Wonder Woman Diana Prince DC Database. Gallery. Current Alias. Wonder Woman. Origin. The origin of Wonder Woman. Diana is the daughter of Queen Hippolyta, the first child born on Paradise Island in the three thousand year history that the immortal Amazons lived there. The Amazons had been created around 1. B. C. when the Greek goddesses drew forth the souls of all women who had been murdered by men and placed them on the island. One soul was held back from creation, the one that would be born as Diana. That soul originally belonged to the unborn daughter of the first woman murdered by a man whom Hippolyta was the reincarnation of. In the late 2. 0th Century, Hippolyta was instructed to mold some clay from the shores of Paradise Island into the form of a baby girl. Six members of the Greek Pantheon then bonded the soul to the clay, giving it life. Each of the six also granted Diana a gift Demeter, great strength Athena, wisdom and courage Artemis, a hunters heart and a communion with animals Aphrodite, beauty and a loving heart Hestia, sisterhood with fire Hermes, speed and the power of flight. Diana grew up surrounded by a legion of sisters and mothers. When she was a young woman, the gods decreed that the Amazons must send an emissary into Mans World. Queen Hippolyta ordered a contest to be held, but forbade Diana from participating. Diana disobeyed and did so anyway in disguise, easily winning the contest and being named the Amazons champion. She was given a uniform fashioned from the standard of someone who had visited the island a few decades earlier. Diana did not keep her identity a secret, and she was not at first a super heroine. Indeed, her character was in many ways that of a babe in the woods, innocent and without guile. Diana spoke only Themyscirian, a combination of classical Greek and Turkish. She had to learn English when she arrived in America, rather than knowing the language intuitively. Nonetheless, Diana was trained as a warrior and had no compunction against using deadly force when called for. She often dealt with war, injustice, inequality, death, and conflicts involving the Olympian Gods. Before embarking on her mission, Diana was given the Lasso of Truth, forged by Hephaestus himself. She was also given the Sandals of Hermes, which allowed her to instantly traverse great distances in seconds. Dianas mission was one of peace, but part of it initially involved defeating a mad plot by Ares to destroy the world. She ventured into the world by starting at Boston. There she met a Harvard professor, Dr. Julia Kapatelis, and her daughter, Vanessa Kapatelis, as well as the Air Force Officers Steve Trevor and Etta Candy. Diana stayed with Julia and Vanessa and over the course of a month or two, she learned to speak English. 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 publics eye and was given the name Wonder Woman. 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. After defeating the God of War, Diana returned home for healing at the hands of Poseidon himself. Joining the JLAWonder Woman became a popular heroine and joined the Justice League of America. TFWy1spvqit_1280.jpg' alt='Final Crisis All Star Superman Absolute' title='Final Crisis All Star Superman Absolute' />Of all people you know who I am. Who the world needs me to be, Im Wonder Woman. Her apprentice and pupil Donna Troy, then Wonder Girl, was a founding member of the Teen Titans. Diana, together with Batman, Flash, and Aquaman, supported the teens and encouraged them to team up and work together with the Justice League. Mortal and Immortal Challenges. Wonder Woman versus Ares. After 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. In The Death of Superman, Doomsday is practically wiping the floor with the Justice League with one arm bound behind his back. So they all decide to hit him with. EA SPORTS FIFA 18 and Need for Speed Payback Bundle. Bundle. PS4. The Crisis Crossover trope as used in popular culture. A companywide Massive Multiplayer Crossover which sweeps all the mainstream characters in a ficton. She spent the next several months touring the world, conducting interviews and learning a lot about modern culture. She also initially met most of the Justice League around this time, and after meeting Superman, she was instantly enamored with him. Wonder Woman gathered the attention of Barbara Mivera, the Cheetah, who secretly desired to steal the Lasso of Truth from Diana. She lied to Wonder Woman about having found the lost Girdle of Antiope to get close to her, but after touching the Lasso her truth was made clear. Diana was frustrated and enraged over her naive trust of Minerva. That same night, Barbara decided to take the Lasso by force and attacked Wonder Woman as the Cheetah. Diana managed to fight her off, and decided it was time to return home to Paradise Island again. Challenge of the Gods. The gods were pleased with Dianas work one was a little too pleased, however. Zeus offered to make Wonder Woman a goddess if she agreed to sleep with him. Diana refused, and Zeus decreed she must be punished for refusing his advances. The other gods managed to deflect the full brunt of Zeuss wrath. He decided that Wonder Woman must pass the Challenge of the Gods. He ordered her to go into the pits beneath Paradise Island and retrieve his fondest treasure, and Diana accepted the challenge. Hippolyta was not pleased, and though she could do nothing to stop Diana from descending into the depths, she did resolve to follow after her fighting past Philippus first. Wonder Woman battled all number of evil monsters in the pits, from the Hydra to the Echidna, but got some help from the spirit of Diana Trevor. Diana Trevor, the mother of Steve Trevor, revealed that she had been an Air Force Pilot who crash landed on the island and then died helping the Amazons in battle. It was for her that Diana was named, and it was her standard that was used to fashion the Wonder Woman costume. Hippolyta caught up with her daughter, and together they fought even more mythological beasts until they discovered Zeuss treasure his imprisoned demigod son, Heracles. The demigod had been changed to stone and made to bear the weight of the island for thousands of years for his actions against the Amazons. Diana and Hippolyta freed him, and brought him back to the surface. Faced with his punishment of thousands of years, Heracles was repentant and begged forgiveness for what had happened between he and the Amazons. The Amazons forgave him at last, and after a celebration including a romantic reconciliation with Hippolyta, Heracles returned to Olympus. The gods were pleased with Diana. Hippolyta was pleased as well, and ordered her daughter to return to Mans World and continue her mission. Once Wonder Woman was back, Myndi Mayer arranged a publicity stunt, this time at a fair. However, things took a negative turn when the first Silver Swan, Valerie Beaudry, arrived on the scene. Wonder Woman battled the Swan along the coast, but failed to capture her. Returning to Boston, Diana stayed with Vanessa while her mother was in Greece. She found herself distracted more and more with thoughts of Superman, eventually asking Myer to arrange a meeting between the two. Display Size Of Every Folder In Windows Explorer. Diana and Superman had their date, which included a battle to free Olympus from the grip of Darkseid after he had laid waste to it. Superman and Wonder Woman decided it would be best if they just remained friends, but Superman trusted Diana enough with the secret of his dual identity. Wonder Woman became one of the few people who would come to affectionately refer to him as Kal. The emergence of Circe.