And if the answer is “a god/demigod” like with Thor could you at least explain in more detail if any appearances supply it?
I thought she was just a highly skilled Amazon, armed with magical/goddess-touched items.
That was my impression, too, and Wikipedia bears me out:
Her superhuman powers are blessings from Olympus, in the latest storylines, I see. She’s the daughter of the queen of the Amazons and Zeus.
What I can’t find is whether her super-sexist weakness of “being tied up by a man” is still around.
I posed the question because after watching the Thor movie and checking wikipedia I still was unclear on his deal(and I recall the thread I made didn’t have a clear consensus). It appears that the answer might be god like alien who inspired human mythology.
Which is why I asked about Wonder Woman, as her origin seemed kind of out of place in the mostly sci fi DC canon.
I think ‘godlike alien’ is the angle taken for the movies to maintain some vague plausibility. In comics they’re the actual gods.
I think the Thor movie is now the biggest stumbling block facing a WW movie, though. To the uninitiated, they’re superficially the same story. And now they have to find a totally fresh vaguely plausible approach that isnt ‘godlike alien’.
In the JLU series Diana said that she was sculpted by Hippolyta and Hades and then they breathed life into her.
Her bracelets are supposed to have been made by Hephaestus, armorer of the gods. Not sure about the magic lasso though.
She’s of course got the WWII angle to set her apart from Thor, but that would invite obvious comparisons to the Captain America movie.
I’ve been saying for years that Wonder Woman is the hinge upon which any Justice League movie effort will swing open to riches or slam in the filmmakers’ faces. She’s just too easy to get wrong. The TV show did it right by just being light-hearted, but that type of Wonder Woman won’t fit in well with the Batman and Superman they’ve established.
Her original story was that her mother (Hippolyte, Queen of the Amazons) carved her out of marble, and then Zeus breathed life into her, IIRC. Presently in the comics, she’s the daughter of Hippolyte and Zeus (so Hera’s not happy with her).
That’s…more or less what happened in the comics (until recently) - Hades wasn’t involved, though…it was just Hippolyta making a clay baby, which was then brought to life, because she wanted a child.
In current continuity, Diana thought that was her origin, for most of her life, but, as it turns out…it was a lie. Hippolyta had been seduced by Zeus, and Diana was the result of that. The current storyline in the comics involves several of her half siblings, both full gods and demigods (some from myth, some created for this story, one which has evidence both ways).
Not really. Well, the first part, leaving alone the second.
Wonder Woman, frankly, isn’t the most significant character as far as DC is concerned. She’s somewhat more known than, say, Green Lantern or the Flash, but only because of the tv show. Apart from that, she’s isn’t a big comics-mover and could in practice be replaced by a number of superheroes.
Which isn’t to say she’s a bad character. But they could drop her at any time and have a number of interesting top-ranked characters to choose from. Even just listing the female characters, there’s Black Canary, Huntress, Hawkgirl, and Zatanna.
Actually, in the last…6 or 7 months, Hera’s really softened toward Diana and Zeus’s other bastards (Zeke and Lennox, at least…she hasn’t really interacted with anybody but those 3) and is one of her major allies. (Not one of her more useful allies, since her divine powers have been taken away, but…) It’s actually her own children (primarily Apollo and the First Born) who are in conflict with her, now.
i mean, they’re going with a more serious, pseudo-realistic tone. But light-hearted people exist in the real world too. There’s no reason she can’t be a light-hearted person within the Man of Steel/Dark Knight world. Hell… they need a light-hearted person in that world. I prefer DC’s serious approach to their movies, but three heavy characters is way too much.
I’m not saying she’s an important character in the DCU. I’m saying she’s the crucial character for them to get right if they want the movie to work. You aren’t seriously arguing that they’d try to do a Justice League film and just leave her out, are you?
I agree that that approach might work, I just don’t think it’s likely. They’re much more likely to give the leavening role to someone like Flash or (Rao forbid) Aquaman.
She is a combination of Hercules and Xena: Warrior Princess. She is both a demigod and a princess warrior.
She’s HAWT. That’s all I know about her.
Diana would be an odd choice to be ‘the lighthearted one’ - for the last ~30 years (possibly longer, but I’m not really familiar with Diana pre-Crisis), if you compare like to like - same universe, same medium, same era - it’s Clark who’s the lighthearted one, Bruce who’s the dark one, and Diana’s in between - harder than Clark, but more likely to open up than Bruce, for example.
I don’t think the movie explanation of the Asgardians and the comic book explanation are really all that different.
In the movie, they’re the “actual gods”, as well, as far as being “the beings whom the Norse revered as gods”, and in the comics, they’ve always been portrayed as a race of aliens (albeit extradimensional aliens) who have godlike powers (some more than others), when compared to people from Midgard (Earth).
To me, the big difference is that, in the movie, it’s strongly suggested that Asgard is out there somewhere in space, as opposed to being in an alternate dimension (and, even then, it’s not entirely clear).
The opposite of my usual reaction.
For a while there, Wonder Woman had more in common with Captain Marvel, i.e. a normal-ish person given the powers of the gods. The two of them are actually a pretty logical pairing, and I was pretty impressed that the writer of the “Flashpoint” alternate-history miniseries imagined Diana and Aquaman entering into a political marriage to unify Themyscira and Atlantis. Clever.
The casting is tricky. I’d like to see the role go to an established heptathlete-type, i.e someone who looks like she could hurl a javelin with intent. So, among world-class athletes who are also tall, somewhat exotic, gorgeous and are (or can be with a wig) dark-haired…
Does Leryn Franco speak English?
I don’t necessarily mean a jokester. But she could be… happier, I guess. More like this: Tumblr: Image, to balance out the furrowed brows.
