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    Character » Wonder Woman appears in 8719 issues.

    The Amazon princess, blessed with god-like super abilities, Wonder Woman is one of Earth's most powerful defenders of peace, justice, and equality and a member of the Justice League. She is considered an archetype for many heroines outside of comic book. Her initial origin depicted her as a clay baby brought to life by patron goddess Aphrodite, but in recent years she has been depicted as the daughter of Zeus and Amazon queen Hippolyta.

    How should the cinimatic universe handle her backstory?

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    So out of all the Justice League members Wonder Woman arguably has the most complex back story. It won't be the easiest so the question is how. There's the history of the Amazons. There's the info about the gods, or at least the dynamics between them that influence Wonder Woman's story. There is the matter of which origin will be used, and covering the how and why behind it. Also the events that lead to her leaving the island, and the motivations that surround that.

    So the question is how does that all get packed in. Any thing that could just get cut out or not mentioned? What thing should come up in Batman v Superman, and what should be saved for her solo movie? Would her whole solo movie jump back to taking place before the other movies or just have the events of the movie take place after she's already been established as a superhero?

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    @muffin_sangria: all BvS needs to say is she's an Amazon ... Save the rest for her solo movie.

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    #3  Edited By TheBlondeGod

    @csg_cl: Hey, do you think there's a bit of a romance involve? Or nah?

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    @csg_cl: I wouldn't mind if they explained a bit of the details of why she left the island. Especially why she's only showing up just then. I think there could be some mention of Themyscira appearing out of no where after the World Machine hit. Maybe going as far to say that the island was cloaked or whatever to that point or maybe just implying it. I think that would be a nice way to give her closer ties to those movies without being so much that it takes over her own story.

    I'd also say no secret identity. It streamlines her appearance in the movie a lot to just not bother with it, and a lot of fans think she works better as a character without it anyways. Maybe she hasn't displayed her powers yet, but I think she could be living openly as an Amazon Princess. Maybe before the big fight scene demanded her involvement she was focusing more on diplomatic, and social issues.

    Since she's probably going to be in the final fight I think that nature of her powers will have to be dealt with somewhat as well. I think a simple explanation of her powers coming "from the gods" is enough. No need to get more specific over whether that means she's blessed by the gods, descended from the gods, or learned to psionically draw energy from their realm. Maybe even one of the other characters doesn't believe her and tries to suggest that she might actually be an alien too, but not done in a way that makes the audience think that might actually be true.

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    @theblondegod said:

    @csg_cl: Hey, do you think there's a bit of a romance involve? Or nah?

    I don't think there will be any real involvement of her having a romance with Superman, or Batman. I could possibly see a scene where she meets Bruce Wayne who unaware she has superpowers starts doing his whole billionaire playboy act, and starts hitting on her. She's see through his act and call him out on it.

    Other then that I think we could see Steve Trevor in the movie. Maybe he's been assigned as her military escort like he was in the first arc or Justice League in the New 52. Probably don't show too much romance between them but establish their chemistry together.

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    @theblondegod said:

    @csg_cl: Hey, do you think there's a bit of a romance involve? Or nah?

    I don't think there will be any real involvement of her having a romance with Superman, or Batman. I could possibly see a scene where she meets Bruce Wayne who unaware she has superpowers starts doing his whole billionaire playboy act, and starts hitting on her. She's see through his act and call him out on it.

    Other then that I think we could see Steve Trevor in the movie. Maybe he's been assigned as her military escort like he was in the first arc or Justice League in the New 52. Probably don't show too much romance between them but establish their chemistry together.

    Maybe a little Chemistry then between her and ST.

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    #7  Edited By CSG_CL

    @theblondegod: I'd be surprised if they included romance between SM and WW since Lois Lane has already been introduced as the love interest in the first film.

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    #8  Edited By CSG_CL

    @muffin_sangria: I'm sure they'll address her powers on some level, but I doubt it will be much beyond "from the gods" unless she has a bigger role than I think she has. And I thought they had already established that she was already in the world covertly as Diana Prince?

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    @csg_cl: Yeah, I remembered MoS now. Maybe it's more of an action film or Lois will feel insecure towards her. Lol.

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    @theblondegod: I saw a fan theory that I really liked ... Basically the theory was that Clark and Diana had met during his lost years and had had a romance and ended it prior to the events of MoS. When he sees her in the movie they are surprised and happy to reconnect as friends.

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    @csg_cl said:

    @muffin_sangria: I'm sure they'll address her powers on some level, but I doubt it will be much beyond "from the gods" unless she has a bigger role than I think she has. And I thought they had already established that she was already in the world covertly as Diana Prince?

    A while back a site got a scoop and said that "She'll be introduced in the movie as Diana then join in for the final fight as Wonder Woman." The never specified whether it was Diana Prince, or Princess Diana, and they never mentioned anything about a secret identity. Other sites that were just reporting on that site's scoop interpreted that as her being Diana Prince but they didn't have any other sources to back that up.

    I think there was also something reported from Latino Review that said she would be using the Diana Prince ID but that turned out to be from the fake script that DC leaked to throw people off the trail. Given that the ID was used in the fake script just to throw people off you could argue that's proof that they won't be using it.

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    They don't need to do anything more than the Justice League cartoon did:

    • Signs in the sky
    • Diana's sees it and knows she has to leave her home
    • Meets the others, tells them she's an Amazon

    And that's all. They can ofc opt to do more than this.

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    Oh the subject of her solo movie I think that instead of leading it with flashbacks then they cover the whole Amazon history with one good monolog at the beginning of the movie. Probably pair it with some Greek painting depicting the scenes, or maybe animated. I think it would end with switching to real life to reveal that the whole monolog was actually Hippolyta telling the story of their people to a young Diana. I think this could be good because you wouldn't be messing up the pacing of the movie by starting off with a big epic war that would have very little impact on the plot of the movie other then maybe establishing some of Ares motivations.

    I think the monolog could actually cover the origin story too. By doing this they could use the original clay origin, but all the fans of the New 52 could be left free to assume that Hippolyta was lying. That could even be the plot of the sequel if they really wanted to go that way.

    After that have a couple clips of her growing up on the island then flashforward to when Steve Trevor crashes on the island. After they leave the movie flashes forward again past all the "stranger in a strange land" stuff and the bulk of the movie takes place after Batman v Superman, or Justice League depending on how many movies they pump out before she actually gets a solo film.

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    @muffin_sangria: gotcha ... Thought I heard some rumor about Diana Prince, but didn't see that it was debunked ... Thanks for the info :)

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