
Respect Circe! (DC Comics, Post-Flashpoint)
> #Anything is possible with the right will and for the right price. You just gotta be willing to pay, princess.
The ancient witch of Aeaea, Circe, is one of Wonder Woman's most powerful foes in the realm of the arcane. Combining immense magical capabilities with a mind that could make even a chimp detective blush, this one-woman army will stop at nothing to girlboss her goals into existence. She's held brief tenure with the Justice League Dark, Veronica Cale, and the Oval Office, but at the end of the day, it's Circe and Circe alone that commands her fate. So when she puts food on your table, take it with a grain of salt~
Thanks to /u/ghostgabe81 for helping with feat collection!
#Key
Sources
Due to the Wonder Woman-related character splits between New 52 and Rebirth being a little messy, this delineation may help. Circe doesn't change much across the eras though, so it may not be necessary. Hover over a link to see the run & issue of occurrence.
New 52
- Men of War (2011)
- Superman/Wonder Woman (2013)
- Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman (2014)
Rebirth
- Trinity (2016)
- Wonder Woman (2016)
- Wonder Woman/Tasmanian Devil Special (2017)
- Justice League Dark (2018)
- Justice League Dark and Wonder Woman: The Witching Hour (2018)
- Justice League (2018)
Post-Rebirth
- Batman: Urban Legends (2021)
- Wonder Woman: Black & Gold (2021)
- Batman vs. Robin (2022)
- Sensational Wonder Woman Special (2022)
- Lazarus Planet: Alpha (2023)
- Lazarus Planet: Omega (2023)
- Wonder Woman (2023) (up to #16)
- Adventures of Superman: Book of El (2025)
- New History of the DC Universe (2025)
Scaling
| Magic Users | Wonder Woman | Other |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Fate | Diana Prince, Wonder Woman | Hecate |
| John Constantine | Cheetah | Ra's al Ghul |
| Swamp Thing | Dr. Cyber | The Spectre |
| Zatanna | Giganta | Superman (New 52) |
#Physicals
Strength
Durability
- Hit by her own deflected magic bolt that can shatter stone
- Remains conscious after getting headbutted and uppercut off a building by Wonder Woman
- Lasted a while against the Spectre's torture
- Backstabbed by Ra's
- Hit with her own rebounded magic blast
- Tanks a punch from a teenage girl in Wonder Woman’s body
Speed
- Opens a gate directly in front of her before Superman can punch her
- Reacts to bullets and stops them with magic
- Reacts to a teenage girl in Wonder Woman’s body rushing at her
#Magic
Statements
- She’s one of the most powerful sorcerers the world has ever known
- Calls herself the strongest witch in existence, except maybe an immoral Zatanna
Offense
Bolts
- Shatters stone with a magic bolt
- Breaks Superman's grip
- Tortures Hippolyta in midair
- Blasts some rock apart
- Disintegrates a troll's club
- Smashes Wonder Woman through the ceiling of the Hall of Justice
- Blasts Wonder Woman though concrete
- Blasts a hole in a thick concrete wall and destroys display cases
Esoteric
Other
Defense
Restraints
- Encases Diana in rock/asphalt
- Restrains Wonder Woman, who only breaks free after stunning Circe
- Provides energy for the ritual to rebind Etrigan with Jason Blood, preventing it from consuming the life force of Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman
- Binds the Bat-Super-Wonder Woman composite
Other
- Blocks heat vision with a shield
- Could heal John Constantine's pierced heart
- Stops bullets before they hit her and launches them back at the shooters
- Could have given Homer his sight back if she wanted to
Mental / Illusions
- Gave Magog a fake human personality and memories so he'd hate Superman and Wonder Woman even more
- Made herself appear as child Diana's friend
- Cursed a book to show her as a magic phantom if opened
- Swaps the minds of Wonder Woman and a teenage girl
- Creates illusions of Medusa and the Goddess Diana to “fight” Wonder Woman
Teleportation / Transportation
Portals
- Took Diana's rock-encased prison to Aeaea
- Created innumerable portals searching for the soul she lost practicing magic
- Creates portals to the Parliament of Trees, Nanda Parbat and the Oblivion Bar to rescue the Justice League Dark
Instant
- Moves the Pandora Pits from an island near Kahndaq to Antarctica
- Teleports right in front of Ra's
- Teleports the Justice League Dark to the Olympian section of the Sphere of the Gods
- Teleported into Veronica Cale's building
- Banished Cheetah back to her forest temple
- Teleports into the Pentagon
Other
Transfiguration
