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[[Characters/WonderWomanTheCharacter Princess Diana of Themyscira/Diana Prince]]\\
'''[[Characters/WonderWomanAllies Supporting Cast]]'''\\
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'''[[Characters/WonderWomanVillains Villains]]'''\\
[[Characters/WonderWomanRoguesGalleryAToL A-L]] ([[Characters/WonderWomanCheetah Cheetah]]) | [[Characters/WonderWomanRoguesGalleryMToZ M-Z]] | [[Characters/WonderWomanGods Gods]] ([[Characters/WonderWomanAres Ares]])-]]]]]

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[[Characters/WonderWomanRoguesGalleryAToL A-L]] ([[Characters/WonderWomanCheetah Cheetah]]) | [[Characters/WonderWomanRoguesGalleryMToZ M-Z]] | '''Gods''' ([[Characters/WonderWomanAres Ares]])-]]]]]

[[folder:Achilles Warkiller]]
[[WMG:Achilles Warkiller/Olympian]]
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->''" I have done many misdeeds. But I will not allow you to sacrifice yourself."''

The war hero who helped invade and sack Troy who was deified after his demise. In an effort to take control of Themyscira Zeus tried to create a Themysciran King loyal to only himself and used the ancient warrior's soul to make "Achilles Warkiller". Achilles ended up freeing Wonder Woman himself once he realized how he was being used. He later joined ComicBook/{{The Outsiders|DCComics}} with the code name Olympian.\\
Unlike Hercules he's tried to adapt with the times and has done his best to become heroic in a modern sense of the word rather than remaining a violent, proud and self-obsessed Greek hero.\\

->'''First DCU Appearance:''' ''Whiz Comics'' #2. (1940)
->'''Affiliation:''' Elysium. Olympus. Gargareans. ComicBook/{{The Outsiders|DCComics}}.

* AdaptationalHeroism
** Achilles is trying his hardest to be a hero in the modern sense of the word, and has little in common with the narcissistic StrawNihilist of the original myths.
** He's also more heroic, in the modern sense of the word, than the Golden Age Earth Two Achilles, who was an enemy to Wonder Woman through and through.
* AllCrimesAreEqual: Achilles leads the Gargareans to forcibly disarm the United States wherever its soldier provoke hostilities in a smaller nation. The biggest problem Diana has with this? Achilles kills the soldiers on ''both'' sides, complaining that it doesn't even make sense!
* ArrangedMarriage: Zeus's plan A was for Achilles Warkiller to marry Wonder Woman and takeover her mission and Diana enjoyed a much needed retirement raising Achilles's children. Provided that failed, plan B was to beat Wonder Woman into submission and take a willing amazon as queen until Diana came to her senses. Warkiller is not informed of this until weeks he has been in opposition to Wonder Woman and the amazons.
* AwesomeByAnalysis: Wonder Woman has a hard time fighting him because Achilles Warkiller can reliably predict her movements. She nonetheless figures out a new way to beat him every time.
* BackFromTheDead: Resurrected by Zeus to be the leader of his new anti-war mission.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Against the Citizenry's snake.]]
* BodyHorror: He's got the soul of Achilles, the legendary hero, but he's techically the mutilated possessed corpse of the polynesian god Kane Milohai, whom Zeus attempted to turn into a puppet.
* {{Flight}}: Achilles can fly, though he seems to like riding Mysia.
* HeelFaceTurn: Abandons his mission from Zeus to side with Wonder Woman.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: He has a flying elephant with two tusks named Mysia.
* IHaveYourWife: In this case, Wonder Woman's mother Hippolyta. It's not a tactic Achilles wants to use, or even thinks will work, but Alkyone, who has no intentions of harming Hippolyta either, assures him that it will if he follows all of her instructions, which start with [[MakeAnExampleOfThem the skinning of three guards]] Diana had left with Hippolyta on Themyscira.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: By Alkyone. Luckily, Achilles had the heart of a God and healed from it.
* KingPinInHisGym: He is often seen sparring with Alkyone in between his legislative duties or leading his troops.
* PublicDomainCharacter: He's from ''The Iliad''. It doesn't get much more public domain than that.
* RedemptionPromotion: He proves far more powerful when he's on Wonder Woman's side than he did as her enemy. Etta Candy questions why he wasn't like before during The Citizenry scouting of Washington DC, in the most polite way she can, and he simply exclaims that he's more confident now.
* SpearCounterpart: To Wonder Woman. Both created by Gods? Check. Both attempting to stop conflict, despite different methods? Check. Both the rulers of one gender races? Also check. You see where I'm going with this.
* StraightGay: You wouldn't know it from the way he looks or acts, but Achilles is this. His marriage to Alkyone was merely a political one and he later hooks up with his realtor, Patrick Cleese, who turns out to be the reincarnation of Patroclus.
* SuperReflexes: Achilles Warkiller can consistently react to and counter Wonder Woman's strikes. He has a significantly harder time when she [[WrestlerInAllOfUs holds onto him and starts manipulating his joints]], however.
* SuperStrength: On par with Wonder Woman.
* SympathyForTheHero: Despite being opposed to Wonder Woman Achilles Warkiller sees the zombie android Genocide as an abomination and wants to help Wonder Woman kill it. He only stays his hand because Zeus tells Achilles to shut up and watch.
* UnwittingPawn: Of Alkyone. He figures it out and eventually kicks her ass.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: When he was still working for Zeus, The Gargareans supposed goal in disarming humanity and slaughtering anyone who stood in their way was to end war and strife,... by subjugating everyone to Zeus and punishing those trying to practice their free will. A few confrontations with Diana had him questioning the whole thing.
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[[folder:Eros]]
[[WMG:Eros/Steven Howard]]
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->''"My mother! We're far different gods of love, she and I! To her, love is a wimsy thing, all gossamer and moonlights tender sighs! But to Eros-- love is fierce, intense, so that its denial makes me grow to giant size in rage."''

