Donna Troy

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Donna Troy
Donna Troy, from the cover of Tales of the Titans #3 (September 2023).
Art by Nicola Scott.
Publication information
PublisherDC Comics
First appearanceThe Brave and the Bold #60 (July 1965)
Created byBob Haney and Bruno Premiani (after Robert Kanigher and Ross Andru)
In-story information
Alter egoDonna Hinckley Stacy Troy
SpeciesAmazon
Metahuman (some continuities)
Place of originThemyscira
Team affiliations
Partnerships
Notable aliases
Abilities
See list
    • Superhuman strength, speed, reflexes, senses, durability, stamina and longevity
    • Accelerated healing factor
    • Flight
    • Divine empowerment
    • Psychically linked to Wonder Woman
    • Ability to flawlessly mimic any voice she knows or hears
    • Cold and Darkness Manipulation
    • Force Field Creation
    • Magic
    (Controls several forms and variations of magic)
    • Immortality
    • Expert hand-to-hand combatant and martial artist
    • Use of Lasso of Persuasion, indestructible bracelets, sword and shield

Donna Troy is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. She is the original Wonder Girl and later temporarily adopts another identity, Troia. Created by Bob Haney and Bruno Premiani, she first appeared in The Brave and the Bold #60 (July 1965). Donna has been commonly featured in stories involving the Teen Titans, which she originally joined during their second adventure and is since depicted as a founding member of the team.

Donna has appeared in numerous cartoon television shows and films. She made her live adaptation debut in the

third
seasons.

Fictional character biography

Introduction

Wonder Girl's original costume was patterned after Wonder Woman's. Art by Bruno Premiani, from The Brave and the Bold #60 (June 1965).
Wonder Girl adopts her classic red costume—and the secret identity Donna Troy—in Teen Titans #22 (July–August 1969). Art by Nick Cardy.

In May 1947's

Harry G. Peter, the titular heroine (also known as Diana) is shown in flashback having adventures as a little girl. Twelve years later in April 1959's Wonder Woman #105, writer Robert Kanigher reprised the formula, this time featuring a flashback tale of Wonder Woman when she was a teen. Playfully dubbed "Wonder Girl" by another character, this teenaged version would return several times in flashback stories over the next several years, paralleling similar exploits of Superboy, the teen persona of DC Comics' flagship hero Superman. After the shake-up in the comics industry caused by Fredric Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent, DC Comics sought to make the adventures of Wonder Woman appear more wholesome and family-friendly. The result was August 1961's Wonder Woman #124 (also by Kanigher and Andru), which kicked off a series of out-of-continuity "Impossible Tales" in which Wonder Woman appeared alongside the teen "Wonder Girl" version of herself, as well as a toddler version called "Wonder Tot", and her mother Queen Hippolyta
, creating a "Wonder Family". By Wonder Woman #150 (November 1964) the "Impossible Tale" label was retired, though Wonder Girl continued as a regular fixture in the publication, both side by side with Wonder Woman as well as in her own solo stories, through #155 (July 1965). During this curious 5-issue period, Wonder Girl is no longer referred to as an "impossible" younger variant of Wonder Woman, however no other in-story cues explaining her existence are provided. This looser narrative identification allowed her a new status as an entity entirely distinct from Wonder Woman, a character unto herself. Though Wonder Girl and Wonder Woman do not directly call one another "sister" in these issues, Hippolyta does refer to them as her daughters, and all three repeatedly identify themselves as a family. Additionally, Wonder Girl is temporarily promoted to the book's headliner, receiving three full-length solo stories, including top-billing with her own logo predominating Wonder Woman's on the covers of issues #152 and #153.

