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Queen Hippolyta is a DC Comics superheroine, based on Hippolyte, queen of the Amazons in Greek mythology, and is the mother of Wonder Woman (a role that Hippolyta briefly undertook in recent comics). Before DC's 1985-1986 miniseries Crisis on Infinite Earths, Hippolyta's name was spelled "Hippolyte." DC Comics (originally called Detective Comics, Inc. ... In comic books, first appearance refers to the date or issue of a characters first appearance. ... This article needs cleanup. ... For the movie, see 1941 (film) 1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1941 calendar). ... Dr. William Moulton Marston (May 9, 1893â€“May 2, 1947) was a psychologist, feminist theorist, and comic book writer / co-creator of the Wonder Woman character with his wife Elizabeth (Sadie) Holloway Marston. ... Harry G. Peter (born March 8, 1880 in California) was a newspaper illustrator and cartoonist, long resident in San Francisco. ... Alter Ego has multiple meanings: Alter Ego is a game for the Commodore 64 computer. ... The Justice Society of America, or JSA, is a team of fictional superheroes whose adventures have been published by DC Comics. ... The All-Star Squadron was an American comic book (1981-1987) created by Roy Thomas and published by DC Comics about the adventures of a large team of superheroes which comprised of most of the feature characters owned by the company that appeared in the Golden Age of Comic Books... The Justice League, sometimes called the Justice League of America or JLA for short, is a DC Comics superhero team. ... Marvel Comics is an American comic book line published by Marvel Entertainment, Inc. ... Hippolyta is a fictional Amazon character within the Marvel Comics universe. ... DC Comics (originally called Detective Comics, Inc. ... Batman and Superman, two of the most recognizable and iconic superheroes. ... In Greek mythology, Hippolyta is the Amazonian queen who possessed a magical girdle she was given by her father Ares, the god of war. ... In Greek mythology, the , Amazons were either an ancient legendary nation of female warriors or a land dominated by women at the outer edges of their known world. ... // Greek mythology consists in part in a large collection of narratives that explain the origins of the world and detail the lives and adventures of a wide variety of gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines. ... Wonder Woman is a fictional DC Comics superheroine. ... Crisis on Infinite Earths was a 12-issue comic book limited series (identified as a 12 part maxi-series) and crossover event, produced by DC Comics in 1985 in order to simplify their fifty-year-old continuity. ...

Character history

Golden and Silver Age versions

Hippolyta (then spelled "Hippolyte") first appeared in All-Star Comics #8 (1941) in the same backup feature that introduced her daughter, Wonder Woman. This original version of the character possessed black hair. According to this story, Hippolyte and the Amazons once resided in "Amazonia" in the days of ancient Greece, until they were beguiled and bested by the demi-god Hercules. This caused them to lose the favor of their patron goddess, Aphrodite. To regain their status, the Amazons were forced to leave the mortal world and relocate to Paradise Island. There they established their own society, free from the evils of man's world. So long as they remained there and Hippolyte retained possession of her magic girdle, the Amazons would be immortal. Much of this history was adapted and expanded upon in the modern version of the Wonder Woman comics. Wonder Woman is a fictional DC Comics superheroine. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Heracles. ... Birth of Venus (a. ...

For the most part, Hippolyte remained on Paradise Island during the Golden Age era, rarely interacting with the modern world to which her daughter had journeyed. Her role was that of the Amazon Queen and mentor to Wonder Woman. She was devoted to the Olympian goddesses, particularly the Amazons' patron Aphrodite, and was adamant that man never be allowed to set foot on Paradise Island.

In the 1960s when DC Comics introduced the concept of the Multiverse, this Hippolyte was established as existing on the world known as Earth-2. This incarnation of Hippolyte was fazed out around issue #97 of the original Wonder Woman comic when the focus shifted from Earth-2 to the more modern versions of the characters on Earth-1.

