Beginning in the Silver Age of Comic Books, these three characters have often been presented as Ares’ principal legates in his campaigns for universal conquest, and have also confronted Wonder Woman on their own, individually as well as with one another, as antagonists independent of their father.

The trio's longest running incarnation, co-devised by writer Greg Potter and writer/artist George Pérez, was as grim classical deities with gruesome features, clad in fantastical Greco-Roman armor.

However, during DC's post-Crisis continuity, the trio of Deimos, Phobos and Eris were designated as "Ares’ Children" in an illustrated encyclopedic entry by that title in 1999's Wonder Woman Secret Files and Origins #2.

The convention began in Golden Age stories written in the 1940s by Wonder Woman creator William Moulton Marston, who penned three other figures to serve as the chief operatives of the war god: the Duke of Deception, Lord/Count Conquest and the Earl of Greed.

[2] The Duke of Deception would strike out on his own to become one of Wonder Woman's principal mid-century foes, though Lord/Count Conquest and the Earl of Greed would reappear to complete the triumvirate for minor appearances in both the Silver and Bronze Ages.

Aiding their father (who was then known in DC Comics’ continuity as "Mars") alongside Eris (presented here as their aunt)[4] the brothers led a powerful demonic army known as the "Beast Men" in a bid to conquer the Amazons of Paradise Island and extract from them their secret of interdimensional travel.

Strategizing at Ares’ hest from the war god's other-dimensional stronghold of Areopagus, the snake-bearded Deimos was presented as coolly calculating, while the hulking, troll-like Phobos was rash, petty and deceitful.

Phobos' jealous desire to win the approval of his father led him to create the nightmarish demon Decay,[6] one of the first overt threats the Post-Crisis Wonder Woman faced after leaving her home on the island of Themyscira.

[7] Resurfacing again as a key figure in DC Comics' 1992 company-wide crossover event The War of the Gods, Phobos this time allied himself with Eris (who, in the Post-Crisis continuity, is presented as his sister) and the sorceress Circe in a treacherous plot to kill Ares.

2) #164-167, reunited with the whole of his malevolent family: a resurrected Deimos, Eris and Ares, to battle not only Wonder Woman, but Batman, Wonder Girls Donna Troy and Cassie Sandsmark, Nightwing, Robin Tim Drake, the Huntress, Artemis and Oracle.

Now identical red-haired twins dressed as steampunk dandies, the airish pair blackmail pharmaceutical tycoon Veronica Cale into helping them locate the hidden island of Themyscira, where their father Ares is imprisoned by the Amazons.

Presented as elevated, patronizing and smilingly cruel, this Deimos and Phobos also precipitate the circumstances that turn Cale's best friend Dr. Adrianna Anderson into the post-Rebirth Doctor Cyber.

They later appear as power-brokers for their grandmother Hera in Wonder Woman #787-790, assisting Doctor Psycho in forming a new incarnation of Villainy Inc. Eris is based on the eponymous Greek mythological goddess of strife and discord.

Designed by Pérez as an imposing female figure in blue Greco-Roman armor, the post-Crisis Eris bears more than a passing visual resemblance to her father Ares, and is presented as the antithesis of her benevolent half-sister Harmonia.

With a mane of slate-colored hair and shadowy skin (rendered by different colorists at different times as dark gray, pitch black or deep crimson), this Eris is a dour and imperious deity who manipulates events from beneath the tree of the Golden Apples of Discord, located in a night-shrouded nether-realm.

Together, the two are able to defeat Eris, and though the ordeal severely damages Themyscira's burgeoning international reputation, Wonder Woman and Lois succeed in forming a newfound mutual friendship.

When multiple mythological superheroes converge to confront Circe in a final battle, Eris is seemingly killed by the Son of Vulcan, breaking her malevolent influence on the situation and turning the tide of the war.

Though most of these changes were undone by writer Greg Rucka several years later as part of DC Rebirth (yet another continuity reboot), Azzarello and Chiang's version of Eris has endured.

However, by the end of Azzarello and Chiang's run, it became clear that Strife was no mere comic device, but rather the grand architect of all the travails faced by Wonder Woman and her allies throughout the preceding three-year story arc.

Eros's first full appearance was in "The Super-Prisoners of Love", the lead story in 1981's DC Comics Presents #32, written by Gerry Conway and Roy Thomas and illustrated by Kurt Schaffenberger.

Still a handsome young man, this Eros wears fashionable contemporary clothing and, instead of his traditional bow and arrow, carries a pair of solid gold Glock 17 handguns which fire magical "love bullets".

A somewhat prickly ally, Eros serves as a liaison between Wonder Woman and other Olympian gods, brokering a meeting with Hephaestus, and also helping her plan the rescue of her friend Zola from Hades, the ruler of the underworld.

She becomes the patron and lover of Halciber Filius, the so-called Son of Vulcan, a heroic champion granted godly powers by the Roman aspects of DC Comics' Olympian pantheon.

During their first meeting, when both Wonder Woman and Kapetelis simultaneously touch the Amulet, a magical event is triggered that aligns the two women in spiritual harmony, and grants them the ability to better communicate with one another, even across their shared language barrier.

With the cryptic help of the Fates, she deduces that the sorceress Circe has allied with her brother Phobos and her half-sister Eris in a plot for divine conquest that would destroy the Earth and overthrow Mount Olympus.

Wonder Woman helped to get Donna back on her feet so that she could properly care for Lyta by hiring her to be the company lawyer for a detective agency she and friend Micah Rains newly established.

A civil war situation arose on Themyscira, overshadowing the pregnancies, the mothers reached term abnormally quickly and were mystically summoned to a forgotten court by the ghost of Ares.

The Crow Children act by talking, though it's clearly not normal social interaction - their words have an impossibly convincing effect when it comes to seeding hatred, resentment, envy, defiance and the like.

Victims will even experience mild hallucination as a result of dissonance, for instance perceiving a trusted ally as demonically deformed to try to reconcile the words of the Crow Children about that person with reality.

They constantly use sarcasm, denouncing violence and improper behavior around them and the lack of morality of modern society while fully knowing that they are the direct cause for the chaos and hatred that surround them.