July 1965 was a significant and somewhat puzzling month in the history of Wonder Girl, concluding her regular presence in the Wonder Woman comic book with issue #155 while simultaneously seeing her appear as a member of the newly-formed Teen Titans in The Brave and the Bold #60, written by Bob Haney and illustrated by Bruno Premiani. Though The Brave and the Bold #60 is commonly accepted as Donna Troy's debut, the Wonder Girl it depicts is indistinguishable from the Wonder Girl appearing synchronously that month in Wonder Woman #155 – the same Wonder Girl featured regularly in that book during the preceding 6 years who was, at least until issue #150 and possibly after, a de-aged, out-of-continuity Wonder Woman.

The Teen Titans were a "junior Justice League" consisting of Robin (Dick Grayson), Kid Flash (Wally West), and Aqualad (Garth), the sidekicks of Batman, the Flash, and Aquaman respectively.[1] Wonder Girl would establish herself as a central character in Teen Titans stories, continuing to appear with the team in December 1965's Showcase #59 and in their spinoff into the first volume of the monthly Teen Titans in January 1966. However, no narrative information regarding Wonder Girl's precise identity was provided in any of her earliest appearances with the Titans, nor in the first 21 issues of the team's subsequent monthly comic book. It would not be until July 1969's Teen Titans #22 that Wonder Girl would be unequivocally identified as Wonder Woman's younger sister, a discrete character with her own identity: Donna Troy. Writer Marv Wolfman established that Donna had been rescued from an apartment fire as an infant by Wonder Woman.[2] Unable to find the baby's birth family, Wonder Woman brings her to Paradise Island to be raised by her mother Hippolyta, eventually enlisting the Amazon scientist Paula (herself an expatriate from "Man's World") to use advanced technology to grant the girl powers like Wonder Woman's.

Donna remains with the Teen Titans until the series' cancellation with issue #43 in February 1973. She is still part of the team when the comic picks up again with #44 in November 1976. Teen Titans is canceled again in February 1978 with issue #53, with Donna and the others, no longer "teens", going their separate ways.

1980s revival

Hyperion, one of the Titans of Myth.[3]

Donna's origin is expanded in the January 1984 tale, "Who is Donna Troy?"

child-selling racket, which ended with the racketeers' deaths in a furnace explosion and the fire. With Robin's help, Donna is reunited with Fay, who had married Hank Evans and given birth to two additional children, Cindy and Jerry. Donna marries Terry Long in a huge, lavish ceremony in Tales of the Teen Titans #50 (February 1985).[5]

Post-Crisis

The subsequent Crisis on Infinite Earths miniseries (1985–1986) rewrote the history of many DC Comics characters; Wonder Woman's own pre-Crisis history was written out of existence, and the character was reintroduced in Wonder Woman (vol. 2) #1 (February 1987) as a new arrival from Themyscira (the former Paradise Island). With the character of Donna tied predominantly to the Titans, her origin was retconned to fit into the new continuity created by Wonder Woman's relaunch, one severing her direct ties to the Amazons. In the storyline "Who is Wonder Girl?" featured in The New Titans #50–54 (December 1988–March 1989), the Titans of Myth enlist Donna's aid against the murderous Sparta of Synriannaq. It is revealed that the Titan Rhea had rescued a young Donna from a fire; Donna and Sparta had then been part of a group of 12 orphans from around the universe who had been raised on New Cronus by these Titans as "Titan Seeds", their eventual saviors.

The Seeds had been given superhuman powers, and named after ancient Greek cities. Called "Troy", Donna (like the others) had eventually been stripped of her memories of her time with the Titans of Myth, and reintroduced into humankind to await her destiny; Sparta had retained her memories, and the knowledge had eventually driven her mad. Killing her fellow Seeds to "collect" their powers and destroy the Titans of Myth, Sparta is ultimately defeated by Donna and the only other Seed left alive, Athyns of Karakkan. In The New Titans #55 (June 1989), Donna changes her identity from Wonder Girl to Troia and adopts a new hairstyle and costume incorporating mystical gifts from the Titans of Myth.

