Wonder Woman is dead - here's what you need to know

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Wonder Woman is dead. RIP the Amazonian Princess-Warrior from Themyscira, 1941-2022.

If you thought Diana of the Amazons was immortal thanks to her connection to DC's Olympian gods, think again - and think fast, as Wonder Woman's death arrives in April 26's Justice League #75, 'Death of the Justice League.'

If that title sounds ominous, it ought to, as it's not just Wonder Woman, but Batman, Superman, and nearly all of the core Justice League members - with only one survivor (whose identity we won't spoil here) making it back to Earth to tell the tale.

Superheroes die and come back to life regularly in comic books, but while Wonder Woman and the League are dead, Justice League #75 will also mark the end of the ongoing Justice League title for what DC says will be the foreseeable future.

And the idea that Wonder Woman may return from death doesn't answer the substantial questions about when and how that could happen, let alone what's going to happen to Wonder Woman's own comic in the meantime. 

Here's what you need to know about how it happened, why it happened, and what happens next in the wake of Wonder Woman's death.

Justice League #75 pits the core Justice League against a 'Dark Army' of some of the most infamous and powerful villains in the entire DC Universe, including Wonder Woman's arch-enemy Ares, Doomsday, Darkseid, and others, all guided by the destructive force known as the 'Great Darkness'.

That force, the Great Darkness, has been established as an evil presence whose machinations have been felt but not seen since all the way back in 1985's Multiverse-rewriting event Crisis on Infinite Earths. The original 'Crisis' has informed numerous DC reboots and retcons in the decades since - all the way up to and