# Wonder Woman flat chested? That is some kind of series reboot. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 28, 2013, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-flat-chested-that-is-some-kind-of-series-reboot/677348 "2013-12-28T10:24:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2013, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-flat-chested-that-is-some-kind-of-series-reboot/677348/1 "2013-12-28T10:24:28Z")
I’m sure Gal Gadot is a fine actor and wonderful person. But she isn’t the right body type at all for Wonder Woman. A Amazonian is big framed, and yes big boobs too. It’s all part of the character. Gal Gadot is so thin. \ I hate series reboots. > **[Wonder Woman herself, Gal Gadot, breaks silence on casting in 'Man of Steel'...](https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/gal-gadot-breaks-silence-woman-casting-article-1.1559551)** > > The interviewer didn't need a Lasso of Truth to get the newly minted Wonder Woman to keep talking. Israeli actress Gal Gadot, recently cast to play the famed super-heroine in the upcoming "Man of Steel" sequel, broke her silence on the role in an... Who would be right? Maybe Summer Glau? She is 5’6" and with weight training could be convincing. She can fill Wonder Womans D Cups too. 😛 Ideally the actress should be 5’10". Height is important to give that statuesque look. Linda Carter is 5’9" ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2013, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-flat-chested-that-is-some-kind-of-series-reboot/677348/2 "2013-12-28T10:32:29Z")
Gal Gadot reminds me of the typical runway model. Tall, thin and basically a body to drape clothes over. Runway models have always bored me. You just want to feed them. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2013, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-flat-chested-that-is-some-kind-of-series-reboot/677348/3 "2013-12-28T10:51:42Z")
People should stop watching Zack Snyder films, to prevent him from making awful decisions like this. Did you know Executive Producer Christopher Nolan wanted someone else entirely to play Batman? Instead of Ben Affleck he wanted [Wes Bentley](http://www.eldiariomontanes.es/eldiariomontanes/multimedia/201308/22/media/grey%20%289%29.jpg), which is brilliant. Nolan is so good at casting, I would love to know who he wanted for Wonder Woman. ---
**Author:** ![Dave\_Hartwick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@Dave\_Hartwick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Hartwick)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2013, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-flat-chested-that-is-some-kind-of-series-reboot/677348/4 "2013-12-28T13:25:02Z")
Do you know what the folk entomology of “amazon” is? ---
**Author:** ![stegon66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@stegon66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stegon66)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2013, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-flat-chested-that-is-some-kind-of-series-reboot/677348/5 "2013-12-28T13:30:16Z")
I’ve heard Gadot is starting an exercise regimen so she’ll fit the part better. I love Summer Glau but I’m so used to seeing her in morose roles (River Tam, a Terminator) that it’s hard to imagine her as WW. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2013, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-flat-chested-that-is-some-kind-of-series-reboot/677348/6 "2013-12-28T13:32:30Z")
I seem to recall reading many years ago that Amazons had a breast removed to avoid painful bowsstring/breast interactions. [insert reference to old Wonder Woman, Invisible Man, and Superman joke here] ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2013, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-flat-chested-that-is-some-kind-of-series-reboot/677348/7 "2013-12-28T13:40:49Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > I seem to recall reading many years ago that Amazons had a breast removed to avoid painful bowsstring/breast interactions. No, that’s just a misogynistic Greek joke. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2013, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-flat-chested-that-is-some-kind-of-series-reboot/677348/8 "2013-12-28T13:44:30Z")
> [@Dave\_Hartwick](#): > > Do you know what the folk entomology of “amazon” is? The gypsy moth? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2013, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-flat-chested-that-is-some-kind-of-series-reboot/677348/9 "2013-12-28T13:56:59Z")
When the old Wonder Woman show was on, starring Linda Carter, I remember a review of it. _“There are only two good things about this show, and they both hold up her costume.”_ ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2013, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-flat-chested-that-is-some-kind-of-series-reboot/677348/10 "2013-12-28T13:58:48Z")
