What Even Diehard Fans Don't Know About Wonder Woman's Love Life

Played by Chris Pine in the film, Steve Trevor is Wonder Woman's answer to Lois Lane. But while fans may be familiar with Trevor from the movie or the 1970s television show that saw him played by Lyle Waggoner, his romance with Diana has had more than a few ups and downs.

After his plane crashed in the ocean near Paradise Island, Trevor, an Air Force pilot, was rescued by Wonder Woman. It was love at first sight for both, and after Diana came to America, she set up a secret identity as Diana Prince, Trevor's assistant. Yet somehow Steve never seemed to figure out that his assistant and his superhero girlfriend were the same person. He only had eyes for Wonder Woman and that star-spangled bustier.

Though he called her "angel" for saving his life in the plane crash, Wonder Woman couldn't save him from every dumb decision he'd make, as Trevor was shockingly killed off in the February 1969 issue of Wonder Woman. And that's when things got really weird.

Wonder Woman and her mother Hippolyta beseeched Aphrodite to return Steve from the dead and she seemingly brought him back, only for Steve to be killed again by a demonic force. Hippolyta was so distraught at her daughter's despair that she later erased Wonder Woman's memories of Steve entirely.

But that turned out to be pointless, because a portal to an alternate universe opened up, and an alternate version of Steve came through, triggering the whole romance over again—until the second dead Steve came back from the grave! Eventually it was revealed that the "resurrected" version of Steve was actually the god of love Eros in disguise; he and Aphrodite then implanted the memories of the original, murdered Steve Trevor into the mind of the alternate universe Steve, merging them into one person. Diana and Steve then got married and lived happily ever after for about one week, at which point the entire universe was destroyed.

After the DC Universe was reformed, a new version of Steve Trevor appeared who was more a brother figure to Diana. He ended up marrying Diana's best buddy Etta Candy. But when that universe was also inevitably rebooted, yet another version of Steve debuted, this time as a bitter ex-boyfriend who acted as a liaison between the government and the Justice League. 

All of which is weird enough, but then there's this crazy fact: in the hit TV series, there were two versions of Steve who were both Diana's boyfriend—and they were also father and son, played by the same actor. And you thought comic books were confusing!

While all that nonsense about Steve Trevor being a zombie god was playing out, Diana got herself in a bit of a pickle when she explored a side romance with another Air Force officer by the name of Keith Griggs. Griggs had a lot in common with Steve Trevor, with one major difference: he wasn't interested romantically in Wonder Woman at all. He was actually interested in her alter ego Diana Prince, because he was impressed with her skill, intelligence, and bravery.

It's pretty obvious why Griggs would be pretty intriguing to Diana after decades of Steve putting her on a pedestal, calling her "angel," and not even noticing her when she's out of costume. Still, after a brief dalliance, Diana decided her heart was with Steve, and she broke things off with Keith. On the bright side for poor Griggs, at least his life ended up being a lot less complicated in the long run.

First appearing in the July 2001 issue of Wonder Woman,Trevor Barnes was a modern romantic partner for a new millennium. A human rights advocate working for the United Nations, Trevor initially felt that Wonder Woman was out of his league. But through persistence, she eventually won him over, and they began a relationship.

Unfortunately, it wasn't meant to be—not due to some kind of comic threat of supervillain's plan, but just because, you know, sometimes these things don't quite work out. Don't worry, though, there were still some high-level comic book shenanigans involved: after they decided they should just be friends, Barnes accidentally became the host of a malevolent deity called the Shattered God, and was later killed by Zeus in order to protect the world.

If the idea of Batman and Wonder Woman being in a relationship seems like some sort of ridiculous fan service gone awry, well...it pretty much is. But DC Comics, eager to explore every possible romantic partner for Diana, has floated the idea of Batman and Wonder Woman a couple times—and it actually worked out pretty well.

Not in the comics, of course. Though the two briefly shared a kiss in the pages of JLA, Wonder Woman later used a mystical artifact to determine she and Batman were a bad fit (something pretty much anyone alive could have simply told her even without the magic of the gods).

But in the Justice League and Justice League Unlimited animated series, Wonder Woman and Batman actually developed an interesting if unlikely romantic partnership that became a fan favorite. Naturally.

If Batman seemed like an unlikely romantic partner, then on the surface, Aquaman seems even more ridiculous. But if you (ahem) dive a little deeper, it almost kind of makes sense. Like Wonder Woman, Arthur Curry comes from a secret civilization from the ancient past. And like Princess Diana, Aquaman is royalty, ruling over Atlantis as a benevolent monarch. The two surprisingly have a lot in common. Plus, we already know from her teenage romance with Mer-boy that she likes those fishy men.

As a result, more than one writer has explored what might happen if the two hooked up. Most of it has just been unrequited attraction, with a running subplot in the '90s revealing Aquaman's secret pinings for Wonder Woman. In the Flashpoint crossover event, though, readers were treated to an alternate universe tale in which the teammates teamed up in a different way, getting hitched in a political marriage to seal an alliance between their two societies. It ended very, very badly, with Wonder Woman killing Aquaman's true love Mera, and Atlantis and Themyscira destroying half the world in an all-out war. Think about that the next time you feel like you're going through a bad breakup.