Diana of Paradise Island (Earth-One)

Diana is an Amazon of Paradise Island who fights crime as Wonder Woman. In her civilian identity, she is known as Diana Prince, and she has been an Air Force intelligence officer, a NASA astronaut trainee, a United Nations guide and the proprietor of a mod fashion store. She is a founding member of the Justice League of America.

History

Origin

Diana was born and raised as an Amazon on the hidden world of Paradise Island. When the Amazons were required by the Goddess Athena to send one warrior to Man's World, Queen Hippolyta arranged a series of challenges for all Amazons to overcome. Diana was among them and she managed to succeed in every challenge. She was called Wonder Woman by her Amazon sisters and she became their warrior to leave Paradise Island and stay in Man's World. However, she was forced to flee Paradise Island sooner than expected because Air Force Colonel Steve Trevor's plane failed in mid-air and he would've fallen on Paradise Island, rendering the Amazons powerless. Diana glided using air currents and took Trevor to the mainland, where she started her career as Wonder Woman.^[2]

Soon after coming to Man's World, Wonder Woman saved the infant Donna Troy from a house fire. Donna would be raised on Paradise Island as the adopted daughter of Queen Hippolyta, and thus Diana's adoptive sister. Donna returned to Man's World as the teenaged Wonder Girl of the Teen Titans. Meanwhile, Diana had become a founding member of the Justice League of America.

Depowered But Never Powerless

Wonder Woman then surrendered her powers to remain in "Man's World" (partly to assist Steve Trevor, who was facing criminal charges which resulted in his death) rather than accompany her fellow Amazons into another dimension so they could "restore their magick."

Now a mod boutique owner,^[3] the powerless Diana Prince soon came under the wing of a Chinese mentor known as I-Ching. Under I-Ching's guidance, Diana was trained to use her body as a weapon, learning martial arts and weapons skills, and proceeded to undertake secret agent-style adventures.^[4]

During one of these exploits, Diana came in conflict with the evil Doctor Cyber and after a few encounters, their quarrel ended with Cyber's apparent demise after she tried to steal Diana's body for herself.^[5]

With her identity as Diana Prince, she also helped Batman capture the criminal called Willi van Dort, saving the Dark Knight from a likely death^[6] and then she helped him capture an international criminal in Gotham City.^[7]

Comeback

After two years of being powerless, Wonder Woman's powers were finally restored to her and she started using her battle suit again.^[8]

Following the return of the "original" Wonder Woman, a major adventure consisted of the super-heroine's attempt to be readmitted to the Justice League of America, the organization that she had quit after giving up her powers. To prove her worthiness to rejoin the JLA, Wonder Woman voluntarily underwent 12 "labors" (analogous to the 12 Labors of Hercules), each of which was monitored in secret by a different member of the JLA. Queen Hippolyta, for her part, was so disgusted with the JLA's actions that she added a 13th "labor" without their knowledge that resulted in the resurrection of Steve Trevor from the dead.^[9]

Eventually, Wonder Woman started working at the United Nations in her secret identity as Diana Prince.^{[citation needed]} In this new position, she was aware of many critical situations that required the immediate attention of Wonder Woman. During this time, Steve Trevor died again.

After a time, Diana left the U.N. and worked with NASA, though this was short-lived. She was eventually recruited by General Darnell for his Special Intelligence Branch, and worked with a Steve Trevor from another reality (her previous memories of both of Steve's deaths were removed; as were his of not being from this reality - in effect, they met again for the first time) and Etta Candy.

When Diana was informed about an international criminal called Dimitrios, she went out looking for the criminal as Wonder Woman and with the unsuspected assistance from Batman, they captured the crook along with other criminals, bringing them to justice.^[10] She then worked with Batman to stop a French criminal called Flashback from disrupting important business between France and America.^[11]

Judgment in Infinity

Main article: Wonder Woman: Judgment in Infinity

Upon running into the Adjudicator, who planned to test several alternate Earths and destroying them if he deemed them wanting, Wonder Woman summoned the Justice League and the Justice Society to warn them about his threat.^[12]

Wonder Woman fought the Adjudicator's four servants, aided by several fellow heroines: Supergirl, Zatanna, Madame Xanadu, Raven, Starfire and Wonder Girl of Earth-One; the Black Canary, the Huntress, and Power Girl of Earth-Two; and Phantom Lady of Earth-X.^[13]

At the end, though, their combined power was not enough to take the Adjudicator down, but Wonder Woman managed to save all of the worlds when she ensnared him in his Lasso and demanded to know who set him up as judge, jury, and executor, which alerted his overseers in his lunatic ward that he had overstepped his boundaries and took him away.^[14]

Crisis on Infinite Earths

Before the Amazons can fight amongst themselves, Demeter arrives on Paradise Island and outfits them in special armor. Meanwhile, Hermes is sent to collect Diana, and reveals her secret identity to her co-workers. The Amazons fight the Anti-Monitor's Shadow Demons, who combine into a giant and are destroyed by Wonder Woman's use of the Purple Healing Ray.^[15] Hades, who has allied with Mars, now using his other identity of Ares, sends an army after the Amazons and Kore, his wife, who he has been convinced has left him. The Amazons form an army of immortal and mortal Amazons (Atalanta's Amazons) and with the help of Kore, Steve Trevor and Wonder Woman defeat Ares. Diana and Steve are married by Zeus^[16] before their seeming death during the Crisis on Infinite Earths. But in reality, Wonder Woman was thrown backwards through time, devolving back into the clay from which she had been formed, thus setting the stage for her eventual rebirth as a new being.^[17]

Convergence

Convergence
This section of the history takes place during Convergence, a massive crossover event revisiting characters from past eras and realities. The villains Brainiac and Telos plucked them from their own timeline and stored them together, causing them to cross over into each others' reality. Its precise chronological placement and canonicity may be unclear.

