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- Accidental Aesop:
- An object being made of citrine, a stone used for forgeries, may be more valuable than it seems. Handle with caution in case that value is more negative than positive.
- Don't focus on what's behind you or you will miss what's in front of you. Such as when Diana runs into a tree during the tournament, and how she is so focused on being with Steve that she can't deal with the task at hand.
- You don't always get what you want, and sometimes, that can be a blessing in disguise.
- Accidental Innuendo: "I need to find a way to touch a lot of people at the same time..."
- Adorkable: Despite the disturbing Grand Theft Me, Steve is gosh-darn adorable when exploring the new 1980s world. He does a fashion show for Diana, experimentally tries an escalator on her behalf, and goes Squee when she says they need to steal a plane to make it to Cairo.
- Anvilicious: Diana's speech in the climax is handled with the subtlety of a jackhammer at best, especially as she appears to be looking right at the audience the whole time. It's revealed that she's actually speaking to Max Lord and, through him, the people of the world who made wishes, but the implications are very clear.
- Alternate Aesop Interpretation: Diana's speech, though mainly about the dangers of greed and dishonesty with oneself, has been interpreted by some as a Hard Work Fallacy about how people, no matter how disadvantaged, ought to just accept their lives and hope hard work does the trick instead of taking short cuts and thus cheat. Coming at the end of a year that was particularly miserable for the disadvantaged in real life, it was not a welcomed message!
- Alternative Character Interpretation: Is Barbara's refusal to renounce her wish and turn toward villainy due to the fact that she's Drunk On Power and is living the life she always dreamed of, or is it because the Dream Stone's cost, which is implied to be Barbara's empathy, makes her incapable of being anything but cruel and selfish?
- Aluminum Christmas Trees:
- Egypt was undergoing a period of instability, having signed a humiliating peace treaty with Israel in 1977, dealing with the assassination of President Anwar Sadat in 1981, and suffering massive economic downturn all throughout the 1980s. While the film may have exaggerated Egypt's issues, such issues still existed.
- The invisible jet scene was called out by some critics for being unrealistic, claiming that turning a jet invisible wouldn't do anything about radar. In reality, radar detects things by bouncing radio waves and/or microwaves off of them in much the same way the eye sees things by catching light reflected off of them. All three are forms of electromagnetic radiation, and making an aircraft less visible to radar is accomplished in part by using coatings and materials designed to absorb radio waves rather than reflect them; it only stands to reason that if a jet were made invisible to light, other forms of EM radiation like radio waves would pass through it too.
- Ass Pull:
- The introduction has Diana saving the day, in broad daylight, in costume and in front of dozens of eyewitnesses. Even if she managed to take out the cameras, it doesn't explain how she could have possibly kept her existence a secret for decades without Batman, the government, the general populace, or a bunch of conspiracy nuts investigating news about a stunningly beautiful woman with superhuman abilities.
- Diana's ability to turn the plane invisible has zero setup and never comes up again. She mentions that her father was able to turn Themyscira invisible and that she did it once to a coffee cup moments before using the ability to turn the jet invisible, and it is never mentioned again. It is more glaring in that it is the first (and only) time in any film that she showed any capability with magic whatsoever.
- Speaking of the plane, Steve's ability to fly a jet is never explained, considering the last thing he piloted was a big World War I biplane and he's been dead for 66 years. Also it's never explained how the plane is able to land in Egypt, (presumably) refuel, then take off and fly back to the US without any further incident.
- Barbara's final transformation to the Cheetah is achieved by Max Lord sharing some of the "costs" of his granted wishes to her, as a way to power her up further while getting around the fact that she had already made a wish. The ability is never discussed before or after, and it makes one wonder just who he took said abilities from (unless he's granting wishes to cats).
- Awesome Music: See the Franchise page.
- Common Knowledge:
- Many fans latched on to the superficial similarities that Maxwell Lord shared with Donald Trump and assumed that Lord was meant to be an Expy of Trump with the movie being a commentary on modern politics. In actuality, Maxwell Lord was an old character with a lot of history and has been around for decades. Lord was a product of the times when he was made in the 1980s and meant to be a caricature of the hyper consumeristic culture of the '80s along with the financial boom and everyone's desire to get ahead. While some elements of Donald Trump were used in his original character creation and in the movie, this was almost inevitable as Trump was a big symbol for business back in the '80s. Maxwell Lord in the movie truthfully bears little resemblance of the Trump of the '80s or even present-day Trump, as Lord came from a poor Latino background while Trump came from a wealthy white family, among other things.
