@agent41: She was fine and continued fighting. She didn't die from a shot to the head. A human being would have been dead after that. She just stood up and continued fighting. And she has encountered well trained snipers, including the likes of deadshot.
The susceptibility to bullets may be silly.
No - it's great; WW deflecting bullets with her bracers is one of her iconic poses.
The problem here is that as far as DC is concerned, "powerful" = "Superman". In other words, there's just no alternate ways to be powerful other than becoming a Superman clone. Just look at Wolverine: He is in fact an alternate brick, trading durability with fast healing and brute strength with enhanced damage capabilities (the claws). There's just no other path to power and/or respectability in DC than sooperstrint/speed, invulnerability, flight and theme-vision.
But WW has never been treated as a spoiled princess like you try to make it out to be. Usually she is just there, doing nothing. It's been like this for years. On the other hand you have danvers. You think danvers doesn't get mary sue treatment? She has been pushed down our throats for years now. They are trying like there is no tomorrow to make her happen as an A list character. See civel war 2 for example. Or her upcoming movie where they gave her planetary level feats and made her more powerful than everybody else right from the start. When she was nowhere near that level in the comics. If DC tried even half as hard with Wonder Woman, what a story that would be. danvers is currently the defination of sjw hype.
I can't deny the stuff you wrote, and I also feel for cramming Marvel's Cap Marvel down our collective throats ever since Monica Rambeau, but yet the character always was kind of powerful, even when he was a Kree man.
And yet, I must rest my case and denounce how DC conveniently shielded WW from the yet abundant ways to hurt her.
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