Secret Identity
Wonder Woman's secret identity is that of Diana Prince. The alias was created by William Moulton Marston.
During Marston's run, Diana Prince was the name of an army nurse whom Wonder Woman met. The nurse was in need of money to go to her fiancé in South America. As Wonder Woman needed a secret identity and also wanted to monitor and look after Steve (who was admitted in the same army hospital Diana Prince worked at), and because both of them looked identical, Wonder Woman gave the nurse money to go to her fiancé in exchange for the nurse's credentials and took Diana Prince as her alias. She also started to work as an army nurse and later in the Air Force.
The identity of Diana Prince played in an important part in Wonder Woman's adventures during the 1960s, which featured a de-powered Diana fighting crime without her mystic powers. As she was no longer Wonder Woman, she used the Diana Prince alias while fighting crime.
Wonder Woman was broadcast worldwide killing a villain named Maxwell Lord, as he was mind controlling Superman into killing Batman and the only way to stop him was to kill him, so as a last resort Diana snapped his neck. Due to the trauma of killing and the aftermath of Infinite Crisis, the Amazon went into a year's exile. Once she returned to public life, Diana realized that her life as a full-time celebrity superhero and ambassador had kept her removed from humanity. Because of this she again donned the persona of Diana Prince and became an agent at the Department of Metahuman Affairs. During a later battle with Circe, the witch placed a spell on Diana leaving Wonder Woman powerless when in the role of Diana Prince.
In the current New 52 universe, Diana does not have a secret identity as stated in an interview by series writer Brian Azzarello.
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Famous quotes containing the words secret and/or identity:
“The secret anniversaries of the heart.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)
“So long as the source of our identity is external—vested in how others judge our performance at work, or how others judge our children’s performance, or how much money we make—we will find ourselves hopelessly flawed, forever short of the ideal.”
—Melinda M. Marshall (20th century)