Plans for a motion picture adaptation are also underway.
In addition to comic books, the character was featured in the popular 1975 to 1979 television adaptation starring Lynda Carter, as well as the Super Friends and Justice League animated series. Marston designed Wonder Woman to reflect his conception of an empowered independent female character, with several subsequent writers also working this idea into the character. For several years she was described in the splash page of each story, as "beautiful as Aphrodite, wise as Athena, swifter than Mercury, and stronger than Hercules." The Amazon ambassador to the larger world, Diana was awarded several gifts by the Olympian gods, including the Lasso of Truth (created from the Golden Girdle of Gaea) and indestructible bracelets/gauntlets (formed from the shield Aegis). In most adaptations, Wonder Woman is Princess Diana of the Amazon warrior tribe, based on Greek mythology, "Diana" being the Roman name for the Greek goddess Artemis on whom the character is based. She is among the first - and most famous - comic book superheroines, and is written as a founding member of the Justice League.ĪVENGERS INVADERS #1 - WITH ORIGINAL ART BY STEVE SADOWSKI!!!
Wonder Woman first appeared in All Star Comics #8 (Dec. While getting the hang of being the famed crimefighter, Ryan has used it against baddies such as Black Mask, Kilovolt and members of the False Face Society.įun fact: Not to put too fine a point on it, but according to an offhand mention during Season 2 of the series, these Bat-gadgets cost $1,000 to make! Good thing they’re designed to return to the thrower.Wonder Woman is a fictional DC Comics superheroine co-created by William Moulton Marston and wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston. Uses: Combining the best aspects of a throwing star and a boomerang, this weapon packs a wallop. Inventor: Credit Bruce Wayne/Batman for the original, but Batwoman’s striking red Batarangs come courtesy of ultra-brainy creator Luke Fox (Camrus Johnson), who himself now fights crime as Batwing. As Ryan Wilder ( Javicia Leslie) learned when she took over the crimefighter’s role in Season 2, Episode 3 of the hit CW show (after Ruby Rose’s departure), it’s always good to have something to hurl at the bad guys in between all the thrown punches.
The simple fact is this: There are Batarangs and there is Batwoman’s Batarang. That’s also the episode where we’re introduced to the auto-carriage, her incredibly cool three-passenger, three-wheel retro car that looks like an old-fashioned racer. As you might guess from its name, this device is bright - and when it goes off, the spinning, flying object may leave you with more than a black eye. In the world of The Nevers, these come in handy in a pinch.īest invention The Shiner, from Season 1, Episode 1. That helps her create such unique and useful things as foam guns, taser parasols and an electric car. Why choose just one weapon when you can choose a person whose entire superpower is the ability to invent a ton of them? One of the Touched, who have been given mysterious and enviable talents, Penance ( Ann Skelly) has an arsenal of battle-ready (but nonlethal) awesomeness in her head just waiting to spring to life in the lab on the HBO steampunk adventure series.Ībilities: Penance can envision potential energy, meaning she sees where energy is and where it should go.
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