Characters / Wonder Woman: Rogues Gallery (M to Z)

Wonder Woman Main Character Index
Title Character
Princess Diana of Themyscira/Diana Prince
Mythical Figures
Amazons | Gods (Ares)
Supporting Cast
Wonder Girl (Donna Troy | Cassie Sandsmark)
Villains
A-L (Cheetah) | M-Z

The Mask

The Mask

AKA: Nina Close

First Appearance: Wonder Woman (Vol 1) #24 (1947)

Created By: William Moulton Marston & Harry G. Peter

Universes: Earth-Two, Earth-One, New Earth, Prime Earth

"There is no Nina anymore. There is only The Mask."

Nina Close was an abused wife who murdered her husband and now uses his fortune to empower similarly victimized wives and mothers.

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• Deadly Gas: Trapped people in S/M style masks that would release poisonous hydro-cyano gas when removed improperly.
• Domestic Abuse: An abused wife that killed her husband.
• Murderous Mask: The Mask is so known because she locks her victims in masks rigged to fatally poison them if they tamper with them or she remotely activates them.
• Split Personality: 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.
• Sticky Situation: Her Silver Age version used a gun that fired a sticky substance to bind Wonder Woman.
• Wife-Basher Basher: Targets men who abuse their partners.

Maxwell Lord

Maxwell Lord

Founder and former leader of Justice League International who eventually came into conflict with the superhero community after the destruction of Coast City. He eventually became the malevolent leader of the Checkmate spy organization while eventually deciding to mind control Superman for his own ends, before Wonder Woman dealt out his infamous death scene.

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See Justice League of America: Antagonist

Mayfly

Mayfly

AKA: Moon Robinson

First Appearance: Wonder Woman Vol 2 #78 (1993)

Created By: William Messner-Loebs & Lee Moder

Universes: New Earth

"Fast enough to block this bullet before it goes through your thin layer of skin and out the other side?"

Mayfly was contracted by Ares Buchanan to assassinate Wonder Woman and Flash. With her superhuman speed, she was able to put up a good fight with the heroes, but was inevitably defeated. When imprisoned, Mayfly accidentally killed herself while trying to escape. She suffered from a rare form of hemophilia, and was obsessed with death.

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• Cold Sniper: Rebirth Mayfly tries to snipe Wonder Woman while Diana is doing Etta Candy's dishes. It wouldn't have killed Wonder Woman anyway but the bullet doesn't even reach Wonder Woman's skin thanks to Doctor Poison already using a better distraction to snipe Wonder Woman.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Volume 5 shows that social services were not kind to the orphaned Moon Robinson, and that her parents were even worse while they were alive. As such she's initially skeptical when Wonder Woman actually listens to her thinly veiled cries for help but lets the floodgates of grief open once Moon realizes Diana is being sincere.
• Fragile Speedster: Emphasis on the "fragile", as she is in many ways less durable than the average adult woman. And it's all due to her own lack of foresight. Still, she's quite quick.
• Goggles Do Something Unusual: She incorporated some optics into her helmet to aid her aiming.
• Heel–Face Turn: Wonder Woman is able to successfully reform the Rebirth Mayfly, who seeks out redemption from there. The Post Crisis Mayfly lives up to her name and dies two issues after appearing.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: Mayfly was an expert markswoman, able to shoot the Flash as he was running at full speed.
• No Range Like Point-Blank Range: After sniping Wonder Woman doesn't work Rebirth Mayfly tries to shoot her by placing a pistol right against Diana's deltoid. Etta Candy had gotten fed up with Mayfly by this point and tried to shoot her just as she tried this, knocking the pistol out of Mayfly's hand.
• Parental Abandonment: 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.
• Professional Killer: Killing people is her job, but she doesn't get employed through legal channels so she ends up imprisoned for it.
• Psycho for Hire: The money is simply to make living in society easier. If it wasn't possible to get paid doing it Mayfly would still be killing things, preferably other people. DC Rebirth Mayfly does begin to see more value in the stages of life between birth and death though.
• Secret Identity: In DC Rebirth her real name is revealed to be Moon Robinson.
• Skewed Priorities: She is hemophilic, and rather than solve that problem she sought out super powers that exacerbate her genetic disorder. Appropriately, the Post Crisis Mayfly accidentally kills herself! Wonder Woman is able to save the Rebirth incarnation of Mayfly though.
• Super-Speed: Her speed originally came from Velocity 9, but the Gene-bomb granted her real super-speed. She was shown to be at least as fast as the Flash.
• The Spook: Details around her life are sketchy, Post Crisis. All the authorities learn after her incarceration was that she was a drug abusing mercenary with blonde hair who took to some bounty hunting because Ares Buchanan was paying well enough and accepted the targets being brought back dead. DC Rebirth gives us many more details on Mayfly with an equal number of appearances and half as many references and flashbacks.
• Villain Respect: Mayfly legitimately respects Wonder Woman as an adversary and even after being thrown in jail by her does not understand people she considers loser criminals like Inversion The Inside Out Man can threaten her.
• Villains Want Mercy: Rebirth Mayfly ends up fleeing Wonder Woman and Etta Candy fearing for her life. Despite her hypocrisy in being a hit woman Mayfly does respond well to Wonder Woman's mercy and legitimately reform.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Rebirth Mayfly retreats after being disarmed by Etta Candy and elbowed by Wonder Woman, asking if they're trying to kill her. Etta was but Diana was simply defending herself without knowledge that Mayfly was hemophilic.

Medusa

Medusa

First Appearance: Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #52. (1964)

Universes: Earth-One, New Earth, Prime Earth

Medusa is the chief of the Gorgons. She could turn people into stone with her eyes, a punishment from Athena for making love to Poseidon in a temple of the goddess of Wisdom. She was eventually beheaded by the hero Perseus. Through the actions of a jealous Hera, Medusa's two gorgon sisters were set free from their prison on Themyscira, and immediately schemed to resurrect their sister.

To learn more, see her folder here.

The Merciless

The Merciless

First Appearance: Dark Days: The Casting #1 (September, 2017)

Created By: Scott Snyder & Greg Capullo

Universes: Prime Earth, Earth-12

" My whole life, I had been afraid of doing what I knew needed to be done. Afraid to give all of myself to the battle. The helmet showed me that my codes and rules were naive. That all that truly mattered was victory. And now I would finally take it for myself."

The Merciless is the Batman of Earth -12. When he donned Ares' helmet to defeat the God of War, Bruce realized that peace and morality were falsehoods, and that the absolute destruction of his enemies was the only way forward. He eventually joined the Dark Knights, a team of evil Batmen from alternate realities.

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See Dark Nights: Metal

Minister Blizzard

Minister Blizzard

First Appearance: Wonder Woman Vol 1 #29. (1944)

Created By: William Moulton Marston & Harry G. Peter

Universes: Earth-One, Earth-Two, New Earth, Prime Earth, DC Animated Universe, Earth-508

"I have dedicated my life to restoring the Ice Age, O'Neill! Your Winter World insults me! My life's struggle, packaged as a children's trifle!"

An ice-themed villain who debuted in the Golden Age as the Prime Minister of Iceberg Land, he was reimagined Post-Crisis as a radical environmental terrorist with ambitions of creating a new ice age. He wields both a cold-gun, and a climate change machine.

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• Dastardly Whiplash: Characterized by his twirly mustache. When reintroduced in the Post-Flashpoint continuity he has a full beard instead.
• Evil Chancellor: In his first appearances he was an archetypal one.
• An Ice Person: In some continuities which don't want to rely on machinery he seems to have innate ice wielding powers.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Minister Blizzard's actual name hasn't been revealed.
• Pungeon Master: As seems to be the rule for all ice-themed villains at DC.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: His second major Post-Rebirth appearance has him go against the Justice League Queer, which doesn't include Wonder Woman.
• Villain Team-Up: With Mister Freeze, Captain Cold, Killer Frost, and a number of other ice-themed villains.
• Western Terrorists: Post-Crisis.

Mouse Man

Mouse Man

First Appearance: Wonder Woman Vol 1 #141. (1963)

Created By: Robert Kanigher & Ross Andru

Universes: Earth-One

"I've only just begun! SQUEEEEEE! I'll make Wonder Woman feelsmaller than I am — before I'm through with her! SQUEEEEE!"

A criminal who shrunk himself to the size of a mouse, he often battled Wonder Woman during the Silver Age.

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• Animal-Themed Superbeing: His powers shouldn't have anything to do with the animal, but they do anyway
• The Beastmaster: Has he ability to control mice and other vermin as a side effect of his small stature. (Somehow.)
• Bird Caged: Following his first defeat, Mouse Man was placed in a bird cage, as his size would allow him to escape from a normal prison.
• Eek, a Mouse!!: One of his schemes actually relied on this, as he used his mouse motif to scare women into dropping their jewelry. Perhaps not the greatest triumph for feminism to occur in Wonder Woman.
• Incredible Shrinking Man: Shrank himself to the size of a mouse, but was stuck at that size.

Osira

Osira

First Appearance: Wonder Woman Vol 1 #231. (1977)

Created By: Martin Pasko & Bob Brown

Universes: Earth-Two, New Earth

"Not what, mortal female—who! I am Osira and I am a goddess! On your knees, woman! Worship me...Or die!"

An alien with mind control powers, Osira (and her husband Hefnakhti) crash landed in Ancient Egypt, where she used her powers to gain control of the country, before being sealed away by a priest. She was released during WWII, and fought the Golden Age Wonder Woman; she later came into conflict with Diana Prince and Donna Troy in the modern era.

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• Ancient Astronauts: Osira and Hefnakhti are aliens who crash landed in Ancient Egypt and were worshipped as gods before they were sealed away.
• Barrier Warrior: Osira can create pyramid-shaped forcefields to defend herself or trap opponents.
• Brainwashed: Male variant. Osira saw that Steve Trevor looked like her dead husband and hypnotized him into believing that he was Hefnakhti.
• Charm Person: Hypnosis is one of her powers.
• Dark Action Girl: She will personally beat the life out of you for world peace.
• Demoted to Extra: Post-Crisis she is basically a footnote.
• Evil Is Not Pacifist: Averted. While Osira is certainly willing to use violence to achieve her ends, those ends are a peaceful world.
• The Evils of Free Will: Blames violence on free will.
• Expy: Bronze Age Osira is an Egyptian themed villain that resembles Diana, much like Silver Age Egyptian themed villain that resembles Diana, Mikra.
• Foil: Her methodology isn't that different from the Golden Age Wonder Woman, but Osira happened to appear in the Bronze Age and thus faced a distinctly different Wonder Woman. But even if she hadn't, Golden Age Wonder Woman restricted her brainwashing to problematic individuals rather than the entire populace.
• A God Am I: A self-proclaimed goddess.
• Hand Blast: Osira can shoot blasts of energy from her hands.
• Human Aliens: From another galaxy, that exists in Another Dimension, and still managed to crash on a planet where people look just like her.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The first time the Egyptians try to imprison her it just makes Osira more powerful, but they eventually construct a tomb she cannot break out of.
• Psychic Powers: A powerful telepath who was able to use her abilities to keep a nation under her control.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Granted, it was supposed to be a tomb, but Osira managed to survive for thousands of years before she was accidentally released.
• Stripperiffic: She has been seen wearing what is best described as a bikini cape.
• Utopia Justifies the Means: Is willing to use violence and mind control to achieve a peaceful world.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Honestly believes that she was doing the right thing by bringing peace to the world.

Paper-Man

Paper-Man

AKA: Horace Throstle

First Appearance: Wonder Woman #165 (October, 1966)

Created By: Robert Kanigher & Ross Andru

Universes: Earth-One

"You forget, Wonder Woman—Paper can cut!"

Horace Throstle worked as a janitor at a chemical plant making special paper for the military intelligence. Lanky and clumsy, he was a constant target for bullying coworkers. The visiting Diana Prince was the only one who was nice to him, which caused him to become infatuated with her. He fell into one of the vats when he was struck by an act of kindness from her. He was transformed into a flat, sentient paper form. He used his powers to manipulate his form to steal for the object of his affection, Lt. Diana Prince.

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• Because You Were Nice to Me: He is hopelessly infatuated with Diana Prince because she's the only one that treats him with kindness and compassion.
• Freak Lab Accident: Well, 'freak paper factory accident' but Tropes Are Flexible.
• Loves My Alter Ego: Is obsessed with Diana Prince and turns to crime to steal gifts for her.
• Not Quite Flight: When folding himself like a paper plane or kite, he can glide air currents.
• One-Shot Character: Paper-Man only appeared once and apparently died at the end of that issue.
• Paper People: Paper-Man is paper-thin.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: He can manipulate his form into shapes such as a paper airplane, ball of paper, or a blowpipe.

