I don't remember x-men cartoon being bad. Arcs such as Phoenix have aged well in my opinion.
I don't remember x-men cartoon being bad. Arcs such as Phoenix have aged well in my opinion.
I wonder you think we will ever get another animated movie?
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So we can conclude that there hasn't been a definitive WW adaptation?
What was wrong with Diana in the 2009 movie? She's pretty much what you should expect of a Wonder Woman take that is considered good.
It's not Diana herself. It's about how Steve was depicted as a skeevy dude and the movies whole approach to sexism is basically a giant 'not all men' sign.
I mean, it's impossible for there to be a definitive take on Wonder Woman, just like there isn't one for Superman.
Wonder Woman has been written in so many different ways over the years. George Perez is the most celebrated version of Wonder Woman, but his characterization of her is very different from Marston or William Messner-Loebs, or Gail Simone.
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Seems to depend on where you go but I’d say Perez has the advantage for the most part since later writers like Rucka, Jimenez, and Simone have all said how much their runs are influenced by him.
And while she doesn’t get much, when WW does get adaptions Perez’s a big part you can see where they’re pulling from if they even look at WW material.
Because Bloodlines didn’t have a symbol of female empowerment say, “-if you can’t even beat a girl.”
Which yah yah, I know is a silly joke, but she’s fighting the God of War to stop World War 3 and that’s the best they can come up with?
I don’t really have an issue with Diana herself in the film, it was just the plot using a sleazy version of Steve to wedge her into this position of focusing solely on gender norms and not on anything else she stands for (like world peace).
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That is true, though...but it's not a surprise to me. Perez is a more "traditional" superhero story writer with a more modern sensibility, while Marston's WW was the whimsical/odd/magical/kinda "weird" type of stories that might come off as "inaccessible" to audiences weaned on a million middle-of-the-road MCU CBMs.
In any case, I love both writers' WW, but I will always be more in love with the type of story Marston wrote.