Quote Originally Posted by victorxd1999 View Post
I would okay with it if Dc wasn't always saying how important she is with their Trinity crap. If you do at atleast show that she is so important. Green lantern seems to be far more popular and if it weren't for the fact that Wonder woman is a pop culture icon it would be Batman/Superman/Green lantern.
Well, it's a few things. Superhero comics are, no question, a boys' club, and Wonder Woman is easily the most famous and popular female comic character in history. It certainly serves DC's image to keep her in the public eye, and at least give the impression of considering her one of their most valuable characters.

Part of it is also historical: back in the '40s, DC had exactly five characters who were popular enough to star in an anthology title, their own solo title, and a shared quarterly/bimonthly title: Superman and Batman, who shared World's Finest and had their own solo books, plus Action and Detective respectively; and Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, and Flash, who all shared Comic Cavalcade, held down solo titles, and headlined Sensation, All-American, and Flash Comics. And of those five, Wonder Woman was easily number three... there's a reason she (and the Big Two) survived the end of the Golden Age, while poor Alan and Jay (regrettably) did not. She also never waned in popularity enough to be replaced long term, the way Barry and Hal were. Given those things, DC can be forgiven for thinking that the character has proven to have some legs.

Which dovetails with that fact that you're also looking at it from a very modern perspective. Yes, today Green Lantern is probably a more popular character than Wonder Woman (or at least more profitable, which isn't always the same thing). But you only have to go back 20 years to find a time when nobody gave a hot damn about Hal Jordan, or twelve to find when Kyle Rayner was seriously waning in popularity. Geoff Johns revived the Green Lantern brand -- even his detractors can't argue that -- but he also was never going to guide the franchise forever. Let's give it another decade before declaring that Green Lantern is the new "third member of the trinity." I *like* Green Lantern, but it would be foolhardy to focus only on the last decade and forget the six and a half that preceded it.