Wonder Woman Would Hate How Humanity Originally Saw Her
Warning: contains spoilers for Wonder Woman Evolution #7!
DC's Wonder Woman is the premiere female superhero, standing as a role model worldwide who fights for peace and love between the nations of Man's world — so she would have loathed to see her face on a piece of military equipment. While Wonder Woman may have a sword and shield in the most recent iterations of her character (most notably in 2016's Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice and elsewhere in the DCEU), but she often doesn't carry weapons at all, aside from her Lasso of Truth which is more of a tool than a device of destruction. But Wonder Woman Evolution #7 reveals exactly what the world once thought of Wonder Woman — and why she would despise it.
Created in 1941 by psychologist William Moulton Marsdon and artist Harry G. Peter, Wonder Woman was created as a direct response to the many masculine and male superheroes flooding the market during World War II such as Batman and Superman. Marsdon firmly believed that a world under the rule of women would be superior to one under the rule of men, writing «Wonder Woman is psychological propaganda for the new type of woman who, I believe, should rule the world.» The character he created would embody this quote by negotiating peace and finding ways to stop wars rather than start them. But in the DC Universe, the United States perhaps got the wrong message.
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In Wonder Woman Evolution #7, written by Stephanie Phillips with art by Stefano Raffaele, Wonder Woman's entire ordeal throughout the series — including meeting otherworldly beings and a vision of love interest Steve Trevor — is revealed to be one massive experiment using nanite technology. During
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