History Series / WonderWoman2011Pilot

** Wonder Woman tells her business toady about how exploitative the doll made to look like her is and he protests. Now, Wonder Woman's refusal to be objectified wouldn't be a problem... if the doll wasn't a month away from shipping and she hadn't already given oral consent.

** Doesn't even touch the detective's blatantly illegal (not to mention stupid) advice to WW that if she breaks into the villain's lair, the police will be able to investigate it because it's now a crime scene. Yes it will be, for a crime ''that Wonder Woman committed'', and ''the police let her do''. The only way this works is if Wonder Woman already has blanket immunity to prosecution, which opens a whole new can of worms that's even more terrifying, but would be sadly consistent with everything else we see. Also, if she's deemed to have been an agent of the police in doing this, any evidence they find will be suppressed. Since she specifically spoke to the police just before her attack, any decent lawyer could simply use the record of the phone call to get a judge to consider she was an agent of the police.

* ChainmailBikini: Diana rejects an action figure designed like this, complete with GagBoobs. Though her own costume isn't all that modest...

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: She can torture, kill, break every law in the book, and virtually everyone thinks she is the greatest person in the world.

!!''Wonder Womlan'' provides examples of:

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Wonder Woman engages in brutal take-downs of suspects, takes evidence illegally, is resentful toward due process, publicly slanders her opponents without evidence while fully admitting she doesn't have evidence, will approve her toys before having a complete 180 on them thus screwing over production, flies a plane in the middle of a city, tortures an unarmed prisoner in a hospital bed for information, breaks into a facility without a warrant so she can turn the place into a crime scene so the police can move in even though logically by breaking in she's the one who should be arrested, assaults and murders the people on the scene, and uses excessive force to subdue her rival. The only people who complain about this kind of excessive behavior are her obviously strawman opponents, her obviously unworthy corporate stooge, and Dr Phil. The only reason this isn't also MoralDissonance is because she does get [[WhatTheHellHero called out]] for her behavior; it's just that the people doing it are so slimy they should be ignored.

''Wonder Woman'' is a never-aired television {{pilot}} produced by Creator/WarnerBros Television and DC Entertainment for NBC, based on the Creator/DCComics [[Franchise/WonderWoman character of the same name]]. Creator/DavidEKelley wrote the pilot and Jeffrey Reiner directed it. Creator/AdriannePalicki starred as the main character, Creator/ElizabethHurley plays the villainess, and Creator/PedroPascal appears as Diana's [[TheCommissionerGordon contact with the police]].

->'''Q:''' Hey. Wait a second. So Wonder Woman "has come to the world of men and is using her powers to make a difference"? And she has a major corporation bankrolling her crime-fighting endeavors? That's just Superman combined with Batman. How is any of this unique to Wonder Woman?
->'''A:''' Well, she has breasts. Superman and Batman don't.
-->--''Blog/ToplessRobot'', [[http://www.toplessrobot.com/2011/06/robs_wonder_woman_tv_pilot_faq.php "The Wonder Woman TV Pilot FAQ!"]]

!!Tropes

* AdaptationalJerkass: This version of Wonder Woman can basically be described as "the [[ComicBook/AllStarBatmanAndRobinTheBoyWonder "Goddamn Batman"]], but female". She tortures suspects for information instead of using her Lasso of Truth, accuses rivals of criminal acts even when she has no proof, brutally slaughters security guards who are just doing their job, and outright intimidates law enforcement into looking the other way.

* AdHominem: The biggest problem with this series. As the villains are all correct about the horrible and illegal things Wonder Woman is doing, but the series essentially states "but they are villains so that makes them wrong".

* ChainmailBikini: Diana rejects an action figure designed like this, complete with GagBoobs. Though her own costume isn't all that modest…

** Wonder Woman tells her business toady about how exploitative the doll made to look like her is and he protests. Now, Wonder Woman's refusal to be objectified wouldn't be a problem… if the doll wasn't a month away from shipping and she hadn't already given oral consent.

* ConflictingLoyalty: Many people point out how Wonder Woman's ex-boyfriend would have never been allowed to investigate her because of this trope. Played straight as just after meeting her again he brushes aside the case against her.

* EvilBrit: Veronica Cale has a British accent and is played by Elizabeth Hurley, who has played [[Film/{{Bedazzled2000}} Satan herself]] in the past.

