:''' Prime Earth
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* AffirmativeActionLegacy: Strangely enough, yes. She's female and a non-human taking the codename of a human male.
* EnhancedArchaicWeapon: Carries a rocket war axe.
* LegionOfDoom: Paula Von Gunther recruits her to be a member of Paula's "Four Horsewomen" who Paula attends to lead in the destruction of Themyscira out of spite for The Valkyries being attacked by The Amazons in antiquity. Out of Devastation, Genocide and Donna Troy, Armageddon is the only one ''not'' to be a Wonder Woman counterpart, though Gunther seeks her out claiming her ancestors fought Wonder Woman.
* OurOgresAreHungrier: Armageddon is a descendant of an unknown race of Ogres.
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* SuperStrength: By human standards she is far stronger than her size and weight would suggest, and she's pretty big to begin with
* WeaponSpecialization: Just like her predecessor, she carries a rocket war axe.
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[[folder:Blue Snowman]]
[[WMG:Blue Snowman]]
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->'''AKA:''' Byrna Brilyant

->''“Ha ! My telescopic snow ray has caught Wonder Woman ! Even if she can get out of her plane, she’ll freeze to death instantly !”''

A foe of UsefulNotes/{{the Golden Age|OfComicBooks}} Wonder Woman, gender-fluid mad scientist Byrna Brilyant used their father's invention of "blue snow" to paralyze an entire farming community in exchange for a ransom. They later joined Villainy Incorporated.\\
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For tropes relating specifically to their Golden Age/Earth-Two iteration see their entry [[Characters/WonderWoman1942 here]].\\
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->'''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/SensationComics'' #59. (1946)
->'''Created By:''' Joye Murchison & Harry G. Peter
->'''Universes:''' [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Earth-Two]], [[ComicBook/PostCrisis New Earth]], Prime Earth, [[WesternAnimation/DCSuperFriends Earth-508]]
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* AdaptationalBadass: Byrna "Blue Snowman" Brilyant has never posed a huge physical threat as they're a mad scientist fighting the Amazon's champion, and originally used their artificial snow to hold a farming community's fields for ransom. As of ''ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth'' they are far more dangerous and given a mecha to pilot rather than a small powered suit, though Wondy still doesn't have too hard a time taking them down. Byrna is a much more deadly threat to civilians and non-powered opponents.
* AdaptationalWimp: Byrna's Post-Crisis iteration is a joke compared to their original self. They were originally something like an evil, more secretive Iron Man; with multiple suits, experimental weapons and remote-controlled robots, while their Post-Crisis self is killed offhand without ever posing a threat in their first appearance.
* AlliterativeName: '''B'''yrna '''B'''rilyant.
* AscendedExtra: Post-Crisis Blue Snowman was just a joke character brought in to get unceremoniously eaten, but Post-Rebirth Blue Snowman is back to being an acceptable threat, even appearing in ''Tis the Season to Be Freezin''', which doesn't feature Wonder Woman.
* BackFromTheDead: Byrna was revived in the post-Flashpoint continuity after being unceremoniously eaten alive in ''Power Girl''.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: When they first appear, Byrna is acting as a secretary at the Fair Weather Valley town meeting and voices their disgust at how childish the people are acting. Then they're revealed as the Blue Snowman.
* CerebusRetcon: People have repeatedly joked about the ridiculousness of an apparent woman calling themselves "Blue Snowman." Then Byrna appeared in ''DC Love Is A Battlefield'' and was revealed to be gender-fluid, having already spent a lot of time being mocked and rejected for "not being able to decide if they're a boy or girl." Suddenly the jokes in ''Power Girl'' aren't funny anymore.
* CListFodder: Their official Post-Crisis debut in ''ComicBook/PowerGirl'' #7 lasted long enough for her to be eaten alive. They're actually listed as being cannon fodder with a life expectancy of a few pages.
* ColorCharacter: ''Blue'' Snowman.
* CreepyCrossdresser: Created a masculine supervillain persona. They're listed in ''ComicBook/PowerGirl'' as "C-List Wonder Woman villain with gender issues." Byrna was later established to be gender-fluid and crafted their identity as "Blue Snowman" because sometimes they feel like a man.
* {{Foil}}: To Zara, princess of the crimson flame. Byrna doesn't go by anything that could be assume to be a given name and hides her appearance behind machinery and armor while Zara is a performer who likes showing off her body. Byrna seeks to harm as few people as possible, seeking mostly to bolster her bank account, while Zara hates people beyond what pleasure she can get out of them, quickly burning through any money she manages to acquire and leaving many casualties in her wake. Unnatural blue snow generated by macinery that only gets more sophistated with each CosmicRetcon versus unnatural red fire produced by chemicals that become an innate super power of Zara's after such a retcon.
* HumongousMecha: Byrna Brilyant's snowstorm creating "Blue Snowman" Powered Armor of prior incarnations is leveled up to a giant cyclops MotionCaptureMecha in ''Wonder Woman (Rebirth)''.
* AnIcePerson: Byrna's Blue Snowman suit has the power to create localized snowstorms.
* MadScientist: A power-hungry scientist who takes the old and abandoned projects of other scientists and completes and perfects them for their own use, usually by combining them into their suit of powered armor.
* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: Subverted. They're father was a scientist and they're's beautiful, but they're a mad scientist in their own right. Byrna's also gender-fluid.
* NonActionGuy: Once the battle came down to them, Wonder Woman, and their respective fists it was a dead issue.
* PoweredArmor: Byrna used a snowman themed "Blue Snowman" mechanized snow creating armor in the Pre-Flashpoint continuity, though given who they're normally up against it didn't do them much good.
* SadistTeacher: Subverted. They used to be a school teacher but they're never shown acting maliciously to their students.
* TookALevelInBadass: Subverted in the Post-Crisis continuity. They're redesigned with a suit of robotic armor and a pipe that fires icicles but they're still taken down by Power Girl and Dr. Mid-Nite, and then eaten alive.
* UncertainDoom: Their ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'' incarnation was wired into her Exo-Mecha, and their brain "crashed" when Diana took down the suit. Byrna later reappeared in ''DC Love Is A Battlefield'' alive and well and back in the armor they wore in ''Power Girl''.
* VillainTeamUp: Served as a founding member of Villainy Inc. In the DC Rebirth continuity, they were part of the new unnamed interaction of the same team, this time put together by Veronica Cale.
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[[folder:Cheetah (I-IV)]]
!![[Characters/WonderWomanCheetah Cheetah (I-IV)]]
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Cheetah is a LegacyCharacter and one of the major contenders for the title of Wonder Woman's Arch-Enemy. There have been four people who have taken up the mantle of Cheetah, and the first version, Priscilla Rich, a wealthy but troubled socialite with a SplitPersonality who donned a cheetah costume and fought Diana (or Hippolyta who was Wonder Woman back in the 1940s in the Post-Crisis continuity), was created by Wonder Woman's creator William Moulton Marston.\\
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For tropes relating specifically to Priscilla Rich's Golden Age/Earth-Two iteration see her entry [[Characters/WonderWoman1942 here]].\\
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->'''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] #6. (1943)
->'''Created By:''' William Moulton Marston & Harry G. Peter
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[[folder:Chuma]]
[[WMG:Chuma]]
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->''" I be humbly sorry, your highness. But I could not allow you to be harming my most precious Madam."''

Urzkartaga's high priest and faithful manservant to Barbara Minerva, the third [[Characters/WonderWomanCheetah Cheetah]].\\
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->'''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'' #7. (1949)
->'''Created By:''' Len Wein & Creator/GeorgePerez
->'''Universes:''' New Earth
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* AffablyEvil: He's extremely polite to Diana, so it's easy to forget he's the HighPriest to a very evil deity who demands HumanSacrifice and Chuma is very much willing to kill for either his god or Minerva's sake.
* AlchemyIsMagic: He's the one who performs the RitualMagic necessary for the Cheetah transformation, which includes various alchemy concoctions and potions.
* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: Has become immune to the own poisons that he uses due to using them on himself for many years.
* BackFromTheDead: He was killed by the Amazons of Bana-Mighdall, but was later brought back to life when Minerva [[DealWithTheDevil sold her soul to Neron]] in exchange for his life.
* BaldOfAuthority: The bald HighPriest of the Urzkartaga tribe.
* BeleagueredAssistant: Minerva doesn't treat him with much respect and is often an impatient BadBoss, but he takes it in stride and cats as her faithful manservant.
* BlowGun: His weapon, with the darts coated with poison of his own making.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: His last appearance in ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'' was shortly before Minerva dealt with Sebastian B7allesteros and regained her powers as Cheetah. He never appears again and Minerva never explains what happened to him. Both ''New 52'' and ''Rebirth'' continuities also didn't bring him back, and his role as Urzkartaga's main worshipper was replaced by African warlord Andres Cadulo in ''Rebirth''.
* DevotedToYou: Due to Minerva being TheChampion and [[MarriageToAGod bride]] to Urzkartaga, he's completely devoted to helping her achieve whatever she wants.
* EthnicMagician: An African who's connected to occult magic and dark rituals.
* FunetikAksent: He is an African man who often speaks with a phonetic accent, and seems particularly unable to pronounce the "th" sound. But despite this trope of having the implication that the character is dumb or uncultured, Chuma is portrayed as a very intelligent and sophisticated man.
* HighPriest: He used to be the religious leader of the {{cult}} of Urzkartaga, serving as the high priest. Now that the tribe is gone, he doesn't do much in that position other than tending to Urzkartaga's plant.
* IOweYouMyLife: Part of the reason he's so [[DevotedToYou devoted]] and [[UndyingLoyalty loyal]] Minerva is that she saved and spared his life when she found him in the aftermath of the surprise attack in Urzkartaga's tribe.
* MagicalNegro: A black African with vast mythical knowledge.
* MasterPoisoner: He's an expert at making poisons and other deadly concoctions.
* MiniatureSeniorCitizens: He's a very old and extremely diminutive man.
* OnlyOneName: He's only ever known as Chuma.
* ReligionIsMagic: All his mystical powers come from his dedication to Urzkartaga.
* {{Sidekick}}: Acts one to Minerva, assisting in her evil plans and when they seemingly have little to do with Urzkartaga, such as helping her steal Wonder Woman's Lasso of Truth
* SoleSurvivor: The only survivor of his tribe and of Urzkartaga's {{cult}}.
* SquishyWizard: He can use his occult magic and some weapons to defend himself, but is very physically frail.
* UndyingLoyalty: Despite Minerva often being a BadBoss to him and the mighty enemies she makes, it doesn't shake the loyalty he has towards him being her servant. Notably, he sides with her against Sebastian Ballesteros even though Urzkartaga himself favored him.
* WitchDoctor: Was basically this to his African tribe, serving as their mystical guide, healer and spiritual leader.
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[[folder:Circe]]
!!Circe
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[[caption-width-right:350:Circe's preferred appearance as of DC Rebirth. ''[[ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth Wonder Woman]]'' #20 (vol. 5), 2017. Art by Bilquis Evely]]
->''"When I heard you had killed [[Characters/WonderWomanAres Ares]] and began strutting around as the "God of War," I thought to myself... now that is the arrogance of an Amazon. Taking what doesn't belong to them all while acting like a god's gift to women."''
-->-- Circe to Wonder Woman, ''Superman/Wonder Woman'' #16

Creator/DCComics' version of the Ancient Greek sorceress from Myth/ClassicalMythology and Creator/{{Homer}}'s ''Literature/TheOdyssey''. Circe would at first only make a variety of scattered and intermittent appearances in multiple DC Comics books, not just Wonder Woman's, but when the [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Wonder Woman title would be relaunched]] under Creator/GeorgePerez, Circe would go on to become one of Diana's most persistent and dangerous foes [[note]] Surpassed only by [[Characters/WonderWomanCheetah Cheetah]] and [[Characters/WonderWomanAres Ares]] in terms of prominence[[/note]], being the source of a many calamitous events in her history. \\

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->'''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'' #37. (1949)
->'''Created By:''' Robert Kanigher & Harry G. Peter
->'''Universes:''' Earth-Two, Earth-One, New Earth, Prime Earth, Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse

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* AllWomenHateEachOther: She expresses this view in issue #14 of ''Superman/Wonder Woman''.
-->What is it with women? With men I know what to expect. An initial spurt of bravura teamed in the end with cowardice. Even the best of men are driven by--at most--two or three desires. Easily manipulated. Like putty, but with too much hair. But women... women are as baffling and as dangerous to each other as we are to man. You can make no predictions on what we will do next, who we might crush... Who we might love.
* AnimalStereotypes: When Circe is feeling particularly whimsical she has her magic transform her victims turned slaves into creatures based on their "animal within", such as a particularly stubborn man turning into a bull headed man. Maj. Griggs, who is respectful but unquestionably a horndog, ends up turned into a goat-like monster that looks like a satyr.
* Animorphism: Circe, much like her mythological counterpart, has a nasty habit of turning men into animals against their will and erasing their sense of self while she does so. Sometimes she turns them fully into animals, which she did more often back in ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'', but from ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'' on she's more likely to turn them into animalistic monsters to serve her more usefully. She also [[ImAHumanitarian cooks and eats]] her Beast Men.
* ArchEnemy: She, Ares, and the various incarnations of The Cheetah are the three contenders for this title, as Diana's longest-running, most consistently dangerous, and deeply personal adversaries. When Luthor assembled the first Injustice Gang, Post-Crisis, he wanted it to include the worst enemies of every Justice League member and chose Circe to fill that spot for Wonder Woman.
* AGodAmI: In ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueDark'' (vol. 2), she becomes the new Goddess of Magic of the DC Universe following the death of Hecate. Thanks in part due to her manipulations of events that led to Hecate's death that led to Circe inheriting her powers.
* BadassInANiceSuit: As of ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'' and as one can see in the page image above Circe seems to have gone in this direction, adopting a cream blazer/long coat, black leather slacks, and WaistcoatOfStyle ensemble paired with a bright red pixie cut.
* BadBoss: Treats her Bestiamorphs like crap.
* BarrierWarrior: Often creates shields in combat, once erecting one around a city.
* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler:When disguising herself as Donna Milton, the spell works a bit too well, and she comes to be Diana's good friend]].
* BeenThereShapedHistory: States she almost gave Homer his eyesight back for including her in ''Literature/TheOdyssey''.
* BerserkButton: Wonder Woman's idealism and speechifying is one for her. Mentioning her daughter Lyta, even indirectly, is an even bigger one. She fried an Amazon to the bone with magic lightning just for mentioning her.
* BigBad: If somebody is screwing with Diana's life it will be one of Ares, Cheetah II, or Circe. She's been the mastermind behind ''Amazons Attack'', ''War of the Gods'', and more than a few other ugly little plots.
* BraidsOfAction: [[https://comicvine1.cbsistatic.com/uploads/scale_super/11140/111406684/7187786-circe%20and%20wonder%20woman.jpg Sports two of these in a form she takes]] in the ComicBook/New52 and ComicBook/DCRebirth
* TheChessmaster: The most consistent when it comes to this of all of Wonder Woman's major rogues;
** During ''War of the Gods'' she manipulated the several pantheons of the DC Universe into war with one another
** She orchestrated the events of ''ComicBook/AmazonsAttack'' by mind-controlling Hippolyta into believing Diana was being held captive by the U.S.
** In ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueDark'' (vol. 2) she manipulated the JLD into killing the Goddess Hecate so she could take over as the DC Universe's Goddess of Magic.
* ClassicVillain: She is a Proud, narcissistic, shapeshifting WickedWitch who often uses lies and half-truths. Her opponent is a humble sincere warrior princess who carries the Lasso of Truth.
* DeityOfHumanOrigin: Originally a princess from the island of Colchis as of ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueDark'' (vol. 2) she has become the new Goddess of Magic of the DC Universe.
* DoesNotLikeMen: DependingOnTheWriter. Other times she's a MisanthropeSupreme.
* DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Her end goal regardless of her motives has been to create a chaotic world of misery, conflict, and all-around vileness where she reigns supreme.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Her daughter, Lyta, is the only person ever shown that Circe genuinely cares about and loves enough to hold off on attacking Wonder Woman. She mentioned that Lyta is the only thing that makes her feel her long life was worth living.
* EvilCounterpart: Wonder Woman loves everyone. Circe hates everyone. Both are magical and mythological superwomen empowered by higher beings who strive to change the world with their beliefs and powers. However, Wonder Woman wants a peaceful world of kindness and virtue, whereas Circe desires a world of cruelty and depravity. Even their behavior marks the contrast of a MadonnaWhoreComplex perception seen against women.
* EvilParentsWantGoodKids: She goes out of her way to keep Lyta away from her villainous activities.
* EvilRedhead: And we are talking ''crimson'' more often than not.
* EvilerThanThou: Has clashed with other Wonder Woman villains, and with the likes of [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]] and [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]] on occasion.
* FatalFlaw: Her arrogance and sadism have often proven to be her downfall.
* FlamingHair: [[https://comicvine1.cbsistatic.com/uploads/original/11141/111415790/7315748-6177448281-aHR0cDovL3d3dy5uZXdzYXJhbWEuY29tL2ltYWdlcy9pLzAwMC8yNjYvOTEyL2kwMi9KTERfMTZfNS5qcGc%3D Has this in her'' Goddess of Magic form]] in ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueDark'' (vol. 2)
* {{Foil}}:
** Circe's attitudes towards men and the world are played in deliberate contrast to Diana's more compassionate view. Really exemplified after Circe briefly stole Diana's powers and became an EvilCounterpart to Wonder Woman.
** In her first Post-Crisis story, she herself points it out. Much like her, she too came to be to fulfill a mission from the gods - namely, Hecate, who wished to punish humanity for her mistreatment, which Circe did by driving divides between men and women further. She later invokes their similarities again when she explains how both she and Diana are powerful women who are outsiders feared by humans because the causes they fight are hidden beneath blood shed by their hands (Circe fought and killed to get her daughter back, while Diana fought and killed others like Maxwell Lord to protect her friends and herself).
** Their modest operandi, as Wonder Woman is a truth seeker and spy smasher, while Circe is a deceptive chess master. Where Wonder Woman seeks to reform Circe seeks to transform for the sake of control or torment. Where Wonder Woman handles hostilities with striking, wrestling, tieing, even cutting if she has to, Circe prefers to have other people do those things for her, lay traps or cast spells from a distance if she has to get herself involved.
* ForcedTransformation: Her most common shtick is turning men into Bestiamorphs against their will. The level of consciousness she leaves the victims varies with her whims but they are forced to serve her and lose their human forms to become animalistic and monstrous, usually as MixAndMatchCritters but occasionally looking like an ordinary animal.
* FriendlyEnemy: Sometimes behaves this way towards Diana. Like many other things about Circe, this is [[DependingOnTheWriter dependent upon the writer]]. It stems from a a story where she wanted to get close to Diana, to ruin her, but to get around the lasso of truth Circe couldn't just change how just looked and sounded but also had to banish the feelings of hatred she had for Diana from her heart, mind and guts. While these did come back, some writers portray this as having [[GoneHorriblyWrong gone wrong]], with Circe unable to rid herself of genuine feelings of friendship she formed for Diana in the interrim, causing internal conflict within Circe.
* {{Gendercide}}: Not the first Wonder Woman antagonist to try this, and she won't be the last either.
* HotWitch: A very conventionally attractive witch who often wears revealing clothes.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: In post-crisis. She started out as a villain. Then she tried to infiltrate Diana's life by posing as a woman named Donna Milton only to end up BecomingTheMask. For a brief time she was an ally to Diana but went back to being a villain. The end of Allan Heinberg's ''Who Is Wonder Woman?'' miniseries ended with her and Diana reaching a truce of sorts only for her to go back to being evil again in Jodi Picoult's run.
* HellBentForLeather: Wore a very revealing all-black leather getup in Rucka's first run.
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler: Actually manages to kill Wonder Woman during War of the Gods by using a spell designed to revert her into clay]]. [[spoiler: This makes her the only villain amongst the DC Trinity's rogues gallery who has actually succeeded in killing the hero she opposes in main continuity]].
* HotWitch: Circe is often depicted as wearing outfits that flatter her beautiful figure.
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** Her misandry hasn't stopped her from conducting affairs with Hercules, Ares, and Ballesteros. Despite her pride and distaste in men, she even tried to seduce Lex Luthor to gain perks while he was acting as President of the United States.
** She hated Diana for separating her from her daughter Lyta. Diana points out that Circe did the same thing to Julia Kapataelis and her daughter Vanessa.
* IconicSequelCharacter: Circe is easily the most notable Wonder Woman villain who wasn't in the original Marston/Peters run (ex. Cheetah, Ares, Dr. Psycho, Giganta). Debuting under the subsequent writer Creator/RobertKanigher in 1949 and not becoming fully integrated into Wondy's mythos until the Creator/GeorgePerez reboot in the 80s.
* ImmortalityImmorality: Circe is one of the oldest humans in the DC Universe, and is among the most dangerous.
* {{Jerkass}}: She is traditionally a cruel, self-centered egotistical jerk who enslaves and forcibly transforms others into her slaves and sees all of humanity as resources that she finds annoying at best in their current state.
* LadyOfBlackMagic: Villainous version. Circe packs enough magical power to level cities and affect hundreds of people at once with her transformation curses.
* MagicalBarefooter: She does not wear shoes save for to complete a temporary disguise or mocking appearance; this, along with her overall appearance, is directly based on her prototype from Greek mythology.
* MamaBear: She's dangerously obsessive over her daughter Lyta, especially after Wonder Woman emphasized Lyta was the one person on Earth who unconditionally loved her despite her nasty personality. As such, she becomes thoroughly vicious to anyone who threatens her relationship with Lyta or Lyta herself, to the point she manipulated many of Wonder Woman's enemies like Veronica Cale, along with instigating "Amazons Attack" simply for revenge that the Amazons and the Gods took her daughter away from her.
* MasterOfIllusion: It's not explored too often, as Circe is dedicated to fighting a spy smasher adept at spotting lies, who later gets a lie/illusion/falsehood dispelling weapon when Diana trades in the lasso of compulsion for the lasso of truth, and in some continuities Diana houses or becomes the outright spirit or goddess of truth. Still, Circe can change the appearance of her hair, clothing, body shape, the sound of her voice and even her scent at a whim. Sometimes ''just'' perceceptions, sometimes outright if temporary transformations.
* MirrorCharacter: Since Creator/GeorgePerez's [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 1987 run of the comic]], Circe has been positioned as this to Diana. Both are magical and mythological superwomen empowered by higher beings who strive to change the world with their beliefs and powers. However, Wonder Woman wants a peaceful world of kindness and virtue, whereas Circe desires a world of cruelty and depravity. Even their behavior marks the contrast of a MadonnaWhoreComplex perception seen against women. ''ComicBook/WonderWomanBlackAndGold'': "The Acquaintance" directly comments on the similarities Diana and Circe share; both are demigoddess offspring of gods associated with the sky (Zeus and Helios), their immortality means they'll outlive most everyone they know, and they've been in relationships with headstrong muscle-bound types (Superman and Odysseus).
* MisanthropeSupreme: Believes that all humans are beasts at their core and should be treated as such.
* {{Mooks}}: The Beastiamorphs serve as Circe's monstrous minions.
* MookMaker: She turns people into Beastiamorphs to serve her.
* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Usually averted, given the male in Wonder Woman's books is usually God Of War Ares or Duke Of Deception. In Superman/Batman crossovers though, the male is usually Lex Luthor or Rhas Al Ghuld, where Circe is easily the more deadly partner.
* MostCommonSuperPower: Circe is quite buxom and busty, fitting for a seductive sorceress.
* MotiveDecay Okay so... why is she still trying to kill Wonder Woman? Sometimes it's because she hates the world of peace and equality that Diana wants to create, sometimes it's because she hates everything Diana stands for which she sees as lies and attacks her out of hate-filled cynicism, sometimes it's because of a prophecy she probably misheard about Diana being the one to finally kill her or do something else Circe wants to avert, sometimes it's because she thinks the Amazons stole her daughter, sometimes it's because she thinks that Wonder Woman doesn't do enough to stop the oppression of women despite the fact that directly contradicts one of the main reasons she gave for hating Wonder Woman's message of peace and tolerance during one of her {{Motive Rant}}s. Most of all her actions simply just revolve around her hating Wonder Woman and just wanting to watch her squirm. Best exemplified by her banter:
-->'''Circe:''' Come back home. To New York. I've been making some changes to the Big Apple while you've been here. Turning Men into Animals. Women against Men. Lovers against Lovers. All the things you despise and fight against with a passion.\\
'''Wonder Woman:''' What! Why?!\\
'''Circe:''' Because it's what I do, sweetheart. It's the kind of world I want to live in. And because I '''hate''' you.
* MsFanservice: Circe is a buxom, leggy sorceress with a penchant for wearing [[{{Stripperiffic}} very revealing outfits]]. Her appearance in ''ComicBook/MenOfWar'' has her naked with only her GodivaHair preserving her modesty.
* NavelDeepNeckline: Some of her costumes have featured plunging necklines. One of Circe's favorite outfits is [[https://dccontinuityproject.weebly.com/uploads/5/4/5/1/54516433/428724504_orig.jpg a floor-length slinky green dress with a v neck the lowest point of which is level with her hips and is slung with thin gold chains across the opening]].
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Played straight and then subverted in ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueDark.'' She seemingly drops her hatred of Diana when she and JLD come to her asking for assistance on defeating the goddess Hecate but the end of the story however it's revealed Circe had been manipulating the team the whole time into destroying Hecate (and Diana as a possible bonus).
* PracticallyJoker: This has been Circe's depiction since the 90s. In addition to being a StrawNihilist who enjoys spreading chaos, Circe also enjoys striking at Diana through her loved ones like the time when she brainwashed Vanessa Kapatelis into becoming the Silver Swan. During the 90s and early 2000s she was even depicted with purple hair and a green outfit, a visual inversion of the Joker's iconic look.
* PublicDomainCharacter: Modeled the sorceress who sought to bewitch Odysseus' crew in ''Literature/TheOdyssey''. Since the original Circe is one of the oldest characters in fiction, she's well into the public domain.
* PurpleIsPowerful: Her signature purple hair. In [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 the Post-Crisis continuity]] although she changed her appearance frequently her hair remained the same color. In [[ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth Rebirth]] however it's become more reddish-purple.
* PutOnABus: Following ''ComicBook/AmazonsAttack'' where Circe was banished to the Underworld, Circe would not appear in the main Wonder Woman book until ''ComicBook/{{Wonder Woman|Rebirth}}'' almost 10 years later. [[note]] Though she would pop up in related titles like the ''Superman/Wonder Woman'' book from ComicBook/New52 and out-continuity stories.[[/note]]
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Dates back to at least 1200 BC.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: She instigated all the events of the Amazons Attack arc, including the massive death toll of Americans and Amazons alike, irreparably damaging the reputation of the Amazons, and having Hippolyta banished as an exile. Why? Because when the gods left the mortal realm, Ares permanently took Lyta with them and Circe wanted to get revenge on the gods by tarnishing the reputation of their most ardent followers.
* SecondaryColorNemesis: [[PurpleIsPowerful Purple]] and [[GreenAndMean green]] are Circe's most reoccurring {{Color Motif}}s. Sometimes she will be depicted with purple hair and a green outfit or wearing a purple robe. When she first appeared in the Perez run, she had black hair and a green dress. In Rebirth she's been increasingly depicted with increasingly reddish hair.
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: In the [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 post-Crisis continuity]], the reason Circe kept attacking Diana was that a prophecy claimed Diana would be her doom. Diana ends up accidentally unmaking Circe's immortality while defending herself from the witch, something she'd have had no reason to do otherwise, given that Diana hadn't even ''approached'' Circe before she started attacking her.
* SinsOfTheFather: Circe having run-ins with Hippolyta in the past that ended for poorly for her has occasionally been presented as reason for her hatred of Diana;
** In WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited, Hippolyta had her banished to Hades for turning people into animals.
** In the ''Superman/Wonder Woman'' title from [[ComicBook/New52 The New 52]] it's revealed Hippolyta and Circe made an arrangement where Circe would enchant Themyscira's weapons so it could defend itself from invaders in-exchange for the Amazon's male children. Hippolyta than double-crossed Circe and made a deal with the Smith God Hephaestus where he would get the male children in-exchange for weapons that would defend Themyscira from Circe.
* SquishyWizard: Circe has a lot of magical firepower but lacks Diana's strength, speed and fighting skills. She can magically empower herself to match Diana in strength but even then the Amazon can still beat her with her proper training, and this takes away from other things Circe could be using her magic for.
* TheStarscream: Was this to the Hecate, the Goddess of Magic, in ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueDark'' (vol. 2). In her past she originally became an acolyte of Hecate as a means of enacting a RoaringRampageOfRevenge but eventually manipulated Wonder Woman's Justice League Dark team into killing Hecate so her powers would be transferred to her, allowing her to become the new Goddess of Magic.
* StrawFeminist: Sometimes portrayed this way. More often just portrayed as TheCynic who only brings up differences between women and men as a means of driving them further apart than actually wanting any kind of equality or female superiority.
* StrawNihilist: By the end of her story, she begins to describe how everything in life from Wonder Woman to humanity live under illusions of falsehood, leaving actions of love and murder as the only things that could be called reality. As such she kills others indiscriminately in pursuit of her daughter, Lyta, the only being she loves.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Frequently dresses this way. Mainly as a way of throwing off male enemies through sex appeal. More rarely to entice male objects of her lust, or for bargaining purposes, since [[PublicDomainCharacter this IS Circe]].
* {{Troll}}: Enjoys dicking with people out sheer amusement, especially Diana.
* UnholyMatrimony: With Ares, ComicBook/{{Hercules|Unbound}}, and Sebastian Ballesteros on occasion. She even tried to invoke this with Lex Luthor, but he flatly denied her.
* UnlimitedWardrobe: Circe's costumes are subject to change, even in the midst of battle.
* TheVamp: Not afraid to use her sex appeal to get what she wants, at one point trying to seduce Green Arrow II on Luthor's orders.
* VillainTeamUp: Has often been either involved or the leader of such groups.
** She's been romantically involved with [[Characters/WonderWomanCheetah Sebastian Ballesteros]] as well, with the two of them acting as a BigBadDuumvirate.
** Led a LegionOfDoom made up of Wonder Woman's enemies, all of whom she empowered and has allied herself with the likes of Luthor's Injustice Gang in order to take on the Justice League.
** In ComicBook/DCRebirth, she formed part an evil counterpart to the Trinity of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman with Lex Luthor, Ra's al Ghul, and herself.
** In ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueDark'' (vol. 2), she formed an Injustice League Dark comprised of herself, ComicBook/KlarionTheWitchBoy, [[Characters/GreenLantern1941 Solomon Grundy]], [[Characters/SwampThing Floronic Man]], and Papa Midnite
* VillainTeleportation: Circe, as one of the most powerful magic users in the 'verse, is fully capable of jumping between points and dimensions at will, though Paradise Island has defenses against this. Interestingly her most notable use of teleportation may have been when she used it to help the heroes by teleporting Diana and herself to try to save [[Characters/WonderWomanAllies Artemis]] from the White Magician.
* WarriorVersusSorcerer: Circe is an evil witch whose archenemy is an Amazon {{Warrior Prince}}ss.
* WickedWitch: One of the wickedest witches in comic books in fact.
* WizardsLiveLonger: Circe is [[OlderThanTheyLook several thousand years old]].
* YouHaveFailedMe: One of Circe's Bestiamorphs failed to accomplish his assignment. What does Circe do? [[spoiler:[[ImAHumanitarian She turns him into a chicken dinner and eats him.]]]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Cottus]]
[[WMG:Cottus]]
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One of the Hekatonkheires (Hundred-Handed Ones) of ancient Greek myth, Cottus was sealed behind Doom's Door under Themyscira long ago, and watched over by the Amazons in case he ever escaped, which he has a few times. If both he and Alkyone are to be believed, he is Wonder Woman's father (the clay she was created from supposedly came from he).\\
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->'''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Vol 2]] #10. (1987)
->'''Created By:''' Creator/GeorgePerez
->'''Universes:''' New Earth
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: His comic book form is better looking than his mythological one by greatly reducing the amounts of heads he had, clearly going more for "threatening" than "ugly".
* AdaptationalVillainy: In the stories recorded by the Athenians Cottus is just one of many jailers who make sure those put in Tartarus stay there. In the Wonder Woman comics he's the one who is in jail and making sure he doesn't get out is one of the heroes' jobs.
* CreepyCentipedes: As originally designed Cottus is essentially a giant centipede made of humanoid arms of shadow with different sized faces all down his stomach/front and a back made up of rectangular bone pieces that are mistaken at one point as a marble staircase while he's asleep.
* EldritchAbomination: Similar to his mythological counterpart, but with less emphasis on the eldritch and more on the abomination. He's a hundred handed nigh-unkillable avatar of natural disaster who looks like he's made out of shadow save for his glowing eyes and mouths. In his and Diana's first encounter she breaks what looks like a huge staircase he's clinging to the underside of only for it to turn out to be his ''spine''.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: His "eyes" seem to be nothing but light emitted from eye shaped opening in his body.
* HealThyself: He can manually repair damage done to his body by turning his stone "bones" into clay and pushing it back into shape.
* LukeIAmYourFather: The clay that was used to create Wonder Woman came from his imprisoned body.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Is ''made'' of nothing but arms.
* MythologyUpgrade: In DC Comics he has some limited shape sifting abilities.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: He and his brothers were AnthropomorphicPersonification(s) of natural disasters.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: He is not nice at all and has glowing red eyes.
* RockMonster: One who can "soften" into a clay monster and reshape his body.
* SadlyMythtaken: He and his brothers were actually on the Olympians' side during the Titanomachy and served as the Titans' jailers in Tartarus.
* SealedEvilInACan: He is the main thing sealed behind Doom's Doorway that the Amazons have spent many centuries combating and keeping contained as their mission and purpose.
* {{Shapeshifting}}: Starts out as a centipede-like monster made of shadow, light and stone, but can become a writhing mass of arms and light.
* SuperStrength: A power of The Hekatonkheires in myth that carried over to the comic books. He's strong enough to hold and throw hundreds of mountaints at once. Whether those mountains stay intact during the process or not [[SquareCubeLaw is another matter entirely]].
* ThroatLight: When he actually has a "mouth".
* VisualPun: He starts off as a centipede. Centimanes is an alternate name for the Hekatonkheires.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Crimson Centipede]]
[[WMG:Crimson Centipede]]
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[[caption-width-right:284:Silver Age]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Post-Flashpoint]]
->''"The fools--thinking to stop the Crimson Centipede! All they have is one chance against my hundred!"''

