Dark Angels Dopplegangers

Dark Angel was an agent of the German Nazi regime who was enlisted to initiate attacks on the American government. This led to her confrontation with Spy Smasher. After this initial encounter in why she was defeated, she declared she would seek revenge against her adversary although if she reappeared she used a different alias. 

Dark Angel filled in a niche that was occupied by Nazi mastermind maidens Paula Von Gunther and Von Gunta, who had opposed the Wonder Women of other Earths. In fact, the alter ego of Dark Angel was Donna Troy, who was connected with the Amazing Amazons.

On Earth-One, Donna Troy was adopted by Queen Hypolyta of Paradise Island, raising the young orphans after the Queen's daughter Princess Diana aka Wonder Woman, who had saved the girl from a raging fire that had decimated the building her parents had resided within. This Donna would become Wonder Girl, a member of the Teen Titans.

On Earth-Two, that version of Donna Troy was rescued from a similar raging inferno by firefighters, and as an older teenage enrolled as a student in Holliday College. She would become a friend and ally of Wonder Woman and her sidekick Etta Candy, as one of the Holliday Girls that shared adventure with them. On one occasion, this Donna adopted a costumed alter ego of Wonder Womam in the fourth dimension.

However, the core Donna Troy of Earth-Seven adopted the alias of Dark Angel, who like her Earth-S was a villain through and through. She would be the basis for a multiverse myriad of malicious maidens. The ultimate fate of the Earth-S Donna aka Dark Angel was to die in a fire, similar to what her counterparts had faced as infants, but instead as an adult.

Wonder Women: The Worlds' Greatest (more or less) Heroines

While definitely superheroes outnumbered superheroines throughout the Multiverse, several notable women carved out names from themselves on Earths One and two, showing that they matched the mettle of their male peers. Preeminent among these was the Wonder Women and the Black Canarys, who stood on their own before joining their Worlds Greatest Heroes... the Justice League and Justice Society. And lest we forget, the Last Daughters of Krypton, Kara Zor-El and Zor-L aka Supergirl and Power Girl, proved equal to their more famous cousins... the Supermen.

And then there were the others, the lesser lights, who reflected the heroic standards set by the above fabulous females while carving out their own costumed careers. Many of these joined the New Teen Titans of Earth-One or the female version of the Justice Society of Earth-Two, while others stood apart trying to forge their own path within the metahuman community. This is by no means a comprehensive list of all those legendary ladies, as some would exist in other times, on other worlds, and under other circumstances. For the purpose of this piece, however, we are focusing on nine of these glorious gals whom we had previously considered although this time we do so more extensively.

- The Donna Troy of both worlds, on Earth-One she would become Wonder Girl the adopted Amazonian and on Earth-Two she became a Holliday Girl who once wore her college's guardian, Wonder Woman's costume.

- Jean Loring and Mary James who each had significant relationships with their world's respective Atoms, even though there were ups and downs, with Loring becoming the evil "Queen Jean" on occasion and James becoming a female Atom.

- Both Myra Masons, whether as the temporarily superpowered girlfriend of Space Ranger or the one-time female version of boyfriend Doctor Mid-Nite, were faithful companions to the men in their lives.

- Hawkwoman and Hawkgirl aka Shiera Hall, the loving wives of the Hawkmen who shared their high-flying adventures, with the former joining the Justice League with her husband and the latter the All-Star Squadron with her boyfriend.

- Raven and Clarice Winston, wearing hooded and caped costumes while being protected by shadowy
guardians during their encounters with evil over the years.

- Koriand'r aka Kori "Starfire" Anders and Doris "Starwoman" Lee, each wielding energy powered by the stars alongside their fellow heroines, and more importantly dazzling their boyfriends Robin and Starman, respectively.

- Tara Marcov was the illegitimate daughter of the King of Marcovia, who was given powers over the earth which led to her adopting the alter ego of Terra. Her counterpart was the second girlfriend of Wesley Dodds aka Sandman, adopting a female version of his costume. Both women had short careers.

- Amy Winston who was the Princess Amethyst and Peachy Pet Thunder who was also a girl with grand aspirations. Eventually, both would gained power and moved to new dimensional worlds for true love.

- Mysa Nal and Inza Cramer Nelson* were redheads with access to ancient energies from alien worlds allowing themselves to become among the most powerful of their peers.

Another heroine who was an unofficial member of the Teen Titans was Kole Weathers. A mutant whose scientist parents imbued in her the ability to weave silicon crystals in various shapes, she aided the Titans and fell in love with one of their members in Joseph “Jericho” Wilson. She perished attempting to protect fellow heroes during the Crisis on Infinite Earths. Her counterpart was Gerta VonGunther, the daugher of former criminal scientist Paula Von Gunthner, who had been the arch-foe of Earth-Two's Wonder Woman. Once Gerta had been liberated from Nazi captivity and returned to her mother, Paula renounced her evil ways, and both mother and daughter moved to Paradise Island. There, Gerta began experimenting with germs turned into insects and creating mermaids out of sharks, although such experiments were dangerous. Gerta finally renounced her troublesome research for the safety of humanity.

The New Teen Titans would typify a balanced approach where both genders were concerned, as over time their membership would have notable females in the midst proving invaluable to their masculine comrades. So too would the Legion of Super-Heroes in Earth-One's future and the All-Star Squadron of Earth-Two's past, although the aforementioned Justice League and Justice Society sadly only had a handful of heroines throughout their history, although each would recruit non-member heroines from time to time to aid them in their efforts throughout the years.

