History Headscratchers / WonderWoman

** Ultimately it's probably down to whim of the creator. When she was first created, while she was obviously influenced by her stories weren't as heavily built around or focussed on Greek mythology as they became when Greg Rucka started writing her in the 1980s, so it was most likely because William Moulton Marston simply preferred the name Diana and wasn't as interested in strict adherence to Greek myth or language. However, intentionally or not, it does serve a few purposes:

* If Wonder Woman is an Amazon with deep ties to Greek culture, her native language is Greek and she moves among Greek gods and godesses; then why does she have a Latin name? She's called Diana... the actual Greek equivalent would be Artemis.

** While there is almost certainly some truth to the HollywoodHomely explanation, Helen's plight wasn't so much that she was genuinely ugly, but more that she was ''plain''. In other words, her problem was precisely that she was, as you put it, "no Wonder Woman." She's only described as being ugly because she's being compared to actual prima ballerinas... by men, which explains her hatred of them.

*** The Nemesis in question is Tom Tresser (Diana's love interest during Gail Simone's run). He and Diana became partners working at the Department of metahuman affairs in Allan Heinberg's story "Who is Wonder Woman."

** She has a telepathic link with it, in the same vein as the telepathic communications system the Amazons developed.

* Helen Alexandros the original Silver Swanin her mortal form is described as hideous but her picture is actually rather cute, sure she had freckles and was no Wonder Woman but she was hardly ugly to the point of saying "I hate men".

** While there is almost certainly some truth to the HollywoodHomely explanation, Helen's plight wasn't so much that she was genuinely ugly, but more that she was ''plain''. In other words, her problem was precisely that she was, as you put it, "no Wonder Woman." She's only described as being ugly because she's being compared to actual prima ballerinas.

** While there is almost certainly some truth to the HollywoodHomely explanation, Helen's plight wasn't so much that she was genuinely ugly, but more that she was ''plain''. In other words, her problem was precisely that she was, as you put it, "no Wonder Woman." She's only described as being ugly because she's being compared to actual ballerinas.

** HollywoodHomely

* Does Wonder Woman have an archenemy? Superman has Lex Luthor and Batman has The Joker, so who does Wonder Woman have? Is she like Spiderman, who's got three different archenemies, or what?

*** Furthermore, Maxwell Lord was, and is, a complete monster. While Zatanna got vetoed and banned from mindwiping anyone because, last time she did, she turned Doctor Light into "Rapist [=McRape=], the Rapist Therapist", Maxwell Lord proved during the ComicBook/BrightestDay storyline to be not above killing superpowered children, getting Magog explode in a crowded city just to get a ComicBook/KingdomCome thrown at the JLI and sending his creations to get some petty revenge over Franchise/WonderWoman herself while claiming to be the world's savior. Basically, he was in Diana's eyes a deeply disturbed man handling the most powerful humanoid on Earth. And she doesn't seem pained by killing him, but rather by the realization that Brother Eye, broadcasting her actions without relaying the context, actually turned her mission to spread peace in the Patriarch World into an instant failure.

*** Furthermore, Maxwell Lord was, and is, a complete monster. While Zatanna got vetoed and banned from mindwiping anyone because, last time she did, she turned Doctor Light into "Rapist [=McRape=], the Rapist Therapist", Maxwell Lord proved during the ComicBook/BrightestDay storyline to be not above killing superpowered children, getting Magog explode in a crowded city just to get a ComicBook/KingdomCome thrown at the JLI and sending his creations to get some petty revenge over WonderWoman herself while claiming to be the world's savior. Basically, he was in Diana's eyes a deeply disturbed man handling the most powerful humanoid on Earth. And she doesn't seem pained by killing him, but rather by the realization that Brother Eye, broadcasting her actions without relaying the context, actually turned her mission to spread peace in the Patriarch World into an instant failure.

