What a bunch of excuse makers. Admit it´s a damn plot hole and perhaps the story has got slightly better since the atrocious origin changed, that is actually what needs fixing in this story. Azzerrelo could have practically told the same story without his big ideas on how to "improve" wonder woman that don´t make any sense and leave more questions than they do answers and don´t make her any more relatable or unrelatable than pre-New 52 Diana who was a miles better character than Johns or Azz are writing. Pre-New 52 WW suffered from bad writing in general, it was not an inherent flaw in the character as Marston, Perrez, Simone, Rucka and now Azzerrelo have shown. In fact all the most appealing aspects of Azz´s run are where his WW, is more like the old one. All the stupid crap is from the changes.
1. Amazons are immortal, so don´t need to have murder children or men to survive in Azz´s run.
In fact logically speaking they should not have children if they are immortal as surely that would mean the Island would become vastly overpopulated.
2. His Hercules origin has to be the most uninspired origin of any DC character including Plastic Man.
3. Clearly compassion is bred by parental figures. If your whole society is backwards and semi-fascist then the children will surely show sign of that. Just like kids under Nazi Germany were so indoctrinated that they would even spy and tell on their own parents if they thought they were traitors to the Volk. There is one: absolutely no sensible reason given for Amazons hiding their fascist convictions from Diana and Two: No reason that growing up in a Fascist society that she would not absorb those values. And the Amazon society depicted in The New 52 is Fascist. Just like Hitler saw jews as subhuman waste, or, slave labor, so do the Amazons see men.
4. Just like that stupid film Man Of Steel butchered and raped superman by turning Pa Kent into a senseless suicidal psychopath, with no regard for human life, even his own, and Clark Kent being brought up bullied and victimized by everyone he knows, yet somehow he just magically becomes this heroic figure, so to does this run, fall into the same trap. Granted this run is not as bad as The Man Of Steel by a mile and has some intelligent elements and characterizations and defo has some aspects that need to be kept in future ww runs, the pathetic origin, is one of the things that should be immediately discarded. Its stupid, bad storytelling, full of plot holes and quite frankly disrespectful to the character and her fans intelligence. I can see why some like all this dark, twisted, nonsense. I like dark and gritty as well, but when it´s done thoughtfully like Fight Club, American Psycho, Watchmen, etc. That is dark and gritty but makes sense. Not just dark and gritty because thats in amongst a bunch of teenagers who have grown up in an unfortunately dark period of history (post 9´11, Iraq War, Recession, lower incomes, untrustworthy Governments etc) that has made the perpetually cynical about everything.
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