One of the most popular heroes, but no one reads her stories, no one likes her movies, no games.
It can't just be porn, because some of the most popular porn superheroines are nowhere near as popular. So what is it?
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What's her character
Who knows?
>Cause wonder woman comics did indeed exist and have from a long time
Yes, but she's almost never able to crack the top 100 monthly lists.
>she's almost never able to crack the top 100 monthly lists.
she regularly did before DC's implosion in this decade
Yes, but at the same time so many terrible books
It's an unfair question in many ways because every writer has such a radically different take on her. I gave up trying to read her books because every writer change would basically be a new brand new character, complete with new supporting cast usually.
You act like Superman and Batman have specific characters. They might have some clearer trends, but there's no true consistency.
Anon behind this line exist the monthly superhero comicbooks
Are you willing to cross it?
Cause wonder woman comics did indeed exist and have from a long time
The Third member of DC's Big 3 has always fell in and out, sometimes it's more like the Big 2 of Supes and Batty, with 2 more a little behind being the big 4.
There was a good case that Hal Jordan deserved the title as Number 3 for a few years.
She had one iconic run, a popular television series, and a bunch of great stories outside of her ongoing series. That makes her better than 90% of other female characters.
I know this is bait but the issue is writing women like men. If you tried the vice versa it would be really jarring. Watch any David Lynch kino and you'll see many examples of women written as women. No need for any Gung ho gi Jane macho bravado.
Replace WW with Superman and the comic strip is even better.
Diana is an outlier.
She's known as the archetypical heroine, has showed up in cartoons for the last 40 years, has at least one successful movie and Lynda Carter's breasts made her a sex symbol in the 70s.
But she has no defining moment in comics.
She has no equivalent to the Dark Knight Returns or All-Star Superman. That's the issue. No writer has given Diana a game-breaking story that gets the same punch as Knightfall, the Death of Superman, for the man who has everything, Hush or Superman vs Manchester Black and his cronies.
They tried with dead earth and Earth One, and both were at best, stories that got a mention here and there, but nothing special.
She is guaranteed to always appear in every crossover, every event, and every major team book. So despite not having any defining moments in a solo series, she has loads in JLA and events since she will never be left out.
>But she has no defining moment in comics.
What about breaking Maxwell Lord's neck?
She is beloved by older women who grew up with the Linda Carter show, but that's not a demographic comics target.
>Wonder Woman's popularity pure marketing?
DC definitly exagerates her popularity because she's their most iconic female character.
Putting her next to batman and superman in the trinity is laughable, they are without question the two most recognisable superhero, while she's barely DC fifth most popular franchise.
>game about her
>soon a cartoon
>paradise lost
WW moment soon bros..
Yes. DC has no clue how to define WW in terms of her character. The DCAU didn't do her any justice, while Hawkgirl hogged all the attention when it came to female characters. Her rouge gallery were treated as jokes, she became a bigger jobber in season 2 and beyond (One of the examples is her being defeated by Aquaman and then Superman just casually one shots) she doesn't have any standout episodes, and she's mostly remembered by the BatWonder ship.
I don't know if it was mandates they were struggling with or....
The big problem with Wonder Woman is the same as Captain Marvel; she thrived in an audience and tone that DC didn't know how to handle, and a good chunk of that audience just stopped reading comics. GA wonder Woman has a whimsical, storybook quality to it (like how GA CM is very cartoony), and it's very much targeted to little girls. DC, once the romance comics started drying up I think they just started
the 60's and 70's steadily lost the girls market, and I doubt the 80's stuff was targeting little girls-though I do think Perez was trying to appeal to a fanbase of adult women.
I think in a lot of ways Shojo manga feels more like what GA Wonder Woman was going for than bronze age and beyond Big two comics.
What happened to the girls comics market anyway? It was thriving in the 30s through 70s and then vanished.
DC saw that more girls were turning to magazines and girls books; the idea they had was that girls become more literate quicker than boys and thus ditch comics earlier.
Keep in mind, DC was also owned by a publishing company so it's very likely DC saw this as a conflict of interest.
DC higher ups also got lazy and thought they could just reprint old stories forever. It's why John Romita got let go at DC; they had enough stories they thought they could just reprint.
became absorbed by cartoons 1980-2000 then live action in the 2000s and has been tiktok since the 2010s.
Her popularity is !st woman superhero, and that's it. DC will always shill her every time but never actually do anything with her,
She was one of the extremely rare female heroes who was a standalone character and not the girl variant of some hero like Batgirl, Supergirl, Hawlgirl, Mary Marvel, Jessie Quick, until fairly recently in comic history.
Wonder Woman was invented by a pervert, there's really no getting around it.
Superman's artist drew fetish porn and Ditko shared his studio with a porn artists. It's totally normal for creators to be pervs.
So was Spiderman. His web ability was suggested by Stan's bondage enthusiast friend.
is there any other superhero powers inspired by specific fetishes
If I was to create a superhero character I would probably put my fetishes in too.
and those are..?
Honestly they should lean into the loving authority and submission stuff more.
Shes only popular because shes a woman
In fairness, the same is true for Superman. They’re the most generic superheroes.
Wonder woman is just popular because she is a superhero, but woman. In a way she is just a vehicle, if someone cries that "where's all the popular female superheroes?", someone can point out Wonder Woman. That's literally her only purpose.
This comic pretty much sums it up, she's famous for being famous