Originally Posted by
achilles
Er, she did say that. In the art not shown, which is the first two thirds of the book. And PG WAS mind controlled, though with the twist of magic. She was being magically mind controlled by some evil little god kids of Ares. Yes, Diana did simply end the fight with a headlock and the rather stereotypical "you're better than this" speech, though nicely it was tailored to PG's personality in this case. And that only happened after Diana realized the key to winning wasn't trying to overpower Kara, but to outfight her. Though...the sudden switch to such a degree was one of the things that didn't quite work for me. You don't go from, well let's face it, losing a fight, to suddenly winning because you suddenly understand you have to use your skill that you somehow haven't bothered to yet? I don't think it works that way. But the end of the fight was in character for both of them. Why did you think PG was fighting Diana, I wonder? It's not like she just would attack a respected peer because it's Monday. She had her reasons, (IIRC the magic worked by enhancing existing negative feelings, and it seems PG at least in that case had some...issues with Diana, which led to her mind being affected or something---she thought Diana was the bad guy). All of which happened in the art not posted, the first two acts. The third act has the big turnaround, and the relevant excerpts are what was posted, NOT the other stuff. But again, I don't think that one story tells anything about the OP, nor can you really find any other direct comparisons between them that do, as they rarely cross paths for whatever reason. At least not individually. I suppose you could compare their nu52 versions by comparing how each did against Darkseid, but that's weak IMO.
There was another case BTW, a bit earlier than that, Brave and the Bold...9(?) by Waid, the one where PG is AGAIN magically mind controlled into fighting Diana, (well, having her body controlled, not her mind, but functionally the same thing). Not much to say about that for the OP, since it was a case of a somewhat off-tempered but still rather normal for her PG catching a magic stone thrown at her and being taken over by the bad guy, who then uses PG to escape from Diana so as to murder Superman, (bad guy is Dr. Alchemy, who plans to turn the Fortress of solitude into Red Kryptonite, which somehow didn't effect PG though she had been shown to be hurt by it before...ahhh...
In that one, suddenly evil PG is shown suckerpunching Diana somewhat successfully in that by the time Diana dug herself out, PG was long gone on her murder mission. Bottom line is that Diana uses her jet to surprise evil PG and knock the stone out of her hand and restore good PG and stop the murder from happening. So...nothing to go on there. And that is AFAIK the only direct comparisons between Diana and PG.
Honestly, I think I'd much rather see PG as a more frequent guest character in Diana's book as a peer/friend; I think that would work rather well for PG, and Diana might get some nice stories out of it if nothing else. But PG as it is seems to barely know Diana, which is sad.