Lord Chaos

During the "Titans Hunt" storyline, Donna discovers she is pregnant; in The New Titans Annual #7 (1991), a group calling themselves the

Lord Chaos. The Team Titans travel back to the past to kill Donna before her son can be born. Donna eventually gives birth to Robert; to prevent him from becoming Lord Chaos, she sacrifices her powers and becomes a normal human.[6]

Eventually, Donna rethinks her decision and asks the Titans of Myth to grant her powers again; her request is rejected.[

Terra and Mirage. Her marriage in ruins, Donna loses custody of her son to her now ex-husband Terry.[7] Donna rejoins the New Titans for a time, with her Darkstar suit giving her the ability to aid them.[volume & issue needed] She dates Kyle Rayner for a while and retires from the Darkstars, leaving her powerless. Donna and Kyle break up immediately following the death of her son, stepdaughter and ex-husband in a car accident.[8]

Magical duplicate

Her post-Crisis origin was updated in the late 1990s. This version had it that she was originally created by the Amazon sorceress Magala as a magical duplicate of the young Princess Diana of Themyscira (a nod to the original Wonder Girl) to be a playmate for Diana, who was previously the only child on the island. However, Donna was soon kidnapped by the Dark Angel (a World War II villainess and sworn enemy of Queen Hippolyta, Diana's mother), who thought the girl was Diana.[9]

Dark Angel cursed Donna to live endless variants of a life characterized by suffering, with her life being restarted and erased from the world's memory when Donna was at her lowest. Even Donna would forget her past lives until the moment at which Dark Angel would arrive to restart her life, at which point she would immediately recall all of her past suffering. With the help of Wonder Woman, Hippolyta, and the third Flash (her former Titans teammate, Wally West), the only people who remembered the previous version, Donna was restored. Somehow, she also regained her powers, presumably because that was how Wally remembered her. Initially, she was concerned that she was not the "same" Donna, but an idealized form based on Wally's memories. She has since accepted that this is not the case.[10]

Shortly afterwards, the Titans gathered together to save their friend

Cyborg. They came into conflict with the JLA, but they saved their friend. During this incident Donna was seemingly reunited with her son via virtual reality, but with the aid of Nightwing, realized it was not real.[11] After that, the original five Teen Titans, including Troia, decided to reform the team.[12] A subsequent battle with Dark Angel suggested her constant rewriting of Donna's history involved Hypertime.[13]
It is not clear how this ties in with later revelations.

Realizing that Donna was created from a portion of Diana's soul,

The Cheetah.[17]

In a separate battle, Donna was apparently killed by a rogue Superman robot in the Titans/Young Justice crossover "Graduation Day", but was later shown to be alive on another world. The Return of Donna Troy, a four-issue miniseries written by Phil Jimenez with art by José Luis García-López and George Pérez, expanded upon the resurrection of Donna Troy and cleared up her multiple origins.

DC Special: The Return of Donna Troy

Donna Troy has now discovered that like every other person after the

Monitor had saved Harbinger.[18]
When the Multiverse was reconfigured in one single Universe, Dark Angel, who had somehow escaped the compression of every Donna Troy into one single person in the new Earth, sought to kill her (every life she forced her to relive was in fact an aspect of an alternate Donna as a way to avoid the merging and remain the last one standing). When she was defeated, Donna became the real sum of every Donna Troy that existed on every Earth, a living key to the lost Multiverse.

Her role in

Arsenal. As the Sun-Eater began absorbing their vast solar energies, Hyperion and Thia tried to escape through the Nexus, but they were both torn apart by the combined forces of the Nexus' dimensional pull and the Sun-Eater's power. Coeus, who had learned humility and compassion from Donna, vowed to guard the gateway to make certain the other Titans of Myth remained imprisoned forever.[19]

Infinite Crisis and 52

Main articles: Infinite Crisis and 52 (comics)

