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  Wonder Girl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wonder Girl is one of three superheroines in DC Comics.
Her powers are mostly the same as Wonder Woman's, though instead of a lasso of truth she carries a lasso that can expel Zeus's lightning, given to her by Ares, the Greek god of war.
In 1976, a version of Wonder Girl also appeared in the Wonder Woman TV series of the mid-1970s, and was played by Debra Winger in one of her first film roles.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wonder_Girl   (962 words)

  
 Donna Troy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was revealed, four years after her introduction, that Wonder Girl had been orphaned by a fire which killed her parents.
Saved by Wonder Woman, she had been taken to Paradise Island, where she was given Amazon powers by the mysterious Purple Ray.
This version had it that she was originally created by the Amazon sorceress, Magala as a magical duplicate of the young Princess Diana of Themyscira (a nod to the original Wonder Girl) to be a playmate for Diana, who was previously the only child on the island.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Donna_Troy   (2132 words)

  
 American Pop Culture Encyclopedia - About Wonder Woman - Plus Wonder Woman Posters and T-Shirts.
Wonder Woman made her comic book debut in a short story for the 8th issue of All Star Comics in December of 1941.
Wonder Woman being immortal made it easy to fill in the gap, but Steve Trevor was a common mortal man, so the show spackled the hole with the nugget that Wonder Woman was now teamed up with the son of Steve Trevor.
This "New Wonder Woman" was unrecognizable to nearly everyone and the series took a complete nosedive with the death of her long time love interest, Steve Trevor in Wonder Woman #180.
www.americanpopcultureencyclopedia.com /wonder_women_II.htm   (1249 words)

  
 Titans Tower: Wonder Girl II
Wonder Girl continues to grow into her role, discovering new limits to her powers and finding new allies and enemies lurking among Ancient Myth, such as Ares, who recently bestowed her with an unexpected gift: a lasso whose powers, as much as the reason for the gift itself, remain a mystery.
Wonder Woman #111 [1996]: During a battle with a clone of Doomsday, Cassie "borrows" the Sandals of Hermes and the Gauntlet of Atlas from Wonder Woman (who was not using them at the time), which imbues her with super-powers.
Wonder Woman #111-112 [1996]: During a battle with a clone of Doomsday, Cassie "borrows" the Sandals of Hermes and the Gauntlet of Atlas from Wonder Woman (who was not using them at the time), which imbues her with super-powers.
www.titanstower.com /source/whoswho/wondergirl.html   (1927 words)

  
 Contemporary Wonder Girl
Wonder Girl has articulations at the neck, the shoulders, the elbows, the forearms, the hips and the knees.
The plastic used for Wonder Girl is cheaper and softer than the one used by older DC Direct action figures of several years past.
Wonder Girl comes with a golden lasso made of light fabric with foil lining, similar to the one used for all older Wonder Woman action figures.
www.comicbookbin.com /wondergirl001.html   (712 words)

  
 Wonder Girl: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The character of Wonder Girl was originally introduced in the Wonder Woman comic as a teen-aged version of Wonder Woman, EHandler: no quick summary.
The mystery of Wonder Girl's background would linger in the series until finally resolved in the 1980s[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject].
Wonder woman is a popular television series which starred lynda carter as the comic book superhero wonder woman....
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wo/wonder_girl.htm   (2060 words)

  
 Wonder Girl Pitch
Brazenly interrupting Wonder Woman in the middle of a battle with a half-dozen super-powered assailants, Wonder Girl asks her hero to start training her, "so I can be, like, your sidekick." A bemused Wonder Woman has a better idea.
Wonder Girl’s major themes are; adapting to change; the potential of youth; the responsibility of the individual to society vs. her responsibility to herself; and youth coming of age.
When it's all over, we will have renewed respect for Wonder Girl’s heroism, greater knowledge of her character (in both senses of the word) and her status quo will be set, leaving her in an ideal position for sequels or spin-offs.
homepage.mac.com /dmcduffie/site/WonderGirlpitch.html   (1006 words)

