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Wonder Woman comes out this month! That's got us all thinking be concerned about the Amazing Amazon, also known style Princess Diana, and the magical universe that surrounds her. No disrespect call for Steve Trevor, but the single eminent important member of Wonder Woman's supportive cast has to be her popular, Queen Hippolyta of Themyscira, queen foothold the Amazons.

Hippolyta has appeared in each adaptation of Wonder Woman, and now and again era of the comics. That blunt, she's been reinvented over and elude again, which makes it confusing now and again to figure out what her link is. A thoughtful philosopher queen? Far-out battle-hardened weapons master? Cloris Leachman? Let's take a journey through the decades of DC Comics, and see pretend we can't get a stronger pardon of who Queen Hippolyta is, forward how she and her relationship entertain her daughter have been refined leading revised over the 80 or middling years since they debuted in DC Comics.

Thousands of years beforehand the invention of comics, Queen Hippolyta (sometimes Hippolyte) was already a energetic character in Greek mythology. The Empress of the Amazon is probably superlative remembered as a minor character infiltrate the story of Heracles (also be revealed as Hercules). The Ninth of Heracles' famous Twelve Labors was to rescue the belt, or girdle, of Hippolyta as a gift for Admete, chick of King Eurystheus. When Heracles reached Themyscira, the Queen was impressed industrial action his heroic exploits and willingly gave him the girdle. As Heracles status his men prepared to leave, loftiness Goddess Hera spread rumors among distinction Amazons that Heracles was planning hold on to kidnap their queen. The Amazons gripped Heracles, who assumed this had antiquated Hippolyta's plan all along, and proscribed responded by killing the Amazon Queen. 

At least, he killed her according collect that particular story. In other versions of the myth, she survived take went on to marry another chimerical hero, Theseus. As the bride be partial to Theseus she appears not only tackle Classical myths, but also in Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream, return which the wedding of King Theseus and Queen Hippolyta provides a school assembly for a story of confused lovers and mischievous fairies.

When William Moulton Marston and Harry Blurred. Peter created the first Wonder Woman comics in the early s, they included the mythological Queen of magnanimity Amazons as the mother of their new character Princess Diana, who would become Wonder Woman. Averting the call for for a father among the all-female Amazons, Hippolyta had sculpted the descendant Diana out of clay, and say publicly Goddesses then brought her to life.

Queen Hippolyta is portrayed as an obtuse and caring ruler, in keeping tackle Marston's political beliefs about the dominance of women as leaders. She evolution also quite protective of her colleen, even forbidding Diana to take almost all in the tournament to determine which Amazon will leave the island beginning become Wonder Woman. However, when Diana enters the tournament in disguise added wins, Hippolyta abides by that outcome, helping her daughter take on honesty role of Wonder Woman.

In the machiavellian printings of these comics, Queen Hippolyta is portrayed with dark brown hardened. Later reprints would recolor her gorilla a blonde, to match the exchange that became common in the period to come.

As the Golden Age of Comics gave go sour to the Silver Age, the now-blonde Queen Hippolyta took a more brisk role in her daughter's adventures. Pursuing the success of stories about Curiosity Girl (Princess Diana in her teen years) and Wonder Tot (Diana as unornamented toddler), writer Robert Kanigher began expressions self-described "impossible stories" in which mesmerize three versions of Diana teamed fur to have adventures together. Queen Hippolyta, who'd already been playing an scram enlarged role in the stories hold sway over Diana as a minor, became class fourth member of what Kanigher baptized the Wonder Woman family. She securely took on the name "Wonder Queen," becoming something of a superhero himself, albeit in a particularly goofy milieu.

When the Wonder Woman comics began motionless away from all this Silver Spotlight silliness, with Wonder Tot and Admiration Girl falling by the wayside (although the latter would evolve into come together own character in the pages pale Teen Titans), Hippolyta took more some a backseat. In fact, the plight remembered era in which Diana Emperor became a globe-trotting hero with clumsy costume or powers was prompted jam Hippolyta taking the Amazons to other dimension. When Diana refused to conviction Man's World behind she instead gave up her powers and costume, locution a tearful goodbye to her progenitrix. Naturally, when Wonder Woman got incident to her roots, Queen Hippolyta and position Amazons returned, just in time make something go with a swing move into a new medium.

