History Characters / WonderWomanTheCharacter

* ItsThePrincipleOfTheThing: Rebirth Diana fights a man in a tattered knockoff of shining knight's armor brainwashed by Dr. Psycho and becomes annoyed not because he [[KnightInShiningArmor follows]] chivarly or [[BlackKnight disregards]] it, she wouldn't have cared either way. But to make a ''mockery'' of chivarly is an insult she won't let stand.

* KindheartedCatLover: Given she's a FriendToAllLivingThings, Diana has a soft spot for felines. Ironically, one of her biggest enemies is a cheetah-themed woman. In the Golden Age she also had a tiger taming enemy.

* ModestRoyalty: She may be a princess, but her jewelry is usually limited to her tiara, which doubles as a weapon, and her "bracelets" which are unquestionably designed as protective armor rather than for looks and her clothing tends to be jeans or very simple gowns.

** Wonder Woman is a slim and athletic woman (DependingOnTheArtist) but can throw a tank. This was explicit in the Golden Age, where her strength came not from her muscles but from "amazon brain power", allowing her to maintain a dainty figure, but in following continuities it's bascally up to the penciller if they want to give her noticeable muscles or not. Howard Porter gave Wonder Woman exceptionally bulky muscles in ''Knight Terrors'' while giving her the smallest bust she ever had since the the 1940s.

** In DC Rebirth a desperate Diana prays to the gods without specifying ''which'' gods, and her prayer allows five from the Dark Matter Multiverse to crossover into her world before The Olympians can answer. The Olympians do send Wonder Woman armor with the power to duplicate every power of every single deity in the Greco-Roman pantheon, to deal with this quintet, but the armor misses its target and bonds with her brother Jason instead. The Dark Gods end up sent back home at the cost that Jason has to go with them.

* PullingThemselvesTogether: Post Crisis, Clayface is BuriedAlive during the ''No Man's Land'' arc and uses it as an opporitunity to ambush Wonder Woman and start reverting Wonder Woman to clay before absorbing her into his body and temporarily becoming a PhysicalGod. Clay Diana forcibly reshapes herself within Clayface and tears herself from his body, regaining her Wonder Woman form, but Clayface still has most of her wonderful powers, which she has to find out how to get back before he uses them to rob a bank.

* SemiDivine: In her original backstory, Diana was a clay statue molded by Hippolyte and brought to life by Aphrodite. Later writers had the gods also grant her special abilities based on their respective domains. The New 52 retconned her into being one of Zeus's many children but was later dropped in Dawn of DC where Diana's clay origins returned, although it is implied Zeus still had some involvement in her creation.

* SheatheYourSword: Once Eris is discovered trying to sabotage a UN summit at Themyscira in volume 2 #40, the foreign guests want her head, including reporter Lois Lane. Wonder Woman simply leaves Eris in the same trap Eris was holding Wonder Woman, noting that any further aggression would likely help the goddess of discord sow more of it. Eris tries to attack but all Diana does is block them as each attack surely enough gets weaker.

* SmashSisters: With Donna, Cassie, Artemis, Yara and any other Amazon who is part of the cast at the time. Sometimes written as such with Batman and Superman as well.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: In the 1950s and 1960s, she was this for the Justice Society/Justice League. In most works, Wonder Woman is the sole and main female hero among her male co-workers.

* SpannerInTheWorks: In DC Rebirth and Infinite Frontier, Hippolyta, Antiope and Atalanta have a plan to unite the two, [[XanatosSpeedChess then three]], amazon tribes by [[spoiler:making Diana into a goddess of amazons]], either by capitalizing on a HeroicSacrifice she might make or nudging her towards accepting a CosmicEntity's offer to AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence. Diana, to their admiration but exasperation, keeps defying death and refusing to leave the world she swore to protect, and while the three of them think they have more than enough time, given their [[TheAgeless unaging status]], a breach of Doom's Doorway encourages them to [[XanatosSpeedChess step up their schedule and use someone else in Diana's place]]. Even so, "Plan B" requires people die, and Antiope thus [[StalkerWithoutACrush begins stalking Wonder Woman]], [[TricksterMentor recognizing that]] Diana's ChronicHeroSyndrome could screw up the back up plan too. Hippolyta feigns ignorance when Diana starts telling people she's being haunted by a "[[StealthHiBye ghost]]".

* SuperSpeed: Super speed was one of Wondy's first established powers, as her Golden Age feature in ''ComicBook/SensationComics'' touts she's "swifter than Mercury". She's got quicker muscle twich reactions and better training than Superman making her a much faster combatant who can keep better track of Flash at his higher speeds but her speed is overall about the same as Supes and generally slower than him over long distances, especially when flying. One time Diana blocked attacks that came from "every corner of the universe" with her SuperReflexes.
* SuperStrength: Granted by Demeter (Goddess of the Earth in Post Crisis DC, Gaia instead gives her flight). Diana is literally as strong as the Earth because of her link to the planet granted to her by Demeter. She is said to be "stronger than Hercules". Her strength depends on the writer and the era; in some appearances, Wonder Woman is as strong as Superman himself and able to physically outmatch other beings such as Supergirl.

** An overlooked telepathy power she has is a low level one with animals, in which she can communicate to them, to an extent.

** Post Crisis Wonder Woman starts out only slightly stronger than the average adult amazon, struggling to handle Cheetah, helpless against Circe, barely able to survive fights with people like Superman and utterly useless against Doomsday. Not only does she end up standing on equal footing with and often besting Circe, become so strong Hippolyta has actively sabotage Diana on three different levels to give other amazons a chance against her, but Diana later puts up a better fight against a more powerful Superman than the one Maxwell Lord controlled, as Circe also enhanced Superman with Doomsday's powers when ''she'' controlled him.

* TookALevelInDumbass: During her {{de power}}ed mod phase of the Silver-Bronze Age, Diana noted she had a far harder time controlling her emotions and was far more prone to making tactical errors, complaining that she had become "too darn human". She was still a successful business woman, detective and martial artist, but was so much less than she used to be.

* VitriolicBestBuds: Rebirth Diana is the only amazon outside of the Bana-Mighdall tribe to become Faruka's friend from the start. Though she can be annoyed by [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Faruka]]'s rudeness and lack of tact she takes Faruka's violent postering in stride and will gladly give Faruka a fight if she really wants one, with no hard feelings. Even Artemis, a Bana-Mighdall who is fanatically devoted to her tribe, can sometimes only barely tolerate Faruka's antics on the grounds [[MyCountryRightOrWrong Faruka still has the majority's support.]]

* WarGod: In the New 52 comics, Wonder Woman became the God of War after killing Ares.

* WhatMeasureIsAMook: During the Post Crisis ''Invasion!'' event Hippolyta informs Diana that there are three Thanagarian fighter craft circling Themyscira and Wonder Woman rushes home to save the tresspassers! Why she does wreck two of their vehicles she tries to spare the pilots in the process and when the third ship gets by her Diana is sadden as it is fried by the perpetual storm clouds that protect the island. When she learns this is just a small part of a massive alien invasion whose sole purpose is human population control, Wonder Woman becomes sadden by the realization she's going to have to kill a lot of hostile inhuman soldiers.

* GoodWearsWhite: Diana is normally a PrimaryColorChampion but she has worn white on a few occasions. Namely, during the Dennis O'Neil era when she lost her powers, when she became the Goddess of Truth during John Byrne's run, when she became Goddess of Peace in a ''[[ComicBook/TheNew52FuturesEnd Future's End]]'' story and in ''ComicBook/DCInfiniteFrontier'' #0 when she became goddess of a newly expanding multiverse.

* DidntSeeThatComing: During DC Rebirth Wonder Woman loses the lasso of truth to Cheetah, after leaving Cheetah bound in it, [[DiabolusExMachina when a trio of goddesses from the Dark Multiverse]], ''[[GodOfGods Fates]]'' at that, crossover into Themyscira's prisons and untie Cheetah. While Wonder Woman had learned to be extra careful about not letting the foreign multiverse gods in, no less. They got in because of an unrelated third party's fear about Wonder Woman's mission of peace starting to become successful after the creation of a Themysciran embassy.

* StockShonenHero: Wonder Woman is an AllLovingHero who dresses in [[PrimaryColorChampion primary colors]], fights for the innocent and [[WorldsGreatestWarrior is the greatest warrior of her people.]] Her goal is to create a world of peace and prosperity for all, and she has shown herself to be quite [[CombatPragmatist pragmatic]] and [[GoodIsNotDumb cunning]] when the situation calls for it. She has also tried redeeming her foes with varying degrees of success. Her original incarnation was even a master of SupernaturalMartialArts and she has had a few rivals in the form of Artemis, Nubia and Orana. She even made her debut decades before the TropeCodifier [[Franchise/DragonBall himself]].

