Originally Posted by
Marik Swift
Just to add to this, my controversial opinion of the day:
Diana being the first Wonder Woman is detrimental to the brand and botherline anti-supportive to women.
I'm pro Amazons in general. Why is it that Diana is somehow the only one worthy of being Wonder Woman when there is an island of amazing women. If Diana was such a great character to you people, it wouldn't matter whether she is the first Wonder Woman or the greatest Amazon that ever lived. I think there should have been a myriad of Amazon champions/Wonder Women before her. Hell, there should have been a contest in the 1900s which she took part in and lost. The Amazons should all be just as amazing, some even more so, as Diana herself. If Diana ever lost her powers, there should be at least a dozen of so Amazons who could put her on her ass in a heartbeat, or even show as much compassion as she can, be smarter, be prettier.
I think the hold thing stems from DCs bad treatment of Wonder Woman, and so fans have the mentally that Diana must be put on a pedestal, which goes against everything she stands for. The Amazons must be put upon the same pedestal upon which she stands, not be broken down to make her somehow better. She's already a princess, she doesn't need to be he first woman woman, the smartest, the strongest, the most beautiful, the greatest. All this is essentially teaching women is that to be anything they have to be better than their fellow women.
This very mentally also bleeds into a lot of the problems with her current brand. Writers are afraid to take risk with her. We could be having stories of other Amazons become the new champion, and Diana building her personal life and setting, which she greatly lacks. We could have a team of amazing champions from different Amazon tribes/godly pantheon's. We could have a fat Wonder Woman.
So yeah, this might seem like I hate Diana, which I don't, but I think that she has reached a point where writers aren't willing to do anything with her that will help the brand, and so she's almost damaging the brand. If you arent a part of the solution, then you're the problem and all that.