See here for the Wonder Woman (1987) Fridge page and here for the Wonder Woman (2017) film Fridge page.
General Examples
Fridge Logic- From reading the Useless Boyfriend page, specifically the line by Steve Trevor that "being a secret agent is a cinch when you have a super-powered girlfriend". The line seems to qualify for that page, since it implies that he doesn't do anything. Then I realized that he's not so much James Bond as he is Micheal Weston, who shows that good secret agents (or as he terms them, spies) are less about shooting people and stealing secrets, as they are about manipulating assets into shooting people and stealing secrets. Steve Trevor is a great spy/secret agent, seeing as his asset is Wonder Woman. The only downside is his preferred tactic to motivate his asset is to put himself in danger.
- Unlike Superman, Wonder Woman isn't actually bullet-proof, but has those bracelets that she can deflect bullets with. So, has no one ever tried aiming for her legs?
- To be fair, most soldiers are trained to aim for the center of mass, meaning her chest where she can easily maneuver her arms to block most rounds. Besides, she's fast enough to keep up with The Flash and strong enough to match blows with Superman, the lack of utterly invulnerable skin is more of a plot device than anything else.
- There's this fan comic
on why she deflects bullets with her bracelets. Because if she deflects bullets with her chest like Superman does, expect chest jiggling and perverts giggling.
- Why isn't Wonder Woman bulletproof? The penetrative force of a bullet really can't compare to the force of taking punches that can shatter planets and blow up stars.
- She is usually at least bullet resistant. She's not as damage proof as a Kryptonian and her bracelets are even tougher so it's just practical to deflect blows that have the potential to injure her.
- Her primary weapon/tool being the Lasso of Truth makes a lot of sense after you learn that the Doctors Marston and Olive Byrne invented the polygraph.
- The odd bit of Insistent Terminology over the years that the Amazons' Purple Healing Ray is, well, the Purple Healing Ray (what, to distinguish it from other healing rays?) lines up nicely with the Green Lantern comic's notion that purple is the color of love, potentially making it actually significant that it is purple.
Comic Book Examples
Fridge Brilliance- Nubia sharing very few of Diana's features during The Silver Age and even fewer of them in Future State makes little sense if they were both gifted with the beauty of Aphrodite after being formed as twins from clay, until you remember than while Aphrodite was, at best, a Sufficiently Advanced Alien during the Golden Age, which first showed the birth of Wonder Tot, The Silver Age and especially Future State treats the Greek gods more like the Physical Gods the Athenians wrote about. These records state their gods could change their appearances at will and that their gods' favorite place to party on Earth was "Aethiopia", a land "as scorched by the sun" filled with dark skinned people. While the generally lighter skinned Greeks were Aphrodite's primary worshipers, it's not hard to imagine the love goddess spending a lot of time as a darker skinned Aethiopian. The amazons of Paradise Island(Silver Age)/Themyscira(Future State) also venerate Athena as one of their top goddesses, and in real life men of the city state of Athens tended to hold up women of Kemet and Aethiopia as sex symbols equal to their own. Hippolyta wanting a "Nubian" baby alongside her lighter skinned one and both being as beautiful as Aphrodite makes sense in a historical context.
- Ares' plot to use Genocide and the Olympians to start World War III and kill everyone on Earth during "Rise of the Olympian" at first seems like a spectacularly stupid thing to do, given that Diana established waaaay back in the first Perez arc that doing so would end all war and cause Ares to fade away himself. And then you remember that Ares spent most of Greg Rucka's run "re-inventing himself," first as the God of Conflict (not just war), and later usurping Hades as the Lord of the Dead, and you realize that he always intended to go through with the original plan. He just wanted to get himself in a safe position first. If you rule over the dead, and everyone is dead, that's what you call job security.
- Wonder Woman (1942):
- Diana unhesitatingly tears apart Atomia's "Proton" mooks even after learning they are crafted from humans and have enough brain matter left to be susceptible to a Jedi Mind Trick despite her very adamantly kept oath not to take human life indicating that for all practical purposes these victims of Atomia's are dead and still being used by her as puppets.
- Dalma's fate gives a rather chilling look at what happens if an Amazon tires of the duties of her oath and tries to leave Paradise Island to start a new life: at Aphrodite's furious command she is hunted down, imprisoned and strapped into a brainwashing Venus Girdle indefinitely.
- When comics depict a conflict between Wonder Woman and Superman, they typically give Diana a magic weapon, since magic entirely bypasses Superman's invulnerability... except since the Silver Age and unless stripped of her powers, Wonder Woman's been a divine champion empowered by the gods and created out of clay.
- Magic doesn't necessarily "completely bypass" his invulnerability, he simply has no invulnerability to it. According to the DC wiki,there is a difference. How much effect the magic has is dependent on the intended effect-a Spell of Magic Missile, for example, would have the same effect on him as on, say, Batman. And since Superman is capable of extended slugfests with Shazam, who does channel magic and divine power through his fists, and typically Diana is not depicted as being anywhere near that level in terms of godly power, giving her that extra advantage is necessary.
- It's a repeated point in Azzarello's run that Diana was bullied as a child by other Amazons for her perceived origin, even being derogatorily called "clay". Except, The New 52 Amazons have been characterized as such insane man-haters they threatened to castrate one of their own gods for literally just being around. So of anything, wouldn't they see her as a symbol of their ideals, since as Hermes said "no male seed created her"?
- Bias is irrational and nonsensical, though in this case, it's because they saw her as not even human.
- It's addressed, though not explained in the comic itself, when The Amazons bring a molded from clay Donna Troy to life to kill the "amazon brothers" and replace Diana. Diana is half appalled half amused that that her sisters went and created what they claimed to hate her for.
