In that Final Crisis page... what makes anyone think she stayed down? Wonder Woman played an active role in the battle against Darkseid, remember.
Being knocked off of her riding beast doesn't mean she's out or even hurt, and that's all that happened there.
Originally posted by abhilegend
You mean the "bitchslap" comic where an unintrested superman was slapping her around?
In For Tomorrow, they both hit each other back and forth, Superman was trying to get past her and couldn't, and had to resort to 'look, innocents in danger! Go save them," in order to get past her.
WW was, noteworthily, never hurt in that fight. Yes, there was a 'slap' blow, but WW also hit Superman repeatedly too, about an equal number of hits, so don't misrepresent it.
So the way it happened in Superman's own book was "they fight back and forth, neither hurt, until Clark comes up with a distraction to sneak past her."
You mean WW 219, where superman used rocks to fight "doomsday"?
Looking through Sacrifice, I never saw him use rocks, but he did fight in a very forum-optimal bloodlusted fashion: He started out by using super speed in combination with super strength to try and throw her into the sun while blasting heat vision in her face.
Pretty much Superman was fighting as everyone always wants him to fight. Not only was he not messing around, but he uses his powers in combination better than just about any other fights he's been in. I think only the Elite fight and OWAW can claim the same or better.
Also, he actively dodged her lasso. So while he was as enraged as fighting 'doomsday,' he was fighting as if he was fighting Wonder Woman and avoiding/working to counter her specific advantages that Doomsday didn't have. He wasn't acting like he was fighting a weaponless melee only bruiser.
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Another fight is the one where Circe enchants Superman and makes him grow Doomsday spikes, consuming him in rage. Not holding back in strength at all, and even with physical enhancements (though obvious less tactical thought), Diana was still able to hurt him physically, take hits, and deal with him.
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One thing I find interesting is in non-Wonder Woman books, they tend to fight without hurting each other, while it's in WW books where it's noted that Clark's stronger and they hurt each other a lot in drag-out knock down fights where she tries to hold on until she can use a weapon to entangle him or cut his throat.
And they've fought something like a half-dozen times in the post crisis era, and I don't think Wonder Woman has a single defeat one on one.
Sacrifice, notably, was a big event fight. Meaning the higher ups definitely had directly say in how it would go, and the way they decided was both of them being very injured and bloody by the end.