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** Adding to it: Nobody ever saw Wonder Woman again after World War I ended until the present day, not even during World War II or the Cold War's proxy conflicts. Whatever happened after UsefulNotes/WW1 caused Diana to drop off the radar completely and not showing up to help humans like she had on her first outing. It's highly likely that she has [[TookALevelInCynic taken many levels in cynic]] after what she had gone through during her fight with Ares and the loss of Steve. Additionally, the atrocities that happened before and during World War 2, such as the bombing of Guernica, the Nanking massacre, the Holocaust, or the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki could have enhanced this effect and decreased Diana's confidence in humanity.
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** Adding to it: Nobody ever saw Wonder Woman again after World War I ended until the present day, not even during World War II or the Cold War's proxy conflicts. Whatever happened after UsefulNotes/WW1 caused Diana to drop off the radar completely and not showing up to help humans like she had on her first outing. It's highly likely that she has [[TookALevelInCynic taken many levels in cynic]] after what she had gone through during her fight with Ares and the loss of Steve. Additionally, the atrocities that happened before and during World War 2, such as the bombing of Guernica, [[UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar Guernica]], the Nanking massacre, the Holocaust, or the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki could have enhanced this effect and decreased Diana's confidence in humanity.
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* On the boat ride to London, Diana tells Steve that according to the books she read, men are indispensable for reproduction, but unnecessary for pleasure. Right before leaving London, Diana tries her first ice cream cone. Ice cream is a desert with no nutritional value, it's completely unnecessary. And Diana seems to really enjoy it.
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** This would be completely consistent with the way the Olympian gods were portrayed in Greek mythology, in which they were all the products of incest and engaged in incest.
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* The ending seemingly has Diana triumphing with the power of her principles, destroying the god of war and causing the German soldiers to lay down their arms in relief as peace is finally brought to the world. And then you remember that Diana has lived to the present day, and had to witness a [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII second global conflict]] with [[FromBadToWorse greater acts of evil]] and a [[UpToEleven higher death toll than the first]].
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* The ending seemingly has Diana triumphing with the power of her principles, destroying the god of war and causing the German soldiers to lay down their arms in relief as peace is finally brought to the world. And then you remember that Diana has lived to the present day, and had to witness a [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII second global conflict]] with [[FromBadToWorse greater acts of evil]] and a [[UpToEleven higher death toll than the first]].first.
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* When Steve approaches Dr. Poison at the gala, he tries to get on her good side by creepily musing about fire: how it's "a living act of entropy" that exemplifies the violent conflict she and Ludendorff worship, and that it's a "comforting" reminder that everything returns to the ashes it came from. Or, to paraphrase: ''[[Film/TheDarkKnight "Everything burns!"]]''. What makes it even creepier is that it's played as the kind of seduction gambit seen all the time in spy thrillers, and Dr. Poison [[NightmareFetishist is very nearly seduced]] by it.
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* Nobody ever saw Wonder Woman again after World War I ended until the present day, not even during World War II or the Cold War's proxy conflicts. Whatever happened after UsefulNotes/WW1 caused Diana to drop off the radar completely and not showing up to help humans like she had on her first outing. It's highly likely that she has [[TookALevelInCynic taken many levels in cynic]] after what she had gone through during her fight with Ares and the loss of Steve. Additionally, the atrocities that happened before and during World War 2, such as the bombing of Guernica, the Nanking massacre, the Holocaust, or the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki could have enhanced this effect and decreased Diana's confidence in humanity.
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* Just the fact that at the end of day, [[ShootTheShaggyDogStory World War I couldn't simply be stopped by taking out the people at the top.]] As it was in the real world, Steve sums it up best in that the whole affair was just one big, terrible mess. Not even Wonder Woman could stop it herself, because as Ares would later say, [[HumansAreBastards humans did this of their own will.]] World War II would soon follow and prove to be a far bloodier and more destructive conflict, with the Axis atrocities testing the limits of human depravity, and its aftermath would put [[UsefulNotes/ColdWar the world on the brink of its destruction for a long period of time]]. The worst part? Ares wouldn't be alive to see it or influence humans in any way. Humans developed nuclear weapons on their own, he did not need to whisper or teach them how to create it. It's no wonder this was a CynicismCatalyst for Diana.
** But wait, it gets worse. Ares says that he just gave humans the ideas and they choose to use them to kill, and that he posed as someone arguing for peace because it would just lead to more war. Well, what happened after World War I? The Russian civil war continued until 1922, then the UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar, then the UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar that later merged with UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, another civil war in China, the UsefulNotes/ColdWar and all its proxy conflicts, the spread of [[WeaponOfMassDestruction nuclear and chemical weapons]], the Gulf War and eventually UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror. But by the end of the film, Ares is dead. That "century of horrors" Diana referred to in ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' happened without Ares' influence. Humans did that - ''we'' did that - all by themselves. Diana herself accepts that the VillainHasAPoint, but even though she obviously triumphs in the end, in some ways TheBadGuyWins as well.
** Adding to it: Nobody ever saw Wonder Woman again after World War I ended until the present day, not even during World War II or the Cold War's proxy conflicts. Whatever happened after UsefulNotes/WW1 caused Diana to drop off the radar completely and not showing up to help humans like she had on her first outing. It's highly likely that she has [[TookALevelInCynic taken many levels in cynic]] after what she had gone through during her fight with Ares and the loss of Steve. Additionally, the atrocities that happened before and during World War 2, such as the bombing of Guernica, the Nanking massacre, the Holocaust, or the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki could have enhanced this effect and decreased Diana's confidence in humanity.
** But wait, it gets worse. Ares says that he just gave humans the ideas and they choose to use them to kill, and that he posed as someone arguing for peace because it would just lead to more war. Well, what happened after World War I? The Russian civil war continued until 1922, then the UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar, then the UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar that later merged with UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, another civil war in China, the UsefulNotes/ColdWar and all its proxy conflicts, the spread of [[WeaponOfMassDestruction nuclear and chemical weapons]], the Gulf War and eventually UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror. But by the end of the film, Ares is dead. That "century of horrors" Diana referred to in ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' happened without Ares' influence. Humans did that - ''we'' did that - all by themselves. Diana herself accepts that the VillainHasAPoint, but even though she obviously triumphs in the end, in some ways TheBadGuyWins as well.
** Adding to it: Nobody ever saw Wonder Woman again after World War I ended until the present day, not even during World War II or the Cold War's proxy conflicts. Whatever happened after UsefulNotes/WW1 caused Diana to drop off the radar completely and not showing up to help humans like she had on her first outing. It's highly likely that she has [[TookALevelInCynic taken many levels in cynic]] after what she had gone through during her fight with Ares and the loss of Steve. Additionally, the atrocities that happened before and during World War 2, such as the bombing of Guernica, the Nanking massacre, the Holocaust, or the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki could have enhanced this effect and decreased Diana's confidence in humanity.