The Silver Age Crimson Centipede was created by the God of War as a super powerful entity to plague Wonder Woman. He would rob banks to fund widespread criminal enterprises to undermine Wonder Woman's efforts to bring peace to Earth.

The current version of the Crimson Centipede is a bio-engineered weapon created by S.T.A.R. Labs and accidentally unleashed by a terrorist group.\\

->'''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] #169. (1967)
->'''Created By:''' Robert Kanigher & Ross Andru
->'''Universes:''' Earth-One, Prime Earth
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* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: The Silver Age Centipede has green skin.
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: The Silver Age version had the powers of a centipede.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: The modern version is a giant, mutated centipede.
* ColorAnimalCodename: Crimson Centipede
* CreepyCentipedes: The modern version embodies this, being a giant, mutated centipede. The Silver Age version, not so much.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The Silver Age version was a fairly goofy supervillain. The modern version is a rampaging monstrosity.
* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: The modern Centipede was created by S.T.A.R. Labs via "transpecies modification for military application."
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: The Silver Age version could use his multiple arms to fire multiple guns at once, or deliver multiple punches simultaneously.
* SuperSpeed: The Silver Age version's multiple legs made him much faster than a normal human.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Cyborgirl]]
[[WMG:Cyborgirl]]
->'''AKA:''' [=LeTonya=] Charles
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-->''“Back up ! I *can* control my power ! I just needed help for a minute.”''

[=LeTonya=] Charles was a young woman who had destroyed her body with the drug Tar, but was granted a second chance when her aunt, Sarah Charles, one of the scientists who helped repair [[Characters/TeenTitansNewTeenTitans Cyborg]], saved and augmented her with powerful cybernetic implants. Rather than use her newfound gifts to earn herself a HeelFaceTurn, [=LeTonya=] chose to focus on personal gain as Cyborgirl. Soon after, she joined the Cyborg Revenge Squad and was one of several such beings to wage an attack against Wonder Woman, and later on, Cyborg himself.

->'''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Vol 2]] #179. (2002)
->'''Created By:''' Phil Jimenez · Roy Allan Martinez
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* AfroAsskicker: Possesses an afro and became a member of Villainy, Inc., teaming up with several seasoned Wonder Woman villains. She and her teammates tried to overthrow Skartaris, but were stopped by Wonder Woman.
* ArmCannon: She has a gauntlet implanted in her arm that fires electrical blasts. And she can morph her hand into the barrel of a powerful white sound generator packing the punch of a cannon.
* ArtificialLimbs: Much of her body has been replaced with mechanical parts, as she destroyed her human body with the drug Tar.
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Being repaired with advanced cybernetics has made her more machine than human. And much like Victor Stone, being part-machine is something she hates. She resents the people who saved her life but turned her into this. But unlike Cyborg, who has since been well-adapted to his cybernetics to become a force for good, [=LeTonya=] chose to remain in her old habits.
* {{Cyborg}}: [=LeTonya=] Charles destroyed her body with the drug Tar, so her aunt replaced much of her body with robotic parts. But rather than use them to reform herself, she was back into her old habits. Most of her body has been replaced with advanced prosthetics that grant superhuman strength and numerous other functions, such as sensors and built-in weapons. These built-in sensors can scan in infrared, ultraviolet/night vision, densimetry and electricity detection.
* DarkActionGirl: One whose cybernetic enhancements let her be a physical threat to Wonder Woman.
* DescentIntoAddiction: A former drug addict, [=LeTonya=] destroyed her health and body due to overusing a drug called Tar, a concoction that provides users with temporary super-strength. Though she was saved by her aunt by replacing much of her body with robotic parts, she took on the name Cybergirl, [[RedemptionRejection opting for a life of villainy rather than heroism]]. Although her initial target was Wonder Woman, Cyborgirl later joined the Cyborg Revenge Squad, teaming with other cybernetic bad guys to attack and destroy Vic Stone.
* ElectronicEyes: She has an electronic implant attached to her left eye.
* EvilCounterpart: While she is a foe of Wonder Woman, [[RobotGirl Cyborgirl]] also happens to be an evil version of [[Characters/TeenTitansNewTeenTitans Cyborg]], as she had permanently damaged her body by overdosing on the drug Tar. But her aunt, who happened to be one of the scientists who repaired Victor Stone, saved her with [[WeCanRebuildHim powerful]] [[UnwillingRoboticisation cybernetic implants]], hoping that this would reform her and give her a second chance in life. However, rather than use her newfound gifts for redeem herself, [=LeTonya=] chose to focus more on personal gain, essentially becoming [[RoboticPsychopath more machine than human]], unlike Cyborg, who accepted his fate and chose to use his cybernetics to become a force for good, eventually joining the Teen Titans and later on, the Justice League.
* EvilNephew: Evil Niece but fits, since she rejected her aunt Sarah's good intentions to help her rehabilitate by becoming a supervillain.
* FatalFlaw: [[ATragedyOfImpulsiveness Impulsiveness]], [[NeverMyFault irresponsibility]] and {{Greed}}. Her life is just a haphazard mudslide over which she has relatively little control due to her own failures, and choosing to destroy her body with Tar is what led her to become a cyborg. The only thing she can do is blindly let her past control herself and allow current excesses, mistakes and self-indulgences catch up with her. She bribes, she steals, she plunders – and she’s still out for a rush due to her greed.
* {{Jerkass}}: Even after being robotized, she still has an abrasive attitude.
* MadeOfIron: Parts of her are made of metal, making her much more durable thanks to being automated.
* NeverMyFault: Although she resents the people who turned her into a cyborg, part of the blame lies within her, as she destroyed much of her body through drug addiction. Despite this, Cyborgirl seems to be constantly jonesing for Tar, but since the physical component of the addiction has been removed, this has left her with just the psychological craving. And she is well aware that actually using Tar would slowly but surely tear her apart.
* PurpleIsPowerful: Her cyborg body is now purple and she's quite strong.
* PsychoForHire: She was first drafted by Queen Clea to become a member of the newly reformed [[LegionOfDoom Villainy Inc.]] as Cyborgirl. The team attempted to overthrow Skartaris, however they were ultimately defeated by Wonder Woman. Cyborgirl was then seen as a member of [[LegionOfDoom the Secret Society of Super Villains]]. Later, in DC Special: Cyborg #6, it shows her as a member of [[LegionOfDoom the Cyborg Revenge Squad]] to destroy Vic Stone.
* RedemptionRejection: Rather than use her newfound gifts to earn herself a HeelFaceTurn, [=LeTonya=] chose to focus on personal gain as Cyborgirl.
* RobotGirl: A dark example. What she is now, having chosen to go on a path of villainy, becoming more machine than human.
* RoboticPsychopath: Unlike Cyborg, Cyborgirl is more machine than human. For all intents and purposes, she's an insane psychopath even after being robotized.
* SuperStrength: Her cybernetic enhancements make her stronger than the average human.
* {{Technopath}}: She has "computepathic" abilities, which enables her brain to communicate with all sorts of computers, even unusual ones such as ancient Atlantean tech. And her built-in sensors can scan in infrared, ultraviolet/night vision, densimetry and electricity detection. Plus, her hands can morph into other configurations, as it once became ten tentacle-like computer connectors for a technology she just came into contact with.
* TelescopingRobot: She has a wide array of gadgets and weapons housed within her robotic body, including her SwissArmyAppendage.
* UnwillingRoboticisation: Cyborgirl destroyed much of her original body with the drug Tar, but was granted a second chance when her aunt, Sarah Charles, one of the scientists who helped repair [[Characters/TeenTitansNewTeenTitans Cyborg]], saved her with powerful cybernetic implants.
* WeCanRebuildHim: The major impetus behind giving [=LeTonya=] robotic body parts was to save her life, as she destroyed much of her body with the drug Tar.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dark Angel]]
[[WMG:Dark Angel]]
->'''AKA:''' [[spoiler: Donna Troy of Earth-7]]
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->''"We both can't exist any longer ... I'm going to remove you from this world and take your place in the cosmic balance."''

A psychotic witch/a wandering, demonic spirit who's got it out for [[ComicBook/WonderGirl Donna Troy]], Dark Angel first appeared to vex the Golden Age Wonder Woman (Hippolyta, given her Post-Crisis origin) after being summoned by Paula von Gunther. She returned years later to try getting revenge on Hippolyta by cursing her daughter to live an infinite amount of lives, all ending in tragedy. She snatched her daughter's doppelganger, Donna Troy by mistake. Dark Angel had now made it her life's effort to make Donna as miserable as possible, either as revenge or just for the hell of it. Last seen under the employ of the Monitors. [[spoiler: It turned out she's really the Donna Troy of Earth-7, from the Multiverse that was destroyed in ''Comicbook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths''. The Anti-Monitor saved her in order to make her his own harbinger, but she was too difficult to control and fled.]]

->'''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Vol 2]] #131. (1998)
->'''Created By:''' John Byrne
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* AbortedArc: It was implied at some point during ''Countdown'' she was going to find Donna's group and fight her, but the confrontation never happened.
* ArchEnemy: To Donna Troy. She wants nothing more than to see Donna squirm.
* TheBadGuyWins: No matter how one looks at it, Dark Angel basically succeeded at destroying Donna's past. The poor woman's backstory has become such a tangled mess it'll likely never be fixed, and it only ever got that bad thanks to Dark Angel's curse.
* CaptainErsatz: It was very likely this wasn't intentional, but Dark Angel racks up a lot of comparison points with Queen Nehellenia from ''Franchise/SailorMoon''. She considers herself the dark to Donna's light and the way she says it mirrors a similar conversation Nehellenia had with Queen Serenity in the manga. Like Nehellenia sought to hurt Queen Serenity through her daughter, Dark Angel sought revenge on Hippolyta by cursing her daughter Diana. She operates out of an otherworldly dimension she has total control over like Nehellenia, and it's reached the point that she wants to make Donna suffer for no reason other than she enjoys it, just as Nehellenia wants Sailor Moon to suffer. What further strengthens this is that Donna is linked to the moon, and was at one point the literal goddess of the moon.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Was last seen escaping from Earth-33 in ''Countdown to Adventure'' #4. At this point, we've no idea what her status is now that the Monitors are gone, but does manage to come back no matter what happens to her...
* DarkActionGirl: She's an insanely powerful witch capable of using advanced spells and disguises, but she's also willing to get her hands dirty and physically engage her foes.
* DemonicPossession: First manifested on Earth by possessing Paula von Gunther's body.
* {{Determinator}}: It's possible to incapacitate her and even kill her, but she'll always get back up for more. The only way the Titans were able to stop her second attempt on Donna's existence was by sealing her inside Nightstar's "tree house" dimension.
* DoppelgangerAttack: In ''Comicbook/TeenTitans'', she was able to make five alternate copies of herself to go into different points in Donna Troy's lifetime and kill her, including a cyborg, an old woman, a bat-like demon, a glam punk, and a teenage girl.
* TheDragon: Was this for Adolf Hitler, currently for the Monitors. The Anti-Monitor groomed her to be this, but she escaped into the time stream.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: She made it clear that, while she was occupying the body of Paula von Gunther and under Hitler's control, she did not share in his Nazi dogma. Subverted as, while she has no racial beliefs personally, she'll personally engage the genocide of an entire race if ordered to do so. Just ask the Forerunners-[[ForegoneConclusion oh wait.]]
* EvilCounterpart: She was supposed to be one to Harbinger, under the Anti-Monitor's control, but she escaped before it happened.
* EvilTwin: [[spoiler: To Donna Troy. She's really the Donna of a destroyed parallel Earth]].
* ForTheEvulz: It isn't clear if what she's doing to Donna Troy is simple revenge, because she likes screwing with her, or [[spoiler: because she's jealous that Donna is living a life she could have had if not for the Anti-Monitor kidnapping her]].
* HotWitch: Although a temporal doppelganger of herself was a white haired hag.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: In ''Countdown to Adventure'' #4, she could grow to giant size. This was the first and last time she ever demonstrated this power. She also demonstrated the power to bring the dead back to life in ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}''.
* OmnicidalManiac: Wiped out the entire Forerunner race of Earth-48 with the shadow demons, then gloated to Viza Aziv that she enjoyed watching them die.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Characterized by her long black hair and red dress and she's incredibly dangerous.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Her eyes shift from black with red pupils, to black with white pupils.
* TheResenter: The source of her hatred of Donna Troy is due to the fact she got to live the life that was forever taken from Earth-7 Donna after the Crisis of Infinite Earths which wiped her world from existence. All efforts by her have been made for the sake of either destroying Donna out of resentful jealousy or taking Donna's life as her own.
* RetGone: She did this twice to Donna Troy. The first time, when she still believed Donna was really Diana and subjected her to a multitude of lives ending in tragedy. The second time, as revenge for killing her, she erased the memory of Donna from everyone in the DCU, but did so to every other version of Donna ''before'' the one in the main DC timelines. However, the trick doesn't work on time travelers because it means they're outside of the revisions when they occur.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: In ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'', she was ordered by the Monitors to test the current Kara Zor-El to see if she deserved the right to exist in the current DC Universe. She didn't take Kara passing the test with grace.
* UnexplainedRecovery: There's been no explanation offered as to how she came back after Donna Troy killed her in ''Wonder Woman''.
* WouldHurtAChild: Was more than willing to harm Donna Troy when she was a young girl. It's implied that she was responsible for the crash that killed Donna's ex-husband, her son, and stepdaughter.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Decay]]
[[WMG:Decay]]
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-->''"How '''ironic''', Amazon - that this new '''refuge''' should become your '''final resting place!'''"''
A creature born from the heart of Medusa, Decay was sent by Phobos, son of Ares, to destroy Wonder Woman.

->'''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' (Vol 2) #3
->'''Created By:''' George Pérez
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* EvilCounterpart: Decay was shaped from the Gorgon's seething heart much as Diana was shaped from clay. She shares many of Diana's powers including {{Flight}}, SuperStrength and SuperToughness.
* {{Flight}}: Decay can fly.
* {{Golem}}: Phobos shaped Decay from the molten material of Medusa's heart.
* LeanAndMean: Looks like a skin suit draped over a skeleton.
* MakeThemRot: As indicated by her name, Decay's touch causes things to decompose.
* ReducedToDust: Decay's touch can do this.
* ReviveKillsZombie: Decay, who is a essentially a zombie made from Medusa's heart, is destroyed by the restorative powers of Diana's lasso.
* SuperStrength: Decay possesses superhuman strength equivalent to Wonder Woman's.
* SuperToughness: Decay possesses durability equivalent to Wonder Woman's.
* TouchOfDeath: As the embodiment of Death, Decay can kill with her touch.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Devastation]]
[[WMG:Devastation]]
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->'''AKA:''' Deva
->''"You can't fight somebody you care for...that you're afraid of hurting! Excuse me for crowing, Diana, but game...set...and match!"''

A clay golem brought to life by the Titan Cronus, Devastation is effectively an evil Wonder Woman, possessing all of her powers and more, and none of her morality. Realizing that Diana would be too difficult to defeat on her own, Devastation has repeatedly tried to strike at her through Cassie Sandsmark.

->'''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Vol 2]] #143. (1999)
->'''Created By:''' Eric Luke & Yanick Paquette
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* AdaptationalUgliness: She's a lot less cute than usual in DC Rebirth to [[BeautyEqualsGoodness reinforce]] Donna Troy's status as the TokenGoodTeammate.
* AdaptationalWimp: DC Rebirth Devastation is nowhere near as effective as her post crisis incarnation, however the new version does get a nice sword.
* ArchEnemy: She was created to oppose Wonder Woman, but takes it upon herself to torment Sandsmark, often without even considering her long term mission against Wonder Woman.
* ArmorIsUseless: Diana dons her golden eagle armor only for Devastation to effortlessly shred through it...[[CoversAlwaysLie on cover of the comic]]. The two were and continue to be portrayed as relative equals in the comic's actual pages.
* DeliberatelyCuteChild: Is not afraid of taking on the shape of a child to lull enemies into a false sense of security, or goad people into giving her what she wants.
* DishingOutDirt: Her connection to the planet she's on allows Devastation to cause earthquakes, appropriately.
* EnfantTerrible: Often takes this form, though she can be as old as she wants.
* EvilCounterpart: To Diana, having been created by Cronus in the same way that Diana was created by Aphrodite, Athena and Artemis. They even share DNA.
* FakeMemories: Devastation has the power to change a target's memories to whatever she wants them to be. This works [[AntagonistAbilities independent to the targets will power and bypasses usual resistances or immunities to psychic powers]]. [[ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaMan Diana]], with her inclination towards the truth and her lasso that enforces tends to not have to worry about this directly affecting her, and also has the means of removing these fake memories, but Donna Troy and Cassie Sandsmark aren't so lucky.
* FisherKingdom: Devastation is literally as strong and tough as the planet she happens to be residing on...though what that "literally" means depends on the writer. As long as Earth has a functioning ecosphere she doesn't even need to eat, but apparently still has to hold her breath underwater so she still has some level human respiration.
* HealThySelf: She can reshape her body into "any woman she wants", and use this ability to mend damage done to it.
* HoistHeroOverHead: CoversAlwaysLie but her inroductory comic shows her holding a defeated Diana over her head with one hand.
* HumanShifting: Her default height is an imperial 4'2. She can make herself smaller, though nowhere near as small as Atomia, and make herself larger, but no where near as large as Giganta, being limited to realistic human proportions. But when coupling this ability with a few illusions she can impersonate any number of people.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: You might be a better fighter or smarter tactician than Devastation, but she can make you forget what makes you so.
* LegionOfDoom: In the rebirth continuity Paul Von Gunther recruits Devastation, Genocide, and Donna Troy, three "anti wonder women" along with Armageddon II to serve as her "four horsewomen" in an attempt to destroy Themyscira and avenge [[FeudingFamilies The Valkyries killed by The Amazons ages ago]]. Donna Troy doesn't play along, however.
* MadeOfEvil: {{Defied|Trope}}, as Wonder Woman made use of TimeTravel to alter Devastation's creation. She ''can'' choose to be good now, even if she usually doesn't.
* TheManBehindTheMan: To Doctor Poison II during the latter's first appearance.
* ManipulativeBastard: The reason she prefers to torment Cassie Sandsmark instead of Diana. Devastation finds Sandsmark harder to hurt physically, but far easier to manipulate psychologically and emotinoally.
* MundaneSolution: She can't beat Wonder Woman with her powers during their first fight, but manages to send her into retreat with serious injuries after shooting her with a handgun. Wonder Woman being seriously injured by low caliber round was {{retcon}}ned after fans complained but Devastation making use of mundane weaponry was not. Even if it does prove ineffective against her superpowered opponents she'll still put it to great use against [[{{muggles}} their intended targets]].
* OriginalGeneration: She was empowered by a generation of Titans, [[EatsBabies released from the bowels of Cronus willingly]] after he was imprisoned, that did not exist in classical mythology, created specifically for the comic.
* SuperPowerLottery: A major winner. She is a FlyingBrick and MasterOfIllusion with MoreThanMindControl and NighInvulnerability. She has SuperReflexes, SuperSpeed and SuperStrength.
* SuperSpeed: She can move faster than her own bullets.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Doctor Cyber]]
[[WMG:Doctor Cyber]]
->'''AKA:''' Cylvia Cyber, Adrianna Anderson
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[[caption-width-right:200:Doctor Cyber, Pre-Crisis]]

->''"I'm a fully realized, entirely liberated, cognitive neural-network in digital form... what you would call an artificial intelligence... so, I'm not just a machine... I'm the woman of your dreams, baby, I'm a digital goddess in a quantum-optical mainframe."''

A scientist turned crime boss, Doctor Cyber replaced parts of her body with cybernetic implants and donned a power suit to battle Wonder Woman. A major enemy during UsefulNotes/{{the Bronze Age|OfComicBooks}}, she's faded from the public eye since then, battling Wonder Woman only once in Post-Crisis continuity. Most of her plots revolve around global conquest and large-scale extortion schemes.

