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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.

AndIMustScream: At first Post Crisis Silver Swan is brainwashed into hating Wonder Woman, [[MoreThanMindControl using some of her genine misgivings with her friends as the basis]] for it. Wonder Woman does manages to get through Vanessa Kapatelis, but Kapatelis can't overcome the programming of her cybernetics, which are modified to exploit Vanessa's genuine desire to stop in order to [[LuredIntoATrap lure Wonder Woman into a trap]].
* ArchEnemy: Rebirth Silver Swan hates Wonder Woman's twin Jason most of all. It's a pretty one sided case, as Jason barely even knows her. She does drive a rift between the siblings, however, as Jason is so embarrassed by how easily Silver Swan defeated him that he packs up and leaves Diana, to keep from getting in her way any longer.

* DoubleKnockout: After seeing Silver Swan slash Jason's throat Wonder Woman loses her temper and starts destroing Silver Swan's wings. Unfortunately this results in an explosion that knocks both women out...triple knockout because Jason also faints due to blood loss.

** Rebirth Vanessa is sent to prison but is given a new physical therapy course that allows her to walk without the homicidal nanobots, which are purged from her system.

** DC Rebirth Vanessa is being messed with by nanobots, which she only had a one and three million chance of controlling to begin with but took on the challenge to prove to Wonder Woman she could be a warrior. "Warrior" to prove she could use the nanobots to walk again after being paralyzed, but they drive her to try and defeat Wonder Woman in battle.

* SoreLoser: When Wonder Woman starts drowning Silver Swan in DC Rebirth the nanobots with draw into her body, allowing Diana to safely take Vanessa back to the hospital. However, they keep Vanessa in a coma until they think it's safe to resume their activity as Silver Swan, with Dr. Peril and Dr. Carne putting Vanessa in a capsule to stop her from becoming Silver Swan again until they can find a way to deal with the nano bots...or not since Dr. Carne is Dr. Psycho in disguise and releases Silver Swan first chance he gets.

* ThatManIsDead: DC Rebirth sees Vanessa Kapatelis's nanobots become fixated with the "Silver Swan" character she created for a hypothetical opera starring herself and Wonder Woman, and eventually find it preferrable to the Kapatelis herself, telling Wonder Woman "Vanessa" is now dead.
* ThereCanOnlyBeOne: Rebirth Vanessa is compelled to cut herself so that her nanobots can more rapidly spread from her open wounds into the hospital computer systems in an effort to delete the records of her treatment.

** Rebirth Kapatelis simply wanted to walk again, prove she could be strong like Wonder Woman. Unfortunately she was overestimated her ability to control nanobots that [[RoboticPsychopath never should have been approved for medical use in the first place]].

A seven thousand year old Egyptian Queen who possess great physical power and commands even more powerful armies of seemingly indestructible {{living satue}}s. Mikra strongly resembles Diana of Paradise Island, and views Wonder Woman as an obstacle on her path to restore her kingdom through conquest.

* KeystoneArmy: {{Inverted|Trope}}: The magic spell that allows Mikra to revive her body and functionally makes her immortal is tied to Mikra's even harder to kill stone soliders. As long as they around her body can be restored to full strength indefinitely. On the off chance someone does find a way around their NighInvulnerability, Mikra must scramble to revive them or [[NoOntalagicalInertia will herself be reduced to dust]], due to having existed far beyond her life expectancy.

* TheDreaded: Granted, the "Golden Age" Wonder Woman [[{{Chickification}} was not written to be as fierce as she once had been]] when Kaniger decided to take a break from "Earth One" [[InvokedTrope in an attempt to appease]] "[[FanCommunityNickname Golden Agers]]" readers who had become disatisfied with his handling of the Silver Age Wonder Woman, but all the same it takes a lot of power and a quite the reputation to intimdate pretty much any version of Wonder Woman.

* KeystoneArmy: {{Inverted|Trope}}: The spell that allows Mikra to revive her body and functionally makes her immortal is tied to Mikra even harder to kill stone soliders. On the off chance someone does find a way around their NighInvulnerability, Mikra must scramble to revive them or [[NoOntalagicalInertia will herself be reduced to dust]], due to having existed far beyond her life expectancy.
* {{Mummy}}: She starts out as an undead mummified corpse but is then unwrapped and restored to her fully living, organs intact body.

* SuperPoweredMooks: She commands LivingStatue Spinxes powerful enough to restrain Wonder Woman, tough enough to shrug off modern weaponry and quick enough to down jet planes. Unfortunately they are ''just'' smart enough get disobedient and just dumb enough to confuse Diana for Osira, due to their similar features.

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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.

See the [[Characters/JusticeLeagueOfAmericaAntagonist Justice League villains page]].

* ParentalAbadonment: In DC Rebirth Mayfly's parents never wanted her and thus never got around to teaching Moon Robinson how to take care of herself before their deaths. This somewhat explains, though does not excuse Robinson seeking out metaphysical speed empowerment that exasperated her hemophilia instead of a treatment or cure for it.

* 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.

* VillainsWantMercy: Rebirth Mayfly ends up fleeing Wonder Woman and Etta Candy fearing for her life. Despite her hypocrisy in being a hitwoman Mayfly does respond well to Wonder Woman's mercy and legitimately reform.

* ProngsOfPoseidon: Wielded Poseidon's own trident briefly.

** [[BizarreSexualDimorphism Originally all Atlantean women were giants]] and [[HugeGirlTinyGuy all Atlantean men were dwarfs]]. DC comics adopting a shared universe brought Aquaman and Wonder Woman stories into the same continuity, and Atlanteans conformed to the same size ranges as all the other humans on the planet. Clea remained taller than Wonder Woman, but was no longer gigantic.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: Her costume is barely there. She wears what is essentially a bullet bra for a top.