  
 Titans Tower: Debra Winger as Wonder Girl
This Wonder Girl bore little resemblance to her comic book counterpoint, other than the fact she was Diana's ‘little sister' raised on Paradise Island.
In "Wonder Woman in Hollywood," Drusilla visited her sister in Hollywood, where a movie was being filmed about the US Armed Forces.
Wonder Woman must come to the rescue when Nazi scientist Professor Radl kidnaps Diana's sister Dusilla, also known as Wonder Girl.
www.titanstower.com /source/theater/wingerwg.html   (554 words)

  
 Wonder Family Index page 8
Wonder Girl reports back to Paradise Island, informing her family that any time the Glop is attacked, it just gets more powerful.
Wonder Girl fights the Medusa bird HAND TO HAND -- which is the ONLY time during this entire run that I can remember any of the WF battling a foe hand to hand.
Wonder Girl upsets all the floats in her anger and embarrassment and takes off to the surface.
members.aol.com /linastrick/wfindex8.html   (3854 words)

  
 Adventures in the DCU Customs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The first of the Young Justice girl's came about for two reasons: 1) our friend Brandon constantly asking when we were going to make a Wonder Girl to go with the YJ guys; and 2) Jamie Bramble telling me (while I was working on my TJ Ray) that X-Man's jacket came off.
Wonder Girl's costume is strange in that she mostly wears everyday clothes.
Wonder Girl, Young Justice and all related characters, names, and indicia are ©1999, DC Comics (a division of Time-Warner Communications), and are used WITHOUT permission.
www.wku.edu /~davy.stone/customs/adcu/wondergirl.html   (336 words)

  
 Wonder Woman index
Wonder Girl, the teenaged Wonder Woman, is not to be confused with Donna Troy, the Wonder Girl who first appears in BRAVE AND THE BOLD #60 as a member of the Teen Titans.
Wonder Tot explains that when a strong wind blew her out of bed, she rode the air currents to an island where she overcame a guardian dragon and took one of the golden apples that grew there on a tree.
Wonder Woman’s bracelets are chained together, but she tricks the spies into using the blast of their gun to shatter the chains, after which she easily defeats the spies and takes them back to America with herself and Trevor.
darkmark6.tripod.com /wonderind.htm   (15865 words)

  
 Wonder Family Index Introduction>
And during this era when Wonder Woman herself was so cardboardish, so uncomfortable in her longline strapless bra and girdle while she swooned over her overbearing boyfriend, the younger sisters and mother came across with sparkling personalities and genuine zest for life.
Though the stories themselves mentioned on rare occasion that she was Wonder Woman's sister, the editorial comments in the lettercols insisted that this was Diana as a girl.
Certainly for me, it wasn't Wonder Woman that got me interested in her title, it was Wonder Girl, Wonder Tot and Hippolyta the blonde Amazon queen.
hometown.aol.com /linastrick/wfintro.html   (756 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Slv Age Wndr Wman&wnd Girl: Toys & Games   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Wonder Girl is a shade under 6" tall and has her own detachable golden lasso and white cloth toga (I do not think it really qualifies as a toga, but that is a Roman concept and Wonder Woman is a Greek style Amazon; but I digress).
This Wonder Girl is somewhat compatible with the other Teen Titans figures DC Direct has put out to date, although she might be a tad taller than would be appropriate.
However, "Wonder Woman" is a rather unique because issues #160-170 made a conscious effort to recapture the Golden Age feel, replete with Golden Age Wonder Woman villains.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000066G4D/thecomicbooksupe   (863 words)

  
 OAFE - DC Direct Teen Titans: Wonder Girl review
Of course, when it was realized that part of Wonder Woman's origin was that she got all her magic powers as an adult and therefore the younger incarnations couldn't exist, Wonder Girl was turned into a seperate character, a young girl rescued by the Amazons and trained in their ways.
Fifty iterations later, the ex-Wonder Girl Donna Troy became simply Troia, clearing the way for a new Wonder Girl to be introduced later.
Wonder Girl is about 6 1/8" tall, which makes her look good next to her mentor.
www.oafe.net /yo/dcdtt1wg.php   (527 words)