A deity of love, though quite less encompassing than Aphrodite. He is the son of Aphrodite and Ares, though his New 52 version was fathered by Hephaestus instead. \\
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->'''First DCU Appearance:''' ''DC Comics Presents'' #32. (1981)
->'''god of:''' Love (love at first sight). Sexual Desire. Attraction.
->'''Affiliation:''' Aphrodite. Olympus. Daemones. Erotes.
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[[folder:Sigurd]]
[[WMG:Sigurd]]

->'''Affiliation:''' Asgard. Valhalla.

A Norse hero whom Diana encountered in Asgard. They had a brief fling.

* CoolSword: His sword Gram. He gifts it to Diana on their last night together.
* IdealHero: He's handsome, charming and noble. Diana wishes she could have stayed with him.
* MrFanservice: He's absolutely handsome.

[[folder:Ratatosk]]
[[WMG:Ratatosk]]
->'''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman' #770. (May 2021)

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The messenger god of Asgard, takes the form of a tiny squirrel.
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* GoodParents: Sometimes the narrator is actually Ratatosk telling stories to his children
* InterspeciesFriendship: He takes a liking to Diana in spite of her being humanoid and he not.
* MrExposition: Ratatosk will run the length of the world tree to give Diana the latest gossip, and can pop up in the most unexpected of places from her perspective.
* SadlyMythtaken: Ratatosk was just a chatty gossip who told Nidhog at the roots of Yggdrasil and an eagle among the branches the latest insult one had called the other. He wasn't a messenger for Asgard, one of the Aesir or affiated with anyone in any of the nine world.
* TheCavalry: During ''ComicBook/LazarusPlanetRevengeOfTheGods'', Ratatosk teams up with Ares to help Wonder Woman escape from Olympus.
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* SadlyMythcharacterized: Aphrodite of myth saw love as a weapon and purpose, both glorious and deadly and was feared and revered by her worshipers as an avatar of madness, unrivaled beauty and passion that drove men mad. In the comics Eros is able to say, "To her, love is a whimsy thing, all gossamer and moonlights tender sighs!" without lying. This gets explained away as her widening her repertoire of love and becoming a more positive character over the many years of her existence by later writers.

[[WMG:Gundra]]

->'''First Appearance:''' ''Comic Cavalcade'' Vol 1 #17. (1946)
->'''Affiliation:''' Asgard. Valhalla.

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Queen of the Valkyries, and one of the Norse gods' representatives on Earth.

To learn more, see her folder [[Characters/WonderWomanRoguesGalleryAToL here]].

* AdaptationalSkimpiness: Marston's Aphrodite always wore a dress, while her Post-Crisis iteration rarely wore anything at all.

* OutGambitted: Hera decides the events of ''Lazarus Planet'' are the perfect time to launch her campaign against humanity except for issue of Hippolya recently ascending as patron goddess of the amazons, Hippolya who Hera knows only ascended to help people and would gladly give up her goddesshood, her ''life'', before she helped Hera make war on humanity. So Hera tasks Hecate with keeping Hippolyta from doing anything...only for the new goddess to instead manipulate Hecate into covertly undermining Hera until Hippolyta is able to do so herself.
* RankScalesWithAsskicking: Across continuities Hera can consistently kick the ass of about every other god or goddess on Olympus, with Aphrodite, Artemis and Hecate being unable to directly challenge her and even Eros and Ares, [[TheDreaded the most feared gods of DC's Greco-Roman pantheon]], wary of directly defying her. Of the Olympus Twelve Zeus is usually the only one outright more powerful, and he usually lets Hera do as she pleases. Hera effortlessly defeats even Yara Flor, whom Hera prized for her strength...albeit after she had Hepheastus destroy Yara's sword, and Hera fights Cheetah with no issues even after Cheetah has Wonder Woman's Lasso of Truth, The God Killer Sword and is being empowered by a "Void Wind" that is seemingly beyond one of the [[ArtisticLicensePhysics seven]] fundamental forces of the universe. DC Rebirth Hera becomes even ''more'' powerful after conspiring with The Wizard Shazam [[PositionOfLiteralPower to steal the throne]] of Olympus from Zeus.

