The Amazon princess, blessed with god-like super abilities, Wonder Woman is one of Earth's most powerful defenders of peace, justice, and equality and a member of the Justice League. She is considered an archetype for many heroines outside of comic book. Her initial origin depicted her as a clay baby brought to life by patron goddess Aphrodite, but in recent years she has been depicted as the daughter of Zeus and Amazon queen Hippolyta.
Batman has Joker, Superman has Lex Luthor, but who would you say is Wonder Woman's archnemesis? I'm talking about a bitter rival who comes back to menace her time and time again and who has had Wonder Woman on the ropes more than once.
I'm leaning more towards a baddie of hers who could be seen allying her or himself with the Legion of Doom rather than a "OH MY GOD WE'RE SCREWED" type of baddie like Doomsday or Darkseid, but I'll take whatever you guys can give me, lol
Sometimes Circe most of the times Cheetah. None cool, but what are you going to do....
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I agree with Calvin.Circe appears to be her most formidable and Cheetah her most frequent.If you were to compare them to Batman rouges they Cheetah would be the Joker and Circe would be Bane.
Sometimes Circe most of the times Cheetah. None cool, but what are you going to do....
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I agree with Calvin.Circe appears to be her most formidable and Cheetah her most frequent.If you were to compare them to Batman rouges they Cheetah would be the Joker and Circe would be Ra's Al Ghul. "
Sometimes Circe most of the times Cheetah. None cool, but what are you going to do....
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I agree with Calvin.Circe appears to be her most formidable and Cheetah her most frequent.If you were to compare them to Batman rouges they Cheetah would be the Joker and Circe would be Ra's Al Ghul. "
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I can agree with Ra's Al Ghul. He's much cooler than Bane.
@ComicMan24: I had forgot it. But yes, all amazon chicks hate that dude. Well... nobody really likes him!
She doesn't need an arch-villain. Her villain's recidivism rates arn't nearly as bad as Batman's. And Cheetah is a perfectly fine villain, if you ask me.
"Cheetah, Giganta, Circe are the only major ones I can think of... yeah very underwhelming for Wonder Woman. "
Just because she doesn't have a lot of recurring villains (and you forgot Giganta, Ares, Dr. Psycho, Felix Foust, and Hercules), it doesn't mean she's underwhelming. She has quite a few good ark-specific villains. I think it shows how effective she is as a crime fighter, since nobody can say she's an inefective for having a million villains that come back every 2 seconds.
One of Wonder Woman's problems as a major super hero is she lacks a villain which defines her as a hero. Yes she has several prominent enemies but none on the level of The Joker or Luthor.
@Son_of_Magnus: I think that would be Dr. Poison, actually.
Not that I've read anything with her as the main bad guy in it in the modern age. But I know she's still around (hence the second picure, and a few minor appearances).
" One of Wonder Woman's problems as a major super hero is she lacks a villain which defines her as a hero. Yes she has several prominent enemies but none on the level of The Joker or Luthor. "
Agreed, none of them are smart/diabolical(lol) enough to match either Joker or Luthor.
" One of Wonder Woman's problems as a major super hero is she lacks a villain which defines her as a hero. Yes she has several prominent enemies but none on the level of The Joker or Luthor. "
Agreed, none of them are smart/diabolical(lol) enough to match either Joker or Luthor."
I don't know. I think you could mark that as one of Superman and Batman's biggest failures is that they have such high profile bad guys that keep coming back so much. I think the Red Hood would agree with me, lol. At least WW tried to kill Ares (successfully too, he just came back as a ghost because gods are jerks like that...).
@CylonDorado: Well I wouldn't say failure because Batman and Superman don't kill. Wonder Woman don't kill either really...its their code or whatever lol but the thing is, you don't see Cheetah planning world domination, she's more about robbing banks and stealing things lol Whereas Lex Luthor and Joker are more...lets mentally and physically destroy Superman/Batman and then take over the world lol Ares kinda falls under that category, but he's still not as present as Lex or Joker.
@xhavoc86: Lol, sure. Joker doesn't have the slightest inclination towards world domination, he only took over the world that one time because he could. If Cheetah got ahold of Mr. Mxy's powers, she'd take over the world too, because hey, why not? . The last time she showed up, she seemed to be a higher up member of the society, and she successfully destroyed the DMA headquarters (a bit higher teir then bank robbery). And she and Ares clearly hate Wonder Woman as much as Joker/Lex hate their respective enablers. Plus, Wonder Woman has been fine with killing for a while now, as long as it's for the right reasons. And in her current comic, she's killing people left and right.
I've always agreed with that. I mean how many people have to die because you let the same freak live a THOUSAND TIMES!?! Like does Superman think that one day Darkseid will just say "You know what? Forget the anti-life equation and ruling over the cosmos. I'm happy with Apokalips." and then thank him for showing him the light?
I think the animated film sort of captures it... a little girl says, "Look! It's Wonder Woman!" who proceeds to lasso and KO Cheetah, however, the film focused on Ares.
So Wonder Woman's nemesis is Cheetah... but Princess Diana of Themyscira's nemesis is Ares.
They could be clever and revive a few mythological creatures like the Scylla and Charybdis duo. After the darkest night and brightest day you know it is bound to happen.
Part of me thinks Cheetah and the other is saying Ares. I'm going to side with Ares, though. He goes back further than when Wonder Woman even existed and never really seemed to be a big fan of Themyscira to begin with. Along with Zeus, who also always wants to mess with that damn island in some way or another, I'd say he's threatened the Amazons the most.
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