Wonder Girl's Confusing Origin Makes Her DC's Ultimate Multiversal Hero
The original Wonder Girl, Donna Troy, has a several confusing origin stories, but one story reconciled all of them and made her DC Comics’ ultimate multiversal hero. Donna Troy’s origins are something of a joke among DC readers and creators, with the iconic hero technically being created due to an error in communication and each continuity shakeup in the mainstream DC universe making her true origin more complicated, nearly overshadowing her beloved role as a founding member of the Teen Titans alongside her nixed love interest, Nightwing. Although Donna Troy’s background has been rewritten yet again by Flashpoint, her 2005 retcon in the post-crisis DC universe is easily the best version of her origin, as it uses the multiverse itself to honor all of her stories.
The first iteration of Wonder Girl is, fascinatingly, Diana Prince herself. In the Silver Age of comics, DC published stories about Clark Kent during his childhood, where he’d go on adventures as Superboy. In Wonder Woman’s case, she’d interact with past versions of herself, with a teenage version of Diana Prince being Wonder Girl and a toddler version of her being Wonder Tot. All three protagonists were Diana Prince, but it was easy for readers to mistakenly believe that they were each different people.
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When the Teen Titans were created, miscommunication between two DC Comics creative teams led to Wonder Girl (who was written to be Diana Prince’s younger sister) being one of their founding members. When the inconsistency became apparent, Wonder Girl received the name Donna Troy and several origin stories, making her true background increasingly convoluted until issue 4 of the 2005 miniseries DC
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