History Characters / WonderWomanGods

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

* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: When introducing or speaking about the Olympians she sometimes gets tacked onto the end of the list, even though she's no longer part of the twelve and doesn't participate in their manipulative backstabbing.

* ResurrectiveImmortality:: Death is kind of like a deep sleep Quetzalcoatl sometimes needs help waking up from.

* InconsistentSpelling: The more writer friendly but [[NoPronounciationGuide less English reader friendly]] "Quetzlotl" is sometimes used instead.

* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: More like twenty four foot god. Tezcatlipoca doesn't appear ''quite'' as large as Zeus or even Tezcatlipoca's rival Quetzlotl, but Tezcatlipoca still likes to look down on Wonder Woman.

[[folder:Quetzlotl]]
[[WMG:Quetzlotl]]

* AlwaysABiggerFish: During ''War Of The Gods'' the three headed dog Cerberus is unleashed from Hades to terrorize humanity only for Quetzlotl to descend upon the Earth to defeat him.
* AscendedExtra: Pre Crisis Quetzlotl was a bit player who only appeared once during "Secrets Of Haunted House'' in a supporting role. DC did a lot more with him, Post Crisis.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: During ''Wonder Woman'' volume 3 Quetzlotl is driven mad by Rat, Scorpion, Adder, Spider and Goat, The Children of Ares. Wonder Woman's lasso of truth restores Quetzlotl to his right mind, but he cannot remember what turned him hostile to the people in Washington DC and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere opts to flee before whatever it is comes back.]]
* DoesNotLikeSpam: Quetzlotl does not like the taste of human beings. If he's ever seen eating people something is wrong, ''very'' wrong if the humans are not willingly giving themselves up to Quetzlotl. Coatli generally need human sacrifice for the power to defend the world but Quetzlotl is among those who does not enjoy the process.

* IHaveManyNames: And many forms to go with them. Aside from Kukulcan and Quetzlotl, he can also become the wind god Ehecatl, who isn't even a feathered serpent, though Quetzlotl has yet to do so on panel in a DC comic. After all, it's a lot easier to milk the NotEvilJustMisunderstood trope when the figure in question is not a humanoid.

* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: Despite being one of the most famous gods in our world hardly any humans on DC Earth know who Quetzlotl is, especially outside of Mexico, and just assume he's a blood thirsty monster. When Wonder Woman gently restrains and has a pleasant chat with Quetzlotl the scene is used to slander her!
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Rogue is perhaps too strong a word, as Quetzlotl did not even attempt to defend himself when attacked by Superman, who viewed as an angry god, but Quetzlotl 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 Quetzlotl's appearance is soon followed by Power Girl.
* ResurrectiveImmortality:: Death is kind of like a deep sleep Quetzlotl needs some help waking up from.
* RuleOfDrama: Quetzlotl ''always'' shows up in one of his feathered serpent forms in DC Comics, and in almost all cases his humanoid form would get far better results. People running in fear of a giant flying snake monster is just too tempting to not draw.
* SadlyMythtaken: There's no denying that Aztec religion influenced the Mayans, but Kulkulcan and Quetzlotl usually are not treated as the same god, with Kulkulcan sometimes even being a goddess instead. Kulkulcan is also the god of messengers and earthquakes, not life.
* SuperHeroGods: Post Crisis, the first thing Quetzlotl does upon waking up in the modern era is to try and save civilians from terrorists.
* ThinkingUpPortals: Quetzlotl can freely fly between planets and to other planes of reality by literally thinking up portals to them.
* UnwittingPawn: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Phobos unleashes Quetzlotl on the world to sow confusion and fear, but even then Quetzlotl 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 Quetzlotl backs off from Superman and does his best to fix the mess that wasn't really Quetzlotl's fault to begin with, that would have been worse if Quetzlotl hadn't shown up at all.
* WeatherManipulation: During the ''War of The Gods'' arc Quetzlotl willingly ends his own life to bring forth a rainstorm that puts out the fires in Tattamalia caused by his battle with the terrorists there. Tlaloc, god of rain, is Quetzlotl's ally after all.

* PopCultureOsmosisFailure: Despite being one of the most famous gods in our world hardly any humans on DC Earth know who Quetzlotl is, especially outside of Mexico, and just assume he's a blood thirsty monster. When Wonder Woman gently restrains and has a pleasant chat with Quetzlotl the scene is used to slander her!

* RessurectiveImmortality: Death is kind of like a deep sleep Quetzlotl needs some help waking up from.

* SoProudOfYou: Post Crisis Zeus loses his temper with Wonder Woman's independence, sense of morality, self righteousness, rejectiong of his advances, refusal of his gifts and general defiance on several occassions, but no matter how angry he gets Zeus will always claim Diana is ''his'' champion and that he is very proud of her resolve, talents and toughness.

