History Characters / WonderWomanAmazons

'''Title Character'''\\
[[Characters/WonderWomanTheCharacter Princess Diana of Themyscira/Diana Prince]]\\

* LegacyCharacter: After Diana died and ascended to godhood, Post Crisis, Hippolyta became Wonder Woman in her place. She traveled back in time to fight alongside the Justice Society, long before Diana's time, making her kind of the first Wonder Woman and making Diana a legacy heroine herself. This time travel aspect of the legacy was [[CanonDisContinuity ignored by subsequent writers]] even though it, among other things, finally solved the {{continuity snarl}} of Donna Troy because the events that lead up to the reveal were disliked[[note]]The Diana dying explanation was punishment for Hippolyta's idiocy, and changing it to for her role in ''ComicBook/AmazonsAttack'' was even more disliked. Plus despite coming up with a way to reconcile Donna Troy's original origin and nature with the Post Crisis continuity John Byrne decided to rewrite Donna's origin and change her nature again [[KudzuPlot anyway]].[[/note]]. Then it was done away with when DC rebooted its history during the ComicBook/{{New 52}}.

Characters/WonderGirl ([[Characters/WonderGirlDonnaTroy Donna Troy]] | [[Characters/WonderGirlCassieSandsmark Cassie Sandsmark]]) | '''Amazons'''\\

[[Characters/WonderWomanRoguesGalleryAToL A-L]] ([[Characters/WonderWomanCheetah Cheetah]]) | [[Characters/WonderWomanRoguesGalleryMToZ M-Z]] | [[Characters/WonderWomanGods Gods]] ([[Characters/WonderWomanAres Ares]])-]]]]]

* AdaptationalNationality: DC Rebirth Nubia was initially a mortal woman from Madagascar named Zahavah, who had been betrayed and murdered by her lieutenant, who went on to kill the rest of her family. It was running on the theme similar to "Post Crisis", that the Amazons had been murdered women reborn to serve the Greek Pantheon. ''Infinite Frontier'' had her spring from "the well of souls" at the same time Diana was born, in an attempt to make her as close to being Diana's sister, as she was in the "Silver Age", without contradicting the then newest continuity.

* SignificantMonogram: In Greek "Dimension Chi" would come out to "DX", which means denotes infintismal variation in calculus. Hippolyta's Dimension Chi counterpart doesn't go so far off the rails as to abandon her throne, she remains a ruler as Hippolyta does, but the Dimension Chi Themyscira ends up radically different due to the choices she makes. In English of course "Dimension Chi" is "{{Creator/DC|Comics}}'', so it still works.

* SignificantMonogram: In Greek "Dimension Chi" would come out to "DX", which means denotes infintismal variation in calculus. Hippolyta's Dimension Chi counterpart doesn't go so far off the rails as to abandon her throne, she remains a ruler as Hippolyta does, but the Dimension Chi Themyscira ends up radically different due to the choices she makes. In English of course "Dimension Chi" is "{{Creater/DC|Comics}}'', so it still works.

** (Post-Crisis) The Bana tribe, who are far more combative than their Themysciran sisters, place a lot of emphasis and pride on their skills as warriors. They even serve as mercenaries and acting queen Nehebka openly admits to Wonder Woman that by the 21st century Bana-Mighdall had long abandoned any notions of altruism, vengeance or even self defense, only engaging in warfare for the sake of profit and enjoyment.

* SexSlave: Depending on the continuity, amazonia as a whole may have suffered this after being defeated by Heracles and left at the mercy of his men. The Post Crisis Bana-Mighdall shunned all attachments to outsiders with the exceptions of captured males used for breeding. Ostensibly these are only supposed to be prisoners of war, but queen Anahid had actively engaged in the slave trade [[EvilVersusEvil before Cheetah killed her]] for The Girdle of Gaea.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: ''Dawn of DC'' shows the death [[spoiler:and ascension]] of Hyppolyta, attacks by Echdina then Chaos and coronation of Nubia of queen of all three tribes did ''not'' completely put an end to the FantasticRacism between them. These events [[WorldHalfFull did come remarkably close to it]], but there are more than enough records to confirm these kinds of issues persist more often than not.