* SuperheroGods: Wonder Woman gets half-points for a few reasons -- she's an Amazon, which are basically a race of semi-immortal demigoddesses in DC, especially Post Crisis and Rebirth, and she was created when her mother, Hippolyta, prayed to the gods to create her from clay. The ComicBook/New52 changed things so that she was Zeus' daughter, but ComicBook/DCRebirth has changed it back. In ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'' she briefly became the goddess of truth, but was able to return to her (semi-)mortal state as an Amazon in short order. She's also briefly been goddess of peace in an alternate New 52 timeline and god of war in the main New 52 time line.

* TakeMeInstead: Pre Crisis, Doctor Cyber kidnaps and tortures Wonder Girl, knowing Wonder Woman will readily through her own life away for her sister's. Doctor Cyber didn't account for [[DidntThinkThisThrough the rest of The Teen Titans finding her]] though, and Wonder Woman takes action against Cyber to save ''them''.

->The [[ComicBook/WonderWoman2011 New 52]]'s daughter of Hippolyta and Zeus [[Characters/WonderWoman2011 here]].
->The [[WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010 Earth-16]] Wonder Woman as voiced by Creator/MaggieQ [[Characters/YoungJustice2010JusticeLeague here]].

->The Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse's Wonder Woman as played by Creator/GalGadot [[Characters/DCEUWonderWoman here]].

->The Diana from the Elseworld depicted in ''ComicBook/{{The Legend of Wonder Woman|2016}}'' [[Characters/TheLegendOfWonderWoman2016 here]].

** Post Crisis Wonder Woman starts out being helpless against Circe, barely able to survive fights with people like Superman and utterly useless against Doomsday. Not only does she end up standing on equal footing with and often besting Circe but she later puts up a better fight with a more powerful Superman than the one Maxwell Lord controlled, as Circe also enhanced Superman with Doomsday's powers when ''she'' controlled him.
** The first appearance of Shaggy Man in DC Rebirth sees him defeat the entire Justice League by himself, [[AdaptiveAbility adapting]] to anything they can throw at him. In his second appearance Wonder Woman {{curbstomp|battle}}s him by herself easily, shocking Batman and Superman, who didn't know she had it in her. This leads Diana to believe she can take Darkseid alone, even though he also took down the entire Justice League by himself in the past. [[CantCatchUp She can't]]. She [[HopeSpot does]] give formerly indominable adversaries Grail and Jason a beating before fallling to him, however. In the end of ''Amazons Attacked'' Wonder Woman ''does'' best Darkseid, but not because of any increase in her power, speed, skill, agression or confidence, all of that is still insufficient, but because Darkseid has revived himself with stolen power and she is able find a way to send it back to its rightful owners.
* TookALevelInDumbass: During her {{de power}}ed mod phase of the Silver-Bronze Age, Diana noted she had a far harder time controlling her emotions and was far more prone to making tactical errors, complaining that she had become "too darn human". She was still a successful business woman, detective and martial artist, but that was all so much less than she used to be.

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* ActionGirlfriend: Anyone who dates her is going to fall into this trope, save maybe for ComicBook/{{Superman}} or ComicBook/{{Batman}}. Steve Trevor, Wonder Woman's golden age love interest, was a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII U.S. intelligence officer, but couldn't exactly hold his own against Greek gods, sorceresses, or several hundred feet tall women. Her post crisis lover Trevor Barnes wasn't even a combatant by trade, and though forced to take up arms by consequence of being associated with Wonder Woman, he was all too aware of the fact he couldn't keep up.
* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: Her original backstory was being sculpted by clay from her mother and brought to life by the Gods. In 1959 Robert Kanigher decided to distinguist the Silver Age Earth One Wonder Woman from her Golden Age Earth Two self by giving the new Diana a mundane birth as the last child born to the amazons before they settled on Paradise Island and became immortal. This wasn't well received, however, so in 1961 he {{retcon}}ned Earth One Diana as having been born from clay as well. It wasn't until New 52 that someone writing the 'main' book had committed to giving Wonder Woman a father, but a few {{alternate continuity}} tales had also given her a dad. Subsequent writers have flip flopped between the original Clay backstory and making her the daugher of Hippolyta and Zeus in ComicBook/DCRebirth, with the clay origins winning out more often than not.

* BigSisterMentor: Diana has a sister relationship to both Donna and Cassandra, including mentoring them in being a superhero.

* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: Her first Post Crisis fight with Superman sees him snap her wrist. In her fight with Super Doomsday in ''The Witch And The Warrior'' he tries it again, and while [[ItOnlyWorksOnce she saves her tendons this time]] she gets her shoulder knocked out of socket, at least two fractured bones, her nose bloodied and a palm impaled before subduing him.

** During the Post Crisis ''Absolute Power'' arc, Diana has woven the same star fields worn by Donna Troy into her own clothing. These are pieces of firmament that allow her to navigate the literal cosmos outer space, and her enemies at the time were the space fairing Legiong Of Super Villains, who had conquered Earth by turning Superman and Batman against her using some method she couldn't figure out how to undo(Superman kills her before she can find and interrogate the Legion).

* CurbstompCushion: During ''Lazarus Planet: Revenge of The Gods'' Wonder Woman throws down with Hera and puts up the best fight any mortal has against Hera in the Rebirth line up till then. However, while proving to be the inferior combatant Hera turns out to simply be [[StoneWall too tough]] for Wonder Woman to really hurt and [[SuperSpeed too fast]] to restrain. Diana ends up getting her clock cleaned. Ares is the only present observer who doesn't wince, insistent that Wonder Woman will find a way to win, somehow.

* InnocentBlueEyes: Golden Age Diana had brown eyes to emphasize she had a dominant personality. Early on into the Silver Age this was changed to Diana having piercing, blue eyes to match her pure, heroic nature.

** In the Golden Age Wonder Woman was initially said to be as strong as Hercules, but once he actually showed up in her comic books this was changed to ''stronger'' than Hercules. Since Heracles/Hercules was consistently portrayed from about as strong to even stronger than Superman, this meant Wonder Woman should also be as strong or stronger than Superman, but when the SharedUniverse began to be established in DC Comics Wonder Woman was shown to at most be almost to Superman's strength and much slower than to just short of even with Jay Garrik and Barry Allen in speed, even though Hermes/Mercury was shown to be about as fast or faster than the Flashes. For the most part this "relative" level of strength and speed is consistent but The Silver Age Wonder Woman tended to perform exceptionally poorly compared to Superman and Flash, despite being said to have more superpowers than her Golden Age counterpart.

* WorldsMostBeautifulWoman: She is canonically supposed to be this, having been gifted to be at birth by the goddess Aphrodite. In the silver age her sister Nubia has the same gift but looks completely different from Diana, aside form having the same long, straight black hair. And then there is that Post Crisis {{continuity snarl}} around Donna Troy, who ''[[DependingOnTheWriter might]]'' be an exact copy of Diana despite never being drawn identical to her...

** After being brainwashed into fighting Wonder Woman twice, back to back, in volume 3, Power Girl is ready to strike back at The Children Of Ares but Wonder Woman insists Kara's talents would be put to better use herding and pacifying everyone else in Washington DC who has been brainwashed by the quintet while Diana takes care of them herself. This unnerves Kara, who notes diplomacy and a soft touch are things Diana is far better at but Diana insists Power Girl can handle it. Wonder Woman ends up being proven right, just barely, as Power Girl admits her initial efforts at ShamingTheMob were ineffective and that she can't even remember how she eventually pulled it off.

* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: Her original backstory was being sculpted by clay from her mother and brought to life by the Gods. In New 52 her origin was changed to be the daughter of Hippolyta and Zeus. Subsequent writers have flipflopped between the original Clay backstory and the Zeus version with the Clay origins winning out more often than not.

* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: In 1959 Robert Kanigher decided to distinguist the Silver Age Earth One Wonder Woman from her Golden Age Earth Two self by giving the new Diana a mundane birth as the last child born to the amazons before they settled on Paradise Island and became immortal. This wasn't well received, however, so in 1961 he {{retcon}}ned Earth One Diana as having been born from clay as well. It wasn't until New 52 that someone writing the 'main' book had committed to giving Wonder Woman a father, but a few {{alternate continuity}} tales had also given her a dad.

** After losing her lasso and her way back home in DC Rebirth Wonder Woman undergoes a nervous breakdown that sees her powers seemingly stop working and her awareness of the situations around her become fleeting. This allows Team Poison to Blackmail Steve Trevor by keeping firearms pointed at Diana, who thinks she's being good and helpful when asked to lead Steve into a helicopter. The return of her lasso and a little pep talk get Diana back on track.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Wonder Woman is once of the nicest, most selfless, and open-minded people in the DC world... but should you cross her in anyway, she's not afraid to fight, even kill.

