Wonder Woman has arrived in theaters, and much to the disappointment of comic-conscious
nerds, it went incredibly light on the Easter Eggs.
Sure, we were treated to an island full of Amazons that seemed pretty faithful to their
comic counterparts.
But the film didn't have a single inexplicable time-traveling Flash cameo.
What's a wonder-nerd to do?
Let's roll up our sleeves and see what secret DC references we were able to find between
the frames of Wonder Woman.
And of course, super spoilers ahead.
We all scream
Because it's a comic book movie, Wonder Woman borrowed a huge chunk of its content from,
you know, comic books… just in a very general sense.
However, eagle-eyed readers of DC Comics' New 52 version of Justice League were quick
to spot a story beat cribbed directly from the comic pages.
In the first few pages of Justice League #3, Princess Diana has pretty much the same conversation
with an ice cream vendor as she does in the film, though the comic presents a more modern
setting.
The story quickly diverges, however, as modern Diana is quickly attacked by Parademons from
another planet, while movie Diana remains hell-bent on hunting down Ares.
The scene gets another adaptation in the animated feature Justice League: War, further cementing
the fact that despite having a pretty good grasp on pleasure, Amazons don't have anything
on humans.
They have an isolated island paradise...but we have Ben & Jerry's.
Point, mortals.
Four eyes
Wonder Woman doesn't have a very extensive history on screen compared to some of her
contemporaries.
But her 1975 TV show is a thing of legend, mostly because it was straight-up goofy fun.
What kind of Amazonian magic does it take to spin around to change your clothes?
We never found out, but plenty of people got dizzy trying.
Notably, 1975's Wonder Woman employed the unrealistic trope that if you wear a pair
of glasses, you're completely unrecognizable as the same human you are without your glasses.
So, when the cinematic Wonder Woman pops on a pair of specs as part of her disguise to
blend in with lowly humans, it's quickly called out by Etta Candy as being completely ridiculous.
Because honestly, it's about time someone did.
Official business
Because Bruce Wayne is the richest man in the world, he can afford to send armored cars
anywhere he wants, even if they just contain a single photograph.
Meanwhile, the rest of the 99 percent just has to settle for the post office losing their
birthday presents in the black hole that is New Jersey.
Still, when Bruce sends around his Waynemobiles, you'd think he'd be a little more subtle about
the fact that he's the guy assembling a group of superhumans called the Justice League…
but no.
When you're Wayne levels of rich, you spring for vanity plates, and you make sure those
plates have the initials of your secret super-team on them.
Having the letters 'JL' lead off your armored car's license plate is real subtle, Bruce.
What does your other car say?
"IMBATMAN"?
God Killer
So, as we learn by the end of the movie, it turns out that the magical God Killer sword
can't actually kill gods.
And just like in the afterschool specials of yore, the power to kick some godly butt
was inside Diana all along.
As far as DC Comics is concerned, the God Killer sword is generally the domain of the
mercenary villain known as Deathstroke, the Terminator.
The far-too-powerful weapon was crafted by one god to kill another, and was given to
Earth's greatest assassin.
So while it's clear that Wonder Woman's big-screen sword wasn't the real deal, there are rumblings
of Deathstroke appearing in the DCEU.
Could we get a look at the real God Killer sword in the future?
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While it's not really an Easter Egg, DC went all out in including Princess Diana's many,
many friends and relatives on Themyscira.
While some were named on-screen, a handful are only mentioned in the credits.
Every single one of these Amazons has had a few comic pages dedicated to them, even
if most of them are largely interchangeable warrior women.
But maybe we'll see a couple of them again in Wonder Woman II?
It's a miracle
There's not a whole lot of information about that mystery gas General Ludendorff was snorting
in order to Hulk out.
But DC comics has a pretty weird history of its heroes and villains taking strange substances
to perform superhuman tasks.
One early example of this appeared in 1940 under the name "miraclo," a "miracle vitamin"
that enabled the Golden Age hero Hourman to do heroic things for sixty action-packed minutes.
While miraclo was developed for positive purposes, it eventually fell into the wrong hands and
became a substance that Batman fans will be very familiar with: venom.
Whether or not Dr. Poison's power-up gas will eventually find its way into the bubbling
tubes of the supervillain Bane is anyone's guess.
But the foundations have been laid to break the Batfleck.
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