Wonder Girl

Wonder Girl is a superheroine from DC Comics. Introduced originally as a younger Wonder Woman, the writer Bob Haney introduced Wonder Girl as a member of the Teen Titans in the present day in an accidental retcon, and leading to the original Wonder Girl being given a series of different origins.

On television

A version of Wonder Girl also appeared in the Wonder Woman TV series of the mid-1970s, and was played by Debra Winger in one of her first film roles.

Related Topics:
Wonder Woman - Debra Winger

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Although the pilot episode of that series had made specific reference to the fact that Wonder Woman's alter-ego, Princess Diana of Paradise Island, was Queen Hippolyte's only child, three later episodes featured a younger sibling named Drusilla.

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The first appearance of Drusilla was in the two-part episode "The Feminum Mystique". In that episode, Queen Hippolyte (Carolyn Jones) sends Drusilla to America in order to bring her sister home to Paradise Island.

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Drusilla is consequently caught up in a Nazi plot to discover the secret of Wonder Woman's magical bracelets. In the process, she masters the spinning transformation her older sister does to become Wonder Woman and in the process creates the persona of Wonder Girl (though the distinction is lost on her Nazi abductors; they abduct Wonder Girl believing her to be Wonder Woman). Wonder Girl's costume is a scaled down version of Wonder Woman's, but it also has similarities to the comic book version.

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Drusilla appeared again in the final episode of the first season, "Wonder Woman in Hollywood".

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When the series returned for subsequent seasons, with its storyline updated to modern day, the character of Drusilla/Wonder Girl did not re-appear. Reportedly the producers had hoped to bring the popular character back, but Debra Winger, not wanting to be typecast, bought out her contract.

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Although Wonder Girl has long been rumored to appear on the Teen Titans animated series, legal issues prevent her from appearing on the show. In "Homecoming" (part two), a character resembling Donna Troy appeared in a very brief scene, though she was not named.

Related Topics:
Teen Titans - Animated series

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