  
 Parents wonder if girl's leukemia linked to gasoline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
As 5-year-old Haley Terry fights for her life, geologists are trying to determine if the adjacent gas station's underground tanks polluted the water she drinks or the soil on which, in better days, she played.
Had her parents sought treatment 30 days later than they did, the girl's doctor told them, she would be dead.
That fear prompted them to be aggressive in pursuing a diagnosis when the girl developed a fever and showed signs of fatigue.
www.decaturdaily.com /decaturdaily/news/050416/leak.shtml   (987 words)

  
 A piece of candy
Last night after dinner, Boy noticed a little girl (4 or 5 years old) riding a bike around in the cul-de-sac, with her mom looking on.
This was the outfit the girl was wearing: White and pink bike helmet, red cape, long-sleeved white t-shirt, blue Wonder Woman briefs (dark blue with white stars), gold sash/belt, dark brown cowboy boots.
It almost makes me want a little girl so I could let her choose her outfits, but instead I will provide our niece, Lou, and her impending little sister with scads of funny clothing, and their mom and dad can take pictures of their outfits.
tattoobelly.diaryland.com /wgirl.html   (465 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Originally, she "borrowed" from Wonder Woman the Sandals of Hermes, as well as a magical belt, to go adventuring.
The following quotes, when she was asked by Wonder Woman why she wasn't wearing the costume given to her by Donna Troy, are the best example of this new uncertainty.
Her jacket is a fl leather jacket, which is open in the front, to show the Wonder woman symbol on her fl tshirt.
www.sysabend.org /champions/gnborh/text/Wonder_Girl-jd.txt   (398 words)

  
 Donna Troy - Wonder Girl/Troia
On Earth-1 she was rescued by Wonder Woman and raised as her sister.
She was magically created to be the young Wonder Woman’s twin, but kidnapped by Dark Angel, who had abandoned her master and escaped the Crisis.
Wonder Woman, upon being returned to Earth from Olympus, was able to use this to restore Donna, guided by Wally’s memories of her life as Wonder Girl, and patching the holes left in the timestream by Dark Angel’s meddling.
www.hyperborea.org /flash/donna.html   (1670 words)

  
 Silver Age Wonder Woman & Wonder Girl Deluxe Action Figure Set
Wonder Woman and her teenaged counterpart, Wonder Girl, were the greatest heroines of the Silver Age, and now they're back in this Deluxe Action Figure Set.
Wonder Woman stands approximately 6.25" tall and comes with a detachable golden lasso and a white cloth toga that can be gathered with the lasso at the waist and features multiple points of articulation.
Wonder Girl stands approximately 5.75" tall and also has a detachable golden lasso and toga and features multiple points of articulation.
www.hillcity-comics.com /toys/SA_WW_WG_set.htm   (126 words)

  
 Kon-El and Cassie's Page of Love: Biographies of Superboy, Wonder Girl and Young Justice!
With only slight encouragement from Diana, and contrary to specific instructions from her mother, Helena Sandsmark, Cassie became Wonder Girl on two occasions by "borrowing" the Sandals of Hermes and the Gauntlets of Atlas, which gave her with super-strength, endurance and speed with the ability to fly.
Later, responding to a summons to Olympus from Diana, Cassie requested an audience with with Zeus, who was so impressed with the girl's courage that he granted her "fondest wish" which was a toned down version of Diana's super-powers.
Though Wonder Girl is new at being a hero she is wisely counseled, and trained by veteran Amazon heroes, Donna Troy and Artemis, a.k.a.
yobrepus.tripod.com /sbio.html   (3319 words)

  
 WONDER GIRL
Al principio, Wonder Girl parecía usar sandalias con alas y un guantelete, presumiblemente de naturaleza mística, que le proveían sus poderes.
Wonder Girl se unió poco después algrupo de héroes jóvenes llamado Young Justice.
Wonder Girl continúa creciendo en su rol, descubriendo nuevos límites a sus poderes y encontrando nuevos aliados y enemigos acechando desde los antiguos mitos, como es Ares, quien recientemente otorgó a Wonder Girl un regalo inesperado: un lazo cuyos poderes, así como las razones mismas del regalo, permanecen en el misterio.
www.dreamers.com /dcsecretfiles/wondergirl.htm   (994 words)