Donna returns to the now-barren New Cronus where she shares a joyful reunion with Wonder Woman. Donna, charged with the guardianship of the Universe Orb containing the Multiverse Chronicles collected by

intergalactic war. Donna's team contributes to the resolution of the conflict, but things take a dangerous turn when Alexander uses the inter-dimensional tear to recreate Earth-Two and, later, the Multiverse. Donna, along with Kyle (now called Ion), leads the team to attack Alexander Luthor through his space rift, giving Nightwing, Superboy, and Wonder Girl the time needed to destroy Alexander's device, and save the two Supermen and Wonder Woman from being merged with their Earth-Three counterparts. Though most of the team vanishes when they attempt to leave via the portal opened by Mal Duncan and Adam Strange, she returns to Earth shortly after the Battle of Metropolis, and provides a "junior red-sun eater" to the Green Lantern Corps in which to imprison Superboy-Prime at the end of the battle on Mogo.[volume & issue needed
]

In the series

Jade
, should have sacrificed herself for Kyle.

During the World War III storyline, Donna goes into battle as Wonder Woman against a rampaging Black Adam.

"One Year Later"

Main article: One Year Later

During the "

Circe
is the mastermind behind the attacks and capture. After Donna is freed from Circe, she dons her old red Wonder Girl jumpsuit and aids her sister in battle telling Diana that she wants to give the Wonder Woman title back to her as she was never really comfortable using that name and would rather just be called Donna Troy.

Donna later works alongside ex-boyfriend Kyle Rayner, who has taken up the powers and title of Ion again. They go up against one of the Monitors who attempts to remove them from the newly rebuilt Multiverse, claiming the two are unwanted anomalies. Donna returns to Earth with Ion in time for him to say goodbye to his dying mother. After that event, Donna joins several former Teen Titans in the current team's battle against Deathstroke and his Titans East team.

Countdown to Final Crisis

Main article: Countdown to Final Crisis

Donna attends

Monitors are responsible for Duela's death. Donna and Jason are attacked by the Monitor's warrior, Forerunner.[23][24] They are saved by a benevolent Monitor, whom Jason calls Bob, and recruited to locate Ray Palmer. They soon learn that Palmer is hiding in the Multiverse.[25]

The group is joined by Kyle Rayner; Jason and Kyle bicker during the journey and Donna is annoyed.[26] Ray Palmer is located on Earth-51 and Bob attacks him, betraying the group.[27] Donna and the others escape, and are caught in the crossfire when Monarch's forces attack Earth-51.[28] Donna is attacked by an alternate version of herself wearing a Wonder Girl costume, and overcomes her doppelganger and escapes.[29][30] She takes the doppelganger's costume, defeats one of Monarch's lieutenants, and is acclaimed leader of an insect army by right of conquest. She leads the force of Myrmidons into the battle against Monarch's forces.[31] Superboy-Prime confronts Monarch, and the insect warriors are killed in the fallout.[32]

Following the battle, Donna alone is able to discern a message directing the group to

Orion descends from the heavens (following his interrupted battle with the killer of the New Gods in Death of the New Gods), and slays his father.[40][41] In the aftermath of these events, the remaining party of Donna, Kyle, Ray, and Forager announce to the Monitors they will serve as bodyguards for the New Multiverse, and depart to places unknown.[42]

Returning to Earth after her adventures in the Multiverse with Kyle, Donna and other former and present Titans are targeted by a mysterious foe who is later revealed to be Trigon. The Titans reform to fend off Trigon's assault and avenge the incapacitated Titans East team.[43]

In Final Crisis #5, Donna Troy has been turned into a Justifier. She, among other Justifiers, attacked the Switzerland Checkmate HQ. She tried to put the Justifier helmet onto Alan Scott before being knocked away by Hawkman.

Justice League

The build-up to Donna's recruitment begins when she volunteers to help

Shade stops her. Unfortunately, the villain destroys Star City via a teleportation device.[45]

During the Blackest Night crossover, Donna has a horrific encounter with her deceased son Robert and husband Terry, revived as undead beings by the Black Lantern Corps. She is bitten by Robert, becoming "infected" by the Black Lantern's power.[46] Donna, along with Superboy, Kid Flash, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) and several other resurrected heroes, began to be targeted by Nekron, the being responsible for the Black Lanterns. Donna's previous status as a deceased allowed for her to be transformed into a Black Lantern. However, unlike the other heroes, Donna was converted by being infected with the Black Lantern's power rather than having a ring forced on her.[47] Donna is freed by the power of white light.[48]

In the aftermath of this, Donna is told by Wonder Woman that she could benefit from being a part of the JLA. To that end, she officially joins the team, even recruiting Cyborg, Dick Grayson (now Batman), and Starfire as well.

