Yara Flor | |
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Cover of Wonder Girl (vol. 3) #1, art by Joëlle Jones and Jordie Bellaire | |
Publication information | |
Publisher | DC Comics |
First appearance | Dark Nights: Death Metal #7 (January 2021) |
Created by | Joëlle Jones |
In-story information | |
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 |
Abilities |
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Yara Flor is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. She is one of the heroines to use the identity of Wonder Girl. Created by Joëlle Jones, she first appeared in Dark Nights: Death Metal #7 (January 2021).
Yara is depicted as the next Wonder Woman in the future viewed by Diana in the event Future State.[1]
According to the character's creator, Joëlle Jones, Yara's appearance was inspired by Brazilian model Suyane Moreira .[2]
Yara Flor is the daughter of an Amazon and a Brazilian 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 the Wonder Woman of the future.[3] In the present day DC Universe, Yara is introduced as part of the Infinite Frontier publishing event. She is unaware of her Amazon heritage, but, responding to a prophecy, the Olympian Gods and the Amazons of Themiscyra, Bana-Mighdall, and a third tribe in the Amazon 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 Girl Cassie Sandsmark to protect Yara, where she encounters Artemis of Bana-Mighdall.
As an Amazon-Guarani demigoddess, Yara inherits abilities the average Amazon does not. Tara has superhuman strength, speed, reflexes, durability, agility and senses. Yara also has the ability of hydrokinesis, which she discovers after she gets her golden bolas. Yara also rides a white winged horse from Olympus named Jerry.