History Characters / WonderWomanGods

* AesopAmnesia: He never learns from a lesson in benevolence for long, and is quit to revert right back to his jerkass self in his next appearance.

* ConflictKiller: When The Esquecida invade Olympus they're intended targets are Hera and the gods who had been abusing them at Hera's command, and they met some unexpected resistance in the form of some robots Hepheastus had built. When Zeus takes notice he directs his wrath at everyone involved, god, machine and invader alike. Everyone accept Hera, who started the whole thing but had quickly made herself as inconspicuous as possible.

* GrandpaGod: An embarrassing grandpa even, with his outdated misogynistic notions.
* GreenEyedMonster: Hypocritically enough, Zeus hates it when the services and loyalty of those who served him happen to serve someone else. Especially another God. When Zeus came to benevolent Hawaiian God Kane, who appointed Wonder Woman as his champion after the Olympians were lost in space, he demanded that Wonder Woman be handed over to him as his servant. When the Hawaiian God refused and pleaded her loyalty was not Zeus's to take, he spitefully killed Kane and tore out his heart to make a new champion loyal to him alone.

* PapaWolf: In DC Rebirth he learns that Darkseid and Grail have been killing his children and descends upon the Earth in fury against them, putting up a much better fight against Darkseid than even Wonder Woman and her brother Jason together did. However, Darkseid has prepared a ritual that allows him to take Zeus's power, as he had with all of Zeus's children up to that point.

* SadlyMythtaken: (Pre-Crisis) Zeus is a wise and good-natured god in Wonder Woman, instead of the petty serial rapist of the original myths. He became much more like his hypocritical, self-centered {{Jerkass God|s}} mythological self Post-Crisis.

* BodyHorror: He's got the soul of Achilles, the legendary hero, but he's techically the mutilated possessed corpse of the polynesian god Kane, whom Zeus attempted to turn into a puppet.

* SuperStrength: On par with Wonder Woman.

[[folder:Urzkartaga]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/urzkartaga.jpg]]
[[quoteright:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see his plant form Pre-Crisis]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/urzkartaga_4.jpg[[/labelnote]]]]