- The entire human race renounced their wishes just because Wonder Woman asked them to. This is ignoring that she was using her lasso as a conduit to spread her message. Said lasso was also established earlier on as having the ability to show people the absolute truth, so when she combined it with the various mechanics that allowed Maxwell Lord to grant wishes from a distance, it functioned the same way as if her audience were all ensnared in it. With everyone who was tuned into Maxwell Lord's broadcast being shown the consequences of their wishes, they'd be far more compelled to change their minds. Wonder Woman's dialogue just serves to make sense of what's going on.
- Cargo Ship: Steve gushes over an aircraft in the air museum, calling it Betsy and congratulating it on having great gams.
- Critical Backlash: There have been people online that have utterly lambasted this movie for its flaws and the choices made by Patty Jenkins, and while its quality is certainly up for debate when compared to its 2017 predecessor, one could argue the film still has plenty of redeeming moments that make it worth the watch and particularly like it's sincere tone as a contrast to the more irreverent and self-aware humor that has dominated most superhero films.
- Critical Dissonance: Wiig's portrayal of Cheetah has been lauded, making it odd she was nominated for a Razzie for it.
- Ensemble Dark Horse:
- The nameless "Handsome Man" for being good looking as well as a Nice Guy with many viewers agreeing that he didn't deserve anything he went through. This is especially interesting as his role in the plot is actually the film's most controversial element, but he's generated a far greater level of sympathy than any other character in the movie.
- The homeless man as well for being one of the few people who was kind to Barbara.
- Epileptic Trees:
- Before the film's release, the point of Steve Trevor turned up alive and still looking the same in the 1980s spawned completely incompatible fan theories ranging from Lotus-Eater Machine magic, to him being a clone, to him being his Identical Grandson, to him all being in Diana's head.
- The sheer incongruity of Steve's entire plot and how the wish could have easily just brought him back out of nothing rather than possessing someone got a sizable amount of fans suspecting the original script actually did give this aspect significant attention, only for it to be cut down to just enough to be creepy during the film's unusually lengthy production. Thus, there are quite a few theories as to what the lost material might be and why the story had to have Steve possessing someone, including that "Handsome Man" might have initially been a surprise comic character himself.
- Evil Is Cool: Max Lord manages to be a fairly threatening and impressive villain, using his newfound powers to quite easily get whatever he wants throughout the story and serving as the greatest threat that Diana's yet to face.
- Fanfic Fuel: With Asteria revealed to be alive in The Stinger, a lot of doors open up for fans to come up with stories involving her adventures since her disappearance thousands of years ago, including how she lost her armor and how Diana later comes in possession of it. There's also the question of how she reacted to the near-apocalypse.
- Fashion-Victim Villain: Barbara and Maxwell both wear flamboyant outfits on the character posters.
- Friendly Fandoms: With The Mandalorian and We Can Be Heroes (2020), two other streaming projects in which Pedro Pascal plays an imperfect, but well-intentioned, single father. We Can Be Heroes in particular cast real-life Wonder Woman fangirl YaYa Gosselin as Pascal's daughter.
- Harsher in Hindsight: The scenes of the streets of Washington, D.C. being overrun by angry mobs as society falls apart thanks to a Trumplica became a lot more difficult to watch less than a month after the film's release when angry pro-Trump mobs literally stormed the Capitol following statements about the election being stolen from him.
- He Really Can Act
- Not that he hasn't proven his talent before, but after becoming a star playing suave, badass characters, Pedro Pascal does a great job Playing Against Type as a deranged and pathetic villain with the suaveness being only the surface, while still bringing his own intimidating presence to the part.
- Kristen Wiig is best known for her roles in comedy. Here, she convincingly plays Barbara Minerva as a Tragic Villain who goes from a clumsy but sweet lady that shares her food with a homeless guy to one that beats up Diana apologetically to keep her wish, in denial that it's corrupting her.
