Please no, love triangles are so boring and it takes pages for the good stuff...love triangle
I agree.
The love triangle is the most boring of narrative tropes.
I’ve been playing around with the Roman pantheon returning and a particular “god” becoming a paramour of Wonder Woman.
COMBINING THE BIGBADITUDE OF THANOS WITH CHEETAH'S FEROCITY, IS JANUS WONDER WOMAN'S GREATEST SUPERVILLAIN?...on WONDABUNGA!!! Look alive, Kangaliers!
Consider how boring Steve and his relationship with Diana has been so far I'd welcome a love triangle (and I usually hate love triangles).
I voted for Angle Man simple because I remember liking what Phil Jimenez did with him, even if I haven't read it in years and can barely recall the context.
But I could see a revamped White Magician as a recurring is-he-or-ain't-he a villain. Something like the Shade in Starman. Maybe his motive align with Diana's but mostly they wouldn't. Maybe he could have a creepy fascination towards her, or maybe he's just bored because he's a near immortal sorcerer and she keeps it interesting. Maybe he could be a more serious version of Mister Mxyzptlk and views battling Wonder Woman as a game like chess. He would not be evil, but he would be totally apathetic at her moralistic integrity and love towards others.
I like playing with the love triangle trope. They can be interesting depending on what they say or explore about a character and the circumstances the characters are in.
Love triangles work for Batman and Superman because they're staid men built on American puritanical ideals.
But for Wonder Woman? A woman growing up on a paradise island, unfettered by any semblance of modern sexual morals or patriarchy, and with a creator who was a polyamorist?
I'm not saying Diana would be poly (I'm rather undecided on that subject), but her first reaction to such a situation would be to talk it out and reach some form of explicit resolution.
«Speaking generally, it is because of the desire of the tragic poets for the marvellous that so varied and inconsistent an account of Medea has been given out» (Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History [4.56.1])
There's no one to seduce Diana, in the comic. She's surrounded by males (Steve), monsters (Ferdinand, Hercules, Ares) and untouchable gods (Hermes, etc). She has no Catwoman to lure her out into wilderness.
I think Conan was the closest she's had to a homme fatale. Her Cat must be more than a bad boy; I think he's got to be a wild boy, like Orion...a little gruff and unruly. He's the guy, with whom Diana can...
He's Batman. Batman is her Catwoman.
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COMBINING THE BIGBADITUDE OF THANOS WITH CHEETAH'S FEROCITY, IS JANUS WONDER WOMAN'S GREATEST SUPERVILLAIN?...on WONDABUNGA!!! Look alive, Kangaliers!
That’s precisely why a love triangle or quadrangle could be interesting for her... Amazonian and Patriarch-ian cultures clashing.
Don’t get me wrong, I like my Diana forthright and direct, but I’m trepidatious about not allowing her to have different feelings for different people and not possibly experiencing the sometimes messy emotions of desire, romance, love, jealousy, etc. It’s ground that’s seldom covered by her and traps her into being a paragon of virtue versus human. I like to see Diana more nuanced.
Last edited by WonderScott; 05-16-2020 at 03:33 PM.
TRUTH. And I don’t think she needs a Catwoman as in an attraction to an opposite or “bad boy” or “bad girl” so to speak, but “someones” she feels drawn to romantically that explore additional sides of her character and joy of life, just like Steve does.
Steve can be oh so much better, given the chance, but a lot of creators don’t get how to approach him and Diana together that’s not a role reversed Superman and Lois Lane or starry-eyed guy who thinks he’s not good enough for Diana. The surface of what Steve can be has barely had his surface scratched.
When has Egg Foo ever been in a relationship with Wonder Woman? I need to check those issues out.