Crime Syndicate of Amerika, and the demonic entity Eclipso. Donna eventually resigns from the team after coming to peace with her inner turmoil, and Dick disbands the team shortly after.[50]

The New 52 and DC Rebirth

In 2011, following the Flashpoint storyline, DC revised its continuity, relaunching with a suite of new #1 comics as part of an initiative called The New 52. Donna does not initially appear in this continuity at all; the Teen Titans are first established in the present day, with Cassie Sandsmark as Wonder Girl, and Wonder Woman's new origin presents her as the natural-born daughter of Zeus and Hippolyta.

Donna is reintroduced in the pages of Wonder Woman as an Amazon created by a sorcerer, Derinoe, as an attempt to usurp Diana's place as queen, replacing her with a new ruler. Diana defeats Donna and Donna sets about a period of soul-searching. Meanwhile, in the Titans Hunt storyline which seeks to

retroactively reestablish the history of the Teen Titans in the New 52, Donna is shown as having been a Teen Titan, working alongside Titans co-founders such as Dick Grayson and Garth, until an encounter with the telepathic supervillain Mister Twister resulted in the Titans' memories being erased.[51] In the Wonder Woman series, Donna struggles with her rage and anger and after being killed in a battle is chosen by Zeus to replace the Fates, making Donna a new embodiment of Fate.[52][53] In the last issue of Titans Hunt, Donna confirms that she is "the Fate of the Gods", but does not reconcile her history depicted in Titans Hunt with her creation depicted in Wonder Woman.[54]

Titans Hunt led into the DC Rebirth initiative, which brought back more popular elements of past continuity after former Titan Wally West returns to the DC Universe and reunites his friends. He explains to his fellow Titans how 10 years were stolen from their lives as a result of unknown forces, partially accounting for the discrepancies. Donna and her friends then reform the Titans.[55] On touching Wally in Titans Rebirth #1, Donna has her childhood memories of Wally restored.[56] Later, the Titans (vol. 2) Annual #1 (May 2017) reconciles the two accounts of Donna's history — recent magical creation or longtime ally of Wonder Woman — revealing that Donna was, as in the New 52 story, created out of clay to destroy Wonder Woman, but the Amazons later gave her false memories of being an orphan rescued by Wonder Woman. This allowed Donna to be more than a living weapon, and to establish a stable life. Though Donna was heartbroken by the revelation, she was supported by her Titans colleagues, who affirmed their friendship.[57]

Donna remains a main character in the Titans series at DC after the team was broken up by the Justice League and reformed by Nightwing with supervision from the League this time. After Dick Grayson was shot in the head by KGBeast, Donna becomes leader of the team while he is recovering from his injury and amnesia.

Origin retcons

Donna Troy is often noted for having had a number of complicated revisions to her origin. Writer Marv Wolfman recounted:

I wrote the original Donna Troy origin story back in the first Titans run. She had never had one and was, in fact, not a "real" character (if you can call any of them real). She was a computer simulation of Wonder Woman as a girl. That story also named her Donna Troy and set up everything that followed. Unfortunately, after Crisis on Infinite Earths and the Wonder Woman revamp, we had to go back and redo it again as a brand new Wonder Woman being born on Earth could not have rescued the girl from the burning building. I wish we had been able to keep it as I think it's gone insane now. I just wanted a simple origin story. I came up with the original, and then [in "Who is Donna Troy?"] George [Pérez] and I simply elaborated on what had been done, giving her real knowledge of who she was. I would love to say that everything after "Who is Donna Troy?" should be forgotten, but that's not the way continuity works, sadly.[58]