->'''First DCU Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'' #605. (1989)
->'''god of:''' Plants. Blood. Fertility.
->'''Affiliation:''' the Temple of Urzkartaga.
\\
Urzkartaga is the god from whom ComicBook/{{Cheetah}} derives her powers, by acting as his an avatar/consort.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Barbara finding Urzkartaga works out poorly for her in both continuities.
** In the first her desire to become the latest Cheetah works out and she's amoral enough that she doesn't mind the HumanSacrifice and BloodMagic aspect, but since he was offended his "bride" wasn't a virgin, he spitefully cursed her human form to become frail and in constant pain.
** In ''Rebirth'' Barabara was trying to find proof that old gods were actual entities and upon locating him was forcibly and painfully transformed into the Cheetah.
* BotanicalAbomination: His physical form is that of an ordinary plant, but it sustains itself on ''human blood''. In ''Rebirth'' he becomes even more so than his previous incarnation, as he now has an actually demonic monstrous form that is made out of plants and vines.
* DeathByAdaptation: Barbara is freed from Urzkartaga in ''ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth'' through his destruction, while his original incarnation was merely [[DemotedToExtra demoted to occasional mentions]].
* DemotedToExtra: In the ''Post-Crisis'' continuity. He was originally a central aspect of Cheetah, but became increasingly less relevant as time went on, not helped by the fact Minerva got Circe's help and became a VoluntaryShapeshifter that was not affected by his frailty curse and no longer needed blood to fuel her transformation. She still occasionally mentioned that her powers were divine by origin, with his name not even being used as she simply referred to him as a FertilityGod.
* FantasticFlora: A godlike, mystical plant being from Africa.
* FantasyPantheon: Urzkartaga is a DC original god from a DC original country.
* FertilityGod: He's either referred to as a plant or fertility god, although in the ''Post-Crisis'' continuity, we never get details if he did anything for his tribe other than granting the Cheetah powers to his chosen champion for their protection. In ''Rebirth'' he's more explicitly made to be a fertility god.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Post Crisis he gifted his worshipers with The Cheetah for protection, provided The Cheetah regularly give him blood sacrifices. This worked well at first, as the tribe was at war and Cheetah had plenty of enemies to sacrifice. But Urzkartaga made Cheetah a little ''too'' blood thirsty, to the point no one wanted to be around the tribe and the isolated tribe largly dispersed to the point Chuma was Urzkartaga's only remaining priest.
* GodOfEvil: A cruel god who requires sacrifices of blood and takes virgins as his avatars and consorts and whose own worshipers turned against him to try and seal him away.
* GrandTheftMe: In ''Rebirth'', he had his cult of worshippers capture Steve Trevor so he could possess his body and acquire a human host for himself since his divine body was imprisoned in his lair, but Diana foiled his plans and killed him.
* GreenEyedMonster: The Girdle of Gaea is supposed to augment the stregnth of the wearer but ends up making Cheetah weaker due to Urzkartaga being a jealous god who does not like seeing his champion wear something blessed by a goddess of a foreign pantheon. Using The Lasso of Truth too much was similarly periously to Cheetah before she freed herself of dependence to Urzkartaga.
* HeManWomanHater:
** In ''Post-Crisis'' continuity, since Minerva wasn't a virgin he saw no worth in her as a bride, so he betrayed Minerva for Sebastian Ballesteros due to the belief a human male would serve as a better Cheetah host than a woman, since he sees women as naturally inferior warriors. When Minerva managed to kill Sebastian, Urzkartaga reluctantly accepted her back as his champion and Cheetah host.
** ''Rebirth'' makes him a more explicit chauvinistic, with him punishing his non-virgin female worshippers and preferring women as his {{Human Sacrifice}}s.
* JerkassGods: He's a very petty and cruel god, who harshly punished Minerva in both ''Post-Crisis'' and ''Rebirth'' purely [[EmasculatedCuckold out of jealousy]] of the idea his bride has been with another man.
* KilledOffForReal: He's defeated and reduced to a seedling by the of ''ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth''s "The Lies" story arc. That seedling is then used by Veronica Cale to make a serum to give Minerva back her Cheetah powers, and he's presumably destroyed for good.
* MarriageToAGod: His [[TheChampion chosen champion]] who he grants the Cheetah powers to must also serve as his bride.
* NatureAdoresAVirgin: He greatly values virginity, and is furious when he discovers Minerva isn't one, and punishes her by cursing her human form to become frail and in a state of constant agony (''Post-Crisis'') or by giving her an [[HorrorHunger insatiable hunger for human flesh]] (''Rebirth''). In ''Rebirth'' he also curse his female worshippers who aren't virgins, not just the Cheetah.
* ThePowerOfBlood: His power seems to come from human blood, thus he requires the Cheetah and his other worshippers to feast on blood or sacrifice it to him, so he can keep granting her divine powers.
* ReligionOfEvil: Worshipping him seems to revolve around BloodMagic, Cannibalism and HumanSacrifice.
* SealedEvilInACan: In ''Rebirth'' he got sealed in the Urzari Jungle in Africa many years ago, and years for release.
* SuperEmpowering: Urzkartaga grants powers of Cheetah to the women who become his [[MarriageToAGod consorts]] and [[TheChampion champion]] through [[RitualMagic ceremony]] When he gets destroyed in ''Rebirth'', Minerva is promptly BroughtDownToNormal, but soon after Veronica Cale manages to use his remains to develop a serum that empower Minerva once wore.

!![[ComicBook/{{Ares|DC}} Ares/War/Mars]]

--->'''Apollo:''' I have some surprising news about our father.
--->'''Ares:''' That he loves us?
--->'''Apollo:''' I said surprising, not shocking.

Characters/WonderGirl ([[Characters/WonderGirlDonnaTroy Donna Troy]] | [[Characters/WonderGirlCassieSandsmark Cassie Sandsmark]])\\

* KnowWhenToFoldHim: When the ''six'' patron goddesses of Themyscira arrive on the island to protect the amazons from him, Hades only puts up a token resistance before determinging that they are serious and going back home.

* SuperHumanStrength: The Golden Age Holiday Girls can beat up Nazi agents, but they can't budge The Fork Of Fate that Hades wield as easily as a...fork, from the ground. Wonder Woman of course can also use the tool with no issues and Hades is well aware of the fact she is even stronger than him.

[[WMG:Sigurd]]

[[WMG:Ratatosk]]

!!Other Deities
[[folder:Anann]]
[[WMG:Anann/Anand]]
[[quoteright:250:[[ComicBook/WonderWomanOdyssey Odyssey]] Version https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anann.png]]
->'''First DCU Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/{{Wonder Woman|Odyssey}}'' #605. (2011)
->'''goddess of:''' War.\\
'''Affiliation:''' The Morrigan.\\\
Celtic warrior goddess. In ''Wonder Woman: Odyssey'' she is revealed to have joined the triumvirate of war goddesses known as the Morrigan in the service of Nemisis.

