Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman was an Amazon warrior princess and one of the most powerful superheroes in the world. The daughter of Hippolyta, Diana of Themyscira was given power by the Gods of Olympus to fight against evil in all its forms. Although she was raised entirely by women on the island of Themyscira, she was sent as an ambassador to the Man's World, spreading their idealistic message of strength and love. Wonder Woman fights crime and acts as a positive role model for women everywhere. Her equipment includes the Lasso of Truth, magic gauntlets, and an invisible jet. Wonder Woman is also a founding member of the Justice League.

History

Diana was born on Themyscira, the secret island home of the Amazons; she was the daughter of Queen Hippolyta and Zeus, the Greek god of Thunder and ruler of the gods. As a child, she grew up believing that she would remain on Themyscira with her Amazonian sisters, until she learned of her true heritage, in which event she was imbued with the power to arm herself and wield the bracers of submission, the sword of Athena, and the lasso of Hestia. She felt that she could not remain on Themyscira with these gifts. When she learned that the human world was at war (possibly referring to World War II), she felt that she had a conscientious obligation to aid humanity in its time of need. In spite of Hippolyta’s concerns, she would join humanity, emerging as a warrior of peace and a protector. This journey led her to join the Justice League, whom she would find friends in, though she did miss Themyscira at times. Being a warrior of peace, she also swore an oath never to strike anyone in anger.

At some point, Wonder Woman alongside the Justice League fought the Sinestro Corps and defeating them. Around this time Batman lets Diana know of his contingency plan against the other Justice League members, if a situation arises.

A few weeks before the Invasion of Metropolis, Wonder Woman goes onto the Daily Planet to be interviewed by Lois Lane, even demonstrating how her Lasso of Truth works by using it on Lois Lane, as bonus content for the Daily Planet’s subscribers.

Ultimately, she's the one who encouraged the League to create "Justice Day," a celebration in which the citizens of Metropolis could get to know the League more personally. On this same day, Brainiac appeared in his ship over the city. However, the Justice League launched a diplomatic meeting with Brainiac, unsure of his motives. Diana and Flash were the only ones who didn't fall under his control and could successfully escape.

Kill The Justice League Incident

During the three-week invasion led by Brainiac, Wonder Woman and Flash helped evacuate civilians. After Flash had been captured and cloned accordingly, Wonder Woman ambushed the Suicide Squad as they were infiltrating the inner sanctum of the Hall of Justice. Though the squad defend themselves, Wonder Woman swiftly overpowered them and proceeded to interrogate Captain Boomerang using the Lasso of Truth. Boomerang admitted that Flash was captured by Batman and revealed the severed finger he took from Flash, though he did muster enough willpower to hide how he had gotten it, simply lying that it came off on its own. After this, Amanda Waller, Layla Carter, and some A.R.G.U.S. soldiers intervened. Waller rebuked Wonder Woman for her behavior, referring to Task Force X as “property”. Wonder Woman told Waller off and warned her to leave and take the “criminals” with them, to which she subtly declared her intention to occupy the Hall of Justice, before attempting to convince her to aid A.R.G.U.S. in killing the Justice League—though Waller did not know they were clones—citing the trust that A.R.G.U.S. had begrudgingly placed on the Justice League, the fact that they considered them not to be a threat in the past, and the fact that Diana was the last one standing. Wonder Woman refused to believe that their involvement was necessary, and declared that she would find a way to save them, before once again warning Waller “This is a hall for HEROES…not you.” Before opening the ceiling hatch of the inner sanctum and taking off, much to Waller’s annoyance.

Later, Wonder Woman used her comms to contact who she believed to be the Justice League to appeal to their humanity, only for the Batman clone to cut her off. Diana asked him where he was, to which he stated that he was “watching”, and informed her that the integration process was irreversible, before offering Diana a choice: join her “comrades”, or stay out of their way.

While trying to save the innocents, her actions are conflicted as she attempts to save her league members who had been supposedly brainwashed by Brainiac. She ends up saving Task Force X from a bomber and frustratedly asks why they're in the city. She tells them that she is headed to Hob’s Bay to save innocents and suggests that they leave and that she will not be able to save them again before taking off.

