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1{{Shout Out}}s Allusions and other references to the character Wonder Woman, and the many titles she has headed over the years.
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3See also WonderWomanWannabe.
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6* ''Anime/ProjectAKo'': The main character is heavily implied to be the daughter of Wonder Woman and Superman (who appear in a LawyerFriendlyCameo scene). Even sporting bracelets in a nod to Diana.
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9* The cover for issue 11 of ''ComicBook/AllNewWolverine'' is a nod to the cover of ''ComicBook/WonderWomanTheHiketeia''.
10* ''ComicBook/AstroCity'': Winged Victory is a Wonder Woman {{expy}} that does far more to explore her given mission of improving "man's world" than Wondy ever does in her mainstream books.
11* ''ComicBook/BigBangComics'': Most characters are thinly disguised versions of golden and silver age DC Comics characters, with Venus as a CaptainErsatz of Wonder Woman.
12* ''ComicBook/CowboysAndAliens'': Verity has a name meaning "truth", a rope-like weapon and is even called "wonderous" at one point, which all combined bring Wonder Woman to mind.
13* ''ComicBook/{{Flare}}'': On [[http://www.heroicmultiverse.com/flare/webcomic/index.php?pn=808 this page]] Sparkplug is dressed as Wonder Woman.
14* ''ComicBook/MarshalLaw'': Miss Victory, of the Jesus Society of America, is a pastiche of the Golden Age Wonder Woman.
15* ''ComicBook/TheOracleCode'': Yeong wears a denim jacket with Superman and Wonder Woman badges and one of the center's basketball teams is called the Wonders.
16* ''ComicBook/TheSimpsonsFuturamaCrossoverCrisis'': Wonder Woman makes a LawyerFriendlyCameo alongside other superheroes from DC and Marvel in the final issue.
17* ''ComicBook/SquadronSupreme'': Power Princess was explicitly created as Marvel's AlternateCompanyEquivalent of Wondy.
18* Adam Hughes' cover for ''[[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Wonder Woman 600]]'' is a blatant InternalHomage to the first cover to feature Diana front and center decades prior for ''ComicBook/SensationComics''.
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21* ''Fanfic/BoldoresAndBoomsticks'': Yang channel surfs and watches a little bit of the Pokémon world's version of the 2017 film, where Diana is accompanied by a Latias.
22* Seven of Nine says "Suffering [[LesYay Sapphic!]]" while playing a holodeck heroine in the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' SlashFic ''Attack of the 50-Ft Half-Klingon''.
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25* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie2TheSecondPart'': The appearance of three Wonder Women (targeting three different age groups) is a specific reference to the Impossible Tales in ''[[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Wonder Woman Volume 1]]'' where three differently aged Wonder Women appeared side by side (Franchise/WonderWoman, the original ComicBook/WonderGirl, and Wonder Tot).
26* Zipper from ''Film/ElectraGlideInBlue'' leers at Wonder Woman as he reads comic books while slacking off.
27* ''Film/TheNiceGuys'': The ending of the film, set in the late-70s, has the two main characters take up case investigating on behalf of an old lady who thinks her husband is having an affair with Creator/LyndaCarter, called "Wonder Woman" by one of the characters.
28* ''Film/SkyHigh2005'': After scolding the captured villains in the ending, Principal Powers laments that she isn't Wonder Woman. [[ActorAllusion She's played by]] Creator/LyndaCarter.
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30[[AC:{{Literature}}]]
31* In Sara Paretsky's ''Literature/VIWarshawski'' novels, one of IntrepidReporter Murray Ryerson's nicknames for Warshawski is Wonder Woman (along with Literature/NancyDrew and [[Film/{{She}} She-who-must-be-obeyed]]).
32* ''Literature/PlanetEarthIsBlue'': In a flashback, Bridget and Nova go to a Halloween party where one of the guests is dressed as Wonder Woman.
33* Sarah from ''Literature/LilyAndDunkin'' has a Wonder Woman T-shirt.
