Donna Troy, a.k.a. Wonder Girl, Troia, and Darkstar, has gone through way too many continuity shifts in her thirty-two years as a character. She started out in 1965 as the ward of Wonder Woman. Donna was found in a burning building in the original continuity(Pre-Crisis), and became the step-daughter to Hippolyta, and the step-sister to Diana(Wonder Woman).

During the 80's, before her marriage to Terry Long, Donna(with the help of Dick Grayson(Nightwing)), found out that her mother had to put her up for adoption because she had terminal cancer. The people who adopted her(from an baby mill) died the night they got her in the fire that Wonder Woman would find Donna in. That lasted until 1986, and then there was Crisis On Infinite Earths which threw all of continuity on its collective ear.

It has been since learned though that it was not Wonder Woman, but instead it was Rhea, one of the Titans of Myth, who brought Donna to New Chronus, the home of the Titans. Along with Donna, a group of other children were also gathered from other planets, and were trained by the Titans to be their successors. Donna and the other children were sent from New Chronus to their respective homes after 13 years, their memories erased of their training. It was expected that after 50 years of living at their homes, they would return to take their place as gods.

Donna returned to Earth, taking the last name Troy. She wandered around a bit, a fraction of her powers appearing. She designed a costume to look like the american flag, and took the name Wonder Girl. She joined Robin, Kid Flash, Aqualad, and Speedy against the Justice League when an alien being had turned them to evil, thus creating the Teen Titans.

Donna's life changed radically, along with other Titan's lives, with the death of Dr. Swenson. She joined a few other Titans in renouncing her costumed career, and began a pacifist way of life with the help of Mr. Jupiter. She remained this way for a few adventures, until the Titans changed their minds, and went back to their costumed careers. Donna left the Titans when they officially disbanded, and presumably went to college.

Donna returned to the Titans when she was summoned by Raven, meeting Robin, Kid Flash, Changeling (formerly Beast Boy), and Cyborg. She then joined them in rescueing the alien who they would call Starfire for the alien race called the Gordanians. Afterwards, the Titans fought with Raven against her father, the demon Trigon. Staying with the group afterwards, Donna was a part of many adventures with the Titans.

Outside of the Titans, Donna met and fell in love with Terry Long, a professor at a local college. Donna also began a career in photography, getting Starfire to be a model in the industry. Before Donna and Terry got married, she had Dick investigate and find her true identity, which reunited Donna with her mother and her adopted parents. Soon afterwards, Donna and Terry were married, leaving the Titans only temporarily for their honeymoon. Promptly afterwards, she rejoined them to stop H.I.V.E. once and for all.

After the Titans defeated Trigon for the second time, Nightwing, Starfire, and Jericho went to Starfire's home planet, Cyborg and Changeling were searching for the latter's father, and Raven had disappeared. Because of this, there weren't any Titans to help out King Faraday when he called. Donna placed a few phone calls though, and recreated the Teen Titans, with Flash, Hawk, Speedy, Aqualad, and Robin (Jason Todd). This team was shortlived though, when Cyborg, Changeling, Starfire, and Jericho returned. Only Robin stayed with the Titans when they went to Zandia to rescue Nightwing and Raven, who had both been brainwashed by Brother Blood.

A few months later, a mysterious woman was searching for Donna, finding her at the Titans Tower. The woman, identified as Phoebe, revealed to Donna her missing memories of her training on New Chronus, and asked her to find her friends who trained with her. The Titans split into two teams, and fought against Sparta, an alien who was trained with the other children by the Titans, but remembered her training and her powers. Sparta quickly took over her planet, and enslaved most of the people, concentrating on the Titans home above her planet, so that she could take their powers for her own. Donna and the Titans meet up with two other Titan-seeds, the warrior Athyns, and the bear-like Xanthi. Donna, Athyns, and the Titans defeated Sparta, but at the cost of Xanthi's life. The Titans of Myth took the now brain-dead Sparta with them, as an atonement of their mistakes. The Titans gave Donna gift, which included material from each of the gods. Donna used the material to create a new costume, and a new costumed identity, Troia.

T hings got complicated when she became pregnant. Being essentially a goddess, her child would have the powers of a god. In one possible future, her son took over the world as Lord Chaos. Monarch, in his effort to eliminate competition from other would-be conquerors, sent a team of newer Titans into the past to kill her before her son was born. In a rather messy storyline aptly titled "Total Chaos," Donna gave up her powers to ensure her son would be normal. She could have had a period of relative peace, but the future Team Titans moved in with her family. Conflicts over the dangers of super-heroics eventually led to the breakdown of her marriage, and she lost custody of her son. She was, however, contacted by the Darkstars, an intergalactic organization similar to the Green Lanterns, and offered a position as the Darkstar of Earth. Donna accepted, replacing Ferrin Colos, and subsequently rejoined the Titans.

From John Byrne's retcon we found out that Donna Troy wasn't a New Titan of Myth, she was Diana's avatar. Come to find out that Diana was lonely as the only child growing up on Themyscira and she was lonely, so she had Magdala do a spell to create a doppelganger of Diana, which was named Donna. Complicating things more... back in the 1940's Hippolyta as Wonder Woman fought Dark Angel. As revenge, Dark Angel went to Themyscira and was going to grab Diana to get revenge on Hippolyta. Immense shock... she got Donna.

Then Donna went through lifetime after lifetime, each existence ending in misery. Yet, a good percentage of the time she was a superhero as Wonder Girl, Darkstar, Troia... This did not make Dark Angel happy. So, it came down to a final battle, which involved Cassie(Wonder Girl II), Artemis, Hippolyta, and Diana. Donna ended up destroying Dark Angel with a NEW power she had to destroy evil with a touch. Very Deus ex Machina, don't you think?

Of course, it doesn't end here. She dies. AGAIN.

Donna rejoined the latest version of the Teen Titans, now calling themselves The Titans. The book floundered as did Donna for the fifty issues it ran. She did have a great storyline as the backup story in Wonder Woman 178-183 where she fought The Angle Man to help Fury. Then during a crossover with Young Justice called Graduation Day, Donna was killed by a malfuctioning Superman robot.

Or did she?

Nope.

As part of the Infinite Crisis storyline that is going to "fix" continuity problems in the DC Universe that came after Crisis on Infinite Earths and Zero Hour, Donna was brought back again as a leader for the good guys.

This time, she had been decieved by the Titans of Myth that she had never been with any version of the Teen Titans and was the wife of Coeus, God of the Moon.

Like in past attempts to make her forget, Donna's memory asserted itself, and she rebelled against her fellow deities. After breaking away to defend those the other Titans of Myth were going to destroy, she took their planet/ship and drove it back towards Earth for the impending Crisis.

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