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[Vendetta]

Thor and Wonder Woman are essentially the same character. Both are arrogant as fuck, feel they need to protect humanity, leave their homes against their parents wishes, fall in love with a human, have lame secret identities they never actually need to fucking use and are the 2nd biggest guns on their teams.

DC/WB could just essentially copy Thor and the movie would be successful as long as they Wonder Woman it up enough, don't fuck up the costume, drop enough fanboy nods (invisible jet, Linda Carter, etc.) and connect it to whatever Batman/Superman reboots are going on at the time.

Sort of.

Movie Thor is kicked out of Asgard until he learns not to be a nobber but then is let back in, whereas the usual key point of Wonder Woman's backstory is that her mother values Themyscera's isolation and so won't let her leave but she wants to/feels that she needs to, and when she leaves she can't return.

I think the best way would be to copy Thor but with the roles reversed. Instead of Diana being a nobber and being kicked out you use Aresia/Fury from the DCAU. Some kind of misadventure establishes the relationship of the characters, Aresia is kicked out and causes shit in the rest of the world, taking the name Fury. Hippolyta doesn't give a fuck because not her problem any more, and Diana takes all her toys and leaves to stop her, with a confrontation with her mother establishing that she is also in exile now but chooses to give up her old life to Sort Shit Out.


But, y'know, DC don't have the balls to make a Wonder Woman movie, meanwhile here's a talking Raccoon with a gun.

[Tsyroc]

But, y'know, DC don't have the balls to make a Wonder Woman movie, meanwhile here's a talking Raccoon with a gun.

A talking raccoon with a gun who adjusts himself in one of the trailers.

[LadyTevar]

But, y'know, DC don't have the balls to make a Wonder Woman movie, meanwhile here's a talking Raccoon with a gun.

A talking raccoon with a gun who adjusts himself in one of the trailers.

You beat me to it.
Rocket is going to be the wise-cracking potty-mouth of the group, you realized this, right?

[TOSDOC]

Rocket is going to be the wise-cracking potty-mouth of the group, you realized this, right?

Yes, and we will love him for it.

Although from some of the interviews I've read, he'll have much more depth to him than that in the film, a wise choice on their part.

[Majin Gojira]

Thor and Wonder Woman are essentially the same character. Both are arrogant as fuck, feel they need to protect humanity, leave their homes against their parents wishes, fall in love with a human, have lame secret identities they never actually need to fucking use and are the 2nd biggest guns on their teams.

DC/WB could just essentially copy Thor and the movie would be successful as long as they Wonder Woman it up enough, don't fuck up the costume, drop enough fanboy nods (invisible jet, Linda Carter, etc.) and connect it to whatever Batman/Superman reboots are going on at the time.

Actually, not really. Wonder Woman is . . . Amazon Jesus in every sense of that meaning.

First, she is an Amazon: a child of War and, to the Ancient Greeks, a monstrous inversion of the natural order to be conquered. Today, the iconography has be co-opted for Feminists and joined their iconography. Both of these things play into who she is.

Secondly, she's basically Jesus, in all the ways common people think of the character when it comes up. A divine emissary of peace and love. King of Kings, both Mortal and Divine. She heals, spits at injustice and leads.

This is evident in her rogues gallery, as the best of them fit into one category or the other. Some are monstrous women, others are of Greek myth and the rests that last are basically the enemies of Jesus (sans logical thought) -- tempters, the dark side of men, the Pharisees, etc.

I'm no authority on Thor, but I'm pretty sure he's not both of these things. I've seen a few stories that play up the whole God angle to work a good Jesus analogue, but he's definitely more Barbarian than Amazon.

Close, but not quite. Diana's more about Love than Thor, for another thing. While Thor, well . . . one of my favorite quotes from him is this "I am not the god of reason and understanding! I AM THE GOD OF THUNDER AND LIGHTNING!"

Diana, when she became a god, was the Goddess of Truth by contrast.

So the trappings may be similar, but the cores very different.