Paula von Gunther

Paula von Gunther

First Appearance: Sensation Comics Vol 1 #4. (1942)

Created By: William Moulton Marston & Harry G. Peter

Universes: Earth-One, Earth-Two, New Earth, Prime Earth, Earth-1, Wonder Woman (1975), The Legend of Wonder Woman, Bombshells, Batman: The Brave and the Bold

"I am the champion of my line, she is the champion of her people...the Amazon blood debt will be settled."

In the Post-Crisis continuity Paula was an enemy of Queen Hippolyta when she went back in time to World War II, Baroness Paula von Gunther was a Nazi spymaster whose plots to undermine America were constantly defeated by the queen and her allies in the JSA. Finally, though, von Gunther was shown the error of her ways and became Hippolyta's closest friend and ally. She retired to Themyscira, where she became an honorary Amazon and created the healing Purple Ray. At one point, she was the host of the evil spirit Dark Angel.

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• Adaptation Dye-Job:
  • The original Golden Age Paula had orange hair; her later iterations, including the pictured Post-Crisis version, were blonde.
  • Blonde in the comics, she was made a brunette in the Lynda Carter TV series (funnily enough, the exact opposite happened to Fausta Grables, the only other comics villain adapted by the series).
• Adaptation Species Change: Post Crisis, Warmaster was Aristotle Buchanan after being possessed by Ares god of war. Rebirth, it's Paula Von Gunther out to kill everyone on Themyscira.
• Anti-Villain: (Pre-Crisis) She only worked for the Nazis because they were holding her daughter Gerta hostage. Once the girl was rescued, Paula defected to Paradise Island with Gerta in tow, and then helped the Allies fight the Nazis with relish once her daughter was safely settled on the island.
• The Baroness: Nazi spymistress.
• Blowing Smoke Rings: (Pre-Crisis) Paula would blow smoke rings, but she gave up smoking after her Heel–Face Turn. When she later pretended to have returned to villainy to infiltrate a villain organization she casually blew smoke rings and twirled her signature cigarette holder while telling the conspirators that her friendship with Wonder Woman was all a ruse to find weaknesses in the hero.
• Crusading Widow: (Pre-Crisis) The Nazis killed her husband Gottfriend before kidnapping her daughter Gerta and holding the young girl hostage to ensure Paula's cooperation. Once Gerta was safe Paula dedicated the rest of her life to helping the Nazis' enemies and developing much more fantastic new inventions with her knowledge of science than she'd ever done for the Nazis.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: (Pre-Crisis) Her daughter, Gerta.
• Evil Genius: (Pre-Crisis) Paula was an evil scientist and created many unimaginable inventions. She was executed by the electric chair and later revived by an electric machine that she invented.
• Gender Flip: Post Crisis, The Warmaster was Ares Buchanan, not Paula Von Gunther.
• Ghostapo: Post-Crisis. Seeking arcane knowledge, she unleashed a spell which freed Dark Angel, who took over Paula's body.
• Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: (Pre-Crisis) Prior to her Heel–Face Turn Paula von Gunther's smoking habit was so constant that her long stemed dragon cigarette holder was her Iconic Item, but after her daughter was returned to her and she swiftly dedicated the rest of her life to wrecking Nazis she gave up the vice.
• Heel–Face Turn:
  • Determined to reform her most brilliant adversary, Wonder Woman braved enemy lines to rescue Gerta, winning Paula's gratitude and friendship. Almost immediately after, Paula returned to the United States and risked her own life to stop a gang of Nazi arsonists, saving countless lives but suffering severe burns in the process. She retired to Paradise Island, where she became an honorary Amazon, and had her health restored. She quickly returned to Washington D.C. to help Wonder Woman and the Allies fight the Nazis and Axis powers.
  • Her Post-Crisis version also renounced her ties to the Nazi party and relocated to Themyscira where she became a prominent scientist, inventing the Purple Healing Ray.
  • 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. She willingly goes to prison.
• How Unscientific!: She eventually builds a shrinking device of her own to observe Atomia's Kingdom directly. Paula is still appalled and disgusted by everything she sees, calling Atomia's kingdom an 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.
• Iconic Item: (Pre-Crisis) In universe Paula von Gunther's dragon cigarette holder. It even gets her caught when spotted during an escape attempt when her disguise had otherwise fooled everyone.
• Ironic Hell: Since Paula Von Gunther tried to murder all the amazons of Themyscira for alleged crimes they committed against Valkyries that predated the Von Gunther line, The Phantom Stranger decided he was going to judge Paula based on all of the sins of the Von Gunther line, stating it was still better than she deserved. Luckily for Paula Wonder Woman stood up to Phantom Stranger to save her, understanding the emotional response but insisting it wasn't a just punishment.
• Knight Templar: Paula Von Gunther hears a story about a company of Valkyries who discovered Themyscira and made a peaceful stop on it only be slaughtered by the amazons living there. As a decendent of valkyries Paula suits up as the "Warmaster" and vows to avenge her ancestors by repaying the amazons of Themyscira in turn. Not only was Gundra, the only Valkyrie alive who saw what happened first hand not among those telling Paula the story, but little does Paula know that Gundra had long since moved on from her grudge with the amazons, if she ever had one in the first place. Gundra quickly makes friends with Wonder Woman when they meet in the Rebirth continuity.
• Legion of Doom: During DC Rebirth Paula as Warmaster recruits four "Anti Wonder Woman" Devastation, Genocide, Armageddon II and Donna Troy to form "The Four Horsewomen". When Donna Troy learns their purpose is to murder all of the amazons on Themyscira she denies them entry to the island but Genocide is able to force her way in anyway.
• Love Makes You Evil: Paula von Gunther refused to work for the Nazis so they made her watch as they murdered her husband and then took her daughter Gerta hostage. In response Paula decided that even if she'd probably never see her daughter again that Gerta was worth more to her than the rest of the world and came to enjoy her sadistic torture and experimentation on people for the Nazis, even if she never did stop hating the Nazis themselves.
• Mechanical Horse: Rebirth Warmaster owns a flying robot horse, which she uses in an attempt to emulate the Valkyries as she avenges them against the amazons of Themyscira.
• The Musketeer: Rebirth Warmaster weilds the a spear once owned by the Valkyrie Gundra and a luger pistol.
• Omnidisciplinary Scientist: (Pre-Crisis) Former villain turned stalwart lifelong ally Paula starts out as seemingly an evil Psychologist who is able to brainwash people into becoming her slaves and acting out her plans. She later develops a chronoscope—that is sometimes treated as an outright Time Machine—, is able to treat Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor's mystical and bizarre injuries and ailments and is suddenly an expert in micro-biology, nuclear energy and anything else Diana may need to consult an expert on.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Rebirth Warmaster is clad from head to toe in red and black armor.
• Related in the Adaptation: In Rebirth, the von Gunthers take their name from their descent from Gundra, above.
• Ret-Gone: Pre-Crisis Paula, including all history and corresponding appearances, was initially erased from existence following the first Crisis event.
• Sour Outside, Sad Inside: (Golden Age/Pre-Crisis) Paula seemed like a cruel and sadistic Nazi spy, until Diana forced her to tell her story with the magic lasso, at which point Paula revealed that she hated the Nazis and was only working for them because they'd murdered her husband right in front of her for her refusal to work for them and then taken her daughter hostage. Her apparent sadism was a result of her feeling she had no other way to help her daughter, but no hope of actually rescuing or seeing her little girl again, so she hardened her heart and felt furious with those who seemed to be living happy or meaningful lives.
• Those Wacky Nazis:
  • Subverted with Pre-Crisis version. The Nazis forced Paula to become a spy and saboteur against the United States using her daughter as hostage. Though hating her new role, Paula could not bear to endanger Gerta, and thus drove herself to become a cold, cruel schemer.
  • Played straight with the Post-Crisis version where she was a ruthless Nazi occultist and a personal assistant to Adolf Hitler during World War II.
• Villainous Lineage: The Rebirth incarnation of Paula believes she is defined by her descent from a) Nazis and b) Amazon-haters. Ironically, Wonder Woman kept this from her because she thought it was too great a burden for a young girl — but when Paula learned the truth, she inevitably concluded that Diana was scared of the von Gunther legacy.
• Voice with an Internet Connection: (Pre-Crisis) Paula acts as a sort of prototype voice with an Internet connection, as the Internet was not yet invented. Diana, Steve and the Holliday Girls would call Paula up on their Mental Radios while in the field to ask for her help and advice as she was an Omnidisciplinary Scientist. Sometimes this resulted in them needing to bring something, or someone, back to her lab. She was also Mission Control for extraterrestrial adventures since the mode of transportation was usually her teleporter.
• We Used to Be Friends: Rebirth Paula Von Gunther was a little girl Wonder Woman rescued from a group of Neo Nazis calling themselves "The Sons Of Liberty". Paula grew up as a friend and admirer of Wonder Woman's until she was visited by spirits explaining that she was a decendant of Gundra the Valkyire, and that the amazons owed a blood debt to her for slaughtering her kind in the past without provocation. Paula seeks out "Anti Wonder Women" to form "Four Horsewomen" who will kill all amazons on Themyscira, and when Donna Troy won't let the other three on the island Paula tries to blackmail Wonder Woman into letting them on Themyscira by threatening to murder all the superheroes associated with her, accusing Diana of being a traitor to tried to hide Paula's heritage while she's at it.

Professor Menace

Professor Menace

First Appearance: Wonder Woman Vol 1 #111. (1960)

Created By: Robert Kanigher, Ross Andru & Mike Esposito

Universes: Earth-One, DC Animated Universe

Professor Menace would create robotic duplicates of Wonder Woman and control them through his brain impulses. He would later join with other rogues from the JLA in creating explosive robots.

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• Robot Master: Able to create exact robotic duplicates of people. Built a robot double of Wonder Woman that could go toe-to-toe with the original.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: In the DC Animated Universe, he appears in Static Shock as an old enemy of Soul Power.

Queen Atomia

Queen Atomia

First Appearance: Wonder Woman Vol 1 #21. (1947)

Created By: William Moulton Marston & Harry G. Peter

Universes: Earth-One, Earth-Two, Dimension Chi

"The miserable earthlings will learn that only total annihilation results from defying me!"

The Mad Scientist "Queen" of the Atomic World, who wants to steal uranium to further her plots and allow her to start taking over and enslaving the world at large.