- Gal Gadot is often criticized for flat line deliveries, but there are several scenes in this movie where she demonstrates real talent, such as the scene where Diana tearfully says goodbye to Steve.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: Steve Trevor's awed reactions to escalators - which were developed before World War I - meshes pretty neatly with a photo of Diana in the Crimean War that was shared by Zack Snyder, which happened several decades before World War I. Since Steve is traditionally the reason Diana ever leaves Themyscira, he must have been alive back then.
- Hollywood Homely: Barbara, before her wish, is clumsy and wears glasses, but is otherwise still conventionally attractive due to being played by Kristen Wiig. It's kind of hard to tell why anyone is ignoring her or forgetting her name - you'd think her clumsiness alone would make her memorable. The only reason she's unattractive and has few friends is that the plot says so.
- I Knew It!: Pedro Pascal was assumed to have been playing Maxwell Lord all along even though it wasn't officially confirmed until about six weeks before the first trailer came out.
- Les Yay: Barbara's feelings towards Diana can range from simple adoration to implied attraction, referring to her as beautiful and inviting her to lunch in the awkward manner of a date. She all about gives a Squee when Diana invites her to an early dinner, especially when the latter rescues her from a drunk. When Steve reappears, Barbara gives him a look that clearly screams Green-Eyed Monster and says, "Call me" to both of them. Even when she kicks Wonder Woman's butt in the White House, Barbara leaves Diana alive if wounded and tells her that she doesn't want to destroy her but will to keep Maxwell as the Dreamstone. Barbara also looks sympathetic in the climax when she realizes Diana renounced her wish to regain her powers, not wanting her friend to be hurt.
- Love to Hate: Maxwell Lord may recklessly sow chaos throughout the entire planet, but he's also a highly interesting and engaging villain. The fact that he's a three dimensional and sympathetic baddie are extra bonuses, as is Pedro Pascal's excellent portrayal. Even several detractors of the film have praised the character and his actor's work. It especially helps that the climax reveals that he's not fundamentally evil; the minute he sees the world on the brink of nuclear war with his son caught in the crossfire, Maxwell goes My God, What Have I Done?, renounces his wish, and runs to find Alistair.
- Memetic Mutation:
- "That's just a trash can", applied as an insult to anything the target of mockery is trying to be.
- Maxwell Lord's catchphrase "Life is good! But it can be better." gets used when comparing different iterations e.g. The theatrical cut of Batman v Superman is "good" and the director's cut is "better".
- For some reason, the shot of Wonder Woman all battered and slumped against a wall gained a fair amount of attention.
- Cheetah's final form has invited many comparisons to Cats.
- Given the idea of lies and playing by the rules present alongside the secondary antagonist, many have made a joke about how "Cheetahs never prosper".
- Many have compared Diana's speech near the end to Gal Gadot's infamous "Imagine" video.
- A few fans have joked that Steve's 80's wardrobe was just what Chris Pine really was wearing that day due to his famously camp real-life fashion sense. A few even joked he agreed to do the film solely for that reason and so he could wear a fanny pack.
- Memetic Psychopath: How some fans treat Diana and Trevor, since neither of them seem to be concerned about the life of the random man Trevor's spirit is possessing as they repeatedly put him through numerous life threatening situations and have sex using his non-consenting body.
- Moe: Alistair is the epitome of Children Are Innocent and eventually his father's Morality Pet as Maxwell gets Drunk On Power. It's that look of wonder in his eyes, even as events start getting worse.
- More Popular Replacement: While the film is agreed by most to be well short of the previous one for quality, at least one element most will agree on is that Maxwell Lord and Barbara Minerva were stronger villains than Ares, Ludendorff, and Dr. Maru, thanks to being far more fleshed out, having larger roles and more consistent presences, and allowing their respective actors much bigger showcase to make impacts on the audience.
- Narm: Quite a bit, which can be found here.
- Narm Charm:
- Steve re-enacts his parting gift with Diana, only this time the watch he gives her is a digital Rolex. It looks tacky, but Diana's tearful reaction to her lost love (minus the fact that Steve is possessing another man's body without his consent) makes up for it.
- For those who didn't find the campiness of it all to be straight Narm, the mall scene near the opening has been praised as a good bit of fun that's evocative of Richard Donner's Superman movies.
- Lynda Carter's Asteria giving a literal wink to the camera in The Stinger. It's so cheesy, but it's still a wonderful call-back to the Camp of the 70s TV show.