W/ Items
- Turns Phobos and Deimos into Veronica Cale's dogs after a lengthy contract and using Diana's Lasso as a conduit
- Using the Lasso of Truth as a catalyst, could have lifted the spell cursing Cheetah had she relinquished her rage
- Created Wonderstar with a Fusion Stone
- Petrifies a crowd of Amazons
Fauna
- Turns a group of people into sheep
- Turned the Sovereign's men into pigs
- Morphs into a cat when she runs out of energy
- Once her name is mentioned on Aeaea, a storm forms and the Justice League Dark are turned into animals (except Zatanna)
- Turns a troll into a chicken
Other
- Arrives with a horde of Ani-men chimeras
- Brings out "the animal" in Superman
- Turns her Ani-men into a flesh mech
- Bends Hecate's Witchmark on Diana into something beneficial instead of evil
- Fuses mounted police and their horses into centaurs, one of which kicks Wonder Woman hard enough to send her flying into a wall and crack it
- Animates several gargoyles, which are bulletproof and strong enough to toss around cops
Prestidigitation
- Covers Dr. Cyber's hologram mouth
- Dunked Dr. Cyber in a coffeepot
- Levitates books
- Magicks a few soldiers into the air after exploding them
- Speaks with Phobos and Deimos when they're dogs
- Spices up Mardi Gras
- Scries in her cauldron
- Darkens a room and screws with military comms
- She is the one who enchanted the weapons of the Amazons in exchange for all of their captive sex slaves
Other
- Turns Superman's shadow against him and launches him through a city
- Channels the Pandora Pits, which create a composite of the DC trinity to fight them
- Unravels the magic lasso wrapped around her neck
- With a giant hand, shoves some Assassins into a Pandora Pit
- Escaped Wonder Woman's Lasso
- Gathered an army of trolls
- Zatanna and Constantine believe that her spell to give Wonder Woman control of her Witchmark is only “the illusion of control”
- She can stop time, and once did so for relative years
- Magically fathered a kid of Superman's, Pyrrhos
- Boosts Giganta to lift the Washington Monument
#Intelligence
- Predicted that Hecate would access the Sphere of the Gods through Mount Olympus
- Tricked the Justice League Dark into destroying Hecate while keeping her own Witchmark hidden, causing the other three marks to flow into her and grant her vast power
- When she starts to lose to a trio of magically-amped Wonder Women, she summons the Black Diamond of Eclipso to let him possess the main one
- Her "gossip" allows the Sovereign to know things that they couldn't on their own
During the Age of Magic event, all magic users had a vested interest in combatting Hecate. The Witchmark is a sigil that traces magic usage back to the goddess.
Physicals
- Flies after Wonder Woman as she tries to flee
- While possessing Wonder Woman she gets magically slammed into a wall by Kent Nelson, cracking it
- This occurs when she has all four Witchmarks.
Power
Statements
- Detective Chimp claims that a fight between Rama Kushna, Hecate, Witchmarked Wonder Woman and Witchmarked Manitou Dawn has enough energy to create a new universe
- With three of the four Witchmarks, Wonder Woman is stronger than any god who’s ever walked the Earth and could blink Zatanna and Constantine out of existence
- She’s one of the most formidable beings in existence
Feats
- Absorbed the other three Witchmarks of Hecate after the goddess' death, becoming powerful enough to shake reality with her laughter
- As long as she has the Witchmark the Upside-Down Man cannot touch her
- Hecate’s realm in the Collective Unconscious is part of her now, and she “makes the rules” there
- No-sells Zatanna’s spell to freeze her in place
- Wonder Woman gives her the remnants of her Witchmarked and Lord of Chaos powers, as well as the power of Eclipso, while trapping her in a magic mirror to heal from her spite with that power
Magic
Combat-Relevant
- Distorts space around Wonder Woman, preventing her from moving
- Shoves her hands into Wonder Woman’s astral projection in the Collective Unconscious, allowing Circe to possess her body in the physical world
- Fuses Zatanna’s lips together and reverts Detective Chimp to a normal chimpanzee, then summons the Injustice League Dark into the Hall of Justice
- Restrains and levitates Kent Nelson
- Telekinetically summons the Black Diamond of Eclipso, pulling it fast enough to cut Wonder Woman
- Restrains copies magical copies of Wonder Woman, formed from the remnants of her Witchmark and Lord of Chaos powerups
Other