I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this, so incoming rant about Wonder Woman’s character in Justice League:
*very mild spoilers ahead*
She was most certainly the best part of the movie but she wasn’t good.
Diana’s entire given backstory and motivation is losing her boyfriend and then being so miserable/scared of failure that she does nothing FOR ONE HUNDRED YEARS. We are told that the woman, the hero, that we saw in Wonder Woman who realized that though some men are flawed, humanity is worth saving ABANDONS IT. BECAUSE SHES SAD.
We’re supposed to believe a women who fought in WW1 saw WW2 and thought “nah”. (Not even getting into into the fact that she’s played by an Israeli actress). Every genocide, famine, war, natural disaster in the 20th century…and she just opted out? The woman who abandoned her entire family and everyone she’s ever known (shortly following the death of her beloved aunt, may I add) to save people ignored every global catastrophe because the loss of Chris Pine was too much to handle?
It’s utterly nonsensical to her character but also to the DC universe as a whole. We already know there’s a Wonder Woman sequel taking place in the 1980s, what is she going to be doing in it? Eating ice cream and pointedly ignoring the news? Of course not! but it makes all the BvS and JL dialogue completely pointless and wrong. Why would Diana tell Bruce she’d been inactive for 100 years if she wasn’t? She has no reasonable incentive to lie.
And this weak and boring plot line is made significantly worse by the fact that Lois Lane, really the only other developed woman in the DCEU (sorry Ma Kent), HAS THE SAME PLOTLINE. Superman dies in BVS and the Lois Lane we’re reintroduced to in Justice League is no longer an intrepidreporter, instead she’s perfectly happy writing “kitten grooming” articles. Now it’s perfectly normal and healthy to need to take a step back, but narratively it’s boring. And it’s almost insulting because we’re getting it twice.
If they really wanted to be interesting, they should of had a moment between Diana and Lois talking about overcoming this loss. I would be so much more engaged in a scene in which Diana talks to Lois about how she went through the same thing losing her love BUT THEN she realized that saving people is who she is. And, hell, saving people is what made Steve Trevor fall in love with her in the first place. Lois IS a reporter, bring up this pulitzer she supposedly won.
“Lois you’re just as super as he ever was. Be that reporter”.
Women supporting other women? Women realizing they can move on and grow past their losses? Without Batfleck bringing it up just to be a dick? Excellent. (And way too much to expect from Whedon or Snyder but let me dream)
Anyway, Justice League’s plot line for Diana was boring, cliche, out of character and made literally no sense within the confines of the DC film universe. It threw away the opportunity to show two different women responding to a similar tragedies in new or inventive ways and truly couldn’t even imagine having women in a real emotional scene together. (Again, Sorry not sorry Martha Kent)
This whole thing was a disappointment. The audience deserved better and so did Diana
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