Nubia is a beautiful name. I think the challenge is finding a viable role for Nubia to play, if there is one.
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COMBINING THE BIGBADITUDE OF THANOS WITH CHEETAH'S FEROCITY, IS JANUS WONDER WOMAN'S GREATEST SUPERVILLAIN?...on WONDABUNGA!!! Look alive, Kangaliers!
I've reconciled this in my headfanon by making Nubia the Anglicized name for Niobe, the dark-skinned woman who was given the Amazon name Phillipus. When Diana left Themyscira with Steve Trevor, Hippolyta asked two Amazons to follow and secretly spy and support on the Princess. One was Diana's childhood lover, and the other was the queen's consort --Diana's other mother. That way, Nubia's sister-ness to Diana is only as an "Amazon sister", but she's still a significant part of the Amazonian royal family.
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Hm, yes...Nubia really is an example of the tokenization and diverse-character-shoved-down-readers-throats.....Not that I don't have a soft spot for her, but it shows that if a character hangs long enough, they'll gather support and fans.
I would prefer that she have a different origin, though....
I have a soft spot ( or is that a hard spot?!, Lol!) For Nubia and have since her first appearance way back in WW right after Diana got her powers back.
"I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."- Jesus
John 14:6
I'd make Nubia one of the original Amazons. Philipus and Hessia would be her descendants with Philipus being Hessia's mother.
I see nothing wrong with her post Crisis origin that said she was the lone Amazon sent to guard Doom's Doorway from the inside, there she developed her own superpowers due to a god's blessing or spell or something. That way her absence is explained and she could have powers equal to Diana's, but hopefully something more useful than the Gorgon's Stare that has limited applications.
I also liked her original origin where she came from an island of pseudo Africans after she was kidnapped from Themyscira by Ares.
Another character that nabbed a fraction of Nubia's origin is Devastation.... Made of the clay of the island and given life (though by the baddies)....
You could always give her Donna's Byrne-ified origin. She's Diana's mystic twin created from a fraction of her soul via a reflection (in a dark crystal? I know, I know)
Instead of Dark Angel stealing that which would become Donna he steals young Nubia to raise as his acolyte... Then the rest (basically) plays out like it did originally.
Do you really think it was Nubia who showed up?
https://io9.gizmodo.com/wonder-woman...e-m-1819884457
Maybe Nubia can be a twin or Hippoltya a little before being told to sculpt Diana, she uses Amazonian technology or goes to an amazons sorceresses to help her create Diana. At first she thinks it’s a failed attempted but right as Diana came to life so to does Nubia
I actually think that the new 52 would've been better if certain plots were about Nubia instead of Diana.
Yes, I think that may be the newly reimagined Nubia.