->'''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] #179. (1968)
->'''Created By:''' Dennis O'Neil & Mike Sekowsky
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* AffectionateNickname: ''Rebirth'' Cyber refers to Veronica Cale as "Ronnie".
* AlliterativeName: Either as '''Cy'''lvia '''Cy'''ber or '''A'''drianna '''A'''nderson.
* BadassCape: Pre-and-Post-Crisis alike she has a purple cape hanging off her armour.
* BrainUploading: ''Rebirth'' Cyber's origins. She and Veronica were using a remote-controlled drone to gain information on Diana, but it came with the flaw of only being viable for two minutes before the human operator would be fatally injured by the strain. Adrianna volunteered to do it anyway, and was fried. Some of her mind was uploaded into a mainframe, resulting in Doctor Cyber.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Adrianna Anderson was something of an oddball as a human, but a bona-fied cybernetic genius nonetheless. Her goofy behavior transferred over with the uploading.
* CompositeCharacter: As of ''ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth'' Doctor Cyber as a character has been merged with Dr. Leslie Anderson, who was Veronica Cale's only friend in ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'' and brokenheartedly allied herself with Wonder Woman after realizing what Veronica was up to.
* CoolMask: Both Pre and Post-Crisis versions wear a face concealing cybernetic mask.
* {{Cyborg}}: The Post-Crisis Doctor Cyber had cybernetic implants, as opposed to the Pre-Crisis version, who only had her PoweredArmor.
* DarkActionGirl: One whose cybernetic enhancements let her be a physical threat to Wonder Woman.
* DeflectorShields: Built into her armored suit Pre-Crisis.
* DemotedToExtra: In Post-Crisis continuity where she went from a major Bronze Age villain to a minor antagonist.
* DespotismJustifiesTheMeans: Was willing to do whatever it took to take over the world.
* DiabolicalMastermind: Pre-Crisis, when she ran an international criminal syndicate dedicated to world domination.
* EvilGenius: MadScientist, DiabolicalMastermind, and all around evil intellectual.
* GadgeteerGenius: A brilliant, if twisted, inventor.
* GeniusBruiser: A mad genius and inventor, whose superhuman strength and durability matches that of Wonder Woman, thanks to the armor she wears, and her willingness to transform herself into a cyborg.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Had her face mangled during her first conflict with Wonder Woman.
* HighCollarOfDoom: Pre-Crisis her cape had a high flaring collar.
* InTheHood: Post-Crisis her cape has hood that wraps about her helmet.
* InvisibilityCloak: Her power armour contains a device that turns her invisible.
* JustAMachine: At the end of Rucka's ''Rebirth'' run, a broken Veronica snarls that she's not the real Adrianna, just a machine copy of her.
* LackOfEmpathy: Adrianna is totally willing to help Veronica get her daughter back, but that concern absolutely does ''not'' apply to anyone else. She quite gladly helps cause Barbara Ann's turn into the Cheetah, and later taunts her about Veronica sending Doctor Poison's team to kill Diana's friends.
* MadScientist: An evil cybernetic genius.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: ''Doctor'' Cyber, would-be world conqueror.
* MoreExpendableThanYou: One of the reasons Adrianna plugged herself into the Cyberwalker to begin with, since her and Veronica's end goal was getting Ronnie's daughter back. Adrianna figured that if this was the case, it was better Isidora had a mom to come back to.
* NonActionGuy: ''Rebirth'' Adrianna, by dint of being an AI, she has no actual physical body of her own, unless there's a robot or cyborg around for her to hijack.
* PerpetuallyProtean: Adrianna's holographic image rarely keeps the same look for more than a few minutes.
* PoweredArmor: Pre-Crisis, Cyber wore a suit of armor equipped with lasers and an invisibility screen. Post-Crisis, she donned a similar suit on top of her mechanical enhancements.
* ProjectedMan: ''Rebirth'' Adrianna uses a hologram to interact with people.
* {{Revenge}}: After her disfigurement, Cyber's plans turned from [[TakeOverTheWorld world domination]] to revenge on Wonder Woman.
* RobotMaster: Has armies of robots under her command.
* SecondaryColorNemesis: She wears a green cape and her armor is mostly purple.
* StatuesqueStunner: Pre-disfigurement the 6 foot 2 inch tall Cyber was quite the looker.
* StevenUlyssesPerhero: Her real name is "Cylvia Cyber". Post-Rebirth, her real name is now Adrianna Anderson.
* SuperReflexes: Cyber's robotic adjustments to her body included ones that increased her reflexes and reaction time to superhuman levels.
* SuperSpeed: Courtesy of her armor
* SuperStrength: Her armor and cybernetic enhancements allow her to fight Wonder Woman evenly.
* TakeOverTheWorld: Wants to rule the world, as was typical of Bronze Age villains.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Doctor Poison (I-IV)]]
[[WMG:Doctor Poison I]]
->'''AKA:''' Maru (I)
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[[caption-width-right:350:Doctor Poison I]]
->''"I am the Princess Maru. My genius shall destroy America."''

An outcast member of the Japanese imperial family, Doctor Poison is a diabolical genius who specializes in toxins and disease. The first Doctor Poison, alias Princess Maru, fought Diana (later retconned to be Hippolyta, as the Golden Age Wonder Woman), during World War II, both on her own as an agent of Imperial Japan, and as part of Villainy, Incorporated.\\
\\

->'''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/SensationComics'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] #2. (1942)
->'''Created By:''' William Moulton Marston & Harry G. Peter
->'''Universes:''' Earth-Two, Earth-One, New Earth
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* AmbiguousGender: Used bulky clothing and a mask to conceal her gender from the world.
* AristocratsAreEvil: The original Doctor Poison was the Princess Maru, member of Japanese Imperial family, a spy and chief of the Nazi Poison Division. So, not really a fairy tale princess.
* BadassLongcoat: Wrapped head to foot in a concealing greatcoat in her first and second incarnations.
* BadassNormal: Poison was a reasonably competent threat, despite lacking any innate superpowers, or even advanced combat training.
* DeadlyGas: Retconned into deploying it in the Post-Crisis era.
* DiabolicalMastermind: The first Doctor Poison was an archetypal diabolical mastermind, operating at the top of a network of spies. Her successors also shares her penchant for operating through henchmen, though they typically do so at the behest of others.
* DominoMask: Worn by Doctor Poison I atop the false face that concealed her gender.
* EvilGenius: Plenty of brainpower, no morals.
* FairForItsDay: She's still evil, no doubt about it, but at the very least her portrayal lacks a lot of the [[AsianBuckTeeth more ]] [[AsianSpeekeeEngrish offensive]] traits often given to Japanese characters at the time, which is both unusual and refreshing for this era.
* {{Gonk}}: Subverted. While she seems very unappealing, this is merely a mask worn to disguise her identity as a Japanese princess and [[http://assets1.ignimgs.com/2016/11/03/dr-poison-revealedjpg-fe226e_1280w.jpg she is revealed to be more conventionally attractive]].
* GreenAndMean: Dr. Poison and all of her successors dress in green, and they're all very dangerous villains.
* {{Hypocrite}}: As a strong-willed, independent woman fighting for a regime that valued subservience in women (even members of the royal family), Doctor Poison I was inherently hypocritical.
* KarmicDeath: Maru was killed by her own concoction, Reverso, which aged her down to a fetus, then out of existence all together.
* MadDoctor: Holds a legitimate doctorate, and uses it as an excuse to perform unethical modifications on patients.
* MadScientist: Willing to harm anyone in the name of scientific progress.
* MasterPoisoner: An expert in the use of poisons, toxins and plagues.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: A pretty classic example, dating back to the 1940s.
* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: In the modern era she's become a DistaffCounterpart to real life Japanese war criminal Ishii Shiro, who experimented on Chinese civilians with bubonic plague, smallpox, anthrax, and other biological and chemical agents.
* {{Retcon}}: Much of what Doctor Poison II talks about, and various flashbacks would indicate that Doctor Poison I, originally a fairly standard Golden Age villain whose plans involved stopping plane engines and reverting people to infancy, has been retconned into having been as vile as her grandchild.
* SamusIsAGirl: Outed as a woman at the end of her first story, after having been assumed to be a man.
* SecondaryColorNemesis: Dressed head to foot in dark green.
* VillainousPrincess: The original Doctor Poison was a member of the Japanese Imperial family during WWII. While the entire family was, in some ways, complicit in Japan's actions, Maru's willingness to personally participate in experimentation on human beings, coupled with her own ambitions, marked her as the most evil of the lot.
* VillainTeamUp: A founding member of Villainy Incorporated Pre-Crisis and Post-Crisis.
* WeaponOfMassDestruction: Her entire motif involves chemical and biological weaponry, two of the three weapons types classed as [=WMD=]s.
* YellowPeril: A renegade member of the Japanese imperial clan out to destroy the United States of America, she hits plenty of the tropes. That said, she lacks the caricatured appearance and speech patterns that afflicted so many of the Asian characters of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, and as such her portrayal can be regarded as FairForItsDay.

[[WMG:Doctor Poison II]]
->'''AKA:''' Unknown
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[[caption-width-right:234:Doctor Poison II]]
->''“The subject was a carrier. The virus will disseminate. The nightmare of myth shall invade the world of man. This is only the beginning.”''

Decades after WWII, Doctor Poison I's unnamed grandchild would take on the identity of Doctor Poison to battle Diana in the Post-Crisis era, and would also join a new version of Villainy, Incorporated. Charitably described as a maddened sadist, this version of Doctor Poison has made it clear that she does not share her grandmother's ideological convictions, and would gladly kill every man, woman, and child on Earth in the name of her research.

->'''First Appearance [-this version-]:''' ''Wonder Woman'' Vol 2 #151. (1999)
->'''This Version By:''' Eric Luke · Matthew Clark
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* AmbiguousGender: Dr. Poisons I & II have used bulky clothing and masks to conceal their genders from the world. The original Dr. Poison was eventually revealed as a woman, but the second one's gender has never been confirmed either way, though most people assume that it is female.
* BlueBlood: The original Doctor Poison was an Imperial Japanese princess. While Doctor Poison II is not a member of the royal family, their blood still flows in her veins.
* BodyHorror: Self-inflicted. She uses drugs and surgical wires to fix her eyes and mouth into a permanent stare and grin. She's also made other, less visible modifications that let her exhale poison gas.
* BreathWeapon: Doctor Poison II is able to exhale DeadlyGas, thanks to modifications to her own saliva.
* CoolMask: Wears a creepy looking leather mask.
* DeadlyGas: A major fan of the stuff, using it as her weapon.
* EvilGenius: Plenty of brainpower, no morals.
* EvilutionaryBiologist: Doctor Poison II is an arcanobiologist, devoted to the study of the biology of demigods, techno-organic beings, etc. This has led her to mutate humans into monsters using the DNA of supernatural or otherworldly beings, and to derive toxins and diseases from the genetics of such beings.
* ForScience: Doctor Poison II is far more interested in the results of her experiments than she is in ideology.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Features a scar in the shape of a caduceus around her eye. Her mask has a caduceus design in the same place.
* HiredGuns: Has hired out her services to Devastation, Circe, and Clea among others.
* LegacyCharacter: Took over the role from her grandmother.
* MadDoctor: Holds a legitimate doctorate, and uses it as an excuse to perform unethical modifications on patients.
* MadScientist: Willing to harm anyone in the name of scientific progress.
* MasterPoisoner: An expert in the use of poisons, toxins and plagues.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Holds the same one her grandmother did.
* NoNameGiven: The second Dr. Poison's name has never been revealed.
* OmnicidalManiac: Released a lethal virus in the hopes that it would multiply and destroy the world. It failed, but not from lack of effort on her part.
* PoisonousPerson: Doctor Poison II can excrete poisons from her skin and saliva, thanks to modifications she made to herself.
* PsychoForHire: Doctor Poison II has hired out his/her services to other members of Wonder Woman's rogues gallery.
* SlasherSmile: Doctor Poison II uses a drug to lock her face in this position so that nobody can read her expression.
* SlaveMooks: Tortured the citizens of Skartaris into becoming zombies slaved to her will.
* VillainTeamUp: The second Doctor Poison joined the Secret Society of Supervillains and aided in the creation of Genocide, in addition to joining Queen Clea's second Villainy Inc.
* WeaponOfMassDestruction: Her entire motif involves chemical and biological weaponry, two of the three weapons types classed as [=WMD=]s.
* YellowPeril: Averted. While she's at least partly Japanese, she doesn't share her grandmother's connection to the home country and her mask makes the full extent of her ethnic make up almost impossible to determine.

[[WMG:Doctor Poison III]]
->'''AKA:''' Unknown
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->''"You've been a good soldier, General Zunchievwski. But I think we both know that failure is not an option. not when i'm this close to victory."''

A Russian woman with a grudge against the USA and a habit of funding terrorism served as the New 52 Doctor Poison before she was erased from continuity via being revealed to have been part of Wonder Woman's false implanted memories at the start of DC Rebirth.

->'''First Appearance [-this version-]:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman2011 Vol 4]] #48. (2016)
->'''This Version By:''' Meredith Finch · David Finch
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* RaceLift: Post-Flashpoint, Doctor Poison was revamped from a dark haired Japanese woman to a blonde, white Russian woman.
* WesternTerrorists: She funds and works with such groups, at one point attacking a summit in the hopes of assassinating the US president.

[[WMG:Doctor Poison IV]]
->'''AKA:''' Marina Maru
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->''"If I learned anything as a child...it's that you always need a backup plan."''

A version of the character created after DC Rebirth, Marina Maru is a former Japanese colonel who leads a mercenary gang known only as "POISON".

->'''First Appearance [-this version-]:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth Vol 5]] #13. (2017)
->'''This Version By:''' Greg Rucka · Renato Guedes
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* AlliterativeName: '''Mar'''ina '''Mar'''u.
* ColonelBadass: DC Rebirth gave Doctor Poison IV the rank of Colonel in the Japanese military.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Features a scar in the shape of a caduceus below her eye.
* NothingPersonal: Diana points out that while attempts on her life may not be from any actual dislike on Maru's part, she quite understandably takes people trying to kill her and her friends ''very'' personally.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Doctor Psycho]]
[[WMG:Doctor Psycho]]
->'''AKA:''' Edgar Cizko
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-->''"Ladies, gentlemen, others, creatures of indeterminate inner demons and fixations--My name is Dr. Psycho. And you're going to help me with a little experiment. All I ask? That you keep an open mind. "''

Diana's most disgusting and diminutive foe can control people's minds and broadcast illusions. He's a misogynistic sadist with serious problems when it comes to interacting with women... and it doesn't help that he has a creepy crush on Wonder Woman.\\
\\

For tropes relating to his slightly differently powered Golden Age version see [[Characters/WonderWoman1942 here]].\\
\\

->'''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] #5. (1943)
->'''Created By:''' William Moulton Marston
->'''Universes:''' Earth-Two, Earth-One, New Earth, Prime Earth, [[ComicBook/WonderWomanEarthOne Earth 1]], Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse, [[WesternAnimation/DCUniverseAnimatedOriginalMovies DCUAOM]], [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold BTBATB]], [[ComicBook/AmalgamUniverse Earth-496]], Earth-1927, WesternAnimation/TeenTitans, VideoGame/DCUniverseOnline, ComicBook/WonderWoman77, Series/Powerless2017, WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019
----
* AxCrazy: A completely unhinged monster.
* BaldOfEvil: In the mid-2000s. He grew his hair back in time for ''The Odyssey''.
* BeardOfEvil: Most modern depictions of Psycho feature this look.
* BerserkButton: Being embarrassed in any way will set Psycho off. Commenting on his height, or lack thereof, will do it even faster.
* CardCarryingVillain: He once went on a rampage because a woman called him "normal". He ''loves'' being a villain.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Of the psychological variety, mostly, but he doesn't exactly shy away from the physical variety either. He once threatened to use his psychic powers to force Catman to eat his own intestines.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting
** In his original Harry G Peters depiction, he has a glaring TakeThat facial resemblance to a caricature of Josef Goebbels.
** Creator/GailSimone arranged for him to look like Creator/PeterDinklage circa ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'' and its aftermath.
* DefiantToTheEnd: Averted at the last second. When Psycho was about to be killed by The Morrigan, a pair of goddesses who had already captured and tortured him, he used what he thought would be his last seconds to laugh in their faces and tell them that Wonder Woman was coming for them.
* DependingOnTheArtist: How disfigured he is varies. Sometimes he's a twisted little troll of a man, as in the page image. Other times he's still a dwarf, with short legs and an outsized head, but is more or less good looking.
* DependingOnTheWriter: Whether his FreudianExcuse is given any play or not, and if his crush on Diana is a redeeming quality or just makes him worse.
* DepravedDwarf: Stunted and twisted in both body and spirit summarizes Doctor Psycho pretty well. We're talking an evil midget who once [[spoiler: used MindControl to make a bunch of people commit cannibalism, an act that not only sexually aroused him, but inspired him to MindRape them by letting them feel his arousal as if it were their own and then let them go once he was bored]]. Even beyond that, he's defined by his hateful misogyny.
* EnemyMine: Actually aids Wonder Woman during ''Odyssey'' because he hates the new timeline as much as she does.
* FrameUp: In the Golden Age he was framed for theft by a college rival, who subsequently stole Psycho's fiancé while he was in prison.
* FreudianExcuse: Has a lifetime of rejection and mistreatment behind him, though whether this is played for sympathy at all depends upon the writer.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Dr. Psycho is too powerful to ignore, so he gets plenty of team-ups. He's also too unhinged and malevolent to trust, so nobody minds when he gets screwed.
* GoodEyesEvilEyes: His are grotesquely wide and constantly bulging almost clear out of his head.
* HadToComeToPrisonToBeACrook: He was framed for a crime he did not commit and ended up in prison as a result, all while a colleague stole his fiancee. His time in prison seems to be the last straw that turned him into what he was.
* HeManWomanHater: Without the he-man part.
* ImAHumanitarian
** In ''ComicBook/SecretSix'', they find out they're eating Solomon Grundy. Cheshire throws up. Psycho asks for more.
** Infamously mind-controlled a crowd into cannibalizing people. He found it arousing.
* KickTheDog: He does this a LOT.
* LittlePeopleAreSurreal: Invoked by Psycho's mental powers and penchant for making people live through what essentially qualifies as an acid trip.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Usually dressed in a suit Post-Crisis.
* MassHypnosis: One of his main super powers.
* MasterOfIllusion: Another major super power. Dr. Psycho can create powerful illusions that are influential enough to damage or kill others.
* MessyHair: Pre-Crisis. Today he's more likely to have it slicked back.
* MindRape: He's a fan. Especially the rape part.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: The very name says it all.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Would you trust in an explicitly-psycho doctor?
* TheNapoleon: Hates being reminded of how small he is.
* NightmareFetishist: In one infamous incident, he used MoreThanMindControl to enslave multiple people and turned them on each other in a frenzy of cannibalism. ''He got '''sexually aroused''' from watching this!'' ''And'' he broadcast his sexual pleasure from the act into the minds of all his victims, resulting in a case of serious MindRape in those who survived.
* NoHonorAmongThieves: During his time in the Society leadership, he attempted to mind control the others in Luthor's inner circle. All of them did a NoSell, knowing full well Psycho's reputation.
* PetTheDog
** During his EnemyMine with Wonder Woman in the altered timeline of ''Odyssey'' he not only helps restore Diana's memories of the regular timeline, but gives a long speech on how much she means to the world, and how much he admires her personally and wants to be a part of her life. His freeing Ajax later in the same arc may also qualify, even if it was in his best interests to do so.
** Genuinely likes children for their innocent curiosity about them. This is subverted in that he happily harms these same children as an attack on their parents.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: One of the premiere examples in comics. He dates back to the Golden Age, where misogyny was his primary reason for becoming a supervillain, and it still forms a cornerstone of his persona.
* PsychicPowers
** Dr. Psycho is a potent telepath which grants him ability to create astral projection, ectoplasmic conjurations, MindControl via hypnosis and illusions.
** MindOverMatter: Averted, actually. For all his nasty power over the human mind, Cziko cannot affect the physical world with his powers.
* PsychoForHire: When employed by The Duke of Deception, Circe, Veronica Cale, Alexander Luthor Jr, or any of the other masterminds who have used his services.
* PsychoPsychologist: In his original depiction he was a psychiatrist. Indeed, he has a particular talent for taking an opponent's fears and inhibitions and turning them against them. And well... for the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin psycho part]]...
* RedRightHand: Psycho's dwarfism is played this way.
* TheResenter: Resents normal sized men and women alike.
* SinisterShades: A part of his costume in the mid-2000s.
* SlasherSmile: Sports it more than once.
* TheSociopath: Under some writers he's played as an absolute psychopath.
* StalkerWithACrush: To Diana, as well as Kate Spencer.
* TragicVillain: Initially, as he was born deformed, bullied all of his life because of it, framed for a crime that he did not commit, had his fiancee stolen from him, and was led to believe that she was complicit in the FrameUp. As the years went on, though, he became crazier and crazier and sympathies dwindled accordingly.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Heroes and villains alike are prone to doing this to Psycho on account of his small size. It rarely ends well for them.
* VillainousCrush: Often written as having one on Wonder Woman. During ''The Odyssey'' he comes to her assistance because he can't stand living in a world where he isn't a part of her life.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Drakul Karfang]]
[[WMG:Drakul Karfang]]
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->[[spoiler:'''AKA''': Drakul Karfang Drankoni Serpente]]
->''"There is nowhere for you to fly off to this time, is there Princess? No way for you to avoid...THIS?"''

The main antagonist of the graphic novel League of One. An ancient dragon queen prophesied by the Oracle of Delphi to slaughter the Justice League should they face her in battle. Learning of this, Wonder Woman decides to disable the team to face the dragon herself. She goes on a rampage across Switzerland, killing many people and turning neighbors against each other out of both revenge for the destruction of her kind, and out of sadism.

->'''First Appearance: ''' [[ComicBook/JLAALeagueOfOne ''JLA: A League of One'']]
->'''Created By: ''' Christopher Moeller
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* BadBoss: Treats her gnome servants like crap, having no regard whatsoever for their well being.
* BreathWeapon: Three different ones. Fire, magic green MookMaker fire, and poison gas.
* CantLiveWithoutYou: She is brought back to life by Circe, but that life only lasts so long as Circe's magic is acting on Karfang. Removing Circe returns Karfang to a dead pile of bones.
* ConsummateLiar: Knows of the prophecy, and temporarily convinces Diana that she misinterpreted it. [[spoiler:She didn't.]] Is also just dishonest in general.
* CorruptTheCutie: Well, "cutie" is pushing it, but according to one gnome the main reason she's so evil is that the gold she ate to become strong was tainted with the essence of its wicked former human owners.
* DraconicAbomination: Drakul has consumed so much wicked gold over her long lifespan that she's stated to have essentially become an embodiment of hatred and lies.
* TheDreaded: Feared by all who know of her, and for good reason.
* HeavySleeper: After her first defeat, she slept for six hundred years.
* HatePlague: Her mere presence instills paranoia and hatred within people.
* FatalFlaw: [[spoiler:Sees everyone as beneath her, and thus fatally underestimates Diana]].
* GiantFlyer: One of her teeth is roughly as big as Wonder Woman's head, the rest of her body is in proportion to them, and she can still fly.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: The Queen of the Dragons is evil to the core.
* HeelFaceDoorslam: Wonder Woman offers Farfang mercy and protection if she will just surrender, but Drakul refuses, and in attacking stumbles right into the trap Wonder Woman had laid in case the offer was rejected.
* IKnowYourTrueName: If she knows a person's real name, she can push their mind into believing lies. [[spoiler:If her own full name is revealed, she becomes weakened.]]
* ISurrenderSuckers: [[spoiler:Offers to allow Wonder Woman to keep her heart for insurance that she will no longer cause trouble. It's a ploy of course, and leads directly to Karfang's death]].
* LastOfHerKind: Well, the last of her particular breed of dragons anyway.
* MookMaker: Can turn gnomes into monstrous Drakugnomes with her green flame.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: A classic western style six-limbed dragon. Breathes two kinds of fire, one semi-normal flame, and a magic green flame that creates monsters. Collects gold to use as a bed, and also consumes it to strengthen outer armor, but this gold is tainted by the spirit of its owners, influencing the dragon in question.
* OneShotCharacter: She only shows up for a single, if memorable, graphic novel. [[spoiler: Defied. She was revived courtesy of Circe, albeit temporarily, in the pages of ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueDark'' (vol.2)]]
* PoisonIsEvil: She can expel toxic gas, but allegedly wasn't evil until she got her teeth on gold that had been held by greedy people.
* ThePowerOfHate: Her flames are instilled with the power of pure hatred, which takes the fear and hatred within a person's soul and uses it to burn them from within. [[spoiler:This is how Diana is ultimately able to defeat her. Wonder Woman has no hatred to speak of.]]
* ResurrectTheVillain: [[spoiler:In ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueDark'' (vol.2) Circe, possessing Wonder Woman's body at the time, resurrects Drakul to serve her and in exchange she'll allow her to destroy Wonder Woman's body.]]
* SealedEvilInACan: After Wonder Woman kills Karfang she creates a special tomb for the skeleton and invokes the Gods Of Olympus to seal it, to ensure the dragon can never come back. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, Circe is of the same godly lineage as the Olympians and is able to open the tomb.]]
* SicklyGreenGlow: Her secondary fire attack is green, and can infect gnomes.
* SmugSnake: Arrogant and self-centered, to the point she acts without thinking and loses to foes she could have beaten with sound strategy.
* SoulJar: Her lineage of dragons is effectively invincible unless their heart is destroyed.
* StrongerWithAge: As long as she maintains a healthy diet she will continue to get stronger
* SuperStrength: She is much stronger than her size and musculature would suggest, and Karfang is pretty large to begin with
* TechnicolorFire: Has a special green fire that forcibly transforms gnomes into Drakugnome minions.
* ThematicRoguesGallery: A villain themed around deception and lies. Fitting for the Spirit of Truth.
* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: [[spoiler:Ultimately, Diana was really the only person who could've stopped her]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Duke of Deception]]
[[WMG:Duke of Deception]]
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[[caption-width-right:186:Disguised]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:True form]]
->''"You are generous to me, noble Mars! Weak slaves are just the kind I desire--I can train weakling more easily to cheat their superiors!"''

The Duke of Deception is Ares' right hand man and most trusted disciple. He has the ability to create illusions.\\
For the version of this character in ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfWonderWoman2016'' see [[Characters/TheLegendOfWonderWoman2016 the corresponding character page]].

->'''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] #2. (1942)
->'''Created By:''' William Moulton Marston & Harry G. Peter
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* TheCorrupter: Like Ares' other associates in the Golden Age he was portrayed as influencing people to commit deception, apparently influencing Imperial Japan and Hitler. This gets to the point that when he's imprisoned Imperial Japan becomes more honest with their allies.
* DemonicPossession: Is apparently able to possess humans... though he often possesses bodies he has created.
* TheDragon: To Ares naturally, one of his most trusted allies.
* {{Gonk}}: His Golden Age incarnation was pretty danged homely. Of course, he's a master of illusion, so he can look like whatever he wants.
%%* ManipulativeBastard
* MasterOfIllusion: He uses his illusions to spread falsehoods among humanity to provoke them into conflict and war. He often vainly projects an attractive illusion of himself.
* TheStarscream: Perhaps unsurprisingly, he's repeatedly attempted to betray Ares.
* ThematicRoguesGallery: The Duke of Deception versus the wielder of the Lasso of Truth.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Earl of Greed]]
[[WMG:Earl of Greed]]
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->''"I know you have billions in gold--Reveal the secret of your hidden vault and I will arrange your escape!"''

