pretty sure the costume wasnt designed for her to represent her ppl but the world specifically the united states as an ally and friend, that she was visiting or living in.
I hope it wasn't designed to symbolize her people. A skin tight ass and crotch showing star spangled banner bikini does not send a good message, certainty not a serious one.
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The old WW costume is certainly difficult to sell for a movie, but for the comics it looked fine, and given that it doesn't really follow any fashion or trend it is actually kind of timeless.
To be honest this 'revamp' costume is trying too hard, and frankly it looks dated after just a week. I mean if this was the 90's something like that might fit in better but the 90's are long gone. I don't see the costume lasting as long as the old one. It's just a matter of time before it goes.
As for the backstory, I guess they are finally just throwing in the towel and saying the character is kind of crap - change the costume, change the setting, change the cast, change the powers, go back in time and change the character's long standing history. But sadly they have a point - nobody seems to write the character particularly well, they have to keep giving her extra powers to try to boost interest, and she doesn't have great villains or story arcs. Her personality is limited by the fact that they didn't want her to have any real faults or weaknesses. Even her sort of feminist outlook is dated and doesn't have much relevance in an era where comics are full of "tough, determined, smart" and powerful female characters. Every team comic has at least one of those. And "tragic"? Who needs yet another tragic character? Borrowing Supe's background isn't going to help.
On the other hand, from the description JMS has wisely left a way open for a retcon if things don't work out.
Welcome to DC World.
People may complain about how Marvel throws constant extras on the background histories of their characters, but at DC they have been constantly pressing the restart button on characters since COIE in 1985.
It seems only Batman's history is sacred.
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Steve Trevor's mom died helping the Amazons so they adapted the American flag on her jacket into their civilization to honor her... unless that has been retcon'd.
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If this was for the purposes of a live action movie, I think Wonder Woman's costume is recognizable enough that they should have done more to keep it in the same tone as the original costume.
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