DC Universe: Wonder Woman
Sep. 23rd, 2011 09:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seriousficFirst off, Wonder Woman. She's the big kahuna. She's a character who I think gets lost in the shuffle a lot between Batman and Superman, hence them both being dead here and her taking center stage. No ifs, ands, or buts about it… Wonder Woman is the strongest there is. When she comes in, shit is getting done.
Now, I confess, I don't have a story arc in mind for Diana the way I would for Wally or Dick… there isn't the same "Wonder Woman family" to play off of (although, naturally, it would be fun for Scott to end up on Paradise Island, being completely oblivious to being the only man on an island of beautiful women, and get hung up on the fact that PEOPLE ARE RIDING KANGAROOS). But Wonder Woman should show up in any story when all hell is breaking loose. I've got a picture here of Knockout, someone with Barda-level strength, coming to Earth and partying like a madwoman, with all the law-breaking that entails. Diana comes by to talk her down. Knockout being Knockout and Diana being Diana, Knockout hits on her and Diana replies "I prefer my lovers sober."
Crap. Past the radar.
Then, after a hard-fought battle, Knockout is put away. That's the kind of thing Diana should be doing. She's so powerful, so wise, and so serene that she's almost a deus ex machina.
I'd also like there to be a bit of a rivalry between President Luthor and Diana, because they're the only ones who can play at each others' level. Diana is technically allied with the military, with Etta Candy and Steve Trevor as her "handlers," so Diana is in some ways shielded from the corruption that goes with all things Luthor, but the enemy of my enemy is my frenemy makes for a very uneasy alliance.
Basically, Diana is Captain America working for a worse version of Nixon.
Moving down the line, I love what George Perez did in not making Wonder Woman just another superhero, but sort of an embodiment of pagan religion and goddess worship and all sorts of mythology. With that in mind, why not do the Mother, Maiden, Crone thing, but as part of a lineage? So it could go Hera > Hippolyta > Diana. Crone, mother, maiden. But then continue the pattern. Hippolyta > Diana > Donna works the same way, as does Diana > Donna > Cassie. The point is that the chain never ends; they're always tied into something bigger than themselves.
Now, I'm the first to admit, I don't really get Donna Troy. I know she's the mother figure of the Teen Titans, but she hasn't been with them in forever. She's in lesbians with Kory, that's kinda cool, but it's hard to tell where her place really is in the DC universe, which is maybe why she keeps getting shuffled into nonsense positions like gathering up heroes in Infinite Crisis to do nothing, or being a fake Wonder Woman for five minutes, or spending time with Jason Todd.
What might be interesting to do is have her as a homage to Diana's I-Ching period. Donna's an intelligence officer, sorta the brains to Diana's brawn in terms of military operations. Donna, someone who's been in Man's World for most of her life, ferrets out targets that Diana, an outsider, couldn't get to, then Diana, along with her people (insert Artemis here) brings the heat.
You could even partner Donna with Roy Harper, since he's been a government agent too. It also occurs to me that in a lot of popular female-audience work, you have a female lead in a love triangle with two guys. Twilight, Hunger Games, The Vampire Diaries, and so on. And since it's very hard to do a romance plot with Diana (especially since Diana is too smart to get into any real soap opera shenanigans), here's where that energy goes.
Roy is the bad boy (recovering drug addict! Shoots people with arrows!) with the heart of gold (raising an adorable kid by himself). And Green Lantern Kyle Rayner is Donna's "official" boyfriend, the sweet artist type. So Donna's leaning this way, she's leaning that way, she's getting advice from Kory… a little something for the ladies, and the kind of relationship drama that could be used to contrast whatever state Scott/Barda is in (eyes on the prize).
Also, could we come up with a better name than Troia? We already have a Wonder Woman and a Wonder Girl, so maybe Wonder Lady? Lady of Wonders? Yeah, that'd work.
Cassie, her character's been hit hard by "strong female characters are bitchy," so I'd regress her all the way to Young Justice. She's crushing on Superboy, he kinda doesn't know she exists (understandable, him being a teenage boy, her having no breasts, and every woman he meets being, well, the kind of woman you find in comic books). Beyond that, pair her up with Supergirl (Cassie's still friends with Secret and Cissie, but they're out of the hero game). Supergirl's the perfect, popular one and Cassie's the awkward, nerdy one. Plus, there could be a lot of fun to be had with Cassie secretly being in love with Supergirl's "brother" Kon.
(To borrow a joke from 30 Minutes Or Less, "So, respectfully, you want to fuck my brother? Is that it? My clone brother!? Which is basically like fucking me! Respectfully! With your vagina!")
