History Characters / WonderWomanTheCharacter

'''Princess Diana of Themyscira/Diana Prince'''\\

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

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

* AntiMagic: Wonder Woman is sometimes given a notable resistance against magic to make her more useful to the Justice Society/Justice League, especially when Superman is given a weakness to it. Without resorting to this her least redundant utility is the Lasso of Truth, and even then just barely when Superman's more accurate hearing can pick up on someone trying to lie by their heart beat, and Martian Manhunter can read minds.
* ApologizesAlot: In DC Rebirth this annoys Nubia and embarrasses her mother.

** Her first Post Crisis fight with Superman sees him snap her wrist. In her fight with Super Doomsday in ''The Witch And The Warrior'' he tries it again, and while [[ItOnlyWorksOnce she saves her tendons this time]] she gets her shoulder knocked out of socket, at least two fractured bones, her nose bloodied and a [[ImpaledPalm palm impaled]] before subduing him.

* {{Jobber}}: {{Defied|Trope}} but Roulette clearly intended to use the "Orphan Sisters", Wonder Woman and Black Canary in disguise, as tomato cans. She immediately put the rookies up against her champions, then allowed Muck and Lira [[UnneccesaryRoughness to attack without tagging]]. It was NothingPersonal, Roulette was convinced neither Orphan Sister could be Wonder Woman, especially not the one who destroyed her experimental killer gynoid with [[ShockAndAwe an electroblast]]([[VillainousRescue which was actually covert outside interference form Zeus]]) even as Doctor Psycho insisted it had to be Wonder Woman because he recognized her thighs!

** Post Crisis her bracelets are made of the same material (the Golden Fleece) as the Aegis, Zeus' indestructible shield, and are literally unbreakable. They have withstood the combined divine power of the entire Greek pantheon and never broke.

* MoreExpendableThanYou: "Manhunter" Kate Spencer obtained the full video of Wonder Woman killing Maxwell Lord, concinced she could lesses the accusation of "murder" to "manslaughter" or even get it dropped completely as "justified homicide". Diana refused to let Kate use the footage as evidence, however, as she felt that would just shift public distrust of Wonder Woman to Superman, and that she could handle it better than him.

** Volume 2 onward [[DependingOnTheWriter sometimes]] makes this among her or Lasso of Truth's powers. Post Crisis she interestingly showed greater resistance or even total immunity to forms of mind control that worked well enough on Superman, most infamously Maxwell Lord's, but Wonder Woman showed greater vulnerability to Maxima's mind control, which Superman had an easier time resisting. Maxima was possessed by Eclipso at the time, who had be retooled as a more powerful than ever CosmicEntity, but it's possible Eclipso only made ''Maxima's'' less restrained, rather than more powerful. Later during the post crisis era Wonder Woman gains "The Eyes of Pallas", which among other things allow her to completely NoSell all the psychic powers of Maxwell Lord and Dr. Psycho, to do a better job than the rest of the league against an Amazo that had the powers of both Martian Manhunter ''and'' Maxima, but then Mawxell Lord hooks himself up to a machine that lets him memory wipe the entire planet, even overcoming Eyes of Pallas Wonder Woman.

* RedShirtArmy: In volume 3, Gorilla Grodd deceives "Gorilla Knights" empowered and trained to defeat Superman and Wonder Woman into attacking her without provocation. She talks them down and gives them a places to stay until their proceeding excile is over. Some squat in her apartment, others guard Hippolyta on Themyscira. They suffer losses at the hands of the monster Genocide, The Gargareans and The Citizenry but most do survive and return to [[ComicBook/TheFlash Gorilla City]].

