Since her first appearance in DC’s All Star Comics Number Eight in Nineteen Forty-One,
Wonder Woman has been one of the most popular and enduring superheros for nearly eighty
years.
Wonder Woman was born on the secluded Island of Themyscira, home to a race of Amazonian
warrior women from Greek legend.
Raised as Princess Diana of Themyscira, her legend states that she was molded from clay
and given life by Zeus, the king of the gods.
Rumour has it, though, that Diana was actually fathered by Zeus, but her mother Hippolyta
made up the clay story to protect Diana from the wrath of Hera, Zeus’ wife, who was known
to kill the offspring of Zeus’ extramarital affairs.
When an American military plane crashes near the island during World War One, Princess
Diana rescues Major Steve Trevor and nurses him back to health, before being charged with
returning him to “The World of Man”.
She would remain there to fight for justice, peace and equality as an original member of
the Justice League, alongside other well known superheroes like Superman, Batman and The
Flash.
In The World of Man she goes by the name of Diana Prince and poses as a human, holding
a variety of jobs including army nurse, intelligence officer and even antiques dealer - that one
especially makes sense, considering she’s thousands of years old!
Wonder Woman can thank the gods for making her “beautiful as Aphrodite, wise as Athena,
swifter than Hermes, and stronger than Hercules".
So, with all of these powers, how would you take down this demigod in a fight to the death?
As a demigod, Wonder Woman’s strength has no measurable limits, and rivals that of the
strongest superheroes like Superman.
Defeating her on strength alone will be next to impossible for a simple mortal like you.
You don’t need to look far for evidence of her strength.
She once beat Hercules, a demigod with incredible strength, in an arm wrestling competition.
Wonder Woman and Superman also deadlifted the cosmic being known as The Spectre, which
was said to be composed of consciousness and weigh as much as eternity.
We’re not sure how much eternity actually weighs, but we’d wager it’s more than
any human can lift!
Wonder Woman completed these feats before taking off her armbands, which actually hold
her unlimited strength in check.
Without them she is infinitely strong, but also out of control with rage.
You’d better hope she’s wearing her arm bands during your fight!
As if god-like strength wasn’t enough, Wonder Woman also possesses unmatched combat skills
and a sharp mind for military tactics.
She was trained from a young age by Ares, the Greek god of war, and is an expert in
Amazonian martial arts.
She’s such an impressive warrior that Batman once called her the best melee fighter in
the world.
It will take more than brute strength to get to Wonder Woman, since her powerful mind is
always assessing threats and adjusting battle plans.
Since you’re definitely not going to win an arm wrestling contest with her, if you
find yourself in close combat with Wonder Woman, you really only have one option - go
for the eyes!
Apparently, her eyes are a weak point, and if you can get close enough to land a good
poke - good luck with that - you might just incapacitate her enough to finish her off.
Pure strength aside, Wonder Woman possesses unmatched agility and is nearly invulnerable
to attack.
Not only can she run sixty miles per hour, faster than Hermes, the Greek messenger god,
but she can also jump from the tallest buildings and land gracefully and unhurt on her feet.
And, oh yeah, she can fly - at half the speed of light - while outmaneuvering bullets, rockets,
jets and anything else you can throw at her.
Add in her telescopic sight, supersonic hearing, and extrasensory perception, and you’ll
be hard pressed to catch her by surprise.
As if superhuman agility wasn’t enough, Wonder Woman is practically invulnerable.
You could try freezing her, but she’s resistant to extreme temperatures.
You could attempt to electrocute her, but she’s impervious to electricity, and would
probably turn it back on you.
You could try drowning her, but it would have no effect since she can hold her breath forever,
and she’d probably just use her super breath to blow you away.
You could even bust out the flamethrower but, you guessed it, she’s immune to fire.
She’s also highly resistant to extreme force, so pretty much anything you can think of to
throw at her or hit her with won’t do much except irritate her.
Even if you do manage to get in a solid hit, Wonder Woman also has an incredible healing
factor, thanks to drinking from the Fountain of Youth on the Island of Themyscira from
a young age.
Any damage you manage to do had better be lethal if you don’t want Wonder Woman to
shake it off and come back at you with a vengeance.
If by some miracle you can manage to catch Wonder Woman at a standstill, and get close
enough to get in a good hit, you’re only chance would be to go for the weak spots - her
skin and internal organs.
She may be super strong and invulnerable, but her skin and organs are still vulnerable
to being pierced by edged weapons or bullets.
Due to her healing powers, you’d need to make sure you are deadly accurate and deliver
a lethal blow so that she won’t be able to heal and fight on.
However, getting a shot or stab to hit its mark is easier said than done, as we’ll
learn later.
So it’s pretty obvious that no mortal is going to beat Wonder Woman in a contest of
strength or agility.
As invulnerable as she may seem physically, she does have some vulnerabilities that have
less to do with her inhuman strength and more to do with her powerful and compassionate
mind.
Wonder Woman is known to be as wise as Athena, the Greek god of wisdom.
Outsmarting her will be next to impossible for a mere mortal.
And it’s not just her intelligence and strong grasp of military strategy that you need to
worry about - Wonder Woman has many mental and psychic abilities that make her a formidable
foe.
Not only is Wonder Woman immune to electric shocks, as we just discovered, but she has
the ability to actually control the electricity in her body with her mind.
She can turn electricity into muscle power, so trying to shock her can come back to bite
you big time.
Her most impressive mental ability, though, is her psychic powers.