** Doesn't even touch the detective's blatantly illegal (not to mention stupid) advice to WW that if she breaks into the villain's lair, the police will be able to investigate it because it's now a crime scene. Yes it will be, for a crime ''that Wonder Woman committed'', and ''the police let her do''. The only way this works is if Wonder Woman already has blanket immunity to prosecution, which opens a whole new can of worms that's even more terrifying, but would be sadly consistent with everything else we see. Also, if she's deemed to have been an agent of the police in doing this, any evidence they find will be suppressed.
*** Since she specifically spoke to the police just before her attack, any decent lawyer could simply use the record of the phone call to get a judge to consider she was an agent of the police.

* InNameOnly: The protagonist has more in common with {{Franchise/Batman}} than Wonder Woman, being a rich corporate executive who moonlights as a superhero. Little is made of her Amazon upbringing. Her Lasso of Truth is used only to snag enemies, and never to reveal the truth from anyone, [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique or does it in a more mundane manner]]. The concept of using the Wonder Woman persona as a company symbol for the public also mirrors the premise of ''Batman Incorporated''.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Cale points out how Diana is herself violating the law in nearly everything she's doing - and she's not incorrect.

* LenoDevice: Diana overhears Series/DoctorPhil on TV early on, proclaiming that she has anger management issues.

-->'''Diana''': Why don't you show me your [secret] laboratory?
-->'''Cale''': And what would be in that for me?
-->'''Diana''': I won't kill you.

* RRatedOpening: The pilot opens with a kid named Willis celebrating his college acceptance with his family, only to start crying blood and fall unconscious. Followed immediately by our Hero chasing some guy, nearly snapping the man's neck in trying to catch him, jam a needle in his neck for blood, then snarl at the police who wanted to arrest him.
* RaceLift: Etta Candy was Caucasian in the comics. Here, she's African-American. [[RetCanon This was carried over to the comics with]] the ''ComicBook/{{New 52}}''.

* RetCanon: As mentioned above, as of the ''ComicBook/{{New 52}}'', Etta Candy is African-American in the comics.

* SeriousBusiness: Part of the reason why Wonder Woman is loathed by the viewership for actions that would not be out of place with a Batman comic is because Wonder Woman seems to treat her crusade against Veronica Cale's harmful performance-enhancing drugs with the same zeal as you would expect Batman would pursuing a psychotic wielding a doomsday device.

* SteppingOutForAQuickCupOfCoffee: Wonder Woman asks Ed to let her visit a crook's hospital room for ten minutes. He gives her five. As soon as he leaves, [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique he hears the crook screaming]]…

** However, even in her most RonTheDeathEater[[invoked]] interpretation, Wonder Woman averts this trope. Her business dealings aren't that shady and she's even willing to have her bottom line take a hit on moral concerns (though she seems more insane than corrupt since she approved of the designs then changed it at the drop of a hat after their company already sunk a lot of money into development). In a way, her corporate dealings are ''more'' on the level than some other superheroes, because unlike characters like Batman, she doesn't [[StealingFromTheTil secretly appropriate company funds for her superheroing]], her business openly does this. She's just a brutal, psychopathic, superpowered AntiHero who happens to be a corporate executive... [[NoBadgeNoProblem and doesn't ever have to face any sort of legal repercussions]] (just in ways that don't involve her leveraging her corporate power).

** However, even in her most RonTheDeathEater[[invoked]] interpretation, Wonder Woman averts this trope. Her business dealings aren't that shady and she's even willing to have her bottom line take a hit on moral concerns (though she seems more insane than corrupt since she approved of the designed then changed it at the drop of a hat after their company already sunk a lot of money into development). In a way, her corporate dealings are ''more'' on the level than some other superheroes, because unlike characters like Batman, she doesn't secretly appropriate company funds for her superheroing, her business openly does this. She's just a brutal, psychopathic, superpowered AntiHero who happens to be a corporate executive… [[NoBadgeNoProblem and doesn't ever have to face any sort of legal repercussions]] (just in ways that don't involve her leveraging her corporate power).

* TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong:
** Anyone who disagrees with Wonder Woman's actions is obviously meant to be considered wrong.

* AdaptationalJerkass: This version of Wonder Woman can basically be described as "the [[ComicBook/AllStarBatmanAndRobinTheBoyWonder "Goddamn Batman"]], but female".

The pilot can be watched [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5q7ke4 here.]]