After this, she took the fight to Hob’s Bay, when she had been attempting to save dozens of stragglers in the city, while pushing Brainiac’s forces out of the city. Unfortunately, a clone of Green Lantern appeared to turn the tide, after having interrogated the Suicide Squad for her whereabouts (to which Captain Boomerang immediately snitched on her). He immediately turned his constructs towards Wonder Woman, killing several civilians in the process. Wonder Woman attempted to save as many as she could, but Green Lantern had beaten her to an inch of her life, to such a point where she bled. He had used her efforts to protect civilians against her and wear her down, possibly to subdue her for conversion. However, Wonder Woman managed to escape, leading the surviving civilians to safety before making her own escape, the entire incident being witnessed by Lois Lane.

The next time Diana appears, she saves The Squad, this time more inadvertently than intentionally, from a clone of the Flash, whom she believed to be her actual comrade-in-arms, albeit brainwashed. Growing desperate to save her friends from Brainiac's control, she tosses the Lasso of Truth around The Flash to interrogate him on how she could stop Brainiac's Invasion. After repeated mocking by the cloned Scarlet Speedster, for a brief moment, Diana, via the power of the Lasso of Truth, manages to momentarily break the Flash free of Brainiac's control. Diana is told by the clone that “the entire Justice League”, has to die to save the world, leaving the Amazon princess disheartened and in disbelief, believing them to be the real Justice League, while the cloned Flash escapes. Afterward, Diana forcefully throws Harley Quinn and King Shark inside a shipping container after some harsh comments from Harley Quinn, before staring at Deadshot and Captain Boomerang in a threatening manner, causing them to trudge into the aforementioned shipping container to join King Shark and Harley Quinn. She then left them with a veiled threat: “I’m a warrior for peace. I swore never to strike another soul in anger. YOU FOUR ARE SERIOUSLY TESTING MY RESOLVE!!!”, before closing the shipping container, locking them in. For an unspecified time after this, Diana tries to peacefully get her fellow League members to snap out of Brainiac's supposed mind control, to no avail. In truth, however, she did not know that they were clones.

Final stand against Superman

Realizing her worst fears of having to use lethal force against who she believed to be her Justice League comrades were coming true, Diana obtained Kryptonite. She forges it into her shield, prepping to fight against the mind-controlled Superman lethally. She is interrupted by Task Force X once again in Batman's Batcave. King Shark criticizes Diana's decision to use the Kryptonite for her shield rather than her far more effective sword. Ignoring Shark's warnings and criticisms, Diana departs the Batcave, stating that she does not want or need a lecture on morality from “a shark”, with the Earth-2 Lex Luthor musing that she was stubborn, like all princesses, regardless of their places of origin.

After learning that the Flash clone, whom she believed to be the real Flash died during his battle with the Suicide Squad. She radioed to a clone of Batman, whom she also believed to be the real Batman, and blames him for The Flash's supposed death, to which the Batman clone revealed that he knew that she had obtained kryptonite, mockingly inquiring what she planned to do with it. She answered honestly that she would do what is right and said that she would see him, Lantern, and Superman soon.

After the Green Lantern clone died and a clone of Superman stopping the nuclear missile released by Amanda Waller and Rick Flag, Wonder Woman appears before Task Force X again, calling out Superman's alien birth name of Kal-El. She then heartbreakingly bends down and mourns the death of who she believed to be Green Lantern John Stewart, with Captain Boomerang respectfully reminding the Amazon prince of what the Flash clone, whom everyone had believed to be the real Flash had revealed to everyone earlier that day. Diana still tried to convince herself that deep down, the Superman she knew is still in there somewhere, much to the chagrin and dismay of Task Force X. As she tried to vow that she'll save her comrade, the cloned Man of Steel flew in, and tackled her mid-sentence. From this point on, Diana dedicated the rest of her time to trying to save Superman from himself, if not then lethally putting him down for good, all the while believing him to be the real Superman.