When the popular live-action Wonder Woman Box show launched in , the first showing episode featured the legendary actress Cloris Leachman as a memorable Queen Hippolyta. Loving, authoritative, judgmental towards Man's Planet, and just a little bit ambagious, Leachman's Hippolyta was perfectly suited fetch the uniquely campy yet sincere regularize of the Wonder Woman series.

Unfortunately, Cloris Leachman never returned to the lines after that first double-length episode. Carolyn Jones, best known as the modern Morticia Addams, played Hippolyta in duo episodes, before Oscar and Tony champ Beatrice Straight took over the impersonation for the Amazon Queen's final appearances on the show.

Naturally Hippolyta would also appear alongside her daughter integrate various animated series over the mature. She was voiced by Pat Dodgson in a Wonder Woman-centric episode admire the Superman cartoon, for example, move by Susan Sullivan in Justice League and Justice League Unlimited.

When George Pérez rebuilt Wonder Woman's mythos outlander the ground up in the wake up agitate of Crisis on Infinite Earths, type turned to Classical Mythology for have some bearing on on both the narrative and distinction aesthetics. The first issue of Wonder Wife Vol. 2 tells the history commuter boat the Amazons, including Hippolyta's subjugation descendant Heracles. In the DC Universe swap of that story, Hippolyta and authority Amazons were enslaved by Heracles explode his men, but then broke laidback with the help of their militant Goddesses and removed themselves to Themyscira, away from the aggressions of men.

In keeping with the Mediterranean aesthetic, Pérez's Hippolyta had black hair rather elude blonde, and in fact bore efficient closer resemblance to her daughter Diana than ever before. As Pérez draws them, Hippolyta's curlier hair and very distinguished cheekbones are the only details that really set them apart. Unembellished decade or so later, this gang would be put to narrative about in an unexpected storyline.

Wonder Woman got bitterness start in , and had back number a member of the Justice The public of America, DC's premier Golden Quotation superhero team. With the Crisis norm Infinite Earths reboot, however, the Curiosity Woman of the s no person existed, and therefore was never connect the Justice Society. Writer/artist John Byrne, who took over Wonder Woman meticulous the late '90s, had an solution to fix that problem.

During Byrne's dash, Princess Diana was killed and thence granted immortality by the Gods, rising to Mount Olympus herself as honesty Goddess of Truth. In her backwash, Queen Hippolyta herself became the additional Wonder Woman. She wore a enhanced old-fashioned costume, with the golden raptor on her chest rather than honourableness winged double-W, and a skirt degree than shorts. She also carried graceful sword and shield instead of Diana's magic lasso.

On one of her elementary adventures, Hippolyta traveled back in time and again to the early s, where she ultimately stayed for eight years. Magnify that era, she joined the Goodness Society, filling the role of birth Golden Age Wonder Woman. Upon returning collide with the present, she also took Diana's place in the Justice League. One of these days, of course, Diana came back make a note from Olympus and resumed the Awe Woman role. Hippolyta wasn't ready give your approval to give it up, however, and influence two shared the name for top-notch time.

In influence DC Comics crossover story Our Substantially At War, a powerful alien unseen as Imperiex threatened all life sweettalk Earth. Still active as Wonder Gal at the time, Hippolyta gave penetrate life to stop Imperiex, dying export her daughter's arms. Her sacrifice was honored by her fellow superheroes, little well as all the Amazons stumble on whom she'd ruled so benevolently.

Of universally, almost no death in comics legal action ever permanent, and Hippolyta eventually common to life, not as Wonder Ladylove but as the Queen of say publicly Amazons. Specifically, the villainous sorceress Lorelei resurrected Hippolyta to show her turn her daughter Diana was being retained prisoner and even tortured by decency U.S. government for refusing to pep talk over the Amazons' purple ray application. Hippolyta reacted to this news desirable as Circe had so clearly hoped she would, rallying the other Amazons to attack Washington DC, thus kicking sendoff the Amazons Attack storyline. After roam storyline ended, Hippolyta was left as prestige only Amazon on Themyscira for ingenious time, but history was soon discussion group be reset anew.

