![]() If you haven’t yet explored some of these expansions of Wonder Woman and her world, I’ve compiled a few excellent places (and characters) to start with. But this more diverse landscape gives welcome three-dimensionality to Wonder Woman’s character. Wonder Woman is similarly fleshed out when you see her in relation to the Wonder Girls or to non-Themysciran Amazons. Different sides of Bruce Wayne emerge when he’s placed against his various Robins and Batgirls, and it rounds out his character. I see it as akin to what’s happened with Batman and the evolution of the Bat Family. RELATED: Our Favorite Guest Stars in Batman: Wayne Family AdventuresĪs it’s happened, I’ve jumped into the Wonder Woman universe at a great time! An expansion has taken place around this iconic character in recent years. And that’s when I started to become a fan. With that movie, for the first time, Wonder Woman felt real to me. In the hands of Jenkins and Gadot, Diana/Wonder Woman is idealistic, earnest and flawed. It’s a Good Time to Be a Wonder Woman Fan!įor me, it was the 2017 movie, directed by Patty Jenkins and starring Gal Gadot, that finally cracked open the character. ( Watch this compilation for the awesome seventies vintage fashion, if nothing else.) But it wasn’t until well into my adulthood that I gave that one a fair look. The Lynda Carter -helmed Wonder Woman tv series did offer a charming, accessible version of the character. RELATED: Movie Review – Wonder Woman 1984 I admired her, but I couldn’t relate to her on a personal level. ![]() Wonder Woman was so beautiful, so powerful, so perfect. What’s not to like about any of that? But therein was perhaps the perpetual problem for me. Super strength, invisible jet, Lasso of Truth, child of Themyscira. I have a confession: For a long time, I didn’t like Wonder Woman that much. **Spoilers ahead for various Wonder Woman comic, movie and tv properties – particularly Wonder Woman 1984 and the Trial of the Amazons comic.
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