- Melodramatic as it might be, the scene where every single person on Earth rejects their selfish wishing in order to prevent The End of the World as We Know It is so optimistic and uplifting that it shows that humans can learn from their mistakes and maybe, just maybe, reach the ideals represented by heroes like Wonder Woman; not to mention it vindicates Bruce Wayne's belief that "Men are still good."
- Never Live It Down: Diana sleeping with her boyfriend Steve while he is possessing another man's body. The narrative don't put much emphasis on this: the act is simply framed as a pair of lovers being intimate with each other, and the sex scene is never mentioned again. However, a large number of viewers take issue with the fact that the man whom Steve is possessing is unconscious and can't possibly consent, to the point of treating Diana as an incredibly unheroic—even villainous—rapist because of this. Almost every criticism leveled against the film will point to the "Wonder Woman raping a man" scene as the shining example of the film's writing problems.
- Older Than They Think:
- The announcement that Wonder Woman would not be using a sword or shield in the movie caused some strange controversy, as some declared it a case of They Changed It, Now It Sucks!. The character has used such weapons on and off since The '70s, but her primary means of combat have always been her lasso and her tiara (the latter of which she's shown using as a weapon in the trailer, confirming this usage). Typically, Wonder Woman avoided using 'real' weapons like swords because they were aggressive in nature (the reason given by Patty Jenkins for ditching them), because Diana is intended to be a diplomat and peacekeeper first, warrior only when she needs to be (Doomsday, Ares and Steppenwolf are formidable foes that justified Diana using a lethal weapon and she went for the kill.) This is backed up by her introductory scene in both versions of Justice League, where she only uses her bracers to fight a group of terrorists.
- Maxwell Lord being written as a (loose) Donald Trump caricature is not a first for DC Comics movies; Thomas Wayne in Joker and, pre-presidency, Max Schreck in Batman Returns beat him to the punch, the latter by several decades before the man was such a controversial figure.
- Patty Jenkins directed Pedro Pascal playing a single father once before, in the rejected pilot for the unaired drama Exposed. The pilot even predates the broadcast of Pascal's performance as Game of Thrones' Oberyn Martell — a prince with eight daughters born out of wedlock — pulling him out of obscurity.
- One-Scene Wonder: Lynda Carter as Asteria.
- Padding:
- Even the film's fans seem to agree that there's no real reason for it to be a whopping 152 minutes, with much of its first 75 minutes being extremely slowly paced "character moments" that don't really affect the plot or say much about the characters; it's exactly 90 minutes into the movie until it is revealed what the MacGuffin is and what exactly it does, and the final act especially drags with lengthy monologues and scenes that don't amount to much.
- One of the common criticisms is that the opening scene showing a young Diana competing in a physical contest ran on for far too long and ultimately had very little significance to the overall story.
- Some complaints about Barbara was that her role was so insignificant that she could have been completely cut out of the film and nothing would have been changed.
- Rooting for the Empire: Many fans actually felt that Maxwell Lord was the strongest and most developed character in the film, and sympathized with his motivation to be successful and take care of his son. It also doesn't help that in some contexts, Lord is actually (possibly accidentally) doing more good than the heroes opposing him.
- Salvaged Story:
- The decision to have Diana walk away from humanity for a century is gently retconned by having her being an active (albeit underground) hero in the ensuing years. Her experiences with the Dreamstone and general supernatural influences also helped cement her decision to leave humanity to their own devices.
- Those who wanted an adaptation of George Pérez's first Wonder Woman volume and felt Ares was wasted on the first film will feel the climax to be a great adaptation of it, even if Ares isn't the antagonist as the situation is very similar, that being Diana having to convince an antagonist much more powerful than her that his wish ultimately will bring him nothing but suffering and not being able to solve the issue with violence.
- Some took issue in the previous film over how Diana seemingly had no problem killing soldiers that she believed were doing evil because they were under Ares' control. In general, being set in WWI, there are numerous deaths throughout the film (though, again, this was in occupied Belgium, Germans violated that country's neutrality and brutally occupied it). However this one has her explicitly tell Steve to not kill the men under Max Lord's control due to them not being in control of their actions. In fact no one dies (discounting those who may have died off screen during the chaos), including Max Lord.
