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Warhammer: Artemis: Requiem mini-series. One of the less spotlit members of the Hellenders, but one who had an excellent fighting reputation known to Artemis. He had his head ripped off by a demon but is feeling much better now.
Wayne, Bruce: See Batman. Wait—was I supposed to tell?
Wellys, Danielle: The Hiketeia. A girl who revenges her little sister by killing the sister's Gotham City enslavers/pimps. When Batman comes after her, Danielle seeks Wonder Woman's succor by invoking the hiketeia rite. Diana then becomes Danielle's protector until the girl runs off. Pursued by the Erinyes/Furies, Diana is somehow (!) prevented from saving the girl from leaping to her death.
White Magician: (WW Annual #3) Boston's Thomas Asquith Randolph (The name "Thomas" is added in issue 66) is known to be the 1940's hero, Mr. Magik (or Magic. Darned editors!). Unfortunately, he's a misogynistic artistocrat egomaniac with a goal of "rul[ing] this mudball like a GOD!" He keeps a TV reporter as a mistress so he gets great press.
Often he hides his murders behind an "attempt" to solve crises through his magic. He kills a maddened man after that man had peacefully surrendered to Wonder Woman.
Randolph says "I can tap into the mystic energies that flow through all things," but that may be a lie for the cameras.
He takes advantage of Eclipso's plot to turn Diana into an Eclipso, planning to drain her increased power to ignite his own failing magics. Unfortunately for him, Diana is completely possessed by Eclipso and thus Randolph can only hide to escape her wrath.
Randolph says he prefers others to do his killing for him. He also values appearances and his own superiority to mere mankind above all else. His spells often come off as if inspired by Dr. Strange, with invocations to exotic energies.
(66) Randolph is generally known as Boston's resident hero for "longer than anyone remembers." Now in semi-retirement, Randolph was known as Mr. Magic (no "k" now) during the Forties, the White Sorcerer in the Sixties, and was with a superhero group called the Echoes of Justice in the Seventies. "Now, he does SUPER-SECRET JOBS for the government! Everybody knows that!" a beautician tells Diana. Randolph's name is only "strangely familiar" to her because the spell he, as the White Magician, last performed on her erased her memory of him.
Randolph owns a space R&D division, and when cosmonaut Tasha Teranova becomes marooned in Earth orbit (something he arranged), he furnishes Diana with a "space sled" from Apokolips and a suit. He also arranges with others (Ares Buchanan?) to have a boom tube-ish thing whisk the ships involved to the far reaches of the galaxy.
(71) With Diana missing for over a year and presumed dead by the public, Randolph claims to have taken her place with the people of Boston. When word comes that Teranova has reappeared, and he knows that the odds are that Diana has also, he is filled with consternation.
Wonder Girl: Tsk, tsk, tsk. You're going to have to figure out which one you mean. Look under either Troy, Donna or Sandsmark, Cassie.
Wunderkind: see Neo-Nazis.
