New Teen Titans appreciation thread

[Riffster]

Winger's Wondergirl was her sister Drucilla who got to go stateside with Diana to visit

In 1976 a version of Wonder Girl appeared in the Wonder Woman TV series, played by Debra Winger in one of her first mass-media roles.


Debra Winger as Wonder Girl.Although the pilot episode revealed that Wonder Woman's alter-ego, Princess Diana of Paradise Island, was Queen Hippolyte's only child, later episodes featured Diana's younger sibling, Drusilla.

Drusilla first appeared in the two-part episode titled "The Feminum Mystique". In that episode, Queen Hippolyte (Carolyn Jones) sends Drusilla to America in order to bring her sister home to Paradise Island. (It should be noted that Queen Hippolyte is never referred to by name in any of the televised specials in which she appeared.)

Drusilla gets tangled up in a Nazi plot to discover the secret of Wonder Woman's magical bracelets, and in the process masters the spinning transformation used by her older sister. Although Drusilla creates the persona of Wonder Girl, the distinction is lost on the Nazis, who believe her to be Wonder Woman and abduct her.

Drusilla appeared again in the final episode of the first season, "Wonder Woman in Hollywood". A Wonder Girl series was in development when actress Debra Winger broke her contract and left the series. The Drusilla/Wonder Girl character was rumored to be written back into the series in several later episodes, this time played by actress Eileen Chesis previously seen in the Secrets of Isis episode Scuba Duba as Nancy.[citation needed]

A figure resembling Winger's Drusilla made a cameo appearance in Infinite Crisis #6, as the Wonder Girl of Earth-462. In the comics, Cassandra Sandsmark would later adapt the alias of Drusilla to protect her identity.

[The Toyroom]

What was the Debra Winger origin on the TV show?

I don't think one was ever given, other than she was Diana's little sister.

[Riffster]

see above

[Riffster]

In 1993, Debra Winger promoted her new movie Wilder Napalm on The Late Show with David Letterman. David enjoyed engaging Winger in a discussion of her first major role as Wonder Girl after showing the audience a clip of her on the Wonder Woman series. Winger, obviously prepared for this, then burst out of her "civilian" clothes and sported the Wonder Girl outfit that she hadn't worn in 17 years, running out of the studio in costume saying she was late for something she had to do.[2]

off to find this appearence

[The Toyroom]

I guess the main problem with the age difference starts from the very beginning which had "Wonder Girl" included in the Teen Titans as a mistake. Wonder Girl was originally like Superboy right? The adventures of Wonder Woman as a girl?

Yes...and at some point it was decided to bring Wonder Girl into the present alongside her older-self Wonder Woman and Queen Hippolyta to form a Wonder Woman Family of sorts similar to the Superman or Batman Families at the time. They all had adventures together I believe. Robert Kanigher may have been the one responsible....

[Riffster]

Debra winger/wondergirl on Letterman
YouTube - Debra Winger on David Letterman

[johnnystorm]

Yes...and at some point it was decided to bring Wonder Girl into the present alongside her older-self Wonder Woman and Queen Hippolyta to form a Wonder Woman Family of sorts similar to the Superman or Batman Families at the time. They all had adventures together I believe. Robert Kanigher may have been the one responsible....

Wonder Girl started out in the Silver Age as part of an untold tales of wonder Woman type feature. She first appeared in a retelling of WW's origin in #105, then they spun it into a series featuring WG. Later there was a Wonder Tot too, similar to the SuperBaby stories in Superman & Superboy. When Bob Haney did the second Teen Titans story in B&B #60, he added Wonder Girl to the group, not realizing she was not a seperate character from Wonder Woman. Understandable, because most of the solo WG stories running in WW don't seem to noticeably take place in the past (as Superboy's do). Pick up the Dc Showcase Wonder Woman volume, it's got all the first appearances and it's pretty cheap.

Wonder Girl is one of my favorite Titans, but DC has continually made poor decisions involving her origin, name, and look, to the point where she now suffers from the same fate as Hawkman- destined for a retcon every few years, banishment, then another revamp. I wish they would put Donna in the classic red suit, offically just make her origin that she's another Amazon sent to man's world (she doesn't have to be related to Diana in any way other than coming from Paradise Island). Forget Troia, Darkstars, and the black star suit (which I really dislike, not only on her but on Starman as well).

[The Toyroom]

The skinny on Wonder Girl's creation from Wikipedia:

Wonder "Girl" first appeared in "The Secret Origin of Wonder Woman," written by Robert Kanigher in Wonder Woman (vol. 1) #105 (April 1958). In this revised Silver Age origin it is established that Diana had in fact not been created from clay, but had been born before the Amazons settled on Paradise Island. Following this issue were several "Wonder Girl" adventures, and years later an additional character, Wonder Tot, (Wonder Woman as a toddler), was also featured. Kanigher restored the character's made-from-clay origin in 1966.

From Wonder Woman #124 (August 1961) onwards, Wonder Woman, Wonder Girl, and Wonder Tot frequently appeared together in stories that were labeled "impossible tales," presented as films made by Wonder Woman's mother, Queen Hippolyta, who had the power to splice together films of herself and Diana at different ages. The characters of Wonder Girl and Wonder Woman then began to diverge, as Bob Haney wrote Wonder Girl stories that took place in the same time period as those of Wonder Woman.

Haney was developing a new group of junior superheroes, which in its first informal appearance featured a team-up of Robin (Dick Grayson), Kid Flash (Wally West), and Aqualad, the sidekicks of Justice League members Batman, the Flash, and Aquaman, respectively. In their next appearance in The Brave and the Bold #60 (July 1965) they were dubbed the Teen Titans and were joined by "Wonder Girl," pictured in the same frame as Wonder Woman and calling Hippolyta "Mother."

[samurainoir]

Debra winger/wondergirl on Letterman
YouTube - Debra Winger on David Letterman

OMG! I haven't seen this since it first aired. Bless You and Hail YouTube.

These are tears of joy streaming down my face.