The Silver Age Hippolyte continued thereafter and had blonde hair. Her history was largely identical to the Golden Age version, though a few significant Silver Age stories diverge from the original. For example, it was established that Hippolyte had crafted a second daughter from clay, a dark-skinned Amazon named Nubia who was to be Wonder Woman's twin sister before she was spirited away by the god Mars. As before, Hippolyte's role in the Silver Age era was primarily that of Paradise Island's queen and mentor to Wonder Woman. She was frequently shown interacting with her daughter as well as supporting characters of the era such as Wonder Girl and Wonder Tot. According to the DC Comics 1976 calendar, Hippolyte was born on January 8th. NuBia is a DC Comics character from the Wonder Woman family of books who was originally known as Nubia. ... Three of the Wonder Girls: Donna Troy, Wonder Woman, Cassandra Sandsmark, by Adam Hughes. ...

In 1985, the Crisis on Infinite Earths miniseries revised DC Comics history and combined the multiple Earths into one world. The modern version of Hippolyta would combine elements of her earlier incarnations and take on greater importance in the series. Crisis on Infinite Earths was a 12-issue comic book limited series (identified as a 12 part maxi-series) and crossover event, produced by DC Comics in 1985 in order to simplify their fifty-year-old continuity. ...

Modern Age version

Origin

Hippolyta's origins underwent a revision after George Pérez's revamp of Wonder Woman in 1987. In current continuity, Hippolyta and the rest of the Themyscirian Amazons were first created by a select few of the Olympian gods, which included Artemis, Athena, Hestia, Demeter and Aphrodite. They took the souls of women slain throughout time by the hands of men and sent them to the bottom of the Aegean Sea. The souls then began to form bodies with the clay on the sea bed. Once they reached the surface the clay bodies became living flesh and blood Amazons. The first one to break surface was Hippolyta and thus she was titled as Queen of the new race; in this version Hippolyta stood 5'9", weighed approximately 130 lbs, had curly black hair and more or less looked like the spitting image of her future daughter. The second Amazon to break surface was her sister Antiope and she ruled as a second to Hippolyta in all affairs. Each of the goddesses that created the Amazons blessed them with personalized gifts: hunting skills (Artemis'), wisdom (Athena's), warm homes (Hestia's), plentiful harvests (Demeter's), and beauty inside and out (Aphrodite's). As a symbol of their leadership titles, the gods gave Hippolyta and Antiope each a Golden Girdle of Gaea which enhanced their strength and abilities significantly. The Amazons eventually founded the city of Themyscira in Anatolia and became known as fierce warriors of peace in Turkey, Greece and Rome. New Teen Titans #1. ... Themyscirian Amazons Art by Phil Jimenez Themyscira is a fictional island nation in the DC Comics universe. ... The Olympian Gods are mythological dieties who appear in the Wonder Woman, Shazam and Aquaman comics. ... The Artemis of Versailles, a Roman copy of a Hellenistic marble sculpture, now at the Louvre Museum. ... Helmeted Athena, of the Velletri type. ... In Greek mythology, virginal Hestia is the goddess of the hearth, of the right ordering of domesticity and the family, who received the first offering at every sacrifice in the household, but had no public cult. ... This article is about the grain goddess Demeter; for other uses, see Demeter (disambiguation). ... Birth of Venus (a. ... The Aegean Sea. ... For other uses, see Antiope Antiope, in the fictional DC Comics universe, was the Amazon sister of Queen Hippolyta, and aunt to Wonder Woman. ... Diana discovers the long lost Golden Girdle of Gaea. ... Themyscirian Amazons Art by Phil Jimenez Themyscira is a fictional island nation in the DC Comics universe. ... Asia Minor lies east of the Bosporus, between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus â€“ SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) coordinates: 41Â°54â€²N 12Â°29â€²E Time Zone: UTC+1 Administration Subdivisions 19 municipi Province Rome Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni ( The Union ) Characteristics Area 1,285 kmÂ² Population 2,547,677 (2005 estimate) Density 1983...

