One of the Justice League's big three, Wonder Woman's indispensable to the DCU. Unlike the other two though, she isn't seen as being as iconic.
Rebutting this, comics, movies, and television have hosted impersonations and parodies of the Amazon Princess. They vary from loving satires to transparent rip-offs, with a few even taking steps sideways to muddle the point of origin a little.
Quite a few of them even come from within DC Comics and/or Warner Brothers. Who are these other Wonder Womans? Wonder Women? Is it like Attorneys General - Wonders Woman? And what about the other super ladies that have been inspired by her character? Here are our top 10 Wonder Women.
10 Bekka (Justice League: Gods and Monsters)
One of two characters on this list that shares the title Wonder Woman with Diana Prince is Bekka. Bekka's been a part of Kirby's Fourth World since its inception in 1970. The character has an important pedigree. She invented the Mother Boxes that power New Gods-related plots, helped create the Boom Tubes, and she rivals Metron's genius.
In the 2015 animated film Gods and Monsters, though, things shifted. An alternate reality story where the Man-Bat= Batman and Zod's son became Superman, Bekka became Earth's Wonder Woman as a fugitive. Everything is sick and wrong in her universe. She's on the run from Highfather who betrayed her, killing Orion and the Gods of Apokalips in a "Red Wedding." Traumatized, she still finds the strength to be a hero.
9 Superwoman
Earth 3's Superwoman is Wonder Woman's darkest reflection. One of the founders of the Crime Syndicate of America, she's locked in an abusive love triangle with Ultraman (her anti-kryptonite loving anti-Superman) and Owlman (Bad-Batman).
Her secret identity is, of course, Lois Lane, a reporter for the Daily Planet. She hails from Damnation Island, the anti-matter equivalent of Paradise Island. Of all the Wonders Women on this list, she's the naughtiest.
8 Wonder Woman of China
Hailing from Gene Yang's New Super-Man, the Chinese Wonder Woman looks and acts the part. She's got the bracelets, the lasso, the costume, and mad kung fu skills as well. She's one of the pillars of the Justice League of China. She's also not vaguely human.
This Wonder Woman's identity is Greensnake, a hero from a popular Chinese folktale. Greensnake is a snake who practiced kung fu so hard and got so close to Buddhist enlightenment that she learned to shapeshift. It's a very cool, if weird, story and a tragic background. Also, her Magic Lasso is really her tail.
As an agent of the Chinese government, she could easily be portrayed as an authoritarian antihero. Instead, she's noble and self-sacrificing, a good friend, and justifiably suspicious of her government.
7 Wonderella
The Non-Adventures of Wonderella is a smart webcomic with a cunning-but-lazy hero. Wonderella is the superhero equivalent of a celebutante. Vapid and selfish, she's mostly unsuited for the superhero mantle she inherited from her more traditional mother.
Despite her mean-spirited sense of humor, she and her sidekick Wonderina have grown into their jobs. They're both surprisingly sharp and genre-savvy, and have a nice range of superpowers, including the ability to jump "hella high." The strip's been running since 2009 and published multiple collections as well.
6 Warriana (The Venture Brothers)
This Wonder Woman parody leans heavily into the character's associations with Greek mythology. She's a classical Amazon, so she's burned off one of her breasts. She flies around in an invisible chariot drawn by squawking invisible swans, and she likes calling Brock Sampson 'Heracles.'
Warriana is a member of the New York-based professional hero team the Crusaders Action League. She works with Captain America parody Stars 'n' Garters and Hawkeye parody the Fallen Archer. In her day job, she lives her life as talk show host Alexis Warrington. For some reason most successful superheroes in the Ventureverse work on television, so hey, that works.
5 Bizarra
Bizarra is, of course, a Bizarro version of Wonder Woman. Probably created by Bizarro, whose exposure to Htrea's blue sun lets him create other bizarros, Bizarra is an imperfect duplicate. She's weird looking, she's powerful, her Lasso of Lies forces its victims to tell untruths, and she inverts the ideology of the person she copies. In this case, that means she constantly talks about how women are inferior to men.
For a Bizarro, she's actually surprisingly unfunny. Somehow the supervillain Monarch recruited her to join his evil league of evil. She helped torture a villain named Tracer to death. This was a year before Dark Knight Returns, proving that 80s comics really were questing for that unnecessary darkness to help spice things up.
4 Jakita Wagner (Planetary)
Warren Ellis' Planetary is a masterful pastiche of pulp and superhero characters, tropes, and tales. One of its Big Three is Jakita Wagner. Daughter of her reality's super-Tarzan, Wagner is the raw muscle for the Planetary Society. "Archaeologists of the Unreal," Planetary is all about discovering the wonders hidden throughout a world riddled with magic and super-science.
To this end, she helps Planetary founder Elijah Snow combat The Four, a nasty autocratic version of the Fantastic Four. Wagner's awesome, with super strength and speed, but she loses her share of fights. Even so, she clearly loves her monster-slaying, weirdness-investigating life.
3 Daughter of Wonder (Planetary)
One Wonder Woman wasn't enough for Planetary. The story "Magic and Loss" delves into The Four's monstrous history. Hidden like DC's Gorilla City, a peaceful all-female civilization is prepared to introduce itself to the outside world via its princess.
Tall and beautiful, she is equipped with golden bracelets that seem capable of conjuring weapons like a Green Lantern ring. She is the representative of her society's achievements and dreams. Unfortunately, like everything extraordinary they encounter, The Four extinguish her light immediately. They send a message via orbital satellite, intimidating the secret civilization, stealing the bracelets, and killing the Daughter of Wonder.
2 Zealot (WildC.A.T.s)
Zealot's more well-disguised than a mere rip-off like Liefeld's character Glory. A powerful warrior from the planet Khera, she turned her back on a future as a peaceful priestess. She was trapped on Earth for thousands of years, so instead of being linked to mythology, she's an inspiration for it.
She helped found the WildC.A.T.s, and trained the team's resident gun nut Grifter. In fact, she really likes training humans in her superhuman alien fighting style, teaching everyone from girls in ancient Greece to other members of the WildC.A.T.s. She's usually portrayed as arrogant and hard to work with, a weird trait for an alien kung fu master.
1 Queen Maeve
The Boys' Queen Maeve is one of the more interesting Wonder Woman variants. Her role in The Seven is clearly equivalent to Wonder Woman's in the JLA or Superwoman's in the CSA.
Named after a mythical Irish warrior queen, she's not as powerful as team leader Homelander, but she's pretty mighty. She's also one of The Seven's more sympathetic members.
Initially seeing Starlight as a threat to her spotlight, she's since showed that she cares about her fellow female Super. Her main problem is that years operating near the top of a corrupt system has numbed her on the inside. But hey, that cold open where the armored car smashes into her is pretty darn sweet.