** In the Silver Age she loses all of her super powers and has to be retrained in combat by I-Ching, as she was born with those super powers and thus all of previous training and experience has become a lot less valuable, but then she gets her powers back and becomes more effective than before.
** Post Crisis Wonder Woman starts out only slightly stronger than the average adult amazon, struggling to handle Cheetah, helpless against Circe, barely able to survive fights with people like Superman and utterly useless against Doomsday. Not only does she end up standing on equal footing with and often besting Circe, become so strong Hippolyta has to actively sabotage Diana on three different levels to give other amazons a chance against her, but Diana later puts up a better fight against a more powerful Superman than the one Maxwell Lord controlled, as Circe also enhanced Superman with Doomsday's powers when ''she'' controlled him.
** The first appearance of Shaggy Man in DC Rebirth sees him defeat the entire Justice League by himself, [[AdaptiveAbility adapting]] to anything they can throw at him. In his second appearance Wonder Woman {{curbstomp|battle}}s Shaggy Man by herself easily, shocking Batman and Superman, who didn't know she had it in her. This leads Diana to believe she can take Darkseid alone, even though he also took down the entire Justice League by himself in the past. [[CantCatchUp She can't]]. Diana [[HopeSpot does]] give formerly indominable adversaries [[EvilCounterpart Grail]] and [[SiblingRivalry Jason]] beatings before fallling to him, however. At the end of ''Amazons Attacked'' Wonder Woman ''does'' best Darkseid, but not because of any increase in her power, skill, or agression, but because Darkseid has revived himself with stolen power and she is able find a way to send it back to its rightful owners.

* TheWorfEffect: She's a combination of being the WorldsBestWarrior when it comes to Amazon fighting skill and the WorldsStrongestWoman on DC Earth, making her the potent mixture of both strength and fighting skill as a heroine. And whenever she goes up against some of Superman's villains like Bizarro, Doomsday, Mongul, Wraith, or Faora, she tends to take a serious beatdown to emphasize how broken in power some of Superman's RoguesGallery are, even in comparison to her. Wonder Woman also tends to get demoralizing beatings from The New Gods, especially Darkseid and Grail.

* SuperTeam: The Golden Age Wonder Woman of Earth 2 joins the Justice Society Of America, The Silver Age Wonder Woman of Earth One joins the Justice League Of America. In DC Rebirth she ends up leading Justice League Dark, in direct contrast to the New 52 series where she, Superman and Batman only showed up [[TheWorfEffect to prove they were out of their depth with Enchantress]] and demonstrate why a "Justice League Dark" with Zatanna, Deadman and John Constantine was needed in the first place.

* SuperpowerLottery: Not only does Wonder Woman have strength, speed, and impact resistance within a hair of Superman, but she has a huge array of gear and minor abilities. Most people know about the block-anything bracers and the lasso that's unbreakable and made of truth (which is a "downgrade" from its old 'compel the target to do anything' powers, though recent writers have revealed it works by [[MindRape reaching down and grabbing someone's soul]], which is fun), but did you know her tiara can cut anything? That she can [[SpeaksFluentAnimal speak with animals]], and [[HealingFactor heals at an accelerated rate]] due to her connection to Gaia? That she's immune to fire? That thanks to the goddess Athena sharing her visions that she can see through illusions? That's not a complete list.

* SweetTooth: Many takes on her first interactions with America, [[CharacterExaggeration most infamously]] New 52 and DC Superhero Girls, have her discovering, and ''loving'', ice cream. In the Golden And Silver Ages she has such an aversion to killing things that fruit and milk based foods are among her favorites, since nothing ''has'' to die to make them, and many of them happen to be sweet.

* ImmuneToMindControl
** In the Golden Age Diana had psychic powers that were fairly week offensively but increadibly powerful defensively, making MindManipulation pretty useless against her. Silver Age, Post Crisis, New 52 and Rebirth all give her some degree of innate empathy with humans, other animals and sometimes even plants, but have other reasons for her psychic defenses, [[DependingOnTheWriter if she has any at all]].
** Sometimes among her or the Lasso of Truth's powers, DependingOnTheWriter. Post Crisis she interestingly showed greater resistance to forms of mind control that worked well enough on Superman, most infamously Maxwell Lord's, BUT she showed greater vulnerability to Maxima's mind control, which Superman had an easier time resisting. Maxima was possessed by Eclipso at the time, who had be retooled as a more powerful than ever CosmicEntity when the SharedUniverse was established, but it's possible Eclipso only made ''Maxima's'' less restrained, rather than more powerful. During a future attack on the league Donna Troy had an easier time fighting Eclipso while he was possessing Jade than when he used his own body. Later during the post crisis era Wonder Woman gains "The Eyes of Pallas", which among other things allow her to completely NoSell all the psychic powers of Maxwell Lord and Dr. Psycho, and do a better job than the rest of the league against an Amazo that had the powers of both Martian Manhunter ''and'' Maxima, but then Mawxell Lord hooks himself up to a machine that lets him memory wipe the entire planet, even overcoming Eyes of Pallas Wonder Woman.
** In volume 3 Wonder Woman specifically wrapped herself in her own lasso while hunting those with EmotionControl and other PsychicPowers to ensure none of it would work on her.

