I’ll still take that over “Gravel-grumble grim grim frown grim… Are comic-movies a Serious Art Form yet?”
I’m not at all crazy about the characterization of Barry Allen in the JL trailer. Everything else looks pretty OK.
I’m not a comic book geek, so I have to ask: the Wonder Woman trailer looks like a WWI period piece. How does she wind up still looking like she’s in her 20’s a hundred years later?
You caught the bit in the trailer where she says her dad is Zeus, right?
While they are on their island, Amazons are immortal. Diana is several centuries (possibly several millennia) old, before she ever leaves the island.
This has been canon at least since 1977, the second season of the Lynda Carter TV show. The first season, on ABC, had been set in World War II. CBS picked up the second season, on the condition that they update it to a contemporary setting (period pieces are expensive). The Steve Trevor of the second and third seasons was said to be the son of the Steve Trevor of the first season.
The TV show would often introduce a new character, then drop hints that he and Diana had a long backstory. When she fought Count Cagliostro, there was some dialog implying that they had been enemies since the 18th Century.
This was less of an issue in the comic books, but they picked up the immortality angle and kept it. Some writers say that the Amazons are always immortal. Others say that they are only immortal while on the island, and that they age whenever they venture into the outside world.
They both look very promising. I like that WW is set in WWI, interesting.
I just saw it too. I knew who she was but my brain kept saying “Morena Baccarin.”
My brain also kept saying “I wonder how much Michael Shannon got paid for playing a corpse?”
Ah, nope. Missed that. That would explain it. Thanks!
Which was weird, as I thought her dad was Ares because of the old Justice League cartoon.
I think she said Uncle. Not father. But that’s not quite right either, actually half-brother.
Actually, it’s neither, though ‘father’ is closer; she says “I was brought to life by Zeus.”
Originally, she was a statue made by her mother, Hippolyta, and brought to life by the will of Aphrodite.
That’s right, Diana had two mommies.
This has only recently been retconned in the comics so that she’s the biological child of Zeus and Hippolyta.
In the JLA animated TV show, is what we were talking about.
There is something a bit Captain America about that, which I am sure is intentional to set the character as being of the same ilk, or perhaps being the DC equivalent of the Marvel property.
Shame they didn’t go earlier - Napoleonic Wars or the Crimean war would have been fun, but I guess the go-to for period wars is always WW2.
Well, if the triggering event for her to visit “Man’s World” is Steve Trevor arriving on Paradise Island, he typically gets there in a crashing plane so it’d have to be 20th Century.
You could make it earlier if he was shipwrecked, I guess.
Hot air balloon in the Franco-Prussian War. 
Anyway, my point about WW2 stands.
Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there! Well done!
Except that Wonder Woman is set in WW1.
Hades, not Ares. Hades showed up twice in the JL/JLU (or 3 since JL episodes were all 2 parters). In JL, he was all creepy and rapey towards Hippolyta, and it was implied (or maybe outright stated?) that they had an affair; in JLU, he mentions that he helped Hippolyta sculpt the figure that became WW.
Ares appeared once in an episode of JLU, notable only because he was voiced by Michael York.
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