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YMMV reactions for the Wonder Woman franchise


For the franchise at large:

  • Adaptation Displacement: The 1970s Carter TV series, especially since unlike her famous teammates, Diana hasn't had any really well-known adaptation until the 2017 film. When ABC News first reported on that movie, they claimed it would be an adaptation of the TV show with absolutely no mention that, you know, it's a comic book.
  • Alternative Character Interpretation: This article is a detailed analysis on how Hercules is most likely Wonder Woman’s biological father by comparing the original mythos with DC Comics adaptation of it.
  • Anvilicious: Wonder Woman's status as a feminist icon means that sometimes, a warped and ridiculous version of feminism leaks into her books. When that happens this is usually the result. At its worst we get Diana unironically spouting off lines like "Out of the way, sperm bank." Gail Simone mocked the tendency for the character to be depicted as this in her run on the book; Wonder Woman sees a movie based on herself and is embarrassed to discover that it depicts her as a Straw Feminist who constantly gives Narm-filled rants about the superiority of women.
  • Audience-Alienating Era:
    • The all-but In Name Only late 1960s to early 1970s period where she lost her powers and became a Badass Normal kung-fu superspy in a white trouser suit, with a male Chinese mentor called I Ching, because DC were trying to rip off The Avengers (1960s). The comic books sales were decent while the modernist fashion fad lasted in the United States, but utterly tanked once the fad was over, and "mod Wonder Woman" failed to catch on in merchandise or any other form of media even while the fad was at its height. The kindest critics looking back at it tend to agree it would have been just fine for a new character, but if the book didn't frequently remind the reader the woman on panel used to be Wonder Woman there would be no reason to assume she had ever been Diana of Paradise Island(she at one point claims to dislike women, which makes it hard to imagine how she survived on Paradise, and needs to be taught the value of women's suffrage, when Athena/Aphrodite specifically instructed Wonder Woman to protect democratic systems that allow women to vote to hasten the coming of female-male equality!)
    • Some fans go further and treat everything between William Moulton Marson's Golden Age stories and the George Perez reboot (around 40 years of material!) as one. It's certainly difficult to name an "iconic" Wonder Woman story from that period, even for sheer goofiness, with the Lynda Carter show as a possible exception.
  • Awesome Music: Her teammates have been in more adaptations and thus have more music, but her theme from Batman v Superman has gotten pretty iconic, having more views than the other music from the film and being featured in all the trailers for her solo movie.
    • The themesong from Lynda Carter's T.V. series easily ranks up there with the themes from the Adam West Batman and the 60's animated Spider-Man for sheer memorable catchiness. It's not for nothing that's the theme that was used in her brief appearance on Batman: The Brave and the Bold.
  • Badass Decay:
    • In the 1970s Wonder Woman lost all of her super powers in the comics and had to rely solely on martial arts. While she had a mentor/sidekick in I Ching to help with some problems that could not be handled conventionally, reporters, critics and even some fans cried fowl for weakening an iconic character. The comic chugged along for a few years, with the writers trying everything from giving Diana a harsher personality to an expanded supporting cast which included the witch Morgana to prove it wasn't just about taking super powers away from a woman, before finally relenting and giving her powers back as sales declined with the decline of the modernist fad. The televised pilot based on the non super powered Wonder Woman was a total flop however, leading to a better received pilot with the classical super powered Wonder Woman before the comics returned to form.
    • A New 52 arc following Convergence sees Wonder Woman visit Hephaestus to get a new suit with retractable blades. It makes her look more like a woman on a mission, a gladiator even, less like a lady out to have fun on the beach. The problem is that after getting her new outfit Wonder Woman proceeds to get her ass kicked by everything with legs that dislikes her, in her own book no less, while she's supposed to have gained the powers of a War God. It turns out there is a good reason for this, as Wonder Woman became the god of war involuntarily, and her refusal to embrace her status as such is causing the power to turn against and weaken her. All the same seeing Wonder Woman slumped over and bleeding so often did nothing to sell fans on the new clothes, which is a problem when you're trying to make them let go of an Iconic Outfit.
  • Base-Breaking Character:
    • Some find Ares to be a boring Generic Doomsday Villain who only works best as an origin villain for Diana, while others argue that as a scheming War God he makes an appropriate ongoing villain to her All-Loving Hero.