Under

retconned to be a mirror-image duplicate of Wonder Woman, created by the Amazon sorceress Magala using a spell to give life to Diana's reflections so that the young princess would have an age-appropriate friend. This duplicate is kidnapped by WWII Wonder Woman's nemesis, Dark Angel. Dark Angel forces Donna to undergo multiple "lives" that all end in tragedy and result in her resetting back to her beginning. Hippolyta and Wonder Woman attempt to rescue Donna, but Dark Angel destroys her rather than release her from her clutches. With help from Wally West, Donna is recreated as a golem, drawing from Wally's incomplete, Pollyanna-esque memories of her.[59] Later, Dark Angel attempts to erase all memories of Donna from the various Hypertime realities, drawing Dark Angel into conflict with Donna, the Titans, and their alternate reality counterparts from the story Kingdom Come. During the battle, Donna is mindwiped and then reprogrammed with all of her old memories after she is made to relive her past lives.[13]

After Donna Troy is killed by a fleet of Superman androids reprogrammed by Brainiac, she is resurrected by the Titans of Myth, who seek to exploit her status as an "anomaly" from the world that existed before Crisis on Infinite Earths to escape the coming cataclysm of Infinite Crisis. This story establishes Donna's status as an anomaly of the timeline, explaining that she survived the Crisis and was later subjected to multiple alternate origins as the universe tried to fit her into the new timeline created following the collapse of the Multiverse. This makes Donna in effect "a living key to the lost Multiverse". This same storyline also reveals that Dark Angel is an evil alternate universe version of Donna from Earth-Seven. Another pre-Crisis survivor, she "was saved by the Anti-Monitor, and raised to be his harbinger of doom, Dark Angel. But Dark Angel was uncontrollable, and vanished".[60]

Within a short time after 2011's The New 52 reboot that followed the Flashpoint story, DC had already presented two conflicting new origins for Donna Troy in the pages of Wonder Woman and Titans Hunt. In the first case, she is introduced as a new character: magical golem, ruthless warrior, and challenger to Wonder Woman's status as leader of the Amazons. She later goes on a journey of discovery. In Titans Hunt, this same Donna, alongside other former Teen Titans, rediscovers memories of childhood heroism with the Teen Titans, which should be impossible for her. In the DC Rebirth relaunch, Donna has a fuller set of childhood memories restored to her after meeting the pre-Flashpoint Wally West. In the DC Rebirth relaunch of Wonder Woman, the storyline "The Lies" reveals that the savage depiction of Thymiscira and the Amazons in the New 52 Wonder Woman series in which Diana is made the Queen of the Amazons and the God of War and has Donna Troy reinvented as a mass-murdering villain is, in fact, an illusion by the Olympians to keep her away from the real island.[61] A later Titans story clarified that Donna is still a magical golem created to destroy Wonder Woman, with fake memories granted by the Amazons.

Powers and abilities

Donna's superhuman powers have changed several times over the years, but in all of her various incarnations, they have always consisted of considerable superhuman strength, endurance, speed, and the power of flight.

