Originally Posted by
Fuzzy Mittens
My opinions already kinda known but I feel like it has merit.
Like, whenever you have a street vigilante type character they typically get compared to Batman.
Green Arrows supporting cast frequently crosses over with Batmans.
Characters like the Question, Slam Bradly, and Black Cat are established to have histories with Batman and will either show up in his book or when they have their own stories, will not find it odd that Batman pops up.
Superman is the same thing for alien stuff.
He would show up or be a looming presence in stories for Naomi, Starfire, and Galaxy.
Characters like Dreamer are established to live in Metropolis because its THE town for aliens.
Whenever a member of the super family has a book, they typically have a few of the other alien characters as part of the cast.
And the same thing could feasibly work for Wonder Woman.
Theres certainly some precedence for it. Etrigan has been a supporting character in Wonder Womans book on multiple occasions. Deadman was a big presence in Cloonans run. They made a big to do trying to tie Wonder Woman to Justice League Dank.
I say lean into it. Let magic types have a presence in Wonder Womans stuff and crossover more. Push to members of the Wonder family in magic team books. Establish that characters like Shazam and the lot have ties to Wonder Woman, making it so that it could in a sense be treated like another Wonder book where Amazons could just pop up on occasion.
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While this might seem to have its downsides such as downplaying Wonder Womans more sci-fi elements or drawing attention to other characters instead of Diana, I see it having more positives than negatives.
For one thing while Batman and Superman have their own focuses, its not like they wind up pigeon holed by it.
Batman frequently has adventures with wild sci-fi or magical elements, parts of the Batfamily have superpowers, and he exists well past his specific wheelhouse.
Same goes for Superman who has magic characters like Traci 13, metahumans like Omen, and street level threats to deal with.
So if it is balanced well, pushing magic characters and concepts into a connection with Wonder Woman would be able to highlight one side of Wonder Woman without burying the more science fiction side of things.
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As for the possible loss of focus on Wonder Woman by highlighting other characters such as Zatanna, Xanadu, and Starblossom; it would have the possible boon of Wonder Woman popping up in their stories and establishing Wonder Woman as having a bigger role in the setting at large.
At the same token those characters would get more attention and would potentially be able to take off more on their own.