The characters featured in Wonder Woman: Earth One are listed below. For the main Wonder Woman character directory see here.
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Protagonists
Wonder Woman
Diana of Themyscira / Wonder Woman
A princess of Themyscira with a desire to leave for Man's world.
- Action Girl: Well, duh.
- Action Heroine: The most iconic.
- Adaptational Curves: Similar to DC: The New Frontier, Diana is drawn with a "fuller" and stockier figure than we traditionally see, making her more physically imposing than most of her mainstream counterparts.
- Artificial Human: Diana grew up believing this of herself until Hippolyta reveals that she is the daughter of Hercules, instead of a clay figure given life.
- Benevolent Dictator: By the end of Vol. 3, she has decided that Man's World is in need of re-education through "loving submission" and forms a powerful, eternal dynasty with her Amazon sisters. However, Diana is still her fundamentally good self and her empowerment of women over men is largely portrayed as a positive necessity for the future of humanity.
- Child by Rape: Between Hippolyta and Hercules.
- Hazy-Feel Turn: After enduring so much tragedy and finally killing Ares, Volume 3 ends with Diana leading a revolution to dethrone the patriarchy and form a matriarchal hegemony over Man's World, driven by her ideology of "loving submission". 1,000 years later, Diana's dynasty is still in power, with men domesticated under the thrall of women across the globe. Troublingly, male dissidents are taken away for "re-education". The comic itself does not present this turn of events in an explicitly negative light, instead letting the reader form their own conclusions about whether Diana's conquest is justified.
- Laser Guided Tyke Bomb: What Diana was originally intended to be by Hippolyta, against man's world. She changed her mind.
- Most Common Superpower: Diana's a very well-endowed woman and can lift a tank without breaking a sweat.
- Ms. Fanservice: Diana is undoubtedly this, especially since this universe is Hotter and Sexier than her mainstream comics.
- The Power of Love: Like most incarnations, Diana is a firm advocate for love, peace and female empowerment as the solutions to all of the world's problems.
- Really 700 Years Old: She is approximately 3,000 years old.
- Warrior Princess: Princess of the Amazons.
Beth Candy
Elizabeth "Beth" Candy
Diana's friend in man's world, a human.
- Adaptational Dye-Job: She's usually depicted as a redhead, while the New 52 and Rebirth versions gave her black hair (in addition to making her African-American). Here she's a blonde (and also in Post-Crisis/pre-New 52).
- Adaptational Name Change: "Beth" instead of Etta.
- Big Beautiful Woman: In-Universe, she loves herself the way she is, but the Amazons don't (except for Hippolyta, who was quite amused by her character).
- Big Eater: It's implied that she ate most of the food for a "Feed the Hunger" mixer.
- Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: She's modeled after Rebel Wilson.
- Innocent Blue Eyes: To go with her perky attitude and blonde hair.
Steve Trevor
Steve Trevor
An African American pilot during the 21st Century who aids Diana.
- Race Lift: Steve Trevor is African-American rather than Caucasian. This actually ends up affecting his character. When he's questioned during Diana's trial, Steve says that his ancestors being slaves is why he lied to his higher ups in the military.
Supporting Cast
Artemis
Artemis
The leader of the New Sparta tribe of Amazons who reside in the forests of Paradise Island.
- Adaptational Nationality: Similar to Wonder Woman (2009), she's shown as an inhabitant of Paradise Island but comes from a separate tribe called "New Sparta" that resides on a different part of the island.
- Adaptational Sexuality: The first continuity where she and Diana are shown attracted to one another, she makes out with Diana in the third volume.
- Ascended Extra: She's just another Amazon in the crowd in the first book but is a prominent supporting character in the third volume.
- Fiery Redhead: As always. Her first appearance in volume 3 is challenging Diana's right to rule via a duel, when she loses she says it was a Secret Test of Character.
- Race Lift: Mainstream Artemis is usually depicted with a white/fair-skin tone, she is drawn here with brown skin.
Hippolyta
Hippolyta
Queen of the Amazons and mother of Diana.
- Abdicate the Throne: She tried to give up her crown at the end of the first volume, partially out of guilt for keeping a big secret from her daughter, but her subjects explained that she can't.
- Does Not Like Men: To a murderous degree. Thanks to Hercules she and the Amazons think that all men, even the "tame" ones, are cruel monsters who seek only to subjugate women at heart. In fact her whole reason for having Diana was to commit gendercide against them only to abandon it when she grew to love Diana as a daughter. When Steve crash lands on the island she orders his death and sends Medusa after him when Diana takes him back to the outside world, while giving her permission to petrify any other man along the way.
- Didn't Think This Through: She didn't realize how the Amazonian brainwashing would affect Paula, who's immersed in her Nazi indoctrination. This eventually led to her death by Paula's hands, literally.
- Neck Snap: She killed Hercules this way. He deserved it.
- Really 700 Years Old: Far older than Diana, at least.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: As long as men aren't involved she's a pretty reasonable person and a good ruler.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: As a warrior queen. She killed Hercules, for example.
