Zeus origin and Diana as part of the Olympians
Diana as goddess of War
Swiss army braceletes
God mode
Designs (Wondy, Gods, N.Gods, F.Born, etc)
Zola as her human buddy
Sex piracy
More down to earth designs and way of life for Amazons and Paradise Island
Diana's training by both the Amazons and Ares
More grey-ish, whimsical Olympians, eg: Ares as an antihero of sorts
Orion romance (editorial didnt allow it to happen, but still...)
Superman romance
Normal sword as standard equipment, placed at her hip.
Steve Trevor's is back and his handling in the new 52
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Hate is strong in this thread. Wonder what Diana would think.
Tell that to a Wiccan or some other flavor of neo-paganism. My experience is that people who in this day take goddesses (and gods) seriously generally believe that it is a very different thing to be a goddess than to be a god. (And usually, goddess is better. One of the points of worshipping a goddess is to worship a deity that is specifically feminine.) In other words, people who believe in gods and goddesses would not mix the two, and might be dismayed to hear a goddess referred to by the masculine word.
"At what point do we say, 'You're mucking with our myths'?" - Harlan Ellison
The stories, over the past twenty-five years that made Diana - ala, Heracles, Perseus, etc - a pawn or victim of the gods, were really stagnating this comic for me. It didn't help that Circe, a pale Joker rip-off with no intelligible motivation for villainy, was at the center of so many of those stories. I like the idea of Wonder Woman being on a peerage with the gods, because, like the Mod Era, it creates the opportunity to make Diana her own woman.
We can thank Azzarello for that.
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COMBINING THE BIGBADITUDE OF THANOS WITH CHEETAH'S FEROCITY, IS JANUS WONDER WOMAN'S GREATEST SUPERVILLAIN?...on WONDABUNGA!!! Look alive, Kangaliers!
Because the male words have been the default, and many of them don't have specifically male suffixes ("-or" has never been exclusively male across contexts, that I know of) while the female words (like "actress") do have specifically female suffixes.
There are two progressive or feminist things that we can do about a word that is male and also the "default" for mixed groups or unknown gender: stop using the male word as default, or stop using the default word as also specifically male. When it comes to pronouns, we've been stopping the old practice of using "he," "him," etc. as default. But when it comes to words like "actor," there's nothing particularly feminine about its form, so if we start using it consistently about women as well as men, it should become thoroughly gender-neutral except in word histories.
But I think something else could be going on here; it might be that the god roles are gendered irrespective of who is occupying those roles. So even though Diana is female she's occupying a position that the Olympians consider "male." If that's the case, it could become a plot point; maybe the next monarch of the gods (Athena? Hera?) will change that system and name Diana "goddess of war"--or something else, like "goddess of war and peace" or "goddess of justice" (taking Queen Athena's old role) or even "goddess of women" (taking Queen Hera's old role, if Hera is now Heaven). I guess at this point, though, a whole new role like "Justice" or "Woman" would have to wait until Five Years Later, or until that future is changed, since it appears from the solicits that she'll still be god of war in that future.
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Currently(or soon to be) Reading: Alan Scott: Green Lantern, Batman/Superman: World's Finest, Fire & Ice: Welcome to Smallville, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Jay Garrick: The Flash, Justice Society of America, Power Girl, Superman, Shazam, Titans, Wesley Dodds: Sandman, Wonder Woman, & World's Finest: Teen Titans.
Nurses do come in both genders, but the term certainly does have a female conotation. You'll have a Nurse Barbie doll, but never Nurse Ken.
I'm not sure why. It could be a holdover from a time when women dominated the field? But the term 'nurse' is almost always associated with the female gender, despite being a job filled by either. /shrug
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