* BlessedWithSuck: During ''Lazarus Planet'' Hera informs Diana that the amazons are going to die out soon but proposes that they might be saved by turning Wonder Woman into their patron goddess, as the "mysteriously" MIA Hippolyta once was. Hera uses her newly gained authority from Olympus's throne to deify Wonder Woman before binding Wonder Woman in her own lasso, removing the wards protecting Themyscira and stripping away all the gifts The Olympians bestowed to the amazon tribes, fully intending to torture Wonder Woman with the extermination of the amazons and subjugation of humanity while Wonder Woman's now enhanced SuperSenses prevent her from [[ForcedToWatch blocking out what's happening]]. The experience makes Diana sympathize more with Superman, who she realizes has a similar level of SuperSenses by default.

* BloodKnight: Golden Age Wonder Woman very much enjoyed a good scrap, though she avoided going for lethal blows at all costs. She shows this tendency eveb more in the ComicBook/{{New 52}} Universe, mostly in the ''Justice League'' title, where she will ''gladly'' kill her foes.

* ButNotTooBi: Despite being confirmed by WordOfGod to be bisexual, it's rarely ever elaborated upon and most of her onscreen relationships are with men (like Steve Trevor, Batman, and Superman). DependingOnTheWriter, she might simply enjoy the differences between the male and female body more, but most don't even bother to remind the reader she has a sexuality or drive.

** Rebirth sees Diana have a series of petty squabbles and brawls with her younger brother Jason, who resents pretty much everything about Diana except for her powers, which he doesn't find so wonderful in comparison to his own. Despite being poisoned against Diana by Grail and Darkseid, though the thought of Diana's ''death'' horrifies Jason and he turns against them to save her, forgetting his feud with Diana in the process.

* TheCowl: Post Crisis Diana considers dating Bruce Wayne but has a vision of the future where it leads to his untimely demise and her becoming a face concealing vigilante brutalizing criminals in Gotham, and [[FutureMeScaresMe just tells Bruce they should remain friends]].

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Diana rescuing Steve Trevor from his crashed plane despite not knowing who he is and helping to nurse him back to health. As well as defying her mother to join the contest to determine who will be her people's representative to Man's World.

** Sometimes among her or the Lasso of Truth's powers, DependingOnTheWriter. Post Crisis she interestingly showed greater resistance to forms of mind control that worked well enough on Superman, most infamously Maxwell Lord's, BUT she showed greater vulnerability to Maxima's mind control, which Superman had an easier time resisting. Maxima was possessed by Eclipso at the time, who had be retooled as a more powerful than ever CosmicEntity when the SharedUniverse was established, but it's not clear if ''Maxima's'' power was being boosted by him or if he just making her less restrained. Later during the post crisis era Wonder Woman gains "The Eyes of Pallas", which among other things allow her to completely NoSell all the psychic powers of Maxwell Lord and Dr. Psycho, and do a better job than the rest of the league against an Amazo that had the powers of both Martian Manhunter ''and'' Maxima, but then Mawxell Lord hooks himself up to a machine that lets him memory wipe the entire planet, even overcoming Eyes of Pallas Wonder Woman.

* JackOfAllStats: In some stories, she's not as strong as Superman. She's smart but not as strategic as Batman. She has superhuman speed but the Flash is the fastest. That being said, she's stated to be the best fighter among them.

** DC Rebirth sees Wonder Woman's "Man's World" physician, Doctor Shannon Crawford, develop an "amazon power suppression serum" made from Diana's own genetic material. It ends up failing in it's intended goal(turns out there's a little more to her super powers than mere genetic squencing) but ''does'' [[ForcedSleep put Wonder Woman asleep]], which allows Shannon [[XanatosSpeedChess to experiment on Diana without protest]]. Etta Candy blows up the lab where all of Shannon's research was stored to ensure it and all of her other inventions will never be used on Diana again.

* WorldsStrongestWoman: While her SuperStrength was more modest in her first appearances, stated to "only" be equal to Hercules and not ''[[ShowDontTell shown]]'' to be too extreme compared to the other comics DC was publishing, she has generally been portrayed as the strongest woman in the DC universe, or at least DC Earth, following the establishment of the SharedUniverse, where the statments around her abilities now had to be backed up. Depending on who's writing her, she sometimes matches Supergirl's strength.
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: She tends to pull out a lot of wrestling moves in adaptations. Even in the Golden Age she took down Cheetah with a handstand reverse head scissors take down, otherwise known as "JustToyingWithThem". She ''is'' ancient Greek, after all.

** During the [[ComicBook/DawnOfDC second volume]] of ''Amazons Attack'' the three Wonder Girls notice Wonder Woman has been [[OutOfCharacterAlert acting very strange]] and are trying to make her submit to the lasso of truth, to get their mentor back. Diana insists they owe her nothing, but Yara Flor informs Diana that humility is ''not'' one of Yara's virtues, that Yara wouldn't be giving Diana credit for anything if she could think of a reason not to.

* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Diana has become most associated with The Lasso Of Truth, which is the ''second'' magic lasso in her books. The lassos of compulsion, transformation, submission and lightning can ''also'' get people to tell the truth while also compelling the ensnared to obey commands, changing it's molecular structure up to become a living fire breathing dragon, turned the ensnared into the holder's subordinate or electrocuting the ensnared, repectively. Diana's is the only one to extract ''objective'' fact rather than what the victim merely believes to be true, however, force the target to acknowledge it, and even let the holder recognizes deceptions in general. Therefor it is the [[StorybreakerPower only]] one that has to be [[PutOnABus outright dropped]] from events like trial ''ComicBook/TrialOfTheAmazons'' with InUniverse acknowledgement that it could solve everything.

* KnowsTheRopes: Her first weapon was a magic rope that became known as "the lasso of compulsion". The Golden Age Earth Two Diana had unknowing trained to wield it for years due to the Amazons playing games where they attempted to tie each other up. Her second lariat, The Lasso of Truth, is her most iconic weapon. The former forces those she snares to obey her commands, the latter forces those she snares to tell the truth, accept the truth if they firmly believe in a falsehood and can even let one see through illusions. Unfortunately, Diana is not good enough with the ropes to use both lassos at once, so she can't use both effects at once unless someone else([[https://comicvine.gamespot.com/a/uploads/original/3/39700/7748659-5661432680-Ec1vowUXgAM4X1M.jpg usually second Wonder Girl Donna Troy]]) holds the other one.

* NamedWeapons: Orinally her lariat was simply known as "the magic lasso". This tool was later moved onto new character Donna Troy and called "The Lasso Of Compulsion", while Diana got a new lariat called "The Lasso of Truth" for its function at the time of its creation. Despite forcing people to tell the truth being a lot less versatile than forcing people to follow your every command, the lasso of truth has proven an invaluable tool for Diana over the years.

* PowerPerversionPotential: Her lasso of truth. Gift from the gods. Unbreakable weapon beyond mortal understanding. Really good for making your friends embarrass themselves by blurting out the truth at inopportune moments. Her first lariat, now known as the lasso of compulsion, was even more so to the degree it got moved over to the DarkerAndEdgier ''Teen Titans'' book and given to Diana's less scrupulous counterpart Donna Troy.

* SwissArmyWeapon: Wonder Woman's Lasso of Truth. In addition to it's ability to compel the truth out of people, it protects Wonder Woman from the effects of mind control, dispels illusions, exorcises demons(compulsion does so better but still), allows Diana to read the minds of whoever is bound in it(regarding to rooting out falsehoods) and remove impurities from the body.

** In the Golden Age and Silver Age comic books Hera was revered by the Amazons, though not actively venerated the way Aprodite, Athena, Hestia or even Hermes were. However, other Silver Age comics such as ''Sea Devils'' used Hera as an antagonist and the ''WesternAnimation/SuperFriends'' cartoon used Hera as a bully tormenting Aphrodite that Wonder Woman had to stop. Since then, Hera has become progressively more antagonistic in the Post Crisis, New 52 and especially Rebirth continuities, to the point Wonder Woman stops invoking Hera in the latter and [[MythologyGag starts swearing by Sappho instead]].

* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: Her original backstory was being sculpted by clay from her mother and brought to life by the Gods. In New 52 her origin was changed to be the daughter of Hippolyta and Zeus. Subsequent writers have flipflopped between the original Clay backstory and the Zeus version with the Clay origins winning out in the most recent series.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Initially Diana was quite pale but became more peachy skinned over time. Several adaptations have presented Diana with olive-tanned skin, which made their way back into the comics by New 52.

** In the ''League of One'', it's revealed that Diana regular uses the Lasso of Truth on ''herself'' to test her commitment to truth, and to make sure she doesn't lie at all, not even to herself. In another comic, she introduces herself to ComicBook/{{Batman}} and ComicBook/{{Superman}} by having all three of them holding the Lasso together so they may see each other's true intentions, an exchange in which Batman walks away implying that she is far more pure and heroic than both him and Supes.

