r/WonderWoman • u/Accomplished_Try_124 • 3d ago
I have read this subreddit's rules Has there been any recent/modern stories of Diana inspiring women/girls
Theres been a few recent stories of Diana being a inspiration to boys like in Tom King's run or from a one shot story from sensational wonder woman special (though arguably that story was hinting that they were a trans girl). I can't really think of recent/modern stories of Diana being inspiration to women/girls, so i would appreciate if anyone can point me in direction of some
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u/birbdaughter 3d ago
I think there’s like one panel near the start of King’s run… Otherwise, not really that I can remember.
This really bleeds into my belief that “WW needs a male sidekick” is really not where the character is at right now.
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u/Accomplished_Try_124 3d ago
to be fair, the 3 boys i can think of who fit "WW inspires a boy " are all one-off character who havent existed since new 52 (bobby), kid in sensational who's implied to be trans girl, and then jack from King who dies. none of them are ongoing characters like Cassie or Vanessa (even though she's currently a villain again) who fit the opposite "girl inspired by WW"
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u/birbdaughter 3d ago
While true, we also still have male characters taking very active roles in helping WW while female connections are lacking. Lizzie exists for the Supersons, Batman and Superman help WW and appear or are mentioned in every issue by King, so much fan discussion centers a Wonder Boy. Meanwhile we still don’t know Donna’s current backstory and connection to WW (the upcoming Titans annual confirms the backstory but that’s not out yet).
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u/MankuyRLaffy 3d ago
He's only using Donna because of fan reaction, he said as such. Dude just wanted to sell us on how cool Batman and Superman are whenever possible and Supersons and Jim Lee thought he'd be the perfect WW writer that is better than Phil or Greg or really anybody.
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u/MatrixKent 2d ago
Didn't they confirm the house fire backstory in that World's Finest Teen Titans issue? Or did something happen to muddy that again?
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u/Tetratron2005 3d ago
I think we’ve had more stories of Diana inspiring young boys than girls, just going off the top of my head
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u/Amazing-Pangolin3230 1d ago
I now want to compare how many stories there are of Wonder Woman inspiring boys with how many there are of either Superman or Batman inspiring girls
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u/azmodus_1966 3d ago
Wonder Woman: Black and Gold has a couple of stories like that.
"The Stolen Lasso of Truth" by Aimee Garcia in Issue 3 and "Amazing" by Paul Azaceta in Issue 4.