WONDER WOMAN's Timeline in the Post-Infinite Crisis DC UNIVERSE we call "New Earth"
Hi Wonderfriends! Since there has been confusion regarding Diana's place in the DC Universe timeline, I have carefully researched for the information many of us have been asking about.
After the Original Crisis on Infinite Earths saga in 1985, George Perez rebooted the WW comicbook and began a new continuity. But because he rewrote Diana as a brand new character who was just making her presence known for the first time, this created a paradox.
How could there have been a Wonder Girl (Donna Troy) before a Wonder Woman? Marv Wolfman & George Perez crafter a new origin for Donna Troy years ago which actually created more confusion.
But ever since the paradoxes have been wiped out in recent years by the event known as "Infinite Crisis", a review of Wonder Woman Continuity/ Timeline is overdue.
Those of us who read Infinite Crisis now know that in the restructured continuity of Post IC Earth (a.k.a. "New Earth"), Wonder Woman's proper place in the timeline has been restored. Because of this, she is once again a founding member of the JLA and has the date of her first appearance in Man's World "shortly after the 1st appearances of Superman & Batman. How does it all look now? This is it:
WONDER WOMAN TIMELINE
(Post-Infinite Crisis/ NEW EARTH)
1940's- Wonder Woman (Hippolyta mysteriously appears as time traveller from the future) inspires Diana Trevor to become avaitor.
-Diana Trevor arrives on Themyscira , saves the Amazons and is regarded as an Amazon champion. Her American Flag jacket design is made an Amazonian Champion's coat of arms.
-Diana is formed by Hippolyta from clay, given life & powers by the Olympians
- When Diana reached the age of 12, the Amazon Sorceress Magala used her magic and created a mystic twin to be Diana's playmate.
- But Dark Angel who is an old enemy of Hippolyta kidnaps Donna and places her in a state of suspended animation for years.
-On Themyscira, Magala & Diana thought the magic that created Donna simply disspated.
Silver Age timeline - Diana wins the contest and is awarded her armor, the Silver bracelets and the Lasso of truth. She arrives in Man's world right after Superman & Batman and is called "Wonder Woman" after a "similarly clad 40's heroine (Hippolyte).
Diana meets Superman & Batman for the first time and teams-up with them to fight Ra's Al Ghul and a renegade Amazon. She subsequently helps form the Justice League of America w/ Superman, Batman & other heroes when they banded together to face the Appelaxian Aliens that attacked the Earth.
Years after Dark Angel abducted Donna- she leaves her to die in a building fire but fate intervenes and she is saved instead by the grown up Diana, now Wonder Woman and returns her to Themyscira. There, she is trained by both the Amazons & Titans of Myth who also called her Troia.
Donna emerges in Patriarch's World as the original "Wonder Girl" (inspired by Diana as Wonder Woman) and established the civilian guise of "Donna Troy".
When Diana was temporarily incapacitated and unable to continue as Wonder Woman, Hippolyte took over as the new Wonder Woman & time traveled back to the 1940's in pursuit of Dark Angel.
Because of Hippolyta's involvement in that era, she later becomes known in the media as the "Golden Age" Wonder Woman. When the Justice Society of America disbanded in 1951, Hippolyta returned to the present and passed on the Wonder Woman role back to Princess Diana who returned to Earth after a short stay on Mt. Olympus.
Donna grows up and passes the mantle of "Wonder Girl" to Cassie Sandsmark, daughter of a mortal woman & the Olympian Zeus.
But Hippolyta did not completely stop operating as Wonder Woman despite Diana's return. She continued to travel Man's world and remained active with the Justice Society of America. Meanwhile Paradise Island became vulnerable when an ancient foe- Ariadne killed and possessed Magala while manipulating the increased tensions between the Themysciran and Bana Mighdall tribes.
A Civil War errupted and after Hippolyta, Diana & Donna put an end to it, the monarchy of Themyscira was abolished. A new Democracy emerged with a Parliamentary form of government with General Philippus as Chancellor. Soon after, the Amazons would again be drawn into conflict as the whole world is drawn into a war with an alien threat called Imperiex. This threat unified the two Amazon tribes. Hippolyta dies a hero's death as a Wonder Woman even as she fought along side Diana and other heroes.
Paradise Island was also destroyed when the Amazons willed the mystic island into blocking an energy tendril that threatened the earth. They did eventually win the conflict but with very large casualties. But due to the Amazons reconciliation and heroism, the Greek gods and Egyptian gods combined their powers to reinvigorate Themyscira. The Lansinarian technology was also incorporated into rebuilding and for the first time in three thousand years, the Amazons open Paradise Island to the universe where beings from all over creation can learn and exchange ideas, technology and spread peace.
But this newfound milestone would not last. A Deadly Artificial Intelligence Satellite called "Brother Eye" unleashed nanites that possessed ordinary people turning them hosts to an army of killer Androids called "Omacs". To make matters worse, beings from long lost Parallel worlds take advantage of the conflict and attempt to alter all reality by bringing back a multiverse oof Parallel worlds.
In Man's world Wonder Woman (Diana) is confronted by a former ally turned villain- Maxwell Lord a very powerful telepath. Max Lord had commandeered the Brother Eye Satellite systems as well as the Omacs and used them to try to destroy all metahumans. He eventually possessed Superman himself with his psionic powers and used him to try to kill Batman. But Diana saved Batman by battling Superman while trying to free him from Lord's control. When Diana used the lasso of truth on Lord and asked him how she can free Superman from his control...Max Lord said she'd have to kill him. With no other choice, Diana executed Maxwell Lord and was branded a murderer. But the World court found Diana NOT GUILTY of murder and it was proven that Lord's death was in self defense.
But the damge had been done and the Amazons progress in opening Paradise Island to the world was cut short. During the Omac conflict, Wonder Woman asked the Amazons to retreat to the dimension of the gods to escape the destruction. A years later, Wonder Woman established a civilian identity to rebuild her life. Since her original mission failed, she was now free to redefine her role among humanity as Wonder Woman. With the help of Bruce (Batman) Wayne, She established the guise of Diana Prince and with Clark (Superman) Kent's suggestion- wore glasses to complete her new look. As Agent Diana Prince, Wonder Woman works at DOMA-The Department of Metahuman Affairs with Tom Tresser, a.k.a. "Nemesis" and Sarge Steel.
Princess. Ambassador. Superheroine. Goddess of Truth. Diana of Themyscira has been all of them. But for the first time in her life, she now has an opportunity to discover who the woman is behind the "wonder".
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