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• Adaptational Attractiveness: The Rebirth Atomia of Dimension Chi has human pupils and irises.
• Adaptational Heroism: Her Rebirth counterpart in Dimension Chi led an attack on the Themysciran Empire because they invaded her subatomic world first, and relented when Diana showed her mercy.
• Adaptational Modesty: Dimension Chi Atomia wears far more clothing than her past counterparts. She has spaulders in place of shoulder pads, however.
• Adaptational Skimpiness: Her Silver Age iteration swapped out the green dress with a mid-calf red skirt for a midriff revealing tiny green top and a skirt with slits all the way up the sides. She kept her pointy shoulder pads though.
• Adaptational Wimp
  • Atomia is thwarted with much less effort in the Silver Age than the Golden Age...this COULD be Adaptational Intelligence instead, if the Earth One Atomia simply knew when to quit. She promises to "return" but never bothers Wonder Woman again.
  • The Legend of Wonder Woman 1986 portrayed Atomia as being powerful enough to last in prolonged battles with Wonder Woman. DC Rebirth shows Atomia getting quickly trounced by young Diana.
• Anthropomorphic Personification: In her debut story, she was meant to represent the dangers and the benefits of the newly honed nuclear power following the creation of the atom bomb. This was dropped in her later appearances where she's a simple bad guy.
• Bad Boss: She treats her slaves like complete garbage, killing them when they fail to follow her orders or when they mindlessly embellish them. She even casually tells two of them to go immolate themselves and they do it without any hesitation. The fact that she has slaves who'll blindly follow her every whim and it only makes her bored shows what a horrible person she is.
• Depending on the Writer: Under Marston's pen she seemed to be a human scientist who created an Atomic Universe from which she eventually planned to conquer the world. She was inadvertently caught in the act by Wonder Woman before her invasion could truly begin. Later writers instead treated her as a native of an Atomic Galaxy who conquered it and then set her sights on Earth after being accidentally enlarged. These can be reconciled, as the wording is vague enough for Atomia to be so heavily modified and have spent so much time conquering the Atomic world that she no longer identifies with humanity or the planet Earth, but they never have been thanks to retroactive continuity.
• Emperor Scientist: Well Queen Scientist, and every single one of her "subjects" has been unwillingly subjected to her experimentation and forced to become mindlessly loyal to her.
• Evil Redhead: So evil she ends up welded into a mind control device to facilitate her reformation.
• Falsely Reformed Villain: She seemed like she was genuinely trying to reform, and then started a riot and tried to kill a bunch of people, which led to her getting permanently welded into a mind altering device to force her to behave.
• Femme Fatalons: Golden Age Queen Atomia always has sharp fingernails about as long as her fingers themselves. They don't hurt Wonder Woman, but they don't break when Atomia fights her either. The Silver Age keeps them sharp but not nearly as long. Dimension Chi Atomia wears gloves. Her nails could still be sharp but again, can't be too long.
• God Save Us from the Queen!: Of the horrifically evil variety rather than incompetent, as it's implied she created her own country and she rules over it with an iron fist, forcing all of her unwilling subjects through horrific experiments.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: She started out as evil until eventually one of the Venus Girdles was permanently locked onto her body when it was shown she was irredeemably evil. The Legend Of Wonder Woman miniseries revealed she somehow managed to get the device off and went back to being evil. Then in Wonder Woman (Rebirth) she was rewritten as a Well-Intentioned Extremist who only attacked the alternate dimension version of Themyscira because they invaded her world first.
• Imagine Spot: The Silver Age Atomia daydreams about the kind of damage Wonder Woman could cause as a "Nuertron", which includes trashing New York, The Statue of Liberty in particular.
• It's All About Me: She only desires power and to control everything.
  Queen Atomia: I take what I like, Wonder Woman, and I keep it forever!
• Knock Out Gas: Her shrinking gas also knocks the target unconscious, though It Only Works Once on Wonder Woman, who defies the knockout effect every time after she knows it is coming.
• Limited Wardrobe: Subverted. All of Atomia's clothing superficially looks the same, but she changes from green wizard boots to green high heels between issues, for one example.
• Lilliputians: It's never clearly addressed if Atomia is meant to have always been microscopic, but given her extensive laboratory takes up almost her entire "kingdom" and her ability to shrink down normal humans it's likely she and her "subjects" started out as human before she decided to create a minuscule world to hide her work in. The subtext for this is strongest in Marston's original Golden Age stories. The 1986 Legend Of Wonder Woman implies she is not a human, but doesn't completely debunk the suggestion that she may not be native to the Atomic world.
• Mad Scientist: She has a laboratory in which she has two self invented machines which turn people into her permanent Slave Mooks, a Shrink Ray and is trying to steal uranium in order to take over the world.
• The Minion Master: She has a large number of Proton and Neutron slave mooks.
• The Musketeer: The Rebirth Atomia of Dimension Chi primarily fights with firearms, but she also has a spear
• Mobile Menace: In Rebirth's Dimension Chi, Atomia forces manipulate quantum mechanics and their unseen nature to outpace the Themysciran Empire before growing to macroscopic size and attacking unsuspectingly.
• Mook Maker: Queen Atomia has two sets of machines for turning humans into her near robotic slaves. There is one for her "Neutron Slaves" and one for her "Protons" and both work disturbingly quickly to permanently alter people mentally and physically.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Wonder Woman likely would have defeated Queen Atomia again, eventually, seeing as she was a Play-Along Prisoner when re-imprisoned in her kingdom, but Atomia certainly sped up her defeat when she betrayed Leila from The Land Of Mirrors and ensured there would be no Leila to help her in the future since even if Wonder Woman never challenged Atomia again someone else inevitably would have. More Leila, who was a Falsely Reformed Villain like Atomia, was motivated to reform for real after the betrayal.
• Psychic Powers: Powerful enough to mind control an entire universe worth of soldiers stationed on multiple planets, even if those soldiers have been modified to be easier to control. Whether these powers are innate or come from technology in her crown is not clearly established but her psychic powers are weaker than Wonder Woman's either way. Wonder Woman can't control people normally, and certainly not over such vast distances, but she can overpower and override Atomia's commands if she can keep Atomia's Neutron cyborgs in her line of sight.
• Red Shirt Army: In Rebirth, the Dimension Chi Atomia has a new type of soldier known as "Quarks". They consist of what appear to be men and women in armor, and some are riding gigantic gorilla like ogres.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: She is not just a queen but an inventor in the golden and silver ages, whose devices go on to aid her conquest. She personally takes part in the battles of her kingdom in the Golden Age and Rebirth's Dimension Chi as well.
• Secondary Color Nemesis: She's a redhead who dresses in green.
• Shoulders of Doom: Queen Atomia has always worn curved decorative green shoulder pads over her dress, giving her incredibly tall pointed shoulders in silhouette.
• Shrink Ray: It's more of a gas, but works the same way and turns humans microscopic.
• Slave Mooks: Her Proton and Neutron Slaves are outright called her slaves and are transformed into two sets of identical powered mooks.
• The Sociopath: A remorseless, manipulative, power hungry tyrant who demands to be ruler of everything no matter how big or small.
• Take Over the World: She wants more power, and uranium, in order to expand her little self created empire to include the earth rather than only things of a microscopic scale.
• Technicolor Eyes: Queen Atomia has green eyes with brighter green scleras, though in some panels it looks more like she has black eyes with bright green scleras.
• Took a Level in Badass:
  • In her first three or five attacks on the macroscopic world Queen Atomia mostly relied on her technology and the subjects controlled by it. While she was unfazed by the punches and hair pulling of the Holliday Girls, this possible super human toughness may as well have not existed against Wonder Woman, who easily trounced Atomia in spite of Atomia having an army of Slave Mooks AND Wonder Woman's lasso. In the 1986 Legend Of Wonder Woman Queen Atomia instantly recovers from being Punched Across the Room by Wonder Woman, survives a falling ceiling and suddenly has enough super human strength and combat skill to wrestle with her for a prolonged period of time. Even as Wonder Woman starts to gain an advantage Atomia is able to force a stalemate by mixing in her "atomic bolts" until Atomia is distracted by Suzie, who is decided Atomia's plans can't continue.
  • Atomia did have mind control powers, but these only worked on her slave mooks and Wonder Woman could easily take control of any Neutron soldiers visible to her, against Atomia's will. In the 1986 Legend Of Wonder Woman Atomia can now easily read minds of any humans near her who don't have psychic defenses and use their thoughts to rapidly metamorphosize creatures and transmute matter with "atomic bolts" from her eyes and finger tips, so long as she has the right thoughts and physical material to work with. Even without sufficient ingredients or building material these atomic bolts can still bring down aircraft and collapse buildings.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: When Atomia attacks The Land Of Mirrors, her nuclear bolts just so happen to undo Leila's mental blocks and cause her to descend into evil again. Rather than leave well enough alone Atomia proceeds to kick her gift horse in the mouth, but not before Leila helps her demolish The Land Of Mirrors, defeat its armies, appropriate its main power source and imprison its citizens.
• Villainous Cheekbones: Golden Age Atomia has very noticeable cheekbones. The Silver Age counterpart reduces this, as her cheekbones are still more prominent than Wonder Woman's but otherwise less so than some of the amazons Atomia kidnaps. The Dimension Chi Atomia isn't given prominent cheekbones at all, and she's also the least villainous.
• Villain Respect: She takes a liking to little Suzie in The Legend of Wonder Woman when the kid mouths off and calls her a mean old lady even though Atomia could kill her. This quickly vanishes as Atomia's plans fall apart and Suzie proves to be a hindrance.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Dimension Chi Atomia is convinced peace with The Themysciran empire is impossible and that it must be destroyed. Young Diana convinces Atomia to reconsider and the two do come to a cease fire.
• Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Lampshades at one point that she should've killed Leila when she had the chance instead of letting her simply suffer an ironic fate, since Leila helped completely topple her plans.
  Queen Atomia: That's it! I've sworn off irony forever!
• Would Hurt a Child: Was fine with kidnapping children, including young Suzie. Even the heroic Atomia of Dimension Chi is willing to shoot young Diana for standing with the Themysciran Empire.

Queen Clea

Queen Clea

First Appearance: Wonder Woman Vol 1 #8. (1944)

Created By: William Moulton Marston & Harry G. Peter

Universes: Earth-Two, New Earth

"Give [his tongue] back to him, Jinx. I want him to say my name. I want Travis Morgan and his insufferable daughter to say the name of the monarch of Venturia who had conquered Skartaris..."

A foe of the Golden Age Wonder Woman, and the Post-Crisis founder of the original Villainy Incorporated, Clea is the Queen of an Atlantean outpost who stole the Trident of Poseidon as the first step in her plans for conquering all of Atlantis. She has faced the modern Wonder Woman as well, both with a new Villainy Incorporated, and on behalf of Circe.

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• Adaptational Badass: Physically she is much more powerful Post Crisis than she was in the Golden Age, despite being noticeably smaller in the later continuity.
• Apparently Human Merfolk: She's Atlantean and lives underwater, but looks entirely human.
• Big Bad: Of both versions of Villainy Incorporated (though in the Pre-Crisis timeline she was actually The Dragon to Saturnian villain Eviless, though she still desserted Eviless as soon as she could).
• Dark Action Girl: As an Atlantean, Clea has most of the same powers as the likes of Aquaman and Mera, and can consequently get physical with the best of them.
• Demoted to Extra: In the Post-Crisis world, where she faced Wonder Woman only twice, once as the leader of a new Villainy Incorporated, and once as part of Circe's massive supervillain collective.
• Evil Counterpart: To Wonder Woman's friend and former undersea queen Eeras, who disbanded her monarchy and accepted democracy while Clea clang to and tried to expland her power.
• Evil Matriarch: Her daughter Ptra is one of her enemies, and teams with Wonder Woman to bring Clea down.
• The Exile: Exiled from the Atlantean continent following her invasion of Aurania.
• Flying Brick: Circe grants Clea the power to fly, which when coupled with her Atlantean super strength and durability transforms her into one of these.
• God Save Us from the Queen!: The outpost city of Venturia essentially fell apart during Clea's reign, prompting her attack on nearby Aurania. Later exiled from Venturia, she tried to become Queen of Skartaris, nearly destroying that country in the process.
• Large and in Charge: She's much taller than most of her subjects. Double Subversion with Villainy Inc, where Clea and Giganta both serve the much shorter Eviless but then ditch her to do their own thing at the earliest opportunity.
• The Leader: Of two versions of Villainy Incorporated, Post-Crisis. She's a combo Type I and IV.
• Making a Splash: Holding Poseidon's trident enables Clea to manipulate the ocean.
• Minidress of Power: Given the option, Clea will choose a green minidress everytime.
• Prongs of Poseidon: Wielded Poseidon's own trident briefly during a team up between super villains from three different Earths, Pre Crisis.
• Retcon
  • Originally all Atlantean women were giants and all Atlantean men were dwarfs. DC comics bringing Aquaman and Wonder Woman into their shared universe caused Atlanteans to conform to the same size ranges as all the other humans on the planet, Post Crisis, as the role of mythical continent had significantly expanded in Aquaman's Silver Age stories while significantly shrinking in Silver Age Wonder Woman's. Clea remained taller than Wonder Woman, but was no longer gigantic.
  • The disappearance of Eviless from the timeline after the Crisis resulted in Clea, and not her, being the leader of the original Villainy Incorporated.
• Statuesque Stunner: Clea stands six feet five inches, making her taller than the likes of Superman and Batman. In the Golden Age she's even taller, being around seven or eight feet.
• Stripperiffic: Her costume is barely there. She wears what is essentially a bullet bra for a top. She shows up with a new costume when she invades Earth One later in the Bronze Age, and another still when retooled Post Crisis, and they're just as revealing.
• Submarine Pirates: Clea's plan to build a new powerbase after escaping Reformation Island involves getting a submarine, but she's stopped by Wonder Woman before she can get started in this business.
• Super-Speed: Both on land and in the water.
• Super-Strength: Comparable to that of Wonder Woman or Aquaman.
• Take Over the World: Aims to conquer Atlantis and then the surface world.
• Villain Team-Up: 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. She was also the sole Golden Age villain during a Bronze Age Justice Society-Justice League crossover featuring villains from Earths 2, 1 and S.

