That was unfortunate (but I like to think on some level Hippolyta was aware) that's why Perez gave the contestants masked armor which made Hippolyta not knowing much more believable.
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However I wouldn't put it past Hippolyta to pretend to be surprised, but at least she's not quite as manipulative and antagonistic as Odin is to Thor. Though he's only slightly worse. With the events of Young Diana Hippolyta gets thrown under the bus yet again, the raven haired version is almost catching up with the blonde in terms of bad deeds.
They do, that's even more untapped potential.
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The magic sphere could be built up like the Well of Souls recently has been if an enterprising writer were interested.
Yea I wish writers stopped making them seem like they can't just make their own tech. That's why I liked about Golden age and Earth One. A lot of their tech can have anicent greek designs to them but they shouldn't be stuck in time. I mean with the doom gate wouldn't they need to be learning to make stronger weapons also?
Primal, where is your lovely avatar from??
I don't get the Ares/tree visual that seemed to crop up in Rebirth. Can someone fill me in?
How comparable is the current Hippolyta with the Perez/Jimenez era one? I haven't followed her lately....
Last edited by I'm a Fish; 11-02-2021 at 06:00 AM.
~I just keep swimming through these threads~
Aside from some different beats in her history, Hippolyta since Rebirth is pretty much the same as her post-Crisis incarnation.
Well, she banged Zeus for one unfortunately for both her, Diana, and us.
There's other stuff also like she wasn't Wonder Woman in WW2 with the JSA, Antiope didn't leave to go found the Bana, and other stuff like that. Characterization wise, she's about the same as Hippolyta was as established by Perez.
In Rebirth she was established as the 'Tenth Queen' of the Amazons. Whereas in the Post Crisis era she was the first and only one.