The Earl of Greed was an agent of Mars, the Greco-Roman God of War. He lived and worked on the planet Mars, alongside two other confederates named the Count of Conquest and the Duke of Deception and helped to facilitate Mars' ongoing efforts to perpetuate a never-ending state of warfare on the planet Earth.

->'''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] #2 (1942)
->'''Created By:''' William Moulton Marston & Harry G. Peter
->'''Universes:''' [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Earth-Two]], [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Earth-One]]
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* TheCorrupter: Like Ares' other associates in the Golden Age, he was portrayed as influencing people to act greedily, apparently influencing Imperial Japan and Hitler.
* FatBastard: As befits his status as a glutton, he is noticeably corpulent.
* {{Greed}}: Is the living embodiment of this sin, and exists to encourage others to act greedily.
* VillainousGlutton: His passion for consumption extends to food and drink, and he is constantly eating.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Echidna]]
[[WMG:Echidna]]
->'''AKA:''' The Mother of Monsters
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->''"I draw the underworld in on itself...I crush you in my damp embrace...I draw my daughters back into my womb..."''

Known as the Mother of All Monsters, Echidna is a monstrous creature with the upper torso of a woman and the body and tail of a serpent. With her mate Typhon, Echidna birthed legendary monsters such as Cerberus, the Sphinx, the Chimera, and the Hydra, among others. At some point, Echidna was imprisoned underneath Themyscira.

->'''First Appearance:''' ''DC Comics Presents'' #46 (1982)
->'''Universes:''' [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Earth-One]], [[ComicBook/PostCrisis New Earth]], Prime Earth
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* GreenAndMean: Her snake half is green and she's certainly not nice.
* MonsterProgenitor: As indicated by her title, she birthed most of the most famous monsters of Greek Mythology.
* SnakePeople: Echidna is a monstrous creature with the upper torso of a woman and the body and tail of a serpent.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Egg Fu]]
[[WMG:Egg Fu]]
->'''AKA:''' Chang Tzu
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->''"You must remain conscious while I work. The tremendous pain this will cause you is incidental, but, if consolation concerns you, it is in the name of research."''

Debuting in UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|OfComicBooks}}; Egg Fu was a Chinese Communist agent (and horrible racial stereotype) who inexplicably took the form of an egg the size of a house, and used his Literature/FuManchu mustache as a weapon. Killed in combat with Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor, he was replaced by his descendant, Egg Fu the Fifth, who menaced Wonder Woman in another issue, and his robotic duplicate, Doctor Yes, who fought the Metal Men.

Post-Crisis, Egg Fu was reimagined first as an Apokoliptian super computer, and then as a centuries old criminal mastermind and mad scientist (and horrible racial stereotype) named Chang Tzu. The Chang Tzu incarnation was the head of a collective of mad scientists on Oolong Island, and produced weapons and technology for Intergang, until he was seemingly slain by a revolt among the other scientists. Returning to life four months later, he went on to menace both Checkmate and the Outsiders, before facing Wonder Woman, Characters/PowerGirl, and [[ComicBook/Batgirl2000 Cassandra Cain]] in ''Wonder Woman #600."

->'''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] #157. (1965)
->'''Created By:''' Robert Kanigher & Ross Andru
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* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: Morrison's version of Egg Fu was a giant flying head inside a cybernetic apparatus who killed henchmen on a whim and acted as Intergang's top scientist. It's a pretty obvious parallel to Marvel's [[Characters/MarvelComicsAIM M.O.D.O.K.]], a giant flying head inside a cybernetic apparatus with similar BadBoss tendencies and who is also typically the leader of the science-terrorist cabal known as AIM.
* AmbiguouslyHuman:
** The original Egg Fu is egg-shaped and the size of a house, but apparently human as he's specifically a Chinese Communist agent (as racially depicted as he may be). Though his descendent, Egg Fu the Fifth references "other Egg Fus" being "hatched" which begs the question of just what process was used to create them.
** What exactly Chang Tzu is was also kept up in the air. He spoke as if he was human, but didn't look it in the least, and his condition doesn't resemble any real life deformity. Though it could be the result of self-mutation.
* AsianSpeekeeEngrish: Egg Fu the First, Egg Fu the Fifth, and Doctor Yes all spoke this way in the sixties, mangling tenses and sentence structure and swapping "L" and "R".
* AxCrazy: The Chang Tzu version is a violent lunatic who kills off anyone who irritates him.
* BadBoss: Chang Tzu murders a henchman for laughing at his nickname.
* BerserkButton: Surprisingly, "Egg Fu" isn't for Chang Tzu - it is merely one on his "nine thousand and ninety-nine unmentionable names." Thinking the name is ''funny,'' however, gets you immediately killed.
* BodyHorror: His physical condition was played for full horror in the Chang Tzu version.
* TheCameo: Briefly appears in the background during ''Dark Knights: Metal'' (specifically, the ''Wild Hunt'' one-shot, which was co-written by Grant Morrison, the guy who pushed to reintroduce him in the modern day).
* {{Cephalothorax}}: The Chang Tzu version has mechanical arms built into his "body" which is otherwise just a head.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Chang Tzu puts Sasha Bordeaux and Captain Boomerang through excruciating torture in order to understand their abilities.
* CombatTentacles: Chang Tzu uses his mechanical tentacle arms as his main weapons. In ''Wonder Woman'' #600, two of them are fixed to his face in "honour" of his sixties prehensile moustache.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Post-Crisis (in ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo''), Egg Fu was transformed into the horrific and monstrous Chang Tzu, who killed a henchman because he might have once called him "Egg Fu." According to the WordOfGod, Morrison was begging them to retain the prehensile mustache, but he was voted down.
* DeathIsCheap: Though he has been killed on more than one occasion he never fails to reappear eventually. He has hinted that his "resurrections" are accomplished through [[CloningBlues cloning]].
* DiabolicalMastermind: Both in UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|OfComicBooks}} and UsefulNotes/{{the Modern Age|OfComicBooks}}.
* DirtyCommunists: In his first incarnation, he was a former communist agent.
* EvilCripple: The Chang Tzu incarnation can only move with the aid of his cybernetic arms and legs.
* EvilLaugh: "Hee-ho!"
* FunetikAksent: Went on and on about "Amelicans" and his "Doomsday Locket" in the sixties. It was as painfully racist as it sounds.
* ImmortalityImmorality: The Chang Tzu version, who regenerates after every death.
* InterchangeableAsianCultures: In ''Wonder Woman'' #600, he becomes the subject of an AllAnimeIsNaughtyTentacles joke, despite supposedly being from China.
* LegacyCharacter: The original Egg Fu's relative, Egg Fu the Fifth, and his robotic duplicate, Doctor Yes.
* MadScientist: He also established an entire collective of "mad" scientists dubbed the ''Science Squad''.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: The Chang Tzu incarnation features multiple mechanical arms, strong enough to tear even superhumans apart and temporarily restrain the likes of Wonder Woman and Power Girl.
* NighInvulnerability: Not most of the time, but in ''Wonder Woman'' #600, Diana tells Power Girl they will both have to strike with all of their might in order to put Chang Tzu down. Power Girl questions this, noting "that's a lot of might," and Wonder Woman tells her to just do it. In the end, both their full power blows prove enough to knock Chang Tzu out, but only crack his shell enough to give him the equivalent of a nosebleed.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: A cyborg Chinese mad scientist with a giant head.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: The original Egg Fu actually killed Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor, requiring Hippolyta to use a special machine to resurrect them. The Chang Tzu version was briefly able to subdue Diana, Cassandra Cain, ''and'' Power Girl before being taken out.
* ObviouslyEvil: The Chang Tzu incarnation is a giant yellow face with a SlasherSmile and various robotic arms hanging off his sides.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: We only arrived in time to see his defeat, but Chang Tzu apparently fought Wonder Woman, Power Girl, and Batgirl all at once in ''Wonder Woman'' #600, something few villains can boast of.
* PrehensileHair: The sixties incarnations of Egg Fu the First and Egg Fu the Fifth both had prehensile mustaches. This was referenced in ''Wonder Woman'' #600 where some of Chang Tzu's tentacles are fixed to his face in the same place. (Grant Morrison apparently petitioned editorial to add the mustache back, but was denied.)
* RedEyesTakeWarning: The Chang Tzu version.
* RoboticPsychopath: The version that was an Apokoliptian supercomputer.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Despite being teamed with fellow WW villain Veronica Cale, the Chang Tzu incarnation initially fought the Outsiders and Checkmate, not Wonder Woman. He would eventually face her in the Issue #600 anniversary addition.
* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: Chang Tzu could be shot to death by Will Magnus, yet a few years later could tank anything short of full powered blows from both Wonder Woman ''and'' Power Girl.
* TakeThat: His murder of one of his subordinates for laughing at his "Egg Fu" nickname could be seen as one of these, seeing as how his original name was a blatantly racist stereotype.
* YellowPeril: One of the most imfamous [[{{Stereotype}} stereotypically]] racist villains of the 1960s as a giant yellow-faced ''egg'' with Oriental features and a Fu Manchu mustache. John Byrne attempted to fix these problems by ret-conning him to be an Apokalyptian supercomputer, but Grant Morrison would later bring back the unfortunate implications of the character in ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'' by making him a Chinese mad scientist named Chang Tzu.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Emperor Sangtee]]
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->''"And them execute them...gruesomely. She'll be tempted to some gesture. She'll come here, either in force or by stealth..."''

Emperor of the Sangtee Empire, the group that enslaved Diana when she was sent spinning uncontrolled into space on a broken space station.

->'''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' Vol 2 #69. (1992)
->'''Created By:''' William Messner-Loebs & Paris Cullins
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* AlienHair: The Emperor, like all kreel, has no hair but does have a set of barbels on the end of each brow and a flat hair substitute.
* BoomerangBigot: The Emperor is [[spoiler:a woman]] but practices their society's violent and horrific [[spoiler:misogyny]].
* DefeatMeansFriendship: The Emperor never seems quite as militantly obsessed with the Empire's rampant misogyny as the P'Q'Rort (noble governors approx.) and after admitting defeat is seen walking arm-in-arm with Diana while discussing the Empire's plans moving forward. The Emperor also arranges for Diana and Natasha to be safely returned to earth and doesn't renege on the terms of the Empire's defeat, making slavery outlawed permanently.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Emperor Sangtee or Majesty are the closest this character gets to a name.
* GalacticConqueror: The Emperor is popular with the people due to their efforts in the expansion of the Empire, and the televised depictions of them brutally putting down slave rebellions.
* OppositeSexClone: Kreel biology means that attempting to clone a man may result in a female infant, as is the case for [[spoiler:the Emperor]].
* PointyEars: Kreel have ears that are sort of similar to a human's, with the back edge more rounded and flattened with notches and coming up to a point at the top.
* RankScalesWithAsskicking: They are an excellent fighter and general. This is only seen in flashbacks and holographic records since when they confront Diana one-on-one they let her talk and then lower their weapon and concede defeat.
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: Before the deception is revealed the Emperor intends to have Sakritt executed for betraying Diana to the Empire.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: The Emperor is an active warrior and keeps informed of the rest of the nobles activities, occasionally showing up on their doorstep to take them to task for failure.
* SheIsTheKing: The Sangtee Emperor [[spoiler:is a woman in disguise]].
* SlouchOfVillainy: The Emperor is mostly seen slouched gracefully in their throne.
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: The Emperor is as close to a name as they answer to, though they'll answer to "Majesty" as well.
* SweetPollyOliver: [[spoiler:The Emperor is a woman. Not even just her sex, once she's accused of such she agrees it's her gender]].
* WarriorPrince: The Emperor rose to fame as a warrior putting down rebellions prior to ascending to the throne.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Fireworks Man]]
[[WMG:Fireworks Man]]
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->''"I am a human fireworks! No one can withstand my powers! I will shatter Wonder Woman! I will win the "Golden WW"! I, the Fireworks Man!"''

The Fireworks a.k.a. The Human Fireworks was formerly a chemist. The Fireworks Man turned himself into creature made from explosives in order to acquire the "Golden WW," a statue which symbolizes the defeat of Wonder Woman.

->'''First appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' #141 (October, 1963)
->'''Universes:''' [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Earth-One]]
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* BlindedByTheLight: Generates dazzling explosive bursts similar to fireworks.
* EnergyBeings: The Fireworks Man turned himself into a creature made from explosives.
* {{Flight}}: Has the ability to become a malleable energy generating being who can fly.
* HavingABlast: The Fireworks Man turned himself into creature made from explosives.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His real name has never been revealed.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Fireworks Man's body has no set shape.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:El Gaucho]]
[[WMG:El Gaucho]]
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->''"But now, El Gaucho has shown the world that no one may stand in the way of the Cartel...not even a Wonder Woman!"''

One of five assassins controlled by a mysterious entity called the Prime Planner. He originated from the wild pampas of South America and dressed much like South American gauchos. He is equipped with a flying silver robot horse, an electrified lasso, projectiles, and bolas which consist of three balls attached to a long rope that he throws at his victims.

->'''First appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' Vol 1 #265 (1980)
->'''Universes:''' [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Earth-One]]
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* BattleBolas: Uses a bolas equipped with explosives or noxious gas.
* BeardOfEvil: Has a goatee.
* CaptainEthnic: A walking, talking Argentinian stereotype.
* EnhancedArchaicWeapon: Uses a BattleBolas equipped with explosives or noxious gas, and a lasso capable of delivering massive electric shocks.
* {{Gaucho}}: His name and his look.
* MechanicalHorse: Rides a a mechanical horse with flight capabilities.
* OneSteveLimit: He's got nothing to do with the heroic El Gaucho who's part of Batman Incorporated.
* StrawMisogynist: Is full of South American machismo and boasts that Diana has no chance against a "real man".
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Genocide]]
[[WMG:Genocide]]
-> '''AKA:''' [[spoiler:Princess Diana of Themyscira/Wonder Woman from the future (reanimated corpse)]]
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->''"No. Only Genocide kills. Suffer! Do you see it? A thin grail of human blood! covering the earth!"''

Created by the Secret Society of Super Villains from the soil of the sites of the world's worst atrocities[[spoiler:, using them to empower a corpse of Wonder Woman from the future]], Genocide has the strength of a god and nothing even resembling human compassion.

->'''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' Vol 3 #26. (2009)
->'''Created By:''' Gail Simone & Aaron Lopresti
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Her DC Rebirth incarnation is clothed in a way that makes her humanity more obvious and looks more like a muscular athlete, less like a RockMonster(which she never ''literally'' was but nonetheless looked like). This is to somewhat differentiate Genocide from new character Armageddon II, who now looks like the inhuman rock monster.
* AdaptationalWimp: DC Rebirth Genocide is a lackey of Paula Von Gunther who's best known for being defeated after being lassoed by Diana and Donna Troy at the same, showing how two Wonder Women are better than one and that Troy has finally, truly [[HeelFaceTurn been redeemed]] in the rebirth continuity.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and mass murder.
* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:She's Diana's own corpse resurrected into genocide incarnate]].
* ColdBloodedTorture: Poor, poor [[spoiler:Etta]], though at least she got better.
* CoolMask: As seen in the picture.
* TheCorrupter: Can infuse its hate into other beings.
* DarkActionGirl: Genocide is physically female, very dark, and can take down Amazons with ease.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Narratively speaking, Genocide is a darker, edgier [[SevenYearRule replacement]] for Devastation. Her story follows many of the same beats, such as beating Wonder Woman and turning a Wonder Girl against her, but while Devastation is a woman with a mission, a woman Wonder Woman is out to redeem, Genocide is a LivingWeapon Wonder Woman struggles to even humanise. Reformation is out of the question and Genocide has no mission beyond "kill", only slowing down on murder when she discovers joys of theft and torture.
* EmotionBomb: One of her powers, which she uses to turn [[spoiler:Donna]] against Diana.
* EnemyToAllLivingThings: Genocide kills anything that crosses her path indiscriminately.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Causes this reaction even among the Secret Society of Super Villains, especially with Dr. Morrow [[spoiler:who reveals that being of Polish descent means that he can't stomach having anything to do with Genocide]].
* EvilMeScaresMe: [[spoiler:Genocide was created from the corpse of the future Wonder Woman]].
* EvilRedhead: She is a redhead AnthropomorphicPersonification of genocide.
* {{Expy}}: Not dissimilar to Doomsday, being a largely mute EnemyToAllLivingThings with a complicated origin and little personality beyond the desire--and power--to kill the hero. Her appearance invokes him, but in character she becomes more like Devastation as time goes on.
* FinalSolution: The anthropomorphic personification of it.
* HeroKiller: Brutalizes Diana in their first battle, and subsequently takes on a good portion of the JLA and Teen Titans, beating down Wonder Woman, Troia, and Wonder Girl, before at last going down.
* HulkSpeak: At first. She grows a little more verbose as time goes along.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: The personification of this idea.
* ImplacableMan: Very Terminator-esque in her style and approach.
* LackOfEmpathy: The ability to identify with others was not part of Genocide's programming.
* LegionOfDoom: In DC Rebirth Genocide is one of two other "anti Wonder Women" Devastation and Donna Troy recruited by Paula Von Gunther, alongside Armageddon II, to serve as Paula's "Four Horsewomen" who will destroy Themyscira in revenge for all the Valkyries killed by the Amazons.
* LivingWeapon: Genocide's only purpose is to be a weapon who can kill Justice League members if the need arises. [[GoneHorriblyWrong Unforntunatley]] Genocide herself only cares about identifying and erradicating certaint members of the human population, [[WhatDidYouExpectWhenYouNamedIt who'd have thunk?]] The only other interests she manages to develop are theft and torture.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: And she makes a point of saying that it's not just her name, it's what she does.
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:Because Ares took it]].
* NighInvulnerability: She's not easy to beat.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: An undead Amazon corpse from the future infused with the souls of victims of genocide and ethnic cleansing, and reinforced with Felix Faust's enchantments, Dr. T.O. Morrow's cybernetics, and [[spoiler:Ares']] blessings. What exactly do you call her at this point?
* ThePowerOfHate: Powered by genocidal hate.
* SpikesOfVillainy: Has them on her face mask.
* SuperReflexes: Very fast reflexes.
* SuperSpeed: She's very fast.
* SuperStrength: Much stronger than Wonder Woman, with power comparable to that of a god.
* TheUndead: Part of why it's so hard to kill.
* WouldHurtAChild: Would hurt anyone, in fact.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Giganta (I-II)]]
[[WMG:Giganta I]]
->'''AKA:''' N/A
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[[caption-width-right:350:Golden Age Giganta]]
->''"Wonder Woman’s bonds were subduing me, but now that I’m free, I’m savage again! With [my now] human brain, I’ll destroy this golden age of love and establish a new order – a rule by force!"''

An exceptionally large and aggressive gorilla, the Golden Age Giganta was the largest ape in captivity. After she broke out and went on a rampage (only to be stopped by Wonder Woman), [[Characters/WonderWomanAllies Steve Trevor]] ordered her destroyed, despite the objections of her keepers. When well-meaning scientist Doctor Zool offered to change Giganta into a human being rather than killing her, Trevor agreed, hoping the experiment would kill the ape. Instead Giganta was changed into a seven foot tall woman who nevertheless retained all the strength and savagery of her original form.

In the Silver Age, Giganta's story was changed somewhat so that she was a colossal ape who had tried to kidnap Steve Trevor. Doctor Psycho intervened and forced Doctor Zool to change her into a human being at gunpoint. The two then teamed up against Wonder Woman, aiming to destroy Diana and win Steve for Giganta.\\
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->'''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] #9. (1944)
->'''Created By:''' William Moulton Marston & Harry G. Peter
->'''Universes:''' [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Earth-One]], [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Earth-Two]], Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse, Series/WonderWoman1975,
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* AdaptationDyeJob: The Silver Age version has blonde hair.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Almost every version of Giganta is nicer in some way than the Golden Age Earth Two original. The Silver Age Earth One Giganta retained the ability to love even as a human, and her love extended to more than just children. The post crisis Giganta mostly cares about her health and her money. She had a desire to bash Wonder Woman after losing to her once, but got it out of her system and mostly became docile so long as she was living comfortably.
* AlliterativeName: In the Silver Age she was '''G'''iganta the '''G'''orilla '''G'''irl.
* AmazonianBeauty: She certainly looked the part, though her attitude would put even the most brutal BrawnHilda to shame.
* TheBerserker: Pretty much always in a rage and all the stronger for it.
* BrainsAndBrawn: The Brawn to Doctor Psycho's Brains in the Silver Age.
* TheBrute: Played this role as part of Villainy Incorporated and ''always'' featured the personality.
* CarryABigStick: Sometimes wielded a club in the Golden Age.
* DarkActionGirl: An incredibly powerful hand-to-hand combatant.
* DumbMuscle: Giganta was smarter than your typical thug but not by much, and was always at her most dangerous when someone else was directing her fury.
* EvilRedhead: Has fiery red hair as a human being, at least in the Golden Age. In the Silver Age she was blonde.
* ForcedTransformation: As far as Giganta is concerned. She didn't ask to become human and she's not thrilled about it. Since she's stuck she tries to bring everyone down into savagery with her.
* FreudianExcuse: Golden Age Earth Two Giganta became abnormally violent for a gorilla after going crazy with grief when her child died. Still, Giganta had a soft spot for children of any species and would not hurt them. After being turned into a human she became crazier to the point she wanted to ruin the entire world, making even the children in it suffer.
* HugeGirlTinyGuy: When she allied with Doctor Psycho in the Silver Age. She's seven feet tall, he's a dwarf.
* HumanityEnsues: A gorilla transformed into a girl via mad science.
* KillerGorilla: A huge, vicious minded gorilla before being transformed into an equally huge, vicious minded woman.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Giganta's transformation into a supervillain is entirely the fault of Steve Trevor.
* PeltsOfTheBarbarian: When allowed to choose her own clothes she favoured a leopard skin dress.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Can still communicate with apes as a human. To call her "fluent" would be a stretch, as a brief translation showed she was nowhere near as articulate as she thought she was.
* StatuesqueStunner: Seven feet of redheaded beauty.
* SuperStrength: Giganta's strength was ridiculous even for a gorilla, and it remained that way after she became human. Most of her strength came from being larger than the other gorillas in the golden age though.
* UnstoppableRage: Seemed to draw strength from her anger.
* UpliftedAnimal: Gained human intelligence when she was transformed into a person.
* VillainousCrush: The Silver Age one had one on Steve Trevor, in an inverse King Kong situation.
* VillainessesWantHeroes: Steve Trevor wasn't a superhero but he was certainly heroic, and Silver Age Giganta was motivated by her interest in him.
* VillainTeamUp: Golden Age Giganta joined Villainy Incorporated. She worked most closely with Clea, and the two of them ended up ditching Eviless to carry out their own plans, also helping Zara and Hypnota get back to "Man's World". Silver Age Giganta briefly teamed with Doctor Psycho and even developed a bit of a crush on him, though it never overrode her interest in Steve.

[[WMG:Giganta II]]
->'''AKA:''' Doris Zeul
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->''"Don't take this the wrong way, but I often get the urge to crush you in my grip. With affection, though. Like a fatal hug. Endearing and enduring, at once. Feel your bones turn to powder just a little bit. Yum."''

ComicBook/PostCrisis, Giganta is Doctor Doris Zeul, a mousy scientist who was dying from a fatal disease. After trying and failing to place her mind in Wonder Woman's body, Dr. Zeul instead switched bodies with a circus strongwoman who just happened to have mystical size-changing powers. In addition to her feud with Wonder Woman, Giganta is also a long-time member of the Secret Society of Super-Villains and Injustice League and has a crush on her one-time colleague [[Comicbook/TheAtom Ryan Choi]], the fourth Atom. She was also a member of ''ComicBook/SecretSix'' until the New-52 reboot.\\
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->'''Universes:''' [[ComicBook/PostCrisis New Earth]], Prime Earth, WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}, VideoGame/LegoBatman, Franchise/{{Injustice}}, WesternAnimation/DCSuperheroGirls, WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold, WebAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls (Web),
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* AdaptationSpeciesChange: Pre-Crisis, she was a gorilla-turned-human. Post-Crisis, she's a human who put herself in a gorilla body in a last-ditch attempt to save herself, then she put herself in another human body.
* AmazonianBeauty: Is often depicted as being quite muscular, although how attractive she is depends on the artist.
* AntiVillain: More recent depictions seem to be pushing her towards this role. She's still a villain, but usually one who [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain causes more noise than actual harm]], and is quite willing to act civilly with certain heroes, when they don't stand in her way. While she was dating Ryan Choi, she had a definite [[FemmeFatale sense of sultry danger]] going for her, but her commitment to the relationship seemed based out of genuine interest.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Attack of the 50-Foot Woman, actually. Though in truth she can get much, much larger than that, reaching heights in excess of several hundred feet.
* TheBrute: Often plays this role in team ups, especially when she's stupid.
* ColdBloodedTorture: [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend Her reaction]] in ''ComicBook/SecretSix'' when she discovered that the shrinking killer, Dwarfstar, has hired Deathstroke and his Titans to kill Ryan Choi? She lures Dwarfstar to her bedroom with the promise of sex, strips him of his belt (the source of his powers) and beats him into submission. She is last heard covering Dwarfstar's mouth with duct tape to stifle his screams, telling him that she plans on keeping him alive so that she can prolong his suffering.
* CompositeCharacter: She has the powers and supervillain identity of the original Giganta, but the name of the scientist (Zool/Zeul)[[note]]originally male[[/note]] who created her.
* DarkActionGirl: Giganta's a capable enough fighter at her regular height. When she grows to full size she becomes an even more formidable adversary, with strength on par with Wonder Woman's.
* DealWithTheDevil: Cut a deal with Circe that allowed her to keep her intelligence when she grew.
* DefeatByModesty: Once the ComicBook/MetalMen defeated Giganta by (accidentally) ripping her clothes off, and agreeing to act as a makeshift bikini in exchange for her turning herself in.
* DoingInTheScientist: Despite being ''Dr.'' Zeul, her abilities are explicitly magical in nature. One issue of the original Jaime Reyes ComicBook/BlueBeetle run that featured her as a MonsterOfTheWeek had Jaime's mentor note that he hated dealing with size-shifters, because they're always at least somewhat magical, because trying to grow a person to such sizes using purely scientific means never [[SquareCubeLaw ends]] [[LudicrousGibs well]].
* DumbMuscle: Back when she lost IQ points for every foot she grew, Giganta often ended up in this role.
* EvilRedhead: A redhead and regular villain.
* FieryRedhead: Has a noticeably short temper, and auburn hair.
* FriendlyEnemy: Under Gail Simone she's relatively friendly to Wonder Woman when they aren't in combat.
* GeniusBruiser: Minus the bit described in WeaksauceWeakness below, there's a reason she's '''Dr.''' Doris Zeul.
* GiantWoman: She certainly lives up to her name.
* GoKartingWithBowser:
** She went on a few dates with the Atom even after they found out each others' identities. It seemed to be going pretty well, until he got murdered by her coworker (she didn't take it kindly).
** She is perfectly willing to just sit down and chat with Wonder Woman when they've both had a crummy day.
* GoingCommando: In one ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' story, after Characters/BlackCanary defeats Giganta, she goes, "If you insist on wearing a skirt into battle, put on some underpants, or at least learn to sit like a lady."
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: To a degree. She's definitely not a good person (though she's gotten nicer over the years and generally wasn't horrible even at her most villainous), but she's not very good at being a supervillain and frequently falls victim to TheWorfEffect. Plus the whole fatal illness part of her backstory.
* KillerGorilla: Was briefly trapped in the body of a gorilla in a shout out to her Golden Age self.
* MadScientist: Though this has more to do with her origins than how she currently operates.
* MySuitIsAlsoSuper: Giganta's suit is specialized to grow with her and enhances her invulnerability. Even at normal size, it is bulletproof and resistant to extremes of heat and cold.
* PretenderDiss: When Donna Troy took up the mantle of Wonder Woman, Gignata beat her up and went on a rampage looking for the "real" Wonder Woman while wearing a chained up Troy as a necklace.
* PunchClockVillain: Is more of a mercenary than diabolical supervillain. If she's not on the clock, she probably has no beef with you and is more than happy to leave you be, and she is generally very willing to live and let live when encountering heroes. She also personally has no animus towards Wonder Woman and is often cordial with her off the clock, and on her end, Diana also doesn't really have an issue with her and typically treats her as someone with a job to do that just so happens to be incompatible with her own occupation.
* {{Sizeshifter}}: Bigger than normal only.
* StatuesqueStunner: Even at her shortest, Giganta is still six and a half to seven feet tall (DependingOnTheWriter). And there is no doubt that she is a good looking woman.
* SternTeacher: Sometimes has a legitimate job as a very strict college professor at Ivy University.
* SuperStrength: Big and strong in her normal form, Giganta's strength increases exponentially when she grows, giving her muscular power far in excess of her already considerable size.
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* TinyGuyHugeGirl: With Ryan Choi (Atom). Even with both at normal size, she has several inches on him.
* VillainessesWantHeroes: Infected and controlled by M'Nagalah, the monstrous Cancer god, she was sent to seduce and capture Ryan Choi, the fourth Atom, in the process even going so far as to swallow the miniature hero alive (he escapes). Free of M'Nagalah's control, she approached Ryan for a second chance creating a real relationship despite difficulties. In a bit of irony, their powers [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever are]] [[IncredibleShrinkingMan opposite]].
* WeaksauceWeakness: Originally, the bigger Giganta got, the stupider she became, making her easier to defeat. She lost this problem thanks to Circe (and got a more sensible outfit out of the deal).
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: So, whatever happened to the circus strongwomen who had her mind placed in the body of a gorilla?
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Glop]]
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->''"GLOP...GLOP...Here's "confetti" in your eye! My wonder Girl's in the sky!"''