* AlternateSelf: In DC Rebirth Queen Hippolyta creates a mirror that reflects ''Emperess'' Hippolyta of Dimension Chi. Generally, for every decision Queen Hippolyta makes the Empress will either do the opposite or otherwise make choose the most callous alternative. Queen and Emperess come into conflict when young Diana gets curious about the mirror and is captured by The Empress.

* ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike: Hippolyta was happy to be free of the cacodaemon world Circe had banished all of the amazons sans Diana and Donna to, but said she was disappointed Diana spent time helping them instead focussing on Diana's job as ambassador to the world of man. This was insitigated by the cacodaemons tormenting Hippolyta with visions of the future, where Wonder Woman was going to die in battle, but since Hippolyta didn't share this information until much later, the other amazons just thought Hippolyta had either gone mad or was playing some kind of trick on her daughter.

* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: Has shown she's not afraid to mouth off to the Olympians, [[https://multiframe.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/screen-shot-2015-04-03-at-1-56-37-pm.png such as Zeus]], when it comes to her daughter.

* CerebusRetcon: More so a tone shifting {{revision}}. During the start of ''ComicBook/DCInfiniteFrontier'', Nubia's desire to substitute for Diana is presented from a comical angle, showcasing [[ProudWarriorRace how brutal Themyscira's society can be]] for all of [[ProudScholarRace their artsy fartsy ways and scientific pursuits]]. The Nubia Coronation reveals that Nubia had very personal reasons for wanting to fill in for Diana, and puts the fierceness with which for fought for the right in an entirely new light.

* DefeatMeansFriendship: DC Infinite Frontier sees Medusa's ghost escape through Doom's Doorway and start haunting Themyscira. Nubia offers Medusa her severed head back in exchange that she stop [[BodySurf possessing amazons]]. Medusa uses the head to restore her body, but then decides to continue her attack anyway. In the ensuing fight Io's "Staff Of Understanding" doesn't just allow Nubia to beat Medusa, it lets her ''[[BeatTheCurseOutOfHim beat Athena's gorgon curse out of Medusa]]'', at which point Medusa decides to become an amazon and serve Nubia.

* DivineDate: Post Crisis Nubia found and frequently dated "mono god" Ahura Mazda on the otherside of Doom's Door, traveling through several "worlds of light and darkness" with him.
* EightiesHair: In the Silver Age Nubia has this look about a decade before the nineteen eighties, and given the Floating Ilse are constantly obscured by fog it would either have to naturally grow that way or she'd need some supernatural hair care products! "Rebirth" very briefly brings back her classic look before it and "Future State" lean into it even harder, giving Nubia her biggest hairdo yet and making it far less relaxed to the point it's almost a giant Afro puff. Themyscira seems to have some super strength relaxing agent in DC Rebirth, as Nubia's hair suddenly becomes much straighter during her coronation ceremony, and even then it starts curling again as she's dunked in the Hotsprings Of Gaia.

* HorseOfADifferentColor: In DC Rebirth she didn't live a mundane life even as the mortal Zahavah. Her kingdom on Madagascar bred rather large saber toothed cheetah and horned zebras to ride.
* HotterAndSexier: After the Silver Age, every subsequent contuity tends to dress Nubia in something more revealing than her full plate armors. {{Zigzagged|trope}} With DC Rebirth, as Zahavah tends to keep [[HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic her helmet on]] when wearing a variation of Nubia's Silver Age armor but has no plating on her legs.

** During her coronation ceremony in Infinite Frontier Nubia is dunked in the hotsprings of Gaea, which cause her to flashback all the way from her mortal life as Zahavah to her time guarding Doom's Doorway to her first return to "Man's World" as an Amazon. As the scenes cut she is seen where variations of her outfits from The Silver Age and Post Crisis continuties would match the time frame, despite being in completely different situations.

