The Goddess Aphrodite created Amazons superior to human beings and Diana was the best of all Amazons. She was blessed with many powers and weapons by different Gods which she used to fight against crime and spread peace and love. She had learnt martial arts, acquired many skills; both physical and intellectual and took Amazon training, which add to her abilities.

Wonder Woman is stronger than one hundred best human athletes and can run at the speed of 80 mph. She can tear a metal door off its hinges and jump from a building and land on her feet. She can even type at the speed of 160 words per minute. Along with the evolution of her character, her skills and powers were increased and modified by different writers. Originally she was blessed to be as beautiful as Aphrodite, as wise as Athena, stronger than Demigod Hercules and swifter than trade God Mercury. Later, Artemis; the Goddess of animals, blessed Diana with unity with animals and capability to tame wild beasts. Goddess Hestia gave her sodality with fire and Hermes God gave her super human speed. Wonder Girl and Wonder Tot added on to her powers. The Amazon training that she underwent gave her the power of telepathy, deep scientific knowledge and ability to speak all human and super human languages. She was also very good at the languages of cavemen, Martians and animals.

1967’s Wonder Woman was given ‘Super Breath’ which enabled her to blow jets, convert water into snow, fly riding on the air currents and even sense air updrafts with fingers. She could project images, vibrate into other dimensions, impart wisdom into others, deflect bullets and had microscopic vision. Once, a tsunami was approaching Paradise Island, so Wonder Woman picked the entire island with her hand and removed it from the way of tsunami. She could lift whales and once she blew so hard on her birthday cake that it went into orbit and started circling the earth. But according to Aphrodite’s rule, if some male chains her or binds her, or if she removes her magic Lasso, she will lose her powers. In silver and golden ages of comics, Wonder Woman could even remove her bracelets without going mad.

The Post Crisis Wonder Woman was blessed with the strength of Goddess Gaea – the mother Earth which made her the strongest of DC Comics super heroines. Once, large chunks of the Moon were falling on the Earth when Diana saved the Earth from it. She can bare the force of high power rifle fire and can survive explosions and space tribulations. When Wonder Woman gets wounded, she becomes one with Earth and then revives her body with the injuries healed. Her astral body can separate itself from her physical body, visit far away lands and have an out of body experience. Diana is an expert acrobat, athlete, strategist and fighter. She has achieved mastery over different types of modern and ancient combats, both armed and unarmed, through training and experience. She handles her bracelets and golden Lasso very skillfully and she is so powerful that she has even defeated Batman, Black Canary and Big Barda.