* AffablyEvil: She's trying to turn Diana into another war goddess, but even then the affable bit is come and go.
* CoolHelmet: She's got a marvelously spiky helm.
* SadlyMythtaken: While the Morrígan is often (though not always) described as a trio of goddesses there were specific sister goddesses who composed that trio, even if there were three separate options for which trio of goddesses it may be in any given manuscript. Anand is the only member of the DCU's trio who is ever claimed as part of the trio in mythology, though that name was also used interchangeably with Morrígan. There's also the fact that while she/they were a warrior they were more a goddess of guardianship than razing other places to the ground unprovoked.
* ThroatLight: When she's unleashing one of her fiery flesh melting screams her throat and eyes light up green.
* WarGod: A Celtic one, who was sometimes paired with Badb (war goddess) and Macha (sovereignty goddess) to make the triumvirate of the Morrigan, though sometimes the trio excluded Anann and had Nemain (havoc of war) in her place, or was comprised of a different three sister goddesses. Sometimes Anann was ''the'' Morrigan rather than a single component thereof.

[[folder:Janus]]
[[WMG:Janus]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2021_08_27_181335.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Female Half]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2021_10_24_225942.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Male Half]]

->'''First DCU Appearance:''' ''[[ComicBook/WonderWomanInfiniteFrontier Wonder Woman]]'' Vol. 5 #774. (2021)
->'''god of:''' Transition. Beginnings. Endings.
->'''Affiliation:''' N/a

The dual Roman God/Goddess of transitions, past, and future. The female half (representing the future) was an ArcVillain for Diana in ''ComicBook/WonderWomanInfiniteFrontier''.

* BodyHorror: The back on Janus' male half is not a pretty sight after the female half cuts itself free of it.
* DressedLikeADominatrix: Janus' female half outfit evokes this with her version of Diana's Norse attire outfit with more exposed cleavage, spikes on the shoulders, and a leather choker on her neck.
* DualityMotif: As dual god/goddess over the past and the future, the past is represented by it's male half in the form of an old bearded man and the future is represented by it's younger looking female half.
* EvilMeScaresMe: As one can see from the picture above, Janus' female takes the form of an evil looking Diana.
* KillTheGod: Janus' female half wields the "God Scalper" and uses it to kill off the Olympian Pantheon once she becomes free of her male half.
* MoveInTheFrozenTime: The male half has this ability and uses it to talk to Diana privately.
* InsistentTerminology: Janus' male half makes a point to Diana that he's a Roman God, not Greek.
* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Janus' female half kills off (temporarily) the entire Olympian pantheon and scores of other gods across the DC Cosmos. [[spoiler: Subverted in that it turns the female half got the idea from, and influenced by, it's male half]]

[[folder:Tezcatlipoca]]
[[WMG:Tezcatlipoca]]
[[quoteright:290:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tezcatlipoca.png]]

The trickster god of the Aztecs, Tezcatlipoca faced Wonder Woman during her intervention in the South American republic of Tropidor.

* IHaveManyNames: Says this word for word during his first meeting with Wonder Woman.
%%* ManipulativeBastard
* PhysicalGod: A trickster deity with all the dangerous unpredictable power that entails.
* TricksterGod: He can manipulate and lie and twist the meaning of words and play dangerous pranks with the best of them.

[[folder:Urzkartaga]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/urzkartaga.jpg]]
[[quoteright:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see his plant form Pre-Crisis]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/urzkartaga_4.jpg[[/labelnote]]]]

->'''First DCU Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'' #605. (1989)
->'''god of:''' Plants. Blood. Fertility.
->'''Affiliation:''' the Temple of Urzkartaga.

