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Wonder Woman (2023)

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For the YMMV page for the Wonder Woman franchise at large see here.


  • Arc Fatigue: The first arc takes nineteen issues to conclude, not to mention it running straight through a Crisis Crossover. And even at the end of that, the villain isn't actually defeated.
  • Anvilicious: It's extremely obvious that Sovereign — the secret "King of America" who opposes women, racial/sexual minorities, and non-Christian/Abrahamic religions — is meant to represent hard-right American conservatism. Tom King has explained how even though he pursues the run first and foremost as a superhero story with some political undertones, he really wants audiences to be fully clear that what Sovereign represents is really bad, commenting in jest that those who take umbrage with the inherent conflict of the story — Wonder Woman standing in opposition to everything corrupt and hateful about modern America — probably identify way too much with Sovereign. It probably doesn't help that some of the run's most vocal critics have described the run as being made for people who "really, REALLY hate America".
  • Awesome Art: Daniel Sampere has been earning a lot of praise for his issues on WW, earning him a lot of comparisons to acclaimed Wonder Woman artists like George Pérez and Phil Jimenez.
  • Base-Breaking Character: Lizzie Prince/Trinity has become quite the divisive character. She's got plenty of fans who love her for her design, being the catalyst for more Super Sons stories, and her personality; however, she also has plenty of detractors who think her design cribs too much on Yara Flor's, view her as a Replacement Scrappy for Lyta Trevor/Fury, and/or someone who only exists so that the Trinity's kids can have their own trio.
  • Broken Base: Some fans feel that the comic has brought in too much of the wider DCU and not enough on Wonder Woman's traditional supporting cast, as traditionally the character's best selling stories are those that turn away from or even flat out ignore the wider DCU. Other fans point out that King's run has actually brought in supporting characters that have often been underused in prior runs, such as the Wonder Girls and some of the more obscure villains. Critics and detractors agree that there's a dearth of new material, but while critics complain about Emelie's lack of plot importance after issue #3 and are unimpressed with Trinity and Sovereign, Trinity and Sovereign do have vocal fans and tolerant observers eager to see how they develop. Sales for this run has been the highest for a mainline Wonder Woman run since the Rebirth run.
  • Catharsis Factor: After spending the comic as a pompous, hateful Jerkass, the Sovereign pleading to Diana to not hurt him in issue #19 once she faces him is rather appropiate.
  • Just Here for Godzilla: Some readers don't care that much for Wonder Woman, or at least for what the current creative team is doing with her, and find the reunion of the Super Sons to be the real reason to read this volume.
  • Les Yay: Issue #10 has a truly staggering level of homosexual context between Diana and Cheetah. If the panels were textless you would think this was about a very violent lovers quarrel.
  • Memetic Mutation: Much like Kite-Man's "Kite Man, Hell yeah!" from King's run on Batman (2016), there's been much made of his Diana's repeated use of ''No, thank you".
  • Older Than They Think:
    • This isn't the first time Sargent Steel has undergone Adaptational Villainy towards Wonder Woman.
    • The idea of the United States being secretly ruled by a Shadow Dictator opposed to matriarchal pagan values and under the posession of a tool to alter the world's perception, had been seen before on Rachel Pollack's Doom Patrol (1987)'s Story Arc "The Teiresias Wars'', with the Builders, a secret conspiracy under the Pentagon opposed to matriarchal nature-centric religions, planning to rebuild the Tower of Babel to establish a single language.
    • The Wonder Woman/Shade the Changing Girl crossover from the Milk Wars event already showed Diana being brainwashed into a 1950s meek traditional wife under an abusive husband.
    • There was mild criticism in issue #9 that Diana was aware of the outside world prior to Steve Trevor, such as being a fan of Western movies. However, there is precedent for this going all the way back to the Golden Age; the Amazons were fully aware of the outside world through their viewing globes and Diana herself made numerous pop cultural references in those stories. Diana being a Fish out of Water is a development that began in the 1980s and picked up on by later adaptations.
    • Criticisms about Trinity being seen as a weaker character compared to Fury, the daughter of Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor from Pre-Crisis Earth-2, have born resemblance to those who complained about Jason as Diana's twin sibling being an inferior imitation of Nubia, her original twin from the Pre-Crisis era.
    • Trinity's death lasso was preceded by Power Princess's Necro Lasso in Heroes Reborn. In fact, Power Princess having three binding tools in the Chain of Veracity, Necro Lasso and Invisible Barbed Wire of Ares isn't much different than Trinity's Three Lassos of Fate. It's like the Corrupted Character Copy Wonder Woman parody was accidentally prophetic.
  • Replacement Scrappy: Trinity's detractors frequently espouse that she's nowhere near as interesting as Lyta Trevor, the original daughter of Wonder Woman from Earth-2.
  • Spiritual Successor: The "World's Finest" back-up stories involving Jon Kent, Damian Wayne, and Lizzie. With Jon and Damian's banter back in full force, it comes across as an unofficial sequel to Super Sons premised around the two babysitting Wonder Woman's daughter.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
    • Many have expressed disapointment that the USA's ethnic cleansing of the Amazons doesn't get any focus after the first issue, with Diana never doing anything to help her imprisoned sisters and the plot point being unceremoniously dropped when Diana mentions the Flash having freed them, off-screen, in issue #18.
    • Some fans of Lizzie Prince bemoan her limited interactions with Wonder Woman's supporting cast, wishing that she'd get a chance to hang out with the other Amazons or any of the various Wonder Girls (among others) rather than spend all her time with either her mom or Jon and Damian.

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