History ComicBook / WonderWoman2011

* AdaptationalAbomination: This comic is notable for heavily reimagining the Olympian gods designs. While some stay relatively human looking outside of a few traits like glowing eyes or pointy teeth (such as Zeus, Hera or Dionysos), others have stranger and more unusual appearances : Apollo and Artemis look like living statues and can turn into silhouettes made of light, Ares is a creepy old man with empty eyesockets and legs constantly soaked in blood, while Hermes is a grim and pale man with black eyes and bird feet. However the cake goes to the brothers of Zeus, whose design are very surprising and bordering on the eldritch: Poseidon is a giant tentacular sea monster while Hades is a little corpse-like child with a head covered in candles dripping wax over his eyes. And that's without mentionning how the elder Olympians are able to do strange reality-warping feats, such as Poseidon or Demeter manifesting inside their own gigantic bodies (which causes some... strange paradoxes).

* AdaptationalJerkass: Wonder Woman and her supporting characters are all much less pleasant people than the norm here, with some like being turned into straight-up villains. That the Amazons of this continuity revel in killing and are rapist, slave trading misandrists rather misses the mark of the original intent behind Wonder Woman and the Amazons, who were meant to be an example of the best of humanity and what could be achieved without the limitations posed on people due to bigotry, but does allow for some compelling storytelling.

Compared to previous runs, this series was featured iterations of the Greek pantheon that veered closer to their typical modern depictions in wider media -- namely, JerkassGod for most of them. The run is noticeably darker than most takes on ''Wonder Woman'' as well.

* ArmyOfTheAges: [[ComicBook/AresDC Ares, the God of War]] is able to call up an army of the shades of soldiers from every past armed conflict on earth.

* AdaptationalWimp: Orion, one of the most powerful ComicBook/NewGods, whose powers rival even the likes of ComicBook/{{Superman}} and [[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darkseid]], plays a strictly supporting role and loses almost every major battle he takes part in. He falls victim to TheWorfEffect during the first confrontation against the First Born, being effortlessly repelled and crushed under some rubble. Next, he is crippled in the fight against Cassandra, whose weapon damages Orion's Astro-Harness. Finally, during the final battle, he is taken out of action after being impaled by the Minotaur, requiring Milan to come to his rescue and transport him to New Genesis so that he can be healed.

* HeroicSacrifice: Orion tries to use a Boom Tube to take the heroes to New Genesis, but the First Born prevents the portal from closing by prying it open with his bare hands. This causes a spatial instability that threatens to implode the tube, so [[spoiler:Lennox]] decides to abandon the other heroes and hold back the First Born so that they can escape. When Wonder Woman returns from New Genesis, she finds out her friend has been reduced to a lifeless skull.
* HumanHeadOnTheWall: After Lennox's murder, and Artemis tossing his head back to his friends to taunt them, Hera is so detached from humanity that she thinks the respectful thing to do is place his head (which does not decay due to his powers) in a prominent place on the center of the mantle.

** Lennox first ''shatters'' when he tries punching Artemis.

* BittersweetEnding: Azzarello's run ends with [[spoiler:the First Born being defeated and sealed away by Wonder Woman, who becomes the new queen of the Amazons and begins taking measures to eradicate her people's toxic misandry. Furthermore, Athena voluntarily separates herself from Zola, allowing the latter to happily reunite with Zeke. However, the war against the First Born has claimed many lives, including Aleka and the Minotaur; and Olympus is in shambles, as Hades' death has disrupted the balance of the afterlife, Poseidon still cherishes the throne, and Zeus is reduced to an infant]].

* {{Catfight}}: After Hera is BroughtDownToNormal, she gets into constant fights with Zola. At one point, the two start slapping each other over a TV remote.

* CharacterDevelopment: Aleka is introduced as the biggest {{Jerkass}} among the Amazons, as she can barely hold back her disdain for Diana and openly mocks her by calling her "Clay". In the final arc, [[spoiler:she starts to change after realizing how much Wonder Woman trusts her, and ultimately dies inf a HeroicSacrifice to protect Zola]].