Sometime after the beginning of their fierce struggle, Wonder Woman is tackled into a tank by Superman in front of Task Force X. Diana is pummeled by Superman before he grabs her by the throat and flies off with her elsewhere. Wonder Woman is launched back into the streets in midair by Kal-El. When the cloned Kryptonian goes for a lethal diving attack, Diana grabs her shield just in the nick of time and blocks the attack, although Superman slams her into the underside of a highway bridge. Using every ounce of her strength, Wonder Woman barely avoided the Superman clone's heat vision before she slammed Superman and herself down into the ground, buying herself a bit of time to recover. She grabbed her Kryptonite-forged shield and charged at Superman again, but she was swatted away by a streetlight. Later, Diana managed to pin down the cloned Man of Steel and unleash a barrage of attacks with her shield, only for Superman to counter and hurl her away to continue their battle elsewhere.

Death

Despite her best efforts, in the end, Diana is eventually overwhelmed by the Superman clone. and their battle ends at the foot of the Hall of Justice, just as Task Force X is about to make their way inside the facility. Despite her heavy exhaustion, she did not give in and continues to fight against the cloned Superman's overwhelming strength. Diana and Superman duelled in the air, which ended in the Superman clone using his ice breath to slow down Wonder Woman and eventually force her back to the ground. The two continued to duel on ground level again, with Diana preparing to make a final push against Superman. The heavily exhausted Wonder Woman begins using her shield to block Superman's heat vision, resulting in the Kryptonite proportions of her shield being shattered by one single blow from Superman, the impact of which sends her flying into a nearby wall. A structural piece of a building was then slammed down on Diana by Superman, which is enough to ensure that she stays down.

Diana was then forcefully grabbed from the pile of rubble by Kal-El, who prepared to end her, but in a last-ditch effort to save her life, Captain Boomerang distracted the cloned Man of Steel. While Harley threatened Superman to buy Diana some time to escape or kill Superman, Diana attempted to perform the latter by grabbing a reasonably sized chunk of the destroyed Kryptonite and impaling her apparently brainwashed friend in the middle of his chest, seemingly beginning to kill him. She tearfully apologized to Superman for having to end his life, not knowing that it was a clone she would have killed. Diana is absolutely baffled when the clone of Superman merely crunched his fist, the Kryptonite seemingly having no effect on him, before he began using the full power of his heat vision to force her down, fatally wounding her. At the same time, Task Force X helplessly watched on.

After Superman departs to Brainiac's ship to heal his wounds, Diana attempted to express herself to Harley Quinn, who tearfully shushed her out of respect. Task Force X attempted to carry her inside the occupied Hall of Justice, but it is too late.

In her final words, Diana tells the Squad that Superman will recover and return to face them, that they need to be prepared, and that she wanted them to prove every harsh statement she made about them false.

Wonder Woman eventually succumbed to her wounds, dying a death worthy of an Amazon warrior, her body turning to ash as a side-effect of the full blast from Superman's laser vision.

Legacy

Being a proud member of the Justice League, naturally Diana was idolized by the citizens of Metropolis as well as the rest of the world. After her death at the hands of Superman, she was mourned tearfully by Task Force X and Lois Lane due to her bravery and courage in fighting against the cloned Justice League, whom she believed to be the real league, and rescuing Metropolis citizens during Brainiac’s three-week invasion. She was the only member of the League who eluded Brainiac’s jade-green clutches.

Wonder Woman’s last wish was ultimately fulfilled when Task Force X managed to successfully kill the Superman clone and capture Brainiac after killing all of his other iterations, thus proving everything that she said about the Squad wrong, albeit posthumously.

Following the invasion, a statue of Wonder Woman was built in her honor, to remember her sacrifice.

Codex

From the Files of Lex Luthor

I am prone to wild imaginings. As a man of science, speculation is how my brain finds leisure, and the closest thing it knows to “play”.

But there is little amusement to be found in imagining how improved Earth would be if instead of forcing the Amazons into hiding with our cruelty and avarice, we had instead looked to them as a model, replicable if only we could set aside our baser instincts. They’ve solved so many of our society’s ills: broken democracy, lagging technology, toxic masculinity. And thus they flourish through higher learning, mutual aid, and governance without cruelty. They are a golden society, who deserve to be as secret as they are.

