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* Oscar Sweetgulper - Etta Candy's spindly, nerdy boyfriend, from Starvard College |
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* Professor Zool - eminent scientist at Holliday College |
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This is a list of Wonder Woman supporting characters.
Major characters
In alphabetical order (with issue and date of first appearance)
| Character | First appearance | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Amazons | All Star Comics #8 (December 1941) | A nation of eternally youthful and super-powerful women. |
| Artemis of Bana-Mighdall | Wonder Woman (vol. 2) #90 (September 1994) | Brash champion of a lost tribe of Amazons, who successfully challenged Diana for the title of Wonder Woman and now is a major leader among the Amazons. |
| Etta Candy | Sensation Comics #2 (February 1942) | Leader of the Beeta Lambda Sorority at Holliday College, Etta Candy was Wonder Woman’s close friend and sidekick. |
| Wonder Woman #229 (March 1977) | Secretary for General Blankenship of the War Department, during the period that the comics series shifted to World War II stories to reflect the first season of the Wonder Woman TV show. | |
| Wonder Woman #272 (October 1980) | Air Force Lt. Etta Candy is secretary for Gen. Darnell and Diana Prince’s roommate. | |
| Wonder Woman (vol. 2) #2 (March 1987) | Air Force officer and later agent in the Department of Metahuman Affairs, Etta is Wonder Woman’s best friend and Steve Trevor’s wife. | |
| Gods of Olympus | All Star Comics #8 (December 1941) | The gods of Classical Greek mythology, worshiped by the Amazons. |
| Queen Hippolyta | All Star Comics #8 (December 1941) | The queen of the Amazons and Wonder Woman’s mother, who fashioned Diana from clay which was given life by the gods. |
| Mala | All Star Comics #8 (December 1941) | Wonder Woman’s closest friend among the Amazons, Mala was the first runner-up in the contest to determine who would enter Man’s World as Wonder Woman and later became the head of the Amazons’ therapeutic center Reformation Island. |
| Paula | Sensation Comics #4 (April, 1942) | Wonder Woman's first recurring arch-nemesis, the Baroness Paula Von Gunther was a ruthless Nazi spymaster, evil scientist, and femme fatale who later became Wonder Woman’s close friend and chief Amazon scientist. |
| General Phil Darnell | Sensation Comics #3 (March 1942) | Col. (later Gen.) Darnell supervised Steve Trevor’s work at Military Intelligence and hired Diana Prince as his secretary. |
| Wonder Woman #272 (October 1980) | Head of the Air Force’s Special Assignments Branch, tasked with intervening in crises before they develop. | |
| Steve Trevor | All Star Comics #8 (December 1941) | An intelligence officer in the United States Army during World War II whose plane crashed in the isolated homeland of the Amazons, Capt. (later Major) Trevor became the paramour of Wonder Woman while, unbeknownst to him, working at U.S. Military Intelligence alognside Wonder Woman in her secret identity, Diana Prince. |
| Wonder Woman #223 (April-May 1976) | After Steve was killed by one of Dr. Cyber’s henchmen,[1] he was brought back to life by the goddess Aphrodite and used in a test of Wonder Woman’s readiness to return to active superheroics following her months without superpowers and bout with amnesia. He was allowed to remain alive and assumed a new identity, spy Steve Howard. It was later revealed that Trevor had been reanimated by being fused with the life force of the god Eros.[2] | |
| Wonder Woman #270 (August 1980) | An Air Force colonel piloting an experimental aircraft that penetrated the multiversal barriers to crashland outside of Paradise Island, Steve was integrated into life on Earth-One when Aphrodite unleashed the Mists of Nepenthe to alter the world’s memories so that he would be accepted as the Steve Trevor of that universe. He served as an intelligence agent within the Air Force’s Special Assignments Branch under the direction of Gen. Darnell, unknowingly working alongside Wonder Woman in her secret identity of Capt. (later Maj.) Diana Prince. | |
| Wonder Woman (vol. 2) #2 (March 1987) | An Air Force officer and war veteran, Steve Trevor was also the son of Diana Trevor, aviatrix who crashed onto the Amazons’ island home and died in a battle to save the Amazons. Later designated Deputy Secretary of Defense and then leader of the Department of Metahuman Affairs, Trevor married Etta Candy and is Diana’s close friend. | |
| Wonder Girl | Wonder Woman #105 (1958) | Wonder Woman as a teen. |
| The Brave and the Bold #60 (July 1965) | Wonder Woman’s younger sister, who lives in Man’s World as Donna Troy. | |
| Wonder Woman (vol. 2) #105 (January 1996) | Cassandra “Cassie” Sandsmark is the teenage daughter of museum director Helena Sandsmark and who became Wonder Girl to be Wonder Woman’s sidekick. |
Other characters
Separated in chronological clusters, by major periods in the publication history of the Wonder Woman comic book.
Pre-Crisis
Characters who appeared before the continuity-altering series Crisis on Infinite Earths.
