Originally Posted by
CSTowle
I'd argue that of female icons who have been set back in their prominence Wonder Woman pales in comparison to the woman who beat her in the (admittedly popularity-based) DC vs Marvel event of the mid-'90s, Storm. This was a woman who, through Chris Claremont's epic run and through the Lobdell/Nicezia era, was the absolute heart of the biggest comic book franchise in Western superhero comics in the X-Men.
So much so that when the time came for comic book fans to decide who was better between the "Big 3/Trinity/Icon" Wonder Woman, of TV and pop culture fame, or Storm she came out the victor. Then Grant Morrison comes along and while he told some fun X-Men stories (and some fun Grant Morrison stories, that incidentally used characters from the X-Men franchise as set pieces) he decided to revisit and elevate the Scott/Jean/Logan triangle and completely ignore Storm (though as I recall Claremont may have had dibs for his poorly selling X-Men fanfic).
After a couple of decades of writers trying to recapture the magic of his run and instead just following obvious formulas (Scott/Jean/Logan primary among them, and showing they have no understanding of Morrison's style at all) she was shunted off to being a side character like other formerly popular mutants before her like Rogue, Gambit, Jubilee, Kitty Pryde, Colossus, Nightcrawler, etc.
Now, ask the average comic reader under 40 (if you can find one interested in Marvel or DC, or floppies generally) what they think about Storm and the answer will probably involve all-time terrible dialogue from Halle Berry in the early oughts. Nothing Wonder Woman has experienced will ever match this fall from prominence, and unless Disney decides to feature her (and I'm very much hoping they do, but that's a long way away at the moment) when the X-Men come she's likely never going to attain the heights she did for the decades she was the heart of the team.
Also, I'd take a powerless mohawk Storm over any version of Wonder Woman, any day of the week.