[[folder:Kane Milohai]]
[[WMG:Kane Milohai]]

The Hawaiian god of the heavens, he answered Wonder Woman's prayers for help saving her mother when The Olympians had barred all amazons other than Hippolyta from Themyscira and the island was besieged by Nazis taking advantage of the fact there was only one person there to defend it.

* BrainsAndBrawn: She uses Doctor Psycho's connections to get into one of Roulette's unlicensed {{fight club|bing}}s and then has him set up a [[GimmickMatches handicap match]] against rookie TagTeam "The Orphan Sisters", as [[EnemyMine both Pele and Psycho want half of the team dead]] and Pele's the only one Psycho can rely on after Lira's destruction.

* ContinueYourMissionDammit: After deciding she isn't going to kill Wonder Woman, Pele decides to become her patron goddess instead...and then tasks Wonder Woman with halting Zeus's own mission to TakeOverTheWorld through The Gargareans. Whenever Diana spends too much time, say, fighting another super villain or sulking over breaking up with her boyfriend Pele will tell Diana to get back to her job.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: As Alkyone loves the mother who molded Diana but wants Diana dead, Pele loves Diana's adopted father but wants Diana dead. Alkyone is motivated by nostalgia for a Themyscira that never actually existed, believing Diana to be the cause of everything wrong with it. Alkyone also has obssession with Hippolyta, whose love for Diana adds jealousy and envy to Alkyone's insanity. Pele is motivated by grief and family honor, being indifferent to Diana's existence until Pele's father is killed over Diana. Alkyone will stoop to any low, first trying murder Diana as an infant. Alkyone resorts to ambushes, deceptions, magical rites and deals with hostile divinities to try and negate the power advantage adult Diana has over her and Alkyone always makes sure she out numbers or is better armed than Diana. Pele wants to slay Diana in honorable battle and is even willing to let one of Diana's friends support Diana. Rising to successfully defend Themyscira after being broken, burnt and bloodied in a battle miles away isn't enough to convince Akyone that Diana is anything but a blight on the island. Diana paying respect to their father in her own way is enough to appease Pele, who is pacified entirely after Diana does a job for Pele that Diana would have ended up doing anyway.
* ElementalShapeshifter: Pele is able to sneak up on Wonder Woman by transforming her body into sand. Luckily for Diana they are no longer enemies at this point.

* OddJobGods: She's most associated with violence and destruction, but she's also goddess of a specific form of dance where movements represent both words and musical notes.

* YouKilledMyFather: She hold Diana responsible for the death of Kane Milohai, and it turns out paying her respects right is the only way to escape Pele's wrath. Well that or calling to Zeus for help, but Wonder Woman is sympathetic by nature and was angry with Zeus for putting in the situation to begin with.

* HomeFieldAdvantage: Pele versus Wonder Woman on neutral ground is already an uphill struggle for the latter. When Pele moves the battle to [[FromBadToWorse a spiritual realm of her choosing]] Wonder Woman's chances of winning are basically impossible without intervention.

* ShockAndAwe: Volcanic lightning is a rare phenomenon but Pele can produce lightning bolts whenever she feels like it.

* DependingOnTheWriter: Initially he was just as strong as Wonder Woman in the golden age, but then became expliticly weaker than her when they became adverasaries, and stayed that throughtout the silver and bronze ages. Hercules also appeared in other DC books, however, where he was often comparable to Superman, and as of Post Crisis he was explicitly stronger than Superman, which should have also made him stronger than the Post Crisis Wonder Woman, though he's usally Diana's equal in strength despite.

* TookALevelInDumbass: In ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2006'' Athena goes from {{chessmaster}} to moron when she decides to leave her responsibilities to Zeus and remove herself from the picture by laying down and dying. This results in millions of deaths and leaves her Amazons fighting for survival and home as Zeus immediately tries to replace them with men who are slaves to his will.

* DependingOnTheWriter: He varies from mightest god on Olympus but not necessary of his entire pantheon, mightest being in the entire Greco-Roman pantheon bar none, and surpassed by several other related gods including those he should or indeed was at one point far beyond like Ares and Aphrodite. Sometimes there is an instory justification for Zeus being weaker or stronger than he was at some other point, but more often person writing the comic at the time just finds it easiest to tell the story they want right now with Zeus however mighty.

* BrainsAndBrawn: She uses Doctor Psycho's connections to get into one of Roulette's unlicensed {{fight club|bing}}s and then has him set up a handicap match against rookie TagTeam "The Orphan Sisters", as [[EnemyMine both Pele and Psycho want half of the team dead]] and Pele's the only one Psycho can rely on after Lira's destruction.

