WonderWarrior

Joss's version of WW was NOT Wonder Woman.
 
She was Buffy with a dye job. No costume, street level powers, beating up on thugs and so forth. Yet another ass kicking little 17 year old waif like Buffy and River Tam. He basically threw out everything that made Wonder Woman interesting and kept only the most basic elements that he thought he could get away with.
 
THAT? Is not Wonder Woman. It would be an enjoyable, well done film about a spunky waif chick fighting crime. But if he wants to write that, write Batgirl.

Huh. Kinda like it, except the weird whip lasso thing hanging on her hip. The rest is pretty spiffy.

Reasons to love Wonder Woman?
 
She's one of the strongest, fastest, hard hitting, name taking characters in comics today, regardless of gender. When you want to stop a meteor hurtling at the Earth, you call Superman. When you want to solve a murder, or take down some thugs, you call Batman. When you have an army at your doorstep trying to kill everyone and everything you love, you pray for Wonder Woman. 
 
She's a young warrior from an island of women warriors who have been honing their skills for centuries. She is both naive ingenue and deadly warrior, compassionate princess and deadly opponent. She will use deadly force in a war (but not in normal combat. She was completely miswritten during the Max Lord debacle), but she holds that all life is sacred, and would throw herself into danger to save even an enemy's life. 
 
The reasons for her costume appearing as they do tie in with her modern origin. Previously, there were other reasons. Now, she wears the costume and symbol of Wonder Woman to honor one of the greatest heroes of Themyscira, Diana Rockwell Trevor, who was a mortal woman that found her way to Themyscira, only to die defending its populace from a creature escaped from Doom's Doorway. Her uniform in tatters, the Amazons created ceremonial burial armor based on the badges Diana Rockwell had on her WAF uniform, which included a =w= stylized emblem, eagle, stars and stripes and so on. They then created a second set of the armor, for an Amazon champion.
 
The name Wonder Woman was coined by the American press when she arrived with a striken Steve Rockwell Trevor several decades later, only to have to battle the monster Decay.
 
And seriously, what's not to love about Wonder Woman? Even her ACCESSORIES have magic powers! Her tiara can glide and slice through flesh and bone as if it was butter. Her lasso can make you tell the truth, forget or heal injuries and madness, and force others to obey her commands. (Which is why I say that she was miswritten. Because she simply could have commanded Max to release Superman.) Her bracelets are forged from shards of the Aegis, and, when crossed, can summon a protective forcefield remnant of it. Her plane is /invisible/. (Though Wonderella's invisiblimp is better.) She has an army of hyper evolved apes at her disposal, the love and respect of every single member of the Justice League, and even her rogues gallery. Did you know that for a while, Circe, the evil sorceress, and Cheetah, one of her most popular enemies ever, were among those who called Diana 'friend' and 'sister'?

The tiara isn't magical, it's just another example of Diana's incredible intelligence and intuitive understanding of projectiles and how they move. Consider that she's famous primarily for being able to calculate, within less time than it takes a bullet to travel ten feet, exactly where it's going to strike, and is then capable of swinging her arms into the exact position to divert the bullet harmlessly.

 As for cutting Superman's neck with it, ever consider that Diana threw it so hard it sliced his throat? There's nothing mystical, magical or arcane about the tiara. It's not indestructible, forged by the gods or even blessed by them. It's simply an example of Amazon craftsmanship, and has a razor sharp point. When a sharpened edge is drawn across a surface, any surface, with sufficient speed and force, it scores the surface. Don't believe me? Drag a butter knife across stone. Then take a steak knife and apply roughly twice the force and do the same. My bet is that the butter knife barely left a mark, while the steak knife probably left some kind of minor scoring. The same applies to Superman, who is highly invulnerable, but not invincible.

If anyone could post scans of the battle where Diana knocks Superman down a peg during Jimenez' run, it would be useful. Superman is powered up and mind-controlled by Circe, and Diana still fights him to a stand still.

As for Cheetah vs. Catwoman... While I adore Selina, and think she's one of the toughest, fastest characters in Gotham, The Cheetah could easily destroy her. She's not just a mild speedster, she's a super-fast razor talon wielding concrete-crushing tail swinging predator and the Avatar and Bridge of a God. She might not possess Diana's level of strength, but she's been shown to be faster and incredibly ferocious in battle, time and time again.