Mala
Mala
Former champion of the Amazons and lover of Diana.
- Adaptational Jerkass: The Mala of the main DCU is a sweetheart who loves competition, and holds no resentment towards those who legitimately defeat her. She also has no problem with men.
- Alpha Bitch: At least, that's what Elizabeth considers her when they meet.
- Female Misogynist: Above other Amazons, especially to the Holliday Girls.
- Meaningful Name: "Mala" is the feminine form of the word "mal," which is Spanish for bad, which could also be as a noun (ella es una mala/she is a bad girl/woman). Quite a fitting name for a Jerkass Amazon.
- Promoted to Love Interest: She and Diana had no romance in the original comics, and she supported Diana's relationship with Steve.
- Psycho Ex-Girlfriend: Mala takes Diana's "defection" to Man's world the hardest.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: She hasn't appeared in Volume 2. She's presumably still bitter at Diana for leaving the island. Though she returned in Volume 3.
Antagonists
Hercules
Hercules
The Predecessor Villain of Themyscira, and the reason for their misandrist attitudes.
- Adaptational Villainy: Pre-N52 Hercules suffered from Deliberate Values Dissonance but he did try to be a hero sometimes. This guy was just a dick.
- All Amazons Want Hercules: Inverted Trope as much as possible. The Amazons hate Hercules and as a result, all men.
- Neck Snap: The method of his death, courtesy of Hippolyta.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Hercules was an absolute monster to Hippolyta and had zero respect for women or their consent.
- Predecessor Villain: He was killed long ago by Hippolyta, but his actions leave a mark on Themysciran society thereafter.
- Related in the Adaptation: He's Diana's father.
Medusa
Medusa
The famous Gorgon of Classical Mythology.
- Taken for Granite: As per usual, eye contact results in someone being turned to stone.
Leon Zeiko/Dr. Psycho
Leon Zeiko/Dr. Psycho
Dr. Leon Zeiko is. was a theater director whose skills in the field of hypnosis and neurolinguistics. He was hired by Maxwell Lord to manipulate Diana.
- Adaptation Name Change: His name is Leon Zeiko, not Edger Cizko.
- Adaptational Attractiveness: As opposed to the short ugly little person Dr. Psycho is normally portrayed as, this version is a regular sized handsome, man.
- Adaptational Wimp: In other verisons Dr. Psycho is a telepath, here he's just a regular guy skilled in neurolinguistics and manipulation. But it proves very effective against Wonder Woman when he tricks her into letting him wrap her lasso around her to implant phrases into her head that impact her speak.
- Alas, Poor Villain: Despite what he did to her, Diana is not happy to see how he's reduced to a pet on Venus.
- Brainwashing for the Greater Good: He was subject to this on Venus.
- Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: He is visually based on Nick Cave of all people (who, although some of his work has been accused of being misogynistic, certainly isn't a Mens' Rights dude).
- Heel–Face Turn: Offscreen, he was eventually released from Venus and reunited with his wife Marva.
- Jerkass Has a Point: A misogynistic bastard he is, he is right when pointing out to Diana the faults in her peoples submissive ideology.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: He thinks women are as easy to train as cats and dogs and considers the Amazons a threat to masculinity. He uses his manipulations to con women and gives advice on how to do so to other men online using the web-name "Dr. Psycho."
- Poor Communication Kills: Not himself but a utilizer of this: Using his manipulations and brainwashing on Diana, he manipulates her to use phrases in her speech to the U.S. to make it seem like her people were declaring war.
Maxwell Lord
Maxwell Lord / Ares
An American business man and entrepreneur who masterminds the U.S. government turning against Diana to wage war on Amazonia.
He is actually the Olympian god of war, father of Queen Hippolyta and grandfather of Diana, who seeks to destroy the Amazons in revenge for being banished by them centuries ago.
- Adaptational Wimp: Normally Ares is a physical god who can go toe to toe with Diana. Here his powers are limited and has to face the amazons using a mech. He is subsequently killed when Diana destroys it.
- Archnemesis Dad: He was this to Hippolyta and later his grandaughter.
- Composite Character: He turns out to have a dual identity, both of whom are established Wonder Woman enemies in mainstream DC canon.
- He-Man Woman Hater: This is implied to be why his daughter turned against him.
Paula von Gunther
Paula von Gunther
A fanatical Nazi Super-Soldier who led an unsuccessful attack on Paradise Island during World War II. Hippolyta has been attempting to reform her ever since.
- The Baroness: A beautiful, ultraviolent villainess and literally a Baroness by birth.
- If I Can't Have You…: Her killing of Hippolyta is partly influenced by Dr. Psycho, but also by her unrequited love for both Hippolyta and Diana.
- More than Mind Control: Even before her meeting with Hippolyta, she was driven by the desire to find a cause to submit to.
- Super-Soldier: She was augmented by Nazi technology and eugenics, and is capable of going in hand-to-hand combat with Amazons.
