Wonder Girl is an DC superhero comic book miniseries that debuted in 2007, Written by J. Torres with colors done by Sanford Greene.
The series follows Cassie Sandsmark after the events of Amazons Attack!, with her trying to help clean up after the Amazons.
Tropes in Wonder Girl (2007)
- Animal Wrongs Group: Wonder Girl and Robin have to deal with an animal rights group who thought that hydras were nice friendly critters.
- Bland-Name Product: Cassie meets Cissie King-Jones (Arrowette) and Anita Fite (Empress) for coffee at Sundollars, DC's version of Starbucks.
- Civvie Spandex: In a deliberate homage to her then-fallen boyfriend, Cassie's One Year Later costume consisted of jeans and a red tank top with her logo on it. Of course, most of her earlier outfits during the Young Justice era were not much different.
- Clark Kenting:
- Cyclops: Cassie fights one that was attacking some campers.
- I Have Your Wife: Lashina tries to force Cassie to cooperate by kidnapping Cassie's mother.
- Lady Legionnaire Wear: Hercules gives Cassie an armored outfit with a skirt of pteruges.
- Lightning Reveal: While Cassie is arguing with Tim in front of a bunch of hydra eggs her anger causes a thunderstorm to build and the lightning flash reveals that the hydras have hatched and are preparing to attack them.
- Not Helping Your Case: When Cassie encounters some National Guard personnel trying to clean up some of the monsters let loose by the Amazons and they start explaining she doesn't have clearance and they don't quite trust her due to her actions during Amazons Attack! she retaliates by smashing their jeep instead of discussing her position with them or otherwise attempting to get clearance or just continuing to fly by on her way since they're not trying to stop her, just give her a warning. She then acts depressed to hear about her ambush on them on the radio as though she expected them to just forget that she attacked them.
- Panthera Awesome: Cassie and Hercules, and then later Cassie and Diana fight some of the giant fire spewing lions, that they call "chimeras", the Amazons rode during Shamazons Attack.
- Proud Warrior Race Guy: Herc. And he expects his sister to follow suit and become a warrior Demi-god like him.
- Punch Catch: Herc catches Cassie's first punch when he had the gal to show up at the cemetery pretending to be Conner, but she quickly jabs his throat with her other arm.
- Screw Destiny: Herc keeps trying to get Cassie to join up with him, saying it's her destiny and that Zeus has a mission for them to save the gods and that she has to since Zeus is her bio dad. Cassie, and Diana, think very little of the idea that others should control Cassie's "destiny".
- Shout-Out: The Cyclops is a grey skinned giant with a horn on it's head and four fingers just like those from The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
- Stay in the Kitchen: This view is espoused by the talk show host ranting about the then recent events of the universally reviled Amazons Attack!. In their own words "Women should be tending to hearth and home—not invading the capital and slaughtering innocents!"
- Talking to the Dead: Cassie visits Conner's grave and speaks to his headstone. Herc has the temerity to interrupt her there glamored to look like Conner and pretend to speak for him, with rightly infuriates her.
- A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: In Amazons Attack!, Queen Hippolyta tricks Cassie and Kara into Supergirl and believing she can end the war if they kidnap the President and bring him to her in order to engage in peace talks. Predictably, their plan goes awry: the Amazons shot the Air Force One down and almost killed the President, and Kara and Cassie's reputations suffered a severe blow. After fending an Amazon squad off, Kara flies to New York to help, although Cassie points out they got into this mess because of acting rashly and unthinkingly.Wonder Girl: But we were only trying to—
Supergirl: Doesn't matter. I have to make up for this somehow, before it's too late. I have to balance the scales.
Wonder Girl: How? By flying off half-cocked again, after what we just did...?
Supergirl: I can't do nothing, Cassie! - Unreliable Canon: While DC's story, as clearly depicted in Wonder Woman (1987), is that Hercules was manipulated into attacking the Amazons by Ares, while this limited series goes with the explanation from mythology that Hera was the one working to drive him to madness.