- Justice League received criticism for changing some of the Amazonian's armor to a more Chainmail Bikini style, although one actress did defend the change
, stating that the new armor allowed more comfort and range of motion. This film provides a middle ground for the opening scene on Themyscira, with the actresses in the background wearing their original armor, while the ones performing the main stunts wear leotards that are form-fitting but not revealing.
- Sequelitis: The movie is widely agreed to be inferior to the first one and doesn't recapture what worked so well in it (in fact, Patty Jenkins went deliberately against pretty much everything that worked well in it), in no small part thanks to an incredibly petty main villain, Diana's overly saccharine portrayal and her having sex with Steve while he's in another man's body, underusage of the movie's 1980s setting, the rather poor handling of the Dreamstone, Steve Trevor's return being handled very wonkily, and an unspectacular climax.
- Slow-Paced Beginning: The opening sequence of young Diana participating in a competition on Themyscira has been called out by critics as being simply too long and indulgent, with many of them noting that it could easily have been cut drastically down to just a few minutes and still set up what it was supposed to, and that the sequence as it is just ended up creating pacing issues with the next scene of Wonder Woman stopping a mall heist. There are even some that argue that the Themyscira sequence could have been cut entirely and that the mall heist on its own would have made for a more effective tone-establishing opening for the film. For what its worth, Warner Bros. actually initially asked Patty Jenkins to cut one or the other, but she successfully fought for both sequences being included in the finished product.
- Special Effect Failure:
- The children Wonder Woman saves during the Egyptian highway chase change from normal people, to weightless CGI puppets, to rubbery dummies and back again.
- Wonder Woman's running right before she flies is clearly CGI, and not good CGI.
- In a combination of this and WTH, Costuming Department?, Cheetah's character design has been mocked mercilessly ever since it was revealed, being compared to the infamously bad CGI in Cats. Although without the Unintentional Uncanny Valley claims, given that unlike the felines in Cats, Cheetah is meant to be unnerving.
- After the mall action scene near the start of the movie, one of the criminals is lying on the ground, acting as if he is restrained, but the CGI for the Lasso of Truth is absent around him.
- Spiritual Successor: It has been noted by many that the film is a throwback to the classical heroism of the Richard Donner Superman duloagy with its eccentric billionaire supervillain (Lex Luthor/Maxwell Lord) grounded by a tale of romance between one of the most powerful heroes in the world (Superman/Wonder Woman) and their down to earth romantic partner (Lois Lane/Steve Trevor).
- Squick: How Steve Trevor's resurrection is handled already kind of walks a fine line, but a number of people have pointed out that Diana has sex with another man under the false pretense that he's Steve Trevor, with the real person he is possessed by having no real way to consent to the act which becomes sexual assault and/or rape.
- Sweetness Aversion:
- Fans had a ball with the sheer unlikelihood that every single person in the world who made a wish would be won over to give them up by Diana's speech and a dose of truth, Lasso of Truth or not.
- The final time we see Max Lord is him having a heartwarming moment with his son that makes no mention of his awful actions or him paying for them. While the audience is meant to sympathize with Lord, his final moment being such a happy one feels like it's too much.
- They Copied It, So It Sucks!: Barbara Minerva in the movie is a nerd who becomes fixated on the hero, only to be consumed by jealousy and become their enemy once they gain powers. Just like Catwoman in Batman Returns, the Riddler in Batman Forever, Syndrome in The Incredibles, Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Killian in Iron Man 3.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
- Due to the canon information that Chief is actually a Blackfoot demigod, it's a shame that he doesn't reappear since logically he may have the same immortality that Diana has.
- While the majority of viewers were impressed with Kristen Wiig's portrayal of Barbara/Cheetah, they were disappointed that her role gradually diminished into being Maxwell's enforcer. Many are hoping that the confirmed third movie in the Wonder Woman franchise will offer her a greater role.
- Two words: Maxwell's backstory. When Diana's able to get her lasso around Maxwell during the climax, it's revealed that Maxwell was a victim of Abusive Parenting during his childhood and constantly had to deal with being involved in fierce arguments. Maybe this could have been expanded on and shown earlier in the movie, that way the scenes would have been far more effective, and Maxwell would a least been given some context for his desire for power and wealth and he wouldn't just be chasing power For the Evulz anymore and would be far more relatable and three-dimensional.