* AFriendInNeed: Kane Milohai heard a woman asking for the chance to help her own mother, saw numerous deities actively shunning her and figured he had the time to help out. He in fact went above and beyond the call of duty upon seeing it was ''Wonder Woman'' being left high and dry, but it turns out there was a good reason no one else was getting involved and Kane Milohai pays dearly for his kindness.

* AFriendInNeed: Kane Milohai heard a woman asking for the chance to help her own mother, saw numerous deities actively shunning her and figured he had the time to help out. He in fact went above and beyond the call of duty upon seeing it was ''Wonder Woman'' being left high and dry, but it turns out there was a good
reason no one else was getting involved and Kane Milohai pays dearly for his kindness.

* AFriendInNeed: Kane Milohai heard a woman asking for the chance to help her own mother, saw numerous deities actively shunning her and figured he had the time to help out. He in fact went above and beyond the call of duty upon seeing it was ''Wonder Woman'' being left high and dry, but it turns out there was a good reason no one else was getting involved and Kane Milohai pays dearly for his kindness.

* PhysicalGod: He has the means of traversing air, water and spacial dimensions freely

* PlayingWithFire: Pele's true specialties are rock, solid and molten, but she's adept at fire production as well. Since it isn't her primary domain Pele's flames can't hurt Wonder Woman, due to that pesky sisterhood with fire, Pele can use it to move Diana against her will, including transfering her conciousness to Pele's realm...[[YouKilledMyFather or Kane Milohai's]].

* YouKilledMyFather: She hold Diana responsible for the death of Kane Milohai, and it turns out paying her respects is right is the only way to escape Pele's wrath. Well that or calling to Zeus for help, but which do you think ''Wonder Woman'' chose?

* SacrificialLion: Kane Milohai gives Diana the means to bypass Athena's barriers, then goes down swinging to Zeus, who then uses Kane's body to create a new champion. Even after his death Wonder Woman uses this gift to save Zeus and the Gargareans from Ares and the {{sea monster}}s of Euphemus, not yet knowing of course that Zeus had killed Kane Milohai.

* ALighterShadeOfGrey: 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.

* HeroAntagonist: Post Crisis Hermes attacks Bana-Mighdall on the grounds that Gaea is furious with the tribe inhabiting the city and will utterly destroy if he doesn't pacify her by getting her girdle back in a less destructive fasion. Wonder Woman still convinces Hermes to stand down, convinced she can solve the problem with even less bloodshed.

* WorfHadTheFlu: Hermes gets his butt kicked by Bana-Mighdall queen Shim'tar while she is wearing The Girdle of Gaea he meant to retrieve. However, it's noted that Hermes is not at full strength after having rebuilt much of the state of Massachusetts after it was destroyed in an alien invasion, taken control of the magical sandstorm surrounding Bana-Mighdall and then fended off the Egyptian militar seeking to destroy the city.

* SacrificialLion: Kane Milohai goes down swinging to Zeus, who then uses Kane's body to create a new champion.

* SympathyForTheHero: He was the first god to hear Wonder Woman's prayers and feel compasion rather than fear of Athena's retribution for helping her. Athena doesn't do anything to Kane Milohai, as it turns out. It was Zeus who everyone should have been worried about, and not because he helped Diana save Hippolyta but because he ''adopted'' Diana and a jealous Zeus wanted "his" champion back.

* DependingOnTheWriter: Initially he was just as strong as Wonder Woman in the golden age, but then became expliticly weaker than her when they became adverasaries, and stayed that throughtout the silver and bronze ages. Hercules also appeared in other DC books, however, where he was often comparable to Superman, and as of Post Crisis he was explicitly stronger than Superman, which should have also made him stronger than Wonder Woman, though he's usally Diana's equal in strength despite.

* SuperStrength: Pele is stronger than Superman, stronger than Wonder Woman, and can hit as hard as Thor with the Mljonir.

* RedeptionPromotion: 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.

* ContinueYourMissionDammit: After deciding she isn't going to kill Wonder Woman, Pele decides to become her patron goddess instead...and then tasks Wonder Woman with halting Zeus's own mission to TakeOverTheWorld through The Gargareans. Whenever Diana spends too much time, say, fighting another super villain or sulking over breaking up with her boyfriend Pele will remind Diana she has a job to do.

* NighInvulnerable: Black Canary can't make Pele budge even while Pele is in a trance. She hurts Wonder Woman just by blocking Diana's strikes. Pele's not invincible however, as Wonder Woman can knock her the wind out of her, provided Diana can create an opening.