History Headscratchers / WonderWoman

*** There are two possible answers to this question (and no real straight, solid one, because the difference between truth and lies is difficult to judge). Either you you would say 4pm because that's the truth to you consciously, or you would say 5pm because if you've merely forgotten it, then you know what the real truth, if only subconsciously.

** There are two possible answers to this question (and no real straight, solid one, because the difference between truth and lies is difficult to judge). Either you you would say 4pm because that's the truth to you consciously, or you would say 5pm because if you've merely forgotten it, then you know what the real truth, if only subconsciously.

** Yes, it's Cheetah. We see those 2 fight a lot in the cartoons, comics, and animated movies.

** Yes, it's Cheetah. We see those 2 fight a lot in cartoons, comics, and movies.

* Does Wonder Woman have an archenemy? Superman has Lex Luthor and Batman has The Joker, so who does Wonder Woman have? Is she like Spiderman, who's got three different archenemies, or what?

*** In ComicBook/PostCrisis continuity, she was given the beauty of a loving heart by Aphrodite. Thus, Wonder Woman has a superhuman ability to love.

*** She could just knock out Max and maybe mind wipe his knowledge on how to control people,or use the Lasso of Truth to show wiping out all superheroes will allow guys like Darkseid to wipe out or conquer mankind. There were other options (not to mention that Max seems like a WellIntentionedExtremist in that book), which is why fans are angry about it.
*** "Wipe his knowledge?" How? I don't recall Diana having mind erase powers. And if you say Zatanna or Martian Manhunter, I'll point you to ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis'', a series that (whether is succeeded or not) showed that mind-raping supervillains into forgetting things is a very grey & unreliable area. Besides, at that point, Max was sure that Checkmate & the OMAC army he created could handle any alien invasion off, New God or not. There may have been options (though I've been remiss to see any that actually could have held water) but Diana didn't have time since she was in a room with a mind-controlled Superman who was in danger of attacking her again.
*** Furthermore, Maxwell Lord was, and is, a complete monster. While Zatanna got vetoed and banned from mindwiping anyone because, last time she did, she turned Doctor Light into "Rapist [=McRape=], the Rapist Therapist", Maxwell Lord proved during the ComicBook/BrightestDay storyline to be not above killing superpowered children, getting Magog explode in a crowded city just to get a ComicBook/KingdomCome thrown at the JLI and sending his creations to get some petty revenge over WonderWoman herself while claiming to be the world's savior. Basically, he was in Diana's eyes a deeply disturbed man handling the most powerful humanoid on Earth. And she doesn't seem pained by killing him, but rather by the realization that Brother Eye, broadcasting her actions without relaying the context, actually turned her mission to spread peace in the Patriarch World into an instant failure.
*** An important and often overlooked factor here is that she used the Lasso of Truth - the thing that makes it literally impossible to lie - on Maxwell Lord and asked him how to free Superman from his control (after Max had forced Superman to beat Batman to a pulp and told Wonder Woman that he planned to use Superman to kill his enemies) and Max's response was [[http://league.jmkprime.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/max21-e1274448357871.jpg "Kill me."]] Max point blank told her that the ''only'' way to save release Superman from a life as Max's personal assassin was to kill him, and the lasso guaranteed that he wasn't lying (it's possible there was some way to do it that Max was unaware of - like powerful magic - but clearly just knocking Max out wasn't enough). As mentioned, the reason it was controversial was that footage of her snapping Max's neck while Max was tied up was broadcast out of context, making her look like a murderer.
*** People can't consciously lie while under the lasso's influence, yes, but their responses will still be colored by their prejudices and personalities. The kind of personality that Max had (at the time), it's not exactly surprising that he went for the most bloodthirsty option first. Then, if I recall correctly, Diana snapped his neck before he had a chance to say anything else.
*** Lots of people bring up alternatives to killing Max Lord, but consider the information Diana had access to: there was one person who knew more about how Lord's powers worked than anyone else, and who, as head of Checkmate, had extensive knowledge of unconventional methods of containing metahumans, who was very, very motivated to think of a non-lethal method to stop Lord, and who was divinely compelled to speak the truth: Max Lord himself. And the only thing he could come up with that was certain to work was was "kill me," much to his own obvious horror.