    • Every incarnation of Cheetah is a broken base, and the very concept of Cheetah itself as a foil to a woman stronger and faster than most gods is a point of contention. There's the intense, cunning and competent Golden Age Rich versus the in over her head Silver Age Rich versus the sympathetic Debbie Domaine versus the petty murderous thief and permanently empowered Barbara Minerva, versus the evil cultist Barbara Minerva, versus the good but corruptible Barbara Miverva. Sebastian has fans too. There are those just sick of DC erasing the other Cheetahs to make Barbara the only one, and again, those who think Cheetah's use should be scaled back altogether and or not treated that seriously because they can't take it that seriously, versus those who don't find anything inherently silly about a predatory animal theme or find the animal lady silly but a good kind of silly.
    • Doctor Cyber was either a cool new villain for a new "Bronze Age" of DC or a symbol of Wonder Woman's Fad Super phase that is better off forgotten, or even worse, a poor man's Doctor Doom (although she's got more in common with Madame Masque).
    • Max Lord's inclusion into Wonder Woman's world since Infinite Crisis and her killing him via snapping his neck. One set of fans find him to be an interesting villain for Diana to go up against as a villain from Man's World. Others despise that a character Diana had no meaningful relationship or interactions with prior was given such a pivotal moment in her character history and think he's redundant in a rogues gallery with Dr. Psycho and Veronica Cale.
  • Broken Base: Has its own page.
  • Can't Un-Hear It: For younger fans it's usually divided amongst Susan Eisenberg, Rosario Dawson, Grey DeLisle, or Gal Gadot as the voice for the character. Some older fans might hear either Lynda Carter or Shannon Farnon for Pre-Crisis Golden and Silver Age stories.
  • Character Perception Evolution: Blue Snowman was regarded as a joke villain years after the Golden Age due to the apparent ridiculousness of a supposed woman calling herself a snowman. The character was brought back in Power Girl and labeled a "C-List Wonder Woman villain with gender issues" before being killed by a monster. Then came Crystal Frasier's Bittersweet story in DC's Love Is A Battlefield which reframed Byrna Brilyant as a struggling genderfluid individual who created the Blue Snowman identity to match their gender identity, making the character far more understandable to modern readers. Blue Snowman has since made more appearances without the transphobic jokes, even in stories that didn't include Wonder Woman.
  • Common Knowledge
    • It's widely "known" that Wonder Woman wore a skirt in the Golden Age. And it's true... sort of. In her very first story (All-Star Comics #8), she wears what appears to be a skirt, but isn't. It's actually a pair of culottes — a style popular among athletic young women at the time that resembles a skirt, but is actually shorts. And even those shorts evolved quickly into tight shorts that lost the "skirt" look entirely. Nevertheless, whenever a modern artist wants to evoke a "Golden Age Wonder Woman" look, she's almost invariably drawn wearing a skirt.
    • Even official sources from DC themselves have listed Lady Lunar as a Wonder Woman villain, which proves even official sources can be wrong! While it is true the character originates from the Silver Age Wonder Woman comic books, she was a merely a friendly supporting character there. It was Superman and World's Finest that turned her into a villain, even then she wasn't fully responsible for her actions, and she never had any issues with Wonder Woman.
  • Complete Monster: Has its own page.
  • Creator's Pet: Egg Fu, an evil giant yellow communist egg with a prehensile mustache, has been disliked by fans of the comic books from the very moment he was introduced. Despite this, no less than eight incarnations of the character have appeared in various comic books, beating out several fan favorites like Draska Nishki, and the character has been adapted to other media at least six times, appearing more often than far more significant antagonists in the comic books like Doctor Poison, Duke of Deception and Doctor Psycho. Only Cheetah, Giganta, and public domain characters like Ares really beat him out for the first sixty years of Egg Fu's existence! At least part of his staying power comes from a brief but very memorable Colbert Bump when he got mentioned by Mary and Sue Anne on The Mary Tyler Moore Show decades ago.
  • Creepy Awesome: Dr. Psycho and Dr. Poison. Even from the goofy Golden Age they were two of the more disturbing villains, threatening and sometimes successfully killing people in ways that would have been very gruesome if the blood and viscera would have been drawn in detail. They nonetheless remain two of Wonder Woman's more popular villains, going strong throughout the years as other recurring foes like Duke of Deception, Blue Snowman, Zara, Minister Blizzard, Clea, Gundra and the like gradually fall into obscurity.
  • Designated Hero: Her New 52 incarnation who lectures people in danger for being weak instead of saving them (at first), and casually kills villains and is proud of it.