Queen Mikra

Queen Mikra

First Appearance: Wonder Woman Vol 1 #113. (1960)

Created By: Robert Kanigher & Ross Andru

Universes: Earth-Two, Prime Earth

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

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• And I Must Scream: Mikra was separated from the seemingly indestructible sphinx army that fuel her immortality, mummified alive and sealed in a tomb. As long as the army still existed she would not die but the distance between them kept the army from moving and her body from fully reviving. Wonder Woman's resemblance to Mikra is enough to get the sphinxes moving again though, and they are able to then get close enough to revive Mikra.
• Buried Alive: Her soliders refuse to kill Wonder Woman for Mikra, but Mikra does convince them that simply emtombing Wonder Woman alive to become an undead mummy, as Mikra was, is a perfectly acceptable solution to their "two queens" delimma.
• The Dreaded: Granted, the "Golden Age" Wonder Woman was not written to be as fierce as she once had been when Kanigher decided to take a break from "Earth One" in an attempt to appease "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 a woman capable of lifting stone slabs weighing several tons.
• Identical Stranger: Like the original Diana Prince that Wonder Woman impersonates, Mikra just so happens to be a splitting image of Diana of Paradise Island, an artificially created human with no true blood acestors. Unlike the original Diana Prince, we don't know how Mikra came to be, and Mikra has her own wonderful powers, so there is a chance they do have some common connection, somehwere.
• Living Statue: Commands powerful armies of living statues.
• Keystone Army: Inverted: 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 Nigh-Invulnerability, Mikra must scramble to revive them or will herself be reduced to dust, due to having existed far beyond her life expectancy.
• Mean Boss: Her sphinxes have minds of their own, and while they are completely loyal to Mikra, they are not completely obedient, as she not the nicest of queens. To this end they conclude Wonder Woman is, in her own way, an equally valid queen to follow and conclude Mikra will have to kill Wonder Woman herself if Mikra wants her dead.
• Mummy: She starts out as an undead mummified corpse but is then unwrapped and restored to her fully living, organs intact body when her Living Statue sphinxes venture close enough to her.
• Rock Beats Laser: Her ancient crafted stone soldiers can easily subdue Earth Two amazons, despite their Supernatural Martial Arts. They can also best the most advanced war machines of the 1950s with minimal effort.
• Secondary Color Nemesis: After Mikra's flesh is restored she wears a green, strappless bathing suit and an orange headress. Her hat also contains a lot of gold, however, and she also wears a golden choker and golden bracelets.
• Super Powered Mooks: She commands Living Statue 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, just dumb enough to confuse Diana for Mikra, due to their similar features and show enough appreciation to Diana for waking them up to not directly murder her when they realize their mistake and Mikra wants Diana gone.

The Queen of Fables

The Queen of Fables

The Queen of Fables 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 "Snow White"). 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.

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See Justice League of America: Antagonist

Red Panzer (I-IV)

Red Panzer (I-IV)

AKA: Helmut Streicher (1st); unknown (2nd and 3rd); Justin (4th, last name unknown)

First Appearance: Wonder Woman Vol 1 #228. (1977)

Created By: Martin Pasko & Jose Delbo

Originally a Nazi general, and a foe of the Golden Age Wonder Woman, the Red Panzer's legacy has long survived his death, and the fall of the Third Reich, being adopted by various Neo-Nazis and fanatics. All of them have, at some point, come into conflict with Wonder Woman and Donna.

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• Arm Cannon
• Avenging the Villain: Red Panzer III sought to avenge his father, Red Panzer II.
• Boomerang Bigot: The third Red Panzer had African-American ancestry. He was aware of this, and loathed himself for it.
• Captain Ersatz: 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 Iron Man
  • A Nazi true-believer with a red-color scheme fighting an American-styled patriotic superhero? Why does that sound familiar?
• Four-Star Badass: Red Panzer I was an actual Nazi general, and a capable fighter. The later versions have been Neo-Nazi thugs.
• Freudian Excuse: Red Panzer III watched his father kill his mother over supposed imperfections in her bloodstream. This screwed him up pretty badly to say the least.
• Gratuitous German: The name. It should either be "Rote Panzer", or "Red Armor," not the mishmash that is "Red Panzer."
• Handicapped Badass: Streicher had a cataract in one eye. This didn't stop him from being able to take on two Wonder Women at once. Similarly, Red Panzer III had a missing arm, but could still face off against Diana and Donna.
• Law of Chromatic Superiority: Red Panzer.
• Legacy Character: Four men have worn the Red Panzer's armor: Nazi General Helmut von Streicher (I), an unrevealed father (II) and son (III) and teenage Justin (IV).
• Mad Scientist: Helmut Streicher not only wore the Red Panzer armor, he designed it, along with much of his time travel equipment.
• Made of Indestructium: The metal alloy that forms the armor is one of Streicher's own design. It can take hits from anything.
• No Name Given: Red Panzers II and III.
• Only One Name: Red Panzer IV is known only as Justin.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: I, II, and III are all Nazis, and IV has to pay the idea lipservice.
• Powered Armor: The Red Panzer armor is the one consistent thing about the men who have taken its name. It grants Super-Strength, Nigh-Invulnerability, and the ability to fire concussive blasts.
• The Power of Hate: Red Panzer II's hatred was so strong and ingrained via being distorted by the xenophobic ideologies of Adolf Hitler that he was able to resist the effects of Wonder Woman's lasso to see the truth of his actions and actually cause a fiery feedback. Not even Ares, the God and physical embodiment of War itself, could resist the effects of the lasso. His hatred actually terrified Donna Troy who was using it on him at the time.
• Straw Hypocrite: Red Panzer IV, who doesn't believe in Nazism at all, but wears the Red Panzer armor because Vandal Savage told him to.
• Stupid Jetpack Hitler: Where'd he get Powered Armor in 1940?
• Tank Goodness: Panzer is German for armor; it's also short for Panzerkampfwagen, aka "Armoured War Vehicle", aka the tank.
• Teens Are Monsters: Teenage anarchist Justin was recruited by Vandal Savage to become the fourth Red Panzer.
• Those Wacky Nazis: There is one Red Panzer who is an anarchist and only wears the armor because it is useful. The rest are a bunch of Nazis.
• Time Travel: Helmut Streicher first encountered Diana courtesy of one of his time travel jaunts. This ultimately resulted in a clash between him, Diana, and Hippolyta.
• Villain Team-Up: III and IV are part of Vandal Savage's Tartarus organization.
• Wearing a Flag on Your Head: All the Panzers have had the swastika on their armor somewhere, typically in the middle of the helmet.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Serious elements of this with Red Panzer III towards Red Panzer II.

Savage Fire

Savage Fire

First Appearance: Wonder Woman Vol 5 #58. (2018)

Created By: James Robinson & Jesús Merino

Universes: Prime Earth

A goddess of war from the Dark Multiverse, who embodies war waged for power, profit and blood.

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• The Ageless: Savage Fire will never age.
• Emotion Control: Savage Fire can enhance a feeling of bloodlust in others.
• Enhanced Archaic Weapon: Wields a whip made of fire.
• Playing with Fire: Can project blasts of flame.
• Sizeshifter: Savage Fire can alter her size at will.
• War God: Savage Fire is the goddess of war in the Dark Multiverse.
• Whip of Dominance: She is a sadistic and domineering war goddess who fights with a flaming whip and is Dressed Like a Dominatrix.

Silver Swan (I-IV)

Silver Swan I

AKA: Helen Alexandros

First Appearance: Wonder Woman Vol 1 #288. (1982)

Created By: Roy Thomas & Gene Colan

"How wonderful to shed the doughty feathers of Helen Alexandros...For the peerless plumage of the Silver Swan."

Silver Swan is an enemy of Wonder Woman specializing in sonic attacks and aerial combat. As a Legacy Character, there have been four of these of these so far and each have a Freudian Excuse to fight Wonder Woman, except for the fourth who didn't even get an origin story. Formerly a ridiculed Greek ballerina, an accomplished dancer turned seductive supervillainess, the first Silver Swan, alias Helen Alexandros, fought Wonder Woman on her own as part of Ares’ pawn before joining other villains.

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• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Helen Alexandros made herself Diana and Etta Candy's roommate to get closer to Wonder Woman.
• Charm Person: Helen had a version of this ability that worked on men. Any man who saw her was instantly awestruck by her beauty.
• Deal with the Devil: Helen Alexandros made a deal with Ares to become the first Silver Swan. He made her extremely beautiful, gave her Super-Strength, flight and destructive audio powers, and in exchange Ares would use her as a weapon against Wonder Woman.
• Divine Parentage: According to Ares when he granted her powers, Helena was a descendant on her mother Leda’s side from Helen of Sparta, daughter of Zeus and Leda, aka the same Helen of Troy from which she was named, giving her some degree of divine blood.
• Does Not Like Men: Absolutely despises men for ragging on her about her looks throughout her lifetime and gleefully takes any chance to bring about their destruction, even joining Ares partially because he promised to destroy Man’s World. However she was still enamored when she encountered Dr. Psycho in his Wonder Man persona.
• Fluffy Fashion Feathers: As part of her blessing, Ares granted her functioning feather plumage as part of a prima ballerina costume that grants her flight.
• Freudian Excuse: Helen became Ares's weapon against Wonder Woman out of frustration for having been born with sub-par looks in a world run by men where beauty is valued over everything else; even her own mother had bullied her because of her homely appearance. She had danced her heart out in the ancient Greek Amphitheater and overheard her superb performance dismissed out of hand by the men in charge; they consider her for Odetta in Swan Lake but rule that out because she's "ugly" and "in real life the ugly duckling never gets to play the swan." She screams out that she hates men, and Ares hears her. As part of a deal, Ares allowed Helen to change into the Silver Swan for an hour at a time, but would allow her to stay as the Swan permanently if Helen killed Wonder Woman.
• Hollywood Homely:
  • Helen Alexandros is made out to be practically a hag in the dialogue but except in the initial origin story, in which she's small, nondescript, mousy, has stringy hair and is covered with acne, she's hardly as hideous as the men around her describe.
• Hour of Power
  • She only gets to be "Silver Swan" for an hour, then has to wait another before she can do it again until she kills Wonder Woman, to give her more motivation.
  • Dr. Psycho ends up giving her the same hour long gift as Ares, only instead of Silver Swan, psycho turned Alexandros into Wonder Woman herself. Still, she wouldn't get to stay that way until she captured the real Wonder Woman for him.
• Hypocrite: Bemoans the fact the world only cares about beauty and physical looks, while later falling in love with Dr. Psycho for his looks as Wonder Man and completely overlooking him after turning back into his repulsive diminutive self. Showing despite her hatred of a superficial world, she is superficial herself.
• I Just Want to Be Beautiful: Her whole descent into villainy was formed out of a desire to be beautiful and praised after being driven to intense bitterness over being overlooked and cruelly treated because of her homely appearance.
• I Just Want to Be You: Helen's story was continued thirty years later in DC's Retroactive line via the Wonder Woman - The 80s issue, which had Dr. Psycho using his powers to make Helen into Wonder Woman, albeit temporarily. Psycho stated he would make her Wonder Woman forever if she brought him the real Wonder Woman. The story ended with Helen's transformation being undone and falling to her death.
• Lightning Bruiser: Part of her blessing from Ares grants her the ability to flight at near lightning speeds and increased strength and durability.
• Loves My Alter Ego: Helen fell in love with Dr. Psycho's projection Captain Wonder, and Psycho fell in love with Helen's Silver Swan form. After her powers were removed, Helen searched for Captain Wonder but found Dr. Psycho instead who repulsed her, continuing her search despite the fact Captain Wonder did not exist.
• Make Me Wanna Shout: Each Silver Swan has the ability to create powerful sound waves with her voice. Their "swan songs" are capable of devastating a small area of land with their destructive force.
• Ret-Gone: Helen Alexandros mysteriously got her powers back during the events of Crisis on Infinite Earths, but ceased to exist altogether after the event concluded with a Cosmic Retcon. Valerie Beaudry ended up becoming the first Silver Swan in-universe even though she was the second version of the character.
• Villain Team-Up: Joined with Ares and later Dr. Psycho as Wonder Man against Wonder Woman.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: After Helen failed to kill Wonder Woman, a disappointed Ares revoked her powers after deeming her unworthy

Silver Swan II

AKA: Valerie Beaudry

"This pitiful circus has not concerned itself with the needy children of this city - but with promoting Princess Diana as some sort of feminine ideal no real woman could ever hope to become!"

The second Silver Swan was formerly a disfigured hermit turned beauteous metahuman via a company weapons project. She was manipulated and abused by its CEO to serve as a weapon due to a one-side infatuation.