** Yes, she is and no, she would not.

** Are we seriously going to fill the page with every conceivable situation in which someone might not realize they're lying?

** Murder. Took me like two seconds to find this out. Googled it. Wonder of wonders.

* Is Wonder Woman bullet proof? If you shoot her in the back multiple times, would she die?

**** In PostCrisis continuity, she was given the beauty of a loving heart by Aphrodite. Thus, Wonder Woman has a superhuman ability to love.

* Is Wonder Woman bullet proof? If you shoot her in the back, would she die?

** Herself.

****** Furthermore, Maxwell Lord was, and is, a complete monster. While Zatanna got vetoed and banned from mindwiping anyone because, last time she did, she turned Doctor Light into "Rapist [=McRape=], the Rapist Therapist", Maxwell Lord proved during the BrightestDay storyline to be not above killing superpowered children, getting Magog explode in a crowded city just to get a ComicBook/KingdomCome thrown at the JLI and sending his creations to get some petty revenge over WonderWoman herself while claiming to be the world's savior. Basically, he was in Diana's eyes a deeply disturbed man handling the most powerful humanoid on Earth. And she doesn't seem pained by killing him, but rather by the realization that Brother Eye, broadcasting her actions without relaying the context, actually turned her mission to spread peace in the Patriarch World into an instant failure.

** I don't know nothin' about no Nemesis (isn't that the name of a goddess?!?!) but the reason she was made a Star Sapphire was explained in BlackestNight. Apparently she loves the entire world more than anyone else...or something. Bugger me if it makes any sense but there you have it.

* Why in the hell was she made a Star Sapphire in ''Blackest Night''? For those of you who don't know, Star Sapphires are basically Green Lanterns, but in regards to love, not willpower. I'm asking this because of her attitude towards Nemesis. So, he loved her, she loved him, but not enough to care about him any more than having kids? And she's made a Star Sapphire?!

** Herself.

* What are Wonder Woman's hobbies?

* So in the Azzarello/Chiang run, it's a plot point that Wonder Woman is literally an AllLovingHero, so much so that getting shot with Eros' gun has absolutely no effect on her. Pre-New 52, this was a gift of Aphrodite, but where does being literally-as-loving-as-a-love-god's-power come from now that she's just a daughter of Zeus?

** I'm guessing that it makes them tell what they think is true.

* I don't know a lot about Wonder Woman, but I know she has this rope which when tied around people makes them tell the truth. My question is, what if a kid gets lied to that their parents died in a car crash when really they got eaten by wolves. If Wonder Woman questions the kid, he/she is going to say "My folks died in a car crash", because that was the lie he/she was told. But if Wonder Woman ties her rope around him/her is the kid still going to say "My folks were killed in a car crash" or is he going to say "They got eaten by a wolf"?

** Also, Athena is goddess of the more positive aspects of war, not to mention wisdom, crafts, occasionally justice depending on the myth, and was patron of a city. Ares is god of the bloodthirsty aspects of war, the slaughter and chaos and pain and fear, and (unless you're a Roman and talking about Mars) god of not really much else. Before the New52 made the Amazons into StrawFeminist assholes, Athena was a much more sensible choice for a society based around ideals of peace, justice, equality, etc to worship. (Also, in the Post-Crisis era, she was one of their patrons and creators, so there was a fair bit of gratitude involved as well.)

** Probably because the people at DC decided it made more sense for a tribe of warrior women to worship a warrior goddess than a warrior god.

* Does anyone know why the DC Amazons worship Athena when mythology states that Ares was their patron deity? And why was Ares made a villain when Athena record of doing terrible things is just as bad, if not way worse, than his?

* Does anyone know why the DC Amazons worship Athena when mythology states that Ares was their patron deity? And why was Ares made a villain when Athena record of doing terrible things is just as bad, if not way worse, than his?