[jrasicmark]

On the very first page, under the familiar rallying cry we all know of "All for one and one for all!", they've added the word, "Hola!" and I found that puzzling and it makes me curious.
I'm most familiar with the word from Wonder Woman comics where she seemed to use it as either a rallying cry or as an expression of surprise.
But when I took Spanish in school, I learned it means "hello" in that language, which puzzled me even more because Wonder Woman's origins are mainly in Greek and Roman mythology, not Spanish.
I had never encountered the word anywhere else in any of my reading. Does anyone else know its origins and meaning? Is it a word used more by the British?

Link to the book: Thriller Comics Library 104 Musketeers at Bay

[crashryan]

I poked around and came up with this interesting note about "hola."

Hola is etymologically related to the Germanic expressions hello in English and hallo in German. Hola is related to other European greetings such as Old High German halā, holā, emphatic imperative of halōn, holōn ("to fetch, used especially in hailing a ferryman") or French hol? ("whoa there!"), from French l? ("there"). All of these expressions come from various transformations of the latin word illac, meaning "there". The popular theory of "hola" originating from Arabic وَٱللّٰه ("really?, by God!") is today discredited.

Maybe the author(s) heard the word in some European context and thought it sounded like something a musketeer or an amazon might say.

[The Australian Panther]

One thing most fictional accounts of historical battles and military encounters leave aout is war cries. Go back far enough and all battles were preceded by sound. Often drums to get the troops blood flowing and then a warcry before charging forward to scare the $*&#@ out of the enemy for a psychological advantage.
One more modern example.

?It was the ugliest sound that any mortal ever heard?even a mortal exhausted and unnerved by two days of hard fighting, without sleep, without rest, without food and without hope.? That was legendary writer and Union army veteran Ambrose Bierce?s description of the ?rebel yell,? the notorious battle cry of Confederate forces during the Civil War.

 
Shaks's Zulus used war cries, as did the Spartans.
The New Zealand Rugby Union team, the All-blacks perform the haka at all their away games. Recently Australian teams have responded with an Australian War cry.
Hearing a mob of armed crazies screaming at me as they thundered toward me with weapons in their hands would have scared the hell out of me!
Until WWI, which changed everything, it was traditional in Europe to have a drummer boy at battles.