Fall from grace

The jealous and vengeful god Ares soon after tried to discredit their name by having his half-brother demi-god Herakles invade the Amazons and demean their standing by stealing their Golden Girdles of Gaea. When Herakles first approached the Amazons seeking battle, Hippolyta met him outside the city gates and tried to reason with him for peaceful negotiations. When this did not work and Herakles attacked the Amazon Queen using his strength to his advantage, Hippolyta easily turned the tables on him by using her wisdom and battle skills to subdue him. Still wishing peace, Hippolyta invited Herakles and his men into their city to celebrate a potential friendship with a feast. Hiding his anger, Herakles accepted the invitation. Once in their stronghold, Herakles and his men drugged the wine the Amazons were drinking and took them prisoner. After stealing Hippolyta's Golden Girdle and abusing and raping the Amazons, Hippolyta cried out to Athena to help them escape their bonds. Athena said that she would only aid them on the condition that the Amazons not seek retribution against Herakles and his men as that would be beneath the ideals the Amazons were created to stand for. Hippolyta hastily agreed and the Amazon's bonds were broken and the drugs given wore off. Once out of their drugged state the Amazons were filled with hate and revenge. Breaking Hippolyta's oath to Athena, the Amazons began slaughtering their captors but were upset to find that Herakles and his general Theseus had returned to their homelands. After the slaughter Athena reprimanded the Amazons for disobeying her orders. She demanded the Amazons serve penance for their actions. Though Hippolyta agreed to the goddess' wishes, her sister Antiope scoffed at Athena for being angered at them for killing their rapist captors. Antiope then denounced all ties to the Olympian gods and said goodbye to her sister Hippolyta, giving Hippolyta her Golden Girdle of Gaea to replace the one stolen by Heracles. She left for Greece, along with half of the Amazon Nation who supported Antiope in her new quest to battle Herakles and Theseus out of vengeance and to replace Antiope's girdle with Hippolyta's. Antiope's tribe later became the Amazons of Bana-Mighdall. Image File history File links Heracles-rapist. ... Image File history File links Heracles-rapist. ... Ares. ... Cover to Hercules Unbound #1, by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez. ... Theseus (Greek ) was a legendary king of Athens, son of Aegeus (or of Poseidon) and of Aethra. ... For other uses, see Antiope Antiope, in the fictional DC Comics universe, was the Amazon sister of Queen Hippolyta, and aunt to Wonder Woman. ... Bana-Mighdall is a fictional Amazon nation as well as fictional former cities in the DC Comics universe created by writer George Perez. ...

Godly penance

Hippolyta and her remaining faithful Amazons then went to the sea shore where the Olympian Gods told them their punishment for going against their ideals. They were to be given immortality so that they would forever safeguard a doorway to the underworld called Doom's Doorway. Not only must they protect anyone from entering, but they must also vanquish any evils that try to escape. The doorway was on a far-off isolated island and it would take some time to get there. To guide their way, the god Poseidon cleared a pathway for them across the seas. Once they arrived at the island the Amazons created a new city and named their new home Themyscira, after their previous fallen city. They continued to live on the island guarding Doom's Doorway, and paying homage to their gods, for three-thousand years. The Olympian Gods are mythological dieties who appear in the Wonder Woman, Shazam and Aquaman comics. ... Neptune reigns in the city centre, Bristol, formerly the largest port in England outside London. ...