** In the original comics after Steve Trevor crashed on Paradise Island, a contest was held to determine which Amazon would return him to the outside world. Princess Diana wanted to enter the contest but her mother Queen Hippolyta forbade her to do so. Diana entered the contest in disguise and bested all of the other contestants, winning the right to leave. Most retellings of Wonder Woman's origin maintain at least some tension between Diana and her mother when she first goes into Man's World (in the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse, she outright ''steals'' the Wonder Woman armor when Hippolyta takes a not-our-problem approach to the white martians' invasion). But it's outright deconstructed in Jill Thompson's ''ComicBook/WonderWomanTheTrueAmazon'', where Diana is portrayed as an immensely spoiled {{Jerkass}} who [[spoiler:takes up the mantle of Wonder Woman as a penance for ''getting several other Amazons killed'' during the Contest]].

* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: After being brainwashed into fighting Wonder Woman twice, back to back, in volume 3, Power Girl is ready to strike back at The Children Of Ares but Wonder Woman insists Kara's talents would be put to better use herding and pacifying everyone else in Washington DC who has been brainwashed by the quintet while Diana takes care of them herself. This unnerves Kara, who notes diplomacy and a soft touch are things Diana is far better at but Diana insists Power Girl can handle it. Wonder Woman ends up being proven right, just barely, as Power Girl admits her initial efforts at ShamingTheMob were ineffective and that she can't even remember how she eventually pulled it off.

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* ActionGirlfriend: Anyone who dates her is going to fall into this trope, save maybe for Franchise/{{Superman}} or Franchise/{{Batman}}. ComicBook/SteveTrevor, Wonder Woman's golden age love interest, was a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII U.S. intelligence officer, but couldn't exactly hold his own against Greek gods, sorceresses, or several hundred feet tall women. Her post crisis lover Trevor Barnes wasn't even a combatant by trade, and though forced to take up arms by consequence of being associated with Wonder Woman, he was all too aware of the fact he couldn't keep up.

* BattleCouple: She and ComicBook/SteveTrevor were in a relationship and fought side-by-side in most continuities including Earth-Two, Earth-One, Prime Earth.

* BloodKnight: Golden Age Wonder Woman very much enjoyed a good scrap, though she avoided going for lethal blows at all costs. She shows this tendency eveb more in the Comicbook/{{New 52}} Universe, mostly in the ''Justice League'' title, where she will ''gladly'' kill her foes.

* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: UsefulNotes/{{The Golden Age|OfComicBooks}} Franchise/WonderWoman got her super-powers from training in "Amazonian concentration" -- it was even a skill that Amazons could teach to normal human females. UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks retconned Wonder Woman as a [[ArtificialHuman clay statue brought to life]] with [[SemiDivine powers straight from the Gods]].

* {{Flanderization}}: Pre-New 52, Diana was fairly unique amongst DC's heroes in that she was ''willing'' to kill enemies, but only when absolutely necessary and when there is zero other options available. As of the New 52, this has been exaggerated into her ruthlessly killing any villain she confronts, which makes it pretty hard to believe that the other heroes would want anything to do with her. Her pre-New 52 willingness to kill is also an example of this, if a more gradual one. Originally she was the one of DC's Big Three who would ''not'' kill. She made an exception when it came to gods, because (as she herself pointed out) during Marston's run all gods had ResurrectiveImmortality. When the Silver Age came around she kept her no-killing rule as Batman and Superman also jumped on that train. When Creator/GeorgePerez rebooted her after Comicbook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths he brought back her willingness to kill gods (and expanded it to include other supernatural creatures as well), but never addressed whether they were still immortal. Later this was rationalized as her being willing to kill "when it was absolutely necessary". Then that was expanded to hypothetically include humans as well as non-humans. [[ItWasHisSled Then she snapped Maxwell Lord's neck]] and the rest is history.
* FlashStep: Wonder Woman has been able to use this trick, and be fast enough to leave after images, since the Golden Age. Once in ''ComicBook/SensationComics'' she managed to convince ComicBook/SteveTrevor both Diana Prince and Wonder Woman were standing behind a panel with holes cut out for their faces at a fair just by using her speed to quickly run between the two portholes.

* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Diana has become most associated with The Lasso Of Truth, which is the ''second'' magic lasso in her books. The lassos of compulsion, transformation, submission and lightning can ''also'' get people to tell the truth while also compelling the ensnared to obey commands, changing it's molecular structure up to become a living fire breathing dragon, turned the ensnared into the holder's subordinate or electrocuting the ensnared, repectively. Diana's is the only one to extract ''objective'' fact rather than what the victim merely believes to be true, however, force the target to acknowledge it, and even let the holder recognizes deceptions in general. Therefor it is the [[StorybreakerPower only]] one that has to be [[PutOnABus outright dropped]] from events like trial ''Comicbook/TrialOfTheAmazons'' with InUniverse acknowledgement that it could solve everything.

* ImmuneToBullets: She even provides the page image. [[DependingOnTheWriter Under the pen of most writers]] she is ''not'' immune to bullets -- she's simply fast enough to block them with her armored bracelets. If a smart criminal (like Comicbook/LexLuthor) had the sense to simply [[AgonyOfTheFeet shoot her in the foot,]] she'd be [[{{Pun}} hopping mad]]. Thanks to PowerCreepPowerSeep, Diana's relative invulnerability changes depending on the story being told and the title it's being told in. Sometimes (such as when she needs to fight Superman) it's up to Superman's levels. Other times... yeah, she needs those bracelets. There was some attempt to explain that bullets because they're much smaller and put pressure on a smaller area of skin, are much more dangerous to her, but it's a pretty feeble {{handwave}} for someone being vulnerable to bits of lead yet able to take a punch from a PhysicalGod. In the post crisis continuity "spirit of truth" isn't just a title or nickname but an actual [[MidSeasonUpgrade upgrade]] that lingered from her stint as a goddess which was supposed to permanently establish that she was immune to gunfire, [[WriterOnBoard but not every writer got the message]], with many still portraying her as vulnerable to "piercing" attacks. The ''Injustice'' comics [[ArmedWithCanon infamously went out of their way to establish]] ''their'' Wonder Woman was immune to bullets during a scene where Diana gets [[TranquilFury angered]] and refuses to "play" bullets and bracelets, [[UnflinchingWalk menancingly marching forward]] while [[ImplacableMan ignoring all projectiles coming her way]].

** In the ''League of One'', it's revealed that Diana regular uses the Lasso of Truth on ''herself'' to test her commitment to truth, and to make sure she doesn't lie at all, not even to herself. In another comic, she introduces herself to Franchise/{{Batman}} and Franchise/{{Superman}} by having all three of them holding the Lasso together so they may see each other's true intentions, an exchange in which Batman walks away implying that she is far more pure and heroic than both him and Supes.

** Rebirth Diana sometimes struggles with the fact she's got the strength of Demeter and those surrounding her don't, especially when among her fellow amazons, both when she remembers it ''and'' when she forget it. During ''Comicbook/TrialOfTheAmazons'' she upsets fellow contestant Donna Troy for "coddling" her instead of taking Donna seriously as an opponent, and after saving the other contestants from a cave in expresses shock that she managed to beat them to Nubia's throne room with the warning they were supposed to be giving in her absence, since she had to burrown through solid stone and they "just" had to make it through the open air.

** The Comicbook/{{New 52}} has her romantically paired up with Superman, a Kryptonian.

* LeotardOfPower: She is the classic example, which is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in ''Franchise/{{Justice League|of America}}'', where Gordon Godfrey snarkingly compares her to a showgirl. Also played with in the movie, when Steve Trevor says "Let's get you into an outfit that doesn't get me arrested for solicitation." Oddly Wonder Woman loses this in ''ComicBook/DCComicsBombshells'', were ''everyone'' is dressed as a 1940s pinup model.

* MadeOfIndestructium: Not even Superman or Captain Marvel can break her lasso. Her bracelets can withstand even {{ComicBook/Darkseid}}'s Omega Beam, which is one of the few things that can harm Franchise/{{Superman}}.

* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Unlike her male colleagues Franchise/{{Superman}} and Franchise/{{Batman}}, she lacks a [[ThouShallNotKill no-kill policy]] Post Crisis onward, which leads to much conflict between her and the other two (though she only does this after exhausting all other options). This even leads to her getting along with Superman villain Maxima better than he does, though Diana's [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter too optimistic about Post Crisis Maxima for her own good]], and Batman villain Harley Quinn liking Wonder Woman more than Batman, though Diana finds Harley annoying.

* PaintedOnPants: During the Creator/JMichaelStraczynski run. She soon went back to the LeotardOfPower. [[WhatCouldHaveBeen This was also planned]] for the Comicbook/{{New 52}}, but was ultimately scrapped for another version of the LeotardOfPower. Certain covers and promotional images were even released with "pants" and "no pants" versions.