* AdaptationalJerkass: This version of Wonder Woman can basically be described as the [[ComicBook/AllStarBatmanAndRobinTheBoyWonder "Goddamn Batman"]], but female.

* ImpaledWithExtremePredjudice: During her assault on Cale's facility, Wonder Woman impales a mook through the neck with a piece of pipe.

* JerkassHasAPoint: The female villain points out how Diana is herself violating the law in nearly everything she's doing - and she's not incorrect.

* MaliciousSlander: Wonder Woman holds a press conference to state Veronica is making illegal drugs, then states she has no proof to back up anything she stated.

* ConflictingLoyalty: Many people point out how Wonder Woman's ex-boyfriend would have never been allowed to investigate her because of this trope. Played straight as just after meeting her again he brush asides the case against her.

''Wonder Woman'' is a never-aired television {{pilot}} produced by Creator/WarnerBros Television and DC Entertainment for NBC, based on the Creator/DCComics [[Franchise/WonderWoman character of the same name]]. Creator/DavidEKelley wrote the pilot and Jeffrey Reiner directed it. Creator/AdriannePalicki starred as the main character, Elizabeth Hurley plays the villainess, and Creator/PedroPascal appears as Diana's [[TheCommissionerGordon contact with the police]].

Watch the pilot [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5q7ke4 here.]]

* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: Flashbacks of her last date with Steve Trevor show her explaining this to him. Though this is accomplished extremely poorly by her since she has a "secret identity" and does literally nothing with it. Not to mention since she's got a public identity all of her employees were as vulnerable to retaliation as Steve would have been.

* StrawmanHasAPoint: Diana has dinner with a Senator who expresses concerns about the way she does things — namely, using ColdBloodedTorture to get information from criminals, giving the metaphorical finger to {{Reasonable Authority Figure}}s, and outright committing slander by holding a press conference to accuse Liz Hurley's character of being a murderous CorruptCorporateExecutive and ''admitting'' that she doesn't have any proof besides gut instinct. In fact, the only reason she's meeting the Senator is to get justification so she can go after Hurley. Of course, since Wondy-InNameOnly is the [[DesignatedHero hero]] of this story, she's ultimately presented as right.
** Although the Senator's point about the press conference is redundant: Imagine Superman calling a press conference in Metropolis and telling the world that he personally believes a particular series of mysterious deaths were directly caused by Lex Luthor doing things at Lex Corp and that he is personally going to investigate it but that he has ZERO evidence at this point. This means that yes, Lex Luthor can complain to the authorities that the Kryptonian superhero (who may not even have another name or social security number) publically slandered him but it also means that anyone else giving Luthor grief on the grounds that "Superman said you're behind it!" would also admit they are acting that way because Superman personally believes something while admitting he has no evidence of it.

* StrawmanHasAPoint: Diana has dinner with a Senator who expresses concerns about the way she does things — namely, using Cold-BloodedTorture to get information from criminals, giving the metaphorical finger to ReasonableAuthorityFigures, and outright committing slander by holding a press conference to accuse Liz Hurley's character of being a murderous CorruptCorporateExecutive and admitting that she doesn't have any proof besides gut instinct. In fact, the only reason she's meeting the Senator is to get justification so she can go after Hurley. Of course, since Wondy-In-Name-Only is the hero of this story, she's ultimately presented as right.

** Except the press conference makes no bones about it: Imagine Superman calling a press conference in Metropolis and telling the world that he personally believes a particular series of mysterious deaths were directly caused by Lex Luthor doing things at Lex Corp and that he is personally going to investigate it but that he has ZERO evidence at this point. This means that yes, Lex Luthor can complain to the authorities that the Kryptonian superhero (who may not even have another name or social security number) publically slandered him but it also means that anyone else giving Luthor grief on the grounds that "Superman said you're behind it!" would also admit they are acting that way because Superman personally believes something while admitting he has no evidence of it.

''Wonder Woman'' is a never-aired television {{pilot}} produced by Creator/WarnerBros Television and DC Entertainment for NBC, based on the Creator/DCComics [[Franchise/WonderWoman character of the same name]]. Creator/DavidEKelley wrote the pilot and Jeffrey Reiner directed it. Creator/AdriannePalicki starred as the main character, Creator/ElizabethHurley plays the villainess, and Creator/PedroPascal appears as Diana's [[TheCommissionerGordon contact with the police]].