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36* ''Series/Batwoman2019''. In "The Rabbit Hole", Sophie Moore demands to know if Kate Kane was the mysterious Batwoman who saved her life in the previous episode. Kate denies it, saying if she was going to do something like that, she'd have dressed up like Wonder Woman instead.
37* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': Penny's outfit for the costume party she ends up not wanting to go to with the guys as the Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica is to be Wonder Woman. Her reluctance to put on the dark-haired wig that causes some friction with the group, unwilling to accept a blonde Wonder Woman (conveniently forgetting about the Lynda Carter TV series).
38* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'': Roz feels that Wonder Woman is her superhero.
39-->'''Roz:''' Actually, I didn't misunderstand anything. You made so much fun of my costume, I got so embarrassed, so I lied. Wonder Woman really is my hero. I mean, she's smart and beautiful, moral, and totally independent.
40* ''Series/GilmoreGirls'': In the first season episode "Love and War and Snow", when Emily asks if Lorelai's coming over for Friday dinner despite the snowstorm, Lorelai jokes she'll just put on her costume, grab her lasso, and hop on her invisible plane.
41* ''Series/HarrysLaw'': Guest character Annie Bilson (played by Creator/EricaDurance who also famously played Lois Lane below) is a vigilante who dresses as the Themysciran princess in her crusade.
42* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'': Lois Lane cosplayed with the character's costume in a Season 9 episode. This is an obvious MythologyGag since Diana doesn't seem to exist (yet) in this universe. Although a FreezeFrameBonus from a previous episode implies her island nation home does exist and is in contact with the Vactican.
43* ''Series/LovecraftCountry'': The characters Hippolyta and her daughter, Diana, are a nod to Wonder Woman and her own mother.
44* ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'': Craig, the show's resident [[{{Geek}} comic book geek]], is seen watching [[Series/WonderWoman1975 the Lynda Carter show]] in one episode.
45* '''Series/That70sShow'':
46** In a fantasy sequence parodying the ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'', Donna is dressed as Wonder Woman.
47** When Eric sneaks off to partake in Roller Disco, his dance partner is dressed as Wonder Woman.
48** While getting high, Jackie wonders how cool it'd be if she had Wonder Woman's bullet-blocking bracelets.
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51* The ''Podcast/NowPlaying Podcast'' reviewed [[Film/WonderWoman1974 the Cathy Lee Crosby T.V. movie]] and the pilot movie of the [[Series/WonderWoman1975 70's Lynda Carter show]] in anticipation of the release of ''Film/WonderWoman2017''. A review of ''Film/WonderWoman1984'' was followed with in 2021.
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54* "Wonder Woman Of Wrestling" has unofficially been bestowed on several people in the Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance throughout the decades, most prominently on half of the NWA World Women's TagTeam Champions Sabrina, where positive parallels were drawn to the physical characteristics of the "Golden Age" comic book character. Others include Wrestling/CheerleaderMelissa, who is similar in appearance to Sabrina and even used Tricky's ''Number One Da Woman'' as entrance music, Wrestling/MercedesMartinez, and Santana Garrett, though it was usually used derisively in Garrett's case by rivals like Thunder Rosa.
55* One set of Princesa Sugehit's ring gear, as a {{tecnic|o}}a, is based on Wonder Woman's costume, only with various insects in place of the birds, stars and letters.
56* Wrestling/TrishStratus would sometimes slip in subtle references to the comic book character as baby face, or not so subtly dress as Wonder Woman during the {{Halloween Episode}} costume contests she partook in.
57* Wrestling/MickieJames, after a program with Stratus forever connected them in public consciousness, took it a step further and wrestled matches dressed as Wonder Woman, including a series of Wrestling/{{TNA}} house shows.
58* Wrestling/BethPhoenix's headband brings Diana's tiara to mind, something she has embraced as part of her "[[AmazonianBeauty Glamazonian]]" shtick.