** In the original comics after ComicBook/SteveTrevor crashed on Paradise Island, a contest was held to determine which Amazon would return him to the outside world. Princess Diana wanted to enter the contest but her mother Queen Hippolyta forbade her to do so. Diana entered the contest in disguise and bested all of the other contestants, winning the right to leave. Most retellings of Wonder Woman's origin maintain at least some tension between Diana and her mother when she first goes into Man's World (in the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse, she outright ''steals'' the Wonder Woman armor when Hippolyta takes a not-our-problem approach to the white martians' invasion). But it's outright deconstructed in Jill Thompson's ''ComicBook/WonderWomanTheTrueAmazon'', where Diana is portrayed as an immensely spoiled {{Jerkass}} who [[spoiler:takes up the mantle of Wonder Woman as a penance for ''getting several other Amazons killed'' during the Contest]].

** During ''Comicbook/TrialOfTheAmazons'' Diana gets annoyed when Faruka questions her moral character, specifically implying Diana doesn't care enough about the plight of The Bana-Mighdall even though Diana is the reason Themyscira now accepts The Bana-Mighdall as a legitimate tribe. Diana then goes on to upset pretty much everyone on Themyscira, "guest" and "native" alike when there is a murder and Diana suggests just putting everyone in the lasso of truth to determine the culprit. By the end of the "trial" pretty much all doubters are convinced that she's been in the right, but that doesn't mean they still don't find Diana annoying sometimes.

* ScienceHero: Wonder Woman [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 started out as a scientist with her own laboratory]] in which she and an Amazonian physician nursed ComicBook/SteveTrevor back to health, Diana aiding by inventing the Purple Healing Ray. She also flew an experimental stealth SpacePlane that she developed as an improvement to Hippolyta's planes. Later writers moved her further and further from the role, instead focusing on the ties her mother and birth via Aphrodite's aid gives her to Myth/ClassicalMythology, despite the original comics usually treating those Olympians that showed up more as aliens than gods.

* ShipTease: With Superman, Batman ''and'' Comicbook/{{Aquaman}} at various times.

** The Comicbook/{{New 52}} gave her electric powers via her relation to Zeus. Even after being retconned, Diana kept her immunity to lightning by usually using her bracelets.

* SuperheroGods: Wonder Woman gets half-points for a few reasons -- she's an Amazon, which are basically a race of semi-immortal demigoddesses in DC, especially Post Crisis and Rebirth, and she was created when her mother, Hippolyta, prayed to the gods to create her from clay. The Comicbook/New52 changed things so that she was Zeus' daughter, but Comicbook/DCRebirth has changed it back. In ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'' she briefly became the goddess of truth, but was able to return to her (semi-)mortal state as an Amazon in short order. She's also briefly been goddess of peace in an alternate New 52 timeline and god of war in the main New 52 time line.

* TeamMom: Wonder Woman can sometimes invoke this for ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica and ComicBook/JusticeLeague, Diana has been an [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/casscain/images/a/ad/Dcteaser.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110620214706 emotional anchor]] for even the most stoic members and she's broken up fights between heroes multiple times. Even Diana’s DarkerAndGrittier revamp in ComicBook/New52 and to a lesser extent Rebirth, she remains a caring figure for the team. She usually plays this role opposite to {{TeamDad}}s Franchise/{{Superman}} or Franchise/{{Batman}}.

* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Has this dynamic with Franchise/{{Batman}} and Franchise/{{Superman}} as the third of DC's "Big Three".

** In the post crisis continuity the invisible jet is a SufficientlyAdvancedAlien [[RockMonster crystal]] from a civilization known as The Ring. It looks like a giant egg by default but can become invisible and can shapeshift into not just a jet but into a shack, submarine or propeller plane. It had been subdued and used as a vehicle by the Lansinarian people of Antarctica. They gift the plane to Wonder Woman as a reward for saving them, but she's unaware that the plane is actually a living creature until a villain manages to wake it up and [[MoreThanMindControl convince it to attack Wonder Woman for treating it like a tool]]. After realizing it was still being taken advantage of, for a worse purpose than before, crystal alien becomes TheAtoner and helps rebuild Themyscira after Imperiex destroys it. It also goes back in time to aid Hippolyta, who had been punished with TheSlowPath for her role in ''Comicbook/AmazonsAttack'' and Hippolyta gives it a proper name: "Dome".

* WeaknessTurnsHerOn: The basis of Wonder Woman's attraction to ComicBook/SteveTrevor, in [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks the Golden]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks the Silver Age]]. Although Trevor's hardly a 98-pound weakling -- he's an Army pilot, after all -- all men seem fragile to Diana, who can bench press jeeps. In [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 one story]] where Steve experiments with an electronic device that "releases brain energy into the muscles", he gets to have SuperStrength and bosses Diana around a bit, but she muses "Some girls like to have a man stronger than they are make them do things. Do I -- like it? I don't know -- it's sort of thrilling. But isn't it more fun to make the man obey?"

* MultiMeleeMaster: Diana is proficient with a wide array of weapons as while the Amazons are a peaceful society they understand the need for defense and really like archery and fighting competitions for fun. When the need arises she'll usually compliment her lasso with a sword, spear and bow. Post Crisis she is even, somewhat logically, seen wielding a [[MartialArtsStaff bo staff]]. If she ever grabs a shield she'll be more than happy to batter a target with it. New 52 sees her commission a suit from Hephaestus that has [[BladeBelowTheShoulder retractable blades]] build into it. Batman even stated that Diana is the best melee fighter in all of the DC universe.

* ActionGirl: The archetypical comic book Action Girl, created for just that purpose in 1941. Not the first female superhero, but a true cultural icon and never out of print in 67 years. (Since until recently, if DC didn't keep making it they would lose ownership).
* ActionGirlfriend: Anyone who dates her is going to fall into this trope, save maybe for Franchise/{{Superman}} or Franchise/{{Batman}}. ComicBook/SteveTrevor, Wonder Woman's golden age love interest, was a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII U.S. intelligence officer, but couldn't exactly hold his own against Greek gods, sorceresses, or several hundred feet tall women. Her post crisis lover Trevor Barnes wasn't even a combatant by trade, and though forced to take up arms by consequence of being associated with Wonder Woman was all to aware of the fact he couldn't keep up.

* AdaptationalWimp: Silver Age Wonder Woman is in many ways more powerful than her Golden Age counterpart, but is far less confident, insightful and eager to get in harm's way. Ironically, since the "Wisdom of Athena" is now tied to her godly gifts Silver Age Wonder Woman becomes more confident and reckless when she loses her super powers and becomes even weaker. Post Crisis Wonder Woman also starts with fewer powers and far fewer resources than her Golden and Silver Age counterparts, and is much more naive than either, but keeps gaining powers, tools and knowledge throughout the run until she's ''at least'' as "badass" as either.

** When Wonder Woman expresses her sorrows to Genocide, Genocide assumes Wonder Woman is sorry about the fact Wonder Woman's genetic material was used to create a murder monster and Genocide proceeds gloat about her intentions to gradually kill everything on the planet. Diana was actually sorry about the fact she was going to use ''[[GodzillaThreshold everything]]'' at her disposal to kill the monster she couldn't afford to reason with any longer. Still, Wonder Woman was slightly ''revlieved'' that she [[NeverFoundTheBody lost tract of the body]] in the resulting wreckage, because it meant Genocide might still be alive, and therefore redeemable. In the Post Crisis continuity Genocide gets saved by Ares, who [[JerkassGods decided]] its mission to kill everything on Earth would be [[ItAmusedMe a good show]], but in the Rebirth continuity Ares is [[AdaptationalNiceGuy much less sadistic]] and Wonder Woman ''[[BewareTheNiceOnes does]]'' kill Genocide, only to then [[DueToTheDead give the monster a respectful burial]].

* AuthorAppeal: Part of Marston's design for Wonder Woman was to create an ideal modern woman that was fit to rule the world, believing the best way to sell this idea of matriarchy was to make it look as alluring as possible. Subsequently Marston's comics saw Wonder Woman frequently engage with various sides of bondage which Marston believed was healthy and sought to make it more socially acceptable, with a superheroine who both binds people of either gender and, under particular circumstances, enjoys being bound by other women. Even Diana's black hair colour was chosen because Marston believed women with darker hair were more inclined to be dominant both socially and romantically.

** Her first two meetings with Circe in the Post Crisis continuity see Wonder Woman get curbstomped and she needs to be saved from the sorceress the second time. Julia Kapatelis tries to ward off Circe using the moly herb, but it's not enough and it ultimately takes DivineIntervention from Hermes to get them out alive. But following this escape Diana is now aware Circe is out to get her and does a better job at fighting Circe every time until she's regularly besting her.

