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* CapeWings: Ares wears a cape he can turn back-and-forth into a pair of wings.

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* CapeWings: Ares wears a cape he can turn back-and-forth into a pair of vulture-like wings.



* PetTheDog: Ares, of all Gods, gets one. His conversation with Hera about the war with the Amazons is as much warning her what Zeus plans as it is an argument.

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* PetTheDog: Ares, of all Gods, gets one. He visits Hera after Zeus struck her and his question about why she doesn't change her appearance to get rid of the bruise hints at some concern for his mother. His extended conversation with Hera about the war with the Amazons is also about as much warning her what Zeus plans as it is an argument.
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But this... is our story. The Amazons' ἱστορία. And it begins..."''

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But this... is our story. The Amazons' ἱστορία. And it begins..."''



** Tarpeia, the young Amazon, is named after Tarpé Mills, one of comic's first woman artists and the creator of the 1940s Miss Fury comic.

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** Tarpeia, the young Amazon, is named after Tarpé Mills, one of comic's first woman artists and the creator of the 1940s Miss Fury comic.
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->''There is no objective version of history.''
-> ''Neither this one, nor that.''
->''But this... is our story. The Amazons' ἱστορία. And it begins...''

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this... is our story. The Amazons' ἱστορία. And it begins...''"''

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* PowerWalk: How Hera, and the rest of the Goddesses, are introduced in the first scene in issue #1. Hera getting an entire splash page to herself doing this.


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* TeamPowerWalk: How Hera, and the rest of the Goddesses, are introduced in the first scene in issue #1.
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* CapeWings: Ares wears a cape he can turn back-and-forth into a pair of wings.
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* DistaffCounterpart: In issue 1, the seven Olympian goddesses are opposed to the seven Olympian gods in duo: Zeus and Hera (king and queen), Poseidon and Athena (mythological rivals), Hestia and Hephaestus (the two fire-related gods), Artemis and Apollo (SiblingRivalry), Aphrodite and Ares (traditional rivals in the ComicBook/WonderWoman world), Demeter and Dionysus (the two vegetation deities) and Hermes with Hecate.

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* DistaffCounterpart: In issue 1, the seven Olympian goddesses are opposed to the seven Olympian gods in duo: Zeus and Hera (king and queen), Poseidon and Athena (mythological rivals), Hestia and Hephaestus (the two fire-related gods), Artemis and Apollo (SiblingRivalry), Aphrodite and Ares (traditional rivals in the ComicBook/WonderWoman world), Demeter and Dionysus (the two vegetation deities) and Hermes with Hecate.Hecate (as Hecate replaces Hermes in comparison to the Perez version of the Amazons' origins).
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** Hera's personality is modeled after Creator/AudreyHepburn


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** The battle between the Amazons and the forces of Apollo being presented as a chessboard/model battlefield is a nod to the original ''[[Film/ClashOfTheTitans1981 Clash of the Titans]]''.

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* AppealToFlattery: How Hera is able to Dionysius to her side in the war between the Amazons and male Gods. She convinces him that by helping save the actress, Kallikrates, by saying one day she'll give a performance so great it'll move him to tears as a patron of actors.



** Io is traditionally just a regular, if very skilled blacksmith, Amazon. Here she's the Queen of the Hestia Amazon Tribe. She even pre-dates Hippolyta an Amazon!

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** Io is traditionally just a regular, if very skilled blacksmith, Amazon. Here she's the Queen of the Hestia Amazon Tribe. She even pre-dates Hippolyta as an Amazon!



* TheBigGuy: Heracles towers over the Amazons.



* CoolHorse: Hippolyta ends issue one riding one, decked out in various ornaments, in search of the Amazons. Artemis takes it as a tribute from Hippolyta in the second issue in exchange for letting her know where to find the Amazons.

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* CoolHorse: Hippolyta ends issue one riding one, decked out in various ornaments, in search of the Amazons. Artemis takes it as a tribute from Hippolyta in the second issue in exchange for letting her know where to find the Amazons. The horse makes a comeback in issue 3, being sent by Artemis to take Hippolyta to Olympus.



* CosmicChessGame: Apollo's view of the battle between the male gods and Amazons is represented by this.



* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu?: Hippolta does this to the entire Olympian pantheon when taken to an audience before them and has to witness an argument between the male and female Olympians on what do with the Amazons.
-->'''Hippolyta''': "''How dare you!'' All of you. How dare you bicker over our lives and freedom. You treat us as livestock but you're not even good shepherds!"



* FieryRedhead: Artemis, the red-haired goddess, is the most impetuous of the Olympians. She's the first one to engage in fisticuffs with her male counterpart (Apollo) in the opening scene on Olympus.



** Driven home even further when in book 3, the Amazons are sentenced to live on Themyscira where, under the watch of Apollo, they'll be in constant daylight. Save for one night every month where Artemis watches over them.



* PaperTiger: Heracles is the fist one dispatched by Zeus to go lead his armies to wipe out the Amazons. When he arrives, it's shown he physically towers over even the tallest Amazon. Only for him to fairly easily slaughtered when the Amazons all gang-rush him.



* PetTheDog: Ares, of all Gods, gets one. His conversation with Hera about the war with the Amazons is much warning her what Zeus plans as it is an argument.

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* PetTheDog: Ares, of all Gods, gets one. His conversation with Hera about the war with the Amazons is as much warning her what Zeus plans as it is an argument.


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* SssssnakeTalk: Demeter talks to Hera in book #3 in the form of a snake at first, talking in this style. She quickly changes form however when Hera snarks at her for how impossible it makes to carry a conversation.


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* WonderChild: One guess. [[spoiler: She appears at very the end of issue #3]]
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* GildedCage: How Themyscira is re-imagined here. [[spoiler: As part of a DealWithTheDevil arrangement that Hippolyta makes, the Amazons are spared being slaughtered by the armies of the male Gods but are confined to the island. It's always daytime so they're always under the watchful eye of Apollo, save for one day every month where Artemis takes over and allows night.

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* GildedCage: How Themyscira is re-imagined here. [[spoiler: As part of a DealWithTheDevil arrangement that Hippolyta makes, the Amazons are spared being slaughtered by the armies of the male Gods but are confined to the island. It's always daytime so they're always under the watchful eye of Apollo, save for one day every month where Artemis takes over and allows night. ]]
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** The individualized powers of the Amazon tribes, such as the Hestia's tribe being immune to fire and Artemis' tribe having Animal Empathy, are also powers Diana has as Wonder Woman.

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* DealWithTheDevil: To save the Amazons from being slaughtered by the God's armies, Hippolyta pleads before them on Olympus. Zeus agreeing though the catch is they remain confined to one island where, save for one night each month, the island will be under the watch of the spiteful Apollo. This being the origin of Themyscira in this world.
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** Aphrodite is modeled after the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Willendorf Venus of Willendorf]] statue.

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** Aphrodite is modeled after the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Willendorf Venus of Willendorf]] statue.Art/VenusOfWillendorf [[{{sculptures}} statue]].

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