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• Barrier Warrior: By emitting a low-level hum, Valerie can use her powers to generate a sonic shield around her body that protects her from most forms of conventional attack, including energy attacks.
• Body Horror: Valerie Beaudry's parents were both exposed to harmful levels of radiation following a series of nuclear tests while Valerie was in the womb. As a result, Valerie was born with severe physical deformities.
• Domestic Abuse: Valerie often underwent this while married to Armbruster, even wearing shades in civilian guise to hide her bruises.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Valerie possessed great jealousy of other women, which Armbruster encouraged Valerie's jealousy, intent on using her as a weapon to destroy the Amazon princess.
• Heel–Face Turn: 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 Suicide Squad.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: Her motivating trait that led her into villainy as a result of her loneliness and deformities.
• Love Redeems: Thanks to Diana, and Maxine Sterenbuch, who had formed a true friendship with Valerie as a pen pal during her years of isolation, Valerie saw Armbruster for who he truly was and divorced him.
• Make Me Wanna Shout: Each Silver Swan has the ability to create powerful sound waves with her voice. Valerie’s in particular is dependent on her willpower which at their peak could sheer a Ferris Wheel in half.
• Put on a Bus: After offering her aid against Circe during the "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.
• Stripperiffic: Even moreso than the previous Silver Swan, with a focus on midriff cleavage and legs.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Collectively, the Silver Swans after Helen Alexandros were much more sympathetic, tragic, and ultimately turned out to not be so villainous.
• Tragic Villain: 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 into 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.
• Winged Humanoid: Has luminescent wings that grant her flight and maneuverability in the air.

Silver Swan III

AKA: Vanessa Kapatelis

"I'm not the one who needs help...I wonder...Did your schooling on Themyscira ever teach you about the dodo bird, Diana? They were driven to extinction by their inability to compete with stronger and faster animals. In nature, natural selection weeds out the weak...The creatures unable to change."

A longtime 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.

During Wonder Woman (Rebirth), her origin was rebooted for the post-New 52 continuity. In the new canon, Vanessa was a teenage ballerina who was crippled after being crushed during a fight between Wonder Woman and Major Disaster. Though Diana befriended the youth during her recovery, her other commitments eventually forced her to leave. Feeling betrayed, Vanessa used the experimental nanites in her body to become the supervillain Silver Swan.

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• Adaptation Origin Connection: In her DC Rebirth origin, the procedure used to restore Vanessa's mobility was developed by doctors who'd been studying Cyborg from the Justice League.
• And I Must Scream: At first Post-Crisis Silver Swan is brainwashed into hating Wonder Woman, using some of her genuine misgivings with her friend 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 lure Wonder Woman into a trap.
• Arch-Enemy
  • Post Crisis Vanessa Kapatelis develops legitimate animostiy towards Cassie Sandsmark thanks to Sebastian Ballesteros's influence on her.
  • 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.
• Ax-Crazy
  • Highly volatile and sadistically destructive due to her brainwashing, to the point she openly targets civilians just to make Wonder Woman notice the deaths, Post Crisis.
  • Rebirth Silver Swan specifically 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 seems shortsighted, no one ever said the nanobots were rational.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Often used as a weapon against Wonder Woman and mentally abused into showing nothing but aggression while steadily being mutilated by cybernetics. Both Post Crisis and Rebirth show that Vanessa is become steadily less and less crazy each time, however. Post Crisis she is given further cybernetics to keep her in line, but Rebirth Vanessa does progressively become less dangerous.
• Closer to Earth: Before being turned into Silver Swan, George Perez wrote and illustrated Vanessa as a realistic teenage girl.
• Composite Character: While her Rebirth backstory is essentially a highly truncated version of her pre-Flashpoint origin (Diana's young former friend who becomes a supervillain out of jealousy), it's also established that Vanessa was a budding ballerina prior to her accident, a trait lifted from Helen Alexandros, the original pre-Crisis Silver Swan.
• Double Knockout: After seeing Silver Swan slash Jason's throat Wonder Woman loses her temper and starts destroying 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.
• Earn Your Happy Ending
  • 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.
  • 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. Subverted as Dawn of DC sees the purged nanobots get back into her system so that Silver Swan can attack Wonder Woman once more.
• Green-Eyed Monster
  • Post Crisis, Sebastian Ballesteros mainly controls Vanessa Kapatelis through cybernetics, but he did legitimately convince Kapatelis that other people had wrongfully usurped positions in Wonder Woman's life that should have been hers, Cassie Sandsmark in particular.
  • In DC Rebirth Vanessa is initially visited in the hospital every day by Wonder Woman after being saved from a building Major Disaster brought down on Vanessa 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.
• I Shall Taunt You: Post Crisis Wonder Woman does start getting through to her old friend Vanessa Kapatelis. Unfornately she isn't able to physically save Vanessa, who is implanted with more cybernetics to keep her compliant. Silver Swan then uses Vanessa's genuine desire to stop being a criminal to get Wonder Woman to drop her guard before attacking her, mocking Wonder Woman for continuing to fall for it.
• Karma Houdini: Vanessa was never legally punished for her acts of destruction or for murdering Cassandra Sandsmark’s friends after destroying her school. Granted, she shouldn't have been considered legally responsible for her actions, but that's rarely stopped DC Comics from giving someone "karmic" punishment before.
• More than Mind Control
  • 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, Post Crisis.
  • 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.
• Not the Fall That Kills You…: During Dawn of DC Sergeant Steel is sent to rescuit Silver Swan to A.X.E. and she responds by grabbing Steel, flying him well above lethal heights and dropping him only to catch him at the last second and repeat. Ultimately Silver Swan does join, but only after making sure Sarge knows she'll be doing things how she sees fit.
• Psychic Powers: Post Crisis Kapatelis can dominate the minds of others, especiall non human animals and especially birds. In spite of this Wonder Woman overcomes this and convinces a flock of birds Vanessa had commanded to play keep away with the lasso of truth to return it.
• Psycho Lesbian: Tom King's run uses the Rebirth origin, but with the added wrinkle that Vanessa actually fell in love with Diana during their initial time together. During a battle, Vanessa even tries to convince Diana to run away with her so they can be together.
• Rapid Aging: During Wonder Woman's fight with Decay, Vanessa ends up aging incredibly rapidly, almost dying because of it.
• Robotic Psychopath: Not Kapatelis herself, but in the Rebirth timeline she has a microscopic colony of homicidal robots in her bloodstream, with direct access to her nervous system, altering her thought process as they see fit.
• Sore Loser: When Wonder Woman starts drowning Silver Swan in DC Rebirth the nanobots withdraw 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.
• Tagalong Kid: Vanessa used to be this when she was younger for Wonder Woman. She acts as a deconstruction of the trope when it’s shown how much damage is done to her and her personal life because of her affiliation with Wonder Woman to the point her mother regrets Wonder Woman being around at all. The negative aspects fueled her descent into villainy besides the mind control.
• That Man Is Dead: 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.
• The Scape Goat: Post Crisis, Hippolyta brings up Diana's efforts to save Vanessa as an example of time Diana was wasting in "Man's World", insisting a proper ambassador would have let Vanessa die and focussed on more important things, used her death to gain sympathy for a greater cause even. Hippolyta does not actually believe this, she is just looking for excuses to demote Diana before her job gets Diana killed.
• There Can Only Be One: 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.
• Token Good Teammate: By Dawn of DC Vanessa Kapatelis has moved on with her life, and even after having the nanobots injected into her body again is in far greater control of The Silver Swan persona and doing her best not to kill anyone, unlike the rest of A.X.E. She still attacks Diana, if not as fiercely as before, and can't quite intimate that she wants to be helpful.
• Tragic Villain
  • Post Crisis Kapatelis was kidnapped, abused, brainwashed and converted into a cyborg that was further programmed to kill her friend and rolemodel Wonder Woman.
  • 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 never should have been approved for medical use in the first place.
• Unwitting Pawn: Vanessa was a victim of Circe, Doctor Psycho, and Sebastian Ballesteros, who manipulated her into becoming the third Silver Swan.
• Winged Humanoid: Has metallic wings to fit her cybernetic enhancements.
• Yandere: She developed romantic feelings for Wonder Woman after being saved by her, and was subsequently driven to homicidal madness by what she perceived as an unspoken rejection (when in reality, it was Diana's responsibilities that forced her to stop visiting Vanessa).

Silver Swan IV

AKA: Unknown

A version of the character created before the eventual DC Rebirth, this Silver Swan appeared as part of Circe’s army of rogues against Wonder Woman after the Infinite Crisis event.

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• Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: Yet another Silver Swan converted into a living attack bot, and that's basically all she is since we don't know anything about what she was like beforehand.
• No Name Given: The fourth Silver Swan’s name has never been revealed. It's believed the fourth might have been a reintroduced Helen Alexandros, who had been put in comic book limbo after the first Crisis, but there's no way to know for sure.
• Person of Mass Destruction: Her screams have been described as having the power to level cities at a time.

Sovereign

Sovereign

First Appearance: Wonder Woman (2023) #1.

Created by: Tom King and Daniel Sampere

The mysterious "King of America", the most recent in a long line of them seemingly, who kickstarts an anti-Amazon campaign in the U.S. following a massacre at a bar by a rogue Amazon named Emelie.

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• As the Good Book Says...: Like most kings, The Sovereign justifies his rule as divine right from a god, God in this case. And he quotes The Bible when justifying his more cruel and callous actions. Sovereign of course has to cherry pick his quotes and occasionally add his own thoughts to get around The Bible teaching that kings are a stupid thing people never should have asked God for.
• Bald Mystic: He has no hair on the top of his head and claims authority through God.
• Divine Right of Kings: Sovereign has supreme confidence in his moral justification and guarateed success due to the belief God has chosen him to rule The United States.
• The Fundamentalist: He wants everyone in The United States to adhere to his particular interpretation of the Christian Bible, including things that aren't actually in the Bible but Sovereign thinks should be. The amazons, being reborn in bodies granted to them by Hellenistic deities, are among those he does not want in his country at all.
• The Heavy: The Sovereign is taking advantage of the tragedies orchestrated by a villain with international ambitions to push his smaller scale national ambitions. The more ambitious villain is hidden not just from the general public but from the reader entirely, so Sovereign gets more time on panel. He ends up taking more time to defeat even after the wider scope villain is revealed.
• Hiding Behind Religion: The Sovereign rejects those parts of Chritianity about God himself being the only true king, or God's people being told to abandon violence after Jesus surrendered himself to the Romans, loving your neighbor as yourself, telling the truth, confessibg your sins and treating others how you would wish to be treated. Still, he's a very devout man ensuring the triumph of proper moral values you see.
• Make an Example of Them: When Queen Nubia opens the borders of Themyscira The Sovereign responds by trying to deport all amazons from the United States of America, including those that aren't even from Themyscira, by any means necessary. The one exception is Themyscira's ambassador Diana, whom Sovereign wants to see broken down and reshaped into his ideal woman, everything the amazons are not.
• Nemesis Weapon: He has a ''lasso of lies" that is a counterpart to the Lasso of Truth. Able to convince who ever gets bound by it to believe whatever he lie he tells them. Even able to get them to commit suicide.
• Non-Action Guy: Sovereign's only special attribute seems to be his long lifespan, and while his health is mostly maintained his youth is not. As such he probably could not take Steve Trevor or Etta Candy one on one, much less Wonder Woman.
• Real Men Love Jesus: The Sovereign's internal thoughts reveal that his faith, however flawed or misinformed, is genuine. His spoken words also make it clear he's not shy at making his beliefs known and though he's not a morally good man Sovereign is an undeniably successful one.
• Royal "We": He always speaks in plural.
• Shadow Dictator: The true ruler of the United States, whose line pre-dates the American Revolution going off his narration. It's been stated every U.S. President showed fealty to his family.
• Stay in the Kitchen: The Sovereign does not believe Wonder Woman understands her "true nature" and makes it his goal to properly teach her the need to submit to the husband she doesn't actually have and enjoy domestic servitude to this man that doesn't actually exist.
• Villain Respect
  • The Sovereign is unimpressed by Superman, Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman, Martian Manhunter and Black Canary but he admires Wonder Woman for her particular brand of restrain if you can kill if you must violence. He doesn't think Manhunter with his telepathy and shapeshifting or Batman with his detective skills could ever hope to end his rule but fears Wonder Woman might just from what she may inspire.
  • He had enough sense to approach Grail, the daughter of Darkseid, personally to request help rather than send a lackey in his place.

Sumo the Samurai

Sumo the Samurai

AKA: Sumo

First Appearance: All-New Collectors' Edition #C-54 (January, 1978)

Created By: Gerry Conway & José Luis García-López

"As you command, Emperor—So it shall be done!"

Sumo was uniquely honoured among the relatively few pupils selected to train under the ancient Samurai known as the Enlightened One. His master permitted him to sip the Enlightened One's potion of power, and, before a year had passed, Sumo was transformed into a giant fighter and master swordsman. Sumo the Samurai pledged loyalty to Japan's Emperor Hirohito and battled the American All-Star Squadron during World War II as Hirohito's personal agent.