Wonder Woman is blessed with the ability to telepathically read minds, meaning she would
know what you’re planning before you even have a chance to attack her.
Even worse for you, her telepathic abilities allow her to control others, particularly
soldiers.
After she killed Ares, she took his place as the God of War, and with it, the ability
to telepathically control all the world’s soldiers.
If you thought taking on Wonder Woman one-on-one was a daunting task, imagine taking her on
with an entire world army at her side!
And as if that wasn’t enough, Wonder Woman also has the gift of being able to speak to
animals, thanks to Artemis, the goddess of the hunt.
She’s been known to befriend polar bears, giant kangaroos and even a T-Rex!
Good luck getting past that menagerie to get at Wonder Woman.
In addition to telepathy, Wonder Woman also has the ability to astrally project into other
dimensions, and believe it or not, this might actually provide you with an opportunity to
do some damage.
Any injuries that occur to her astral body are also inflicted in real life, so if you
can somehow manage to get her to project both of you to a dimension where she doesn’t
have any superpowers, then you might be in for a bit more of a fair fight.
But how would you convince Wonder Woman to journey to a dimension where she’s powerless,
and take you along for the ride?
Despite the fact that she’s a mighty warrior, Wonder Woman is also known for being incredibly
compassionate, and her mission is to bring justice and peace to the World of Man.
With a little trickery on your part, you might be able to gain her sympathy, perhaps by pretending
that someone you love is trapped in another dimension.
Better yet, you could kidnap Steve Trevor, her lover, and take him to another dimension.
When she comes to rescue him, as she undoubtedly will, you’ll have a chance to fight her
on more equal footing.
Wonder Woman’s innate strength and superpowers aren’t the only tools she has to use against
you.
She also has a host of magical weapons at her disposal.
Wonder Woman’s signature tiara is actually a razor-sharp projectile, which will return
to her like a boomerang after she throws it at an enemy.
Her most impressive magical weapons, though, are also her greatest vulnerabilities.
Wonder Woman’s Lasso of Truth is like a magical lie detector - anyone bound by it
is unable to lie.
Interestingly, the psychologist who created Wonder Woman also invented the modern lie
detector machine.
If you can somehow manage to steal Wonder Woman’s lasso and tie her up with it, she
won’t be able to lie to you and will have to give up the secret to destroying her.
However, getting her in that position in the first place will take some serious deception
and bravery on your part.
Her magical bracelets are strong enough to stop bullets and lasers, even automatic gunfire,
especially when combined with her super speed.
The bracelets can also produce other weapons as needed, including swords, spears and arrows.
Wonder Woman can also smash the bracelets together to cause a massive explosion, complete
with lightning bolts.
She once caused an explosion so loud that it made Superman’s ears bleed!
If that’s what it can do to Superman, what do you think would happen to your fragile,
human ears?
However, Wonder Woman’s iconic bracelets might also carry the key to her downfall.
Her bracelets are worn by all Amazon women as a symbol of their rescue from slavery at
the hands of men by Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love.
Upon freeing them, Aphrodite laid down a law: that they must never surrender to a man for
any reason.
Aphrodite’s law might be your ticket to beating Wonder Woman once and for all, for
if she lets her bracelets be bound by a man, she loses her powers and becomes a mortal
woman.
A super strong, well-trained mortal, but a mortal nonetheless.
There’s another way that you can use Wonder Woman’s bracelets against her.
Oddly enough, they actually limit her power, rather than increase it.
Without her bracelets, her power is limitless - while this might not seem like a good thing
when you’re trying to beat her, this limitless power also causes Wonder Woman to lose her
mind with rage.
If you can manage to steal her bracelets - and get well out of harm’s reach - she might
just self-destruct from rage and her own power.
You definitely won’t want to be around for that, though - and who knows how much collateral
damage she’d cause first!
Unfortunately, as long as Wonder Woman has her full powers and all of her weapons, it
doesn’t look like you’d have much of a chance against her.
Between her unmatched strength, unparalleled combat skills, sharp mind and magical weapons,
not to mention all her other powers, like the ability to fly, read minds and control
entire armies, no mortal will be able to take her down in a fight.
For all her advantages, Wonder Woman does have some weaknesses.
Most of them involve robbing her of her powers, rendering her a vulnerable mortal.
However, don’t be tricked into thinking that it would then be easy to defeat her - even
as a mortal, Wonder Woman has the strength of an Amazon warrior and centuries of combat
training at her disposal.
Any way you look at it, you’re going to have your work cut out for you in trying to
take on Wonder Woman!
Wonder Woman was created by psychologist Charles Moulton Marston and artist Harry G. Peter
in nineteen forty-one.
According to Marston, Wonder Woman was inspired by famous feminists like Ethel Byrne, who
was arrested for opening the first birth control clinic in the U.S.
As Marston once explained: “Frankly, Wonder Woman is psychological propaganda for the
new type of woman who, I believe, should rule the world.”
Wonder Woman certainly has all the powers and wisdom a world ruler would need, but her
few vulnerabilities stop her from being totally invincible.
Still, we wouldn’t pick a fight with her any time soon!
If you thought this video was entertaining, be sure and check out our other videos to
see how you’d stack up against other superheroes and villains, like this fun one titled “You
vs. The Joker”.
It might help take the sting out of getting beat by Wonder Woman!
Or perhaps you’d enjoy this other one instead.
As always, thanks for watching, and don’t forget to like, share and subscribe!
See you next time!