WARNING: The following article contains spoilers from Justice League #46 by Robert Venditti, Xermanico, Robson Rocha, Daniel Henriques, Romulo Fajardo Jr., and Tom Napolitano, on sale now.

By any measure, Wonder Woman is one of the most famous and respected superheroes in the Justice League and the DC Universe. And in Justice League #46, Wonder Woman proves that she might be stronger than the rest of her teammates combined.

This issue begins with Wonder Woman and the Justice League on Themyscira, the hidden island home of the Amazons. Diana has led the League to her homeland in hopes of venturing to Tartarus to retrieve Jim Corrigan, the human host of the amazingly powerful Spectre. Without Corrigan keeping the spirit's powers in check, the Spectre has been free to use his powers to inflict rage on sentient beings, coercing them to battle one another, as the Justice League discovered in the last issue when he used his powers to influence the League members to fight one another. Unfortunately, the League encounters Wonder Woman's people, the Amazons, and Diana attempts to reason with her mother, Queen Hippolyta. Just as it seems like peaceful reasoning is working, the Amazons are affected by the Spectre's powers. The Justice League has no choice but to fight angry Amazons who are mystically coerced into expressing their grudges against mankind in the form of violence.

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The League manages to fight their way through the Amazons, due in no small part to Wonder Woman's knowledge of Amazonian fighting tactics. Under her leadership, the League is able to easily anticipate and counter everything thrown at them and continue to Tartarus. However, once the League has passed through the army of women, Batman notices that the Amazons have now started to turn on one another, and Wonder Woman comments that her people will fight each other to the death under the Spectre's influence.

Green Lantern volunteers to stay behind and deal with the angry Amazons and uses his ring to create green light versions of the Green Lantern Corps to deal with the army. The rest of the League continue in the direction of Tartarus and find a huge boulder obstructing the entrance, alongside a slew of slain Amazons who were guarding the entrance that Wonder Woman calls the Watchwomen of Tartarus.

Wonder Woman is understandably distressed by the discovery of the slain women that she refers to as her sisters. As she takes a moment to mourn the loss, Superman, Aquaman, Batman, and the Flash work together in an attempt to move the large barrier to Tartarus. While her teammates struggle to move the boulder, Wonder Woman pushes past them all and lifts the boulder out of the way, while Batman, Superman, and the others look on in stunned surprise.

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Wonder Woman Boulder

While there's never been any doubt about Wonder Woman's strength, she just lifted something that both Superman and Aquaman, who each have comparable levels super-strength couldn't lift together. The fact that her strength left Superman in the dust here speaks volumes.

Even so, there is the possibility that there is more here than meets the eye. First of all, Wonder Woman was clearly distressed, not only by the fact that she had to fight against her own mother but also due to the fact that she had just seen the dead bodies of her fellow Amazons littered all over the floor. This got her adrenaline pumping, and it likely pushed her strength to her upper limits.

Also, Tartarus is a place of magic, which means that it is a serious weakness for Superman. If the boulder was magically sealed, then the possibility exists that the Man of Steel's powers were not effective against it. While Superman is traditionally seen as the League's powerhouse, moments like this prove that that description is equally applicable to Wonder Woman and shows why she's such an integral part of the team.

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