XENA! I mean Wonder Woman

They didn't even try:

I like how they took away all the American symbolism and added the Nazi eagle on her chest.

Looks Wonder Woman-y enough I suppose.

All I care about is her using her powers on screen, though I'm sure it won't be much better than Faora's scenes in Man of Steel. At least she's not covered head-to-toe in armor.

That's honestly how I thought it would look.

Hard to tell if it will have some color to it (i.e., whether the muted look is as a result of the scene). With color, I like it. Without color, too much on the warrior side of the scale, not enough on the superheroine. But she looks great (I've never been a fan of the bodybuilder-type look). All in all, I give it a thumbs up. Could have been way worse. I did like the fan manip better that was circulating a while back.

I guess we can say with confidence now that they are maxing out the warrior princess thing. Xena with super-powers (presumably). But if so, that could still be fun. She looks the part.

I suppose she'll start off as a hardened, man-hating bad-ass warrior who will eventually prove to have a heart of gold. Pretty lazy characterization considering the options they had available, but I had feared worse.

Dr. Muttonchops wrote: That's honestly how I thought it would look.

I'll agree with that.

To me it looks like the guy who designed the superman costume from Man of Steel was asked to design a Wonder Woman costume- which isn't the worst thing in the world. Man of Steel- not a great movie, but the costume isn't the problem with it, despite not Quite being the iconic superman suit.

Actually after watching Superman Return a couple of months ago, i realized how kind of silly that costume looked moving around- which didn't hurt the movie all that much, but the one thing that Man of Steel refused to do was be silly.

Which maybe one of its problem. Becuse if your not a little bit smiling with Wonder Woman your kind of doing it wrong. in the comics when its a completly serious book its not very fun.

I am just trying to soak in the pains of knowing Lucy could have been on my Blu-Ray shelf but sadly will not be. Had so much potential. Of course the whole 'we only use 10% of our brain' crap that Joe and Joan Sixpack still believe is utter crap.

But I digress.

Here is a better higher res photo of the new WW costume. I don't dislike it.

What about the Nazi Eagle on her chest?

I'm sorry, but was there ever even the slightest doubt that Superman V Batman would be shit? That everything even remotely related to it would be shit?

Markiehoe wrote: What about the Nazi Eagle on her chest?

In the absence of a swastika on the uniform, it's not a Nazi eagle, just an eagle. Eagles have been symbols of many things, including the United States of America. Equating the head of a bird of prey on a superheroine's uniform as Nazi symbolism seems to be stretching things a bit.

Don't get me wrong, I hate the uniform, but not because of the eagle. I hate it because it lacks color. Wonder Woman, like Superman, is a colorful hero, and while you can get away with muting the colors a bit, you kind of need to preserve them just to keep her identity intact. As the thread title says, that looks more like Xena than Wonder Woman.

There are heroes who can pull off muted colors and still be recognizably themselves. Wolverine, for example, and Batman. Wonder Woman is not one of them.

Check out how GREAT she looks with a little PATRIOTIC color!

to be honest looking forward to see esp if we see wonder woman use super-powers for me storyline and special effects using her super-powers etc will be the key for me

dave

But what's with the sword? I don't think WW, as opposed to Xena, has ever been a swordswoman. And it certainly seems anachronistic for a movie presumably set in the present as opposed to ancient times or the Middle Ages -- neither of which would have had a woman wearing a uniform like that.

--Brantley

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To me, the biggest problem is Gadot's face. She looks NOTHING like Wonder Woman. I can get over outfits and skinny bodies... but she really looks nothing like WW.

Wow, that's a lot of negativity towards something that could be horrendously worse (hands up who would prefer jeans and a leather jacket.... What, no one?). Someone's already nailed it. It looks like the guy who designed the MOS costume got told to design battle armour for a woman. it fits with the tone of the universe. Any patriotic colour scheme would come off cheesy.

The RUMOR I just heard was that this is her Island costume and the "Real World" costume will be different.

Agreed...way too much hating going on. Let's embrace what she is: a warrior from an ancient tribe (that is essentially from another timeline). The MOS world is very different than the comic book universe. What is important is that the characters are internally consistent with the world we saw in MOS. I think this costume works for that.

Bottom line, nobody but the production team knows what WW should look like in SvB, given the movie is a re-imagining of the characters. But if there is one thing that WW has exemplified in every one of her many, diverse incarnations, is that she's the been the consummate female warrior. She uses a sword as her weapon and bracelets as part of her armor. I have complete confidence that we are going to see her famously deflect bullets with those bracelets.

There is a hint of her lasso at her side in that pict, or so it appears, but I'm hoping we won't see that ridiculous device used. Lasso of Truth or whatever its magic power is. A goofy concept, and too dated for prime time. Instead, if they do anything with it, show that its made of some amazing material that even Superman can't break and can't be cut.

Lastly, on a philosophical note, I wonder if there is a connection between American political conservatism and comic book conservatism? Both schools of thought believe that all good things happened in the past, are resistant to change and pessimistic about the future, and they are very judgemental. In the case of WW, they both wrap themselves in star-spangled displays of American patriotism. If we can say anything about MOS and its spin-offs, it's that they look forward and not back. So is there a lot of overlap between those two groups? Or is comic book conservatism its own phenomena?

mikeyfreedom wrote: Wow, that's a lot of negativity towards something that could be horrendously worse (hands up who would prefer jeans and a leather jacket.... What, no one?). Someone's already nailed it. It looks like the guy who designed the MOS costume got told to design battle armour for a woman. it fits with the tone of the universe. Any patriotic colour scheme would come off cheesy.

Didn't people back in 1989 make a big fuss about Michael Keaton's all-black batsuit as well?