Troy Facts

Are you a fan of Donna Troy? Well, we got One Dozen Wonder Girl Facts!

1. The original "Wonder Girl" was Diana when she was a child. DC Comics saw the success of Superman's adventures in "The Adventures of Superboy" and decided to test out similar stories starring Wonder Woman as a young girl. They also had stories-narrated by her mother Hippolyta-about when Wonder Woman was a toddler-Wonder Tot.

2. Amongst Robin, Kid Flash, Speedy, and Aqualad, Wonder Girl was a founding member of The Teen Titans. This was met with confusion due to Wonder Girl being young Diana, so the writer created Donna Troy to be the new Wonder Girl and almost exactly the same as Diana's Wonder Girl.

3. Donna Troy has had several different origin stories. Some state she was a human orphan taken hostage by a supervillain. Wonder Woman saves her, but the result of the villain's experiment copied Wonder Woman's powers onto Donna. Later versions claim she was the creation of the villain Dark Angel and was created to kill Wonder Woman, further stories claim she was given multiple origin stories just as a form of torture. Another is that Donna was created by Hippolyta to be Diana's playmate, but she was captured and corrupted by Dark Angel. In her 1986 origin it was established Donna was one of 12 orphans raised by the Titans of Greek Myth to be their saviors in the future. After an adventure that left the other orphans dead, Troy took the name superhero name "Troia" in honor of Troy, the city the orphans came from.

4. Donna Troy has never been featured in either the Teen Titans or Young Justice animated series despite the other four founders of The Teen Titans being main characters in these shows. Donna was featured in the comic book series tie-in to "Teen Titans" and her successor Cassandra Sandsmark was in "Young Justice".

5. Donna/Wonder Girl was paired with Kara Kent/Supergirl and Barbara Gordon/Batgirl in a series of DC Animated Shorts called "Super Best Friends Forever".

6. When Marv Wolfman took over The Teen Titans book and redid the roster he only kept three founding members of The Teen Titans. Alongside Robin and Kid Flash, Wonder Girl remained on the team and acted as the team's older sister.

7. Donna Troy is one of the earliest DC Comics heroes to have gotten married. In 1985 she married a man named Terry Long. In 1991, it was speculated that either DC Editorial or the writers of Titans grew tired of the marriage and felt Donna could be put into a new relationship. During the arc "Titans Hunt" Donna is revealed to be pregnant and a group of characters from the future come back in time to kill Donna because in their future Donna's son gets Godlike powers, kills Donna and Terry, and takes over the world. By the end of the story Donna gives up her powers to The Titans of Myth to prevent her unborn baby from getting superpowers. After the baby is born and the mess is settled Terry divorces Donna and gets custody of their son. Later in "Zero Hour" Donna hooks up with The Green Lantern Kyle Rayner and her ex-husband and son die in a car crash.

8. In 2003 Donna Troy was killed off-panel by a rogue Superman Robot.

9. Donna was a member of Teen Titans, The New Teen Titans, The Titans, and The Justice League. During a time she when was depowered she a member of a spin-off Green Lantern team called The Darkstars.

10. Donna's successor was Cassandra Sandsmark. She was the first female members and the first recruited member of Young Justice and later led her own team of Teen Titans.

11. Cassandra is the daughter of a human archaeologist and Zeus the Greek God, which explains her superpowers. She measures up to Diana and Donna and, like them, has her own Lasso of Truth. In 2011, Diana/Wonder Woman was retconned into being a child of Zeus, much like Cass. While Cass herself was retconned to simply have demonic bracelets that her powers and her father is another child of Zeus. Cass also had a romantic relationship with Superboy, a relationship also imitated in 2011 when Superman and Wonder Woman got into a relationship.

12. An unofficial Wonder Girl is Drusilla, another Amazonian. She was featured in the 1977 Wonder Woman TV show where she was established as Diana's younger sister and the show's version of Wonder Girl. She was played by Debra Winger, who left the show after season one because a Wonder Girl show was in development, but never came to be.

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