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Before the events of Crisis on Infinite Earths occurred, Diana was in Gotham City when it was abducted by Brainiac and Telos and was both stripped of her powers when the dome went up and forced to live as a normal human for a year. During this time, she developed a relationship with Steve Trevor.

On the day that the dome went down, her friend Etta Candy convinced her to help an old lady go to a cult meeting. When the dome started to go down, she stated that angels are not real and the cultists knocked her out and tied her up in the basement. When she awakened, she realized that she had regained her powers and was an Amazon again.^[18] She broke free of her bonds, only to discover that the cultists had been murdered by the Joker of Earth-43. She managed to defeat the Catwoman and Poison Ivy of the same Earth and the vampirized cultists, only to find that Steve and Etta had been vampirized by the Joker. Steve's love for her made him defy the Joker and he sent himself and Etta falling into a ravine. She managed to kill the Joker by impaling him with a wooden pole and escaped the collapsing church.^[19]

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Gifts of Olympus
- Charisma
- Wisdom
- Superhuman Stamina
- Superhuman Durability
- Superhuman Strength
  - Super-Breath^[20]
- Enhanced Healing
- Gliding: She can glide on air currents.^[21]
- Superhuman Speed
- Superhuman Reflexes
- Enhanced Hearing^[22]
- Like all Amazons on Earth-One, Wonder Woman's heartbeat is always constant and does not change due to physical stress. ^[23]

Abilities

Military Protocol
Hand-to-Hand Combat (Advanced)
- Karate: In addition to advanced Amazon fighting techniques, Diana studied karate under I-Ching when she lost her powers.^[24]
Swimming: Diana's swimming abilities are seemingly equal to the merpeople living near Paradise Island. She often went to underwater parties during her teenage years.^[25]
Swordsmanship^[26]
Mechanical Engineering^[27]
Ventriloquism^[28]
Weaponry
- Throwing
Sewing

Weaknesses

Bondage: Wonder Woman could be rendered powerless if her wrists were tied up by a man.
Vulnerability to Piercing Objects

Paraphernalia

Equipment

Transportation

Invisible Robot Plane

Weapons

Lasso of Truth

Notes

Wonder Woman first appeared in Earth-Two continuity in All-Star Comics #8 by William Moulton Marston and Harry G. Peter. Her first Earth-One appearance was Wonder Woman #98 by Robert Kanigher and Ross Andru.
This version of Wonder Woman, including all history and corresponding appearances, was erased from existence following the collapse of the original Multiverse in the 1985–86 Crisis on Infinite Earths event and later restored following the rebirth of the infinite Multiverse during the Dark Crisis of 2022-2023. Even though other versions of the character may have appeared, this information does not apply to those versions.
The series of "Golden Age Wonder Woman" stories that ran from Wonder Woman #159-165 (with a final story in issue #168) are hard to place in continuity. While done in a style consistent with Earth-Two, they do not fit into Earth-Two continuity well. Crisis on Infinite Earths: The Compendium (2005) places these stories on Earth-Forty (with the Earth-Two Wonder Woman having similar adventures), while The Essential Wonder Woman Encyclopedia (2010) places them on Earth-One (and involving the Earth-One Wonder Woman). This means that all of these stories, with slight variations in each of them, happened on all three Earths...and involved all three Wonder Women.
Diana's first appearance as Wonder Girl was in Wonder Woman #105, and her first appearance as Wonder Tot was in Wonder Woman #122.

Trivia

Catchphrases:
- "Merciful Minerva!"
- "Suffering Sappho!"
- "Great Hera!"

This character has been a member of the Justice League of America, or simply the Justice League in any of its various incarnations, sworn by a duty to act as guardians of America and the world by using their skills and/or superpowers to protect Earth from the clutches of both interstellar and domestic threats.
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[1] Wonder Woman #183

[2] Wonder Woman #98

[3] Wonder Woman #178

[4] Wonder Woman #179

[5] Wonder Woman #200

[6] The Brave and the Bold #87

[7] The Brave and the Bold #105

[8] Wonder Woman #204

[9] Wonder Woman #212-222, Justice League of America #128-129 and wonder Woman #223

[10] The Brave and the Bold #140

[11] The Brave and the Bold #158

[12] Wonder Woman #291

[13] Wonder Woman #292

[14] Wonder Woman #293

[15] Wonder Woman #328

[16] Wonder Woman #329

[17] Crisis on Infinite Earths #12

[18] Convergence: Wonder Woman #1

[19] Convergence: Wonder Woman #2

[20] Wonder Woman #117

[21] Justice League of America #29

[22] Wonder Woman #110

[23] Wonder Woman #220

[24] Superman #242

[25] Wonder Woman #119

[26] Wonder Woman #253

[27] Wonder Woman #213

[28] Wonder Woman #126

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