8/27/2023 0 Comments Download ww84That said, Kristen Wiig’s Cheetah is effortlessly able to rip the wings off the top pretty easily. In WW84, we’re told that Asteria’s armor - that cool all-gold outfit in Diana’s closet - withstood the attacks of wicked men from ancient times. The comics present other origin stories for the plane (either Diana built it when she was young and it became summonable thanks to her telepathic tiara, or it is actually a living alien creature and … well, this involves crystals and artificial intelligence and it’s complicated), but there’s not hint of them in the Pattyverse. After muttering about how her father was good at making objects magical, thinking really hard, producing some sort of physical force from her own body, BAM! The plane is invisible. How, exactly does Wonder Woman make the plane invisible? The answer is that the script really needs her to - both because the nostalgia of all who recall a transparent plane from the ’70s show is incredibly strong, and because Diana and Steve needed to fly to the Middle East undetected, in a time when radar renders Steve’s extraordinary pilot skills moot - so she just does. But in WW84, it seems the object is simply imbued with the power of convenience.īecause (spoiler!) Wonder Woman eventually gains the ability to fly on her own by the end of this film, the brief appearance of an invisible jet midway through WW1984 ends up feeling a little superfluous. It’s also been associated with Diana’s telepathy, and/or the ability to combat telepathic attacks. That said, in a 2005 comic, she did use the tiara to cut Superman’s throat, which implies it has some kind of non-terrestrial powers. It might just be a boomerang, which is how it operates in Jenkins’s universe. It’s possible that Wonder Woman’s tiara is not actually magical. In this telling, Diana’s pair is special: Forged from the remains of Aegis, her bracelets produce force-field-like powers, explaining the whole anti-artillery nature of the accessories, which is their primary function in WW1984. (If you weren’t already aware, Marston was deeply engrossed with bondage as a concept.) But how did these bracelets come to be? They were either once again empowered to be indestructible by Aphrodite, who gave them to the Amazonians as both a symbol of their allegiance to the goddess and a visual warning against submitting to men or the bracelets are a relic of the Amazonians’ past enslavement to men, which they wear as perpetual penance for having ever fallen under the control of the opposite sex. These are technically called “the Bracelets of Submission,” and if we follow Diana’s logic about how magical objects operate (they become physically imbued with some intangible human quality, e.g., the ability to submit?), then the mystical power of these bracelets is fairly simple: They force people, bullets, etc. Are there any bounds to this mystical rope? Unclear. In fact, she actually ends up explaining to Steve Trevor that the lasso doesn’t just force people to be honest, but it also reveals truths, before using it to show rather than tell Steve about a particular Amazonian hero from her past. And perhaps the former, broader explanation is why in WW84, Diana uses the Lasso of Truth to whip bullets away more than she uses it to get people to spill the beans. As a magical object, the comics would have us believe that the lasso was imbued with power by the goddess Aphrodite (or forged by the god Hephaestus), and can be used to force someone to obey the commands of the person wielding it, or more specifically, to force that person to tell the truth. It was invented by writer William Moulton Marston, a real-life pioneer of an early form of a lie-detector test who was also the creator of Wonder Woman. This one is easy, right? Wonder Woman’s lasso makes you tell the truth. In order to work through our broader confusion over all the extraordinary rocks, weapons, and accessories, here’s a brief ranking of the magical objects in WW84, starting with the ones we (mostly) understand. Early in the story, Diana (Gal Gadot) assures us that her mystical objects aren’t really that mystical, but they are embedded with something that gives them inexplicable power - e.g., her lasso is embedded with truth, and who among us can handle that? But in terms of wonky object origin stories, this is pretty tame. In fact, the entire plot of WW84 seems to revolve around magical rules that go down like an unholy cocktail of Tolkien appendices and J.K. The DC movie universe heard that you like your superheroes to come with a hefty dose of magic, so Patty Jenkins and the people behind Wonder Woman 1984 put a bunch of be-careful-what-you-wish for fantastical thingamabobs into Diana Prince’s latest adventure. What we know and don’t know about the MacGuffins, invisible planes, and fanny packs.
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