Wonder Woman (DCAU)
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Wonder Woman is a fictional character DC Comics and one of the most famous and popular comic book superheroes adapted to the DC animated Universe.
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[edit] Appearances
- Secret Origins
- The Enemy Below
- Injustice For All
- Paradise Lost
- War World
- The Brave and the Bold
- Fury
- A Knight of Shadows
- The Savage Time
- Tabula Rasa
- Twilight
- Maid of Honor
- A Better World
- The Terror Beyond
- Eclipsed
- Hereafter
- Secret Society
- Starcrossed
- For the Man Who Has Everything
- Hawk and Dove
- Kid Stuff
- This Little Piggy
- The Greatest Story Never Told
- Ultimatum
- Dark Heart
- The Once and Future Thing, part I: Weird Western Tales
- The Once and Future Thing, part II: Time Warped
- The Doomsday Sanction
- The Balance
- Panic in the Sky
- Divided We Fall
- To Another Shore
- Dead Reckoning
- Grudge Match
- Destroyer
[edit] Cameos
[edit] DC animated history
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Justice League (2001-2004) was the first chance to add Wonder Woman to the DCAU, as the rights having been previously tied up in possible movies and television shows.
Most of the characters retained their general comic book origins and continuity, with Wonder Woman being the notable exception. In the Justice League series continuity, the premiere story arc "Secret Origins" marked Diana's first foray away from her Amazon island with the storyline of Diana competing against her fellow Amazons to be the ambassador of peace to man's world having been completely removed, and she is referred to directly as a "rookie" superhero during her first encounter with the League. (Subsequent episodes touched on her attempts to adjust to her new world).
To introduce her into a universe already populated by long-experienced heroes like Batman, Green Lantern, Flash and Superman, Bruce Timm and his team took a cue from George Pérez's newcomer-to-Man's-World Post-Crisis interpretation. This Diana started off completely innocent and ignorant of Man's World. Also like the Pérez version, she neither keeps a secret identity nor has an invisible plane. However, perhaps as a nod to her Pre-Crisis appearance, she has straight hair and high-heeled boots suggestive of her old Super Friends incarnation. Her lasso also did not compel truthfulness (but it later acquired that ability in a later Justice League Unlimited episode), with the explanation that Hippolyta had freed this power for Diana's use.
Her initial personality consisted of a strict adherence to Amazonian dogma (prompting some of her teammates to react to her attitude by calling her "Princess" somewhat distainfully). Noticeable though is the effect of Man's World on Diana. Her first appearances are marked by her reflexively acting off of Amazonian ideology (in "Fury", she questions how necessary men really are), but as time passes, she becomes more interested in men (in particular, Batman, with whom she has a flirtatious relationship, which was something of a controversy among fans) and also experiences the emotional excesses of Man's world, as compared to the Amazons (who are portrayed as somewhat stoic if not emotionally stunted). Batman's affections for Wonder Woman, however, are somewhat confirmed in the Justice League Unlimited episode This Little Piggy, where he admits his feelings to Zatanna when requesting her help in changing Diana back (she was turned into a pig by Circe (comics)). Wonder Woman, in her eight-year old form, also flirts liberally with the young Batman.
She finds joy but also discovers a temper that frequently needs to be checked by her teammates ("Hereafter", "Hawk and Dove", "Eclipsed", etc.). Later episodes dealt directly with her temper and Diana’s eventual mastery of it. She since adopted the role of ambassador of the Amazons at her mother’s request ("To Another Shore"), bringing another Post-Crisis trait to the DCAU.
While Wonder Woman’s origin in the DCAU is not detailed, in the episode "The Balance", it is revealed that she indeed was a clay statue sculpted by Hippolyta and somehow brought to life. In the same episode, Lord Hades says that he helped Hippolyta sculpt the clay statue that would eventually become Diana, making him feel almost like a father to her, but was banished before she was brought to life. That claim, however, was never substantiated. It was also revealed that the Wonder Woman armor was originally made by the god Hephaestus for her mother, Queen Hippolyta, not Diana. Diana stole the armor to use once Hippolyta forbade her to enter the outside world. Later in the series it is revealed also that Diana did not know that the armor had additional abilities, which could be activated by pressing the star on the tiara.
Steve Trevor made an appearance when the League time travels back to the Second World War in order to stop Vandal Savage. In this two-parter, Diana falls in love with Steve who is a member of the OSS. They share flirtation, but are separated when Diana returns to the present day. She visits her now elderly friend at a retirement communit, this scene closing off the episode.
Her eventual fate is unknown in the Diniverse, but Kobra mentions that she is still alive during the time of Batman Beyond.
[edit] Powers
Her powers are almost the same as her comics counterpart, including flight and super strength, lending Wonder Woman the ability to hold out against Superman in a fight, while both were hallucinating. She also has a weakness to pierce wounds as shown by Devil Ray's poisonous dart harming her. She is able to defeat Vixen, Hawk Girl, Huntress and Black Canary in a brawl.
[edit] Design
[edit] Trivia
- Wonder Woman was originally supposed to appear in the Batman Beyond episode “The Call”, which featured a future Justice League. However, rights issues precluded the possibility and her cameo was instead taken by Big Barda.
