# Wonder Woman in "Justice League" is **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 30, 2007, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-in-justice-league-is/428294 "2007-11-30T12:41:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-in-justice-league-is/428294/1 "2007-11-30T12:41:21Z")
Megan Gale [Wonder Woman is 100% going to be](http://www.aintitcool.com/node/34935) Picks at link are safe for work, there is a link for a NSFW image Amazingly the talkbackers are concerned whther she can act or not Brian ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-in-justice-league-is/428294/2 "2007-11-30T17:30:49Z")
Apparently they’re either going to give her the world’s strongest Wonder Bra or the special effects people have a lot of work on their hands (though she may have had implants since). The idea of a fashion model playing Wonder Woman is wrong on so many levels. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-in-justice-league-is/428294/3 "2007-11-30T17:56:44Z")
[QUOTE=Exapno Mapcase] The idea of a fashion model playing Wonder Woman is wrong on so many levels. [/QUOTE] Agreed. A bulldyke would be more appropriate. Better still, to be true to the spirit of the original comic book, a bulldyke **dominatrix.** ([William Marston](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Moulton_Marston) was heavily into bondage and the stories often involved WW or others getting tied up.) ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-in-justice-league-is/428294/4 "2007-11-30T18:05:24Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] Agreed. A bulldyke would be more appropriate. [/QUOTE] I… don’t think that phrase means what you think it means. ---
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-in-justice-league-is/428294/5 "2007-11-30T18:12:52Z")
She looks the part to me. I never got the whole pasty-white-girl-from-a-tropical-island thing. Wonder Woman should be tan! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-in-justice-league-is/428294/6 "2007-11-30T18:14:32Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] I… don’t think that phrase means what you think it means. [/QUOTE] It was a backhanded reference to the feverish (yet not entirely implausible) accusations leveled by old [Dr. Wertham.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seduction_of_the_innocent) ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-in-justice-league-is/428294/7 "2007-11-30T18:15:21Z")
Looks-wise, I think she’s a perfect casting. I’d never seen her before, but I think she’s got the look down pat. Of course, whether she can act at all is another thing… I still think Morena Baccarin would’ve made a great Wonder Woman. She’s not tall, but she’s got the exotic looks… and we know she can act. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-in-justice-league-is/428294/8 "2007-11-30T18:44:51Z")
> [@](#): > > Apparently they’re either going to give her the world’s strongest Wonder Bra So what else should Wonder Woman wear? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-in-justice-league-is/428294/9 "2007-11-30T18:45:01Z")
[QUOTE=Lightnin’] Looks-wise, I think she’s a perfect casting. I’d never seen her before, but I think she’s got the look down pat. [/QUOTE] No, she’s too swarthy. The comic-book WW has been pale as milk from the beginning. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-in-justice-league-is/428294/10 "2007-11-30T19:05:41Z")
Jennifer Connelly before she caught the thins. Liv Tyler before she quit acting. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-in-justice-league-is/428294/11 "2007-11-30T19:12:55Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] No, she’s too swarthy. The comic-book WW has been pale as milk from the beginning. [/QUOTE] Everyone in the comics back then was milk white, wether it made sense for their origins or not. If Wonder Woman is an Amazon, she ought to be swarthy, and the cultural homogenity of early 20th century America be damned. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-in-justice-league-is/428294/12 "2007-11-30T19:14:52Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] Everyone in the comics back then was milk white, wether it made sense for their origins or not. If Wonder Woman is an Amazon, she ought to be swarthy, and the cultural homogenity of early 20th century America be damned. [/QUOTE] Remember that the Amazons originally came from **Greek** mythology, and I’m fairly certain the Greeks of the classical period (long before the Turks conquered them) were not swarthy. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-in-justice-league-is/428294/13 "2007-11-30T19:20:12Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] Jennifer Connelly before she caught the thins. Liv Tyler before she quit acting. [/QUOTE] Am I being whooshed? Liv is in [The Incredible Hulk](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800080/) in '08. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-in-justice-league-is/428294/14 "2007-11-30T19:26:48Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] Remember that the Amazons originally came from **Greek** mythology, and I’m fairly certain the Greeks of the classical period (long before the Turks conquered them) were not swarthy. [/QUOTE] But they didn’t come _from_ Greece. They were allegedly a tribe located far to the East, somewhere in Scythia. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-in-justice-league-is/428294/15 "2007-11-30T20:25:14Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] But they didn’t come _from_ Greece. They were allegedly a tribe located far to the East, somewhere in Scythia. [/QUOTE] And the people there (at the time, before the Huns and Mongols and Turks came west) were even paler than the Greeks; in fact, their red hair was a distinguishing feature in the Greeks’ eyes. (The Greeks themselves were sometimes blonde – Phaedo is so described in the Platonic dialogue of that name.) ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-in-justice-league-is/428294/16 "2007-11-30T20:38:53Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] And the people there (at the time, before the Huns and Mongols and Turks came west) were even paler than the Greeks; in fact, their red hair was a distinguishing feature in the Greeks’ eyes. (The Greeks themselves were sometimes blonde – Phaedo is so described in the Platonic dialogue of that name.) [/QUOTE] They were Indo-European horse nomads. I very much doubt they were pale skinned, but I’m open to correction on this point, if you’ve got a cite. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-in-justice-league-is/428294/17 "2007-11-30T21:10:08Z")
Miller: > [@](#): > > Everyone in the comics back then was milk white, wether it made sense for their origins or not. If Wonder Woman is an Amazon, she ought to be swarthy, and the cultural homogenity of early 20th century America be damned. Yeah! And she should leave her armpits unshaven, too! ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-in-justice-league-is/428294/18 "2007-11-30T21:16:38Z")
How’d you know I was into that? ---
**Author:** ![kurilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ea5d25/32.png) [@kurilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kurilla)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-in-justice-league-is/428294/19 "2007-11-30T22:25:03Z")
[QUOTE=Khadaji] Am I being whooshed? Liv is in [The Incredible Hulk](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800080/) in '08. [/QUOTE] I think it’s a whoosh – she may still be working, but that doesn’t mean she’s acting. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonder-woman-in-justice-league-is/428294/20 "2007-12-01T02:05:04Z")
I hope she adds more muscle. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/hC5WSd4Az9w/hqdefault.jpg "Rich Man's Frug") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC5WSd4Az9w) This, the lead dancer? That’s my choice for how Wonder Woman should look. She needs _shoulders_.