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Show 221 Wonder Woman's Amazons worship Aphrodite, engage in competitive physical activity, study history, mathematics and sciences not known to men. Diana excelled in most subjects, especially physical training. As a child she was pulling trees out by their roots, and her overall strength and agility growing up were unrivaled. She made her way to Washington, D.C. after the American captain Steve Trevors, in pursuit of a Nazi aircraft, crashed off the shores of Paradise Island. Wonder Woman found him, secretly nursed him back to health, (maybe) fell in love. Around the same time, concerned that her nemesis Ares was gaining too much power as the Nazis gained more control, Aphrodite commanded the Queen of Paradise Island (Diana's mother) to send her strongest warrior to help the American cause. To determine who was the strongest, the Amazon community held three competitions: a foot race, the pace set by a deer; a hard to follow rodeo-with-swords competition, the idea being ultimately to joust your opponent, and finally "bullets and bracelets," a fairly self-explanatory competition that involves shooting bullets at one other and seeing who can deflect the most of them with her Feminum bracelets before being wounded. Diana was forbidden by her mother from entering the competition, but entered anyway, wearing her first mask to avoid detection. She won all three events, and seeing her in action convinced her mother even after the mask was unveiled that she was strong enough to leave home, defend herself and fight for Aphrodite. So she escorted Captain Trevors back to America in her invisible jet, |