Urzkartaga is the god from whom ComicBook/{{Cheetah}} derives her powers, by acting as his an avatar/consort.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Barbara finding Urzkartaga works out poorly for her in both continuities.
** In the first her desire to become the latest Cheetah works out and she's amoral enough that she doesn't mind the HumanSacrifice and BloodMagic aspect, but since he was offended his "bride" wasn't a virgin, he spitefully cursed her human form to become frail and in constant pain.
** In ''Rebirth'' Barabara was trying to find proof that old gods were actual entities and upon locating him was forcibly and painfully transformed into the Cheetah.
* BotanicalAbomination: His physical form is that of an ordinary plant, but it sustains itself on ''human blood''. In ''Rebirth'' he becomes even more so than his previous incarnation, as he now has an actually demonic monstrous form that is made out of plants and vines.
* DeathByAdaptation: Barbara is freed from Urzkartaga in ''ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth'' through his destruction, while his original incarnation was merely [[DemotedToExtra demoted to occasional mentions]].
* DemotedToExtra: In the ''Post-Crisis'' continuity. He was originally a central aspect of Cheetah, but became increasingly less relevant as time went on, not helped by the fact Minerva got Circe's help and became a VoluntaryShapeshifter that was not affected by his frailty curse and no longer needed blood to fuel her transformation. She still occasionally mentioned that her powers were divine by origin, with his name not even being used as she simply referred to him as a FertilityGod.
* FantasticFlora: A godlike, mystical plant being from Africa.
* FantasyPantheon: Urzkartaga is a DC original god from a DC original country.
* FertilityGod: He's either referred to as a plant or fertility god, although in the ''Post-Crisis'' continuity, we never get details if he did anything for his tribe other than granting the Cheetah powers to his chosen champion for their protection. In ''Rebirth'' he's more explicitly made to be a fertility god.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Post Crisis he gifted his worshipers with The Cheetah for protection, provided The Cheetah regularly give him blood sacrifices. This worked well at first, as the tribe was at war and Cheetah had plenty of enemies to sacrifice. But Urzkartaga made Cheetah a little ''too'' blood thirsty, to the point no one wanted to be around the tribe and the isolated tribe largly dispersed to the point Chuma was Urzkartaga's only remaining priest.
* GodOfEvil: A cruel god who requires sacrifices of blood and takes virgins as his avatars and consorts and whose own worshipers turned against him to try and seal him away.
* GrandTheftMe: In ''Rebirth'', he had his cult of worshippers capture Steve Trevor so he could possess his body and acquire a human host for himself since his divine body was imprisoned in his lair, but Diana foiled his plans and killed him.
* GreenEyedMonster: The Girdle of Gaea is supposed to augment the stregnth of the wearer but ends up making Cheetah weaker due to Urzkartaga being a jealous god who does not like seeing his champion wear something blessed by a goddess of a foreign pantheon. Using The Lasso of Truth too much was similarly periously to Cheetah before she freed herself of dependence to Urzkartaga.
* HeManWomanHater:
** In ''Post-Crisis'' continuity, since Minerva wasn't a virgin he saw no worth in her as a bride, so he betrayed Minerva for Sebastian Ballesteros due to the belief a human male would serve as a better Cheetah host than a woman, since he sees women as naturally inferior warriors. When Minerva managed to kill Sebastian, Urzkartaga reluctantly accepted her back as his champion and Cheetah host.
** ''Rebirth'' makes him a more explicit chauvinistic, with him punishing his non-virgin female worshippers and preferring women as his {{Human Sacrifice}}s.
* JerkassGods: He's a very petty and cruel god, who harshly punished Minerva in both ''Post-Crisis'' and ''Rebirth'' purely [[EmasculatedCuckold out of jealousy]] of the idea his bride has been with another man.
* KilledOffForReal: He's defeated and reduced to a seedling by the of ''ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth''s "The Lies" story arc. That seedling is then used by Veronica Cale to make a serum to give Minerva back her Cheetah powers, and he's presumably destroyed for good.
* MarriageToAGod: His [[TheChampion chosen champion]] who he grants the Cheetah powers to must also serve as his bride.
* NatureAdoresAVirgin: He greatly values virginity, and is furious when he discovers Minerva isn't one, and punishes her by cursing her human form to become frail and in a state of constant agony (''Post-Crisis'') or by giving her an [[HorrorHunger insatiable hunger for human flesh]] (''Rebirth''). In ''Rebirth'' he also curse his female worshippers who aren't virgins, not just the Cheetah.
* ThePowerOfBlood: His power seems to come from human blood, thus he requires the Cheetah and his other worshippers to feast on blood or sacrifice it to him, so he can keep granting her divine powers.
* ReligionOfEvil: Worshipping him seems to revolve around BloodMagic, Cannibalism and HumanSacrifice.
* SealedEvilInACan: In ''Rebirth'' he got sealed in the Urzari Jungle in Africa many years ago, and years for release.
* SuperEmpowering: Urzkartaga grants powers of Cheetah to the women who become his [[MarriageToAGod consorts]] and [[TheChampion champion]] through [[RitualMagic ceremony]] When he gets destroyed in ''Rebirth'', Minerva is promptly BroughtDownToNormal, but soon after Veronica Cale manages to use his remains to develop a serum that empower Minerva once wore.

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/BatmanAndTheOutsiders the Outsiders]] with the code name Olympian.\\

->'''Affiliation:''' Elysium. Olympus. Gargareans. [[ComicBook/BatmanAndTheOutsiders Outsiders]].

[[folder:Gundra]]

To learn more, see her folder [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/WonderWomanRoguesGalleryAToL here]].

