Recap / Wonder Woman S 1 E 3 Fausta The Nazi Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman and Wonder Woman

Nazi agent, Fausta Grables, sets her sights on Wonder Woman in hopes of learning the Amazon's secrets to aide Germany's war effort.

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• Abandoned Warehouse: Fausta lures Wonder Woman to one using Steve Trevor as the bait.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: Fausta, who was a brunette in the comics, is played by blonde-haired actress Lynda Day George.
• Arbitrary Skepticism: Colonel Kesselman throughtout the entire episode scoffs at the idea of a woman being as powerful as a man and the idea of Paradise Island, even though he's watched the films of what she can do. While he has Wonder Woman strapped to a table with restraints large enough to immobilize several football players, and has been ordered to do all of this on Hitler's personal orders he throws her belt of strength and magic lasso back to her! It was a bad decision.
• Badass in Distress: This is the first episode in the show where Wonder Woman loses her powers and taken prisoner for a good chunk of the episode.
• Badass Normal: Fausta is an accomplished Olympic athlete, though she still proves no match for the walking brick that is Wonder Woman.
• The Bait: Steve Trevor's main job. For example, in "Fausta the Nazi Wonder Woman", Steve is gassed by Fausta and locked in a crate solely to draw out Wonder Woman and watch her beat up some Mooks. Later in the same episode, he's chained to a wall to capture Wonder Woman with crushing walls. She's stronger than the Nazis counted on. In "Knockout", Steve spends the entire episode tied up and in the evil terrorist's clutches. Thus dooming the group to be destroyed by Wonder Woman.
• Banging for Help: In "Fausta the Nazi Wonder Woman", a bound, gagged, and trapped in a crate Steve Trevor alerts Wonder Woman as to his whereabouts by kicking the crate and mmmmruphing through the gag. She rips open the crate to rescue him.
• Bound and Gagged: Early in the episode, Steve Trevor is kidnapped and stuffed in a crate in this condition.
• Clothes Make the Superman: This version of Wonder Woman's weakness is exploited in this episode. She must wear her belt of strength to retain her strength, speed, and reflexes when she is not on Paradise Island. This is how Fausta and Nazis are able to incapacitate her for most of the episode.
• Damsel in Distress: Wonder Woman was is gassed and brought as prisoner to Nazi Germany by Fausta and her lackeys. She however proves far too dangerous for the sexist self-righteous male supremacist idiot Colonel Kesselman to hold for long.
• Dark Action Girl: Fausta, before her Heel–Face Turn at the end of the episode.
• Distressed Dude: Steve is kidnapped and saved by Wonder Woman—twice—in this episode.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: There's quite a bit of bondage imagery in this episode with Diana being knocked out unconscious with chloroform while being bound by her own lasso and then spending most of her time in Germany in chains.
• Dressing as the Enemy: A villainous example. Fausta dresses up as Wonder Woman for a faux war bond fundraiser to lure out the real Wonder Woman but wears a mask to cover up her face.
• Epic Fail: Fausta Grables and Colonel Kesselman have captured Wonder Woman, taken her powers, kidnapped her to Germany, and have her strapped to a table for interrogation. They know about her magic lasso and even force her to answer questions under its power. Despite this - and perhaps pushed by the fantastical answers Wonder Woman truthfully gives - he wants to torture information out of her rather than use the magic lasso. Fausta insists on using the lasso. This so enrages Kesselman that he grabs the belt and lasso from Grables and throws it away...right into Wonder Woman's hand.
  Colonel Kesselman: And you with your supposed magic tricks! The golden lasso! The magic belt! Nonsense! Throws them both away
  Wonder Woman: Catches the belt and lasso then proceeds to snap the bonds of the interrogation table, wipe the floor with everyone in the room, rip the phone out of the wall, beat the stuffing out of a few more soldiers, steal a plane, and leave Germany.
• Full-Body Disguise: When Fausta disguises herself as Wonder Woman, she also includes a golden mask to cover up her face. Amazingly, Steve Trevor, of all people, is the only one sees right through it (aside from Wonder Woman obviously).
• Idiot Ball: Thanks to Fausta, Colonel Kesselman has successfully managed to have Wonder Woman rendered powerless and taken prisoner safely in Nazi Germany but she also successfully escapes entirely because of Kesselmen.
• Instant Sedation: The Nazis get the drop on Wonder Woman through a trapdoor and then knocking her out with a chloroformed rag.
• La Résistance: A local German underground movement aides in both Wonder Woman and Steve's rescue attempts during their incursions into Germany.
• Mook Chivalry: Three Nazi goons in a row run up to Wonder Woman individually so she can throw each one of them into the same box. It's such an easy production line of beating thugs up that Fausta openly complains about it.
  Fausta: So far she shows nothing that I couldn't match
• Ms. Fanservice: There's Diana obviously, but the scene where Fausta dresses up as Wonder Woman shows she fills out the costume well.
• My Kung-Fu Is Stronger Than Yours: Wonder Woman, under control of the golden lasso, explains to a disbelieving Colonel Kesselman that her strength comes from training in a pure environment. And, of course, she had to beat every other Amazon in order to become Wonder Woman.
• One Woman Army: Once Wonder Woman gets a hold of her belt that restores her powers, she beats up the first three of four mooks so easily that she interrogated the last one and just let him go. And that was the preamble to breaking out of a Nazi interrogation room, overpowering multiple guards at once, and wiping the floor with everyone else in the room - including the Nazi Wonder Woman.
• "Open!" Says Me: Wonder Woman breaks down doors to rescue Steve when he's being held prisoner in Nazi Germany
• Put Their Heads Together: While being attacked by two Nazi guards Wonder Woman grabs their shoulders and knocks their heads together, knocking them out (they were wearing helmets at the time).
• Save the Princess: When Steve realizes Wonder Woman is being captured by the Nazis and taken behind enemy lines, he disobeys the order to not go after her but obeys the order to take a vacation...so he can go rescue her. He arrives just after Wonder Woman escapes and gets captured himself
• Strapped to an Operating Table: When Wonder Woman is captured, her belt of strength removed and put into this position. Pride saves the day as Fausta's superior officer throws the belt and lasso back to Wonder Woman. A minute later Wonder Woman is the only one left standing.
• "Test Your Strength" Game: During a trap setup by Fausta, Wonder Woman sets the goal for a war bond drive via a Test Your Strength game. She hits the machine so hard that the bell rockets into the sky!
  Wonder Woman: The sky's the limit when it comes to buying bonds!
• Uninhibited Muscle Power: This is the canonical reason given for Wonder Woman's strength and the strength of all of the Amazons of Paradise Island when asked by Fausta and Kesselmen. Note that Wonder Woman was bound by her golden lasso at the time.
  Fausta Grables: What makes you so strong?
  Wonder Woman: On Paradise Island there are only women. Because of this pure environment we are able to develop our minds and our physical skills unhampered by masculine destructiveness.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: Fausta deduces Wonder Woman must have some relationship with Steve Trevor and specifically kidnaps Steve just to lure Wonder Woman and test her abilities. She passes.
• The Walls Are Closing In: Steve Trevor is held captive in such a room to lure Wonder Woman to her doom. The lure succeeds. The walls, however, don't.
• Wolf Whistle: This can be heard when Wonder Woman walks up on stage at Fausta's faux war bond fundraiser.
• Worthy Opponent: Both Diana and Fausta have this for one another by the end of the episode.