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• Captain Ethnic: A giant, superpowered samurai named Sumo who wears the Rising Sun Flag on the breastplate of his samurai armour.
• Captain Geographic: Wears the Rising Sun Flag on the breastplate of his samurai armour.
• Captain Patriotic: Sumo was fantically loyal to Emperor Hirohito and Imperial Japan, and wears the Rising Sun Flag on the breastplate of his samurai armour.
• Containment Clothing: After becoming a Walking Wasteland, Sumo wore lead armour to protect others from the radiation he emited.
• Hand Blast: Pre-Crisis, Sumo learned how to use his Walking Wasteland tendencies by focusing the radiation into his hands and firing at foes.
• Honor Before Reason: Sumo will never take unworthy advantages on a enemy because he is bound to the Bushido Code.
• Hypnotic Eyes: Sumo exerted his Mind Control by staring into the eyes of his target.
• Katanas Are Just Better: Sumo possessed two exceptionally sharp and durable katanas that could even slice through metal.
• Master Swordsman: Sumo is an expert swordsman.
• Mind Control: Sumo could control the mind of a single target at short range.
• My Country, Right or Wrong: Sumo worshiped the Emperor Hirohito as a god, as more Japanese people did during World War II. This impeded his ability to think rationally.
• Super-Reflexes: The Potion of Power boosted Sumo's reflexes to the point where he was capable of going toe-toe with Wonder Woman.
• Super-Senses: The Potion of Power allowed Sumo to exert unusual control over his five senses. The text says that compared to Sumo, a normal man would be considered blind and deaf.
• Super Serum: He was the best pupil of a martial arts master named "the Enlighted One" and was selected to drink the "Potion of Power", vastly increasing his strength, speed, resistance, and senses.
• Super-Strength: The Potion of Power boosted Sumo's strength to the point where he was capable of going toe-toe with Wonder Woman.
• Super-Toughness: The Potion of Power boosted Sumo's durability to the point where he was capable of going toe-toe with Wonder Woman.
• Walking Wasteland: Pre-Crisis, Sumo started emiting radiation from his body after being caught in the blast of an atomic bomb. Any living thing that spent prolonged time in his presence would eventually die, and the power eventually killed him.
• Wearing a Flag on Your Head: Sumo wears the Rising Sun Flag on the breastplate of his samurai armour.

Superwoman

Superwoman

Superwoman is an evil doppelganger of Wonder Woman from an alternate universe. She is a member of the Crime Syndicate, a team of super-villains paralleling the Justice League.

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See Justice League of America: Crime Syndicate

Sweetheart

Sweetheart

First Appearance: Wonder Woman #784 (April, 2022)

Created By: Michael W. Conrad & Becky Cloonan & Marcio Takara

Image-Maker, the master of the Mirror-World, sent an army of Wonder Woman mirror duplicates to attack the hero. When she defeated the mirror-world puppeteer, all of Diana's duplicates shattered into a million tiny pieces or so everyone thought. Doctor Psycho found one last mirror duplicate of Wonder Woman in the aftermath of her battle with Image-Maker. He made her his familiar and named her Sweetheart.

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• Evil Twin: She is one of the creations of Image-Maker, the master of the Mirror-World, as a sentient reflection of Wonder Woman.
• Flight: Sweetheart possesses the same ability to fly as Diana.
• Ironic Nickname: Sweetheart was what Doctor Psycho called her, but it wasn't really a name. It was used more to mock her.
• Literally Shattered Lives: As a mirror duplicate, she shattered into tiny pieces when killed.
• Mirror Boss: As a sentient reflection of Wonder Woman, Sweetheart supposedly possesses powers similar to hers, but the amount and extent of these are unknown.
• Quest for Identity: Although she showed some signs of questioning Doctor Psycho and her place with him earlier, Sweetheart finally began to resist when she came face to face with the real Wonder Woman. Despite meeting her though, Sweetheart still served Cizko, even saving him from falling out of a window during the final confrontation. The choice to rebel came when Wonder Woman asked the duplicate what her name was. Despite what Cizko had been calling her, it wasn't really a name. It was used more to mock her. That was when she revealed she had never had a name. Not until Wonder Woman told her she could have one of her own.
• Taking the Bullet: Doctor Psycho attacked Wonder Woman, but Sweetheart jumped in front of the attack before it could harm the hero. Like the rest of the mirror duplicates, she shattered into tiny pieces.

Theana

AKA: The Beast of Hold 17

First Appearance: Wonder Woman (Vol. 3) #43 (June, 2010)

Created By: Gail Simone & Nicola Scott & Fernando Dagnino

“Compassion. We have studied this. It won’t work on me, mudling.”

The daughter of Astarte, leader of the Citizenry. Theana was raised from the age of two to be a remorseless killer, by being forced to kill another child every day in order to receive food rations.

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• Abusive Parents: Her mother is horrifically abusive, and treats her daughter as a weapon and animal rather than a person, or indeed a citizen. When Theana shows signs of thinking about being something more than an Attack Animal Astarte had her executed.
• Animal Motifs: Like all the Citizenry, snakes.
• Blood Knight: Lives to fight, as it's the only time she's ever let out of her hold. She doesn't seem to actually enjoy it though, it's just what she does.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: 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, 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 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 to 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 Combat by Champion. Theana harms no civilians during The Citizenry's otherwise horrific attack and the clout Wonder Woman gains from beating Theana lets Diana start changing the Citizenry for the better.
• Emerald Power: Wonder Woman notes that Citizenry weaponry looks and feels a lot like a Green Lantern attack. That is because unbeknownst to her the Citizenry have encountered and defeated Green Lanterns, incorporating the Oan technology into their armor. This would have given a powerful fighter like Theana quite the advantage over Wonder Woman if Wonder Woman wasn't using Citizenry tools herself during their fight, and if Theana ever figured out how to do anything besides bolster her physical attributes and attack range...which is all Wonder Woman herself figures out during her brief time with it.
• Farmer and the Viper: 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.
• Graceful Loser: 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 instead.
• Heel–Face Door-Slam: When Theana, who has had no chance to learn anything other than committ mass murder 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 than "The Beast Of Hold 17", Theana's mother orders her executed immediately.
• No Social Skills: She wasn't allowed to develop any, and her interactions with those outside her mother are meant to just be her killing them.
• One-Man Army: She is about as strong and fast as Wonder Woman and has been taught that killing is her reason for living.
• The Spartan Way: Starting as a toddler she had to kill or be killed as part of her mother's horrific interpretation of training.
• Training from Hell: Her "training" begins with being forced to kill another child every day to receive food and escalates into forced fights with all sorts of dangerous beasts and renowned warriors.
• 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.
• Tyke Bomb: Her mother conditioned her to kill from the time she was two.

THEM!

THEM!

AKA: Top Hat, Moose Momma, Pinto

First Appearance: Wonder Woman #185 (December, 1969)

Created By: Mike Sekowsky

A trio of depraved lesbians led by Top Hat, the bizarre group known as THEM fought against Wonder Woman during her non-powered mod days. With Moose Mama and Pinto by Top Hat's side, THEM began a campaign of harassment against Diana for harboring a young woman they used as a slave. They only made one memorable appearance before disappearing completely after being arrested.

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• Brawn Hilda: If Moose Mama isn't a Creepy Crossdresser, then she is this.
• The Brute: Moose Mama would almost be beneath notice for Diana under most circumstances, but since Diana happened to be completely deprived of any superhuman abilities at the time she was forced to take Moose Mama's greater mass into account.
• The Bus Came Back: They make a return appearance, after many decades, in the story "Whatever Happened to Cathy Perkins?" from Wonder Woman: Black and Gold.
• Cowboy: Pinto is dressed as one.
• Creepy Crossdresser: Unfortunately their crossdressing is played as part of what makes them villainous.
• The Dragon: Pinto seems to have a little more respect from Moose Mama and a little more ambition than Top Hat.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: Moose Mama is very mannish in appearance and stature, and is implied to be a Drag Queen.
• Fairy Tale Motifs: Cathy, the young girl they mistreated, is seen as Cinderella while THEM are seen as the evil stepmother and stepsisters and Diana as the Fairy Godmother.
• Molotov Cocktail: They used their usual tactics against Diana and Cathy. They chanted under their windows all night long, had street contacts harass them, shredded many of the clothes in the boutique while Diana was away, and eventually threw Molotov cocktails into the shop.
• Parasol of Pain: Top Hat wields one.
• Psycho Lesbian: All three of them are implied to be this, especially Top Hat.
• Slave Collar: They make Cathy wear a dog collar around her neck and regularly used to beat her.
• Sword Cane: Top Hat has a trick umbrella with a blade in the end, and a knife hidden in the handle.
• Terrible Trio: Wonder Woman dealt with them during her days as a non-powered boutique owner in the 1960s. They started harassing Diana when she began sheltering a young woman they had been keeping as a slave. THEM were stopped by the combining efforts of Tony Petrucci, a young man living in the same neighborhood, and Diana who had taken on Top Hat by herself after the other two and their brutish henchmen were taken care of. They were about as bizarre as Wonder Woman's villains could get, but only made one appearance.

Trinity

Trinity

First Appearance: The New Titans Annual #6 (1990)

Created By: Marv Wolfman

Universes: New Earth

"For your godly powers, the face of Time would be useless! Perhaps you need to gaze upon the vizage of War! War has lived with the dying, tasted their blood, and now cries for more to join them."

Trinity is the woman with three faces, Time, War, and Chaos. Each face has its own power: Time can slow the timesteam, War can fire powerful and deadly bolts of energy, and Chaos can project illusions. Originally a member of the Society of Sin, and later Villainy, Inc., it was eventually revealed that Trinity is a living computer virus created by the Atlanteans a millennium ago inhabiting an android.

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• Contagious A.I.: Trinity is a living computer virus and was able to download herself into the master computer controlling all of Skartaris.
• Eye Beams: Her War face can project energy blasts.
• I Am Your Opponent: During The Witch And The Warrior Trinity prevents Donna Troy from saving Wonder Woman and Superman by shooting her in the back. It's not fatal, as Trinity had hoped, but she settles for just being in Donna's way.
• Living Program: Is a living computer virus created by the Atlanteans a millennium ago.
• Master of Illusion: Her Chaos face can project illusions.
• Robotic Psychopath: A living computer virus inhabiting a combat android body who wants to rewind time and reset a dimension.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Originally appeared fighting the Teen Titans. In the end she ends up more associated with Donna Troy than Diana, which is a nice compromise.
• Secondary Color Nemesis: Her cloak is purple and her mask has green accents as well.
• Time Master: Her time face can slow the timestream.

Veronica Cale

Veronica Cale

First Appearance: Wonder Woman Vol 2 #196. (2003)

Created By: Greg Rucka · Drew Johnson

Universes: Earth-Two, New Earth, Prime Earth, DCAMU, DC Universe Online, 2011 Pilot,

" I am the American success story, Kimberly, I am rags-to-riches, I am everything the Wonder Woman pretends to be. And the difference is that I earned all of it. Through my blood, sweat and tears, I earned it. I made myself who I am. If there is a Wonder Woman in this world, and I stress if... it's me."

A billionaire pharma magnate that just happens to also be an Omnidisciplinary Scientist, Veronica Cale worked her way up from poor beginnings to become one of the richest women in the world. On account of this, she loathes Wonder Woman, whom she sees as a far inferior icon of female empowerment when compared to herself. She later become the deputy leader of Oolong Island, a commune of Mad Scientists in the Yellow Sea off the coast of China.