* SuperSpeed: During DC Rebirth, Diana says Zeus and Darkseid move faster than she thought any living creatures possibly could when she sees them fight one another. This comes off the heels of Diana attacking so fast and hitting so hard it shocked Superman, this coming from a woman who knows The Flash!

[[Characters/WonderWomanVillains Villains]]\\

Characters/WonderGirl ([[Characters/WonderGirlCassieSandsmark Cassie Sandsmark]])\\

[[WMG:[[center:[-''Franchise/WonderWoman'' '''[[Characters/WonderWoman Main Character Index]]'''\\

Generally leader of the gods, and he acts just like in myth, complete with the jerkass tendencies and the AttemptedRape. Even so, he's among the most powerful beings in the cosmos and commands the respect (if not the admiration) of every pantheon of gods, even {{ComicBook/Darkseid}}. He's spawned countless offspring over the ages, including the gods Ares, Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, and Hephaestus; and the demigods Hercules and Cassandra Sandsmark (the second Wonder Girl)[[spoiler: and Diana in the ComicBook/New52]]. Just as the goddesses of Olympus lend their powers to Diana, Zeus has also empowered other heroes, such as the Olympian and [[Comicbook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]].\\

* MechaMooks: He was tinkering with robots during ''Comicbook/WonderGirlInfiniteFrontier'', and Hera turned them on The Esquecida when they burst into Olympus to extract Yara Flor.

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/BatmanAndTheOutsiders the Outsiders]] with the code name Olympian.\\

->'''Affiliation:''' Elysium. Olympus. Gargareans. [[Comicbook/BatmanAndTheOutsiders Outsiders]].

* WifeHusbandry: When he first appears in ''Comicbook/WonderGirlInfiniteFrontier'' we are under the impression that he accidentally pricked himself with his own arrow while fighting Cuca. After Yara Flor is sent to Tartarus he explains that this actually happened when the Esquecida showed unexpected resistance during his mission to execute Aella, meaning he accidentally charmed himself to fall in love with Yara Flor since she was a child and has spent the last nineteen years waiting until he felt she was ready to be his wife.

* DarkIsNotEvil[=/=]DarkIsEvil: DependingOnTheWriter and on the situation. His Pre-Crisis incarnation allied with Ares against the other gods, but ended up pulling a HeelFaceTurn after [[LoveRedeems his beloved wife Persephone confronted him]], while both his Post-Crisis and New 52 selves are depicted as morally ambiguous, but not actively evil. In ''Comicbook/DCFutureState'' "Future" Wonder Woman Yara Flor is initially a NominalHero and Hades is ALighterShadeOfGrey in the conflict who teachers her a lesson in humility.

The Norse God of Thunder. [[Comicbook/TheMightyThor Not to be confused with some other Thors you may have heard of.]]

!!Other Deities
[[folder:Anann]]
[[WMG:Anann/Anand]]
[[quoteright:250:[[ComicBook/WonderWomanOdyssey Odyssey]] Version https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anann.png]]
->'''First DCU Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/{{Wonder Woman|Odyssey}}'' #605. (2011)
->'''goddess of:''' War.\\
'''Affiliation:''' The Morrigan.\\\
Celtic warrior goddess. In ''Wonder Woman: Odyssey'' she is revealed to have joined the triumvirate of war goddesses known as the Morrigan in the service of Nemisis.

* AffablyEvil: She's trying to turn Diana into another war goddess, but even then the affable bit is come and go.
* CoolHelmet: She's got a marvelously spiky helm.
* SadlyMythtaken: While the Morrígan is often (though not always) described as a trio of goddesses there were specific sister goddesses who composed that trio, even if there were three separate options for which trio of goddesses it may be in any given manuscript. Anand is the only member of the DCU's trio who is ever claimed as part of the trio in mythology, though that name was also used interchangeably with Morrígan. There's also the fact that while she/they were a warrior they were more a goddess of guardianship than razing other places to the ground unprovoked.
* ThroatLight: When she's unleashing one of her fiery flesh melting screams her throat and eyes light up green.
* WarGod: A Celtic one, who was sometimes paired with Badb (war goddess) and Macha (sovereignty goddess) to make the triumvirate of the Morrigan, though sometimes the trio excluded Anann and had Nemain (havoc of war) in her place, or was comprised of a different three sister goddesses. Sometimes Anann was ''the'' Morrigan rather than a single component thereof.