  
 Wonder Girl Wanted   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Vicki is looking for a girl to play wonder girl with her.
Requirements: She must be between the age of 19 - 30, live in or near the Ohio area, be in shape, and willing to have fun with the whole Wonder Woman adventure.
And yes, that's a young Debra Winger as Wonder Girl (Princess Druscilla, not Donna Troy of the comics) from the episode "The Feminum Mystique.
www.geocities.com /wwvicki/wondergirl-wanted.htm   (143 words)

  
 girlwonder
The mother was 34 and recently divorced, her children 9 and 5.
They were a wonderful family, and I visited them a few other times.
Birke credits a number of things in her life to the visit of a 17 year old girl when she was 9.
www.girlwonder.com   (702 words)

  
 The Wonder Woman Pages: Dr. William Moulton Marston
Seeing all these male heroes, Marston was left wondering why there was not a female hero.
In a 1943 issue of The American Scholar, Marston said: 'Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power, Not wanting to be girls, they don't want to be tender, submissive, peace-loving as good women are.
Following this exposure in what was the second largest selling comic in DC's line, Wonder Woman appeared in her own berth in Sensation Comics #1(January 1942), and six months later in her own self-titled book(Summer 1942).
www.wonderwoman-online.com /marston.html   (327 words)

  
 Raw Beauty - Wonder Girl: Lip Balm 15 ml
Wonder Girl also protects your lips from the suns harmful rays.
NURTURING INGREDIENTS: Wonder Girl is made with rich Shea and Cocoa Butters to give your lips a blast of moisture.
If you are out in the sun, make sure you keep your lips protected by applying more Wonder Girl Lip Balm, once it has worn off.
www.raw-beauty.com /newproductdetails.asp?ProductID=67   (132 words)

  
     Amazing     ||     The Wonder Woman Fanlisting        
Originally, she was supposed to be the same young Diana from the "Impossible Tales" over in Wonder Woman, but, well, impossible and all.
So she was given a new identity: Donna Troy, the character with possibly the most convoluted and complicated identity in all of comics.
Zeus was so impressed by her moxie that he granted her request, and Cassie became Wonder Girl.
www.inner-moppet.net /amazing/wgirls.html   (569 words)

  
 Diana's Boutique: Browse or Buy Wonder Woman Hardcover Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The chronological WW history at the end of the book is a special treat, as it includes details about her appearances in and out of print media for over sixty years.
Though Wonder Woman herself isn't in the title of this book, make no mistake that she is the star attraction.
WW herself becomes a target for their hatred, and together with Cassie Sandsmark (Byrne's Wonder Girl) she attempts to discover the cause for the religious unrest that is spreading from Gateway to the rest of the United States.
www.sufferingsappho.com /boutique/books/hardcover.html   (1394 words)

  
                 WONDER GIRL / the official liv tyler fanlisting
WONDER GIRL / the official liv tyler fanlisting
Welcome to Wonder Girl the official Liv Tyler Fanlisting of The Fanlistings Network.
This fanlisting is for the wonderful, talented, and graceful Liv Tyler.
www.staring-problem.org /Liv   (249 words)

  
 Scifilm -- TV Files, Wonder Woman: "Wonder Woman in Hollywood"
Wonder Girl) played by a young, cute and lovely Debra Winger.
While Debra can hardly hold a candle to Lynda Carter's Wonder Woman, she does well enough despite a costume which is rather lackluster in comparison.
The best scene here involves Wonder Girl saving the supposed war hero Jim Ames from two bullies and Ames proclaiming he took out the bullies himself when Drusilla reappears out of Wonder Girl costume later.
www.scifilm.org /tv/wonderwoman/wonderwoman1-13.html   (214 words)

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