Zhukov said:
Anyway, I noticed something. She's always wearing those bracers. Like, always. Even when she's just hanging about on No Boys Allowed Island. Even when she's a kid.
Combined with the she's-more-than-she-knows hints in previous trailers, I'm betting that they're some kind of power suppressing device.
Is that part of her lore/origin in the comics? I'm given to understand that her various possessions and items of apparel are actually pretty key in at least some versions of her story.
It
is a thing in the comics, particularly the Azzarello run, as was pointed out by another poster. But the earliest versions of Wonder Woman had her kryptonite factor be the fact that she lost her powers if she was ever bound (WW was invented by a BDSM fan [https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/matriarchal-utopia-bondage-fetish-feminism-wonder-woman-999]). The idea that the bracers serve as a power limiter is a very nifty way of adopting that otherwise-difficult bit of history into the modern-day character, and you are certainly not the first one to notice that.
I recommend Grant Morrison's
Wonder Woman: Earth One, which directly addresses the symbolism of the bracers and the lasso, and which plays on the concept of willingly submitting yourself to a higher authority. Not in the sense of submitting to a dominatrix
necessarily, but more in the sense of submitting to a moral principle that binds your actions and makes you less powerful than you actually are. Restraint as a virtue, essentially.
Zhukov said:
undeadsuitor said:
Sometimes she's a bastard daughter of Zeus.
Moviebob had a theory that they were going to go with her being the daughter or Ares in the movie.
The Azzarello run had Ares basically acting as a foster father to her anyway.
I prefer if they keep it vague, to be honest. The Azzarello run got a lot of flak because of the "Diana, Zeus is your father" moment, but I actually liked it; it prompted a
very mythologically accurate story about Hera seeking revenge-by-proxy for her husband's infidelity, which led to some interesting character development on the part of Diana, Ares, and Hera over thirty-odd issues. (Hera learns "maybe I shouldn't blame the women my husband seduces for my husband's fidelity," Ares learns "maybe war isn't all it's cracked up to be," Diana learns "maybe violence is sometimes necessary to prevent violence.")
oRevanchisto said:
Nobody. NOBODY (except DC fanboys), is going to ever appreciate what BvS was trying to do because BvS was a terrible movie. There is no hidden depth to the movie or underrated creative genius. It's simply a bad movie, a follow up to a just as bad stand alone Superman movie.
It's
not that bad....honestly, it gets more hate than it deserves.
It was just poorly edited, poorly paced, and - most importantly - underwhelming. It was a movie about
Batman fighting
Superman; people were expecting something that would blow them out of their underpants. What they got was a solid 5/10 (8/10 for the extended cut, IMO).