[[folder:Janus]]
[[WMG:Janus]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2021_08_27_181335.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Female Half]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2021_10_24_225942.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Male Half]]

->'''First DCU Appearance:''' ''[[ComicBook/WonderWomanInfiniteFrontier Wonder Woman]]'' Vol. 5 #774. (2021)
->'''god of:''' Transition. Beginnings. Endings.
->'''Affiliation:''' N/a

The dual Roman God/Goddess of transitions, past, and future. The female half (representing the future) was an ArcVillain for Diana in ''ComicBook/WonderWomanInfiniteFrontier''.

* BodyHorror: The back on Janus' male half is not a pretty sight after the female half cuts itself free of it.
* DressedLikeADominatrix: Janus' female half outfit evokes this with her version of Diana's Norse attire outfit with more exposed cleavage, spikes on the shoulders, and a leather choker on her neck.
* DualityMotif: As dual god/goddess over the past and the future, the past is represented by it's male half in the form of an old bearded man and the future is represented by it's younger looking female half.
* EvilMeScaresMe: As one can see from the picture above, Janus' female takes the form of an evil looking Diana.
* KillTheGod: Janus' female half wields the "God Scalper" and uses it to kill off the Olympian Pantheon once she becomes free of her male half.
* MoveInTheFrozenTime: The male half has this ability and uses it to talk to Diana privately.
* InsistentTerminology: Janus' male half makes a point to Diana that he's a Roman God, not Greek.
* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Janus' female half kills off (temporarily) the entire Olympian pantheon and scores of other gods across the DC Cosmos. [[spoiler: Subverted in that it turns the female half got the idea from, and influenced by, it's male half]]

[[folder:Odin]]
[[WMG:Odin/Wotan]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/odin_dc.png]]

->'''First DCU Appearance:''' ''Comic Cavalcade'' #17. (1946)
->'''god of:''' Wisdom. Poetry. War. Death. Divination.
->'''Affiliation:''' Asgard. Valhalla.
\\
Pre-Crisis Odin was rather one-dimensional as the father of the antagonistic Valkyries who acted as Wonder Woman's enemies under the leadership of Gurda. He gained a great amount of strength from the conflict of WWII and Diana first confronted him when Valkyries kidnapped ComicBook/SteveTrevor from the battlefield to Valhalla, which was a planetoid over which Odin ruled. Wonder Woman led a contingent of Amazons against Valhalla, which was aiding the Axis powers, and destroyed it.\\
Post-Crisis Odin was far less one note, being the Highfather of the Norse gods rather than a lone figure with only the Valkyries as allies. He was also far less antagonistic, teaming up with Zeus/Jupiter and Ares/Mars to fight ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}, and Wonder Woman traveling to him to ask for aid though he declined to give it out of fear of Athena.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Golden Age Odin was rather indifferent to fascism and human affairs in general so long as he got more war heroes for Valhalla. Post Crisis Odin openly rejects Nazi worship and Gundra for embracing it.
* AffablyEvil: Golden Age Odin was initially a very nice guy, being a GracefulLoser in the face of his enemies and a BenevolentBoss to his heroes and Valkyries. He loses these traits upon Wonder Woman's accidental destruction of Valhalla, becoming a straight JerkAss.
* BigBadEnsemble: In the Golden Age Odin has no affiliation with Ares and does not care of the Axis Powers one way or the other. It's his Valkyrie Gundra who is showing bias towards the Axis, and while Odin is her boss, all he really wants from her are heroes to fight for him in the upcoming Ragnarok. Odin and Gundra also want Wonder Woman dead on different time tables, with Odin wanting to kill her on the spot, on a whim, for attacking him and Gundra trying to keep her alive a tad bit longer until she's sure Steve Trevor has lost his love of Wonder Woman.
* DrivenToSuicide: (Pre-Crisis) After Aphrodite took his Valkyries and Odin was left alone in his fortress he killed himself out of shame at his defeat.
* EyepatchOfPower: His eyepatch is always present, and he is a PhysicalGod.
* EyeScream: In the Golden Age he gave up his eye for wisdom. In all other continuities he gave up his eye for knowledge, knowledge it turned out to be about his death and the destruction of the world.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In the Golden Age the Nordic Gods and Valkyries are all immune to radiation sickness so Valhalla makes liberal use of nuclear power. While escaping Valhalla Wonder Woman accidentally causes a nuclear explosion that destroys it. In fairness to Odin, this only happens because [[DragonWithAnAgenda Gundra]] was trying to use the radiactive properties of their power sources to slowly poison Wonder Woman and the amazons Odin was merely trying to placate. His heroes are ''not'' immune to radioactivity and ''their'' chambers were supposed to be properly shielded.
* HufflePuffHouse: Odin takes no sides during ''Lazarus Planet: Revenge Of The Gods'', believing he has no incentive to help Hera but nothing to gain from actively opposing her war either. He does allow Ratatosk to aide Ares and Wonder Woman, but that was still Ratatosk's own decision.
* PragmaticVillainy: In the Golden Age he seeks to make peace with Hippolyte after her amazon calvary defeat his Valkyries, as The Valkyries are ready to commit mass suicide out of shame.
* ReforgedIntoAMinion: In the Golden Age Valkyries are not goddesses outright but women Odin gave the choice of joining Valhalla. Men the Valkyries brought him didn't get the choice of becoming Odin's heroes but after Valhalla's first destruction he stops giving women the choice of becoming Valkyries as well.
* ShockAndAwe: In the golden age Thor is mentioned but never actually shows up, with all the lighting bolts being shot by Odin. He's so good he can hit small targets on other planets with little collatoral damage.
* SoreLoser: After the Amazons defeated him he decided to target them and try to turn them into Valkyries with no choice but loyalty and servitude to him. It took Aphrodite stepping in to save those Amazons he managed to grab.
* SwordAlmighty: In the Golden Age he wields a very powerful sword instead of his trademark spear. The preeminent swordsman of the Aesir, Frey, apparently doesn't exist.
* TookALevelInJerkass: In the Golden Age he loses all of his AffablyEvil traits after Wonder Woman accidentally destroys Valhalla, even after it is rebuilt.
* TopGod: So far as Norse gods are concerned he's their ruler.
* WarGod: He derives strength from ongoing wars, especially those involving his worshipers or their descendants. In the Golden Age he's building up strength to fight against giants from Midgard in the future. In the Post Crisis and Rebirth continuities, Odin is instead preparing for war with Jotunheim, and even takes on Darkseid in the Post Crisis timeline.