** Those attempting to use mind control on her are always quite surprised at how entirely ineffective it is. Why this is varies on the continuity. In the Golden Age, Wonder Woman herself had psychic powers, and while they were borderline useless offensively, were very powerful defensively. Post Crisis, her connection to the truth tends to cause her to reject thoughts that are not her own, ontop of a strong will. In Volume 3 she wraps herself in her own lasso while hunting a group with psychic powers.
** New 52 Diana is unaffected by the love charms of Eros, though it's a two way street as she also has little way of stopping his charms either. Even physically blocking his delivery method resulted in it just passing right through her into the intended target. DC Rebirth shows this immunity on Diana's part has been revoked, as she does successfully block one of his arros...[[BlownAcrossTheRoom and gets knocked backwards across a temple in the process]].

* AdaptationalModesty: Zigzagged. Wonder Woman's first costume included culottes which sometimes looked like a skirt. Her look after that included tight shorts. New 52 sees her discard her traditional outfit for one that covers more of her ''top'' with shoulder straps and [[FashionableAsymmetry a single sleeve]] and then discard ''that'' for a suit that covers everything below her chin. As of DC Rebirth, she is drawn in her classic outfit again, but with an action-like skirt.
* AdaptationalBadass: Silver Age Wonder Woman had wind based [[NotQuiteFlight air current gliding]] and VacuumMouth powers her Golden Age counterpart lacked. Post Crisis Wonder Woman initially has fewer powers than either previous version but [[MidSeasonUpgrade eventually]] gets [[IBelieveICanFly true flight]], psychic power resisting and illusion breaking "Eyes Of Pallas", a "spiritual" upgrade to her durability, a more powerful and more intelligent invisible jet, and even an impossibly sharp sword. Post Crisis Wonder Woman also lacks both the back of head and bracelet bounding weaknesses of the Golden Age predecessor and the bracelet removal weakness of her Silver Age incarnation.

** ''Say Yes to the Mess'' sees Wonder Woman asked out by Poison Ivy, for Valentine's Day.

** ''Say Yes to the Mess'' sees Wonder Woman asked out by Poison Ivy, just for Valentine's Day.

* DatingCatWoman: DC Rebirth Wonder Woman goes on a date with Veronica Cale. Granted, she did not know Cale was her enemy yet, was [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter equally willing to date Lex Luthor before turning him down for Cale]] and [[AntiVillain Rebirth Cale]] is [[WhiteAndGreyMorality nowhere near as bad]] as Post Crisis Cale. The date does allow Wonder Woman to discover Cale's role in turning Barbara Minerva into Cheetah and realize she needs to keep a closer watch on Cale.

** As a child on Paradise Island in the Golden Age, Diana had a [[DireBeast rabbit large enough to ride]] named "Long Ears". Young Diana was also reponsible for establishing a population of alien beasts called "Sky Kangas" on Paradise Island, taking one she named "Jumpa" as her personal pet. Long Ears and Jumpa went unused in the following continuities until Rebirth brought them back, with Diana apologizing to Jumpa for [[ContinuityNod neglecting]] her. Rebirth also has young Diana befriend a megalodon named Hookswift. Nubia, by contrast, has an ordinary cat for a pet.

* ArcherArchetype: Because of her extensive training, Diana is proficient with the bow and arrow. To the annoyance of Artemis, Diana can even use The Bow Of Ra, meaning she can potentially become a Shim'Tar and lead the Bana-Mighdall tribe.

* MasterArcher: Not seen a lot, but Diana is skilled with a bow and arrow.

** In the Silver Age Diana was often her own sidekick. Occassionally through time travel, more often through Hippolyta's manipulative film editing. In the Bronze age Diana is Orana's sidekick for one issue after The Olympus Twelve, at the urging of Ares, insist that Orana be made the new Wonder Woman and overule Hippolyta, who had disqualified Orana for [[ColonyDrop nearly causing a potential extinction event during the contest]].