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According to our team that ran into her (and paid for it) she introduced herself formally as Princess Diana, Defender of the Amazons, Shield of Themyscira, Goddess of War.
Her last known (fake) passport reads: Diana Prince.
SHIELD has simply come to call her...Wonder Woman.
Origin/Backstory:
First, let me start off with what we know:
You don't want to corner her. A force recon team tried it in Istanbul in the mid-80s, and it didn't work well for the force recon team. Every single commando in the team was left sipping from a straw for a few months. Worse, she was able to get men trained for over two decades on how not to talk to give her everything we had on her, and then some.
The mid-80s? She's old. We do believe we're dealing with the same woman, not a mantle passed down through the generations. This isn't Zorro, folks. The Historian theorizes she may be thousands of years old; although the oldest possible hit on her we have is from a photograph taken just after World War One. Of course we can't be certain it's her, but we're certain it's her. Again, from the Historian:
The force recon team reported the woman that they cornered in the Mid-80s was, you guessed it, wearing the same tiara in the photo and looked exactly like the woman from the photo found in the Hydra lab. As it's not the strangest thing in the SHIELD archives, we believe the Historian didn't just stumble onto proof an ancient Greek was telling the Romans about an interesting story, but an actual super weapon they could use, that Polybius was bargaining with this information. Lucky for the Romans, they never found her, and never got the chance to corner her.
Secondly, what we think:
Mentions of such a woman pop up, again and again and again, and always when things in the world get violent. A figure matching the description is mentioned rescuing German women from Russian troops in the twilight of World War Two. If you don't know what the standard practice was when a member of the Red Army found a German woman, I'll let you look that up on your own, but it wasn't pretty. Another description shows up in the Greek Civil War around 1948; again saving a group of women from men that had other than honorable intentions. Again, in the Korean War, saving a group of American nurses from a MASH unit from enemy fire. The Six-Day War. The Ethiopian Civil War. The Troubles. Soviet war in Afhganistan. The Falklands. Every time she swoops in, saves people, disables all beligerients in the area, and zooms out.
This is a do-gooder, with a soft spot for other women; makes sense if she's really an Amazon. The profilers think she's a warrior that grew restless on the place of her birth that Zeus supposedly hid from the world to protect her, and started wandering. While her spurts of activity due correlate to conflict zones, she doesn't appear at all conflicts, leading them to suspect she has a life outside of wandering do-gooder, or that she isn't supposed to be wandering off too much. But if she really is living on a hidden Themyscira from myth, and really is a/the Goddess of War, then her odd periods of activity tend to make more logical sense. She'd have things to tend to from time to time.
But now that the world's really started to change from the emergence of metahumans left and right, does this mean the table's set for this restless goddess to finally become truly active? Depends on who you ask. One of our agents got a strange tip from an English "magic" user (putting it politely) that a God of Dreams and a Goddess of War were going to have a sit-down somewhere in London; wanting to exchange the location for information on some demon. Our agent disregarded it, and maybe that was to our detriment, because that was only a year ago.
Satellites and cell phone hacking have produced no less than a dozen images of this woman in the last year; most recently in Washington, DC, of all places. That was a month ago. She's getting active, and she's doing it without hiding so much. More importantly, doing it outside of open warzones. We think she's finally coming out to play with the other metahumans.
Update: Agent Steve Trevor has been dispatched with Drone Recon Squadron 5 to a small Greek airbase secretly used by the CIA, and us. If she's really out there on some inland, we'll find her. Goddess or not, Amazon or not, we're absolutely certain of one thing: this is a Wonder Woman, and we need to find her before Hydra does.
According to our team that ran into her (and paid for it) she introduced herself formally as Princess Diana, Defender of the Amazons, Shield of Themyscira, Goddess of War.
Her last known (fake) passport reads: Diana Prince.
SHIELD has simply come to call her...Wonder Woman.
Origin/Backstory:
First, let me start off with what we know:
You don't want to corner her. A force recon team tried it in Istanbul in the mid-80s, and it didn't work well for the force recon team. Every single commando in the team was left sipping from a straw for a few months. Worse, she was able to get men trained for over two decades on how not to talk to give her everything we had on her, and then some.