[[folder:Tezcatlipoca]]
[[WMG:Tezcatlipoca]]
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The trickster god of the Aztecs, Tezcatlipoca faced Wonder Woman during her intervention in the South American republic of Tropidor.

* IHaveManyNames: Says this word for word during his first meeting with Wonder Woman.
%%* ManipulativeBastard
* PhysicalGod: A trickster deity with all the dangerous unpredictable power that entails.
* TricksterGod: He can manipulate and lie and twist the meaning of words and play dangerous pranks with the best of them.

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[[WMG:Thor]]
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->'''First DCU Appearance:''' ''Comic Cavalcade'' #17. (1946)
->'''god of:''' Thunder. Sky. Protector of Mankind.
->'''Affiliation:''' Asgard. Valhalla.

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The Norse God of Thunder. [[Comicbook/TheMightyThor Not to be confused with some other Thors you may have heard of.]]

* AmazonChaser: In ''ComicBook/WonderWomanInfiniteFrontier'', he's shown getting on well with Gundra, Wonder Woman villain and Queen of the Valkyries, [[https://imgur.com/4wjiJjO who is somewhere around 10 feet tall.]]
* ElementalMotifs: He's got a big and prominent lightning bolt across the front of his outfit.
* FieryRedhead: Whenever he pops up in the DC Universe he tends to have his TruerToTheText red-hair to go with his BoisterousBruiser personality.
* 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.
** In ''ComicBook/WonderWomanInfiniteFrontier'', his aggressive demeanor ([[BoisterousBruiser even by his standards]]) is revealed to be due to enchantments on the weapon's he's been using caused by [[DepravedDwarf Dr. Psycho]]
* TruerToTheText: In ''ComicBook/WonderWomanInfiniteFrontier'', Thor is depicted as a stout, red-headed man with a beard, which is how he was said to look in the original mythology, as opposed to [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Marvel's take on the character]]. Mjolnir is also designed to look more like it does in Norse mythology, rather than the block-on-a-stick design Jack Kirby gave it and popularized by the [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse MCU]].

[[Characters/WonderGirl Wonder Girl]]\\

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Circe ends up being Hecate's undoing in both the Post Crisis and Rebirth continuities. Circe's entitlement, cruelty and sadism should have clued Hecate into giving Circe more boundaries, but in Hecate's mind Circe is "loyal" and thus deserves to be rewarded. -

* PeoplePuppets: Rebirth Hecate marks people she deems useful to serve as her meat puppets and carry out her will in the world. Circe knows how to gain the system to leech off Hecate's power without falling under Hecate's control [[spoiler:and eventually takes all of Hecate's power, usurping her as goddess of magic.]]

