18 Things You Didn't Know About Wonder Woman
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She Has More Weapons than Just the Lasso and Bracelets
Photo: Wonder Woman / Warner Bros.When you think of Wonder Woman a few key weapons come to mind. There's her Lasso of Truth, those bullet deflecting bracelets (dubbed the Bracelets of Victory), and, of course, her invisible jet. There's actually so so much more, though. Wonder Woman also rocks a royal tiara (more effective than it sounds), battle axes, spears, mystic armor, and a magical sword, along with the mythical sandals of Hermes and gauntlet of Atlas. Oh, and an array of superpowered earrings. - 296 VOTES
Wonder Woman's Creator Also Invented the Lie Detector Test
Photo: Ed Westcott / Wikimedia Commons / Public DomainThe real life of the man who created Wonder Woman is worthy of a movie by itself. William Moulton Marston, who went by Charles Moulton was a Harvard Graduate turned psychologist and lawyer turned inventor turned comic writer. He was also a noted polygamist and cites his wife (Elizabeth Hollaway) and the main woman they lived with (Olive Byrne) with influencing Wonder Woman. All of this and he invented the polygraph test. That lie detecting lasso makes even more sense now.
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She's Worthy of Wielding Thor's Hammer
Photo: Wonder Woman, Vol. 2: Guts / DC ComicsBack in the '90s Marvel and DC decided to play nice and not only crossover the character so we could see what it was like for say Batman and Wolverine to team up, but went a step further and even combined them (Batman and Wolverine became Dark Claw). During this brief shared universe moment, Wonder Woman encountered Thor and his hammer, Mjolnir. Turns out that unlike so many other comic book heroes, Wonder Woman is worthy and can actually wield the Asgardian weapon.
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She's Even More Powerful Than You Realized
Photo: Wonder Woman / Warner Bros.Sure there's the ones we all know (and the powers everyone seems to have in DC after a while): super speed, super strength, invulnerability, and flight. Those would be cool enough, that's quite the power set, but there are more. Wonder Woman he also possesses: A healing factor, divine wisdom, super stamina/agility, and enhanced senses like sight, touch, and smell. - 564 VOTES
She's Been Around for Over 70 Years
Wonder Woman was created back in 1941; her first comic was released right around the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Think about that. The character of Wonder Woman has endured for seven decades. She's been an Icon for women and women's rights since before Marvel was even founded, she predates Spider-Man by more than 20 years! - 682 VOTES
She Was the First Mainstream Female Superhero Ever
Photo: ABC Television / Wikimedia Commons / Public DomainWhen we think of female superheroes we think of Wonder Woman, Batgirl, Supergirl, and and Black Widow. If you're a comic book fan, you also probably think of others like Captain Marvel, Miss Marvel, Zatanna, and Hawkgirl. Either way Wonder Woman is certainly the most iconic and with good reason. She predates the rest by years.
She debuted in 1942, just three years after Superman and two years after Batman. This was a time when superheroes weren't really a defined thing yet, but were still separating themselves from their forerunners, pulp heroes like the Shadow, Conan, and Lone Ranger.The next big female superhero didn't debut until Black Canary in 1947. Batgirl wasn't until 1967, then Capain Marvel in 1968. - 767 VOTES
She's a Founding Member of the Justice League of America
She was the only female member of the team for years. The initial roster was Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman, and Martian Manhunter. The team originally came together when a race of aliens were competing to see who could take over earth. The heroes all teamed up to take them out, then became a team.
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Other Women Have Donned the Mantle of Wonder Woman
Photo: Wonder Woman / Warner Bros.Diana Prince is Wonder Woman, plain and simple, but like seemingly every other comic book icon, Wonder Woman is also a persona that's been adopted by other heroes. For short stretches of time, other women have taken up the mantle, including Queen Hippolyta, Artemis, Orana, Nubia, Cassandra Sandsmark, and Donna Troy, who went on to become Wonder Girl. - 954 VOTES
She's Been Voiced By a Familiar Marvel Actress
Photo: Gage Skidmore / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0Did you see The Lego Movie? Remember the scene-stealing Wonder Woman? She was voiced by none other than Marvel's own SHIELD commander and Nick Fury's right hand woman, Maria Hill. Marvel and How I Met Your Mother actress Cobie Smulders was long a fan favorite to play Wonder Woman on the big screen, and thanks to The Lego Movie, she (kinda) has. - 1051 VOTES
The Upcoming DC Movie is Far From Her First Live Action Appearance
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There was an iconic Wonder Woman TV series that starred Lynda Carter in the '70s, but nearly everyone knows about that one. Did you know there was a pilot filmed in 1967 for a comedic show (more Adam West than Christian Bale) called Who's Afraid of Diana Prince? Then in 2011 NBC attempted to make an all new Wonder Woman show with Adrianne Palicki of Friday Night Lights in the title role, but it failed to go to series after the pilot episode was shot. - 1152 VOTES
Many Actresses Were Considered to Play Diana in the DC Film Universe
Photo: Gerald Geronimo / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 2.0Jessica Biel, Kate Beckinsale, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Rachel Bilson, Mischa Barton, Eva Green, Christina Hendricks and Kristen Stewart were all reportedly considered for the role of Wonder Woman in the new DC Cinematic Universe.