The Glop was an alien creature which could metamorphose into any form that it could digest. This creature was dreamt by a young Diana Prince.

->'''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] #151. (1965)
->'''Created By:''' Robert Kanigher & Harry G. Peter
->'''Universes:''' [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Earth-One]]
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* AlienArtsAreAppreciated: Glop fell in love with rock music.
* AllJustADream: Due to the ContinuitySnarl surrounding Diana as Wonder Girl, the Glop stories were retoconned as having been something Diana dreamt.
* BlobMonster: Glop is foul-smelling, amorphous creature.
* ContinuitySnarl: The Glop stories form part of the continuity snarl around Diana having been Wonder Girl.
* ExtremeOmnivore: Glop can consume almost anything.
* InterspeciesRomance: Has a crush on Wonder Girl.
* MaterialMimicry: Glop can metamorphose into any form that it can digest.
* PokemonSpeak: Would typically prefix its speech by saying its own name twice.
* RhymesOnADime: Having fallen in love with rock and roll, Glop sung much of his dialogue as rhyming couplets.
* StalkerWithACrush: To Wonder Girl.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Grail]]
[[WMG:Grail]]
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->''"I've been hunting it my whole life. Searching for my tool of vengeance. Suffering through unspeakable horrors. I sacrificed everything to the darkness. All for this."''

The Daughter of [[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darkseid]] and the Amazonian Myrina, prophesied to cause great destruction at the behest of the Anti-God. At the same time as the birth of Diana to Hippolyta, the Amazonian assassin Myrina gave birth to the daughter of Darkseid in secret, aided by Penelope and watched by the oracle Menalippe. Upon the birth of the young girl, Grail was defended by her mother from Penelope, who heard of the prophecy from Menalippe of the destruction that would be caused by the girl when she grew. After murdering Menalippe, Myrina fled Themyscira, bringing her daughter with her as the first Amazons to leave the island.
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* TheCorrupter: Grail can infect and corrode the emerald energy of willpower emanated from the Green Lantern Rings, causing great harm and pain to the ring wielder.
* EvilCounterpart: Grail to Wonder Woman, more so than even [[spoiler: Superwoman]].
* EvilSorcerer: Grail can perform occult Amazon rituals for various purposes.
* EyeBeams: Inherited her father's Omega Beams. Capable of injuring the likes of New Gods and destroy the unbreakable bracelets of Wonder Woman.
* NonHumanHumanoidHybrid: Grail is the hybrid offspring of Darkseid (New God) and Myrina (Amazonian).
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Grail was introduced as a villain and true BigBad in ''ComicBook/DarkseidWar''; she later become an antagonist to Diana and the Amazons in ''ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth''.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Gundra]]
[[WMG:Gundra]]
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->''" I was one of Odin's finest. A Valkyrie full of fire and strong mead. On a wager, I sought to discover--by myself--what the Jotuns were planning... And like a fool, I was captured... A victim of Groa's mad scheme to improve her race."''

Queen of the Valkyries, and one of the Norse gods' representatives on Earth, Gundra was summoned by UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler to do battle with the Golden Age Wonder Woman. They clashed several times, most notably during Gundra's assassination attempt on President UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt. She's been seen a few times since, and has come to blows with the modern Wonder Woman on occasion.\\
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->'''First Appearance:''' ''Comic Cavalcade'' Vol 1 #17. (1946)
->'''Created By:''' William Moulton Marston & Harry G. Peter
->'''Universes:''' [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Earth-Two]], [[ComicBook/PostCrisis New Earth]], Prime Earth
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* AdaptationalHeroism: Gundra is a good guy post-Flashpoint and she even befriends Wonder Woman.
* AdaptationalVillainy: First of all The Valkyries, who have unpleasant methods but ultimately work for the good of humanity in Norse religion, being antagonistic villains is this already. Furthermore, Golden Age Earth Two Gundra is just the servant of a War God collecting souls for Valhalla, and just so happens to side with The Axis over the Allies because the Axis were the ones to summon them. Post Crisis Gudra is a Nazi lover and continues to fight for them after they lose the war and Odin rejects her for it.
* BreastPlate: One she wears ''over'' a suit of mail, as if she just wants to let people know she has boobs.
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: In the Golden Age both Gundra and Odin wanted Wonder Woman dead, but Odin wanted her dead on a much shorter schedule, so Gundra had to save Wonder Woman from him to keep her plans on rails.
* TheChampion: Was originally the champion of Wotan/Odin. Later could be said to be the champion of Adolf Hitler.
* DarkActionGirl: The Valkyries, like the Amazons, are a race of warrior women. So when one goes bad, you get this trope.
* DemotedToExtra: Pre-Crisis Gundra was a major enemy of the 1940s Wonder Woman. Post-Crisis she's appeared only once in the modern era, as part of Circe's vast collective of Wonder Woman villains.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: In ''Young All-Stars'' she falls in love with Ubermensch, convincing Iron Munro to spare him in exchange for reviving recently slain Tigress. Gundra explains that she views Ubermensch as the Teutonic warrior befitting a Valkyrie such as herself.
* EvilCounterpart: As a Valkyrie who fought for the Nazis during WWII, Gundra makes for a solid EvilCounterpart of Hippolyta, the Golden Age Wonder Woman, who was an Amazon who fought for the Americans and the British. When [[ThePsychoRangers Axis Amerika]] formed their first lineup, she was even brought in to serve as their equivalent of Wonder Woman.
* TheExile: Exiled from Valhalla for allying with the Nazis.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: When portrayed as the (former) Queen of the Valkyries.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Golden Age Gundra filled Valhalla with atomic power sources because the Norse gods were immune to the radiation they produced. She even tried to poison Wonder Woman by sabotaging one. Wonder Woman not only escapes unscathed but accidentally sets off a chain reaction that leaves Valhalla in ruins.
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Pre-Crisis Gundra tried this on Steve Trevor after stealing his soul and taking it back to Valhalla with her.
* LightningBruiser: To what degree [[DependingOnTheWriter depends on the writer]]. When she first appeared in the comics she was obviously stronger and faster than the axis and allied soldiers, but strongly implied to not be as strong as Wonder Woman, the Valkyries in general only having an edge because the Golden Age Wonder Woman couldn't fly on her own. In the Justice Society Of America books she's able to give both The Flash(Jay Garrick) and Green Lantern(Alan Scott) trouble but can't break Superman's grip when he intervened and restrained her. Post Crisis Gudra is roughly equal to Wonder Woman.
* MasterSwordsman: One of the best swordfighters associated with the Norse pantheon.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: Golden Age Gundra's ultimate goal, after humiliating the hypotenuse in front of the other leg.
* {{Necromancer}}: Can raise the dead to do her bidding.
* {{Pegasus}}: Has a winged horse named Stormwind.
* ThePowerOfLove: Golden Age Gundra can alter Steve Trevor's memories by manipulating his captured soul, but she cannot remove his love for anyone, that's something he has to do on his own. So she sets about trying to make him stop loving Wonder Woman, so that she can have this spot in his heart instead. [[DivineIntervention Aphrodite wasn't having it.]]
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: In the ''Rebirth'' universe, she's the ancestor of the von Gunther family, who were originally "von Gundra".
* {{Revision}}: In Wonder Woman's books no one seems to know where The Valkyries came from or when they started helping the Axis Powers. Hippolyte thinks all the figures of "Nordic Myth" were the creation of the Nazis, which is proven false when we see things from Odin's point of view but it's not until The Justice Society Of America that we learned Hitler summoned the Valkyries using The Spear Of Destiny to kill the JSA. Jay Garrick believes Hitler didn't actually know what he was doing, as the Valkyries don't follow his orders, taking it upon themselves to attack the allied nations, only fighting the JSA where opposed.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: A Golden Age Wonder Woman villain who became a Justice Society Of America villain. While the Wonder Woman stories were published first, the Justice Society stories took place earlier chronologically. From an in universe perspective she started as a Justice Society foe but became an Wonder Woman enemy.
* SadlyMythtaken: In-universe. Gundra sees the Nazi neo-Norse Wotan worship as being a valid expression of the religion she represents. Her own gods would disagree.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Has been Gundra and Gudra depending upon the writer.
* StatuesqueStunner: Golden Age Gundra was the same height as Wonder Woman, so about five foot eight. Post Crisis Wonder Woman is four inches taller and still shorter than Post Crisis Gudra, meaning Post Crisis Gundra's over six feet tall, and still very good-looking.
* SuperReflexes: Agile enough to dodge bullets or deflect them with her sword.
* SuperSpeed: Much faster than normal humans.
* SuperStrength: Her strength above what is possible for an unmodified human. In the golden age how much so is variable by writer, being weaker than Wonder Woman and Superman being the only constants. Post crisis Gundra's strength is consistently comparable to Wonder Woman's.
* ThoseWackyNazis: Was originally summoned by the Nazis, and continues to espouse their ideals long after the end of WWII (which caused Odin to disown her, post crisis).
* UnholyMatrimony: Developed a crush on Ubermensch, the leader of Axis Amerika.
* {{Valkyries}}: DependingOnTheWriter she may in fact be their Queen.
* VillainTeamUp: Has been a member of both Axis Amerika and Circe's collective of Wonder Woman villains.
* VillainousCrush: Pre-Crisis Gundra had one on Steve Trevor.
* VillainessesWantHeroes: As a Valkyrie she is supposed to recruit heroes for the service of Valhalla. She is not supposed to fall in love with, much less pursue relations with those heroes, but that's exactly what Golden Age Gundra did with Steve Trevor.
* WingedHumanoid: In her first appearance she and her valkyries can fly without wings. In her second appearance, she and all other Valkyries have wings, and their wings even become a plot point. Since then Gundra and The Valkyries are usually drawn without wings.
* YourSoulIsMine: Can steal the souls of those she kills.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Human Tank]]
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->''"Wonder Woman may hhave caught me--But no jail in the world can hold the Human Tank! Ha! Ha!"''

The Human Tank either acquired or developed an enamel-based compound that rendered his skin tougher than the hardest metal.

->'''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] #63. (1954)
->'''Created By:''' Robert Kanigher & Harry G. Peter
->'''Universes:''' [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Earth-Two]], Prime Earth
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His real name hasn't been revealed.
* SuperStrength: His skin's SuperToughness also somehow allowed him to batter down brick walls.
* SuperToughness: The Human Tank was able to shrug off pistol and submachinegun fire without harm.
* TattooedCrook: Post-Flashpoint his arms have many tattoos and remains a thug.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hypnota]]
[[WMG:Hypnota]]
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->''And now, my friends, I weel hypnotize anybody who daires step upon thees stage – I challenge any man or woman to reesist my hypnotic powair !"''

A magician and hypnotist who hides behind a male disguise. Hypnota was accidentally shot in the head by her assistant and twin sister Serva and received an experimental brain surgery to save her life. The surgery unlocked the ability to release a "blue hypnotic ray" from within her brain which she used on her sister and unsuspecting thousands to steal military secrets and sell people into slavery. She later joined Villainy Inc..\\
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For tropes relating to his slightly differently powered Golden Age version see [[Characters/WonderWoman1942 here]].\\
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->'''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] #11. (1944)
->'''Created By:''' William Moulton Marston & Harry G. Peter
->'''Universes:''' [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Earth-Two]], [[ComicBook/PostCrisis New Earth]]
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* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: (Pre-Crisis) Hypnota is physically female but she and her sister usually use male pronouns to refer to Hypnota, they spend most of their time disguised as a male, and when they're not hiding their femininity wear a mustache and goatee anyway. Hypnota was like this long before surviving a gunshot to the head changed their personality and turned them villainous.
* BeardOfEvil: It's fake, but even after her gender is exposed she keeps it included in her costume.
* CombinationAttack: No matter how many times she fails to hypnotize Wonder Woman she never comes up with any new plan of attack. She's able to successfully do it once however when her blue ray with Zara's crimson flame.
* CreepyCrossdresser: She wears fake facial hair and dons a phony French accent to pass herself off as a man. In the Post-Crisis stories, this aspect was dropped and she's referred to as Hypnotic Woman. In the New 52, she has reverted to the name Hypnota.
* EvilGenius: Blue Snowman and Dr. Poison qualify more for the evil geniuses of Villainy Inc., but when she, Giganta, Clea and Zara break away to do their own thing, she more comfortably fits into the role of the makeshift group.
* EvilTwin: She once worked side by side with her sister but after getting shot and gaining powers quickly went drunk on the dark side, partially because she believed her sister had legitimately attempted to kill her for no apparent reason.
* FreudianExcuse: She turned bad after she was shot in the face and believed Serva had legitimately tried to kill her.
* GirlsWithMustaches: And beards. Subverted because they are fake.
* HypnoticEyes: Her Blue Hypnotic Ray can be projected from her eyes and hands.
%%* ManipulativeBitch: She tried to instigate a war between Earth and Saturn.
* MassHypnosis: Though Wonder Woman is strong enough to resist Hypnota's power.
* MindControlEyes: Inflicts blue ones sometimes, courtesy of her "blue hypnotic ray".
* NotHimself: To their identical twin sister Serva the switch from being a considering, careful person in private to a sadistic villain after surviving a gunshot to the head is a huge change for Hypnota, and unfortunately one that seems permanent. The public don't notice as Hypnota and Serva have always presented a different persona to the public as a part of maintaining their stage magic act.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Hypnota is her stage name for her and her sister's magic act; her true name is never revealed.
* StageMagician: Her job, at which she ended up getting accidentally shot which led to the development of her powers.
* TisOnlyABulletInTheBrain: Hypnota was accidentally shot in the head by their sister Serva while practicing for their stage show. While they survived their personality was drastically altered and they became a villain.
* TwinSwitch: With Serva. Originally it was part of their magic act, but later used her power to make Serva forgot they were twins to further conceal herself whenever they switch places.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Image-Maker]]
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->''"I am the Image-Maker, master and commander of Mirror-World. I have come to this pallid realm to take you home."''

The Image-Maker is the master and commander of the Mirror-World. When Wonder Woman fought her way back to the world of the living, she ended up wreaking havoc in the Mirror-World, invisible to outsiders, without her noticing. Image-Maker then wanted Diana to pay for the damage she caused, sending several mirror duplicates of her to our world to attack her and the people she loved, but instead of punishing Diana he wanted her to join him in his world, and that way their might would be unquestionable, and, in his words, they would restore the realm of reflections to what it always was, the one true reality.

->'''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman''' (Vol 1) #134 (1968)
->'''Created By:''' Robert Kanigher & Ross Andru
->'''Universes:''' [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Earth-One]], Prime Earth
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* DimensionLord: The Image-Maker is the master and commander of the Mirror-World.
* {{Intangibility}}: As a living reflection, he can become intangible at will.
* MasterOfIllusion: Uses his mirror powers to creat illlusions.
* MirrorBoss: Can create mirror duplicates of people and use them to attack.
* MirrorMonster: The Image-Maker is the master and commander of the Mirror-World.
* MultiversalConqueror: Wants to absord the real world into the Mirror-World.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kung]]
[[WMG:Kung]]
->'''AKA:''' Thomas Morita
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->''"I despise your country, Robotman--and if slaying Britain's Prime Minister will help my homeland defaet her--then die he shall, though an army stood between us!"''

Born in the USA, Thomas Morita blamed the death of his Japanese immigrant parents and his other troubles on the alleged racial prejudice they encountered during the Great Depression. Hating America, Morita went to Japan and trained to be a Samurai. He also underwent a mystical experience that enabled him to transform into animals. Now known as Kung, the Assassin of a Thousand Claws, he was sent by the Japanese government during World War II on various missions in America.

->'''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman''' (Vol 1) #237 (1977)
->'''Created By:''' Gerry Conway & Jose Delbo
->'''Universes:''' [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Earth-Two]], [[ComicBook/PostCrisis New Earth]]
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* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Kung has the ability to transform himself into animal forms through concentration.
* LegacyCharacter: A second unidentified Kung (be it a descendant or an unrelated person) debuted in ''Wonder Woman (vol. 3) Annual'' #1 (2007) as a previously unrevealed foe of Wonder Woman.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Kung is a fanatical Japanese super-patriot.
* PurpleIsPowerful: His costume is mostly purple.
* RedBaron: Kung is also known as 'the Assassin of a Thousand Claws'.
* SecondaryColorNemesis: His costume is mostly purple.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Kung had the ability to transform himself into animal forms through concentration. Among the animals he transformed into were a man-sized insect, a tiger, and a rhinoceros. Kung was able to retain his human intelligence when transformed but reverted back to his human form if he somehow lost his concentration.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Liar Liar]]
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->''"You shouldn't tell me what to do. You tell me what to do and maybe I get so annoyed...I make these nice people turn there guns on themeselves."''

->'''A.K.A.:''' Emma Deropalis

Emma Deropalis is the terrorist Liar Liar. Daughter of Maxwell Lord, she started her criminal career to be acknowledged by her dad, trying to break him out of jail and also help him kill Wonder Woman.

->'''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman''' (Vol 1) #759 (2020)
->'''Created By:''' Mariko Tamaki & Mikel Janín
->'''Universes:''' Prime Earth
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* AbusiveParents: A controlling parent is bad enough without mind controlling powers to enforce their will, and that's outside of the resources for medical abuse when you've gotten into an accident.
* DaddysLittleVillain: Daughter of Maxwell Lord, she started her criminal career to be acknowledged by her dad.
* EnfantTerrible: She's only a girl and has become a pretty big threat for Diana.
* MasterOfIllusion: Emma inherited psychic powers from her father, and with her voice she's able to make people see what she generates.
* MindControl: Thanks to her abilities related to creating hallucinations and her intelligence, Emma is able to manipulate people controlling their minds.
* PsychicNosebleed: Just like her father her nose starts bleeding when she uses her powers.
* PsychoPink: Her hair is dyed pink and she can be even more unstable than her father.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Mask]]
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-->''"There is no Nina anymore. There is only The Mask."''

->'''A.K.A.:''' Nina Close

Nina Close was an abused wife who murdered her husband and now uses his fortune to empower similarly victimized wives and mothers.

For tropes relating specifically to the Golden Age original version of Nina see ''Characters/WonderWoman1942'' under Unaffiliated Villains.

->'''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' (Vol 1) #24 (1947)
->'''Created By:''' William Moulton Marston & Harry G. Peter
->'''Universes:''' [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Earth-Two]], [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Earth-One]], [[ComicBook/PostCrisis New Earth]], Prime Earth
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* DeadlyGas: Trapped people in S/M style masks that would release poisonous hydro-cyano gas when removed improperly.
* DomesticAbuse: An abused wife that killed her husband.
* MurderousMask: The Mask is so known because she locks her victims in masks rigged to fatally poison them if they tamper with them or she remotely activates them.
* SplitPersonality: The Golden Age version of the character was an oppressed and frail wife of a billionaire industrialist. She developed a split personality that was patterned after the bold explorer Fancy Framer and began to extort millions for her husband and the U.S. government
* WifeBasherBasher: Targets men who abuse their partners.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Maxwell Lord IV]]
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Founder and former leader of ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational who eventually came into conflict with the superhero community after the destruction of Coast City. He eventually became the malevolent leader of the Checkmate spy organization while eventually deciding to mind control Superman for his own ends, before Wonder Woman dealt out his infamous death scene.
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See the [[Characters/JusticeLeagueOfAmericaAntagonist Justice League villains page]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mayfly]]
[[WMG:Mayfly]]
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->'''A.K.A.:''' Moon Robinson
->''"Fast enough to block this bullet before it goes through your thin layer of skin and out the other side?"''

Mayfly was contracted by Ares Buchanan to assassinate Wonder Woman and Flash. With her superhuman speed, she was able to put up a good fight with the heroes, but was inevitably defeated. When imprisoned, Mayfly accidentally killed herself while trying to escape. She suffered from a rare form of hemophilia, and was obsessed with death.

->'''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' Vol 2 #78 (1993)
->'''Created By:''' William Messner-Loebs & Lee Moder
->'''Universes:''' [[ComicBook/PostCrisis New Earth]]
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* FragileSpeedster: Emphasis on the "fragile", as she is in many ways less durable than the average adult woman. And it's all due to her [[DidntThinkThisThrough own lack of foresight]]. Still, she's quite quick.
* GogglesDoSomethingUnusual: She incorporated some optics into her helmet to aid her aiming.
* HeelFaceTurn: Wonder Woman is able to successfully reform the Rebirth Mayfly, who seeks out redemption from their. The Post Crisis Mayfly lives up to her name and dies two issues after appearing.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Mayfly was an expert markswoman, able to shoot the Flash as he was running at full speed.
* ProfessionalKiller: Killing people is her job, but she doesn't get employed through legal channels so she ends up imprisoned for it.
* PsychoForHire: The money is simply to make living in society easier. If it wasn't possible to get paid doing it Mayfly would still be killing things, preferably other people. DC Rebirth Mayfly does begin to see more value in the stages of life between birth and death though.
* SkewedPriorities: She is hemophilic, and rather than solve that problem she sought out super powers that exacerbate her medical condition. [[TooDumbToLive Appropriately]], the Post Crisis Mayfly [[SelfDisposingVillain accidentally kills herself]]! Wonder Woman is able to save the Rebirth incarnation of Mayfly though.
* SuperSpeed: Her speed originally came from Velocity 9, but the Gene-bomb granted her real super-speed. She was shown to be at least as fast as the Flash.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Medusa]]
[[WMG:Medusa]]
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->''"Pain can bring out your most animalistic qualities. Athena thought she cursed me, but she blessed me with the power I needed to survive this world and this prison."''

Medusa is the chief of the Gorgons. She could turn people into stone with her eyes, a punishment from Athena for making love to Poseidon in a temple of the goddess of Wisdom. She was eventually beheaded by the hero Perseus. Through the actions of a jealous Hera, Medusa's two gorgon sisters were set free from their prison on Themyscira, and immediately schemed to resurrect their sister.\\

->'''First Appearance:''' ''Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane'' #52. (1964)
->'''Universes:''' [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Earth-One]], [[ComicBook/PostCrisis New Earth]], Prime Earth
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* AcidAttack: The gorgon's serpentine locks produce their own corrosive toxin which debilitates and sears those affected by it.
* TheAgeless: Being of divine blood, she and her sisters do not age.
* CompellingVoice: Has been blessed by Circe with a vocal allure that compels others to turn towards her gaze when calling to them.
* {{Curse}}: Her powers are a result of a curse placed on her by Athena.
* GorgeousGorgon: Is the leader of the Gorgons, is smoking hot, and likes to flaunt her body.
* LosingYourHead: Her head has survived multiple decapitations.
* {{Medusa}}: The original.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Twice. Despite her origins in Greek mythology, Medusa first appeared in an issue of ''Superman's Girlfriend, Lois Lane'' before going to become a regular opponent of Wonder Woman. On Prime Earth, she has primarily been a foe of ComicBook/{{Batwoman}}.
* SiblingsInCrime: Is frequently assisted by her sisters Euryale and Stheno.
* SuperStrength: Can go toe-to-toe with Wonder Woman.
* SuperToughness: Can go toe-to-toe with Wonder Woman.
* TakenForGranite: Can turn people to stone with her gaze.
* TruerToTheText: She has wings, an aspect that frequently appears in archaic Greek portrayal of gorgons, but that isn't present in later depictions, especially in contemporary pop culture.
* WingedHumanoid: Has feathered wings which enable her to fly.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Merciless]]
[[WMG:The Merciless]]
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->''" My whole life, I had been afraid of doing what I knew needed to be done. Afraid to give all of myself to the battle. The helmet showed me that my codes and rules were naive. That all that truly mattered was victory. And now I would finally take it for myself."''

The Merciless is the Batman of Earth -12. When he donned Ares' helmet to defeat the God of War, Bruce realized that peace and morality were falsehoods, and that the absolute destruction of his enemies was the only way forward. He eventually joined the Dark Knights, a team of evil Batmen from alternate realities. He is primarily an enemy to Wonder Woman.