* 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's Villainy Inc.

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* 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

* 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.

* 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

* RedeptionDemotion: Medusa's HeelFaceTurn in Rebirth causes her to lose her gorgon body and powers. She does get to keep her semi immortality due to being made an official amazon of Themyscira, however.

* 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.

** Rebirth Warmaster not only accepts her defeat but admits that throwing away her friendship with Wonder Woman to continue an ancient feud that had been cold for centuries was a foolish decision, and willingly goes to prison.
* 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, calling Atomia's kingdom and affront to science. 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.

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* BladeOnAStick: Rebirth Warmaster wields a spear once held by Gundra.

* 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.

** Rebirth Silver Swan spesifically targets doctors who tried to treat Vanessa, so that no one else can get the kind of body she has, and people Wonder Woman saves, believing no one deserves to be saved more than Vanessa. If this at all seems contradictory, no one ever said the nanobots were rational.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: DC Rebirth Cale is still a criminal wanted by the FBI, but she has a lot less to cover up than her Post Crisis predecessor, with her worst crimes being driven by Phobos and Deimos, who themselves were suffering from temporary insanity.

* {{Foil}}: To Lex Luthor and The Joker. Like them she has the resources and know how to take down superheroes. Unlike them she doesn't take any pride in it or have any grudges against them, in fact being quite eager to get off their radar as soon as possible.

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: She invokes both Quetzlotl and Power Girl from the preceeding story arc, being a flying blonde with snake armor and weaponry, but is otherwise very different from both. While Quetzlotl and Power Girl were both fully mature adults who had been brainwashed and deceived into doing things they would otherwise be actively opposing, Theana was an emotionally stunted adult who had never been allowed to fully develop as a person. While Quetzlotl was physically disgusted by his own actions are pretty easy to stop, putting up very little fight once someone physically strong enough to actually get his attention intervened, Theana has to be beaten down twice before she starts listening to reason. Where Power Girl was a far inferior fighter to Wonder Woman and only proved problematic because Kara took Diana by surprise, and Diana was reluctant to cut loose on her, trying to talk Kara down until there was literally [[IAmNotLeftHanded no other option]]. "The Beast of Hold 17" is more or less Wonder Woman's equal in combat, Diana faces Theana head on in ritual combat, and they both go all out from the start, with Diana only getting an edge after she starts verbally prodding Theana in between attacks. Also, while The Children of Ares were using Quetzlotl and Power Girl directly harm civilians and ruin Wonder Woman's reputation, Astarte only uses Theana as an emergency resort, or when an appropriately ranked and respected adversary like Diana requests CombatByChampion. Theana harms no civilians during The Citizenry's otherwise horrific attack and the clout Wonder Woman gains from beating her lets her start changing the Citizenry for the better.

* UngratefulBastard: When her shade gets past Doom's Door and she becomes a {{body surf}}ing ghost, Nubia asks her to stop on the condition the Hyppolyta had preserved Medusa's head and they can use it to restore Medusa's body. While this does stop Medusa's ghost antics, it doesn't stop her attacks on the amazons, leading to a thrashing from Nubia. However, when this leads to Medusa [[BeatTheCurseOutOfHim losing Athena's gorgon curse]] she does show gratitude to Nubia and offers to serve her as an amazon.

* 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.

* DistaffCounterpart: To Lex Luthor, by her own design.

* GreenEyedMonster: In DC Rebirth Vanessa is initially visited in the hospital every day by Wonder Woman after being saved from a collapsing building that broke her legs. But eventually Wonder Woman's visits become less frequent and Kapatelis sees Wonder Woman on television, saving people who can still walk after she leaves them, becoming resentful that she was apparently the only person saved by Wonder Woman who suffered lasting damage. She takes experimental nanobot therapy to repair her legs but is warned that her brain might not be able to control them, and she can't. They end up driving her to ''kill'' a family Wonder Woman saved for not being "worthy" of her help. Silver Swan goes on to slash Jason's throat for being Wonder Woman's brother and therefore apparently thinking himself closer to Wonder Woman than her.

* ArchEnemy: Rebirth Silver Swan hates Wonder Woman's twin Jason most of all. It's a pretty one sided case, as Jason barely even knows her.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.

* {{Foil}}: There is another business woman of sorts who is ''far'' more qualified to be the Lex Luthor to Wonder Woman's Superman than Veronica Cale is, except for the fact Julia Sazia [[NothingPersonal simply doesn't care]]. Sazia's successfully gotten superheroes out of her life, gotten over the setbacks they caused while they were around [[KharmaHoudini and moved on]], but the far richer and more comfortable Cale just can't let things go.

* 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.

* GorgeousGorgon: Is the leader of the Gorgons, is smoking hot, and likes to flaunt her body.

* 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}}.

* BigBad: Of both versions of Villainy Incorporated (though in the Pre-Crisis timeline she was actually TheDragon to Saturnian villain Eviless).

* 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.

* {{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.

* 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.

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.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Often used as a weapon against Wonder Woman and mentally abused in showing nothing but aggression while steadily being mutilated by cybernetics.

* KarmaHoudini: Vanessa was never legally punished for her acts of destruction or murdering Cassandra Sandsmark’s friends after destroying her school.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.

* {{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.

%%* TheBrute: Moose Mama.

%%* TheDragon: Pinto.

* AdaptationNameChange: Veronica was placed in a Earth-Two throwback story as Veronica ''Callow''.

* 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.

* DistaffCounterpart: To Lex Luthor.

* EvilGenius: She certainly fancies herself one. In reality while Cale is very smart, she's not really cut out for supervillainy.

* ManipulativeBastard: Very good at manipulating employees and the press. When it comes to supervillains, her record gets a lot weaker.

* 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.

* 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.