Golden Age
- Queen Desira - Venusian queen
- Eve Brown - Steve Trevor's secretary, who instantly disliked Diana Prince
- Holliday Girls - Etta Candy's sorority sisters at Holliday College
- Oscar Sweetgulper - Etta Candy's spindly, nerdy boyfriend, from Starvard College
- Dean Sourpuss - the grim, heavy-handed dean of Holliday College
- Professor Zool - brilliant, though absentminded, eminent scientist at Holliday College
Impossible Tales
- Bird-Boy - a suitor of Wonder Girl
- Mer-Boy - an Atlantean suitor of Wonder Girl
- Mr. Genie - Wonder Tot's magical friend
Powerless Era
- Cathy Perkins - teen runaway who worked in Diana Prince's boutique
- I Ching - blind Chinese mystic who became Diana Prince's mentor
- Jonny Double - down-on-his luck private investigator
- Tim Trench - shady private detective
- Tony Petrucci - neighborhood supporter
Modern Era
UN/New York
- The Kravitzes - Abner and his mother owned the apartment building Diana and Steve Trevor lived in
- Morgan Tracy - head of the UN Crisis Bureau, later revealed to be the Prime Planner of the Cartel, which was hired by Kobra to kill Wonder Woman
- Tod - neighbor in Diana's apartment building
NASA/Houston
- Mike Bailey - fellow astronaut trainee who dated Diana and was secretly a member of the Royal Flush Gang
- Stacy Macklin - fellow astronaut trainee, who later became Lady Lunar
- Conrad Starfield
- Gen. Novak
Washington, DC
- Atalanta - leader of a lost tribe of Amazons who live in the Amazon River jungle
- Glitch - alien "gremlin" only Steve and some children could see
- Keith Griggs - hotshot Air Force major who joined the Special Assignments Bureau and was romantically interested in Diana Prince
- Lauren Haley - highly competent Air Force lieutenant hired by Special Assignments
- Howard Huckaby - aide to Sen. Covington, and Etta's boyfriend
- Lisa Abernathy - daughter of Sen. Abernathy, and network news reporter covering Washington
- Mother Juju - old mystic
- Sen. Abernathy - disgraced former senator who was landlord for Diana and Etta
- Sen. Covington - powerful, media-savvy senator with an agenda to aggressively investigate Special Assignments; secretly, lover of Lisa Abernathy
- Sofia Constantinas - former terrorist who was invited to live among the Amazons
Post-Crisis
Boston
- Brian Elliott - Computer genius who attempted to become a supervillain but was slowly persuaded to become a friend and ally
- Camille Sly - long-lived but still spry former actress who was known in her day as the "Female Fairbanks" for her roles in swashbuckling movies, who rented rooms in her boarding-house to both Diana and Donna Milton
- Donna Milton - believed herself to be a devious lawyer, always looking out for her own selfish interests and greed, who was the lover of Ares Buchanan and a spy in Wonder Woman's life but gradually became Diana's friend, until Diana deduced that she was Circe, so submerged into the Donna Milton persona that she had forgotten her real identity.
- Ed Indelicato - inspector on the Boston police force
- Isabelle Modini - Boston police officer who initially held a grudge against Diana for leaving her hanging above a street while Diana attempted to talk down a heavily armed villain, but who became Diana's friend after that villain later gave up his own life to save hers.
- Julia Kapatelis - professor and archaeologist who became Diana's mentor in Man's World
- Micah Rains - slacker detective whose "office" was merely a barstool until Diana became his partner
- Myndi Mayer - public relations executive who was Diana's representative
- Vanessa Kapatelis - daughter of Julia Kapatelis
Gateway City
- Helena Sandsmark - Gateway City Museum chief and mother of Cassie Sandsmark, the new Wonder Girl
- Jason Blood - mortal host of The Demon, and paramour of Helena Sandsmark
- Mike Schorr - police officer
- Wonder Dome - semi-sentient polymorphic entity
- Harold Champion - Heracles, in a new identity, seeking redemption
New York
- Ferdinand the Minotaur - head chef of Themysciran embassy
- Leslie Anderson - co-founder of Cale-Anderson Pharmaceuticals, and doctor who healed Vanessa Kapitelis of the cybernetic implants that had transformed her into the Silver Swan
- Peter Garibaldi - press secretary for Themysciran embassy and father of Martin and Bobby Garibaldi
- Trevor Barnes - Diana's boyfriend, and UN staffer
Department of Metahuman Affairs
- Agents of the D.M.A.
- Gorilla Warriors - albino gorillas from Gorilla City with superpowers
- Nemesis - agent with talent for impersonation
- Sarge Steel - head of DMA
- Warkiller - Achilles, resurrected with the heart of a slain god, tasked by Zeus to lead the Thalarions
Characters created for other media
Wonder Woman supporting characters created in other media, with no appearances in previous comics.
| Character | Media | Actor/Actress |
| Bryce Candall (A genetically enhanced man who was indestructible and became information technology officer for IADC’s Los Angeles field office) | Wonder Woman (TV series) | |
| Dale Hawthorn (Head of IADC Los Angeles field office) | Wonder Woman (TV series) | |
| Eve (Steve’s assistant at the IADC) | Wonder Woman (TV series) | Saundra Sharp |
| General Blankenship (Head of the War Department) | Wonder Woman (TV series) | John Randolph, Richard Eastham |
| IRAC (Information Retrieval Associative Computer, super-intelligent computer for IADC) | Wonder Woman (TV series) | |
| Joe Atkinson (A weathered IADC agent who supervised Steve and Diana) | Wonder Woman (TV series) | Normann Burton |
| Rover (A small mobile robot that is an offshoot of IRAC and performs duties such as delivering coffee and sorting mail) | Wonder Woman (TV series) |
Characters from comics in other media
Some supporting characters from the comic books have made an appearance, or appearances, in other media featuring Wonder Woman.
See also
References
- Beatty, Scott (2009). Wonder Woman: The Ultimate Guide To The Amazon Princess. Dorling Kindersley Publishing. ISBN 0-7894-9616-X.