And, to continue the triple-goddess theme, we have Diana in a stable relationship(s) (hey, who says she can't date Artemis and Io at the same time, on the down low?), Donna in the middle of a relationship (is it ending? Is it cementing?), and Cassie at the beginning of a relationship.
Now, I confess, I don't have a story arc in mind for Diana the way I would for Wally or Dick… there isn't the same "Wonder Woman family" to play off of (although, naturally, it would be fun for Scott to end up on Paradise Island, being completely oblivious to being the only man on an island of beautiful women, and get hung up on the fact that PEOPLE ARE RIDING KANGAROOS). But Wonder Woman should show up in any story when all hell is breaking loose. I've got a picture here of Knockout, someone with Barda-level strength, coming to Earth and partying like a madwoman, with all the law-breaking that entails. Diana comes by to talk her down. Knockout being Knockout and Diana being Diana, Knockout hits on her and Diana replies "I prefer my lovers sober."
Crap. Past the radar.
Then, after a hard-fought battle, Knockout is put away. That's the kind of thing Diana should be doing. She's so powerful, so wise, and so serene that she's almost a deus ex machina.
I'd also like there to be a bit of a rivalry between President Luthor and Diana, because they're the only ones who can play at each others' level. Diana is technically allied with the military, with Etta Candy and Steve Trevor as her "handlers," so Diana is in some ways shielded from the corruption that goes with all things Luthor, but the enemy of my enemy is my frenemy makes for a very uneasy alliance.
Basically, Diana is Captain America working for a worse version of Nixon.
Moving down the line, I love what George Perez did in not making Wonder Woman just another superhero, but sort of an embodiment of pagan religion and goddess worship and all sorts of mythology. With that in mind, why not do the Mother, Maiden, Crone thing, but as part of a lineage? So it could go Hera > Hippolyta > Diana. Crone, mother, maiden. But then continue the pattern. Hippolyta > Diana > Donna works the same way, as does Diana > Donna > Cassie. The point is that the chain never ends; they're always tied into something bigger than themselves.
Now, I'm the first to admit, I don't really get Donna Troy. I know she's the mother figure of the Teen Titans, but she hasn't been with them in forever. She's in lesbians with Kory, that's kinda cool, but it's hard to tell where her place really is in the DC universe, which is maybe why she keeps getting shuffled into nonsense positions like gathering up heroes in Infinite Crisis to do nothing, or being a fake Wonder Woman for five minutes, or spending time with Jason Todd.
What might be interesting to do is have her as a homage to Diana's I-Ching period. Donna's an intelligence officer, sorta the brains to Diana's brawn in terms of military operations. Donna, someone who's been in Man's World for most of her life, ferrets out targets that Diana, an outsider, couldn't get to, then Diana, along with her people (insert Artemis here) brings the heat.
You could even partner Donna with Roy Harper, since he's been a government agent too. It also occurs to me that in a lot of popular female-audience work, you have a female lead in a love triangle with two guys. Twilight, Hunger Games, The Vampire Diaries, and so on. And since it's very hard to do a romance plot with Diana (especially since Diana is too smart to get into any real soap opera shenanigans), here's where that energy goes.
Roy is the bad boy (recovering drug addict! Shoots people with arrows!) with the heart of gold (raising an adorable kid by himself). And Green Lantern Kyle Rayner is Donna's "official" boyfriend, the sweet artist type. So Donna's leaning this way, she's leaning that way, she's getting advice from Kory… a little something for the ladies, and the kind of relationship drama that could be used to contrast whatever state Scott/Barda is in (eyes on the prize).
Also, could we come up with a better name than Troia? We already have a Wonder Woman and a Wonder Girl, so maybe Wonder Lady? Lady of Wonders? Yeah, that'd work.
Cassie, her character's been hit hard by "strong female characters are bitchy," so I'd regress her all the way to Young Justice. She's crushing on Superboy, he kinda doesn't know she exists (understandable, him being a teenage boy, her having no breasts, and every woman he meets being, well, the kind of woman you find in comic books). Beyond that, pair her up with Supergirl (Cassie's still friends with Secret and Cissie, but they're out of the hero game). Supergirl's the perfect, popular one and Cassie's the awkward, nerdy one. Plus, there could be a lot of fun to be had with Cassie secretly being in love with Supergirl's "brother" Kon.
(To borrow a joke from 30 Minutes Or Less, "So, respectfully, you want to fuck my brother? Is that it? My clone brother!? Which is basically like fucking me! Respectfully! With your vagina!")
And, to continue the triple-goddess theme, we have Diana in a stable relationship(s) (hey, who says she can't date Artemis and Io at the same time, on the down low?), Donna in the middle of a relationship (is it ending? Is it cementing?), and Cassie at the beginning of a relationship.