* Inza also inherited a green skinned persona from her ancestor Ezra Hawkins aka Sir Traytor. This version of her spawned a woman named Jealous that battled her husband Kent “Doctor Fate” Nelson during a battle with a Lord of Chaos. This lethal osu was the counterpart of Supergirl’s evil clone Satan Girl.

Wonder Woman's Sidekicks... and her Loyal Lady Legacy

Synonymous with Wonder Woman is the Holliday Girls, a sorority that operated out of Holliday College became the Amazing Amazons' unofficial sidekicks. Both were headed by their unofficial leaders, Etta Candy, on each world. In the modern era of Earth-One, these primarily consisted only of a select few  gals that joined Etta on their hero's adventures for a short period of time. These three were Tina Toy, Thelma Tall and Lita Little. This quartet would aid the alter ego of Princess Diana in a half dozen cases, then return to lives of normalcy except for Etta who would graduate and join Diana Prince in her clerical job at the Pentagon. On one occasion, Candy would duplicate the process that turned the evil Doctor Psycho into the super powered Captain Wonder by transforming herself into a red-haired Wonder Woman for a brief time in order to defeat the Doctor/Captain and other costumed crooks who had assembled on that occasion.

As for the Holliday Girls of Earth-Two, they had a much larger membership and several more adventures with their Wonder Woman over the years. Etta's primary pals in the group were Eve Brown, Roberta "Bobbie" Strong and Glamora Treat. On one such occasion, these three along with a few others were investigating the sinister Anton Unreal, who had devised an instrument that could project individuals into the fourth dimension. And it was in this reality that two significant things happened. First, that five of the Holliday Girls were transformed into replicas of Wonder Woman and, second, that they began to learn how to phase between dimensions. 

Among these was the Earth-Two Donna Troy who like her counterpart became a Wonder Girl but didn't join a team like the Teen Titans. She had been saved by a firefighter, unlike her Earth-One counterpart who had been saved by Wonder Woman herself and raised among the heroine's people. Nevertheless, each young woman gained powers mirroring her heroine's.

This Donna did have several more adventures with her fellow Holliday Girls. Her "unreal" abilities would be used on future cases, including when summoned to the planet Venus and later still to determine the true culprit behind a rash of crimes.

Amazing Amazonians Across the Ages

Wonder Woman was the first significant super heroine to appear on the scene, and she wasn't alone among her gender as scores of fabulous females also appeared throughout the Multiverse since December 1941 which Princess Diana arrived in America and reversed her name to Diana Prince. On Earths One and Two, each amazing amazon was nearly identical in powers, in history, in personality. However, there were other Wonder Women in their family, both twins of themselves and blonde bombshells named Hippolyta.

Of course, the mothers of both Diana's was the Amazonian Queens named Hippolyta. While the Hippolyta of Earth-One was blonde and appeared different from her daughter, the Hippolyta of Earth-Two was a brunette with an identical appearance to that of her daughter! In fact, that Hippolyta even impersonated the real Wonder Woman on occasion during special missions, while the other Hippolyta mostly remained on Paradise Island.

When Earth-One Diana was born, she was not alone, for she had a fraternal twin sister born simultaneously who didn't gain much fanfare. Nubia was stolen by her mother Hippolyta's mortal enemy Mars, and raised on a separate floating island with all men as their queen. Years later, she was drawn back to Paradise Island to claim the title of Wonder Woman, and made a strong case in both her combat skills and in her sense of valor and fair play which her sister possessed. Eventually moving to Africa, Nubia became one of that continent's principal protectors as the second Wonder Woman and protected it from her brainwashed famous sister on one occasion. 

When Earth-Two eventually married the love of her life, Steve Trevor, the two brought forth an offspring who would inherit her mother's superhuman abilities. Naming their daughter Hippolyta, or Lyta for short, they raised her both in America and among the Amazonians. However, as she entered her late teens and early twenties, a growing resentment between mother and daughter developed when Diana held back giving her blessing for Lyta carrying on the family tradition as the next Wonder Woman. Instead, Lyta adopted a new alter ego in Fury, becoming a founding member along with her boyfriend and fiancee Hector "Silver Scarab" Hall of Infinity, Inc. where she eventually earned her mother's respect.

And of course, there is Donna Troy. On Earth-One, she was saved by Wonder Woman  from a fiery building early in the amazon's costumed career and as an orphan brought to Paradise Island where she was adopted by Queen Hippolyta and became Diana's second sister. Years later, she returned to man's world as Wonder Girl assisting the Teen Titans who themselves were sidekicks of the Justice League and made names for themselves as a legendary team. Meanwhile on Earth-Two, rather than Diana saving Donna, a firefighter performed the heroic deed and the orphaned girl eventually enrolled in Holliday College. As a Holliday Girl alongside sorority leader Etta Candy, this gal had many adventures with her Wonder Woman... on one occasion in the fourth dimension actually manifesting herself as a twin of her idol.

And centuries prior, the first Wonder Woman of Earth-One was Hippolyta's friend Artemis, who quickly became corrupted in her formerly heroic career before perishing. On Earth-Two, Wonder Woman travelled back in time with help from Paula’s space transporter, which inspired an earlier version of herself for that ancient era.