The closest real life approximation of WW would probably be rather mannish. She needs to be tall and have broad shoulders, huge muscular thighs, long legs, big boobs, and be somewhat traditionally beautiful? Impossible. You have to drop some of those qualities. Summer Glau is damned skinny too. I never bought her action scenes in Firefly. For Terminator it was a bit easier, since she’s supposed to be a robot, but still. It looks like she’d break a wrist trying to pick someone up. Lucy Lawless from her Xena days would be a good fit. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2013, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-flat-chested-that-is-some-kind-of-series-reboot/677348/11 "2013-12-28T14:03:53Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Who would be right? Maybe Summer Glau? She is 5’6" and with weight training could be convincing. She can fill Wonder Womans D Cups too. 😛 I’m really not seeing [that much](http://www.comicmix.com/media/2010/09/28/summer-glau.jpg) [difference](http://voicesfromkrypton.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Gal1.jpg). Perhaps it’s just you know and like one actress, and don’t know or are not as familiar with the other? Now, if we’re just talking about relatively young, non-A-list actresses with the proper, um, assets, my vote is with either [Diora Baird](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-95BB7dwHejY/Tbw8ZsV_b5I/AAAAAAAACZg/TBz_7FgFyKU/s1600/Diora-Baird-1600x1200-010.jpg) or [Alexandra Daddario](http://content8.flixster.com/photo/14/14/13/14141314_ori.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2013, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-flat-chested-that-is-some-kind-of-series-reboot/677348/12 "2013-12-28T14:05:25Z")
> [@marshmallow](#): > > The closest real life approximation of WW would probably be rather mannish. She needs to be tall and have broad shoulders, huge muscular thighs, long legs, big boobs, and be somewhat traditionally beautiful? Impossible. Man disproves existence of Gina Carano, film at eleven. ---
**Author:** ![Dave\_Hartwick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@Dave\_Hartwick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Hartwick)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2013, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-flat-chested-that-is-some-kind-of-series-reboot/677348/13 "2013-12-28T14:10:27Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > The gypsy moth? :smack: ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2013, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-flat-chested-that-is-some-kind-of-series-reboot/677348/14 "2013-12-28T14:25:11Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Who would be right? Maybe Summer Glau? She is 5’6" and with weight training could be convincing. She can fill Wonder Womans D Cups too. 😛 😕 According to [this site](http://www.bodymeasurements.org/summer-glau-sizes/), Summer Glau is a size zero, with A cups. I don’t think Wonder Woman necessarily needs to have D cups, but I agree she should be tall and solidly built, not one of these little wisps of a girl. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2013, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-flat-chested-that-is-some-kind-of-series-reboot/677348/15 "2013-12-28T14:33:02Z")
[they sure fooled me.](http://siayvo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Summer-Glau-Women3.jpg)😃 Summer was just one name I threw out there. I’m sure there are better choices. Lucy Lawless was perfect as Xena and she could have played Wonder Woman then. You need a big framed lady that still looks attractive. ---
**Author:** ![Myglaren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Myglaren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myglaren)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2013, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-flat-chested-that-is-some-kind-of-series-reboot/677348/16 "2013-12-28T15:04:51Z")
Jeri Ryan? ---
**Author:** ![planetcory](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/planetcory/32/1032_2.png) [@planetcory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/planetcory)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2013, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-flat-chested-that-is-some-kind-of-series-reboot/677348/17 "2013-12-28T15:14:33Z")
Gal Gadot is 5’9" and will be subject to the same intensive weight-gaining, muscle-building regimen as every other skinny guy who became Superman/Batman/etc. She won’t have gigantic boobs,[but that’s not really](http://www.parade.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/wonder-woman-comic-5-things-you-need-to-know-ftr.jpg) [a crucial part of](http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100509215850/marvel_dc/images/e/e5/Wonder_Woman_Vol_2_64.jpg) [her visual.](http://talkingcomicbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/ww1chiang-e1342547861952.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Reverse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@Reverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reverse)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2013, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-flat-chested-that-is-some-kind-of-series-reboot/677348/18 "2013-12-28T15:25:54Z")
And the award for the most vile, sexist, misogynist thread of the year goes to ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2013, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-flat-chested-that-is-some-kind-of-series-reboot/677348/19 "2013-12-28T15:44:47Z")
> [@Reverse](#): > > And the award for the most vile, sexist, misogynist thread of the year goes to …some boob? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2013, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-flat-chested-that-is-some-kind-of-series-reboot/677348/20 "2013-12-28T15:50:54Z")
Don’t keep us in suspense, **Reverse**. To whom does that award go? **marshmallow** , it’s not an impossible set of criteria at all-- It just seems that way because women who meet those criteria aren’t well-represented in Hollywood. But there are plenty of high-end female athletes who combine a fit, full-framed body with an attractive appearance. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-flat-chested-that-is-some-kind-of-series-reboot/677348.md?page=2)