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• Adaptation Name Change: Veronica was placed in an Earth-Two throwback story as Veronica Callow.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: 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. Cale was funding mercenary activitiy in the Mediterranean region even before this, but Cale legitimately thought she was doing the right thing.
• Ambition Is Evil: Cale's ambitions and desire to be the ultimate female role model are at the core of her villainy.
• Arch-Enemy: DC Rebirth Veronica Cale still dislikes Wonder Woman enough to pay a bunch of super villains to bug her, for giggles, but shows her a some appreciation for both reuniting Veronica with her daughter Isadore, however briefly, and for saving Veronica's life several times. Her Rebirth Arch Nemesis is Barbara Minverva, who she first cons into becoming Cheetah, twice, to meet her own ends and then continues to torment, first as a scapegoat for all of Veronica's problems and then in revenge for Cheetah trying to kill Veronica. Wonder Woman finds herself struggling to stop Veronica from poking at Barbara and having to choke Barbara out to stop her from tearing Veronica's throat out in retaliaition.
• Big Bad Wannabe: Veronica has aspirations towards being the 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.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Cale is a CSA to Priscilla Rich the original Cheetah. Both are rich and famous women who are Driven by Envy of Diana's fame to become her enemy and both do so without any super powers. However, while Priscilla was shown to be a severely mentally ill woman whose actions were brought about by how society pitted women against each other, Cale was simply a petty, cynical Jerkass who simply hated Wonder Woman for daring to be more accepted than her.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: Heads up a major company and uses her money to flagrantly violate the law while being highly philanthropic to hide her misdeeds.
• Cycle of Revenge: In DC Rebirth Veronica Cale is locked in such a cycle with Baraba Minerva, starting with Veronica manipulating Barbara, Barbara getting fed up and lashing out, Veronica continuing to antagonize Barbara for trying to kill her and Barbara trying to kill Veronica some more because of it. Cale's continued antagonism of Wonder Woman after finally getting to see her daughter is largely to stop Wonder Woman from trying to break this cycle with Minerva.
• Demoted to Dragon: By Chang Tzu on Oolong Island. Veronica's totally unable to stand up to him and winds up as his henchwoman for most of the arc.
• Disappeared Dad: Her father vanished after getting her mother pregnant. He appeared again when she tracked him down and blackmailed him into giving her money.
• Distaff Counterpart: To Lex Luthor, by her own design, Post Crisis. Rebirth Cale directly competes with Bruce Wayne and Lex Luthor when they both become interested in dating Wonder Woman.
• The Dragon: Rebirth Cale is forced to attack Diana by Phobos and Deimos, who want to gain access to Themiscyra, and by extension Ares.
• Driven by Envy: Much as Luthor wants to be Superman, so too does Cale want to be Wonder Woman, claiming that if a Wonder Woman exists, it has to be her, and not Diana.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Her Rebirth version is a loving mother, and the plot would never have happened if Phobos and Deimos hadn't got at her daughter to get to Veronica.
• Even Evil Has Standards: She's committed murder purely to discredit Wonder Woman. Even she's disgusted by the actions of the Four Horsemen of Apokolips, and the carnage that their actions indirectly caused. She's also very specific about Medusa staying away from the President when she attacks Wonder Woman at the White House because she 'loves her country', and she finds Dr. Psycho revolting.
• Evil Genius: She certainly fancies herself one. In reality while Cale is very smart, she's not really cut out for supervillainy. Legitimate business really is what she's good at, even if she wants to be a criminal mastermind more.
• Expy: She's effectively Wonder Woman's version of Lex Luthor, with similar resources and motivations—though a far poorer success rate. Her envy of Diana's fame and popularity also makes her similar to Priscilla Rich, the Golden Age version of the Cheetah.
• Female Misogynist: Despite claiming to be and even thinking herself a feminist, Veronica has a fairly dim view of most other women, seeing them as inferiors and naive or stupid, especially those who look up to Diana.
• 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 Julianna Sazia simply doesn't care. Sazia's successfully gotten superheroes out of her life, gotten over the setbacks they caused while they were around and moved on, but the far richer and more comfortable Cale just can't let things go.
• Freudian Excuse: Grew up as poor white trash, with a stripper mom and a deadbeat father. She clawed her way to success, while building a massive Inferiority Superiority Complex along the way.
• Girlboss Feminist: Cale presents herself as a philanthropic, feminist hero who rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most powerful people in the world. In truth, Cale is a petty, envious woman who resents Wonder Woman for being born into her powers and will stoop to any low in order to publicly destroy the Amazon princess. This includes using the services of Dr. Psycho, a known rapist and misogynist, and manipulating or blackmailing her own employees, male and female, into going along with her schemes. Post Crisis, Veronica Cale didn't even have empathy for Vanessa Kapatelis as a kidnapped, abused and unwilling killer cyborg, just seeing Silver Swan as a valuable Human Weapon to do with as Veronica pleased.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Her motivation for loathing Wonder Woman is essentially this—Wonder Woman is an immortal superpowerful princess who can talk to animals while Veronica had to work her way up from being white trash.
• Hypocrite: Rails about female empowerment... and employs Dr. Psycho, a convicted rapist. Bashes Wonder Woman for promoting "perverse sexuality"... and sleeps with a senator in order to get her way.
• Icy Blue Eyes: Cold and chilling.
• It's All About Me: Veronica is willing to try killing one of the world's greatest superheroes, endangering thousands in the process, just to make sure that the media talk about her when they think of powerful women.
• Mad Scientist: Heads up a conglomerate of them.
• Manipulative Bastard: Very good at manipulating employees and the press. When it comes to criminals and supervillains, her record gets a lot weaker.
• Ms. Fanservice: Rocks extremely stylish business wear and an immaculate manicure, is pictured on one cover leading a guy on a leash and has the attitude to match. She also seems to get tied up by other villains enough to make William Moulton Marsden proud.
• My God, What Have I Done?: She came to really regret her part in the construction of the Four Horsemen of Apokolips, enough to attempt a Suicide by Cop.
• My Greatest Failure: 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 Diana is saying a lot.
• Non-Action Big Bad: Cale's not a fighter, which is why she employs others to do it for her. Given what the rest of Wonder Woman's rogues are like, this is often a problem for her.
• Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Notably averted. She's a brilliant scientist and businesswoman, but she lacks the ingenuity and natural ability to create complex devices like Mad Scientist types such as Lex Luthor and has to rely on buying or manipulating others to do the work for her.
• President Evil: Of Oolong Island, post-52.
• Propaganda Machine: Tried to turn the media against Wonder Woman on several occasions.
• Rabble Rouser: Cale's plan revolved around turning the public against Wonder Woman and the Amazons, starting by creatively selecting portions of the book Diana had just published and framing sentences and partial sentences about abortion, faith and gay marriage as attacks on American values. She manages to create a mob lead by her puppet whom she then has assassinated outside the Themyscirian Embassy to make a martyr of him and multiple clubs whose members have tied their altruistic efforts to inspiration from Wondy are forcibly disbanded by outsiders.
• Rags to Riches: A villainous version.
• The Resenter: Believes herself to be a far better female role model than Wonder Woman is, and deeply resents Diana for being the one that women the world over idolize.
• Self-Made Man: Cale got where she was under her own efforts, a fact that she'll never let anybody forget.
• Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: Rebirth Veronica Cale still dislikes Wonder Woman as soon as Veronica learns about her, but she doesn't hate Diana with the passion of her post crisis counterpart, merely viewing Wonder Woman's message of peace and love to naive and ineffective. If not for Phobos and Deimos Veronica and Diana would have likely never come across one another.
• Single Mom Stripper: Has this for a backstory.
• Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: Post Crisis, Veronica Cale bought Vanessa Kapatelis from Sebastion Ballesteros!
• Sophisticated as Hell: Her speech is still peppered with "ain'ts" and other mannerisms that betray her poorer origins.
• Southern-Fried Genius: Veronica hails from Texas and still has the accent to prove it.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Her Rebirth counterpart is this to Paula von Gunther. Both become antagonists because of their daughters being used against them (Paula's daughter was held hostage by Nazis so she could make weapons for them, while the soul of Cale's daughter was taken by Phobos and Deimos, the sons of Ares so she could find Themyscira for them).
• Too Clever by Half: Veronica is certainly extremely smart but she fancies herself a Lex Luthor level criminal genius and simply isn't suited to the role, failing to understand the kind of people she deals with in other villains and not seeing that they are much better at manipulation and shady dealings than they are and thinks she can effortlessly control them for her own ends when it's really them doing that with her.
• Took a Level in Badass: Her Rebirth incarnation is far more competent and dangerous, though with a more sympathetic excuse for her villainy.
• Tragic Keepsake: That rope of green pearls was her mother's costume jewelry; she's been wearing them since she was fourteen and her mother died when she was sixteen.
• Unwitting Pawn: Despite her undoubted brains, Veronica's alliances with the likes of Dr. Psycho, Ares, and Circe tend to see her forced into this role, fulfilling their agendas instead of her own.
• The Vamp: Sleeps with a senator to manipulate him into going along with her agenda. She also has sex with a couple of scientists (Will Magnus and Baron Bug) to manipulate them into sharing their scientific designs for her own purposes.
• Villain Team-Up: Has aligned herself with the likes of Doctor Psycho and Circe, even briefly acting as the legal guardian for Circe's daughter, Lyta. These team ups never end well.
• Villainous Crush: On Will Magnus of the Metal Men.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: Cale thinks she's Wonder Woman's Lex Luthor and accordingly, tries to act the part. Unfortunately, this consistently gets her into trouble when dealing with the actual supervillains in Wonder Woman's rogues gallery.
• You Go, Girl!: Clearly thinks she's the heroine of one of these sorts of stories, when she's actually the villain in a comic book.

White Magician/Mister Magik

White Magician/Mister Magik

As White Magician

Final form

AKA: Thomas Asquith Randolph

First Appearance: Wonder Woman Vol 2. (1992)

Created By: William Messner-Loebs

Universes: New Earth

"Do you think I care a whit for this suppurating, steaming carcass...This body of yours? this collection of dung filled sacks? I am beyond all that now!"

A hero whose heroics have been arranged by himself by selling stolen Star Labs and Apocalyptian tech to criminals, and those he intends to frame as villains. While it seems he may have started out as a legitimate hero he lost his way in his quest for power long before Diana came into the picture. He sees Wonder Woman as a threat to his operation, especially given her relationship to truth and unveiling lies.