->'''First Appearance:''' ''Dark Days: The Casting'' #1 (September, 2017)
->'''Created By:''' Scott Snyder & Greg Capullo
->'''Universes:''' Prime Earth, Earth-12
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* BloodKnight: He gained the powers of Ares after donning the war god's helm, which gave him an insatiable drive to fight.
* CoolSword: Wields the God Killer: a sword created by Hephaestus that can, as the name implies, kill Gods.
* EmotionControl: The Merciless can infect others with anger and a desire to fight, as well as with a need to worship him.
* EnergyAbsorption: The Merciless was capable of absorbing all of the power of the Valhalla warhead, capable of killing any being in the solar system.
* HatOfPower: The Merciless has all of the powers of Ares amplified a hundredfold due to his helmet.
* KillTheGod: The Merciless killed the Olympian gods of Earth-12.
* NightOfTheLivingMooks: After slaughtering the gods, he waged a war on Themyscira, the home of the Amazons, for three days. Every Amazonian who was slaughtered had to pay golden coins to the ferryman on the River Styx in exchange for the passage to the Elysian Fields. They were however betrayed as all these coins were melted to make a large golden drachma, and the souls of the dead Amazon women were bound to it. By ringing it, The Merciless could summon an army of restless warrior spirits to do his bidding.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Minister Blizzard]]
[[WMG:Minister Blizzard]]
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->''"I have dedicated my life to restoring the Ice Age, O'Neill! Your Winter World insults me! My life's struggle, packaged as a children's trifle!"''

An ice-themed villain who debuted in the Golden Age as the Prime Minister of Iceberg Land, he was reimagined Post-Crisis as a radical environmental terrorist with ambitions of creating a new ice age. He wields both a cold-gun, and a climate change machine.\\
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->'''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] #29. (1944)
->'''Created By:''' William Moulton Marston & Harry G. Peter
->'''Universes:''' [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Earth-One]], [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Earth-Two]], [[ComicBook/PostCrisis New Earth]], Prime Earth, Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse, Earth-508
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* DastardlyWhiplash: Characterized by his twirly mustache. When reintroduced in the Post-Flashpoint continuity he has a full beard instead.
* EvilChancellor: In his first appearances he was an archetypal one.
* AnIcePerson: In some continuities which don't want to rely on machinery he seems to have innate ice wielding powers.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Minister Blizzard's actual name hasn't been revealed.
* PungeonMaster: As seems to be the rule for all ice-themed villains at DC.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: His second major Post-Rebirth appearance has him go against the Justice League Queer, which doesn't include Wonder Woman.
* VillainTeamUp: With Mister Freeze, Captain Cold, Killer Frost, and a number of other ice-themed villains.
* WesternTerrorists: Post-Crisis.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mouse Man]]
[[WMG:Mouse Man]]
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->''"I've only just begun! SQUEEEEEE! I'll make Wonder Woman feelsmaller than I am -- before I'm through with her! SQUEEEEE!"''

A criminal who shrunk himself to the size of a mouse, he often battled Wonder Woman during the Silver Age.\\

->'''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] #141. (1963)
->'''Created By:''' Robert Kanigher & Ross Andru
->'''Universes:''' [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Earth-One]]
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* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: His powers shouldn't have anything to do with the animal, but they do anyway
* TheBeastmaster: Has he ability to control mice and other vermin as a side effect of his small stature. ([[HandWave Somehow.]])
* BirdCaged: Following his first defeat, Mouse Man was placed in a bird cage, as his size would allow him to escape from a normal prison.
* EekAMouse: One of his schemes actually relied on this, as he used his mouse motif to scare women into dropping their jewelry. [[SarcasmMode Perhaps not the greatest triumph for feminism]] to occur in ''Wonder Woman''.
* IncredibleShrinkingMan: Shrank himself to the size of a mouse, but was stuck at that size.
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[[folder:Osira]]
[[WMG:Osira]]
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->''"Not what, mortal female--who! I am Osira and I am a goddess! On your knees, woman! Worship me...Or die!"''

An alien with mind control powers, Osira (and her husband Hefnakhti) crash landed in Ancient Egypt, where she used her powers to gain control of the country, before being sealed away by a priest. She was released during WWII, and fought the Golden Age Wonder Woman; she later came into conflict with Diana Prince and Donna Troy in the modern era.\\

->'''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] #231. (1977)
->'''Created By:''' Martin Pasko & Bob Brown
->'''Universes:''' [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Earth-Two]], [[ComicBook/PostCrisis New Earth]]
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* AncientAstronauts: Osira and Hefnakhti are aliens who crash landed in Ancient Egypt and were worshipped as gods before they were sealed away.
* BarrierWarrior: Osira can create pyramid-shaped forcefields to defend herself or trap opponents.
* {{Brainwashed}}: Male variant. Osira saw that Steve Trevor looked like her dead husband and hypnotized him into believing that he was Hefnakhti.
* CharmPerson: Hypnosis is one of her powers.
* DarkActionGirl: She will personally beat the life out of you for world peace.
* DemotedToExtra: Post-Crisis she is basically a footnote.
* EvilIsNotPacifist: Averted. While Osira is certainly willing to use violence to achieve her ends, those ends are a peaceful world.
* TheEvilsOfFreeWill: Blames violence on free will.
* {{Foil}}: Her methodology isn't ''that'' different from the Golden Age Wonder Woman, but Osira happened to appear in the Bronze Age and thus faced a distinctly different Wonder Woman. But even if she [[ShadowArchetype hadn't]], Golden Age Wonder Woman restricted her brainwashing to problematic individuals rather than the entire populace.
* AGodAmI: A self-proclaimed goddess.
* HandBlast: Osira can shoot blasts of energy from her hands.
* HumanAliens: From another galaxy, that exists in AnotherDimension, and still managed to crash on a planet where people look just like her.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The first time the Egyptians try to imprison her it just makes Osira more powerful, but they eventually construct a tomb she cannot break out of.
* PsychicPowers: A powerful telepath who was able to use her abilities to keep a nation under her control.
* SealedEvilInACan: Granted, it was supposed to be a tomb, but Osira managed to survive for thousands of years before she was accidentally released.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: She has been seen wearing what is best described as a bikini cape.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Is willing to use violence and mind control to achieve a peaceful world.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Honestly believes that she was doing the right thing by bringing peace to the world.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Paper-Man]]
[[WMG:Paper-Man]]
->'''A.K.A.:''' Horace Throstle
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->''"You forget, Wonder Woman--Paper can cut!"''

Horace Throstle worked as a janitor at a chemical plant making special paper for the military intelligence. Lanky and clumsy, he was a constant target for bullying coworkers. The visiting Diana Prince was the only one who was nice to him, which caused him to become infatuated with her. He fell into one of the vats when he was struck by an act of kindness from her. He was transformed into a flat, sentient paper form. He used his powers to manipulate his form to steal for the object of his affection, Lt. Diana Prince.

->'''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' #165 (October, 1966)
->'''Created By:''' Robert Kanigher & Ross Andru
->'''Universes:''' [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Earth-One]]
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: He is hopelessly infatuated with Diana Prince because she's the only one that treats him with kindness and compassion.
* FreakLabAccident: Well, 'freak paper factory accident' but Administrivia/TropesAreFlexible.
* LovesMyAlterEgo: Is obsessed with Diana Prince and turns to crime to steal gifts for her.
* NotQuiteFlight: When folding himself like a paper plane or kite, he can glide air currents.
* OneShotCharacter: Paper-Man only appeared once and apparently died at the end of that issue.
* PaperPeople: Paper-Man is paper-thin.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: He can manipulate his form into shapes such as a paper airplane, ball of paper, or a blowpipe.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Paula von Gunther]]
[[WMG:Paula von Gunther]]
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->''"I am the champion of my line, she is the champion of her people...the Amazon blood debt will be settled."''

In the Post-Crisis continuity Paula was an enemy of Queen Hippolyta when she went back in time to UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, Baroness Paula von Gunther was a Nazi spymaster whose plots to undermine America were constantly defeated by the queen and her allies in the [[ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica JSA]]. Finally, though, von Gunther was shown the error of her ways and became Hippolyta's closest friend and ally. She retired to Themyscira, where she became an honorary Amazon and created the healing Purple Ray. At one point, she was the host of the evil spirit Dark Angel.\\
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->'''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/SensationComics'' Vol 1 #4. (1942)
->'''Created By:''' William Moulton Marston & Harry G. Peter
->'''Universes:''' [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Earth-One]], [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Earth-Two]], [[ComicBook/PostCrisis New Earth]], Prime Earth, Earth-1, Series/WonderWoman1975, [[ComicBook/TheLegendOfWonderWoman2016 The Legend of Wonder Woman]], [[ComicBook/DCComicsBombshells Bombshells]], WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold
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* AdaptationDyeJob:
** The original Golden Age Paula had orange hair; her later iterations, including the pictured Post-Crisis version, were blonde.
** Blonde in the comics, she was made a brunette in the [[Series/WonderWoman1975 Lynda Carter TV series]] (funnily enough, the exact opposite happened to Fausta Grables, the only other comics villain adapted by the series).
* AntiVillain: (Pre-Crisis) She only worked for the Nazis because they were holding her daughter Gerta hostage. Once the girl was rescued, Paula defected to Paradise Island with Gerta in tow, and then helped the Allies fight the Nazis with relish once her daughter was safely settled on the island.
* TheBaroness: Nazi spymistress.
* BlowingSmokeRings: (Pre-Crisis) Paula would blow smoke rings, but she gave up smoking after her HeelFaceTurn. When she later pretended to have returned to villainy to infiltrate a villain organization she casually blew smoke rings and twirled her signature cigarette holder while telling the conspirators that her friendship with Wonder Woman was all a ruse to find weaknesses in the hero.
* CrusadingWidow: (Pre-Crisis) The Nazis killed her husband Gottfriend before kidnapping her daughter Gerta and holding the young girl hostage to ensure Paula's cooperation. Once Gerta was safe Paula dedicated the rest of her life to helping the Nazis' enemies and developing much more fantastic new inventions with her knowledge of science than she'd ever done for the Nazis.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: (Pre-Crisis) Her daughter, Gerta.
* EvilGenius: (Pre-Crisis) Paula was an evil scientist and created many unimaginable inventions. She was executed by the electric chair and later revived by an electric machine that she invented.
* {{Ghostapo}}: Post-Crisis. Seeking arcane knowledge, she unleashed a spell which freed Dark Angel, who took over Paula's body.
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: (Pre-Crisis) Prior to her HeelFaceTurn Paula von Gunther's smoking habit was so constant that her long stemed dragon cigarette holder was her IconicItem, but after her daughter was returned to her and she swiftly dedicated the rest of her life to wrecking Nazis she gave up the vice.
* HeelFaceTurn:
** Determined to reform her most brilliant adversary, Wonder Woman braved enemy lines to rescue Gerta, winning Paula's gratitude and friendship. Almost immediately after, Paula returned to the United States and risked her own life to stop a gang of Nazi arsonists, saving countless lives but suffering severe burns in the process. She retired to Paradise Island, where she became an honorary Amazon, and had her health restored. She quickly returned to Washington D.C. to help Wonder Woman and the Allies fight the Nazis and Axis powers.
** Her Post-Crisis version also renounced her ties to the Nazi party and relocated to Themyscira where she became a prominent scientist, inventing the Purple Healing Ray.
* HowUnscientific: She eventually builds a {{shrink|Ray}}ing device of her own to observe Atomia's Kingdom directly. Paula is still appalled and disgusted by everything she sees. Wonder Woman, who knows even less about how nuclear physics and quantum mechanics are "supposed" to work nonetheless has ''wisdom'' comparable to Athena and is thus able to work out a way to stop Atomia based on the way things are working while von Gunther is having trouble putting her thoughts into words.
* IconicItem: (Pre-Crisis) In universe Paula von Gunther's dragon cigarette holder. It even gets her caught when spotted during an escape attempt when her disguise had otherwise fooled everyone.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Paula von Gunther refused to work for the Nazis so they made her watch as they murdered her husband and then took her daughter Gerta hostage. In response Paula decided that even if she'd probably never see her daughter again that Gerta was worth more to her than the rest of the world and came to enjoy her sadistic torture and experimentation on people for the Nazis, even if she never did stop hating the Nazis themselves.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: (Pre-Crisis) Former villain turned stalwart lifelong ally Paula starts out as seemingly an [[PsychoPsychologist evil Psychologist]] who is able to brainwash people into becoming her slaves and acting out her plans. She later develops a {{chronoscope}}--that is sometimes treated as an outright TimeMachine--, is able to treat Wonder Woman and [[Characters/WonderWomanAllies Steve Trevor]]'s mystical and bizarre injuries and ailments and is suddenly an expert in micro-biology, nuclear energy and anything else Diana may need to consult an expert on.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: In ''Rebirth'', the von Gunthers take their name from their descent from Gundra, above.
* RetGone: Pre-Crisis Paula, including all history and corresponding appearances, was initially erased from existence following the first ''Crisis'' event.
* SourOutsideSadInside: (Golden Age/Pre-Crisis) Paula seemed like a cruel and sadistic Nazi spy, until Diana forced her to tell her story with the magic lasso, at which point Paula revealed that she hated the Nazis and was only working for them because they'd murdered her husband right in front of her for her refusal to work for them and then taken her daughter hostage. Her apparent sadism was a result of her feeling she had no other way to help her daughter, but no hope of actually rescuing or seeing her little girl again, so she hardened her heart and felt furious with those who seemed to be living happy or meaningful lives.
* ThoseWackyNazis:
** Subverted with Pre-Crisis version. The Nazis forced Paula to become a spy and saboteur against the United States using her daughter as hostage. Though hating her new role, Paula could not bear to endanger Gerta, and thus drove herself to become a cold, cruel schemer.
** Played straight with the Post-Crisis version where she was a ruthless Nazi occultist and a personal assistant to Adolf Hitler during World War II.
* VillainousLineage: The ''Rebirth'' incarnation of Paula believes she is defined by her descent from a) Nazis and b) Amazon-haters. Ironically, Wonder Woman kept this from her because she thought it was too great a burden for a young girl -- but when Paula learned the truth, she inevitably concluded that Diana was scared of the von Gunther legacy.
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: (Pre-Crisis) Paula acts as a sort of prototype voice with an Internet connection, as the Internet was not yet invented. Diana, Steve and the Holliday Girls would call Paula up on their Mental Radios while in the field to ask for her help and advice as she was an OmnidisciplinaryScientist. Sometimes this resulted in them needing to bring something, or someone, back to her lab. She was also MissionControl for extraterrestrial adventures since the mode of transportation was usually her teleporter.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Professor Menace]]
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Professor Menace would create robotic duplicates of Wonder Woman and control them through his brain impulses. He would later join with other rogues from the JLA in creating explosive robots.

->'''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] #111. (1960)
->'''Created By:''' Robert Kanigher, Ross Andru & Mike Esposito
->'''Universes:''' [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Earth-One]], Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse
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* RobotMaster: Able to create exact robotic duplicates of people. Built a robot double of Wonder Woman that could go toe-to-toe with the original.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: In the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse, he appears in ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'' as an old enemy of Soul Power.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Queen Atomia]]
[[WMG:Queen Atomia]]
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->''"The miserable earthlings will learn that only total annihilation results from defying me!"''

The MadScientist "Queen" of the Atomic World, who wants to steal uranium to further her plots and allow her to start taking over and enslaving the world at large.\\
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->'''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] #21. (1947)
->'''Created By:''' William Moulton Marston & Harry G. Peter
->'''Universes:''' [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Earth-One]], [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Earth-Two]], Dimension Chi
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* AdaptationalHeroism: Her Rebirth counterpart in Dimension Chi led an attack on the Themysciran Empire because they invaded her subatomic world first, and relented when Diana showed her mercy.
* AdaptationalSkimpiness: Her Silver Age iteration swapped out the green dress with a mid-calf red skirt for a midriff revealing tiny green top and a skirt with slits all the way up the sides. She kept her pointy shoulder pads though.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: In her debut story, she was meant to represent the dangers ''and'' the benefits of the newly honed nuclear power following the creation of the atom bomb. This was dropped in her later appearances where she's a simple bad guy.
* BadBoss: She treats her slaves like complete garbage, killing them when they fail to follow her orders ''or'' when they mindlessly embellish them. She even casually tells two of them to go immolate themselves and they do it without any hesitation. The fact that she has slaves who'll blindly follow her every whim and it only makes her ''bored'' shows what a horrible person she is.
* DependingOnTheWriter: Under Marston's pen she seemed to be a human scientist who created an Atomic Universe from which she eventually planned to conquer the world. She was inadvertently caught in the act by Wonder Woman before her invasion could truly begin. Later writers instead treated her as a native of an Atomic Galaxy who conquered it and then set her sights on Earth after being accidentally enlarged. These can be reconciled, as the wording is vague enough for Atomia to be so heavily modified and have spent so much time conquering the Atomic world that she no longer identifies with [[TranshumanTreachery humanity]] or [[UltraTerrestrials the planet Earth]], but they never have been thanks to {{retroactive continuity}}.
* EmperorScientist: Well Queen Scientist, and every single one of her "subjects" has been unwillingly subjected to her experimentation and forced to become mindlessly loyal to her.
* EvilRedhead: So evil she ends up [[BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood welded into a mind control device to facilitate her reformation]].
* FalselyReformedVillain: She seemed like she was genuinely trying to reform, and then started a riot and tried to kill a bunch of people, which led to her getting permanently welded into a mind altering device to force her to behave.
* FemmeFatalons: Queen Atomia always has sharp fingernails about as long as her fingers themselves. They don't hurt Wonder Woman, but they don't break when Atomia fights her either.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Of the horrifically evil variety rather than incompetent, as it's implied she created her own country and she rules over it with an iron fist, forcing all of her unwilling subjects through [[BodyHorror horrific experiments]].
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: She started out as evil until eventually one of the Venus Girdles was permanently locked onto her body when it was shown she was irredeemably evil. ''The Legend Of Wonder Woman'' miniseries revealed she somehow managed to get the device off and went back to being evil. ''Then'' in ''ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth'' she was rewritten as a WellIntentionedExtremist who only attacked the alternate dimension version of Themyscira because they invaded her world first.
* ItsAllAboutMe: She only desires power and to control everything.
-->'''Queen Atomia''': I take what I like, Wonder Woman, and I keep it forever!
* KnockOutGas: Her shrinking gas also knocks the target unconscious, though ItOnlyWorksOnce on Wonder Woman, who defies the knockout effect every time after she knows its coming.
* LimitedWardrobe: {{Subverted|Trope}}. All of Atomia's clothing superficially looks the same, but she changes from green wizard boots to green high heels between issues, for one example.
* {{Lilliputians}}: It's never clearly addressed if Atomia is meant to have always been microscopic, but given her extensive laboratory takes up almost her entire "kingdom" and her ability to shrink down normal humans it's likely she and her "subjects" started out as human before she decided to create a minuscule world to hide her work in. The subtext for this is strongest in Marston's original Golden Age stories. The 1986 ''Legend Of Wonder Woman'' implies she is not a human, but doesn't completely debunk the suggestion that she may not be native to the Atomic world.
* MadScientist: She has a laboratory in which she has two self invented machines which turn people into her permanent SlaveMooks, a ShrinkRay and is trying to steal uranium in order to take over the world.
* MinionMaster: She has a large number of Proton and Neutron slave mooks.
* MookMaker: Queen Atomia has two sets of machines for [[ReforgedIntoAMinion turning humans into her near robotic slaves]]. There is one for her "[[SlaveMooks Neutron Slaves]]" and one for her "Protons" and both work disturbingly quickly to permanently alter people mentally and physically.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Wonder Woman likely would have defeated Queen Atomia again, eventually, seeing as she was a PlayAlongPrisoner when re-imprisoned in her kingdom, but Atomia certainly sped up her defeat when she betrayed Leila from The Land Of Mirrors and ensured there would be no Leila to help her in the future since even if Wonder Woman never challenged Atomia again someone else inevitably would have. More Leila, who was a FalselyReformedVillain like Atomia, was motivated to reform for real after the betrayal.
* PsychicPowers: Powerful enough to mind control an entire universe worth of soldiers stationed on multiple planets, even if those soldiers have been modified to be easier to control. Whether these powers are innate or come from technology in her crown is not clearly established but her psychic powers are weaker than Wonder Woman's either way. Wonder Woman can't control people normally, and certainly not over such vast distances, but she can overpower and override Atomia's commands if she can keep Atomia's Neutron {{cyborg}}s in her line of sight.
* SecondaryColorNemesis: She's a redhead who dresses in green.
* ShouldersOfDoom: Queen Atomia has always worn curved decorative green shoulder pads over her dress, giving her incredibly tall pointed shoulders in silhouette.
* ShrinkRay: It's more of a gas, but works the same way and turns humans microscopic.
* SlaveMooks: Her Proton and Neutron Slaves are outright called her slaves and are transformed into two sets of identical powered mooks.
* TheSociopath: A remorseless, manipulative, power hungry tyrant who demands to be ruler of ''everything'' no matter how big or small.
* TakeOverTheWorld: She wants more power, and uranium, in order to expand her little self created empire to include the earth rather than only things of a microscopic scale.
* TechnicolorEyes: Queen Atomia has green eyes with brighter green scleras, though in some panels it looks more like she has black eyes with bright green scleras.
* TookALevelInBadass:
** In her first three or five attacks on the macroscopic world Queen Atomia mostly relied on her technology and the subjects controlled by it. While she was [[NoSell unfazed]] by the punches and hair pulling of the Holliday Girls, this possible super human toughness may as well have not existed against Wonder Woman, who easily trounced Atomia in spite of Atomia having an army of SlaveMooks AND Wonder Woman's lasso. In the 1986 ''Legend Of Wonder Woman'' Queen Atomia instantly recovers from being PunchedAcrossTheRoom by Wonder Woman, survives a falling ceiling and suddenly has enough [[SuperStrong super human strength]] and combat skill to wrestle with her for a prolonged period of time. Even as Wonder Woman starts to gain an advantage Atomia is able to force a stalemate by mixing in her "atomic bolts" until Atomia is distracted by Suzie, who is decided Atomia's plans can't continue.
** Atomia did have mind control powers, but these only worked on her slave mooks and Wonder Woman could easily take control of any Neutron soldiers visible to her, against Atomia's will. In the 1986 ''Legend Of Wonder Woman'' Atomia can now easily read minds of any humans near her who don't have psychic defenses and use their thoughts to rapidly metamorphosize creatures and transmute matter with "atomic bolts" from her {{eye|beams}}s and [[HandBlast finger tips]], [[LogicalWeakness so long as she has the right thoughts and physical material to work with]]. Even without sufficient ingredients or building material these atomic bolts can still bring down aircraft and collapse buildings.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: When Atomia attacks The Land Of Mirrors, her nuclear bolts just so happen to undo Leila's mental blocks and cause her to descend into evil again. Rather than leave well enough alone Atomia proceeds to kick her gift horse in the mouth, but not before Leila helps her demolish The Land Of Mirrors, defeat its armies, appropriate its main power source and imprison its citizens.
* VillainRespect: She takes a liking to little Suzie in ''The Legend of Wonder Woman'' when the kid mouths off and calls her a mean old lady even though Atomia could kill her. This quickly vanishes as Atomia's plans fall apart and Suzie proves to be a hindrance.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Lampshades at one point that she should've killed Leila when she had the chance instead of letting her simply suffer an ironic fate, since Leila helped completely topple her plans.
-->'''Queen Atomia''': That's it! I've sworn off irony forever!
* WouldHurtAChild: Was fine with kidnapping children, including young Suzie.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Queen Clea]]
[[WMG:Queen Clea]]
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->''“Give [his tongue] back to him, Jinx. I want him to say my name. I want Travis Morgan and his insufferable daughter to say the name of the monarch of Venturia who had conquered Skartaris…”''

A foe of UsefulNotes/{{the Golden Age|OfComicBooks}} Wonder Woman, and the Post-Crisis founder of the original Villainy Incorporated, Clea is the Queen of an Atlantean outpost who stole the Trident of Poseidon as the first step in her plans for conquering all of Atlantis. She has faced the modern Wonder Woman as well, both with a new Villainy Incorporated, and on behalf of Circe.\\
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->'''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] #8. (1944)
->'''Created By:''' William Moulton Marston & Harry G. Peter
->'''Universes:''' [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Earth-Two]], [[ComicBook/PostCrisis New Earth]]
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* ApparentlyHumanMerfolk: She's Atlantean and lives underwater, but looks entirely human.
* BigBad: Of both versions of Villainy Incorporated (though in the Pre-Crisis timeline she was actually TheDragon to Saturnian villain Eviless).
* DarkActionGirl: As an Atlantean, Clea has most of the same powers as the likes of Aquaman and Mera, and can consequently get physical with the best of them.
* DemotedToExtra: In the Post-Crisis world, where she faced Wonder Woman only twice, once as the leader of a new Villainy Incorporated, and once as part of Circe's massive supervillain collective.
* EvilMatriarch: Her daughter Ptra is one of her enemies, and teams with Wonder Woman to bring Clea down.
* TheExile: Exiled from the Atlantean continent following her invasion of Aurania.
* FlyingBrick: Circe grants Clea the power to fly, which when coupled with her Atlantean super strength and durability transforms her into one of these.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: The outpost city of Venturia essentially fell apart during Clea's reign, prompting her attack on nearby Aurania. Later exiled from Venturia, she tried to become Queen of Skartaris, nearly destroying that country in the process.
* LargeAndInCharge: She's much taller than most of her subjects. DoubleSubversion with Villainy Inc, where Clea and Giganta both serve Eviless but then ditch her to do their own thing at the earliest opportunity.
* TheLeader: Of two versions of Villainy Incorporated, Post-Crisis. She's a combo Type I and IV.
* MakingASplash: Holding Poseidon's trident enables Clea to manipulate the ocean.
* MinidressOfPower: Given the option, Clea will choose a green minidress everytime.
* ProngsOfPoseidon: Wielded Poseidon's own trident briefly.
* {{Retcon}}: The disappearance of Eviless from the timeline after the Crisis resulted in Clea, and not her, being the leader of the original Villainy Incorporated.
* StatuesqueStunner: Clea stands six feet five inches, making her taller than the likes of Superman and Batman. In the Golden Age she's even taller.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Her costume is barely there. She wears what is essentially a bullet bra for a top.
* SuperSpeed: Both on land and in the water.
* SuperStrength: Comparable to that of Wonder Woman or Aquaman.
* TakeOverTheWorld: Aims to conquer Atlantis and then the surface world.
* VillainTeamUp: Clearly has a thing for these Post-Crisis, having led two versions of Villainy Incorporated. The first one was made up of Cheetah I, Zara, Doctor Poison I, Hypnotic Woman, and herself, the second of Cyborgirl, Doctor Poison II, Giganta, Jinx, and Trinity. She's also been a member of Circe's collective, and Pre-Crisis, joined Eviless' Villainy Inc.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Queen of Fables]]
[[WMG:The Queen of Fables]]
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->'''AKA:''' Tsaritsa

Tsaritsa was originally a sorceress from another dimension until she was exiled to our world and then trapped in the Book of Fables (she was the actual evil queen from "Literature/SnowWhite"). Her time in the book allowed her to use bring any work of fiction to life. Awakening in modern times, this cruel tyrant hopes to reawaken her empire.
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See the [[Characters/JusticeLeagueOfAmericaAntagonist Justice League villains page]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Red Panzer (I-IV)]]
[[WMG:Red Panzer (I-IV)]]
->'''AKA:''' Helmut Streicher (1st); unknown (2nd and 3rd); Justin (4th, last name unknown)
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Originally a Nazi general, and a foe of UsefulNotes/{{the Golden Age|OfComicBooks}} Characters/{{Wonder Woman|TheCharacter}}, the Red Panzer's legacy has long survived his death, and the fall of the Third Reich, being adopted by various Neo-Nazis and fanatics. All of them have, at some point, come into conflict with Wonder Woman and Donna.

