10 Shocking Times Superheroes Just QUIT
2. Wonder Woman - Wonder Woman #179
Like all of these classic superheroes, there are plenty of moments throughout Wonder Woman's life where she gave up the superhero life. But for this one, we went for the most jarring and bizarre of them all. Yes, even worse than the time she started dressing up as a 90's S&M biker chick for some reason.
This happened in Wonder Woman #179, wherein longtime love interest Steve Trevor started his campaign against crime lord Dr. Cyber. Diana of course offered her help, but then a crisis emerged in the form of the amazons needing to leave Earth to recharge the magic they use to stay alive and hidden. Wonder Woman chooses to stand with Steve and combat the threat of Cyber, so she stayed behind and thus lost all of her magic. Leaving her as simple Diana Prince. And also she lost all her years of combat training for some staggeringly stupid reason.
So, when you're in the late sixties and in need of combat training, where do you go? Why a racist caricature of a old Chinese wise man, of course!
This new status quo wasn't exactly popular, but that didn't stop DC from keeping things this way for FIVE YEARS.