* ColdBloodedTorture: Apollo subjects [[spoiler:the First Born to torture in an attempt to force the latter into swearing loyalty to him. He burns the First Born's skin with the flames of the Sun, carves out his spleen and eats it, and breaks several of his bones with a primitive torture device, but the victim never yields. Fueled by rage, the First Born manages to break free from his chains and goes after Apollo, who is understandably horrified at his imminent death]].

* AdaptationalWimp: Orion, one of the most powerful ComicBook/NewGods, whose powers rival even the likes of [[ComicBook/Superman Superman]] and [[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darkseid]], plays a strictly supporting role and loses almost every major battle he takes part in. He falls victim to TheWorfEffect during the first confrontation against the First Born, being effortlessly repelled and crushed under some rubble. Next, he is crippled in the fight against Cassandra, whose weapon damages Orion's Astro-Harness. Finally, during the final battle, he is taken out of action after being impaled by the Minotaur, requiring Milan to come to his rescue and transport him to New Genesis so that he can be healed.

** Hermes and Artemis have blue skin.

* HumanoidAbomination: The First Born looks like an abnormally large man at first, but takes on a much more monstrous appearance after [[spoiler:beeing scorched by Apollo. For the rest of the run, he is charred, lost his face skin, and wears a cape made out of his own blood vessels]].

** Hades shots with Eros's golden guns, and Diana tries to deflect them only for them to go right through her bracelets.

* DoesNotLikeMen: The Amazons, in a huge departure from their original and traditional non bigoted accepting paradise of a culture, are a society of man-hating misandrists who routinely rape and murder men to get children, sell their male infants into slavery, and try to castrate and murder any physically male visitors to their island.

* HijackedByJesus: The Greek pantheon. Most notable in that Olympus keeps getting called heaven and Hades keeps getting called hell.

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* AdaptationalVillainy: The New 52 took Queen Hippolyta and the Amazons and turned them from a society that tried to represent the best of women into a bunch of unrepentant serial rapists and child murderers; which, ironically, is [[ShownTheirWork more accurate to the Amazons of myth]]. [[note]] Well, [[SadlyMythtaken not entirely]]. Yes, the Amazons in Greek Myth were warrior-hunters who did fight several [[Myth/ClassicalMythology classic mythological heroes such as Heracles and Theseus]]. [[https://www.britannica.com/topic/Amazon-Greek-mythology However,]] they reproduced by mating with men from other tribes via trade. The Amazons would then keep the girls they gave birth to while sending the male children to their fathers; which is still a far cry from the New 52 Amazons [[/note]] Hippolyta spent centuries allowing her society to propagate by raping and murdering sailors, then casting off any baby unlucky to be born looking male. The male children were spared death only because Hephaestus took them (but only because the Amazons ''traded'' them for weapons and not because they actually wanted to make sure the boys had a caregiver). When Diana herself learns about all this (after it was ''somehow'' being kept a secret from her all this time), she appears disappointed at first but other than trying to give the Amazon sons a home on the island she barely does anything to address the fact her mother and her Amazons sisters were basically monsters. Even worse, a number of the Amazons led by Donna Troy butchered the Amazon men after Diana dared to grant them a home on the island.

* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Some of the gods have this type of appearance such as Eris, Hermes and Apollo.

* BroughtDownToNormal: Apollo does this to Hera after he takes Zeus's throne.
* {{Catfight}}: Zola and Hera get into this after Here is BroughtDownToNormal.
* ColorCodedCharacters: The members of the Greek pantheon who were most prominent in the run were each associated with a color: Artemis with Silver, Hera with peacock green, Apollo with purple, Demeter with green, Hermes with light blue and Ares with dusty tan.
* CynicalMentor: Ares was one to Diana when she was younger, but not for that long, kicking her out when she refused to kill someone.

** Zeus, naturally. Which makes his wife Hera insanely jealous.
* TheRival: One of the Amazons, Aleka has been one to Diana since they were both children.