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* See Characters/WonderGirlDonnaTory

!!ComicBook/WonderGirl I / Troia / Wonder Woman IV]]

* ''See Characters/WonderGirl''

** Hippolyta's stint as her daughter's replacement was part of her penance for inadvertently causing Diana's death in the first place. (She had an Amazon sorceress cast a spell to transfer some of Diana's power to Artemis, and never had the spell reversed.) [[JumpedAtTheCall She later started to enjoy the role.]] She becomes one again after the ''ComicBook/AmazonsAttack'', where she is punished for her hand in the death of thousands in Washington D.C., and is punished to serve alone on Themyscira as it's only resident as penance and to rebuilt Amazon culture from the ground up.

* StrawHippocrite: Post Crisis she tears into Diana for spending too much time fighting to save individual lives instead of cosulting the leaders of the world, while propping up Artemis of Bana-Mighdall, who has no negotiation skills and a much stronger violent streak than Diana. Artemis herself ''knows'' things don't add up but has too much of an ego to consider she's a pawn in the games Hippolyta is playing.

** The Esquecida Tribe is nowhere near as isolationist as Themyscira, the sisters even supporting each others' relationships withe men so long as they are not brought back to Akahim. They also enjoy many more modern amenities, but in turn lack much of the advanced technology Themyscira has and doesn't share with the world. They are also highly split on religion, as while Bana-Mighdall cofounder Antiope wanted to get away from Zeus The Esquecida have come to distrust all Greco-Roman gods in general and despise The Twelve Olympians in particular due to the machinations of Hera. The Esquecida are also far less aggressive than The Bana-Mighdall, and though ready to fight them if necessary, find Bana-Mighdall hyper militarism and hostility towards the other amazon tribes baffling.

* PoorCommunicationKills: As DC Infinite Frontier heats up it is repeatedly shown that Themyscira, The Bana-Mighdall and The Esquecida, queens and subjects alike, often have very similar goals and similar solutions to common problems, but tend to get in each other's way simply because there is little to no communication between the three. This is not at all helped by the fact that prior to ''Trial Of The Amazons'', only Hippolyta, Antiope, Atalanta, Donna Troy, Cassie Sandsmark and Artemis are even aware that the The Esquecida Tribe exists. Two assassins Hippolyta sent to Brazil begin to suspect that there might be other amazon tribes, but have no idea where to look for them, Faruka II's assassins only find Yara Flor before getting their clocks cleaned by her, Artemis has only seen one Esquecida besides Yara Flor, Atalanta has only seen one Esquecida outpost abandoned before the were even called Esquecida, Hippolyta only has a report from Donna Troy, Antiope only has secondhand knowledge from Hippolyta, while Donna and Cassie don't regularly stay with any of the tribes, and are largely LockedOutOfTheLoop. Strengthening the connections between the three tribes is Hippolyta's chief goal in particular, after Yara Flor rejects Hera and successfully escapes Olympus to Akahim anyway.

* SexSlave: Depending on the continuity, amazonia as a whole may have suffered this after being defeated by Heracles and left at the mercy of his men. The Post Crisis Bana-Mighdall shunned all attachments to outsiders with the exceptions of captured males used for breeding. Ostensiably these are only supposed to be prisoners of war, but queen Anahid had actively engaged in the slave trade [[EvilVersusEvil before Cheetah killed her]] for The Girdle of Gaea.

* TookALevelInKindness: Zahavah cut down her enemies without a second thought, only staying her hand when there were children in her path. Nubia prefers to restrain her foes if she can avoid cutting them.

* OnlyOneName: Nubia has no last name in her non-Wonder Woman identities that we know of.

* CosmicRetcon: DC Rebirth gave Nubia her saddest origins yet as a woman who had been taken captive, then repeatedly beaten and raped by a man until she died. The events that lead to Infinite Frontier altered the time stream, with Nubia's experiencing some of the most dramatic changes to her past. Now she was the proud hunter, princess and general Zahavah up until the moment of her death when she was betrayed and slain by her own Lieutenent, Azariah, who took issue with Zahavah sparing the prince of enemy kingdom Aridai on the grounds she did not kill children.