Everyone begins somewhere. Even Wonder Adult female, an immortal demi-goddess has ancestry that start with Hippolyta, who either formed Diana from clay or birthed her after beingness with Zeus himself. But is Hippolyta merely Diana's female parent? Of course non—Hippolyta had her ain function to play as the offset of the Amazons, and over the years we've seen her be everything from the warrior queen everyone knows her to be to fifty-fifty taking on the role of Wonder Adult female herself!

Hither we expect into the backstory of Hippolyta, a character that DC has used in a ton of interesting ways post-obit their 1987 Crisis storyline. This list volition delve into that equally well every bit what we've seen from older and current versions of the character.

10 AGELESS

Hippolyta's name isn't just a reference to some long ago Greek characters, she's literally been effectually for thousands of years. Though the comics take gone back and along on whether or not Diana herself was immortal, they're generally pretty clear on Hippolyta's condition.

Gifted past the gods with immortal life, she's got the wisdom of millennia nether her belt, knowledge she would somewhen pass on to her girl Diana.

9 SLAIN Past A CAVEMAN

The initial story of the Amazons is that they're all the souls of women who were all killed by men. For Hippolyta, her story is that she'southward the offset woman ever killed by a man—she was originally a pregnant cavewoman in the yr 32,000 BC.

After a cave man was attacked and maimed past a tiger, he wandered into a cave and took the life of a cavewoman. That soul would eventually join with the clay of the Aegean Bounding main, and Hippolyta would be one of the starting time Amazonians, brought to life by the Greek goddesses Artemis, Athena, Hestia, Demeter, and Aphrodite.

viii FORBADE HER Daughter FROM GOING TO Human'Southward Globe

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During the Pre-Flashpoint era, nosotros got to run into a new estimation of Diana'south origin. In that era, we learned the Amazons were allowable by the gods to transport a messenger from Themyscira into "Patriarch's World" to serve equally a champion and teach them the ways of the amazons.

When this happened, a contest was held to decide who would be sent and forced to leave Paradise Island. Just rather than assuasive all Amazons to compete fairly, Hippolyta forbid her daughter from competing to go on her on the island. Only when Diana falsified her identity and won, she was left with no choice but to allow Diana to leave.

seven Made DIANA FIGHT STEVE TREVOR

This would non be the kickoff fourth dimension Diana and her mother butt heads. During Pre-Crunch on Infinite Earths, Hippolyta was actually a fleck more antagonistic apropos her relationship with her daughter. Afterward Wonder Woman recovered from having amnesia, she took on a test to re-join the Justice League.

But, her mother didn't react besides well to this, and she went so far as to revive Wonder Adult female'southward former flame Steve Trevor and make him crazed enough to attack Themyscira, to see if Diana would defend Paradise Island confronting someone she loved.

6 THE NEW CONTEST

In the mid-90's, an risk of Wonder Woman's caused her to become an enemy of Circe, who teleported all of Themyscira to a dark dimension of demons. In that dimension, Hippolyta had a dream where she saw Wonder Woman existence killed. Believing she could avert this fate for her daughter, Hippolyta had a new contest to make up one's mind who would exist Themyscira'south champion.

Realizing her daughter'southward superior skills would come across her win, she besides cast a spell to allow Artemis, the most powerful warrior of the Bana-Mighdall Amazons, to have half of Diana'southward powers be given to Artemis. This would eventually lead to Artemis becoming Wonder Woman...and her decease in battle, something Diana would struggle to forgive her female parent for.

5 WONDER Adult female OF THE PAST

Hippolyra as Wonder Woman

Hippolyta's deportment during 2nd contest resulted in her somewhen getting Diana killed anyway, every bit having her powers split while well-nigh Artemis resulted in her dying against Neron. Simply Diana was revived by the gods and asked to become the goddess of truth.

Meanwhile, Hippolyta was forced to continue as Wonder Woman in the nowadays. Merely, thanks to an gamble with Jay Garrick, the first Flash, she would actually become on to become a member of the Justice Society, spending eight years in the past fighting with them earlier returning to the mod day.

4 MERGED WITH CIRCE

Hippolyta continued her journeying every bit Wonder Woman long afterwards her fourth dimension alongside the Justice Society. Not even her daughter'due south return to the world of the living helped, as she continued to work to help those around her...even equally Diana would urge her to go back to the island and serve as queen.

In the end, Hippolyta would lose her life defending Diana from a threat during the Our Worlds at War issue. But this wasn't the end by any means—she would find herself revived a few years after, with a function of Circe's soul placed inside of her, eventually resulting in her attacking the United States during the terribly-received Amazons Attack event.

3 EMPRESS HIPPOLYTA

In a series of deportment that would brand Batman himself proud, Hippolyta in one case created an entire alternate dimension—Dimension Chi—where she could see what would happen if all her actions were instead the contrary. At that place, Paradise Isle is ruled over by Empress Hippolyta, who respects force over cooperation.

The key difference with this version of the Queen is that she destroyed the clay doll which would become Diana rather than ask for information technology to exist given life by the gods. Both Hippolyta and Diana met this dark version of the Queen, and aided in saving their Themyscira from existence destroyed.

2 THE CHILDREN OF HIPPOLYTA

Diana isn't the but child of Hippolyta. When her origin was re-done and instead suggested Diana was born from a coupling with Zeus, nosotros learned she as well had a son named Jason, Diana's twin brother who was fortunate enough to be raised by Glaucus, of the Argonauts.

She also adopted Donna Troy as her daughter, helping to raise her in the Pre-Crunch timeline. And lastly, in the Pre-Crunch timeline Hippolyta besides had her daughter Nubia—she was meant to be Wonder Woman's sister before being taken by the Roman god of war, Mars.

1 THE QUEEN?

Queen Hippolyta

Hippolyta's status as queen of Themyscira is called into question rather frequently. Gail Simone's The Circumvolve sees a group of the queen's guardians turning on her after Hippolyta creates Diana, believing a child would be the destruction of the island. The Bana-Mighdall tribe of Amazons return to Themyscira and never truly run into her as the proper queen.

She'south even banished to the island alone by Granny Goodness disguised as Athena after the events of Amazons Attack. But at the same time, she as well spends a good portion of the late 90'southward and early on 2000's trying to avoid being the queen and getting the same correct to explore the modern world as her daughter, which results in the Amazons frequently wondering where her loyalties lie.

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