* TheBigGirl: When she's on the Justice Society/League. She is at least the second strongest after Superman and or Captain Marvel/Martian Mahunter. Combined with her martial arts training, she is the best melee fighter on the team, and is usually taller than any other women who may be on it.
* BigSisterInstinct: Diana could, would and has fought gods and monsters to protect her fellow Amazon sisters, especially Donna Troy who is her actually her adopted sister or clone in some continuities. Diana also cares for Cassie Sandsmark whenever they meet.

* BlessedWithSuck: During ''Lazarus Planet'' Hera informs Diana that the amazons are going to die out soon but proposes that they might be saved by turning Wonder Woman into their patron goddess, as the "mysteriously" MIA Hippolyta once was. Hera uses her newly gained authority from Olympus's throne to deify Wonder Woman before binding Wonder Woman in her own lasso, removing the wards protecting Themyscira and stripping away all the gifts The Olympians bestowed to the amazon tribes, fully intending to torture Wonder Woman with the extermination of the amazons and subjugation of humanity while Wonder Woman's now enhanced SuperSenses prevent her from [[ForcedToWatch blocking out what's happening]]. The experience makes Diana sympathize more with Superman, who she realizes has a similar level of super senses by default.

* BloodKnight: She shows this tendency in the Comicbook/{{New 52}} Universe, mostly in the ''Justice League'' title.

** During her adventures with Conan the Barbarian, Wonder Woman appears to have lost her powers as well as her memories. A rush of 9 thugs were able to knock her out and during a drinking competition, Conan was easily able to drink her under the table. However she's still an amazing fighter and is the reigning champion of the local gladiator arena until she fought Conan.

** Rebirth sees Diana have a serious of petty squabbles and brawls with her younger brother Jason, who resents pretty much everything about Diana except for her powers, which he doesn't find so wonderful in comparison to his own. Despite being poisoned against Diana by Grail and Darkseid though the thought of Diana's ''death'' horrifies Jason and he turns against them to save her, forgetting his feud with Diana in the process.

* TheCowl: Post Crisis Diana considers dating Bruce Wayne but has a vision of the future where it leads to his untimely demise and her becoming a brutal face concealing vigilante brutalizing criminals in Gotham, and just tells Bruce they should remain friends.

* ChainsawGood: In an alternative timelines have seen Wonder Woman using a chainsaw as a weapon. Most prominently ''Dark Knights Death Metal''.

** Post Crisis, Diana prays to Gaea for help after Cheetah steals her lasso and the amazons of Bana-Mighdall proceed to poison Diana and imprison her in their stronghold. While Gaea does save Diana from the poison, she also becomes aware of that the Bana-Mighdall are "defiling" her girdle and asks Hermes to undo the magical sandstorm protecting them get her girlde back before [[GaeasVengeance she destroys their city]]. The Bana-Mighdall are only saved by Circe teleporting their stronghold away at the last second, becuase Circe values them as pawns.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In DC Rebirth a desperate Diana prays to the gods without specifying ''which'' gods, and her prayer allows five from the Dark Matter Multiverse to crossover into her world before The Olympians can answer. The Olympians do send Wonder Woman armor with the power to duplicate every power of every single deity in the Greco-Roman pantheon, to deal with this quintet, but the armor misses its target and bonds with her brother Jason instead. The Dark Gods end up sent back home at the cost that Jason has to go with them.

* CoolPlane: The Invisible Jet. In the Golden Age it was designed by her to be a silent, unseen, rainbow shooting improvement over amazon aircraft designed by Hippolyte. In the Silver Age it was a horse transfigured into a vehicle. Post Crisis it was a shapeshifting alien. Rebirth it's back to an experimental aircraft being held in The War Chest Of Nike. Nowadays, it's only used if she needs stealth or to carry passengers or loads.
* CoolSword: In ComicBook/DCRebirth she keeps the very sharp decorated sword which had replaced her lasso as her weapon of choice during ComicBook/TheNew52, only now she wields an [[CrossoverCosmology Asgardian]] sword rather than an Olympian one...at first. It turns out to be [[PublicDomainArtifact Gram]] and she ends up returning it to Siegfried. Regardless of what sword or other bladed weapon she happens to be carrying, Wonder Woman will treat it more like a situational or even emergency weapon outside of New 52.
* CosmicMotifs: Stars are seen throughout Wonder Woman's outfit (i.e., tiara, spandex). During the Post Crisis ''Absolute Power'' arc, Diana has woven the same star fields worn by Donna Troy into her own clothing. These are pieces of firmament that allow her to navigate the literal cosmos outerspace.
* CostumeEvolution: She has gone through several minor costume changes, usually involving exactly what her ChestInsignia is and how much is on her red and blue outfit. Any major deviation tends to see her return to her red and blue leotard before long. Other outfits give her pants or battle armor, or just add darker colors. Her [[ComicBook/SensationComics original costume]] slowly morphed into the iconic leotard look after starting out with loose flowing athletic shorts that turned into [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 tight bike shorts]] and got progressively shorter under different artists. ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth seems the pteruges over her permanently shrunken shorts.

* DeadlyDisc: Wonder Woman owns several round shields, and while she rarely uses them in her guise as a superhero when she is needed to act as the champion of Paradise Island she proves to be just as adept at throwing them as she is at using her tiara as a boomerang.

** Rebirth Image-Maker is desperate to convince Wonder Woman that she's no longer needed in her world and to give her a paradise in the Mirror World he rules, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero which she happened to crash through]] while returning to Earth through the sphere of the gods. She likes what she sees, but isn't tempted by it. The lasso of truth in her hand lets her know his paradise is a falsehood.

** In pre-Flashpoint continuity (''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987''), she became the Goddess of Truth for a short while after she was killed in action and the Greek gods decided to reward her for her devotion. However, she was ''too'' good to be a god, using her new powers more to help people than gain worshippers, so they eventually demoted her back to mortal superhero.

* {{Depower}}: In the Silver Age the amazon powers are direct gifts from the gods rather than the products of {{super natural martial arts}} and introspection, and Diana's superiority to her sisters come from her having more gifts due to the circumstances of her birth, rather than because she is a prodigy. Unfortunately this gifts have to be restored every ten thousand years in a ritual that involves removing Paradise Island from the Earth and Diana opts to stay instead, losing all of her gifts in the process. She doesn't revert to clay, bringing her birth into question, but this was largely an excuse to make Wonder Woman into a [[FadSuper Mod Beautique owner and have her star in adventures more like]] ''Series/TheAvengers'' television show. This was undone when Paradise Island returned to the planet and the amazons restored Wonder Woman's powers after operating on her.

* DeusExitMachina: Literally in ''Lazarus Planet:Revenge Of The Gods'' where Wonder Woman is both made into a goddess ''and'' restricted from using her new powers, or doing anything else but impotently watch the extirpation of Themyscira and subjugation of humanity by another goddess. Luc

* ExposedToTheElements: Back in the golden age, when DC's second ever ice villain Minister Blizzard lived up to his name, Etta Candy became concerned about Wonder Woman's health, only for Wonder Woman to ensure Etta that amazons are trained to handle "minor" fluxuations in temperature. This also applies to her Earth One counteraprt during ''For The Man Who Has Everything'', as she is concerned about Batman and Robin getting cold, despite exposing a lot more skin than they.

* NervesOfSteel: She never hesitates to do what she must. Once she decides exactly what that is anyway.

* FishOutOfWater: An immortal Amazon warrior is both amazed and baffled at Man's world. Volume 3 really focuses on the friends she's made in "Man's World" and her defiance of the mysterious uptick in campaigns to destroy their civilizations.

* {{Flight}}: She has the ability to fly. In the Golden Age she couldn't fly at all on her own, hence the invisible robot plane, while in the silver age she could [[NotQuiteFlight glide on air currents]]. Post Crisis she could fly wearing the sandals of Hermes but the protogenoi Gaea ends up gifting Diana with the ability to fly without them. She can fly right from the start in New 52 and DC Rebirth, though in Rebirth Themyscira still [[ContinuityNod keeps the sandals in "The Warchest Of Nike" next to her invisible jet,]] indicating they weren't destroyed by a resentful Zeus in this continuity.
* FlightStrengthHeart: Wonder Woman has flight, super-strength second only to Superman, [[SuperReflexes reflexes fast enough to block bullets]] with her bracelets (and indestructible bracelets), an indestructible magic lasso that can break enchantments and force anyone bound with it to answer any question truthfully and a razor-sharp tiara she can throw like a boomerang. Did you know she can also [[SpeaksFluentAnimal talk to animals]]? Neither did most of the people who write her comic, judging by how often she does it. She can also talk with trees.

