Considering Wonder Woman turns away from man’s world I think WWI is a better fit than WWII. You can’t romanticize it like you can crudely with WWII and turn it into” good” vs ”evil”, it was just a massive loss of life due to greed and nationalism run wild that in the end achieved nothing but causing scores of people to lose their lives over something that accomplished pretty much nothing. I could see a idealistic Diana leaving man’s world behind after that.

I had to ask around because I wasn’t clear what you mean about “Diana leaving man’s world behind after that.” And then I realized that yes, in the Synderverse, Wonder Woman went away, because no one knows who she is when she turns up in BVSDOJ. Which I think gets to what I don’t like about the Snyderverse, namely its aversion to hope and optimism and progress. (Thus, Snyder’s take on Superman) 

The reason I was confused is that, in the comics, Diana doesn’t go away – she keeps fighting to make the world a better place, saves the world a whole bunch of times, etc. But in Snyderverse, Diana went away and we just got lucky that the world wasn’t destroyed between 1918 and now.

So is the narrative of the first Wonder Woman movie that she fails? That she was unable to change the world for the better and went home, defeated in her larger mission, only to show up now because Darkseid reasons? 

(And of course, this still invites the question as to why Wonder Woman didn’t fight fascism, which is something I didn’t think I’d ever have to ask. Good lord, 2016…)