* SeaMonster: Poseison, who looks like a giant a MixAndMatchCritter of various sea animals.

* EvilSorceress: The Amazonian Sorceress Derinoe, a misandrist who opposes Diana rule as Queen of the Amazons.

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* AdaptationalVillainy: The New 52 took Queen Hippolyta and the Amazons and turned them from a society that tried to represent the best of women into a bunch of unrepentant serial rapists and child murderers; which, ironically, is [[ShownTheirWork more accurate to the Amazons of myth]]. [[note]] Well, [[ArtisticLicense not entirely]]. Yes, the Amazons in Greek Myth were warrior-hunters who did fight several [[Myth/ClassicalMythology classic mythological heroes such as Heracles and Theseus]]. [[https://www.britannica.com/topic/Amazon-Greek-mythology However,]] they reproduced by mating with men from other tribes via trade. The Amazons would then keep the girls they gave birth to while sending the male children to their fathers; which is still a far cry from the New 52 Amazons [[/note]] Hippolyta spent centuries allowing her society to propagate by raping and murdering sailors, then casting off any baby unlucky to be born looking male. The male children were spared death only because Hephaestus took them (but only because the Amazons ''traded'' them for weapons and not because they actually wanted to make sure the boys had a caregiver). When Diana herself learns about all this (after it was ''somehow'' being kept a secret from her all this time), she appears disappointed at first but other than trying to give the Amazon sons a home on the island she barely does anything to address the fact her mother and her Amazons sisters were basically monsters. Even worse, a number of the Amazons led by Donna Troy butchered the Amazon men after Diana dared to grant them a home on the island.

* AdaptationalVillainy: The New 52 took Queen Hippolyta and the Amazons and turned them from a society that tried to represent the best of women into a bunch of unrepentant serial rapists and child murderers; which, ironically, is [[ShownTheirWork more accurate to the Amazons of myth]]. [[note]] Well, [[ArtisticLicense not entirely]]. Yes, the Amazons in Greek Myth were warrior-hunters. [[https://www.britannica.com/topic/Amazon-Greek-mythology However,]] they reproduced by mating with men from other tribes via trade. The Amazons would then keep the girls they gave birth to while sending the male children to their fathers; which is still a far cry from the New 52 Amazons [[/note]] Hippolyta spent centuries allowing her society to propagate by raping and murdering sailors, then casting off any baby unlucky to be born looking male. The male children were spared death only because Hephaestus took them (but only because the Amazons ''traded'' them for weapons and not because they actually wanted to make sure the boys had a caregiver). When Diana herself learns about all this (after it was ''somehow'' being kept a secret from her all this time), she appears disappointed at first but other than trying to give the Amazon sons a home on the island she barely does anything to address the fact her mother and her Amazons sisters were basically monsters. Even worse, a number of the Amazons led by Donna Troy butchered the Amazon men after Diana dared to grant them a home on the island.

* AdaptationalVillainy: The New 52 took Queen Hippolyta and the Amazons and turned them from a society that tried to represent the best of women into a bunch of unrepentant serial rapists and child murderers. (Which, ironically, is [[ShownTheirWork more accurate to the Amazons of myth.]]) Hippolyta spent centuries allowing her society to propagate by raping and murdering sailors, then casting off any baby unlucky to be born looking male. The male children were spared death only because Hephaestus took them (but only because the Amazons ''traded'' them for weapons and not because they actually wanted to make sure the boys had a caregiver). When Diana herself learns about all this (after it was ''somehow'' being kept a secret from her all this time), she appears disappointed at first but other than trying to give the Amazon sons a home on the island she barely does anything to address the fact her mother and her Amazons sisters were basically monsters. Even worse, a number of the Amazons led by Donna Troy butchered the Amazon men after Diana dared to grant them a home on the island.

* DoesNotLikeShoes:
** None of the Dodekatheon wear shoes, and it's a way to spot them when they're mingling with humans.
** A lot of the gods, like Hades, Apollo and Aphrodite are never seen wearing any footwear.