  • Easily Forgiven:
    • Paula von Gunther is a repeat offender
      • In the Golden Age comics, she's guilty of stealing, killing, torturing, kidnapping and brainwashing for the Nazi Party. While she only serves the Nazi Party because they killed her husband and threatened to do the same to her daughter, and gladly turns on them after her daughter is rescued, it doesn't change fact she doesn't serve her gets acquitted of several crimes just because her face got burned and doesn't have to go back to prison to finish serving her term for the crimes she had already been convicted of.
      • Post Crisis, Paula von Gunther is a willing Nazi who turns on the party after being mistreated by them, and possessed by Dark Angel. In this case most of her crimes really are Dark Angel's doing rather than her own, but Paula still put herself in position, including looking into occult matters for the sake of advancing the Nazi agenda.
      • Post Rebirth, Paula von Gunther turns on the woman who saved her life and found her a new family after her parents were killed just because Wonder Woman decided to procrastinate about letting Paula know that Paula's ancestors were a bunch of Nazis. Paula threatens to kill every super hero with any connection to Wonder Woman before leading three super villains to kill every amazon on Themyscira instead. While Paula had been mislead by the ghosts of her ancestors, and showed remorse for her actions, the fact Paula repeatedly gets out of receiving any significant consequences for them several times remains.
    • The Amazons of Themyscira are back to praising the name of Hera in volume 6 after Hera spent the latter chunk of volume 5 trying to exterminate the amazons of all three tribes while enslaving humanity. Hera doesn't even apologize but swears revenge for being thwarted! This is Depending on the Writer, however, as Amazons Attack shows that Hera's actions have lead to all Hellenistic gods being barred from planet Earth, even those that helped humanity and/or the Amazons.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse:
    • Fausta Grables was probably the franchise's first case. She wasn't a particularly competent villain, as her plans were rather easily foiled by Trevor and the Holiday Girls, but she did manage to trick Wonder Woman and that apparently left an impression. Grables was only used once in the comic books, even during alternate universes, what ifs, elseworlds and cosmic retcons where it would make sense for her to appear ,but has shown up in three Wonder Woman adaptations. Twice these have greatly expanded and developed her character. Another time Wonder Woman meets her two decades earlier than in the comics, when comic book Grables would literally have no reason to have any involvement with Wonder Woman and would be an early teen at best.
    • When DC editorial decided to start telling stories about the Earth-One Wonder Woman in the "Silver Age" instead of the Earth-Two "Golden Age" version, they held a fan poll asking which Golden Age villain should get an Earth-One counterpart. Countess Draska Nishki, who had only appeared in two issues and was barely a threat to Wonder Woman, won handily. Nishki left an impression on readers for the opposite reason Grables did: while Wonder Woman saw through and defeated Nishki fairly easily, Nishki managed to fool everyone but Wonder Woman. Being one of the few women H.G. Peter bothered to give a distinctive face probably didn't hurt either.
    • Nubia had sporadic appearances but gained a bit of a following for being the first black Amazon character in the Wonder Woman universe and being the most prominent one next to Philippus. Her "Real One" book sold better than expected in the young adult market.
    • Lady Steel was only around for one arc of World's Greatest Superheroes crossover newspaper strips, but left a lasting impression when she tracked down and defeated a Silver Age style Wonder Woman, gave a Silver Age style Superman such a fight the collateral damage that he caused forced him to let her escape, and she did such a good job impersonating Wonder Woman that Superman with his super senses couldn't tell the difference until the real Wonder Woman returned. While Lady Steel is later outsmarted by Superman and handily defeated by Wonder Woman in a rematch, she's far better remembered than the "masterminds" of her arc who put her mercenary company to work, and more liked than anything from Wonder Woman's own newspaper strips, even though her own creator, Paul Kupperberg, only vaguely remembered Lady Steel, confusing her with a Distaff Counterpart of Sarge Steel, who wasn't even owned by DC yet.
    • Introduced as an Anti-Hero Substitute of Diana in the '90s, Artemis was killed off but resurrected due to her popularity as a Foil to Diana. She has since become one of the most popular and iconic Wonder Woman characters. Quite impressive when one considers that she wasn't even introduced in the run where her Amazon tribe, the Bana-Mighdall, debuted.