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• Arms Dealer: The White Magician makes a living selling pilfered experimental weapons and magical upgrades to criminals in Boston.
• Blatant Lies: Frequently, he likes to set himself up as a hero after all. An example was when he claims he set Brian on fire by accident while trying to restrain him after gleefully setting the teen alight and claiming Brian had intentionally styled himself as a super-villain with the code name "Central Processor of Death". Brian was rather a terrified if mislead teen who was completely at the mercy of Randolph through the tech he'd bought which had implanted itself in his body.
• Big "NO!": When the White Magician's misuse of magic backfires on him and his body starts burning from the inside out he screams "NOOO! Burning- " before he loses the ability to speak as he dies.
• Deadly Upgrade: The White Magician upgrades his physical form with dark magic in anticipation of a fight with Artemis, and it ends up burning his body out and leaving only a pile of ashes for his remains.
• Deal with the Devil: In his quest for power he makes a deal with a demon for powerful Black Magic.
• Divide and Conquer: When Wonder Woman and Eclipso show up in Boston, The White Magician sees them as competition and tries to manipulate them into fighting each other so they'll be easier for him to get rid of. This would not be entirely bad, as Eclipso is if anything, worse than White Magician.
• Engineered Heroics: After Wonder Woman returns to Earth, and to Boston, White Magician unretires as a crime fighter to try and compete with her good image. Wonder Woman immediately recognizes that the crime he is stopping is staged and warns that she'll have him arrested his fraud causes anyone trouble.
• Evil Is Not a Toy: Thomas Randolph keeps finding more and more questionably ways to increase his magical power, which eventually warps him into an inhuman monster and kills him.
• Evil Sorcerer: White Magician is a villainous magic user whose Deal with the Devil didn't work out to his advantage.
• Fallen Hero: By the time Diana comes across him the White Magician is a black market arms dealer working for the mob using his girlfriend in the press and engineered heroics to maintain his reputation as a hero, but in the past he really was a superhero before giving in to his desire for power and fame. When he was a hero he went by Mister Magik, before changing it to "The White Sorcerer" and then the "The White Magician"
• Fatal Flaw: Materialism is what drives White Magician to ruin. His magic is a means to money, and in his younger years using magic to help people made him very rich. Whenever his spells don't work perfectly however or he otherwise fails, White Magician wories that his magic, and therefore his means of supporting his lifestyle, might be fading, and seeks out often immoral ways of bolstering or boosting it.
• Feeling Their Age: He looks like a man in his late twenties but claims to be much older and attributes any perceived performance troubles to his age. As he grows older White Magician becomes more and more concerned about his apparently dwindling powers and searches for more ways to power himself up to the point he loses his drive to help people.
• Foil: To Champion, another fake hero who has a grudge against Wonder Woman. The difference being Champion was a hero who simply no longer looks like one due to the society that valued his actions no longer existing, while White Magician has lost interest actually doing things people consider heroic in any context. Champion actually comes to like Wonder Woman, once he meets her, and decides to abandon his plans to hurt her and follow her example instead. White Magician was indifferent to Wonder Woman until she moved into his space, here he feared her as competition. While Champion is direct in his methods, relying on Super-Strength, while White Magician casts spells at a distance. Champion, while certainly capable of deception, nonetheless earned his money by accomplishing exactly what he promised, while despite having actual magic White Magician never the less relies on fraud for his money.
• Greed: While his lust for power is a powerful motivator he also really wants to make money and sees power as a means to that end. This is the reason he sells the items he then uses to frame his "villains" and the reason he ends up on the mob's payroll.
• Greed Makes You Dumb: Both Antonio and Julianna of the Sazia crime family dismiss White Magician, in spite of his magic and ability to deceive the general public into thinking he is a good person, because they recognize his unrelenting greed is going to cause more trouble that it is worth. Unfortunately Antonio didn't anticipate on White Magician being dumb enough to kill Antonio for rejecting White Magician, after White Magician came to him about the need to stablize the crime scene of Boston with the "death" of Ares Buchanan no less.
• Hero Killer: He beat Artemis to death in his One-Winged Angel form, and Diana was in trouble against him and his puppets until Circe (as Donna Milton) showed up to even the odds.
• Holier Than Thou: White Magician is so self righteous All-Loving Hero Wonder Woman finds it to be a turn off. The fact that he isn't genuine just makes her dislike him more.
• Horned Humanoid: In his final form he ends up with demon like horns, reflecting the source of his ill gotten new power with Dark Magic.
• I Have Many Names: He supposedly comes up with a new alias every two decades. In the 1940s it was "Mister Magik", "The White Sorcerer" in 1960s, the 1980s "The White Magician". He doesn't live to the 2000s, but other names he claims to have been known by are He-Who-Laughs, The Sterling Seer and Jeramiah.
• Magic Enhancement: Randolph was already on his way to looking less than human due to his attempts to increase his dark magical power before he took from Cheetah and Cassandra Arnold's life-forces to go full One-Winged Angel.
• Mystical High Collar: The White Magician is a magic user who wears a red-lined white cape with a popped collar that reaches just past the top of his ears.
• One-Winged Angel: Used the life force of two women: his lover, anchor woman Cassandra Arnold and that of The Cheetah, to transform himself into a giant demon, capable of defeating the Amazon.
• Precursor Heroes: Midcursor heroes. Thomas Randolph claims to have served on a forgotten team known as "The Echoes Of Justice" that operated in between The Justice Society and The Justice League.
• Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Revealed to his Ignored Enamored Underling after his demonic transformation that he had Cheetah as his prisoner and planned to use her as a Sex Slave when it suited him.
• Reduced to Dust: After using magic to twist himself into a musclebound demonic thing in order to defeat and kill Artemis the White Magician ends up burnt out and killed by his own dark magic and is reduced to a pile of ashes.
• Self-Disposing Villain: After White Magician kills Artemis Diana takes Artemis's guantlet of Atlas and begins to pummel White Magician with intent to beat him to death the same way he did to Artemis. White Magician's own magic finishes him off before Diana can, however.
• Super-Empowering: Paulie Longo requests White Magician power up Longo's men to give them a fighting chance against Wonder Woman. White Magician also turns his girlfriend Cassie Arnold and The Cheetah into two demonic puppets to help him kill Artemis after draining most of Cassie and Cheetah's Life Energy.
• Tagalong Reporter: Deconstructed with Cassie Arnold, who tags along with White Magician and gets to be the first reporter at incidents he takes care of because he keeps her in the loop. The problem is she's reporting what White Magician tells her to in order to control public opinion on him and most of it is lies to make his murders look like acts of heroism.
• The Corruptible: After his goal to get rid of Wonder Woman and Eclipso fails, a desperate White Magician becomes easily duped into become the pawn of Ares Buchanan.
• The Creon: White Magician has a lot of opinions on how criminal organizations should be run in Boston, but he has no desire to run one himself. Even after killing Atonio, leader of the Sazia crime family, he goes out of his way to install Paulie Longo as the head of a new crime family and as White Magician's new employer in place of Ares Buchanan.
• The Dragon: The White Magician becomes far more dangerous while taking orders from the far more intelligent Ares Buchanan. Paulie Longo is disappointed when White Magician does not perform as well for the Longo crime family, not realizing Buchanan's brains played a bigger role in his success than White Magician's power.
• Time Abyss: He claims to be a descendant of Thomas Jefferson who was around at founding of the USA.
• Villain with Good Publicity: The White Magician is a straight up villain masquerading as a hero with the support of his pets in the press.
• A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: The White Magician, the villain who sabotaged Wondy's attempt to save Natasha in the last arc, has been posing as a hero in place of the missing Wonder Woman but it quickly becomes clear he's murdering people and arranging a media circus to make himself look a hero before the criminals and other unfortunates he's targeting even start their attacks.

Widow Sazia

Widow Sazia

AKA: Julianna Sazia nee Hutöff

First Appearance: Wonder Woman Vol 2 #84. (1994)

Created By: William Messner-Loebs

Universes: New Earth

"Meet "Moot and Geoff". Geoff is a biomechanical construct stolen from S.T.A.R. Labs. He's programmed for ferocity and loyalty. Moot is very unstable. Now, who wants to join?"

The wife of the most powerful mob boss in Boston. After her husband was assassinated by Paulie Longo she declared that she, not Paulie, would be inheriting his position. She then proved to have been the mastermind behind her husband's more clever acts and brutally hunted down those who opposed her. While she did send a trio of incredibly powerful assassins after Wonder Woman she specifically ordered them not to try and kill her to prevent bringing other heroes down on her and instead wanted them to hold her as long as possible, keep her occupied and give Sazia an opporunity to see if she could talk Diana into letting the mob war play out without intervening.

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• A Lighter Shade of Black: All of her money is made illegally, but the only people she actively tries to hurt are other criminals, and when she does have to takedown anyone else she tries to do so nonlethally. As such she's better than pretty much every other antagonist in her story. This is most clear with White Magician, Paulie Longo and The Joker.
• Arch-Enemy: Paulie Longo as head of the family competing with her to control the Boston Mob, and White Magician, who Julianna blames for playing a role in Longo's rise and for attracting the unwanted attention of Wonder Woman.
• The Chessmaster: She plays a long game. She pulls in multiple assassins to help her, even developing ways of traveling between dimensions to recruit new players and carefully manages the organized crime in her city even when those she's manipulating are her opponents.
• Crazy-Prepared: When Julianna decides that her husband's mob position is going to her rather than the men who killed him she starts a gang war and prepares for all sorts of contingencies, though her shining moments were the reveal she'd turned her house into a near impenetrable death trap manned by androids and her planting a bomb in her own car, which she was eventually able to use to kill her rival.
• Crusading Widow: She has the men responsible for her husband's death hunted down relentlessly, though they are also standing in her way of getting her husband's position as they killed him in order to take it themselves.
• Didn't See That Coming: At the time Sazia sent Cheetah, Chesire and Poison Ivy after Diana, Diana had actually lost the title of Wonder Woman to Artemis, who furthermore had been unwittingly draining Diana's strength into herself. While this did make Diana easier to capture, the presence of a new, more rash and violent Wonder Woman threw a wrench in Julianna's plans. And then Cheetah let Diana escape under pretense of gratitude for going out of her way to help Cheetah escape from Drax. Both of these unforseen developments end up being to Julianna's benefit long term, however, as Diana and Artemis both prioritize White Magician over her, and Cheetah still saves Julianna from him. A free Diana even takes The Joker's attention away from Julianna.
• Diabolus ex Machina: Widow Sazia admits she'd be very happy if Wonder Woman could just find a worse problem than The Boston crime scene to spend time fixing. Darkseid starting up a similar operation to Ares Buchanan in Gateway City, to capture Wonder Woman and torment the amazons ends up being exactly that.
• Divide and Conquer: After White Magician pushes members of the mob into targeting Steve Trevor, Etta Candy and the Kapatelis family, it causes Wonder Woman to go on the warpath against The Boston Mob until Vanessa Kapatelis is released from captivity unharmed. Julianna Sazia is more than happy to feed Wonder Woman information on White Magician's activities, in hopes she'll take him down, be appeased, and allow the Sazia crime family to do its business as usual. Unfortunately for Julianna, the magic of the Magician allows him to stay a step ahead of her for some time.
• 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 the people who save the world, in fact being quite eager to get off their radar as soon as possible.
• Join or Die: Julianna personally makes this offer to small groups of the men once under her husband's direction, starting with those who switched loyalties to Paulie right after her husband's murder. Those who react indignantly are swiftly stabbed through the chest.
• Karma Houdini: She orchestrates and wins a brutal mob war and the closest thing she gets to punishment was The Joker taking an interest and forcing her to work with him in chains for a couple of days which she escapes at the first opportunity.
• The Queenpin: A ruthless and clever mob boss who does away with her competition, hires superpowered temps, builds a cross dimensional portal and knows better than to start vendettas against or kill Justice League members which means she actually gets away with everything.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: 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 without Diana catching her, it seems she's just gotten away with everything.

Zara

Zara

First Appearance: Comic Cavalcade Vol 1 #5. (1943)

Created By: William Moulton Marston & Harry G. Peter

Universes: Earth-Two, New Earth, Prime Earth

" Followers of the Flame, you shall see tonight how the avenger consumes its enemies!"

High Priestess of the Cult of the Hidden Flame, Zara harbors a burning hatred for humanity, having been sold into slavery as a child. She clashed with the Golden Age Wonder Woman on a few occasions, and was a founding member of Villainy Incorporated.

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• Adaptational Badass: Golden Age Zara is a stage magician who produces unnatural fire and plays with malleable metal through tricks that make it appear as though she has unnatural powers. Most versions of Zara following this have legit fire powers.
• Combination Attack:
  • Keeps using her crimson flame on Wonder Woman no matter how many times it fails to work. But thanks to Eviless a constricting flaming chain almost kills Wonder Woman and Hippolyte when combined with the lasso of compulsion, as the lasso prevents them from breaking the chain and the chain from slipping the rope.
  • The combination of the crimson flame and blue hypnotic ray finally allows Hypnota to successfully hypnotize Wonder Woman.
• Conspicuous Consumption: Golden Age Zara is a glutton for everything money can buy but food, with no patience for saving or investing. While Eviless is out for conquest and revenge, Zara sets her sights on taking the fanciest possessions of the Amazons she can get her hands on, and then selling them when she gets bored.
• Cult: Leads one
• Evil Redhead: Pre-Crisis. Post-Crisis she's Arabic, and consequently dark haired.
• Fiery Redhead: Pre-Crisis. She is hot-tempered, harbours a burning hatred for all of humanity, and uses flame based weaponry and attacks.
• Foil: To Blue Snowman. While Blue Snowman seeks to build up wealth for its own sake Zara cares more about using and enjoying material goods themselves, quickly burning through any money she does come across and just as quickly discarding possessions as she gets bored of them. When left to her own devices, Blue Snowman tries to prevent as many people from getting hurt as possible in her pursuits of money, while Zara is all about hurting people because she hates the world beyond what joys she can indulge herself in. Blue Snowman prefers to hide herself away from the world in armor while Zara likes to show off her body and try out various new fashions. Blue Snowman does not like direct confrontation while Zara enjoys beating people with chains and cutting heads with swords. Blue Snowman sticks around with Eviless while Zara bails at the earliest chance. And of course unnatural blue snow to unnatural red flame.
• Freudian Excuse: Sold into slavery as a child.
• Humans Are Bastards: Her philosophy
• Limited Wardrobe: Subverted, as when she's allowed to choose her own clothing she turns out to be very experimental.
• Made a Slave: Sold into slavery as a child.
• Misanthrope Supreme: Hates all of humanity after being sold into slavery.
• Multi-Melee Master: She specializes in wielding chains, sometimes chains that constrict to crush the bones of those they ensnare, sometimes coated in the chemical that produces her red flames, as well as swords that are always on fire.
• Personality Powers: When Zara actually has powers, it's hard to think of many that are better represent the evils of rampant consumerism that fire.
• Playing with Fire: Both Pre-Crisis, when it was done with pyrotechnics, and Post-Crisis when she seems to have been a genuine pyrokinetic.
• The Resenter: Zara hates everyone on some level, but hates people in positions of authority and power most of all, regardless of what they do with it. The fact that she herself leads a cult, and a Scam Religion cult at that, has slipped her by.
• Revenge Against Men: Subverted, she hates women just as much. Zara mostly targets men simply because there are more men in positions of power and authority to knock down, and there are more men with money to steal from.
• Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: Zara is a firm believer in it. That's why she herself deals in slavery, because she hates life that much.
• Villain Team-Up: A founding member of Villainy Incorporated in both the Pre-and-Post-Crisis worlds.

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