Originally Posted by
John Venus
I don't buy the PD argument. If that was the case why not change Clark being rocketed to Earth from Krypton by Jor-El and Lara-El? Or Bruce Wayne's parents getting gunned in crime alley? Because that stuff is going to end up in PD too yet they are keeping it.
I believe the decision to change her origin is because:
a) Didio has always stated he wanted to simplify the DCU. He hates the Matrix Supergirl backstory, never liked all the legacy heroes no matter how successful and any concept like Lords of Order that couldn't be simplified was an anathema to his view on the DCU.
b) Multiple writers have always complained that WW is too hard to get, their origin is too complicated. Even Azzarello has claimed that he came up with the Zeus origin because he wanted to simplify her*. And there have been others in the industry who praise Azzarello for simplifying WW's backstory. Turning her into angry warrior woman who enjoys fighting and killing, like a dog needing to be put on a leash by Superman and Batman and lectured about morality was their idea of fixing WW. In it's own it goes back to assuming that Wonder Woman is supposed to be an extension, a foil to Superman and Batman and that her world and her character is small subset of the DCU and not her as a protagonist of a mythology in it's own right.
*Although he also claimed that DC's original plan was much worse so he stepped in with his plan much like how Morrison said he did Superman and the Authority because he didn't like their original plan of turning Superman into a right wing reactionary war monger and Simone said she did Nu52 Batgirl because she was apalled by their original plan for Barbara Gordon.
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