    • Achilles Warkiller, a resurrected version of the Greek hero. While he was far from the first use of Achilles as a villain in a Wonder Woman comic, he was by far the most popular. Wonder Woman had drifted away from the Greek to the Hawaiian gods at the time and Zeus had created this form of Achilles out of the mutilated remains of Kāne Milohai, one of the most revered Hawaiian deities and far more benevolent than Zeus. As expected, Warkiller and the Gargareans he was installed as king of opposed Wonder Woman and the Amazons but he was so popular he underwent a Heel–Face Turn and got a Redemption Promotion, becoming far more powerful as a good guy to the point he joined Batman and The Outsiders as the team's powerhouse. Poor Kāne Milohai went from one of the Big Goods to an after thought.
    • The Legend of Wonder Woman version of Etta Candy has become very popular and arguably the most well-known aspect of the already well-received miniseries. It helps that unlike most versions after the Golden Age, she is neither slim nor does she feel particularly insecure about her weight, being simply a modern take on her original Big Fun Action Girl version.
    • Ferdinand, Diana's minotaur chef, is the most memorable supporting character from Greg Rucka's first run.
  • Ethnic Scrappy
    • I-Ching was disliked for being named after a philosophical book, and for the fact he was often colored with literally yellow skin. Lots of characters have goofy names, but regular ones behind them, and odd-colored skin but as a symbol there is something alien or supernatural about them. People who could look past these two issues generally agreed that the character was written well enough and almost everyone agreed that having him be killed by a random sniper was not the way they wanted the character handled.
    • Trevor Barnes was written to be a fairly regular guy that a super talented foreign princess might plausibly find attractive, but was disliked by a vocal section of readers who felt a passive black man was unworthy of taking Wonder Woman's virginity. Again, killing him off was not the solution most reader seemed to want, though it's not clear how much overlap there was between those upset he was dating Diana and those who didn't want him dead. A rare case of the writers of a corporate owned Long Runner being more progressive than the readers.
  • Fan Nickname:
    • "Wondy" is a common nickname for Wonder Woman. "Di", short for Diana, is also one that sees usage in both the comics and fandom.
      • "Warrior Woman" is also one that comes up, usually derogatorily, when fans think writers are placing her warrior traits/characteristics at the expense of her other personality traits.note 
    • "Polly" for Hippolyta (actually originating from a brief use in Volume 2)
    • "Temi" for Artemis.
    • Asteria's golden armor is popularly known as "The Screaming Chicken Armor".
    • "Shamazons" is the common nickname for the spectacularly misconceived Amazons Attack! (2007) and also when the Amazons are in general portrayed as Straw Feminists.
    • Diana got two new armors during her New 52, one of which was so disliked fans dubbed it "The Clown Suit".
  • Fair for Its Day: Dr. Poison, in the Golden Age, was still a case of Yellow Peril, no doubt about it, but at the very least her portrayal lacks a lot of the more offensive traits often given to Japanese characters at the time, which is both unusual and refreshing for this era.
  • Fanon Discontinuity: Supergirl volume 1 #9 was rejected by Wonder Woman fans for the way it portrayed the amazons as completely inferior to Supergirl, including Diana's equal twin sister Nubia and adopted sister Donna Troy. The fact that this was the last appearance of Nubia, outside of elseworlds, until Wonder Woman volume 2 annual #8 only made fans want to forget it even more, given they felt Silver/Bronze Age Nubia deserved a better send off.
  • Fashion-Victim Villain
    • The original Blue Snowman had Powered Armor that looked neither intimidating nor like a snowman, but like a pudgy old man in a bowler cap. Post Crisis plays this for laughs by giving her armor that is literally based on a snowman. New 52 decided to give her a gigantic Cyber Cyclops Mech that looked sufficiently threatening. DC Rebirth similarly went with a giant exo mech, but then went back to a goofy snowman armor, this time with a Heroic Build!
    • The second post-crisis Cheetah a.k.a Barbara Minerva. Those, uh... let's call them chaps, are not very flattering.
