The Amazon princess, blessed with god-like super abilities, Wonder Woman is one of Earth's most powerful defenders of peace, justice, and equality and a member of the Justice League. She is considered an archetype for many heroines outside of comic book. Her initial origin depicted her as a clay baby brought to life by patron goddess Aphrodite, but in recent years she has been depicted as the daughter of Zeus and Amazon queen Hippolyta.
Superman has Lois. It's core canon that he loves her. The few times Supes and WW have been paired it's been crappy (Frank Miller's awful "Dark Knight Strikes Again" or "All Star Batman") or at best tacked on ("Kingdom Come"). There are a couple of other elseworlds where they are paired but they are also terrible.
Batman also doesn't work because he's already got plenty of suitors. Adding WW to the list diminishes both of them. Talia and Selina are his main interests and it should be left at that.
I would go a step further and argue that she really doesn't need a love interest at all. Steve Trevor is lame, and it's insulting to have her fall in love with literally the first man she sees (especially the cad version of Steve in the 2009 film).
There is no existing male character in the DC universe that makes a logical or useful pair with her, and creating one from whole cloth would be forced. In any event, she's an Amazon - she shouldn't be looking to shack up with a man.
Some have argued that she should be gay or bi, but to me it would be equally awful to have her managing a girlfriend. I don't mind some innuendo about the Amazons (thousands of years without men...gotta relieve tension somehow...) but I don't want a full-on lesbian Wonder Woman playfully spanking Batgirl's ass (though I'm sure a lot of guys wouldn't mind).
Let her stay as a chaste warrior goddess says I.
Not every character needs a romantic partner and the illusion of the white picket fence happy ending.
Ahem!, "wondergirl246"!!! As a studied Wonder Woman expert, its my duty to point out the foolishness in your assertions: >>>>>>she really doesn't need a love interest at all. Says who?! WW is like any woman, and has human needs. Which includes a companion! Treating her like some mindless fighting machine of a warrior goes against what the character is....human. >>>>>>Steve Trevor is lame, and it's insulting to have her fall in love with literally the first man she sees The Steve character was designed specifically to complement WW as her one & only true love...just as Angel was to Buffy...just as Orion was to Artemis/Diana. The fact that she fell in love with the first man she saw has real world implications of the strong polarity of masculine/feminine energy, which was created from WW's years of isolation from men...and then to suddenly have one in front of her. Opposite polarities equals ATTRACTION. Dr. Marston purposely designed the love dynamic that way to reflect the real world psychology involved. >>>>>>There is no existing male character in the DC universe that makes a logical or useful pair with her That's becuz STEVE TREVOR is the only man that makes a logical/useful pair with her. >>>>>>creating one from whole cloth would be forced There's no need to create one from fresh.....Steve Trevor already exists, doing what he was specifically designed for. >>>>>>she's an Amazon - she shouldn't be looking to shack up with a man. She's not only an Amazon, but she's the most human....She is SPECIAL among them....She is THE ONE. So whatever cliches attached to Amazons, they don't quite apply to WW. >>>>>>Let her stay as a chaste warrior goddess says I. Thank the goddesses that its NOT you that has the say. Chaste she should be, yes....as indicated by her namesake, Diana, who is a virgin goddess. But a goddess she is NOT. WW is an Amazon....a demigod, if anything. >>>>>>Not every character needs a romantic partner and the illusion of the white picket fence happy ending. Not every character implied that they needed one! Superheroes are about happy endings, thru the hard work they put forth to produce them! NOBODY suggested that WW have a white picket fence ending. But she should have a mate...and does have one, as dictated & designed by Dr. William Marston. AND TO EVERYONE ELSE: WW already has an love all her own from the Trinity. One that was SPECIFICALLY designed for her by Dr. Marston.....Steve Trevor. Robin/Nightwing would not date WW...he already has Starfire---the hot alien chick, who loves Earth Dick...Grayson, that is.