Diana's birth

It was into this period of living on the island for millennia that Hippolyta began to ache for a child of her own. She prayed to her gods her secret wish and they responded. She was told to go to the sea shore and form the figure of a baby with the island's clay, which she did. The original goddesses again united to create a new Amazon for Queen Hippolyta. It was revealed that in her previous life Hippolyta was a pregnant cavewoman who was killed by her mate, thus her longing was for the child she had been denied. The goddesses used the soul of this unborn child to fall into the clay body of the infant and, just as with the previous Amazons, the clay was changed into flesh and blood. Hippolyta named the child Diana, after a stranger who was washed ashore on the island and helped the Amazons defeat a creature escaping Doom's Doorway with her life. This Diana was later revealed to be the mother to Steve Trevor. When she reached adulthood, Princess Diana became the hero Wonder Woman. To aid her in her mission, the Olympian gods transformed the Golden Girdle of Gaea that Antiope gave to Hippolyta into the Lasso of Truth. Image File history File links Hippww. ... Image File history File links Hippww. ... Adam Hughes Adam Hughes (May 5, 1967, Riverside, New Jersey) is an American comic book artist and penciller, best known for his good girl art featuring provocative depictions of female characters. ... Steve Trevor is a fictional character appearing in DC Comics, as a member of Wonder Womans supporting cast. ... Wonder Woman is a fictional DC Comics superheroine. ... The Lasso of Truth is the principle weapon wielded by Princess Diana of Themyscira, known to the world as Wonder Woman. ...

The Amazon Queen raised Diana on the island as the princess of the Amazon Nation. Her love of Diana at times though proved to take precident over the welfare of her people. For example, when the god Zeus intended to rape Diana (after she had become Wonder Woman) as a "reward" for thwarting Ares plot, an enraged Hippolyta was willing to put the entire island in peril by confronting the god outright in order to protect Diana. Later still when Diana was told that she was to enter Doom's Doorway alone in order to answer a challenge by her gods, Hippolyta again placed the island in peril by disobeying the gods and entering Doom's Doorway to save her daughter. Though her motherly love was proven in these instances and more, it also showed that she was beginning to lose interest in the rule of her people.

Return of Herakles

During Diana's Challenge of the Gods storyline, she discovered that Herakles was transformed into a colossal stone pilar within Doom's Doorway, and was supporting Themyscira's weight for several millennia. In this stone state he was tormented and scarred by various mythological creatures, feeling the pain inflicted by them but not being able to do anything about it. This was the punishment given to him by his Olympian family for his past transgressions. Gaining his original form back, he begged the Amazons for forgiveness. Though some of the Amazons still harbored hatred for their past rapes and humiliation, most of them were moved by Herakles' newfound humility, and Queen Hippolyta asked her people to search their hearts for the strength to forgive, which they eventually did. Doing so herself, Hippolyta not only forgave Herakles, but shared a brief romance with him before he left the mortal realm to return to his father in Olympus. Cover to Wonder Woman, v2, issue 10. ...

Return to the outside world

After Diana's completion of her challenge, the Amazons were released from their punishment by the Olympian gods. They were free to live out their immortal lives any way and where they saw fit. To celebrate, Hippolyta declared that Themyscira would finally create exchange with outside countries. Unfortunately their interaction with the United Nations was met with mixed impressions. Some saw the Amazons as lowly savages, unworthy of U.N. entry. Others still saw Hippolyta and her people as beacons of hope. Diana became Themyscira's ambassador, relaying all of Hippolyta's wishes to the U.N. Alas, as Wonder Woman Diana made a powerful enemy in the witch Circe. One attack made by Circe to Diana was the brainwashing of Queen Hippolyta in becoming the Shim'Tar, or chief warrior, of the Amazons of Bana-Mighdall. In this persona Hippolyta mindlessly attacked her own daughter at the whim of Circe. This tarnished the outside world's view of the newly discovered nation somewhat. The magic used on Hippolyta eventually wore off but Hippolyta never forgave Circe for the mental rape given, nor the Amazons of Bana-Mighdall for aiding Circe in her plot to kill her daughter. Due to this event Circe considered all Amazons to be her enemy and made a new plan for revenge. In time she teleported the Amazons of Bana-Mighdall to Themyscira on the pretense that they were to take the island as their own. While the two tribes fought, Circe teleported the island to a dimension of demons. There the two tribes of Amazons were forced to put aside their rivalry temporarily in order to stave off the demons who sought to destroy the entire Amazon race. The Amazons were eventually successful but they remained in the demon dimension until Diana discovered what had happened and forced Circe to return the island back to its rightful dimension. After this was done they found out that although their time in the demon dimension lasted several years, the time passed in their normal dimension was only a few months. In this time the Themyscirian and Bana-Mighdallian Amazons made an uneasy truce. The Themyscirians would live in the city while the Bana-Mighdallians would form their own settlement on the opposite side of the island. In Hippolyta's mind she still served as Queen over all Amazons on the island, but the Bana-Mighdallian Amazons did not see it as such and tensions between the two tribes remained. Circe is a fictional character in the DC Comics universe, centered in the Wonder Woman title. ... The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ... Bana-Mighdall is a fictional Amazon nation as well as fictional former cities in the DC Comics universe created by writer George Perez. ...