  • Hard-to-Adapt Work: It took decades for Wonder Woman to get her own feature film or animated series. She's a part of the "Big Three" at DC (alongside Batman and Superman), which naturally makes it easy to assume that she'd be prime material for adapting to film and television as her two fellow DC trinity members have been. Unfortunately, Wonder Woman doesn't have as much of a concrete personality, lore, Rogues Gallery, or supporting cast compared to Batman or Superman,note  which left many considering her to be much more difficult to work with compared to her two fellow "Big Three" members. The fact that she was the high profile female superhero only made things worse for a while due to Girl-Show Ghetto concerns. This was not helped by legal issues surrounding the character. As a result, with the exception of a 1974 made for TV film starring Cathy Lee Crosby, the 1970s series starring Lynda Carter, and the 2009 animated direct-to-video film that sold worse than expected(it moved about as many copies as the Justice League equivalents but it moved them slower), she never starred in her own work until 2017 and was mostly relegated to co-starring alongside other Justice League members. Fortunately, her very first proper feature film finally came out and proved very successful, paving the way for more material starring Wonder Woman. Tragically, the 2017’s film follow-up Wonder Woman 1984 was a divisive sequel released during the COVID-19 pandemic and the DCEU was rebooted afterwards, for now bringing things back to square one for Diana, at least as far as solo works are concerned.
  • Harsher in Hindsight:
    • Suspected Nazi Doctor Cue performs horrific human experiments on the patients he claims to be treating before disposing of their bodies in ovens. At the time this seemed like over the top comic book villainy. Towards the end of World War II it was discovered the actual Nazis were doing all of this and more, on far larger scales.
    • Comic Cavalcade #2 had Nazis trying to kill Diana and Steve by pumping car exhaust into a room where they're trapped. At the time, few people in the US were aware that the Nazis were using exactly that method in what would become known as the Holocaust.
  • Iconic Sequel Outfit: Wonder Woman originally wore a pair of culottes in the Golden Age with her red and yellow bustier. Later the culottes were ditched and she began to wear the iconic Leotard of Power inspired by the American flag. Since the release of Wonder Woman (2017), Diana is more known to modern audiences for wearing an Ancient Greek-style skirt/kilt made out of pteruges.
  • Informed Wrongness: Any time the subject of Diana using lethal force is brought up in stories featuring her and other heroes, chances are her willingness to kill will be treated as a moral failing on her part regardless of the context. The Maxwell Lord issue is a prime example of this. While the public freaking out is excusable since the video tape that showed her killing Max was edited to look like she'd killed an innocent, unarmed man, Superman and Batman treated her like the Anti-Christ despite having full knowledge of the situation and having even broken the no-kill rule themselves in the past.
  • Jerkass Woobie: Hera in The New 52. She's just as nasty in the comic books as she was in the recorded classical myths and literature. However, while Zeus is an Adaptational Nice Guy in New 52 who has the big picture in mind and is ultimately working for the greater good, he's still a lecherous adulterer and Hera is still the goddess of marriage. It's explicitly shown in the New 52 comics that stepping on a god's domain, at least gods of the Hellenistic pantheon, causes them to irrationally lash out. Hera's cruelty still suggests some unpleasant things about her personality, but one gets the impression that if her husband could keep it in his pants...toga... she'd be able to suppress her more vindictive urges.
  • Love to Hate: Dr. Psycho and Circe, both Card-Carrying Villains who love nothing more than to harass Diana and are both their own special brand of despicable.
  • Mainstream Obscurity: Her status as being one of DC's "Big Three", the other two being Superman and Batman. This is entirely due to the three being continually published from their debuts in The Golden Age of Comic Books through the entirety of The Silver Age of Comic Books up to the end of The Bronze Age of Comic Books, not because of her sales figures overall, which tapered off after the death of H.G. Peter, or even her in-story importance, which was also reduced in order to cash in on the Modernist fashion craze sweeping the United States in the 1960s. The sad fact is that Batman and Superman are both far more popular than she is, and the details of their series are far more well known. Wonder Woman's mythos and supporting cast have often suffered inconsistencies, writers even struggling to figure out what her driving motivation is. As detailed elsewhere, most potential adaptations of her ended up never being made, with the live-action series being the only one that's really well known for a long while. The result was that the general audience was introduced to her by proxy — either through marketing or through works in which she isn't the protagonist, such as in Justice League cartoons — and thus wasn't familiarized with her mythos and supporting cast. She was undeniably famous — but mainly in the sense that most people knew of her, less so in the sense that many people knew that much about her. She's also currently the only member of the trio to be canonically LGBTQ+, hence she was better known in such circles. The DC Extended Universe version played by Gal Gadot greatly helped her popularity and mainstream recognition, but ran into Follow-Up Failure.
  • Memetic Psychopath: She started to get this treatment after she killed Maxwell Lord in a moment of desperation during Infinite Crisis. (He told her while bound in the lasso of truth that it was literally the only way to keep him from making Superman kill her and Batman.)
