Wonder Girl is confusing

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 * OfficialName           = Wonder Girl Is Confusing
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 * Creators               = Robert Kanigher; Harry G. Peter
 * First                  = {{c|Wonder Woman Vol 1 23}}


 * HistoryText            = Wonder Girl is a heroine notorious for a convoluted, ever-changing history due to a lack of editorial coordination and several line-wide reboots.

Introduction
Wonder Woman was created in 1941 by William Moulton Marston and Harry G. Peter. Six years later, they came up with a story set in Wonder Woman's childhood. Said adventure marks the first appearance of Wonder Girl. During the next years, DC would publish more flashback stories set in Diana's childhood, similar to Superboy's flashback stories.

In 1961, Robert Kanigher and Ross Andru publish a story where Queen Hyppolita uses Amazon science to bring Wonder Woman's child and teen selves, Wonder Tot and Wonder Girl respectively, to the present. Nonetheless, Kanigher would write more stories featuring both Diana and her younger self, and after several years, his stories stopped explicitly referring to Wonder Girl as Diana's teen self.

In July, 1965, Bob Haney creates the Teen Titans in collaboration with Bruno Premiani. Unaware of Wonder Girl's identity, Haney has her join the team and treats her as her own separate character, marking Donna Troy's first appearance. Nonetheless, it would be a long while before the new Wonder Girl got her own name and a backstory explaining her origins.

In 1983, Roy Thomas, Dann Thomas and Ross Andru introduce the family of the Wonder Woman of Earth-Two, including her daughter Fury, which occupied the "Wonder Girl" niche in Earth-Two.

In January, 1984, Marv Wolfman and George Perez finally create a backstory for Wonder Girl. A baby rescued from a burning building for Diana, Donna was adopted and raised by Queen Hyppolita and given Amazon powers thanks to the Amazon Purple Ray. Donna also learns that her birth mother entrusted an orphanage with her before dying, and her adoptive parents died in the fire.

Unfortunately one year later Crisis on Infinite Earths comes out. The Multiverse is destroyed except for five Earths which are merged into one. In 1987 Wonder Woman is rebooted by George Perez. In the new reality, Wonder Woman was never Wonder Tot or Wonder Girl, she wasn't a Justice League founding member and she didn't leave Themyscira before the formation of the Teen Titans, which forced to retcon Donna Troy's newly-created backstory. Likewise, since Earth-Two had been retroactively erased from existence, Lyta Trevor's origin was changed to be daughter of World War II heroine Helena Kosmatos.

A new origin was needed for Donna Troy, so in 1988 Wolfman and Perez come up with the Who Is Wonder Girl? storyline. From that point on, Donna would constantly change codenames, identities and origins.

Comes 1996, and John Byrne creates a new Wonder Girl, Cassandra Sandsmark, daughter of Wonder Woman's friend Dr. Helena Sandsmark. Using Amazon artifacts to simulate powers, Cassandra would join Wonder Woman's battles despite the latter's opposition. Eventually Cassandra discovered she owned powers and began suspecting her real father was Zeus, a heritage Zeus himself would end up confirming.

In 1998, John Byrne also changes Donna Troy's origin to her being a Diana duplicate created by sorceress Magala using a magic mirror so that Diana had a playmate. In 2005, Phil Jimenez tries to fix the issue of Donna Troy's inconsistent origins by revealing that Donna remembers every life of her different incarnations prior to the death of the Multiverse, which implies every origin is true.

In 2011, DC publishes the Flashpoint event. The DC universe is rebooted once again, and the Wonder Woman family is completely revamped. In the new reality, Diana is daughter of Zeus, Donna is a woman made from magic clay to destroy Diana by Amazon rebels, Cassandra is a founding member of the Teen Titans and Diana's niece through her half-brother Lennox, and Lyta "Fury" Trevor is reimagined as Donna, daughter of Earth 2 Wonder Woman and Steppenwolf.

In 2016, Wonder Woman is reimagined by Greg Rucka. Rucka retcons Brian Azzarello and David Finch's runs, but Donna's new origin is kept by Dan Abnett.

Timeline

 * 1941: Diana's first appearance.
 * 1947: First flashback story featuring Diana as Wonder Girl.
 * 1961: Robert Kanigher writes a story featuring Wonder Woman and her younger selves, Wonder Tot and Wonder Girl, visiting the present day and enjoying adventures with their adult self.
 * 1965: Donna Troy's first appearance.
 * 1983: Lyta Trevor's first appearance.
 * 1984: "Who Is Donna Troy?". Donna Troy's first origin revealed.
 * 1985-1986: Crisis On Infinite Earths happens.
 * 1987:
 * George Perez Wonder Woman's reboot starts.
 * Hippolyta Trevor's origin is retconned.
 * 1988: Who Is Wonder Girl?. Donna Troy's origin is changed.
 * 1996: Cassandra Sandsmark is introduced.
 * 1998: Donna Troy is given a new origin, this time as a duplicate from Diana created by a magic mirror. -
 * 2001: Titans: Whos is Troia?. Dark Angel abducts Donna and claiming she is a cosmic anomaly, forces her to experience a cycle of countless tragic lives.
 * 2002: Cassandra begins suspecting her biological father's real identity.
 * 2005:
 * Cassandra Sandsmark confirms her beliefs regarding Zeus.
 * . Donna Troy learns that her conflicting memories are due to her remembering her alternate selves' lifes.
 * 2006: Lyta Trevor's death
 * 2011:
 * Flash: Flashpoint event happens.
 * Wonder Woman's new origin as daughter of Zeus is established.
 * Prime Earth Cassandra Sandsmark makes her first appearance.
 * 2013: Fury's first appearance.
 * 2015: Donna Troy's new clay origin.
 * 2016: DC Rebirth relaunch. Wonder Woman's origin is reimagined again, ditching the majority of stories published after Flashpoint.
 * 2017: Donna Troy states she's an orphan who doesn't remember her origins or her powers' before being adopted by the Amazons when she was seven. Later, Wonder Woman states the amazons wiped out Donna's memories from being a doll clay created to kill Diana so Donna can lead a normal life.

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 * RelatedText            =
 * Wonder Woman Origins
 * Wonder Woman Publication History
 * Teen Titans Origins
 * Teen Titans Publication History
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