Fridge / Wonder Woman (2009)

• Fridge Logic: Ares was shown to clearly have the upper hand against Hippolyta, and yet after she kills their son, she defeats him with only a single punch. Diana was almost killed by a harpy, and yet manages to take much more damage from the empowered Ares without suffering any lasting injuries. The Invisible Plane came literally from out of nowhere. And finally, there was no explanation for why Diana was much stronger and more skilled than the other Amazons - the movie never explicitly says she has "the speed of Hermes", for example, or "strength drawn from Gaia herself".
  • The first one may be somewhat justified as Ares was BSODing right after his son died.
  • As the Invisible Plane didn't appear until some time after Trevor had crash-landed his jet fighter on the island, and in partially intact condition, it might suggest that Hippolyta did a magic equivalent of reverse-engineering the plane and its missiles, and so created a (two-seated) copy with the island's invisibility magic added.
  • Being borne from clay, blood, and a lightning bolt is at least an implicit explanation for her abilities.
    • Also, Diana wasn't portrayed unrealistically stronger than all the other Amazons. She is implied to have repeatedly defeated Artemis, and she won the contest to send Steve back to the outside world, but I saw it more as there's always that one person who is better, and that person happened to be Diana.
    • In later adaptations, most if not all of the Amazons were depicted with similar abilities, able to match blows with Supergirl in sparring matches. So her depiction in the film isn't all that far-fetched...
  • Ares supposedly feeds off of death and destruction, and this is supposedly how he gets his ultra-superpowered mode in the final battle. However, he gets powered up by the launching of a nuclear missile before the nuclear missile hits anything, and as it turns out the missile never reaches its target..
  • It only took one direct hit from a lightning bolt cast down by Ares to render him weakened enough for Wonder Woman to issue the fatal blow. How was Wonder Woman able to tank two previous lightning bolt strikes without being equally weakened?
• Fridge Brilliance: While they were shocked when Steve said "excrement", most of the Amazons didn't react to Steve commenting on Diana's rack. Given that he had to define "crap" for Hippolyta a minute before, none of them are aware what he's talking about.
  • Speaking of racks...one of the main plot points of Wonder Woman is she was granted a gift by each of the Greek Gods (in some stories, only the female ones) and the gift of Venus was superhuman physical beauty. So when he says "God your daughter has an incredible rack" the more literal interpretation is she has an incredible rack BECAUSE of the gods. This also handily explains her Most Common Superpower traits, in universe, BTW.
  • Hmmm...the bad guy escaped captivity by seducing a woman who worked at the prison. A blonde woman. Seems to be a recurring strategy for DC villains.
    • This isn't Ares' first time either. He managed to seduce Aphrodite in the original myths, but was punished for it as she was already married to Hephaestus under Zeus's orders. Dear old Dad was quite the womanizer too...

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