Motherly deception

Because the demon dimension they were in was magic based, Hippolyta began to receive dreams and visions of the future. In one such dream she foresaw Wonder Woman's death. Fearful for her daughter's welfare, she put into motion a plan to remove Diana from her role as Wonder Woman and replace the title of Themyscira's Champion to another Amazon. Thus a new Contest for the title was made though she kept her true reasons for calling the new Contest to herself alone. Initially Hippolyta thought the Amazons of Bana-Mighdall were not worthy to enter the Contest but once Diana, angered at her mother's treatment of the new Amazons, called a vote on the whole to see if her people also agreed that they should allowed to participate. The answer was yes. Suddenly inspired, she noticed that the Bana-Mighdallian's most likely warrior to win was the Amazon Artemis. Hippolyta then in secret went to the Themyscirian Amazon mystic Magala. She had Magala transfer half of Diana's gods given powers over to Artemis in order for Artemis' victory to be better equipped. Hippolyta also provided many additional obsticals for Diana to encounter during her Contest trials in order for her to become sidetracked from the goal of winning. Due to her actions, Artemis became the Contest's winner and the new champion Wonder Woman. Later when Diana began to receive visions of the past she confronted her mother on why she really called for a new Contest. When Hippolyta told her she and Diana's relationship became scarred as Diana never truly forgave her mother for knowingly sending another Amazon to her death. This article might not be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia entry. ...

Wonder Woman

After Artemis was killed the title of Wonder Woman was returned to Diana. This made Hippolyta go into a deep depression as she realized she was the cause of an innocent's death. She gave notice to the Amazon General Phillipus that she was to rule in her place as Hippolyta had decided to send herself into self-imposed banishment. Image File history File links Hippolyta. ... Image File history File links Hippolyta. ... Cover to DC Special: The Return of Donna Troy #1. ...

Hippolyta boarded a small boat and let it cast adrift. She eventually landed in Louisiana where she met a psychic named Angela. Forming a friendship with her and her family, Angela informed her newfound friend that her daughter was in serious danger. Rushing to her aid, Hippolyta arrived too late as Diana was killed in a battle with the demon Neron, for she was still suffering from the spell that had reduced her strength. Thus, her vision of her daughter dying as Wonder Woman came true. Neron is a fictional character in the DC Comics universe. ...

Diana, after her death, was granted divinity as the Goddess of Truth by her gods for such faithful devotion. During her brief time as a god of Olympus, Diana was replaced in the role of Wonder Woman by her mother. As opposed to Diana receiving the title in honor, Hippolyta's role as Wonder Woman was meant to be a punishment for her betrayal in Artemis' death as well as for unintentionally killing her own daughter. However, Hippolyta eventually grew to enjoy the freedom and adventure the title came with. Whereas Diana used the Lasso of Truth as her primary weapon, Hippolyta favored a broad sword. Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture. ... Mytikas Summit, Mt Olympus Mount Olympus (also transliterated as Mount Ã“lympos, and on modern maps, Ã“ros Ã“limbos) is the highest mountain in Greece, at 2,919 (according to new measurements [1]) meters high and one of the highest, in real absolute altitude from base to top, of Europe since its...

