Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: OT: the newest Wonder Woman

rokket opened this issue on Aug 05, 2014 · 85 posts


Cage posted Tue, 05 August 2014 at 1:41 PM

Quote - I really like the new WW look, actually.  And something else about it that I don't think anyone else pointed out is that the new look shown is probably more appealing to non-American audiences than the traditional star-spangled panties.  Not to mention far less wedgie inducing. :P

This is really a very interesting point.  International audiences would be a greater consideration with a film than with comics.  This is one of those areas where the history of the character works against them.  Wonder Woman was conceived during the earliest years of the genre, when no one was quite sure what superheroes were.  Superheroes came and went at a wild pace for the first couple of years, and a lot of them carried patriotic themes at the core of their conception.  Wonder Woman was one of these, albeit less so than many others.  We can see DC trying to pull back from that aspect of WW, in their redesigns over the years, starting with the loss of the eagle motif on her breastplate.  The star-spangled motif has been downplayed in various designs, but they've had to keep coming back to it.  Man, did people freak out when they gave her long pants!  Recently I saw Superman and Wonder Woman used in some promotional artwork at a fast food restaurant.  Superman had lost his red briefs, but Wonder Woman had reverted from pants back to star-spangled panties.

When I see extreme changes to a character, like those shown by the WW design above, I wonder how much of a character can be changed before it's really not the same character any longer.  Eventually you're in "same name, different character" territory (I know this territory well, from any and all of the fan fiction I've written.  :lol:).  Have they gone that far with Wonder Woman, here?  It will be interesting to see.

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