- Barbara uses her wish fairly early in the film to give herself the same powers as Diana, but her iconic cheetah form does not appear until the very end, and she and Diana only get one (relatively brief, given the length of the film) fight scene as Cheetah versus Wonder Woman. While she does survive the fight, she is only shown back in her human form afterwards, and it's left unclear if she just shapeshifted back or if the form is gone forever now that everyone renounced their wishes.
- The setup for Asteria's armor comes totally out of nowhere midway through the film, which makes it feel quite shoehorned in. At first, it seems like Diana will use the armor to compensate for the loss of her invulnerability, but she doesn't wear it until the final fight, after her powers have been restored. Ultimately, the armor doesn't have much importance to the plot, and the reason for its inclusion in the film seems to boil down to Rule of Cool.
- Steve's "Freaky Friday" Flip is not contemplated or discussed whatsoever, despite having great potential for a "My God, What Have I Done?" moment on Diana's part which would counter some of the other concerns on this page and fit the theme of the story.
- Unintentionally Sympathetic: Barbara brutally beating a man close to death is portrayed by the film as the first sign of her becoming evil despite the man's openly predatory behavior and the fact that this is the second time he has tried to assault her. While you can argue that she went too far with his beating, you can understand why many fans defend Barbara. Likewise, Barbara has no idea that her wish is affecting her mind so she's under the influence of the wish before she has the chance to actually do anything about it.
- Unintentionally Unsympathetic:
- Max Lord at the very end. Sure, he's had his fair share of problems and he renounced his wish. But having zero hints of him facing repercussions for all the havoc he caused and the last time he's seen being a moment that's shown as unambiguously happy can rub some people the wrong way.
- As detailed in other examples, quite a percentage of fans found Diana and Steve’s treatment of the unnamed man whose body Steve’s psyche is piloting unsympathetic, even if they didn’t intend for it happen. Several scenes of Diana and Steve happily reunited were intended to be romantic came off to said fans as disturbing within context, made even worse when Diana suggests they make the possession permanent. This also had an effect on Diana being forced to revoke her wish in the ending, with some people more concerned about the nameless man’s freedom, feeling little sympathy for Diana’s grief.
- Unnecessary Makeover: Barbara's "Plain Jane" look—the big glasses, baggy dress, and messy hair—was supposed to make her unattractive, but not only is Kristen Wiig still beautiful, but her outfit also was how women actually dressed in the 80's and was considered more fashionable at the time than Diana's more elegant and classical outfits. Barbara's "glow up" after gaining her powers is meant to invoke an '80s-flavored sex appeal, but instead she just looks like something out of a Duran Duran video.
- What Do You Mean, It's Not Political?: From the first set pictures, Maxwell Lord's blonde combover, fake tan, salesman's smile, enormous media presence, and constant boasting about the virtues of materialism prompted many comments and jokes comparing him to Donald Trump, who at the time of the film's production was a highly controversial political figurenote . Director Patty Jenkins has acknowledged that Lord's portrayal in the film was indeed based in part on Trump but denied that contemporary politics influenced this decision, as even before his presidency Trump was seen as a personification of conspicuous '80s capitalism. This is also not the first time that Maxwell Lord has been used to parody 1980s power brokers like Trump, as the idea has dated back as early as the character's original comic debut in 1987.
- The Woobie:
- The unnamed man who is possessed by Steve after Diana wishes him back to life. His body is forcefully taken over without his knowledge and is constantly put in dangerous situations because of Diana and Steve. They even have sex, and the film treats this situation as romantic instead of horrifying. Despite the suffering he would be enduring if he was conscious and the trauma he might still feel after he was restored, the film itself treats this man as a complete non-entity until the very end.
- Diana, after the White House fight. To see such a normally strong character look so broken, after this twisted version of her friend physically and emotionally beat her, it's hard not to feel for her. Not to mention, she realizes that, in order to get her powers back so that she can stop the end of the world, she has to let Steve die again.
- WTH, Costuming Department?: While it is based on a design from the comic books, Asteria's golden armour looks incredibly gaudy and overwrought, especially so with its gigantic unwieldy wings. The wings are supposed to protect the user from damage, which they do for a bit, but they nonetheless get torn up in the first third of the battle. There's no point in the fight that the armour stops damage in a way Diana could've just avoided with her much more practical and aesthetically pleasing regular outfit.