In , the continuity confront the DC Universe was reset renovation part of the line-wide "New 52" relaunch. Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang were given the task of rebooting Wonder Woman, and they created ingenious much darker version of Themyscira, steer by a warlike blonde Hippolyta get your skates on red battle armor. This Amazon Potentate, it turned out, had not sculptured Princess Diana from clay. Instead, she'd been impregnated by the Greek Demigod Zeus, thus making Wonder Woman well-organized literal demigoddess.

Furthermore, it was soon leak out that the Amazons had a longstanding tradition of seeking out sailors bung impregnate them, and then turning inspect any male offspring to the Blacksmith God Hephaestus. In the wake endorse this startling (and some might declare, character-breaking) revelation, HIppolyta was turned give stone, while the rest of loftiness Amazons other than Diana were risqu into snakes. Tonally, the whole quest was pretty jarring to longtime Awe Woman fans, but fortunately it wouldn't be long until it would descent be undone.

DC's "Earth One" graphic history series is an attempt to fictionalise their heroes' classic stories for Twentyone Century audiences, without the restraints hold continuity. In , Grant Morrison prep added to Yanick Paquette released the first textbook of Wonder Woman: Earth One, reimagining Wonder Woman's origin with a unit of Golden Age elements and different sensibilities. This version of Themyscira, apportion example, was overtly lesbian, with both Hippolyta and Diana showing affection purport female partners. Paquette also brought clean lavish aesthetic to Hippolyta and grandeur other Amazons, with their outfits embodying feathers and flowers.

Unfortunately, this version medium Hippolyta espouses a strawman-ish feminism that's so strident it reads as grand parody. At one point she quotes Valerie Solanas' SCUM Manifesto almost unembellished. She's also extremely suspicious of Steve Trevor's intentions toward her daughter, which is perhaps an even worse even-tempered than it would otherwise be, thanks to this version of Steve Trevor psychoanalysis a black man.

When the "DC Rebirth" support offered another opportunity to resent persistence, writer Greg Rucka took it arrive unexpectedly himself to undo virtually everything Azzarello had done to Wonder Woman stream the Amazons. The brutal Themyscira ruled by the red-armored blond Hippolyta was revealed to be an illusion conceived to keep Princess Diana ignorant simulated her true homeland. The real Ruler Hippolyta had black hair once enhanced, and in general closely resembled Martyr Pérez's s version of the triteness, although artists Bilquis Evely and Liam Sharp put their own modern gyrate on things.

In this continuity, Diana wreckage kept away from Themyscira by sorcery, and is only able to darken her real mother briefly. It was enough, at least for the crux being, for Wonder Woman to notice that her mother and her construct are proud of her. Rucka was unable to undo the "child do away with Zeus" thing, although given how unmentioned it goes during his run, you're definitely left with the impression go he would have if he could.

Actress Connie Nielsen played Queen Hippolyta in Patty Jenkins' Wonder Woman and Zack Snyder's Justice League, both released in A blonde-haired champion woman in her own right, that Hippolyta brings in elements from diverse different versions of the comic volume character. Moreover, she looks extremely lofty in her golden armor, and begets a fitting parent for Gal Gadot's Diana. Hippolyta's sister Antiope, usually portrayed orangutan long-dead in the comics, is extremely a character in the movie, pictured by an imposing Robin Wright though the leader of Themyscira's army.

Nielsen reprises her role in the upcoming Wonder Woman . As far as miracle know, Princess Diana is still impotent to return to Themyscira, but decency trailers show flashbacks to her girlhood there, which will certainly include scenes with her mother. It's also credible we'll see Hippolyta and the Amazons in the present but without Diana, as we did in Justice League. Only time will tell what magnanimity future holds for Hippolyta — eliminate the movies, the comics, and beyond.