

She spent the next several months touring the world, conducting interviews and learning a lot about modern culture. Diana, together with Batman, Superman, Flash, and Aquaman, supported the teens and encouraged them to team up and work together with the Justice League.Īfter returning to Boston, Wonder Woman agreed to hire Myndi Mayer to be her publicist, with the aim of getting her image out to the world at large. Her apprentice and pupil Donna Troy, then Wonder Girl, was a founding member of the Teen Titans. Wonder Woman became a popular heroine and joined the Justice League of America. After defeating the God of War, Diana returned home for healing at the hands of Poseidon himself. Upon discovering Ares' plan (one that involved causing a nuclear holocaust), Diana managed to foil it, first battling his sons Phobos and Deimos before finally convincing him the error of his ways using her Lasso. She was attacked at their home by Decay, one of Ares' minions, and after a battle that spilled out into the streets of Boston she first came to the public's eye and was given the name Wonder Woman.

Diana stayed with Julia and Vanessa and over the course of a month or two, she learned to speak English. Julia Kapatelis, and her daughter, Vanessa Kapatelis, as well as the Air Force Officers Steve Trevor and Etta Candy. She ventured into the world by starting at Boston. Diana's mission was one of peace, but part of it initially involved defeating a mad plot by Ares to destroy the world.

She was also given the Sandals of Hermes, which allowed her to instantly traverse great distances in seconds. She often dealt with war, injustice, inequality, death, and conflicts involving the Olympian Gods.īefore embarking on her mission, Diana was given the Lasso of Truth, forged by Hephaestus himself. Nonetheless, Diana was trained as a warrior and had no compunction against using deadly force when called for. She had to learn English when she arrived in America, rather than knowing the language intuitively. Diana spoke only Themyscirian, a combination of classical Greek and Turkish. Indeed, her character was in many ways that of a babe in the woods, innocent and without guile. ĭiana did not keep her identity a secret, and she was not at first a "super-heroine". She was given a uniform fashioned from the standard of someone who had visited the island a few decades earlier. Diana disobeyed and did so anyway in disguise, easily winning the contest and being named the Amazons' champion. Queen Hippolyta ordered a contest to be held, but forbade Diana from participating.

When she was a young woman, the gods decreed that the Amazons must send an emissary into Man's World, Diana who was bored of her surroundings and seeked adventure jumped at the opportunity to leave while following the mission to bring peace upon the world. Diana grew up surrounded by a legion of sisters and mothers. Each of the six also granted Diana a gift: Demeter, great strength Athena, wisdom and courage Artemis, a hunter's heart and a communion with animals Aphrodite, beauty and a loving heart Hestia, sisterhood with fire Hermes, speed and the power of flight. Six members of the Greek Pantheon then bonded the soul to the clay, giving it life. In the late 20th Century, Hippolyta was instructed to mold some clay from the shores of Paradise Island into the form of a baby girl. That soul originally belonged to the unborn daughter of the first woman murdered by a man (whom Hippolyta was the reincarnation of). One soul was held back from creation, the one that would be born as Diana. when the Greek goddesses drew forth the souls of all women who had been murdered by men and placed them on the island. The Amazons had been created around 1200 B.C.