Coincidentally enough, in 2005 Angelina Jolie was a candidate to star as Wonder Woman (in a film that never took off), then a decade later in 2015, she was briefly a contender to direct the Wonder Woman feature film that ended up being helmed by Patty Jenkins.
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Her Big Weakness Isn't Kryptonite, It's Bondage
Photo: Wonder Woman (1st Series) #205 / DC ComicsOnce you realize that her creator was into way, way into bondage, a lot of early Wonder Woman stories start to make more sense. William Moulton Marston, a psychology professor, had plenty of kinks, but his fondess for BDSM style shenanigans shines through brightest in the comics. Wonder Woman's main weakness for years was that she lost all of her power when a man tied her up. Only if a man did it, though. Yup, sounds like bondage to us.
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She's an Amazonian Princess
Photo: Wonder Woman / Warner Bros.Themyscira (originally called Paradise Island) is a whole island of Amazonian women who have existed beyond the influence of men and the world as we know it. The leader of this tribe of Amazonian bad@sses is Hippolyta, and Diana is her daughter. Later Diana travels to "Man's World" on a mission of diplomacy and peace. - 1454 VOTES
Her Origin Has Been Revamped Many Times
Photo: Wonder Woman / Warner Bros.Wonder Woman's original origin was pretty preposterous, even by comic book standards, and as such has been revamped to keep up with the times. During the Silver Age and Bronze Age of comics it was toyed with over and over as well, but just compare her original origin with her current one.
Original Origin: She was made out of clay by her mother the goddess Hippolyta, and then other Greek gods bestowed life upon the clay, making Diana the only Amazonian not conceived by a man.
(Current) New 52 Origin: Wonder Woman’s previous origin turns out to be a lie and she is, in fact, the product of an affair between Queen Hippolyta and Zeus. Then Hera (Zeus' wife) swore that all Amazonians would forever be her enemies. And so in the New 52 Wonder Woman is a full-on demigod.
Those are practically two different characters. - 1546 VOTES
She's Been a Leading Lady in the Animated World for Decades Now
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It may have taken years to finally get a solo Wonder Woman movie going, but in the animated world, Wonder Woman has been a headliner for quite a while.
Since as early as 1972, she's been making appearances on other shows with her debut on The Brady Kids (Diana Prince shows up too!)
More importantly, she's been a core member of many animated teams on television (The Super Friends, Justice League, Justice League Unlimited, Young Justice) and in animated film (in seven Justice League movies to date, two Lego DC movies and a Superman/Batman animated film). She's appeared on others shows (Superman, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Lego Batman) and had her own solo animated film in 2009. - 1653 VOTES
Her Secret Identity Is Complicated
Photo: Wonder Woman / Warner Bros.In the original continuity, Diana Prince is WW's secret identity as well as the identity of another real actual person. The "real" Diana Prince is a nurse who looks like Wonder Woman. When they meet at a hospital, the two make an arrangement in which Wonder Woman gives Diana the money to visit her sick husband and Diana gives WW her credentials/identity (It's just as weird as it sounds).
In the current continuity, however, Wonder Woman doesn't have a secret identity. She is publicly Wonder Woman. - 1760 VOTES
She and Superman Have Been an Item (in Some Continuities)
Photo: JUSTICE LEAGUE #12 / DC ComicsIn the classic Wonder Woman mythos, her main squeeze is Steve Trevor, a pilot who crashes on the Amazonian island of Themyscira. More recently in the pages of DC comics, though, decades of fan-fiction have gotten canonical. That's right, Superman loves Wonder Woman.
After sharing a kiss in Justice League #12 it's not long until their officially a couple in Superman/Wonder Woman #3 (yep, they even have their own title together). They've been dubbing them the "Power Couple."
Before that, they hooked up many times in alternate continuities, notably in Frank Miller's hyperactive The Dark Knight Strikes Again and (it's implied) the Elseworlds epic Kingdom Come. - 1848 VOTES
She Was the Justice Society of America's Secretary
The world is a very different place now than it was in the 1940s. Long before the Justice League was formed there was another super group at DC, the Justice Society of America. This team (at the time) consisted of Hawkman, Starman, Atom, Doctor Fate, Doctor Midnite, Spectre, Johnny Thunder, Sandman, and their loyal secretary... Wonder Woman.
She was often forced to stay behind on dangerous missions or they'd need "someone to be here for an urgent message." It was just as insultingly subservient a role as a it sounds, but at least nowadays, she's the only member of the original JSA lineup that has remained popular in the mainstream. Progress!
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