Wonder Woman's Darkest Costume Was So Cruel, Aquaman Tried to Kill Her
One of DC Comics' darkest alternate realities, the brutal Flashpoint timeline, featured a war-ravaged Wonder Woman, with Diana truly becoming a villain after decapitating Aquaman's wife Mera, and wearing her crown as a trophy. While Wonder Woman is almost always portrayed as a true hero, her role in Flashpointcements the fact that Diana's compassion and good heart are the result of nurture, and not nature, as she quickly becomes a villain after her mother and home are destroyed.
The Flashpoint timeline was created by a grief-stricken Barry Allen, using his Speed Force powers to run back in time to save his mother from the Reverse-Flash, but inadvertently creating an entirely new branched timeline by changing the past. This deranged new reality featured an emaciated Superman having been kept captive by the government since his arrival on Earth, Thomas Wayne as an uber-violent Batman after Martha and Bruce were killed, and Aquaman and Wonder Woman waging an endless war on each other. The relationship between Atlantis and Themyscira started out positive, with Diana and Orin (Aquaman's Atlantean name) getting married as a testament to the bond between the two nations, but their alliance quickly dissolved into all-out war.
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Flashpoint — helmed by Geoff Johns and Andy Kubert — focused on an alternate Earth where everything was falling to pieces, but Wonder Woman's move towards villainy was one of the severe changes that a character went through in the massive crossover event. The marriage between Diana and Orin began to deteriorate after he began to see Mera as his concubine, and the dissolution was cemented when the Amazon Artemis, who wanted the
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