A question at my Super-Hero-Center Tumblr page surfaced
about whether Wonder Woman will be flying in Batman V Superman; therefore, I
decided to respond to it. My opinion is stated in the following paragraphs.
The original Wonder Woman, before the 80's, could not fly.
Yes, she flew a plane, but she didn't fly like Superman. If Wonder Woman flies
like Superman, this will actually detract from her character because flaws and
challenges build character. For example, there are many people who claim
Superman is too strong and despise him because of this. The same thing could happen
to Wonder Woman if she is too strong. In fact, make any character too strong
and people will not relate to that character.
In my opinion, when Wonder Woman was placed alongside Batman
and Superman, DC Comics gave her powers of flight because either they didn’t
want her hitching a ride with Batman (fly one plane rather than two, which is
easier to draw and write for comics) or they didn’t want her to seem weaker
than Superman, which she is (aka bracelets). Basically, giving Wonder Woman flight
not only limited her actions but it also dumbed down her character.
A flying Wonder Woman would not use her mind or body as
much to solve problems as demonstrated in this situation:
Wonder Woman is dispatched to save five civilians from a
fire that has trapped them on floor 126, near the top of a skyscraper.
Choices:
1. Wonder Woman leaps
onto the crane, parallel to the burning skyscraper, ties her lasso onto the top of the high crane, spins herself
around at high speed, slung shots herself to the top of the building, uses her
senses of touch, seeing, and hearing to navigate the building until she finds
doors or walls to break though that wouldn't feed oxygen to the fire. After
breaking through to the survivors, she takes her tiara throws it at high speed
to slice the crane, parallel to the sky scrapper, in half. As the crane falls
on the sky scrapper, cutting the upper floors in half, Wonder Woman places her
hands and feet on metal support beams, straightens her body to form an
X, and uses all her might, bracing for the slicing crane impact. After stopping
the crane, Wonder Woman orders everyone to use it as an escape latter
while she keeps her position, supporting the beams.
2. Wonder Woman flies to the floor busts through a random
window without thinking, feeding the fire oxygen, causing a fiery flash, and
killing all innocent civilians by means of sloppy, lazy Hollywood writing.
As you can gather, I would rather Wonder Woman didn't have
the ability to fly like Superman. I’d prefer seeing her jump high because it is
a limitation that she would have to use wisely. But, most lazy Hollywood Liberal
writers would rather destroy their imagination with liquor or illegal drugs
rather than use it for creativity. So I
believe these no talent hack writers will probably have her fly like Superman
because the generation hired to make this movie lacks the courage to limit Wonder Woman’s flying ability, fearing backlash from fanboys*.
In regards of the invisible plane scenario, I’ve always
thought the invisible jet was a dumb idea; I’ve always hated it. Where does
Wonder Woman park that invisible plane of hers? What if it were discovered? Does
rain fall on it, revealing the high tech technology? I would rather Wonder
Woman exited Paradise Island by means of a transporter. Meaning, I would have
Wonder Woman use a transporter device that is located on Paradise Island to
materialize herself on United States soil, accomplishing a one-way trip. Plus, this
doesn't leave the possibility of high tech falling into the wrong hands. Face
it, a transporter makes more sense. Plus, in real life, it is a piece of high
tech that hasn't been invented. Yeah, man has the idea on how to do it, but has
yet to accomplish even a prototype. Now, according to the comics, amazon women
are supposed to be smarter than man. So if these women had a working
transporter device, wouldn’t it reinforce this character trait?
In my opinion, if Wonder Woman must fly in Batman V
Superman, I would establish that the United States CIA trained her on how to
fly a stealth plane before assigning her one. This is more believable than
parking and maintaining her own invisible jet, flown from Paradise Island. It
just makes more sense that the invisible/stealth plane would come from the
United States rather than Paradise Island. To me, the idea of having an
invisible plane on Paradise Island is stupid.
As to the Batman plane versus Wonder Woman plane, I believe
Batman shouldn't have the corner on the market on tech items; otherwise, he
wouldn't have any weaknesses – another example of character degrading. The CIA
plane (Wonder Woman's plane) could have gadgets that Batman's doesn't have. The
population of a small country that is working on this Batman vs Superman movie
should have the combined intelligence to create technology differences between
Batman's plane and Wonder Woman's plane.
By the way, if you want Wonder Woman to fly like Superman,
you will need to throw a spandex suit on her because the current skimpy suit
would blow off her. Using the current skimpy suit for flight is stupid.
Although most comic book stories have unbelievable nonsense, they don't have to
include everything in the movies. Just compare the 1960's Batman TV show to
Christopher Nolan's Batman movies and pick which one you like better. Or, shall
I bring in the example of Tim Burton's realistic version of Superman, who was
an alien with a super suit that gave him powers, which would have been better
than Christopher Nolan's Man of Steel...Garbage!
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Fanboys – fanatics who accept, support, and
defend hypnotic, eight frame quick-cut, white flashing strobe light movies containing
shallow, one dimensional, characters – basically strangers – and mindless, recycled/rebooted
stories filled with Liberal ideas.