A lot of people are hoping that this Friday DC will get their (Bleep)
together and finally end the parade of suck that has been their past few movies.
We'll admit, we're feeling pretty optimistic.
So it inspired us to round up a few things.
Here are seven things you didn't know about "Wonder Woman".
Probably. (Music)
Most people are at least semi-familiar with "Linda Carter's" 'Wonder Woman' from
the 70s but there's a pretty long history of people trying and
failing to adapt the character for the small screen.
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- Wonder Woman.
- "Linda Harrison", you know, "Nova" from 'Planet of the Apes'.
Well she played the very first "Wonder Woman" in an unaired
pilot from 1967 called 'Who's Afraid of Diana Prince'?
It had a similar tone to the campy 'Batman' TV show with "Adam West".
(Sound) Well that turn out to be an obviously terrible idea.
They try again in 1974 with "Cathy Lee Crosby" but
the pilot never got pick up the series and wound up being a stand alone TV movie.
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"Linda Carter's" 'Wonder Woman' kicked off just a year later but
it only lasted about three years before it was canceled.
They tried to do another TV reboot in 2011, with "Adrianne Palicki", but
that also went nowhere, and the pilot never aired.
It's safe to say that "Wonder Woman" has been one of the hardest characters to
bring to the small screen but wait until you hear how long it was before she made
it to the big screen (Laugh) segue.
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The 'Wonder Woman' feature film has had more than a decades worth of false starts.
Everyone from "Joss Whedon" to "Nicolas Winding Refn" has been attached to direct
at various points.
Those guys even had their Wonder Women all picked out.
"Cobie Smulders" and "Christina Hendricks" respectively.
Though Smulders did eventually at least voice "Wonder Woman" in Lego Movie.
Movie. - To the invisible jet.
(Sound) Dangit.
- The distinction of finally bringing "Wonder Woman" to non-animated life on
the big screen for the first time goes to "Gal Gadot" in last year's 'Batman vs.
Superman', which happened after 75 years after the character was first introduced.
- Is she with you?
I thought she was with you.
- "Wonder Woman" almost made it to the silver screen back on 2007 in "George
Miller's" abandoned 'Justice League' movie.
FYI for his 'Wonder Woman', he casted an Australian model named "Megan Gale".
Boom.
Bonus thing.
Boom.
Moving on.
(Sound) Let's talk about "William Moulton Marston",
the guy who created "Wonder Woman" because there was a lot going on with this guy
outside of being a comic artist.
He had degrees from Harvard in law and psychology and he invented the blood
pressure apparatus that was critical in the creation of the polygraph,
kind of fitting that the guy that helped invent the lie detector also came up with
a lasso of truth.
- You must now tell the truth.
- Then again he may also have come up with the lasso because he was allegedly a fan
of bondage and thought the binding women behooved their psychological well being.
"Wonder Woman" was meant to be a way to teach girls that female submission could
be a good thing.
(Noise) "Marston" felt that and I'm quoting here, the only hope for peace is
to teach people who are full of pep and unbound force to enjoy being bound.
Enjoy submission to kind authority and wise authority.
Yikes.
"Marston" was also in a polyamorous relationship with his wife and
a live in mistress who was one of his students and the mistress student "Olive
Burn" was supposedly the inspiration for "Wonder Woman's" physical appearance.
Boom another bonus thing.
Anyway, good luck trying not to think about "Marston's" bondage
kink whenever "Wonder Woman" whips out that lasso in the new movie.
I for one am not going to fight it.
(Sound) Speaking of bondage,
chaining "Wonder Woman's" bracelets together is basically her kryptonite.
It causes her to lose her powers and it was a recurring theme in the early comics.
Really, they did it a lot of times which is weird unto itself but
it's even weirder because of this detail.
It only worked if a man did it.
- What an unexpected pleasure.
- "Hera", give me strength.
Seriously, it was revealed in 'Sensation Comics Number 10',
that her powers remained in tact if a female changed the bracelets.
They did it so much, that the comic was actually banned for
awhile in the 40, because of the sexual nature of her seemingly incessant bondage
as well as (Sound) her costume not living enough for the imagination for
1940 standards yet another bonus thing.
Anyway, a lot of people don't know that the chain bracelets were actually meant
to be evocative of suffragettes chaining themselves to buildings in protest.
Essentially when they kept putting "Wonder Woman" in cuffs,
it was meant to inspire the movement for women's voting rights.
They probably also inspired several boners from Arston.
#inspiredboner hashtag moving on.
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Chaining her bracelets together may strip "Wonder Woman" of her powers but
she's actually the most powerful when she doesn't wear her bracelets at all.
The bracelets were forged from "Zeus'" shield and while they're unbreakable and
work as weapons, they're also meant to keep a lid on "Wonder Woman's" power.
Her powers are so intense that she needs the bracelets just to keep them in
check and protect her opponents from her full force.
This bit of info was revealed in the so called 'New 52 Universe',
which came about when DC relaunched their entire line back in 2011.
Plus there is a time when "Wonder Woman" beats "Supergirl"
who some argue is more powerful than "Superman".
And "Wonder Woman" did it with her bracelet still on.
It's not unreasonable to conclude that "Wonder Woman" might actually be
more super than "Superman" himself, not to mention once you factor in that "Wonder
Woman" was inspiring boners for the man of steel in the comics not to long ago.
Boom, bonus thing.
The question of which one of them is more powerful becomes even more stimulating.
Hot cans, I mean, next thing.
(Sound) - Who is this young woman?
- "Diana", Princess of the- - Prince, "Diana Prince".
- Like all superheroes, "Wonder Woman" has an alias, but
you may not know how her real name inspired her alias.
"Wonder Woman's" real name is "Princess Diana" of Themyscira.
Themyscira is of course the Amazonian island she's from, so
"Princess Diana" became "Diana Prince".
We realize that's not a huge leap but
before we move on I'll hit you with like our eighth bonus thing of the day.
Bondage enthusiast and "Wonder Woman" creator "William Marston" originally named
the character "Suprema, the Wonder Woman" but
DC ended up opting for brevity before her debut in December 1941.
Honestly, "Suprema" sounds way cooler than "Wonder Woman" if you ask me.
So, I definitely would have gone with that over "Wonder Woman".
Then again I'm an idiot, last thing.
(Laugh)
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I bet you didn't know that there was a mashed up character that combined "Wonder
Woman" and "Storm" from the 'X-Men'.
Back in the 90s before DC and
Marvel had a license to print money like they do nowadays.
The comic book industry was in the toilet.
Sales were so
bad that they created a number of crossover projects between the two brands.
One of which (Sound) was the Amalgam label.
And one character from the Amalgam universe was "Amazon",
a metamutant rescued by "Queen Hippolyta".
"Amazon" then trained to hone her ability to control the weather.
Of course any "Wonder Woman" spinoff wouldn't be complete without a hint of
bondage, so "Amazon" also had a lasso of truth but
in this case she can create it out of lightning.
You know, because "Storm".
All right that was a lot of things and
bonus things so make sure to let us know if you liked this episode.
And if it's inspired a boner for part two be sure to leave a comment so
we can get that on the old to-do list.
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- (Sound) Yup that's not gonna work.
Please put the sword down.