* TheCorrupter: In DC Rebirth Hera convinces a trapped and isolated Wizard Shazam that the only people who really deserve power are those whom the natural order gave it to, and that Zeus has to go for not doing enough to maintain the natural order. The Wizard admits to being taken after seeing Billy Batson, despite thinking him and idiot, and Mary, despite her indecisiveness, prove to be far more responsible with power than Hera.

* BreaktheHaughty: Was killed by his own son, Triton, and had to be rescued by Aquaman, which put a significant damper on his ego.

* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Givne his domain, he tends to show up in more Aquaman stories than Wonder Woman stories.

[[folder::Sigurd]]

[[folder::Ratatosk]]

* MundaneUtility: Thor has been using Mjlonir, the mighty war hammer, to forge every day items and help contruct the furniture of Valhalla since the Golden Age.

* InLoveWithYourCarnage: ''Action Comics'' # 761 sees Thor fawning over Wonder Woman dismembering of a Vgrtsmyth daemon that had escaped from Hades, rampaged on Earth an then set its sights on Asgard, while Superman is shocked at the violence he didn't realize Diana was capable of.

* MindManipulation: Has shown to be susceptible to this. In his first appearance in Comics Cavalcade in 1946, Adolf Hitler uses the [[UsefulNotes/HolyLance Spear of Destiny]] to mind control him.

* MadGoddess: She's presented as clinically insane in volume 2. Despite this she gives Wonder Woman useful gifts, helpful advice and [[LoonWithAHeartOfGold genuinely wants to make the world a better place.]]

* MadGod: She's presented as clinically insane in volume 2. Despite this she gives Wonder Woman useful gifts, helpful advice and [[LoonWithAHeartOfGold genuinely wants to make the world a better place.]]

* MadGoddess: She's presented as clinically insane in volume 2. Despite this she gives Wonder Woman useful gifts, helpful advice and [[LoonWithAHeartOfGold genuinely wants to make the world a better place.]]

* AlienGeometries: During their fight in DC Rebirth Tezcatlipoca twists his body beyond the third dimension to keep the hand holding the lock on his rival lords of heaven.

* FightingAShadow: Even as the other lords of heaven are forcing Tezcatlipoca to retreat during Infinite Frontier, he claims to Diana that it is only a temporary setback due to Tezcatlipoca's form extending throughout hyper time.

* WorfHadTheFlu: He fights and eventually loses to Wonder Woman, Artemis of Bana-Mighdall and Aztek during DC Infinite Frontier...while Tezcatlipoca also happens to be trying to keep the other lords of the thirteen heavens from breaking the lock on the prison he put them in.

* AdaptationalVillainy: To the Aztec, Tezcatlipoca [[GreyAndGrayMorality was no more villainous than his rival]] Quetzalcoatl, but to most modern audiences Tezcatlipoca is more unpleasant due to ValuesDissonance. DC occasionally uses Quetzalcoatl as a villain too but just as often make him a simply misunderstood but well meaning god while consistently not even bothering trying to make Tezacatlipoca look sympathetic.

* ArcherArchetype: Her unsurpassed skill with a bow is carried over from the original mythology, and she can act quite harsh and aloof when her family or humanity gives her cause to be upset, which they do constantly. She does get a bit giddy sometimes when plotting with Athena though.

* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Rogue is perhaps too strong a word, as Quetzalcoatl did not even attempt to defend himself when attacked by Superman, who viewed as an angry god, but Quetzalcoatl was nonetheless a feature in the Superman, Superboy and Supergirl comic books, even brushing up against Mary Marvel in the latter, before finally making his way into Wonder Woman's third volume. Appropriately Quetzalcoatl's appearance is soon followed by Power Girl.

* SadlyMythtaken: There's no denying that Aztec religion influenced the Mayans, but Kukulcan and Quetzalcoatl usually are not treated as the same god, with Kulkulcan sometimes even being a goddess instead. Kukulcan is also the god of messengers and earthquakes, not life. Its pick and choose as Viracocha and Nuhu-Tachi, feathered serpents just "equivalent" to Quetzalcoatl, are not.

* UnwittingPawn: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Phobos unleashes Quetzalcoatl on the world to sow confusion and fear, but even then Quetzalcoatl has no idea what's going on his first instinct is to try and help people. [[HeroInsurance He does cause a lot of destruction]] that angers Superman, but Quetzalcoatl backs off from Superman and does his best to fix the mess that wasn't really Quetzalcoatl's fault to begin with, that would have been worse if Quetzalcoatl hadn't shown up at all.

* TeamMom: She plays a motherly role to the Amazon's other matron goddesses (Athena, Artemis, Aphrodite and Hestia) and to the Amazons themselves.

* FireOfComfort: As goddess of the hearth and home, she preisdes over the warmth and fire of family, and blessed Wonder Woman with sisterhood with fire to open men's hearts.

* MajorMinorCharacter: Hestia ia responsible for the empowering of Wonder Woman's iconic lasso, as her fires of truth burn away deceit.