* Helen Alexandros the original Silver Swanin her mortal form is described as hideous but her picture is actually rather cute, sure she had freckles and was no Wonder Woman but she was hardly ugly to the point of saying "I hate men".

** Apparently, the idea was to make her distinct from the other big two superheroes (Superman and Batman) in that she can and will kill if absolutely necessary (the one time the Post-Crisis Superman consciously killed someone � when he executed the three pocket universe Kryptonian supervillains � it was ''huge deal'' to him and haunted him for a long time afterwards, which doesn't seem to be the case with Wonder Woman). Even if this was a RetCon, it kinda makes sense, as (unlike Superman and Batman), WW was raised in a [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy warrior culture]]. During Gail Simone's run, WW explicitly states that she can kill to save innocent lives, but not for selfish reasons, such as revenge.

** I think she has a telepathic link with it, or something.

* I haven't been keeping up lately, but I know the New52 says that Barbara Minerva was a criminal even before she became the Cheetah. But I can't find anything that says what specific crimes she committed.

* Does Athena exist in the New52? Given how she was Wonder Woman's patron pre-reboot, the fact that her responsibilities and personality are very similar to Wonder Woman's, and how Wonder Woman's now part of the Olympian family, her absence from the story (based on the first two trade paperbacks, this headscratcher may be out of date) is kind of jarring.

** Also, Athena is goddess of the more positive aspects of war, not to mention wisdom, crafts, occasionally justice depending on the myth, and was patron of a city. Ares is god of the bloodthirsty aspects of war, the slaughter and chaos and pain and fear, and (unless you're a Roman and talking about Mars) god of not really much else. Before the New52 made the Amazons into StrawFeminist assholes, Athena was a much more sensible choice for a society based around ideals of peace, justice, equality, etc to worship. (Also, in the Post-Crisis era, she was one of their patrons and creators, so there was a fair bit of gratitude involved as well.)

* Helen Alexandros the original Silver Swanin her mortal form is described as hideous but her picture is actually rather cute, sure she had freckles and was no Wonder Woman but she was hardly ugly to the point of saying "I hate men".

* Isn't Azzarello's origin for the Amazons more accurate to Greek Mythology? SadlyMythtaken, TheThemeParkVersion and {{Disneyfication}} are pet peeves of several, so why is ''Rebirth'' reinforcing those tropes and acting like it's a good thing? Shouldn't Azzarello be praised for writing a TruerTotheText origin for the Amazons?

* Isn't Azzarello's origin for the Amazons more accurate to Greek Mythology? SadlyMythtaken, TheThemeParkVersion and Disneyfication are pet peeves of several, so why is ''Rebirth'' reinforcing those tropes and acting like it's a good thing? Shouldn't Azzarello be praised for writing a TruerTotheText origin for the Amazons?

* Helen Alexandros the original Silver Swanin her mortal form is described as hideous but her picture is actually rather cute, sure she had freckles and was no Wonder Woman but she was hardly ugly to the point of saying "I hate men".

** For the record, current Wonder Woman has no longer secret identity. But for the time she had; finger prints are not that easy to collect, they require a lot of special handling and lab work, and even if you get WW’s finger prints, you would compare them to who exactly? You’ll have to suspect she’s Diana Prince and compare them in the first place, otherwise then you’ll have to use WW’s finger prints and run them into the system and only if Prince has her prints registered for some reason would be a match. Besides, for the time WW has a secret identity I think the technology for running finger prints on a national-level register was no yet available.

*** There are two possible answers to this question (and no real straight, solid one, because the difference between truth and lies is difficult to judge). Either you you would say 4pm because that's the truth to you consciously, or you would say 5pm because if you've merely forgotten it, then you know what the real truth is, if only subconsciously.

* Since Wonder Woman doesn't wear gloves as part of her costume (like SuperMan), wouldn't it be fairly easy to collect fingerprint samples from both her and Diana Prince and deduce they are one in the same?

** Yes, it's Cheetah.