  • In her pre-Crisis origin, Donna was granted those powers by the
    Purple Ray
    , and these powers increased as she grew older. She also wielded a lasso of her own, but it apparently had no magical properties like Diana's Lasso of Truth, aside from being infinite in length and virtually indestructible.
  • The first major redefinition of Donna's powers came about when she took the name of Troia. She still possessed all the abilities she had before, but now in addition to those, she could wield photonic energy as power blasts and protective force fields, and generate light from her hands.[62] Donna has the ability to project three dimensional images of a person's memories, provided the subject is a willing participant in the process.[63] Donna's Troia costume was made of various gifts given to her by the Titans of Myth, the most notable of which was the unique star field material that showed the exact location of New Chronus.
  • After Donna petitioned the Titans of Myth to depower her[volume & issue needed], she became Darkstar[volume & issue needed], gaining the standard exomantle all members wore, granting her superhuman strength, speed, and agility. The exomantle also possessed a personal force field for protection against physical impact and energy attacks. The main weapons were twin laser units that fired energy blasts with pinpoint accuracy; however, it seems that Donna did not undergo the surgical procedure to attain the instant mastery of maser control that the other Darkstars had, and had a split-second delay in reaction time when wearing the less powerful deputy version of the exo-mantle. A powerful shoulder mounted cannon complemented the maser system of the Darkstars' exo-mantle. With the exo-mantle, one could achieve high speeds during flight, all the while protected from wind friction by the force field.
  • After her post-Crisis origin was created,[9] Donna regained the powers she had lost at the Titans of Myth's behest, but now they were virtually identical to Diana's. Donna and Diana also share a psychic rapport which allows one to feel either what the other is experiencing[64] or even share dreams.[65] Shortly after her resurrection as the Goddess of the Moon, during the Return of Donna Troy limited series, Donna's powers were enhanced and upgraded. She retained all of the abilities she had before, and regained her energy manipulation abilities (which, being cosmic-based, were far more powerful). She also commanded darkness and cold to great effect. Donna has not been shown using those powers since regaining her memories. Over the years, Donna has grown extremely powerful, with power and strength, almost rivaling her big sister, Diana (Wonder Woman). She is considered to be one of the strongest superheroines of the DC Universe along with Power Girl, Supergirl, Big Barda, Mary Marvel, Isis, Wonder Girl and Wonder Woman. Donna also has incredible super-speed. She is fast enough to effortlessly dodge bullets, and like Wonder Woman, she's said to be able to move at speeds far beyond the speed of sound.[volume & issue needed] Donna has also been shown moving fast enough to catch up to speedsters such as Jesse Quick. And while not totally invulnerable, she has an extremely high degree of resistance to injury. Donna has been punched through several floors of reinforced steel and concrete, as well as taken on powerful beings such as Etrigan, Black Mary Marvel, Wonder Woman, Superwoman, Black Adam, and Superman.
  • Like all Amazons, Donna is exceptionally well trained in the use of various weapons and in various martial arts. Her sister Diana, mother Hippolyta, General Phillipus, and Artemis seem to be her only rivals as a warrior (among the Amazons). She is also a very capable leader and strategist.
  • Pre-Flashpoint, Donna wielded a new lasso of her own called the Lasso of Persuasion. It glows blue, and like Wonder Woman's lasso is quite durable. It also has the ability to force anyone within its confines to do Donna's bidding if her willpower is greater than theirs.[66]
  • Donna has the ability to flawlessly imitate the voice of anyone she has heard.[67]
  • Post-DC Rebirth, Donna Troy also retains her vast superhuman strength, speed, durability, stamina, senses, reflexes, agility, flight, and immortality. However it was revealed by her evil future version, Troia, that Donna can feed on more power if she kills.

Donna also retains her magical abilities to control darkness, the cold, and the essence of night itself. However, it is heavily implied Donna has a lot of magical potential to due being the child of magic, Amazon witches, and possibly goddesses that are tied to night and magic like Hekate, Selene, and Nyx.

Donna also wields a magical sword and sometimes a shield. She carries the Lasso of Persuasion gifted to her by the gods. It glows blue and can force anyone bound by it to obey every command of the wielder. It is field by the essence of willpower and as long as Donna's willpower overpowers the person bound by her lasso the person is forced to submit and obey. However the person is under control by Donna's will even after they are not bound by the lasso anymore. Only until they obey will they be released mentally from the lasso's power. The lasso can also teleport to New Chronus. The lasso is also unbreakable and go as long as what the wielder wants it be.

Donna also wears the Amazon gauntlets that deflect any offensive attack.

Other versions

Earth 2

Another version of Donna exists in the New 52 on the alternate Earth-2. In Earth 2: Society, the character,

Steppenwolf.[volume & issue needed] This is the first time Fury is used as a doppelganger of Donna Troy and not just an analogue.[volume & issue needed
] In Earth 2: Society, Fury/Donna has adopted her mother's mantle of Wonder Woman and taken over Amazonia. She is critical in helping the team recreate Earth 2 after the fall on Telos.