Steve Trever is Wonder Woman's main love interest. Used to call Diana his angel during pre-crisis DCU or something.
Batman's a stiff. The only charming part of him is his Bruce Wayne self, and there's a lot of argument about whether or not Batman is Bruce Wayne or if Bruce Wayne is Batman.
Batman....because he's Batman... lol, no but in new world it's Batman and her, before it was Superman and her, but i like Batman more....cause he's Batman...lol
Ugh! this again. It's been done a thousand times, I should just copy paste my answer and leave it at that. People should just stop getting worked up about this.
O.K here goes... again.
Personality wise if (and that's a big if) there had to be a choice (which there is no need for, all on that later). It has to be Bruce. Why and naysayers need to get over it is because, out of love interest they've played around with. Bruce is the closest in personality to what she could love as part of a couple. Batman is the closest of established possible love interests to what Diana would want. Batman is a warrior, not just a hero. He's the kind of person who will fight his way out of Tartarus and face his demons. He's a man of taste and culture which falls into the Greek paradigm of that a man should be. Along with being an intellectual who solves his problems with brains (Odysseus anyone).
It doesn't take a theoretical physician to see it....But it will never happen or at least for long because if they did....
We couldn't have core Gotham batman stories anymore. How the hell would Diana fit in stories involving murder mysteries, Gangsters and psychopatic human or lower level super-human threats? Crazy conspiracies? These are the stories we have and want of batman, the JLA stories are mostly side stories (important yes) but they are nothing in importance to core stories: The killing Joke, War Games, No Man's land, Court of Owls, the Long Halloween. None of these could happen with Diana in the picture.
That's it. It's perfectly logical to play around for crossovers and universal events but it can't become some core and consistent to Batman stories otherwise we can't have the core stories anymore.
Now Diana, she doesn't need a love interest to make her interesting. She's one of the best DC characters and she has so much potential wasted on a constant basis. What she needs is enough stories to make fans go "WoW!" enough to go tell their friends about her, then the friends of those friends. Diana doesn't need a love interest for her to have good stories about a complex character with a lot to offer a reader. As such constant shipping with XYZ character is not only pointless but detrimental to a discussion about making the character reach the potential it could as a narrative worth reading.
Am I saying she shouldn't or can't have a love interest. No but such an interest shouldn't be there just to titillate fans or have horny 15 years high five when they see her naked posterior after XYZ character finally deflowered her and other fans just scream with incoherent rage. The only acceptable point for Diana to develop a relationship is to tell a good story. That's it. Could a writer pull it off? Sure if this writer creating a story has both the skill, will to follow through with his plans, and the backing to make it happen. Will it likely, track record says no. Her relationships so far have been largely artificial (thought for my part I like Blackest Night with Bruce, Kingdom Come with Clark and JLU again with Bruce)
So in closing, yes Bruce as a love interest could work. He certainly has the qualities to make it happen. Should it happen? That's the real problem as it means a fundamental shift of the tone and scale of batman stories and unless they break up and god status quo resumes (like it's always the case in American comics). The stories told have to be worth it for the batman side. And for the wonder woman side, it absolutely needs to follow the criteria described above, or it's just insulting to the character. And she's already suffered enough bad writing already.
So again, people chill and get over it. That there is the core issue.
Batman can have gotham stories with her but she will have to lose her powers. She is a formidable meele fighter.I don't want her to lose her powers because this sets her character backwards.
Batman can have gotham stories with her but she will have to lose her powers. She is a formidable meele fighter.I don't want her to lose her powers because this sets her character backwards.
You're basically saying exactly what I'm saying in fewer words
It comes down to the core of the wonder woman side of my point. Is that really doing a great DC character the justice she deserves and never gets? Does that really make for a good story? Unless the writer in charge is outstanding, probably not.
