| Yara Flor | |
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 Character art ofTrial of the Amazons, art byJen Bartel | |
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| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Dark Nights: Death Metal #7 (January 2021) |
| Created by | Joëlle Jones |
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| Full name | Yara Flor |
| Species | Amazon /Demigod |
| Team affiliations | Justice League |
| Partnerships | Wonder Woman, Jerry, the Winged Horse (pet) |
| Notable aliases | Wonder Girl, Wonder Woman |
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Yara Flor is asuperhero appearing in American comic books published byDC Comics. She is one of four heroines to use the identity ofWonder Girl. Created byJoëlle Jones, she first appeared inDark Nights: Death Metal #7 (January 2021).
Yara is depicted as the nextWonder Woman in the future viewed byDiana in the eventFuture State.[1]
According to the character's creator,Joëlle Jones, Yara's appearance was inspired by Brazilian modelSuyane Moreira [pt].[2]
Yara Flor is the daughter of anAmazon and aBrazilian river god, who becomes the defender of the Esquecida Amazon tribe. The character debuted in January 2021 as part of DC Comic's "Future State" storyline, in which she is shown to be theWonder Woman of the future.[3] In the present dayDC Universe, Yara is introduced as part of theInfinite Frontier publishing event. She is unaware of her Amazon heritage, but, responding to a prophecy that will determine if Yara destroys the Amazons or saves them, theOlympian Gods and theAmazons ofThemiscyra,Bana-Mighdall, and a third tribe in theAmazon rainforest separately begin to converge on her location as she makes a trip from the US to Brazil, the country of her birth.Queen Hippolyta sends Wonder GirlCassie Sandsmark to protect Yara, where Cassie encountersArtemis of Bana-Mighdall.[4]
While on a plane, Yara is attacked by a couple of her people in the Amazon, and accidentally causes a hole in the plane causing it to crash. She is hit by an arrow fromEros (who was sent byHera) who falls in love with her after accidentally cutting himself with his own arrow.[5]
Yara mets Hera, and tellsChiron to train her. Yara learns how to fight using abola and befriends aPegasus and calls him Jerry. Eros tells her that Hera is training Yara to be her champion, and Eros wants Yara to drink the elixir of immortality so she can be with him forever. Yara convinces Eros to let her come back to the mortal realm to meet a man whom she had feelings for name Joao, and Yara meets a Brazilian Amazon name Potira who explains that Yara's mother was a Greek Amazon who fell in love with a man and gave birth to her. An Amazon tribe in Brazil took Yara's family in, untilAres killed her mother.Cassie Sandsmark andArtemis of Bana-Mighdall eventually find Yara, and tells Yara that if she sides with Hera, it will cause the destruction of the Amazons.[6][7]
Hera asks Yara to drink theambrosia which will render her immortal. She declines and fights her way out of Olympus. During the chaos, Jerry is hurt by Pegasus, and Yara comes back to Mount Olympus to take revenge, but Hera defeats her and sends her toHephaestus.[8]
InDark Crisis #1,Jonathan Samuel Kent tries to convince Yara to join his new Justice League team afterPariah killed all the current Justice League members. Yara rebukes Jonathan's offer and leaves him.[9] However she returns afterDeathstroke attacks theTitans Tower in issue #3, and learns fromAlan Scott andSwamp Thing that Pariah is corrupting The Great Darkness. She participates in the final battle withDick Grayson's group where she distracts Pariah long enough for Jace Fox and Mister Terrific to defeat Pariah.[10] At the end of the event, Yara helps clean up theHall of Justice with the rest of the heroes.[11]
As an Amazon-Tupi demigoddess, Yara inherits abilities the average Amazon does not. Yara has superhuman strength, speed, reflexes, durability, agility and senses. Yara also has the ability ofhydrokinesis, which she discovers after she gets her goldenbolas. Yara also rides a white winged horse from Olympus named Jerry.
The character was received positively by both fans and critics, with critics naming Yara Flor the standout fromFuture State. Samantha Nelson from Polygon wrote "DC’s clearly betting big on Yara, but her debut shows tremendous promise. It’s a glimpse at a new version of Wonder Woman that’s grounded in modern fantasy as much as superhero comics, providing ammo for a huge number of thrilling new stories."[12]
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