  • My Real Daddy:
    • George Pérez's run on the character in the Post-Crisis era re-defined the character in the biggest way since the original Marston/Peters run in the 40s. So much so that Patty Jenkins said Perez's run was as influential on Wonder Woman (2017) as Wondy's creator, William Moulton Marston, was.
    • For the modern generation when it comes to Wonder Woman comics, Gail Simone and Greg Rucka.
    • Marv Wolfman and Phil Jiminez for Donna Troy.
    • Peter David is often considered this for Cassandra Sandsmark/Wonder Girl II.
    • Similarly, John Byrne is this to Artemis.
    • Circe had only a scant few appearances in Wonder Woman comics in the Pre-Crisis continuity with her appearing as often in other character's books as she Diana's. George Pérez, as part of the1987 relaunch, elevated Circe to a major and recurring threat in Wonder Woman's world as well as giving her several characteristics that have remained with the character since (such as her purple/violet hair and Smug Snake personality). Up until New 52 most writers tried to duplicate the sense of humor Christopher Priest gave Circe as well.
  • Narm Charm:
    • Wonder Woman working at fast food restaurant subplot from William Messner-Loebs's run. It is ridiculous and circumstances leading to it make no sense, yet many find it charming and fun, mostly for just how seriously Diana takes her job.
    Wonder Woman: I am unworthy to work at Taco Whiz.
    • This trope is often sited as the reason the Golden Age comics and the Lynda Carter show have fans.
  • Never Live It Down: DC's lengthy refusal to make a movie about her, especially the statement that it would be "too confusing" (at the same time that Marvel was giving us a raccoon with a machine gun). Even though she finally received her stand-alone movie in the DC Extended Universe which would prove to be a extremely successful smash-hit, the fact that her big screen debut was in The LEGO Movie rather than a DC film will remain a pretty big embarrassment.
  • Older Than They Think
    • Wonder Woman interacted with a super smart war dog named Rex in Sensation Comics #53, two years before Streak the Wonder Dog became Green Lantern Alan Scott's companion, eight years before Rex the Wonder Dog's debut
    • Despite being treated like jokes, Post Crisis, Blue Snowman predates every other cold themed villain in DC Comics, and Minister Blizzard predates every cold themed villain in DC Comics that isn't Blue Snowman. Unless one counts Prince Pagli of Bitterland as DC's first ice themed villain, but he's still a villain from Wonder Woman's original Golden Age run.
    • Wonder Woman was the first DC Comics character to have a multiverse, though the Wonder Woman multiverse was very different than the one established in Flash Of Two Worlds and was quietly ignored in favor of the Earth 2, Earth 1 etc. system from then on.
    • The first appearance of an emotional spectrum where a color of light represented every feeling was in the Golden Age Wonder Woman way before it was used in the Post Crisis Green Lantern comics. However the colors of Wonder Woman's emotional spectrum were never actually explained or even important to the plot. Hades was simply weakening Wonder Woman and The Holliday Girls by turning their "emotions" into "color bodies" to serve as a pretty light source while leaving their physical bodies inert and helpless.
    • Imagination was the fifth dimension in the Golden Age Wonder Woman comics well before it was treated as such in the New 52 Batman comics. However, Golden Age Wonder Woman treated this "fifth dimension" as an extension of three spacial dimensions and singular temporal dimension, rather than a "higher level" of time-space populated by reality warping imps like Bat-Mite.
    • Green Lantern may predate Wonder Woman but Wonder Woman supporting character Supreema had a Lensman lite force of "Golden Policewomen" well before Green Lantern was retooled into Lensman lite space police corps for the Silver Age Earth One.
    • Before Injustice Gods Among Us, before The Crime Syndicate of Earth 3, before The Phantom Zone Criminals like General Zod and Jax-Ur, before Bizarro, before the brothers U-Ban, Mala and Kizo, the "evil Superman" of DC Comics was Badra, a murderous, thieving, entitled, super fast, flying alien from the hyper advanced, war torn alien planet Hator. She was an enemy of Wonder Woman's.
    • Some comic book readers know of the Superman hating villain Solaris from DC One Million. Fewer know that Solaris is a Legacy Character and that the first one was a Wonder Woman villain. Granted, no previous Solaris was as impressive as the Tyrant Sun seen in DC One Million.