* FriendlyShopKeeper: During the Silver Age she refused to leave Earth with rest of the amazons, lost her wonderful powers as a result, quit The Justice League and opened a Mod Beautique. She was genuinely in love with the fashion style and interested in helping other people look good. Superheroes like Supergirl would still come by, asking for help that had nothing to do with clothing, and while Diana insisted there was nothing she could do often proved valuable do to her new found connections.

* GoGetterGirl: She's defined by her determination to do what she thinks is right, hates to lose, and won't stop on a course of action one's she's made her decision, unless by extreme intervention by outside forces. This trait has been used against her at times by her enemies and even by her allies such as Batman in the ''Tower of Babel'' arc.

* GoodIsNotSoft: She has always been an icon of kindness and nobility, preferring peace and diplomacy to war and aggression. Yet, of all of the members of the Justice League of America, she alone has never hesitated to use lethal force when it was needed, reminding everyone the Amazons are, at heart, still a Proud Warrior Race.

* GoodWearsWhite: Diana is normally a PrimaryColorChampion but she has worn white on a few occasions. Namely, during the Dennis O'Neil era when she lost her powers, when she became the Goddess of Truth during John Byrne's run, when she became Goddess of Peace in a ''[[ComicBook/TheNew52FuturesEnd Future's End]]'' story and in ''ComicBook/DCInfiniteFrontier'' #0 when she became a goddess.

* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Diana has become most associated with The Lasso Of Truth, which is the ''second'' magic lasso in her books. The lassos of compulsion, transformation, submission and lightning can ''also'' get people to tell the truth while also compelling the ensnared to obey commands, changing it's molecular structure up to become a living fire breathing dragon, turned the ensnared into the holder's subordinate or electrocute the ensnared. Diana's is the only one to extract ''objective'' fact rather than what the victim merely believes to be true, however, force the target to acknowledge it, and even let the holder recognizes deceptions in general. Therefor it is the [[StorybreakerPower only]] one that has to be [[PutOnABus outright dropped]] from events like trial ''Comicbook/TrialOfTheAmazons'' with InUniverse acknowledgement that it could solve everything.

* ChestInsignia: For most of her history Diana has had a soaring eagle on the top of her one-piece. In 1982 it was replaced it with concentric W's (explained in-story as the logo of the "Wonder Woman Foundation" and, ComicBook/PostCrisis, as Diana Trevor's WAFS insignia). The eagle has made periodic returns since, [[DependingOnTheArtist sometimes in place of the letters, othertimes]] leaving enough room for a "WW" on her waist.

* IntimateMarks: Wonder Woman is one of the {{Trope Codifier}}s within the {{Superhero}} genre from the Silver Age onward with her "WW". DependingOnTheArtist, it is underneath her cleavage either stylized to look like an eagle or she has an eagle on her chest whose wings are stylized letters. Othertimes the WW is around her waist, or she has one W on her waist and another on her chest.
* InvincibleHero: She's just as strong as Superman with more combat skill and experience. And unlike the Man of Steel, she doesn't have an obvious or even known {{kryptonite factor}} weakness. [[DependingOnTheWriter Writers taking notes from New 52]] give Wonder Woman ''faster'' muscle twich fibers and superior movement detection than Superman! She does have some more {{logical weakness}}es however, like the need for breatheable air, is usually said to have a much lower top speed than Superman provided something is not in her wingspan and almost always has inferior SuperSenses to big blue. Writers also ''sometimes'' place the gods she's gifted by in the middle of the FantasyPantheon to justify [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter some other divine figure making]] Wonder Woman genuinely struggle, but in most stories have The Olympians, and Wonder Woman by association, among the DCU's elite.

** Golden Age Wonder Woman initially thinks the best of Priscilla Rich because she met her at a charitable event, and doesn't immediately realize Rich was the one who tried to kill her at that event until well into Rich's turn to crime as The Cheetah in [[VillainousBreakdown response to her failure to drown Wonder Woman]]. Post Crisis and New 52 Wonder Woman similarly assume the best of Barbara Minerva and are shocked at the realization of how depraved she is, though Rebirth Barbara Minerva really ''[[AdaptationalNiceGuy is]]'' as good as Diana assumes, beyond being [[TheCorruptible fairly easy]] to [[TragicVillain lead astray]] by super villains like Veronica Cale and Lex Luthor.

* ImmuneToBullets: She even provides the page image. She is, strictly speaking, ''not'' immune to bullets -- she's simply fast enough to block them with her armored bracelets. If a smart criminal (like Comicbook/LexLuthor) had the sense to simply [[AgonyOfTheFeet shoot her in the foot,]] she'd be [[{{Pun}} hopping mad]]. Thanks to PowerCreepPowerSeep, Diana's relative invulnerability changes depending on the story being told and the title it's being told in. Sometimes (such as when she needs to fight Superman) it's up to Superman's levels. Other times... yeah, she needs those bracelets. There was some attempt to explain that bullets because they're much smaller and put pressure on a smaller area of skin, are much more dangerous to her, but it's a pretty feeble {{handwave}} for someone being vulnerable to bits of lead yet able to take a punch from a PhysicalGod. In the post crisis continuity "spirit of truth" isn't just a title or nickname but an actual [[MidSeasonUpgrade upgrade]] which was supposed to permanently solve the bullets question, but not every writer got the message and still portrayed her as vulnerable to "piercing" attacks.
* ImmuneToFire: One of Wonder Woman's lesser-used powers is "sisterhood with fire" which grants her immunity to fire, and {{depending on the writer}}, heat altogether. In one battle, she's knocked into a pool of lava and simply walks out smiling. During ''The Witch And The Warrior'' arc of volume 2 she even takes multiple shots of heat vision from a more powerful than usual Superman. The ''force'' of the unblocked blasts pushing her througout the city but despite smoke coming off after ever hit ''[[ClothingDamage she]]'' isn't actually burnt.

* ImpossiblyCoolWeapon: Wonder Woman has weapons forged by Hephaestus, the god of blacksmiths. Most famous is her Golden Lasso; unbreakable and anyone bound by it must tell the truth. Her original lasso, which forced those it held to follow her commands was even more {{story break|erpower}}ing. The other most famous of Wonder Woman's accouterments are her bracelets, gifted by Aphrodite and nigh indestructible. She also wields the Sword of Hephaestus, which is sharp enough to split molecules and because it is magic, can kill Superman. She can even use her tiara as a makeshift, sharp boomerang.

* ImprobableUseOfAWeapon: Wrapping the lasso of truth around her own arm, hand to elbow, to benefit from its powers while hunting [[MasterOfIllusion illusory]] or MindManipulation powers. In volume three she mentions "spanking" [[CreepyChild The Children of Ares]]] off panel while doing this. In DC Rebirth she realizes things about the world suddenly aren't adding up and wraps the lasso around her forearm and bicep, concluding that her memories of the New 52 run were a deception against her.

* InnocentBlueEyes: Piercing, blue eyes to match her pure, heroic nature.

* InvincibleHero: She's just as strong as Superman with more combat skill and experience. And unlike the Man of Steel, she doesn't have an obvious or known kryptonite weakness. She does have some more {{logical weakness}}es however, like the need for breatheable air.

* KnowsTheRopes: Her first weapon was a magic rope that became known as "the lasso of compulsion". The Golden Age Earth Two Diana had unknowing trained to wield it for years due to the Amazons playing games where they attempted to tie each other up. Her second lariat, The Lasso of Truth, is her most iconic weapon. The former forces those she snares to obey her commands, the latter forces those she snares to tell the truth, accept the truth if they firmly believe in a falsehood and can even let one see through illusions. Unfortunately, Diana is not good enough with the ropes to use both lassos at once, so she can't use both affects at once unless someone else([[https://comicvine.gamespot.com/a/uploads/original/3/39700/7748659-5661432680-Ec1vowUXgAM4X1M.jpg usually second Wonder Girl Donna Troy]]) holds the other one.

* LamePunReaction: Young Diana reveals that as much as the Diana loved her Aunt Antiope, she did ''not'' love Antiope's sense of humor.

