About Wonder Woman; do you think she would work better in World War II? Personally, I like using World War I as a setting. It isn’t as well-represented in films and media, and doesn’t a more morally ambiguous “waste of lives” enforce the fact that Wonder Woman is about peace, not war? There is a tragedy in men dying in trenches or on No Man’s Land which I think fits the vibe they seem to be going for.

Yes, I do, for several reasons. First, since Greece was invaded in WWII, you have a very straightforward hook to get Wonder Woman out into “man’s world.” Second, Wonder Woman was created about a month after Pearl Harbor and her mission in “man’s world” was to fight the Nazis – which continued through to the first season of her TV show in the 1970s. 

Here’s the problem with using WWI. As we can see from the trailer, Wonder Woman isn’t venturing into “man’s world” to negotiate a peace between the Triple Alliance and the Entente Cordiale – she’s there to fight against Ze Germans, which raises the question of why the Amazons are picking sides in the conflict, or what happens when Wonder Woman comes across soldiers mutinying or calling for men to join soldiers’ soviets? (Or where she was during WWII?)

Moreover, speaking as a great-grandson of a man who survived the trenches and the tunnels of Ypres, I think there’s a clash between the “tragedy in men dying in trenches or on No Man’s Land” and the super-heroics of Wonder Woman. The trailer showed Wonder Woman going over the top, except that, unlike the millions and millions of young men who were mowed down by machine gun fire, she’s got bulletproof bracers and a magical shield that will keep her safe from harm. That bothers me on a deep level. 

Also, as I said before, I find the whole failure narrative troubling.