Enter Wonder Woman, so named, I assume, because one Wonders why a Woman of her caliber and ancestry would leave paradise to play in the mud with us. In the League, she is a beacon of rational thought paired with profound empathy, or strength and kindness in equal measure. She is a hero, moreso than any who surround her.

Still... her very presence in the League makes me consider whether, if Wonder Woman turned her lasso on herself, a different story would emerge: One of a person who craves the brutality, crudeness and our world, who left her equitable sisterhood for an exclusive brotherhood, and whose own heart is more aligned with the maddened billionaire and over-powered alien then with any of Themyscira’s queens.

Perhaps the Amazons are the golden society... and we have been given their worst.

Appearance

She has short hair pulled back into a low ponytail. With a golden tiara. She wears a red and gold breastplate, with blue leggings, and a brown utility belt with a small satchel bag attached. She dons golden bracelets on each arm.

Abilities

Wonder Woman is imbued with a variety of superpowers from her father Zeus:

• Superhuman Strength: Wonder Woman has superhuman strength comparable to Superman as she is able to tackle him and pin him against the ground. When Superman tries to attack her with his heat vision, she is also able to force his head to the side and prevent him from turning it when he attacks her with his heat vision.
• Superhuman Speed and Reflexes: Diana's speed and reflexes are such that she can use her bracelets to block gunfire.
• Heightened Durability: Wonder Woman is able to survive incredible injuries such as being thrown to the ground from hundreds of feet in the air or kicked through a wall by Superman.
• Combat Training: Wonder Woman has trained in various forms of combat and the use of weaponry for centuries. This training made her an formidable warrior, with exceptional skill in hand-to-hand combat, swordplay, and the use of her Lasso.

Equipment

• Lasso of Truth: The Lasso of Truth is unbreakable, glowing, and imbued with the magical fires of Hestia. Wonder Woman can aim and throw it to ensnare a target effortlessly. The Lasso forces anyone wrapped in it to speak the truth.
• Bracers of Submission: The Bracelets of Submission are magical, indestructible metal gauntlets Wonder Woman wears on her forearms and uses to deflect a wide variety of attacks. Their indestructibility, coupled with Wonder Woman's superhuman speed and reflexes, allows her to block fast-moving projectiles like bullets.
• Sword of Athena: Like her other weapons, the Sword of Athena is magical and indestructible. The sword's magic allows it to cut through anything, even thick sheets of metal.
• Wonder Woman's Shield: Much like her bracers of submission, her shield can deflect against a wide myriad of attacks.
• Wonder Woman's Armor: Her armor was forged by Themyscira’s finest artisans to endure many dangers, and is something of an ancestral relic, passed down through many generations.

Gallery

Wonder Woman impales Superman

Wonder Woman using the Sword of Athena to kill an enemy.

Concept Art of Wonder Woman.

Wonder Woman captures Flash within her lasso.

Wonder Woman dying.

Wonder Woman's Memorial Statue in Metropolis.

Trivia

• Diana is the only member of the Justice League to be free of Brainiac's clutches, as well as the only member that is not targeted or supposedly killed by the Suicide Squad, instead being killed by a cloned member of the League. As her body is disintegrated, Brainiac never had a chance to capture her body, unlike those of the other cloned League members.
  • Because of this, Diana is the only member of the Justice League to truly die.
• On Earth-2, her armor is silver instead of gold, resembling her look from the New 52.
• In the comics, Diana is known to have a sweet tooth, especially for ice cream, hence why she is shown eating ice cream in Lois Lane's photo slides.
• Harley shows an attraction to and a slight fetish for being dominated by Wonder Woman, having asked her to "step on me next". She also seems to be turned on by Wonder Woman’s physique, remarking that she is “built like a Greek statue”.
• Lex Luthor appears to admire Wonder Woman as a hero according to his codex bio of Wonder Woman.

External Links

• Wonder Woman on the DC Comics Wiki