The mid-80s? She's old. We do believe we're dealing with the same woman, not a mantle passed down through the generations. This isn't Zorro, folks. The Historian theorizes she may be thousands of years old; although the oldest possible hit on her we have is from a photograph taken just after World War One. Of course we can't be certain it's her, but we're certain it's her. Again, from the Historian:
"It's quite fascinating, but I do believe we have evidence of this individual dating as far back as the Ancient Greeks themselves. In 1978 a Hydra think tank was discovered and secured in the Bavarian Alps; an old mine turned Nazi conclave during the Second Wolrd War turned Hydra facility after the Second War World. In the catalog of the facility's contents was bits of an ancient text believed written by Polybius (c. 208-116 BC), an ancient Greek who was captured by Romans and turned historian in his captivity. He makes note of a daughter of Zeus and Queen Hippolyta that stands apart from Olympus, hidden by Zeus along with her place of birth, though for what reason Polybius fails to state. The most intriguing thing is that while Polybius refers to Zeus as Jupiter in the Roman style, he refers to the daughter as αρτεμης--Attic Greek for "safe", but not the word most commonly used for the Greek goddess Artemis (that is αρταμος, "the butcher", a more fitting word for a Goddess of hunting). I must assume if Polybius meant the goddess Artemis he would have used the latter, but as the Roman name for Artemis is Diana, it seems reasonable to deduce that (writing to a largely Roman audience), Polybius did this to differentiate between two separate figures. That Polybius was revealing a mysterious figure previously unknown to the Romans. The Nazis, in their quest for the mythological, zeroed in on this figure in hopes Zeus' hiding her meant she remained in the mortal plane, and even believed to have a photograph of her from just ater the First World War also cataloged among the facility's contents. The Germans named her the Amazon; quite fitting if this is in fact the daughter of Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons according to myth. Though why an Amazon Princess would be wearing a tiara as in the photo is unknown, so prehaps the photo is of just a mortal woman of impressive stature. An interesting story, all the same. "
The force recon team reported the woman that they cornered in the Mid-80s was, you guessed it, wearing the same tiara in the photo and looked exactly like the woman from the photo found in the Hydra lab. As it's not the strangest thing in the SHIELD archives, we believe the Historian didn't just stumble onto proof an ancient Greek was telling the Romans about an interesting story, but an actual super weapon they could use, that Polybius was bargaining with this information. Lucky for the Romans, they never found her, and never got the chance to corner her.
Secondly, what we think:
Mentions of such a woman pop up, again and again and again, and always when things in the world get violent. A figure matching the description is mentioned rescuing German women from Russian troops in the twilight of World War Two. If you don't know what the standard practice was when a member of the Red Army found a German woman, I'll let you look that up on your own, but it wasn't pretty. Another description shows up in the Greek Civil War around 1948; again saving a group of women from men that had other than honorable intentions. Again, in the Korean War, saving a group of American nurses from a MASH unit from enemy fire. The Six-Day War. The Ethiopian Civil War. The Troubles. Soviet war in Afhganistan. The Falklands. Every time she swoops in, saves people, disables all beligerients in the area, and zooms out.
This is a do-gooder, with a soft spot for other women; makes sense if she's really an Amazon. The profilers think she's a warrior that grew restless on the place of her birth that Zeus supposedly hid from the world to protect her, and started wandering. While her spurts of activity due correlate to conflict zones, she doesn't appear at all conflicts, leading them to suspect she has a life outside of wandering do-gooder, or that she isn't supposed to be wandering off too much. But if she really is living on a hidden Themyscira from myth, and really is a/the Goddess of War, then her odd periods of activity tend to make more logical sense. She'd have things to tend to from time to time.
But now that the world's really started to change from the emergence of metahumans left and right, does this mean the table's set for this restless goddess to finally become truly active? Depends on who you ask. One of our agents got a strange tip from an English "magic" user (putting it politely) that a God of Dreams and a Goddess of War were going to have a sit-down somewhere in London; wanting to exchange the location for information on some demon. Our agent disregarded it, and maybe that was to our detriment, because that was only a year ago.
Satellites and cell phone hacking have produced no less than a dozen images of this woman in the last year; most recently in Washington, DC, of all places. That was a month ago. She's getting active, and she's doing it without hiding so much. More importantly, doing it outside of open warzones. We think she's finally coming out to play with the other metahumans.
Update: Agent Steve Trevor has been dispatched with Drone Recon Squadron 5 to a small Greek airbase secretly used by the CIA, and us. If she's really out there on some inland, we'll find her. Goddess or not, Amazon or not, we're absolutely certain of one thing: this is a Wonder Woman, and we need to find her before Hydra does.