Wonder Woman's world is mythical gods, terrible beasts of legend. City leveling threats. Feuds between immortals that carry out for centuries. Not crawling down in the sewers in with an infrared light looking for an entirely human psycho killer that eats the faces of children and sends their bones to their parents (which can actually be made into a typical batman story)
As a studied Wonder Woman expert, its my duty to point out the foolishness in your assertions:
>>>>>>WONDERGIRL246 SAID: she really doesn't need a love interest at all. <<<<<<
Says who?! WW is like any woman, and has human needs. Which includes a companion! Treating her like some mindless fighting machine of a warrior goes against what the character is....human.
>>>>>>WONDERGIRL246 SAID: Steve Trevor is lame, and it's insulting to have her fall in love with literally the first man she sees<<<<<<
The Steve character was designed specifically to complement WW as her one & only true love...just as Angel was to Buffy...just as Orion was to Artemis/Diana. The fact that she fell in love with the first man she saw has real world implications of the strong polarity of masculine/feminine energy, which was created from WW's years of isolation from men...and then to suddenly have one in front of her. Opposite polarities equals ATTRACTION. Dr. Marston purposely designed the love dynamic that way to reflect the real world psychology involved.
>>>>>>WONDERGIRL246 SAID: There is no existing male character in the DC universe that makes a logical or useful pair with her<<<<<<
That's becuz STEVE TREVOR is the only man that makes a logical/useful pair with her.
>>>>>>WONDERGIRL246 SAID: creating one from whole cloth would be forced<<<<<<
There's no need to create one from fresh.....Steve Trevor already exists, doing what he was specifically designed for.
>>>>>>WONDERGIRL246 SAID: she's an Amazon - she shouldn't be looking to shack up with a man.<<<<<<
She's not only an Amazon, but she's the most human....She is SPECIAL among them....She is THE ONE. So whatever cliches attached to Amazons, they don't quite apply to WW.
>>>>>>WONDERGIRL246 SAID: Let her stay as a chaste warrior goddess says I.<<<<<<
Thank the goddesses that its NOT you that has the say. Chaste she should be, yes....as indicated by her namesake, Diana, who is a virgin goddess. But a goddess she is NOT. WW is an Amazon....a demigod, if anything.
>>>>>>WONDERGIRL246 SAID: Not every character needs a romantic partner and the illusion of the white picket fence happy ending.
Not every character implied that they needed one! Superheroes are about happy endings, thru the hard work they put forth to produce them!
NOBODY suggested that WW have a white picket fence ending. But she should have a mate...and does have one, as dictated & designed by Dr. William Marston.
@AND TO EVERYONE ELSE:
WW already has an love all her own from the Trinity. One that was SPECIFICALLY designed for her by Dr. Marston.....Steve Trevor.
Robin/Nightwing would not date WW...he already has Starfire---the hot alien chick, who loves Earth Dick...Grayson, that is.
I feel like that question is similar to asking, "what's the meaning of life?", nobody truly knows. I say it's bad writing, but I've never liked Lane so I'm biased.
@Mediumguy: Batman's just as obvious, in a different way. People want Diana to "fix" Bruce. Besides it'd never last. Diana can't be brought down to the street level.
If you want to see what would come out of Batman and Wonder Woman's relationship, you should check out JLA #90, where Diana decides to use J'onn's subconscious articulator to see if she really wants to be with Bruce.
Steve Trever is Wonder Woman's main love interest. Used to call Diana his angel during pre-crisis DCU or something.
Batman's a stiff. The only charming part of him is his Bruce Wayne self, and there's a lot of argument about whether or not Batman is Bruce Wayne or if Bruce Wayne is Batman.
What if Lois Lane and Steve Trevor became an item. They could commiserate over how much their Super Wonder significant others are never there and then you know.... stuff.
I feel like that question is similar to asking, "what's the meaning of life?", nobody truly knows. I say it's bad writing, but I've never liked Lane so I'm biased.
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