Wonder Woman has a fantastic superhero name. A wonder meaning to be filled with admiration, amazement, awe, marvel or even a feeling of surprised or puzzled interest. This means she is a woman but she is surprisingly awesome, and you're recognizing that. Also, she is a woman, not a girl.
Where is Wonder Man? He's out there. But Wonder Woman is not his female version, sidekick, or girlfriend.
Wonder Woman is an Amazon, who was divinly fashioned out of clay. When she came of age, she donned her uniform with symbols representing legendary Amazon, and set out to deliver the message of Gaea. Her story is based on the Greek Goddess Artemis, daugter of Zeus and goddess of the hunt.
Wonder Woman is an ambassador for peace, using her godlike strength, speed, invunerablility, and ability to fly to protect innocents. She also uses a magic lasso, which makes people speak the truth, a boomerang tiara so powerful that it can cut through diamond, and bracelets that can deflect gunfire.
Wonder Woman was created in 1940 by Willian Moulton Marston and his wife, who saw that the DC comics line was dominated by male heroes, such as Batman and Superman. Marston and his wife sought to create a empowered, unconventional, liberated independent female character superheroine to serve as a female role model .
Marston wrote for the 1943 issue of The American Scholar:
"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. Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman."
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