* DivineIntervention: Just like in ''The Odyssey'', Hermes has to step in when the protagonist is up against Circe. In Post Crisis DC however Hermes has to directly involve himself and end Circe's fight with Wonder Woman after both physical resistance and the moly herb aren't enough to make Circe quit. Hermes outright states The Olympians are going to be upset when they learn of his interference but that he doesn't care because ''he's'' upset they've been letting Circe runamuk in his absence.

* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Hera convinces most of the Greco Roman gods and several others of three other pantheons to make war on humanity because the gods are beginning to die but forced human worship, which she has a three step plan for gaining, can restore their immortality. As Wonder Woman points out, "dying" in this case means the gods' expected lifespans have been shortened from "eternal" to "eighty thousand years", which in on way justifies Hera's campaign of conquest and terror, given that's more than enough time for some of the most knowledgeable beings in existence to come up with a peaceful solution. Hera then admits she's angry that Wonder Woman is worshipped by more people than the gods, and by gods she means Wonder Woman has more worshipers than Hera! Rattatosk reveals there are plenty of other gods with more than enough worshipers or that otherwise have no incentive to involve themselves in Hera's plans.

* LighterShadeOfGrey: Hera has her own problems with Diana, to the point Diana tries to avoid getting Hera's attention even when their explicitly on the same side, but when Cheetah drew Hera's wrath during "The Wild Hunt" but cutting Diana with The God Killer she was genuninely trying to preserve an asset and stop a misguided woman out to murder her family.

* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Hera convinces most of the Greco Roman gods and several others of three other pantheons to make war on humanity because the gods are beginning to die but forced human worship, which she has a three step plan for gaining, can restore their immortality. As Wonder Woman points out, "dying" in this case means the gods' expected lifespans have been shortened from "eternal" to "eighty thousand years", which in on way justifies Hera's campaign of conquest and terror, given that's more than enough time for some of the most knowledgable beings in existence to come up with a peaceful solution. Hera then admits she's angry that Wonder Woman is worshipped by more people than the gods, and by gods she means Wonder Woman has more worshipers than Hera! Rattatosk reveals there are plenty of other gods with more than enough worshipers or that otherwise have no incentive to involve themselves in Hera's plans.
* 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 godddesshood, 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 DC Rebirth Hera becomes even ''more'' poweful after conspiring with The Wizard Shazam [[PositionsOfLiteralPower to steal the throne]] of Olypus from Zeus.

* SecondaryColorNemesis: Hera wears a green bustier during ''Lazarus Planet: Reveng Of The Gods'', and her actions are driven primarily out of spite for Wonder Woman, who usually wears a red, blue and gold bustier.

* 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 far more responsible with power than Hera.

** Hera is one of the strongest of the Twelve Olympians and Greco-Roman pantheon overall, but New 52 reveals that without her divine gifts Hera cannot fight at all, [[CatFight thou she still tries]].
** In DC Rebirth Hera forgoes her various powers to engage in a fist fight with Wonder Woman after revoking Wonder Woman's goddess status, and intially gets pummeled as Wonder Woman proves to be a far greater fighter. However, Diana can neither do any real damage to Hera nor is she strong or fast enough to keep Hera restrained, and Diana ends up getting pummeled instead until Mary Marvel gives up her half of the SHAZAM power to equalize the two again. As equals Wonder Woman hands Hera a quick and decisive defeat.

* EverybodyHatesHades: Notably averted from the bronze age onward; in contrast to his Marvel counterpart [[Characters/TheIncredibleHercules Pluto]], DC's Hades is sometimes depicted as morally ambiguous and [[TheDreaded feared by mortals]], but rarely as truly malevolent and almost never as a SatanicArchetype, since that role usually goes to [[WarIsHell Ares]].

* BladeOnAStick: Rebirth Hades is ''almost'' as good at metal working as Hephaestus. This becomes a problem when Grail steals a spear from Hades and starts using it to slaughter the hapless demigods and demigoddess Zeus has fathered.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In the Golden Age the Nordic Gods, their heroes and Valkyries are all immune to radiation sickness so Valhalla makes liberal use of nuclear power. While escaping Valhalla Wonder Woman accidentally causes a nuclear explosion that destroys it. In fairness to Odin, this only happens because [[DragonWithAnAgenda Gundra]] was trying to use the radiactive properties of their power sources to slowly poison Wonder Woman and the amazons Odin was merely trying to placate.

* PragmaticVillainy: In the Golden Age he seeks to make peace with Hyppolyte after her amazon calvary defeat his Valkyries, as The Valkyries are ready to commit mass suicide out of shame.

* WarGod: He derives strength from ongoing wars, especially those involving his worshipers or their descendants.