Earth 3

In the reversed reality Earth 3, Donna Troy is Superwoman, a member of the Crime Syndicate. She is the princess of the Amazons and daughter of Queen Hippolyta, and hopes to one day overthrow and kill her mother. Officially she is the ambassador from Themyscira to the United States of Amerika, however her true purpose is to infiltrate and gain control over the governments and metahumans of Man's World.

DC Bombshells

In the

Emily fight to liberate Japanese American citizens who were unjustly interned by the government. After witnessing the death of Wonder Woman during a battle with Clayface, Donna and the others become a band of heroes known as the Wonder Girls, with each teen drawing power from one of Wonder Woman's magical artifacts.[68]

Reception

IGN placed Donna Troy as the 93rd greatest comic book hero of all time, stating that even though she might have the most unnecessarily complex backstory of all comics characters, Donna has served a major purpose in the DC universe since her inception.[69]

In other media

Television

Conor Leslie as Donna Troy/Wonder Girl in Titans

Film

Video games

Miscellaneous

Donna Troy as Wonder Girl appears in Teen Titans Go! (2004) #36 as a new member of the Teen Titans.

Notes

  1. ISBN 978-1-4654-5357-0
    .
  2. ^ "GCD :: Issue :: Teen Titans #22". www.comics.org.
  3. ^ The New Teen Titans #11 (September 1981)
  4. ^ The New Teen Titans #38 (January 1984)
  5. ISBN 978-1-4654-8578-6
    .
  6. ^ The New Titans #89–92 (August–November 1992). DC Comics.
  7. ^ The New Titans Annual #11 (1995).DC Comics.
  8. ^ Wonder Woman (vol. 2) #121. DC Comics.
  9. ^ a b Wonder Woman (vol. 2) #131–135
  10. ^ Wonder Woman (vol. 2) #136
  11. ^ JLA/Titans #1–3
  12. ^ Titans #1
  13. ^ a b Titans #23–25
  14. ^ Wonder Woman Secret Files #3
  15. ^ Wonder Woman (vol. 2) #170
  16. ^ Wonder Woman Secret Files #3 and Wonder Woman (vol. 2) #168–169
  17. ^ Wonder Woman (vol. 2) #180–187
  18. ^ Phil Jimenez, the writer of The Return of Donna Troy, stated in direct mail conversation in January 2007, "While there was some discussion about making Lyla an alternate Donna, DC Editorial and I realized this would never work in any continuity, so the idea was scrapped. What we did decide, however, was that Dark Angel was the Anti-Monitor's Harbinger, and that Dark Angel herself was an alternate Earth duplicate of Donna Troy."
  19. ^ DC Special The Return of Donna Troy #1–4 (June 2005–August 2005)
  20. ^ Wonder Woman (vol. 3) #1
  21. ^ Wonder Woman vol. 3 Annual #1
  22. ^ Countdown to Final Crisis #51 (May 2007)
  23. ^ Countdown to Final Crisis #46 (June 2007)
  24. ^ Countdown to Final Crisis #45 (June 2007)
  25. ^ Countdown to Final Crisis #43 (July 2007)
  26. ^ Countdown to Final Crisis #33 (September 2007)
  27. ^ Countdown to Final Crisis #18 (December 2007)
  28. ^ Countdown to Final Crisis #17 (January 2008)
  29. ^ Countdown to Final Crisis #16 (January 2008)
  30. ^ Countdown to Final Crisis #15 (January 2008)
  31. ^ Countdown to Final Crisis #14 (January 2008)
  32. ^ Countdown to Final Crisis #13 (January 2008)
  33. ^ Countdown to Final Crisis #11 (February 2008)
  34. ^ Countdown to Final Crisis #9 (February 2008)
  35. ^ Countdown to Final Crisis #8 (March 2008)
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