59* While working heel, Camron Star would dress as Wonder Woman, particularly after a Halloween costume contest in the Indiana based New Era Wrestling. She especially liked to while feuding with Thunderkitty, a redheaded baby face who commonly wore leopard print singlets, to invert Wonder Woman's usual dynamic with Cheetah/Giganta. She also did so while managing Damian Cole, a heel who would dress as Captain America, referencing a {{common|crossover}} {{crossover ship}}.
60* Wrestling/MandyLeon has dressed as Wonder Woman for some publicity posts.
61* Wrestling/SashaBanks dressed as the Themysciran princess during the first ever women's Wrestling/RoyalRumble.
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63[[AC:VideoGames]]
64* ''VideoGame/HeroesOfTheStorm'': One of the extra colorings of Cassia's base skin is an homage to Wonder Woman, who's also an Amazon. It's also titled 'Wondrous'.
65* ''VideoGame/InfiniteCraft'': "Wonder Woman" is a possible crafting recipe.
66* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'': Sivir's spectacular skin is a Wonder Woman shout out.
67* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'': In ''MK vs DC'', Kitana becomes Mortal Kombat's version of Wonder Woman when the gods grant her Shang Tsung's island to form the Edenian resistance, which is also seemingly made up of only women.
68* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOdyssey'': Cassandra's Amazon Armor is a dead-ringer for Wonder Woman's outfit with its sleeveless cuirass, short leather skirt, high plated boots, braces, and tiara.
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71* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': One scene shows a sign for both an X-ray and a Purple Ray, the second of which is associated with the technology of Themyscira in ''Wonder Woman'' where it is a healing ray.
72* ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'': Sydney has a white shirt with Wondy's emblem across the chest.
73* ''Webcomic/HarkAVagrant'': Creator/KateBeaton's interpretation of Wonder Woman is [[{{Jerkass}} somewhat unconventional]], though quite amusing. [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=328 Fitting for a humor comic.]]
74* ''Webcomic/TheNonAdventuresOfWonderella'': Is primarily a parody comic of Wonder Woman, Wonderella even has her own invisible ''blimp''.
75* ''Webcomic/{{Paranatural}}'': When the bullies spot the spectrals in a ghost train the spectrals just appear to be sitting in an invisible flying machine, which causes one of the bullies to tear up with regret and want at the thought that they are in an or several invisible planes like Wondy.
76* ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'': In the comic titled [[https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2296 "Wonder Woman"]] Hanners arrives at the party in an invisible experimental aircraft equipped with AI capable of piloting itself, just like Wondy's robot plane in the [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 original comics.]]
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79* ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'': Wonder Woman battles Music/StevieWonder in Season 5.
80* WebVideo/SuperEyepatchWolf's video ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm5sGhaztws Why Cuphead Looks So God Damn Good]]'' includes ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'' among the visual stylistic inspirations for the style of the game.
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83* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Episode six of season 4, "Power Ponies," features a spoof of Film/{{The Avengers|2012}} and Franchise/{{Justice League|of America}} and Applejack (Mistress Mare-velous) gets a lasso like Franchise/WonderWoman.
84* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
85** In the season 2 episode "Three Men and a Comic Book", Bart and Lisa ponder whether ComicBook/RichieRich and WesternAnimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost are one and the same. Homer then mentions Wonder Woman.
86** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS21E1HomerTheWhopper Homer the Whopper]]", Homer is cast as the title character in a movie titled ''Everyman'', about a superhero who gains the powers of other superheroes by touching their comic books. One scene has a cop thanking Everyman for saving the day:
87--->'''Homer [as Everyman]:''' Don't thank ''me''! ''[holds up a ComicBook/CaptainAmerica comic]'' Thank Captain America, for giving me the patriotism to want to save the President's life, ''[holds up a Wonder Woman comic]'' and thank Wonder Woman, for giving me [[DistractedByTheSexy the boobs to distract the guards]].

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