->'''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] #228. (1977)
->'''Created By:''' Martin Pasko & Jose Delbo
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* ArmCannon
* AvengingTheVillain: Red Panzer III sought to avenge his father, Red Panzer II.
* BoomerangBigot: The third Red Panzer had African-American ancestry. He was aware of this, and loathed himself for it.
* CaptainErsatz: While the individual Red Panzer's have been original characters, the concept, of a red suit of armor associated with a particular ideology, and handed down from successor to successor, is very similar to that of the Crimson Dynamo, a long-running Comicbook/IronMan
** A Nazi true-believer with a red-color scheme fighting an American-styled patriotic superhero? [[Characters/MarvelComicsRedSkull Why does that sound familiar?]]
* FourStarBadass: Red Panzer I was an actual Nazi general, and a capable fighter. The later versions have been Neo-Nazi thugs.
* FreudianExcuse: Red Panzer III watched his father kill his mother over supposed imperfections in her bloodstream. This screwed him up pretty badly to say the least.
* GratuitousGerman: The name. It should either be "Rote Panzer", or "Red Armor," not the mishmash that is "Red Panzer."
* HandicappedBadass: Streicher had a cataract in one eye. This didn't stop him from being able to take on two Wonder Women at once. Similarly, Red Panzer III had a missing arm, but could still face off against Diana and Donna.
* LawOfChromaticSuperiority: '''Red''' Panzer.
* LegacyCharacter: Four men have worn the Red Panzer's armor: Nazi General Helmut von Streicher (I), an unrevealed father (II) and son (III) and teenage Justin (IV).
* MadScientist: Helmut Streicher not only wore the Red Panzer armor, he designed it, along with much of his time travel equipment.
* MadeOfIndestructium: The metal alloy that forms the armor is one of Streicher's own design. It can take hits from anything.
* NoNameGiven: Red Panzers II and III.
* OnlyOneName: Red Panzer IV is known only as Justin.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: I, II, and III are all Nazis, and IV has to pay the idea lipservice.
* PoweredArmor: The Red Panzer armor is the one consistent thing about the men who have taken its name. It grants SuperStrength, NighInvulnerability, and the ability to fire concussive blasts.
* ThePowerOfHate: Red Panzer II's hatred was so strong and ingrained via being distorted by the xenophobic ideologies of Adolf Hitler that he was able to resist the effects of Wonder Woman's lasso to see the truth of his actions and actually cause a fiery feedback. Not even Ares, '''the God and physical embodiment of War itself''', could resist the effects of the lasso. His hatred actually terrified Donna Troy who was using it on him at the time.
* StrawHypocrite: Red Panzer IV, who doesn't believe in Nazism at all, but wears the Red Panzer armor because [[Characters/DCComicsVandalSavage Vandal Savage]] told him to.
* StupidJetpackHitler: Where'd he get PoweredArmor in 1940?
* TankGoodness: Panzer is German for armor; it's also short for ''Panzerkampfwagen'', aka "Armoured War Vehicle", aka the tank.
* TeensAreMonsters: Teenage anarchist Justin was recruited by Vandal Savage to become the fourth Red Panzer.
* ThoseWackyNazis: There is one Red Panzer who is an anarchist and only wears the armor because it is useful. The rest are a bunch of Nazis.
* TimeTravel: Helmut Streicher first encountered Diana courtesy of one of his time travel jaunts. This ultimately resulted in a clash between him, Diana, and Hippolyta.
* VillainTeamUp: III and IV are part of Vandal Savage's Tartarus organization.
* WearingAFlagOnYourHead: All the Panzers have had the swastika on their armor somewhere, typically in the middle of the helmet.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Serious elements of this with Red Panzer III towards Red Panzer II.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Savage Fire]]
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A goddess of war from the Dark Multiverse, who embodies war waged for power, profit and blood.

->'''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth Vol 5]] #58. (1944)
->'''Created By:''' James Robinson & Jesús Merino
->'''Universes:''' Prime Earth
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* TheAgeless: Savage Fire will never age.
* EmotionControl: Savage Fire can enhance a feeling of bloodlust in others.
* EnhancedArchaicWeapon: Wields a whip made of fire.
* PlayingWithFire: Can project blasts of flame.
* SizeShifter: Savage Fire can alter her size at will.
* WarGod: Savage Fire is the goddess of war in the Dark Multiverse.
* WhipOfDominance: She is a sadistic and domineering [[WarGod war goddess]] who fights with a [[ElementalWeapon flaming whip]] and is DressedLikeADominatrix.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Silver Swan (I-IV)]]
[[WMG:Silver Swan I]]
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->'''AKA:''' Helen Alexandros
->''"How wonderful to shed the doughty feathers of Helen Alexandros...For the peerless plumage of the Silver Swan."''

Silver Swan is an enemy of Wonder Woman specializing in sonic attacks and aerial combat. As a LegacyCharacter, there have been four of these of these so far and each have a FreudianExcuse to fight Wonder Woman, except for the fourth who didn't even get an origin story. Formerly a ridiculed Greek ballerina, an accomplished dancer turned seductive supervillainess, the first Silver Swan, alias Helen Alexandros, fought Wonder Woman on her own as part of Ares’ pawn before joining other villains.

->'''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] #288. (1982)
->'''Created By:''' Roy Thomas & Gene Colan
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Helen Alexandros made herself Diana and Etta Candy's roommate to get closer to Wonder Woman.
* CharmPerson: Helen had a version of this ability that worked on men. Any man who saw her was instantly awestruck by her beauty.
* DealWithTheDevil: Helen Alexandros made a deal with Ares to become the first Silver Swan. He made her extremely beautiful, gave her SuperStrength, flight and destructive audio powers, and in exchange Ares would use her as a weapon against Wonder Woman.
* DivineParentage: According to Ares when he granted her powers, Helena was a descendant on her mother Leda’s side from Helen of Sparta, daughter of Zeus and Leda, aka the same Helen of Troy from which she was named, giving her some degree of divine blood.
* DoesNotLikeMen: Absolutely despises men for ragging on her about her looks throughout her lifetime and gleefully takes any chance to bring about their destruction, even joining Ares partially because he promised to destroy Man’s World. However she was still enamored when she encountered Dr. Psycho in his Wonder Man persona.
* FluffyFashionFeathers: As part of her blessing, Ares granted her functioning feather plumage as part of a prima ballerina costume that grants her flight.
* FreudianExcuse: Helen became Ares's weapon against Wonder Woman out of frustration for having been born with sub-par looks in a world run by men where beauty is valued over everything else; even her own mother had bullied her because of her homely appearance. She had danced her heart out in the ancient Greek Amphitheater and overheard her superb performance dismissed out of hand by the men in charge; they consider her for Odetta in ''Swan Lake'' but rule that out because she's "ugly" and "in real life the ugly duckling never gets to play the swan." She screams out that she hates men, and Ares hears her. As part of a deal, Ares allowed Helen to change into the Silver Swan for an hour at a time, but would allow her to stay as the Swan permanently if Helen killed Wonder Woman.
* HollywoodHomely:
** Helen Alexandros is made out to be practically a hag in the dialogue but except in the initial origin story, in which she's small, nondescript, mousy, has stringy hair and is covered with acne, she's hardly as hideous as the men around her describe.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Bemoans the fact the world only cares about beauty and physical looks, while later falling in love with Dr. Psycho for his looks as Wonder Man and completely overlooking him after turning back into his repulsive diminutive self. Showing despite her hatred of a superficial world, she is superficial herself.
* IJustWantToBeBeautiful: Her whole descent into villainy was formed out of a desire to be beautiful and praised after being driven to intense bitterness over being overlooked and cruelly treated because of her homely appearance.
* IJustWantToBeYou: Helen's story was continued thirty years later in DC's ''Retroactive'' line via the ''Wonder Woman - The 80s'' issue, which had Dr. Psycho using his powers to make Helen into Wonder Woman, albeit temporarily. Psycho stated he would make her Wonder Woman forever if she brought him the real Wonder Woman. The story ended with Helen's transformation being undone and falling to her death.
* LightningBruiser: Part of her blessing from Ares grants her the ability to flight at near lightning speeds and increased strength and durability.
* LovesMyAlterEgo: Helen fell in love with Dr. Psycho's projection Captain Wonder, and Psycho fell in love with Helen's Silver Swan form. After her powers were removed, Helen searched for Captain Wonder but found Dr. Psycho instead who repulsed her, continuing her search despite the fact Captain Wonder did not exist.
* MakeMeWannaShout: Each Silver Swan has the ability to create powerful sound waves with her voice. Their "swan songs" are capable of devastating a small area of land with their destructive force.
* RetGone: Helen Alexandros after ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'' where she mysteriously regained her powers, with Valerie Beaudry becoming the first Silver Swan in-universe even if she was the second version of the character.
* VillainTeamUp: Joined with Ares and later Dr. Psycho as Wonder Man against Wonder Woman.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: After Helen failed to kill Wonder Woman, a disappointed Ares revoked her powers after deeming her unworthy

[[WMG:Silver Swan II]]
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->'''AKA:''' Valerie Beaudry

->''"This pitiful circus has not concerned itself with the needy children of this city - but with promoting Princess Diana as some sort of feminine ideal no real woman could ever hope to become!"''

The second Silver Swan was formerly disfigured hermit turned beauteous metahuman via a company weapons project manipulated and abused by its CEO to serve as a weapon due to a one-side infatuation.
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* BarrierWarrior: By emitting a low-level hum, Valerie can use her powers to generate a sonic shield around her body that protects her from most forms of conventional attack, including energy attacks.
* BodyHorror: Valerie Beaudry's parents were both exposed to harmful levels of radiation following a series of nuclear tests while Valerie was in the womb. As a result, Valerie was born with severe physical deformities.
* DomesticAbuse: Valerie often underwent this while married to Armbruster, even wearing shades in civilian guise to hide her bruises.
* GreenEyedMonster: Valerie possessed great jealousy of other women, which Armbruster encouraged Valerie's jealousy, intent on using her as a weapon to destroy the Amazon princess.
* HeelFaceTurn: Valerie actually kept the Silver Swan name for a while and acted as a member of the superhero team called the Captains of Industry, as well as the Comicbook/SuicideSquad.
* IJustWantToBeLoved: Her motivating trait that led her into villainy as a result of her loneliness and deformities.
* LoveRedeems: Thanks to Diana and her pen pal, Maxine Sterenbuch, who had formed a true friendship with Valerie over the years as a pen pal during her years of isolation, Valerie saw Armbruster for who he truly was and divorced him.
* MakeMeWannaShout: Each Silver Swan has the ability to create powerful sound waves with her voice. Valerie’s in particular is dependent on her willpower which at their peak could sheer a Ferris Wheel in half.
* PutOnABus: After offering her aid against Circe during War of the Gods event, Valerie retired her identity as the Silver Swan and eventually settled for a quiet life in suburbia, not far from her good friend Maxine.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Even moreso than the previous Silver Swan, with a focus on midriff cleavage and legs.
* TookALevelInKindness: Collectively, the Silver Swans after Helen Alexandros were much more sympathetic, tragic, and ultimately turned out to not be so villainous.
* TragicVillain: Due to being born with severe physical deformities, Valerie isolated herself, longing for friendship and love. She was offered by a CEO Armbruster of a company to be made beautiful by volunteering to undergo treatments in a program called Project: Silver Swan. The project transformed her from the next Silver Swan, but also left her emotionally vulnerable to the amoral Ambruster of the company who mentally and physically abused her into loving and marrying him.
* WingedHumanoid: Has luminescent wings that grant her flight and maneuverability in the air.

[[WMG:Silver Swan III]]
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->'''AKA:''' Vanessa Kapatelis
->''"I'm not the one who needs help...I wonder...Did your schooling on Themyscira ever teach you about the dodo bird, Diana? They were driven to extinction by their inability to compete with stronger and faster animals. In nature, natural selection weeds out the weak...The creatures unable to change."''

A long-time fan and sidekick to Wonder Woman while she was staying in her home alongside her mother who became captured, physically augmented as a cyborg, and mentally abused into serving as the next Silver Swan.
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* AxCrazy: Highly volatile and sadistically destructive due to her brainwashing, to the point she openly targets civilians just to make Wonder Woman notice the deaths.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Often used as a weapon against Wonder Woman and mentally abused in showing nothing but aggression while steadily being mutilated by cybernetics.
* CloserToEarth: Before being turned into Silver Swan, George Perez wrote and illustrated Vanessa as a realistic teenage girl.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Vanessa's story was finished in ''Wonder Woman'' #600 at her graduation, having completely recovered from her time as a cyborg and grown as a person.
* KarmaHoudini: Vanessa was never legally punished for her acts of destruction or murdering Cassandra Sandsmark’s friends after destroying her school.
* MoreThanMindControl: In Vanessa's case. Circe and Dr. Psycho played on her feelings of resentment and abandonment towards Wonder Woman in order to turn her into the third Swan.
* RapidAging: During Wonder Woman's fight with Decay, Vanessa ends up aging incredibly rapidly, almost dying because of it.
* TagalongKid: Vanessa used to be this when she was younger for Wonder Woman. She acts as a deconstruction of the trope when it’s shown how much damage is done to her and her personal life because of her affiliation with Wonder Woman to the point her mother regrets Wonder Woman being around at all. The negative aspects fueled her descent into villainy besides the mind control.
* UnwittingPawn: Vanessa was a victim of Circe, Doctor Psycho, and Sebastian Ballesteros, who manipulated her into becoming the third Silver Swan.
* WingedHumanoid: Has metallic wings to fit her cybernetic enhancements.

[[WMG:Silver Swan IV]]
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->'''AKA:''' Unknown

A version of the character created before the eventual DC Rebirth, this Silver Swan appeared as part of Circe’s army of rogues against Wonder Woman after the Infinite Crisis event.
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* NoNameGiven: The fourth Silver Swan’s name has never been revealed. Although it's believed the fourth might have been a reintroduced Helen Alexandros, who had been put in comic book limbo after the first Crisis.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Her screams have been described as having the power to level cities at a time.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sumo the Samurai]]
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->'''AKA:''' Sumo
->''"As you command, Emperor--So it shall be done!"''

Sumo was uniquely honoured among the relatively few pupils selected to train under the ancient Samurai known as the Enlightened One. His master permitted him to sip the Enlightened One's potion of power, and, before a year had passed, Sumo was transformed into a giant fighter and master swordsman. Sumo the Samurai pledged loyalty to Japan's Emperor Hirohito and battled the American All-Star Squadron during World War II as Hirohito's personal agent.
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* CaptainEthnic: A giant, superpowered samurai named Sumo who [[WearingAFlagOnYourHead wears the Rising Sun Flag on the breastplate of his samurai armour]].
* CaptainGeographic: Wears the Rising Sun Flag on the breastplate of his samurai armour.
* CaptainPatriotic: Sumo was fantically loyal to Emperor Hirohito and Imperial Japan, and [[WearingAFlagOnYourHead wears the Rising Sun Flag on the breastplate of his samurai armour]].
* ContainmentClothing: After becoming a WalkingWasteland, Sumo wore lead armour to protect others from the radiation he emited.
* HandBlast: Pre-Crisis, Sumo learned how to WalkingWasteland tendencies by focusing the radiation into his hands and firing at foes.
* HonorBeforeReason: Sumo will never take unworthy advantages on a enemy because he is bound to the Bushido Code.
* HypnoticEyes: Sumo exerted his MindControl by staring into the eyes of his target.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Sumo possessed two exceptionally sharp and durable katanas that could even slice through metal.
* MasterSwordsman: Sumo is an expert swordsman.
* MindControl: Sumo could control the mind of a single target at short range.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Sumo worshiped the Emperor Hirohito as a god, as more Japanese people did during World War II. This impeded his ability to think rationally.
* SuperReflexes: The Potion of Power boosted Sumo's reflexes to the point where he was capable of going toe-toe with Wonder Woman.
* SuperSenses: The Potion of Power allowed Sumo to exert unusual control over his five senses. The text says that compared to Sumo, a normal man would be considered blind and deaf.
* SuperSerum: He was the best pupil of a martial arts master named "the Enlighted One" and was selected to drink the "Potion of Power", vastly increasing his strength, speed, resistance, and senses.
* SuperStrength: The Potion of Power boosted Sumo's strength to the point where he was capable of going toe-toe with Wonder Woman.
* SuperToughness: The Potion of Power boosted Sumo's durability to the point where he was capable of going toe-toe with Wonder Woman.
* WalkingWasteland: Pre-Crisis, Sumo started emiting radiation from his body after being caught in the blast of an atomic bomb. Any living thing that spent prolonged time in his presence would eventually die, and the power eventually killed him.
* WearingAFlagOnYourHead: Sumo wears the Rising Sun Flag on the breastplate of his samurai armour.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Superwoman]]
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Superwoman is an evil doppelganger of Wonder Woman from an alternate universe. She is a member of the Crime Syndicate, a team of super-villains paralleling the Justice League. See [[Characters/JusticeLeagueOfAmericaCrimeSyndicate their page]].
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[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sweetheart]]
[[WMG:Sweetheart]]
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Image-Maker, the master of the Mirror-World, sent an army of Wonder Woman mirror duplicates to attack the hero. When she defeated the mirror-world puppeteer, all of Diana's duplicates shattered into a million tiny pieces or so everyone thought. Doctor Psycho found one last mirror duplicate of Wonder Woman in the aftermath of her battle with Image-Maker. He made her his familiar and named her Sweetheart.
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* EvilTwin: She is one of the creations of Image-Maker, the master of the Mirror-World, as a sentient reflection of Wonder Woman.
* {{Flight}}: Sweetheart possesses the same ability to fly as Diana.
* IronicNickname: Sweetheart was what Doctor Psycho called her, but it wasn't really a name. It was used more to mock her.
* LiterallyShatteredLives: As a mirror duplicate, she shattered into tiny pieces when killed.
* MirrorBoss: As a sentient reflection of Wonder Woman, Sweetheart supposedly possesses powers similar to hers, but the amount and extent of these are unknown.
* QuestForIdentity: Although she showed some signs of questioning Doctor Psycho and her place with him earlier, Sweetheart finally began to resist when she came face to face with the real Wonder Woman. Despite meeting her though, Sweetheart still served Cizko, even saving him from falling out of a window during the final confrontation. The choice to rebel came when Wonder Woman asked the duplicate what her name was. Despite what Cizko had been calling her, it wasn't really a name. It was used more to mock her. That was when she revealed she had never had a name. Not until Wonder Woman told her she could have one of her own.
* TakingTheBullet: Doctor Psycho attacked Wonder Woman, but Sweetheart jumped in front of the attack before it could harm the hero. Like the rest of the mirror duplicates, she shattered into tiny pieces.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Theana]]
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->'''AKA:''' The Beast of Hold 17
->''“Compassion. We have studied this. It won’t work on me, mudling.”''

The daughter of Astarte, leader of the Citizenry. Theana was raised from the age of two to be a remorseless killer, by being forced to kill another child every day in order to receive food rations.
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* AbusiveParents: Her mother is horrifically abusive, and treats her daughter as a weapon and animal rather than a person. When Theana shows signs of thinking about being something more Astarte had her executed.
* AnimalMotifs: Like all the Citizenry, snakes.
* BloodKnight: Lives to fight, as it's the only time she's ever let out of her hold. She doesn't seem to actually enjoy it though, it's just what she does.
* EmeraldPower: Wonder Woman notes that Citizenry weaponry looks and ''feels'' a lot like a Green Lantern attack. That is because unbeknownst to her the Citizenry have encountered and defeated Green Lanterns, incorporating the Oan technology into their armor. This would have given a powerful fighter like Theana quite the advantage over Wonder Woman ''if'' Wonder Woman wasn't using Citizenry tools herself during their fight, and if Theana ever figured out how to do anything besides bolster her physical attributes and attack range...which is all Wonder Woman herself figures out during her brief time with it.
* FarmerAndTheViper: Subverted. She goes for Wonder Woman's neck the moment she thinks her guard is down and gets a bruised rib for it. This is when Theana legitimately considers Wonder Woman's words, and is legitimately ready to concede either way.
* GracefulLoser: Twice over. When beaten down by Wonder Woman, she awaits her death grimly but with dignity. When spared and even given another "chance" to kill Wonder Woman again Theana is willing to concede as she realizes this adversary who can very well kill her really can give her a better life.
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: When Theana, who has had no chance to learn anything other than a mass murderer due to her horrific upbringing and enforced isolation, steps back from attacking Diana after Diana is able to talk to her about her abuse and that she could be something more Theana's mother orders her executed immediately.
* NoSocialSkills: She wasn't allowed to develop any, and her interactions with those outside her mother are meant to just be her killing them.
* OneManArmy: She is about as strong and fast as Characters/{{Wonder Woman|TheCharacter}} and has been taught that killing is her reason for living.
* TheSpartanWay: Starting as a toddler she had to kill or be killed as part of her mother's horrific interpretation of training.
* TrainingFromHell: Her "training" begins with being forced to kill another child every day to receive food and escalates into forced fights with all sorts of dangerous beasts and renowned warriors.
* {{Transhuman}}: After proving herself "worthy" Theana's mother experimented on her in various ways in an attempt to make Theana as strong, tough, fast, tireless and insightful as possible. That last part is what makes it possible to reason with Theana.
* TykeBomb: Her mother conditioned her to kill from the time she was two.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:THEM!]]
[[WMG:THEM!]]
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A trio of depraved lesbians led by Top Hat, the bizarre group known as THEM fought against Wonder Woman during her non-powered mod days. With Moose Mama and Pinto by Top Hat's side, THEM began a campaign of harassment against Diana for harboring a young woman they used as a slave. They only made one memorable appearance before disappearing completely after being arrested.
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* BrawnHilda: If Moose Mama isn't a CreepyCrossdresser, then she is this.
%%* TheBrute: Moose Mama.
* TheBusCameBack: They make a return appearance, after many decades, in the story "Whatever Happened to Cathy Perkins?" from ''ComicBook/WonderWomanBlackAndGold''.
* {{Cowboy}}: Pinto is dressed as one.
* CreepyCrossdresser: Unfortunately their crossdressing is played as part of what makes them villainous.
%%* TheDragon: Pinto.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Moose Mama is very mannish in appearance and stature, and is implied to be a DragQueen.
* FairyTaleMotifs: Cathy, the young girl they mistreated, is seen as Cinderella while THEM are seen as the evil stepmother and stepsisters and Diana as the Fairy Godmother.
* MolotovCocktail: They used their usual tactics against Diana and Cathy. They chanted under their windows all night long, had street contacts harass them, shredded many of the clothes in the boutique while Diana was away, and eventually threw Molotov cocktails into the shop.
* ParasolOfPain: Top Hat wields one.
* PsychoLesbian: All three of them are implied to be this, especially Top Hat.
* SlaveCollar: They make Cathy wear a dog collar around her neck and regularly used to beat her.
* SwordCane: Top Hat has a trick umbrella with a blade in the end, and a knife hidden in the handle.
* TerribleTrio: Wonder Woman dealt with them during her days as a non-powered boutique owner in the 1960s. They started harassing Diana when she began sheltering a young woman they had been keeping as a slave. THEM were stopped by the combining efforts of Tony Petrucci, a young man living in the same neighborhood, and Diana who had taken on Top Hat by herself after the other two and their brutish henchmen were taken care of. They were about as bizarre as Wonder Woman's villains could get, but only made one appearance.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Trinity]]
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->''"For your godly powers, the face of Time would be useless! Perhaps you need to gaze upon the vizage of War! War has lived with the dying, tasted their blood, and now cries for more to join them."''

Trinity is the woman with three faces, Time, War, and Chaos. Each face has its own power: Time can slow the timesteam, War can fire powerful and deadly bolts of energy, and Chaos can project illusions. Originally a member of the Society of Sin, and later Villainy, Inc., it was eventually revealed that Trinity is a living computer virus created by the Atlanteans a millennium ago inhabiting an android.

->'''First Appearance:''' ''The New Titans Annual'' #6 (1990)
->'''Created By:''' Marv Wolfman
->'''Universes:''' [[ComicBook/PostCrisis New Earth]]
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* ContagiousAI: Trinity is a living computer virus and was able to download herself into the the master computer controlling all of Skartaris.
* EyeBeams: Her War face can project energy blasts.
* LivingProgram: Is a living computer virus created by the Atlanteans a millennium ago.
* MasterOfIllusion: Her Chaos face can project illusions.
* RoboticPsychopath: A living computer virus inhabiting a combat android body who wants to rewind time and reset a dimension.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Originally appeared fighting the ComicBook/TeenTitans.
* SecondaryColorNemesis: Her cloak is purple and her mask has green accents as well.
* TimeMaster: Her time face can slow the timestream.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Veronica Cale]]
[[WMG:Veronica Cale]]
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->''" I am the American success story, Kimberly, I am rags-to-riches, I am everything the Wonder Woman pretends to be. And the difference is that I earned all of it. Through my blood, sweat and tears, I earned it. I made myself who I am. If there is a Wonder Woman in this world, and I stress if... it's me."''

