I just watched the new “Justice League” cartoon on Cartoon Network. Overall I thought it was very good. The plot was excellent, and the characters development kept with the characters from the other WB series (Superman and Batman).
I think it will be a great series… but since when does Wonder Woman fly? She has historically never been able to fly before, but they decided to make her fly in this series. Is that too much creative license? I still am not sure.
While I can’t recall WW flying back in the 60s, her powers always were pretty nebulously defined. She elongated herself absurdly in one story, demonstrated the ability to run up a sheer glass wall in another. In one story she had the ability “to thread a needle underwater” – which I’ll bet Superman can’t do (and they wouldn’t even ask him about it. Talk about sexism in the comics!), so it’s not beyond expectation that she could maybe fly for brief hops.
Of course, she certainly couldn’t for long hops – she had that Invisible Plane, after all. (Invisible Plane seems like a really stupid concept, btw. They made fun of it on Spongebob Squarepants: “Where is that Invisible Plane?” “I don’t know, it’s somewhere around…Ouch!”)Or maybe she was just too lazy to fly.
I note that she flies in the recent “Graphic Novel” Kingdom Come.
She was in the invisible plane, you just couldn’t see it…it was invisible you know. 
She’s been able to fly since it was decided by the powers that be that the invisible plane was really stupid.
At least since the mid-'80s. One of the artifacts she wears gives her the power.
Gad, I’m a comic-book geek…
Shhhh! You’ll hurt the feelings of the F-117 and B-2 pilots!
Actually, she has been able to fly since George Perez rebooted her with #1 in 1987.
She has no artifact which allows her to fly. It is an inherent power given to her by the gods.
Previously, pre Crisis, she could glide on air currents.
So apparently she can fly, but she doesn’t seem to flaunt it like the other members of the JLA that can fly. I’m having to really think to recall her flying - perhaps it’s just that her flight frequently resembles super-powered jumping or something.
She flies all the time in the JLA comic – take a look at the last Terror Incognita issue, for instance. (#58, I believe.)
–Cliffy
Wonder Woman has got to be one of the most famous super heroes that nobody knows anything about. Same goes for Captain America. And before you comic book fans chime in you don’t count.
Marc
Well, there’s “low observable” and there’s “BONK! Ow! Hey, I found my plane…”
And before that, Wonder Girl of the Teen Titans (a.k.a. Wonder Chick, Wondy, Toots) could fly.
Still, it’s a shame to see Batman, alone among the JL, grounded. Oh sure, Flash can’t really fly, but let’s see him whip his legs into a tornado one of these days.
Also, it’s very unorthodox for Golden Age superheroes to fly unaided. I mean, Superman has a cape, Hawkgirl has wings, Green Lantern has his funky ring. But Wonder Woman just jumping into the air and staying there defies every known law of comicbook physics!
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Well she does have a tiara and bracelets. Think of it as Diva Power.
I believe Wonder Girl (if by that you mean Donna Troy and not the more recent vintage) also glided on air currents rather than truly flying. She was after all initially just a junior edition of Wonder Woman. When she was first retconned into Troia, I believe she gained the power of true flight but I don’t recall if it was a power or artifact-based. The new Wonder Girl does not, I believe, fly. And as I haven’t read comice for quite some time, I don’t know what Donna Troy’s current origin is. Last time I checked in, I think she was some sort of mystic Wonder Woman clone or something.
No, the new Wonder Girl (of Young Justice) does fly.
Cliffy:
I’d look but I don’t have them here - I just find it extremely odd that it’s so much harder to remember her flying than any other character.
Her powers are derived from the Olympian Greek gods, ie. magically based. One of them is flight. She herself is magically animated clay.
Never worked out how Wonder Woman can tear steel, but can’t take the impact of a bullet (she uses the bracelets to deflect them).
Perhaps she can take a bullet and is only using the bracelets to deflect them to where she wants them to go.
How come Superman can stand there and let bullets bounce off his chest, yet ducks when the bad guy throws the gun at him after running out of ammo?
(Not an original thought, but I’ve wondered for a while…)
I still like the idea of the invisible jet plane. I like to think that those were what made the Amazons of ancient Greek Mythology such bad-asses. Air Power.
You’re thinking, I believe, of the old George Reeves television show. The answer, of course, was that regardless of Superman’s invulnerability; Reeves could stand there in front of a gun firing blanks all day long, but a clout on the head from a big hunk of iron would ruin his day.
–Cliffy