** After Marston's health declined and other people began writing the Golden Age Wonder Woman, her biggest weakness is not necessarily that she runs into trouble so much as that she doesn't know how to properly react to it when the Wisdom of Athena fails and she finds herself in a bind [[DidntSeeThatComing she could have never forseen]]. This is best seen in JLA #55, where the story jumps from Earth One of the Silver Age back to Earth 2 of the Golden Age, and the Justice Society finds themselves up against [[OutsideContextProblem black sphere aliens from a negative time universe lying dormant inside of mostly ordinary citizens]] that [[TheCorruption are being driven mad by the radiation they give off]]. These things have powers not even the gods can duplicate, even fifth dimensional entities like Johnny's Thunder Bolt are stumped at how to deal with them, and they just [[GatheringSteam keep getting stronger with each passing hour]]. The Thunder Bolt [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere incidentally flees]], [[KnowWhenToFoldEm knowing he's outmatched]], but the Earth Two Wonder Woman keeps fighting even as her opponent [[JustToyingWithThem systematically renders all of her amazon gifts useless]]. Quite the shock after nine years of readers getting used to the Silver Age Earth One Wonder Woman, who would have also run with her metaphorical tail between her legs at this point. However, after taking her loss Wonder Woman is the one who does the most to formulate a plan to stop these alien hosts, as with time to think the wisdom of Athena reasserts itself, and she even hatches a [[XanatosSpeedChess new, effective plan on the fly]] when that one fails. Most continuities use this as their reference when thinking of ways to challenge Wonder Woman, rather than the CowardlyLion showings of the Silver Age version.
** In the Silver Age, taking away Wonder Woman's super powers also took away her goddess gifted "Wisdom Of Athena", sometimes causing mortal woman Diana to barrel into situations her more powerful self would pause at. Even with super powers, Silver Age Wonder Woman would usually be recklessly impulsive if separated from her bracelets of submission.
* LeotardOfPower: She is the classic example, which is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in ''Franchise/{{Justice League|of America}}'', where Gordon Godfrey snarkingly compares her to a showgirl. Also played with in the movie, when Steve Trevor says "Let's get you into an outfit that doesn't get me arrested for solicitation."

** Her sight and hearing are better than any human's, or amazon's in cases where that matters, should be, but they are nowhere near as powerful or accurate as Superman's telecoping senses. She might become aware of a bullet fired as it leaves the chamber, but probably won't notice you getting in position to snipe across the street until you've pulled the trigger and probably won't be fast enough to stop it if it wasn't fired anywhere near her. Probably won't notice that time bomb put under the newly wed's cake either. She might be good enough to fight you in the dark, but maybe not find you if you run away and ''hide'' in the blackness.

** Pre-Crisis, her bracelets were made of "amazonium," a metal found only on Paradise Island. DependingOnTheWriter, it was one of or ''the'' hardest metals in the DCU.

** A Silver Age story sees the original magic lasso of Earth Two transfigured into several pairs of rods by a diamond wielding Gem Girl. Gem Girl's body was housing a sleeping "negative time universe" alien [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter whose powers trump those of gods and higher dimensional imps alike]], and she had discovered how to channel that power through [[ExplainingYourPowersToTheEnemy gems]]. The lasso [[SnapBack returns to its original form]] once Gem Girl's diamond is away from it and becomes capable of binding Gem Girl once the Golden Age Wonder Woman figures out how [[BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame to empower herself with the same radiation]] the black sphere invaders emit and channel it through her lariat.

* MartialPacifist: Traditionally this was part of being an Amazon. They are sworn to avoid violence and harming others whenever it is feasible, but play "games" like bullets and bracelets, have frequent archery and martial arts tournaments for fun and will easily take down any opponent they feel they must fight but they will absolutely not kill. She was the most martial pacifist of the amazons in the golden and silver ages, where the others would try to find loopholes in this rule where they could but Diana didn't even particularly enjoy killing for food. The Amazons' backstory and motivations were then thrown out and they were reinvented for [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Volume 2]], and they ''still'' avoid killing if at all possible even in situations where lives are at risk.

** Wonder Woman was specifically designed as a woman with enough powers to keep up with Superman, and therefore has SuperStrength, SuperSpeed, NighInvulnerability, NotQuiteFlight, and an impressive HealingFactor along with powers [[DependingOnTheWriter authors often ignore]] like low level {{Telepathy}} which ties into her [[SpeaksFluentAnimal ability to talk to animals]]. Her ties to truth also mean she's far more successful at redeeming and befriending her villains than most heroes.
** Post Crisis Wonder Woman puts up the best fight of The Justice League against a new and improved Amazo model that has copied the powers of every member, including her own and that of members not even present, simply because she has the best combination of power, skill, resistances, and lack of glaring weaknesses. This proves to be nothing more than a HopeSpot however, as the league ultimately cannot beat this Amazo until far further in the future, and Superman has to temporarily disband the league.

* MidSeasonUpgrade: Wonder Woman gradually became more powerful over time as the Post Crisis stories rolled out. Her most notably upgrades were the power of flight from Gaia, The Eyes of Pallas that greatly enhanced her resistance to psychic powers and illusion detection, and an overall increase to her physical toughness as she became "the spirit of truth".

* MsFanservice: Wonder Woman is a [[StatuesqueStunner tall]], very beautiful raven-haired Amazonian woman (and also the WorldsMostBeautifulWoman) who wears outfits (such as a revealing strapless leotard or a bustier-hotpants combo) that present her skin and highlight her muscular yet voluptuous body, [[MostCommonSuperpower large breasts]], [[AmazonianBeauty strong toned muscles (especially her large biceps)]], ripped broad shoulders, [[MaleGaze nicely toned buttocks]], and long muscular legs. Her revealing outfits make sense in the context of Greek athletics where both sexes would be naked. DependingOnTheWriter her body is also tougher than any armor, but those who depict being vulnerable to "piercing" attacks oftenn downplay this and have Diana wear something more protective when expecting a hard fight.

** In DC Rebirth Wonder Woman tends to be drawn shredded but relatively slim. When Dr. Shannon Crawford creates an "Amazon Power Serum" from Diana's blood and injects it into herself it causes the sickly slim Shannon to instantly bulk up to a far greater extent than Diana, and Diana tells her she's seen this before, saying it's a sign an amazon has lost control of her godly gifts...or in this case that Diana's blood and plasma are rejecting the body they've been injected into. Shannon proceeds to [[UnstoppableRage try and smash everyone she can find]] but Diana is able to overpower her, with admitted difficulty. So muscles do mean ''something'', but there is more to strength than muscle mass. Trained soliders who later take Shannon's serum don't [[HulkingOut hulk out]] the way she did and [[IBelieveICanFly can even duplicate Diana's flight]]...though Diana's fluids still end up rejecting their bodies when they touch the lasso of truth.

* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Her usual love interest, Steve Trevor, is a humble and friendly man who has the utmost faith and respect in her.

* TheWorfEffect:
** Volume 2 # 38 sees Wonder Woman stumble into a trap laid by Eris that her tiara cannot cut her out of, establishing that even it has limits in the right circumstances.
** She's a combination of being the WorldsBestWarrior when it comes to Amazon fighting skill and the WorldsStrongestWoman on DC Earth, making her the potent mixture of both strength and fighting skill as a heroine. And whenever she goes up against some of Superman's villains like Bizarro, Doomsday, Mongul, Wraith, or Faora, she tends to take a serious beatdown to emphasize how broken in power some of Superman's RoguesGallery are, even in comparison to her.

* WorldsMostBeautifulWoman: She is canonically supposed to be this, having been blessed at birth by the goddess Aphrodite. In the silver age her sister Nubia has the same blessing but looks completely different from Diana, aside form having the same long, straight black hair. And then there is that Post Crisis {{continuity snarl}} around Donna Troy, who ''[[DependingOnTheWriter might]]'' be an exact copy of Diana despite never being drawn identical to her...
* WorldsStrongestWoman: While her SuperStrength was more modest in her first appearances, she is eventually generally portrayed as the strongest woman in the DC universe, or at least DC Earth. Depending on who's writing her, she sometimes matches Supergirl's strength.

* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: After being brainwashed into fighting Wonder Woman twice, back to back, in volume 3, Power Girl is ready to strike back at The Children Of Ares but Wonder Woman insists Kara's talents would be put to better use herding and pacifying everyone else in Washington DC who has been brainwashed by the quintet while Diana takes care of them herself. This unnerves Kara, who notes diplomacy and a soft touch are things Diana is far better suited to but Diana insists Power Girl can handle it. Wonder Woman ends up being proven right, just barely, as Power Girl admits her initial efforts at ShamingTheMob were ineffective and that she can't even remember how she eventually pulled it off.

** She's a combination of being the WorldsBestWarrior when it comes to Amazon fighting skill and the WorldsStrongestWoman on DC Earth, making her the highest combination of both strength and fighting skill as a heroine. And whenever she goes up against some of Superman's villains like Bizarro, Doomsday, Mongul, Wraith, or Faora, she tends to take a serious beatdown to emphasize how broken in power some of Superman's RoguesGallery are, even in comparison to her.

** She's a combination of being the WorldsBestWarrior when it comes to Amazon fighting skill and the WorldsStrongestWoman on DC Earth, making her the highest combination of both strength and fighting skill as a heroine. And whenever she goes up against some of Superman's villains like Bizarro, Doomsday, Mongul, or Faora, she tends to take a serious beatdown to emphasize how broken in power some of Superman's RoguesGallery are, even in comparison to her.

* TheWorfEffect: Volume 2 # 38 sees Wonder Woman stumble into a trap laid by Eris that her tiara cannot cut her out of, establishing that even it has limits in the right circumstances.