A billionaire perfume magnate that just happens to also be an OmnidisciplinaryScientist, Veronica Cale worked her way up from poor beginnings to become one of the richest women in the world. On account of this, she loathes Wonder Woman, whom she sees as a far inferior icon of female empowerment when compared to herself. She later become the deputy leader of Oolong Island, a commune of {{Mad Scientist}}s in the Yellow Sea off the coast of China.\\
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->'''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Vol 2]] #196. (2003)
->'''Created By:''' Greg Rucka · Drew Johnson
->'''Universes:''' [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Earth-Two]], [[ComicBook/PostCrisis New Earth]], Prime Earth, [[WesternAnimation/DCAnimatedMovieUniverse DCAMU]], VideoGame/DCUniverseOnline, [[Series/WonderWoman2011Pilot 2011 Pilot]],
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* AdaptationNameChange: Veronica was placed in a Earth-Two throwback story as Veronica ''Callow''.
* AmbitionIsEvil: Cale's ambitions and desire to be the ultimate female role model are at the core of her villainy.
* BigBadWannabe: Veronica has aspirations towards being the [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]] to Diana's Superman, but her lack of combat skill or any real superhuman leverage, and her less than stellar planning skills tend to leave her at the mercy of more powerful villains like Circe, the Gorgons, and Dr. Psycho. She's still a very dangerous threat, but tends to find herself sidelined as soon as somebody worse shows up.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Cale is a CSA to Priscilla Rich the original Cheetah. Both are rich and famous women who are DrivenByEnvy of Diana's fame to become her enemy and both do so without any super powers. However, while Priscilla was shown to be a severely mentally ill woman whose actions were brought about by how society pitted women against each other, Cale was simply a petty, cynical {{Jerkass}} who simply hated Wonder Woman for daring to be more accepted than her.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Heads up a major company and uses her money to flagrantly violate the law while being highly philanthropic to hide her misdeeds.
* DemotedToDragon: By Chang Tzu on Oolong Island. Veronica's totally unable to stand up to him and winds up as his henchwoman for most of the arc.
* DisappearedDad: Her father vanished after getting her mother pregnant. He appeared again when she tracked him down and blackmailed him into giving her money.
* DistaffCounterpart: To Lex Luthor.
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:''Rebirth'' Cale is forced to attack Diana by Phobos and Deimos, who want to gain access to Themiscyra, and by extension Ares]].
* DrivenByEnvy: Much as Luthor wants to ''be'' Superman, so too does Cale want to ''be'' Wonder Woman, claiming that if a Wonder Woman exists, it has to be her, and not Diana.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler:Her ''Rebirth'' version is a loving mother, and the plot would never have happened if Phobos and Deimos hadn't got at her daughter to get to Veronica]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards: She's committed murder purely to discredit Wonder Woman. Even she's disgusted by the actions of the Four Horsemen of Apokolips, and the carnage that their actions indirectly caused. She's also very specific about Medusa staying away from the President when she attacks Wonder Woman at the White House because she 'loves her country', and finds Dr. Psycho revolting.
* EvilGenius: She certainly fancies herself one. In reality while Cale is very smart, she's not really cut out for supervillainy.
* {{Expy}}: She's effectively Wonder Woman's version of Lex Luthor, with similar resources and motivations--though a far poorer success rate. Her envy of Diana's fame and popularity also makes her similar to Priscilla Rich, the Golden Age version of the Cheetah.
* FemaleMisogynist: Despite claiming to be and even thinking herself a feminist, Veronica has a fairly dim view of most other women, seeing them as inferiors and naive or stupid, especially those who look up to Diana.
* FreudianExcuse: Grew up as poor white trash, with a stripper mom and a deadbeat father. She clawed her way to success, while building a massive InferioritySuperiorityComplex along the way.
* GirlbossFeminist: Cale presents herself as a philanthropic, feminist hero who rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most powerful people in the world. In truth, Cale is a petty, envious woman who resents Wonder Woman for being born into her powers and will stoop to any low in order to publicly destroy the Amazon princess. This includes using the services of Dr. Psycho, a known rapist and misogynist, and manipulating or blackmailing her own employees, male and female, into going along with her schemes.
* GreenEyedMonster: Her motivation for loathing Wonder Woman is essentially this--Wonder Woman is an immortal superpowerful princess who can talk to animals while Veronica had to work her way up from being white trash.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Rails about female empowerment... and employs Dr. Psycho, a convicted rapist. Bashes Wonder Woman for promoting "perverse sexuality"... and sleeps with a senator in order to get her way.
* IcyBlueEyes: Cold and chilling.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Veronica is willing to try killing one of the world's greatest superheroes, endangering thousands in the process, just to make sure that the media talk about her when they think of powerful women.
* MadScientist: Heads up a conglomerate of them.
* ManipulativeBastard: Very good at manipulating employees and the press. When it comes to supervillains, her record gets a lot weaker.
* MsFanservice: Rocks extremely stylish business wear and [[FemmeFatalons an immaculate manicure]], is pictured on one cover [[{{Dominatrix}} leading a guy on a leash]] and has the attitude to match. She also seems to get [[BoundAndGagged tied up by other villains]] enough to make [[AuthorAppeal William Moulton Marsden proud.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: She came to really regret her part in the construction of [[EldritchAbomination the Four Horsemen of Apokolips]], enough to attempt a SuicideByCop.
* MyGreatestFailure: She admits to Diana that she's deeply ashamed of her role in the creation of the Four Horsemen, which given how much she hates her is saying a lot.
* NonActionBigBad: Cale's not a fighter, which is why she employs others to do it for her. Given what the rest of Wonder Woman's rogues are like, this is often a problem for her.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Notably averted. She's a brilliant scientist and businesswoman, but she lacks the ingenuity and natural ability to create complex devices like MadScientist types such as Lex Luthor and has to rely on buying or manipulating others to do the work for her.
* PresidentEvil: Of Oolong Island, post-52.
* PropagandaMachine: Tried to turn the media against Wonder Woman on several occasions.
* RabbleRouser: Cale's plan revolved around turning the public against Wonder Woman and the Amazons, starting by creatively selecting portions of the book Diana had just published and framing sentences and partial sentences about abortion, faith and gay marriage as attacks on American values. She manages to create a mob lead by her puppet whom she then has assassinated outside the Themyscirian Embassy to make a martyr of him and multiple clubs whose members have tied their altruistic efforts to inspiration from Wondy are forcibly disbanded by outsiders.
* RagsToRiches: A villainous version.
* TheResenter: Believes herself to be a far better female role model than Wonder Woman is, and deeply resents Diana for being the one that women the world over idolize.
* SelfMadeMan: Cale got where she was under her own efforts, a fact that she'll never let anybody forget.
* SingleMomStripper: Has this for a backstory.
* SophisticatedAsHell: Her speech is still peppered with "ain'ts" and other mannerisms that betray her poorer origins.
* SouthernFriedGenius: Veronica hails from Texas and still has the accent to prove it.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Her Rebirth counterpart is this to Paula von Gunther. Both become antagonists because of their daughters being used against them (Paula's daughter was held hostage by Nazis so she could make weapons for them, while the soul of Cale's daughter was taken by Phobos and Deimos, the sons of Ares so she could find Themyscira for them).
* TooCleverByHalf: Veronica is certainly extremely smart but she fancies herself a Lex Luthor level criminal genius and simply isn't suited to the role, failing to understand the kind of people she deals with in other villains and not seeing that they are ''much'' better at manipulation and shady dealings than they are and thinks she can effortlessly control them for her own ends when it's really them doing that with her.
* TookALevelInBadass: Her ''Rebirth'' incarnation is far more competent and dangerous, [[spoiler:though with a more sympathetic excuse for her villainy]].
* TragicKeepsake: That rope of green pearls was her mother's costume jewelry; she's been wearing them since she was fourteen and her mother died when she was sixteen.
* UnwittingPawn: Despite her undoubted brains, Veronica's alliances with the likes of Dr. Psycho, Ares, and Circe tend to see her forced into this role, fulfilling their agendas instead of her own.
* TheVamp: Sleeps with a senator to manipulate him into going along with her agenda. She also has sex with a couple of scientists (Will Magnus and Baron Bug) to manipulate them into sharing their scientific designs for her own purposes.
* VillainTeamUp: Has aligned herself with the likes of Doctor Psycho and Circe, even briefly acting as the legal guardian for Circe's daughter, Lyta. These team ups never end well.
* VillainousCrush: On Will Magnus of the Metal Men.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Cale thinks she's Wonder Woman's [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]] and accordingly, tries to act the part. Unfortunately, this consistently gets her into trouble when dealing with the actual supervillains in Wonder Woman's rogues gallery.
* YouGoGirl: Clearly thinks she's the heroine of one of these sorts of stories, when she's actually the villain in a comic book.
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[[folder:White Magician/Mister Magik]]
[[WMG:Thomas Asquith Randolph]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:As White Magician]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Final form]]
->''"Do you think I care a whit for this suppurating, steaming carcass...This body of yours? this collection of dung filled sacks? I am beyond all that now!"''

A hero whose heroics have been arranged by himself by selling stolen Star Labs and Apocalyptian tech to criminals, and those he intends to frame as villains. While it seems he may have started out as a legitimate hero he lost his way in his quest for power long before Diana came into the picture. He sees Wonder Woman as a threat to his operation, especially given her relationship to truth and unveiling lies. \\
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->'''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Vol 2]]. (1992)
->'''Created By:''' William Messner-Loebs
->'''Universes:''' [[ComicBook/PostCrisis New Earth]]
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* ArmsDealer: The White Magician makes a living selling pilfered experimental weapons and magical upgrades to criminals in Boston.
* BlatantLies: Frequently, he likes to set himself up as a hero after all. An example was when he claims he set Brian on fire by accident while trying to restrain him after gleefully setting the teen alight and claiming Brian had intentionally styled himself as a super-villain with the code name "Central Processor of Death". Brian was rather a terrified if mislead teen who was completely at the mercy of Randolph through the tech he'd bought which had implanted itself in his body.
* BigNo: When the White Magician's misuse of magic backfires on him and his body starts burning from the inside out he screams ''"NOOO! [-Burning- -]"'' before he loses the ability to speak as he dies.
* DeadlyUpgrade: The White Magician upgrades his physical form with dark magic in anticipation of a fight with [[Characters/WonderWomanAllies Artemis]], and it ends up burning his body out and leaving only a pile of ashes for his remains.
* DealWithTheDevil: In his quest for power he makes a deal with a demon for powerful BlackMagic.
* EvilIsNotAToy: Thomas Randolph keeps finding more and more questionably ways to increase his magical power, which eventually warps him into an inhuman monster and kills him.
* EvilSorcerer: White Magician is a villainous magic user whose Deal with the Devil didn't work out to his advantage.
* FallenHero: By the time Diana comes across him the White Magician is a black market arms dealer working for the mob using his girlfriend in the press and engineered heroics to maintain his reputation as a hero, but in the past he really was a superhero before giving in to his desire for power and fame. When he was a hero he went by Mister Magik, before changing it to "The White Sorcerer" and then the "The White Magician"
* {{Greed}}: While his lust for power is a powerful motivator he also really wants to make money and sees power as a means to that end. This is the reason he sells the items he then uses to frame his "villains" and the reason he ends up on the mob's payroll.
* HeroKiller: He beat Artemis to death in his OneWingedAngel form, and Diana was in trouble against him and his puppets until Circe (as Donna Milton) showed up to even the odds.
* HornedHumanoid: In his final form he ends up with demon like horns, reflecting the source of his ill gotten new power with Dark Magic.
* MagicEnhancement: Randolph was already on his way to looking less than human due to his attempts to increase his dark magical power before he took from Cheetah and Cassandra Arnold's life-forces to go full One-Winged Angel.
* MysticalHighCollar: The White Magician is a magic user who wears a red-lined white cape with a popped collar that reaches just past the top of his ears.
* OneWingedAngel: Used the life force of two women: his lover, anchor woman Cassandra Arnold and that of The Cheetah, to transform himself into a giant demon, capable of defeating the Amazon.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Revealed to his IgnoredEnamoredUnderling after his demonic transformation that he had Cheetah as his prisoner and planned to use her as a SexSlave when it suited him.
* ReducedToDust: After using magic to twist himself into a musclebound demonic thing in order to defeat and kill Artemis the White Magician ends up burnt out and killed by his own dark magic and is reduced to a pile of ashes.
* TagalongReporter: Deconstructed with Cassie Arnold, who tags along with White Magician and gets to be the first reporter at incidents he takes care of because he keeps her in the loop. The problem is she's reporting what White Magician tells her to in order to control public opinion on him and most of it is lies to make his murders look like acts of heroism.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: The White Magician is a straight up villain masquerading as a hero with the support of his pets in the press.
* AWolfInSheepsClothing: The White Magician, the villain who sabotaged Wondy's attempt to save Natasha in the last arc, has been posing as a hero in place of the missing Wonder Woman but it quickly becomes clear he's murdering people and arranging a media circus to make himself look a hero before the criminals and other unfortunates he's targeting even start their attacks.
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[[folder:Widow Sazia]]
[[WMG:Julianna Sazia nee Hutöff]]
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->''"Meet "Moot and Geoff". Geoff is a biomechanical construct stolen from S.T.A.R. Labs. He's programmed for ferocity and loyalty. Moot is very unstable. Now, who wants to join?"''

The wife of the most powerful mob boss in Boston. After her husband was assassinated by Paulie Longo she declared that she, not Paulie, would be inheriting his position. She then proved to have been the mastermind behind her husband's more clever acts and brutally hunted down those who opposed her. While she did send a trio of incredibly powerful assassins after Wonder Woman she specifically ordered them not to try and kill her to prevent bringing other heroes down on her and instead wanted them to hold her as long as possible, keep her occupied and give Sazia an opporunity to see if she could talk Diana into letting the mob war play out without intervening. \\
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->'''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Vol 2]] #84. (1994)
->'''Created By:''' William Messner-Loebs
->'''Universes:''' [[ComicBook/PostCrisis New Earth]]
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* TheChessmaster: She plays a long game. She pulls in multiple assassins to help her, even developing ways of traveling between dimensions to recruit new players and carefully manages the organized crime in her city even when those she's manipulating are her opponents.
* CrazyPrepared: When Julianna decides that her husband's mob position is going to her rather than the men who killed him she starts a gang war and prepares for all sorts of contingencies, though her shining moments were the reveal she'd turned her house into a near impenetrable death trap manned by androids and her ''planting a bomb in her own car'', which she was eventually able to use to kill her rival.
* CrusadingWidow: She has the men responsible for her husband's death hunted down relentlessly, though they are also standing in her way of getting her husband's position as they killed him in order to take it themselves.
* JoinOrDie: Julianna personally makes this offer to small groups of the men once under her husband's direction, starting with those who switched loyalties to Paulie right after her husband's murder. Those who react indignantly are swiftly stabbed through the chest.
* KarmaHoudini: She orchestrates and wins a brutal mob war and the closest thing she gets to punishment was [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]] taking an interest and forcing her to work with him in chains for a couple of days which she escapes at the first opportunity.
* TheQueenpin: A ruthless and clever mob boss who does away with her competition, hires superpowered temps, builds a cross dimensional portal and knows better than to start vendettas against or kill ComicBook/{{Justice League|OfAmerica}} members which means ''she actually gets away with everything''.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After Messner-Loebs left the book she was never seen again, and while she certainly wouldn't have targeted heroes the fact is she has superpowered help, has proven incredibly hard to catch and was last seen gaining control of most of the organized crime in Boston so without Diana catching her it seems she's just gotten away with everything.
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[[folder:Zara]]
[[WMG:Zara]]
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->''" Followers of the Flame, you shall see tonight how the avenger consumes its enemies!"''

High Priestess of the Cult of the Hidden Flame, Zara harbors a burning hatred for humanity, having been sold into slavery as a child. She clashed with UsefulNotes/{{the Golden Age|OfComicBooks}} Wonder Woman on a few occasions, and was a founding member of Villainy Incorporated.\\
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->'''First Appearance:''' ''Comic Cavalcade'' Vol 1 #5. (1943)
->'''Created By:''' William Moulton Marston & Harry G. Peter
->'''Universes:''' [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Earth-Two]], [[ComicBook/PostCrisis New Earth]], Prime Earth
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* AdaptationalBadass: Golden Age Zara is a stage magician who produces unnatural fire and plays with malleable metal through tricks that make it appear as though she has unnatural powers. Most versions of Zara following this have legit fire powers.
* CombinationAttack:
** Keeps using her crimson flame on Wonder Woman no matter how many times it fails to work. But thanks to Eviless a constricting flaming chain almost kills Wonder Woman and Hippolyte when combined with the lasso of compulsion, as the lasso prevents them from breaking the chain and the chain from slipping the rope.
** The combination of the crimson flame and blue hypnotic ray finally allows Hypnota to successfully hypnotize Wonder Woman.
* ConspicuousConsumption: Golden Age Zara is a glutton for everything money can buy ''but'' food, with no patience for saving or investing. While Eviless is out for conquest and revenge, Zara sets her sights on taking the fanciest possessions of the Amazons she can get her hands on, and then selling them when she gets bored.
* {{Cult}}: Leads one
* EvilRedhead: Pre-Crisis. Post-Crisis she's Arabic, and [[PhenotypeStereotype consequently]] dark haired.
* FieryRedhead: Pre-Crisis. She is hot-tempered, harbours a burning hatred for all of humanity, and uses [[PlayingWithFire flame based weaponry and attacks]].
* {{Foil}}: To Blue Snowman. While Blue Snowman seeks to build up wealth [[{{Greed}} for its own sake]] Zara cares more about [[VillainousGlutton using and enjoying material goods themselves]], quickly burning through any money she does come across and just as quickly discarding possessions as she gets bored of them. When left to her own devices, Blue Snowman tries to prevent as many people from getting hurt as possible in her pursuits of money, while Zara is all about hurting people because she hates the world beyond what joys she can indulge herself in. Blue Snowman prefers to hide herself away from the world in armor while Zara likes to show off her body and try out various new fashions. Blue Snowman does not like direct confrontation while Zara enjoys beating people with chains and cutting heads with swords. Blue Snowman sticks around with Eviless while Zara bails at the earliest chance. And of course unnatural blue snow to unnatural red flame.
* FreudianExcuse: Sold into slavery as a child.
* HumansAreBastards: Her philosophy
* LimitedWardrobe: Subverted, as when she's allowed to choose her own clothing she turns out to be very experimental.
* MadeASlave: Sold into slavery as a child.
* MisanthropeSupreme: Hates all of humanity after being sold into slavery.
* MultiMeleeMaster: She specializes in wielding chains, sometimes chains that constrict to crush the bones of those they ensnare, sometimes coated in the chemical that produces her red flames, as well as swords that are always on fire.
* PersonalityPowers: When Zara actually has powers, it's hard to think of many that are better represent the evils of rampant consumerism that ''fire''.
* PlayingWithFire: Both Pre-Crisis, when it was done with pyrotechnics, and Post-Crisis when she seems to have been a genuine pyrokinetic.
* TheResenter: Zara hates everyone on some level, but hates people in positions of authority and power most of all, regardless of what they do with it. The fact that she herself leads a cult, and a ScamReligion cult at that, has slipped her by.
* RevengeAgainstMen: Subverted, she hates women just as much. Zara mostly targets men simply because there are more men in positions of power and authority to knock down, and there are more men with money to steal from.
* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Zara is a firm believer in it. That's why she herself deals in slavery, because she hates life that much.
* VillainTeamUp: A founding member of Villainy Incorporated in both the Pre-and-Post-Crisis worlds.
[[/folder]]

* ForcedTransformation: Does this to most people, and especially men, turning them into the animal she feels they most resemble.

* NavelDeepNeckline: Some of her costumes have featured plunging necklines, especially the floor-length green dresses with V-necks crisscrossed in gold chains that she likes to wear at home.

* SelfFulfillingProphecy: In the [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 post-Crisis continuity]], Circe originally became an enemy of Diana because of a prophecy that the Amazon would kill her. In trying to prevent this prophecy however, Circe set in motion the very events that led to her death at Diana's hands. She got better though.

* YellowPeril: One of the most imfamous [[{{Stereotype}} stereotypically]] racist villains of the 1960s as a giant yellow-faced ''egg'' with Oriental features and a Fu Manchu mustache. John Byrne attempted to fix these problems by ret-conning him to be an Apokalyptian supercomputer, but Grant Morrison would later bring back the unfortunate implications of the character in ''ComicBook/52'' by making him a Chinese mad scientist named Chang Tzu.

* CaptainErsatz: While the individual Red Panzer's have been original characters, the concept, of a red suit of armor associated with a particular ideology, and handed down from successor to successor, is very similar to that of the Crimson Dynamo, a long-running Comicbook/IronMan villain.

* StalkerWithACrush: Is obsessed with Diana Prince

* EldritchAbomination: He's a hundred handed nigh-unkillable avatar of natural disaster who looks like he's made out of shadow save for his glowing eyes and mouths. In his and Diana's first encounter she breaks what looks like a huge staircase he's clinging to the underside of only for it to turn out to be his ''spine''.

* SuperStrength: A power of The Centimanes in myth that carried over to the comic books. He's strong enough to hold and throw hundreds of mountaints at once. Whether those mountains stay intact during the process or not [[SquareCubeLaw is another matter entirely]].

* SadlyMythtaken: He and his brothers were actually on the Gods' side during the Titanomachy and served as the Titans' jailers in Tartarus.

* FriendlyEnemy: Sometimes behaves this way towards Diana. Like many other things about Circe, this is [[DependingOnTheWriter dependent upon the writer]]. It stems from a a story where she wanted to get close to Diana, to ruin her, but to get around the lasso of truth Circe couldn't just change how just looked and sounded but also had to banish the feelings of hatred she had for Diana from her heart, mind and guts. While these did come back, some writers betray this as having [[GoneHorriblyWrong gone wrong]], with Circe unable to rid herself of genuine feelings of friendship she formed for Diana in the interrim, causing internal conflict within Circe.

* MasterOfIllusion: It's not explored too often, as Circe is dedicated to fighting a spy smasher adept at spotting lies, who later gets a lie/illusion/falsehood dispelling weapon when Diana trades in the lasso of compulsion for the lasso of truth, and in some continuities Diana becomes the outright goddess of truth. Still, Circe can change the appearance of her hair, clothing, body shape, the sound of her voice and even her scent at a whim. Sometimes ''just'' perceceptions, sometimes outright but temporary transformations.

* MotiveDecay Okay so... why is she still trying to kill Wonder Woman? Sometimes it's because she hates the world of peace and equality that Diana wants to create, sometimes it's because she hates everything Diana stands for which she sees as lies and attacks her out of hate-filled cynicism, sometimes it's because of prophecy, sometimes it's because she thinks the Amazons stole her daughter, sometimes it's because she thinks that Wonder Woman doesn't do enough to stop the oppression of women despite the fact that directly contradicts one of the main reasons she gave for hating Wonder Woman's message of peace and tolerance during one of her {{Motive Rant}}s. Most of all her actions simply just revolve around her hating Wonder Woman and just wanting to watch her squirm. Best exemplified by her banter:

* SecondaryColorNemesis: [[PurpleIsPowerful Purple]] and [[GreenAndMean green]] are Circe's most reoccurring {{Color Motif}}s. Sometimes she will be depicted with purple hair and a green outfit or wearing a purple robe. When she first appeared in the Perez run, she had black hair and a green dress.

* SquishyWizard: Circe has a lot of magical firepower but lacks Diana's strength, speed and fighting skills. She can magically empower herself to match Diana in strength but even then the Amazon can still beat her with proper training, and this takes away from other things Circe could be using her magic for.

* StrawFeminist: Sometimes portrayed this way. More often just portrayed as TheCynic who only brings up differences between women and men as a means of driving them further apart.

%%* SuperStrength

* ArmorIsWorthless: Diana dons her golden eagle armor only for Devastation to effortlessly shred through it...[[CoversAlwaysLie on cover of the comic]]. The two were and continue to be portrayed as relative equals in the comic's actual pages.

* VillainDecay: Rebirt Devastation is nowhere near as effective as her post crisis incarnation, however the new version does get a nice sword.

* VillainDecay: Post Crisis Genocide is a lackey of Paula Von Gunther whose best known for being defeated after being lassoed by Diana and Donna Troy at the same, showing how two Wonder Women are better than one and that Troy has finally, truly [[HeelFaceTurn been redeemed]] in the rebirth continuity.

%%* SuperReflexes

%%* SuperStrength

%%* TheRival: To Philippus.

%%* ManipulativeBastard

->''"Prepare to die, little godspawn! Sp prideful and self-important, striving to hold back the tide of death! Feel the wrath of Arachne, whom the gods cursed for pride! My venom flows straight from the font of the universe!"''

* BadassNormal: He actually doesn't have any powers but his strength with the axe makes him more than a match.

%%zce* SuperStrength

* HumanShifting: Her default height is an imperial 4'11. She can make herself smaller, though nowhere near as small as Atomia, and make herself larger, but no where near as large as Giganta, being limited to realistic human proportions. But when coupling this ability with a few illusions she can impersonate any number of people.

* MundaneSolution: She can't beat Wonder Woman with her powers during their first fight, but manages to send her into retreat with serious injuries after shooting her with a handgun. Wonder Woman being seriously injured by low caliber round was {{retcon}}ned after fans complained, but Devastation making use of mundane weaponry was not. Even if it does prove ineffective against her superpowered opponents she'll still put it to great use against [[{{muggles}} their intended targets]].

* DarkerAndEdgier: Narratively speaking, Genocide is a darker, edgier [[SevenYearRule replacement]] for Devastation.

** Keeps using her crimson flame on Wonder Woman no matter how many times it fails to work. But thanks to Eviless a constricting flaming chain almost kills Wonder Woman and Hippolyte when combined with the lasso of submission, as the lasso prevents them from breaking the chain and the chain from slipping the rope.

* KillTheGod: His initial goal in New 52. Now that [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly lack of belief]] as rendered the Olympians and gods related to them mortal, now that he has seen Wonder Woman take the title "God Of War" by killing Ares, Nikos seeks to kill her believing he would be a better, less self righteous god of war. Ironically, when he gives up on this and tries to help Wonder Woman achieve her mission of peace he alomst foils Zeus's plans to restore immortality to the gods, all by accident!

* GreenEyeMonster: Why he initially hates Diana in the 52 comics. Nikos is descended from godhood too, but while Diana got nifty super powers and a purpose in life out of them, Nikos has gotten nothing but stories from his grand mother.

* OlderHeroYoungerVillain: While Diana retains the benefits of a youthful body, this is what keeps her from slaugtering Nikos in the New 52 continuity. He's just a kid who is clearly out of his depth.

* PerfectPoison: Lernaean Hydra Venom Spear is a spear that can use its venom to stop a high-powered regenerator and slowly kill them.
* ShadowArchetype: In New 52 he is this to Donna Troy, as both are problem "children" Wonder Woman is trying to "save" and set on a better path. While Donna Troy was manipulated into believing she was doing the right thing and became self destructively self loathing when she realized she had been lied to Aegeus didn't need much convincing to start down the path of bloodshed and is mostly being held back by his own sense of self preservation than by any notions of morality. Donna Troys attempts to be good in "man's world" get a girl killed however, causing her to relapse and attack Wonder Woman in her fury while being shown mercy by the woman he hates and scorn by someone he thought of as a friend causes Nikos Aegeus to turn over a new leaf and nearly kill Donna Troy to "protect" Wonder Woman.
* ShockAndAwe: Aegeus carries the Thunderbolts of Zeus, which transform into ligtning bolts when he throws them.
* {{Teleportation}}: As wells as ShockAndAwe, the Thunderbolts of Zeus can be used for teleportation.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: His last appearance in ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'' was shortly before Minerva dealt with Sebastian Ballesteros and regained her powers as Cheetah. He never appears again and Minerva never explains what happened to him. Both ''New 52'' and ''Rebirth'' continuities also didn't bring him back, and his role as Urzkartaga's main worshipper was replaced by African warlord Andres Cadulo in ''Rebirth''.

* FriendlyEnemy: Sometimes behaves this way towards Diana. Like many other things about Circe, this is [[DependingOnTheWriter dependent upon the writer]].

%%* MasterOfIllusion

* SquishyWizard: Circe has a lot of magical firepower but lacks Diana's strength, speed and fighting skills. She can magically empower herself to match Diana in strength but even then the Amazon can still beat her with proper training.

* StrawFeminist: Sometimes portrayed this way.
* StrawNihilist: By the end of her story, she begins to describe how everything in life from Wonder Woman to humanity live under illusions of falsehood, leaving actions of love and murder as the only things that could be called reality. As such she kills other indiscriminately in pursuit of her daughter, Lyta, the only being she loves.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Frequently dresses this way. Mainly as a way of throwing off male enemies through sex appeal.

* StatuesqueStunner: Golden Age Gundra was the same height as Wonder Woman, so about five foot eight. Post Crisis Wonder Woman is six inches taller and still shorter than Gudra, meaning she's over six feet tall, and still very good-looking.

* SuperStrength: Her strength is comparable to Wonder Woman's.
* ThoseWackyNazis: Was originally summoned by the Nazis, and continues to espouse their ideals long after the end of WWII (which caused Odin to disown her).

* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: Morrison's version of Egg Fu was a giant flying head inside a cybernetic apparatus who killed henchmen on a whim and acted as Intergang's top scientist. It's a pretty obvious parallel to Marvel's [[Characters/{{AIM}} M.O.D.O.K.]], a giant flying head inside a cybernetic apparatus with similar BadBoss tendencies and who is also typically the leader of the science-terrorist cabal known as AIM.

* BoobsOfSteel: As stacked as Wonder Woman, and every bit as strong.