Will Wonder Woman Fly in Batman V Superman?

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!

·         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.