Wonder Woman (Earth-Two)

Wonder Woman (Earth-Two)

Wonder Woman of Earth-Two is a fictional DC Comics superheroine retconned from original stories created by Wonder Woman writer/creator William Moulton Marston and his wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston. This "version" of Wonder Woman is attributed to have first appeared in All Star Comics #8 (Dec. 1941). This was after DC Comics established a multiverse within their published stories to explain how heroes could have been active before and during the World War II era and still retain their youth and subsequent origins in the 1960s.

The Earth-Two Wonder Woman is first featured as a specific separate character from the then mainstream Wonder Woman (referred to as the "Earth-One Wonder Woman") in the second Jay Garrick and Barry Allen team-up. Technically the Earth-Two Wonder Woman had appeared several months earlier cameoed in a single comic book panel.

Like most of the elder Earth-Two incarnations of the DC characters, this version of Wonder Woman was semi-retired from costumed exploits by the time she reappears in later stories indicating her age. She was shown to be aging with gray hair and wrinkles when she is featured in later Justice League stories.

She continued to appear in many later Earth-Two specific features including the multi-generational "Infinity, Inc." series, where her daughter Fury is featured.

She and her version of Earth were eliminated in a company wide storyline titled Crisis on Infinite Earths. After this series ended she ascended to her world's Mount Olympus with her husband General Steve Trevor and attained godhood. Although Diana Trevor was eliminated from history due to the storyline's outcome, her daughter was not. Fury, or Lyta Trevor, was later explained to be the child of the New Earth history World War II Fury—Helena Kosmatos.

The Earth-Two Diana Trevor reappeared in mainstream DC Earth during a later storyline titled Infinite Crisis, but only as a ghost apparition. She later faded from existence after speaking to her newest counterpart Wonder Woman.

At a still later period another storyline was created titled 52. In the aftermath of this storyline an alternate reboot version of the Pre-Crisis Earth-Two characters are reintroduced. These characters are separate from their Pre-Crisis Earth-Two versions though bear some resemblances to the Pre Crisis Earth-Two version. The Post-Crisis Earth-2 Wonder Woman is mentioned by her daughter Fury though does not appear except for a reference picture taken before the death of Bruce Wayne and disappearance of their Superman. The Post-Crisis Earth-2 Wonder Woman is formally retired from her Earth's Justice Society team and is suggested to be the current Queen of the Amazons, which never happened to the Earth-Two Diana Trevor before she ascended to Mount Olympus to become a goddess with her husband.

A new parallel to this character is set to appear in the 2012 series Earth-2. The Post Flashpoint Earth-2 Wonder Woman is the sole surviving Amazon of her source Earth. It is unrevealed what happened to the rest of the Amazons of Post Flashpoint Earth-2.