  • Only the Creator Does It Right: As well as the My Real Daddy examples above, there's an element of fandom who think that the character only really worked in the original Marston/Peter comics, despite or because of their idiosyncrasies.
  • Romantic Plot Tumor: None of her Post-Crisis romantic interests have been well-received, unless you count Artemis.
  • Replacement Scrappy
    • Cassie Sandsmark got backlash both from fans of the previous Wonder Girl Donna Troy, and fans of Vanessa Kapatelis, the previous far younger Wonder Woman friend and fan girl among Diana's supporting cast. This died down over time as Cassie established relationships with several more established members of Wonder Woman's supporting cast and Teen Titans alike, including Donna Troy herself, while Vanessa Vapatelis made her way back into Wonder Woman's book and Kapatelis got a proper send off when she left again.
    • One thing not helping the evil version of Donna Troy in New 52 is that the very concept of male Amazons, which Donna Troy is supposed to be vilified for slaughtering, are seen as less cool than the Gargareans, the Amazons' actual male counterparts from the Greek myths, even if DC's previous depiction of the Gargareans wasn't any more accurate to said myths. Gargarean King Achilles Warkiller was also better liked than Wonder Woman's brother Jason.
    • Future kid Trinity was this upon introduction in issue 800 to fans of Fury and Yara Flor, who thought those two desperately needed Character Development they could be getting in the spot this new character was in. This slightly died down, for Fury fans, as Trinity's story developed in Dawn of DC. Yara making another appearance that revealed details fans had been waiting three years to learn caused Yara's fans to ease up a little too.
  • The Scrappy
    • Jonny Double, the free loading private detective boyfriend during Diana Prince's time running her modernist boutique. He was basically seen as blander, less useful Steve Trevor with the same lame sense of humor.
    • Jason, Wonder Woman's twin brother, first alluded to during Geoff Johns' run on Justice League, has steadily become one for readers ever since his proper introduction in Wonder Woman (2016). His first strike was being a Call-Back to the New 52 run volume and that his existence solidifies Diana being Zeus' daughter (arguably the biggest Broken Base argument in Wonder Woman's fanbase). Every complaint after that is how he formed a Spotlight-Stealing Squad with Grail and Darkseid, coupled with inconsistent characterization and how hard he's being forced into a prominent space in Diana's life at the expense of the rest of her supporting cast. None of this is helped by how utterly boring he's perceived by the readers, and how inconsistent his character is, with his one defining trait seeming to be his entitlement.
  • Ship-to-Ship Combat: Between those who prefer Wonder Woman being with her usual love interest Steve Trevor, those who prefer her with Superman and those who ship her with Batman. Or those who want her in a relationship with another woman.
  • They Changed It, Now It Sucks!
    • There wasn't much wrong with Wonder Woman's "Mod" phase in of it self, other than the fact it was forced on The Wonder Woman book, which DC had to keep publishing to keep their right to use the character. Otherwise there would have been nothing wrong with just dropping the Wonder Woman book entirely until they could figure out something that would sell better while still being true to the character and just telling stories about an entirely new kung fu fighting fashion boutique owner. Things like Diana largely ignoring the women's liberation movement and proclaiming to not even like women in general would have been just fine bits of depth for a character who had never been Wonder Woman, but since this all ran quite contrary to everything established about Diana, who had left Paradise in part to safeguard the rise of women to positions of power in "man's world", it was just jarring. None the less these comics did sell so long as the modernist fad was popular in the US and The Avengers (1960s) television show pulled in ratings, ultimately saving the Wonder Woman book from cancellation and preventing the character from reverting to the Marston estate. Once the mod fad was over with and sales started dropping back again as the backlash from dedicated readers never really relented, DC was quick to return to form and now had plenty of writers with plenty of ideas for more traditional Wonder Woman stories and readers ready to welcome them.
    • Unfortunately, the tail end of the Silver Age and entirety of the Bronze Age until Crisis On Infinite Earths revealed there were perhaps too many ideas, as every time sales dipped a new writer or editor would come in and disregard whatever the previous creative team had established. While "Crisis" was itself another even bigger shakeup than ever before, Wonder Woman fans appreciated that the book finally stayed consistent from then on...until John Byrne's shake up anyway.
  • Values Resonance: While the earlier comics did have some outdated moments, the comic as a whole pioneered female superheroes and how they were just as capable as their male counterparts. It also stated the importance that femininity and kindness are strengths to be valued, not weaknesses.
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