As Wonder Woman, Queen Hippolyta immediately got involved in a mission back to the 1940s with Jay Garrick. After this mission, she elected to join the Justice Society of America and remained in that era for eight years. During that time she had a sexual relationship with Ted Grant. Hippolyta also made visits into the past to see her godchild Lyta, daughter of Hippolyta's protege Helena, the Golden Age Fury. These visits happened yearly from young Lyta's perspective and also accounted for Hippolyta's participation in the JSA/JLA team ups. When she returned from the past, Hippolyta took Diana's place in the JLA as well. Image File history File links HippolytaWW.jpgâ€Ž Summary this is a scan of Wonder Woman # 129, art by John Byrne Licensing This image is of the cover of a single issue of a comic book, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the... Image File history File links HippolytaWW.jpgâ€Ž Summary this is a scan of Wonder Woman # 129, art by John Byrne Licensing This image is of the cover of a single issue of a comic book, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the... JosÃ© Luis GarcÃa-LÃ³pez (born in 1948) is a Spanish-born comic-book artist who works in the United States of America, mostly for DC Comics. ... // Events and trends World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrination, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atomic bomb. ... Jay Garrick is a fictional character in the DC Comics Universe and the first Flash. ... The Justice Society of America, or JSA, is a DC Comics superhero group, the first team of superheroes in comic book history. ... Wildcat is the name of four DC Comics characters, three of them superheroes. ... Fury was the codename of two DC Comics superheroines, who are mother and daughter. ... The Justice League, sometimes called the Justice League of America or JLA for short, is a DC Comics superhero team. ...

Eventually Diana gave up her godhood and returned to her role as Wonder Woman. Still clinging to her newfound sense of freedom, Hippolyta did not wish to relinquish her title as Wonder Woman (even though she admitted her daughter looked "better in a bathing suit" than she did), leaving two different Wonder Women acting in the same role at the same time. Diana was often unhappy with Hippolyta's continued role as Wonder Woman as she felt Hippolyta was ignoring her true duties as ruler of Themyscira, thus futher inciting the antagonism between mother and daughter.

On one visit to the island Diana discovered that the two tribes of Amazons were on the verge of a civil war due to unresolved issues and mysterious sabotage actions made on the Bana-Mighdallian's construction of their city. When she confronted Hippolyta about her inaction of rule at such a dangerous time, Hippolyta became very upset with her daughter and told Diana that she intended to continue her role as Wonder Woman in the outside world and that Diana and her sister Donna Troy were to rule the island in her absence. Unfortunately the civil war took place after all and many Amazons on both sides were killed. Returning to the island, Hippolyta and Diana agreed to denouce their royal titles in order for both Amazon tribes to have an opportunity for peace, having both tribes gain equal footing in united rule. Donna Troy is a superheroine in the DC Universe. ...

Death

Hippolyta continued to establish a distinguished career as Wonder Woman. The Queen enjoyed her role in the Justice Society and became accustomed to life in the United States. Mother and daughter fought on several occasions over Hippolyta's past expected roles — heroine or queen — and their differences were unresolved when the queen sacrificed herself to save the Earth from Imperiex during the Imperiex War featured in Our Worlds at War. However she was allowed to see her daughter one last time and say goodbye. She and the spirit of her sister Antiope are now ghostly guardians of the island, watching over both tribes as their distant and former queens. Look up Career in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Earth (often referred to as the Earth, or the earth) is the third planet in the solar system in terms of distance from the Sun, and the fifth largest. ... Cover to Superman #153. ... Cover to JLA: Our Worlds at War #1. ...

Appearances in other media

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