"The relationship won't be 50%-50% between WW and one of the 2 men of the trinity. It's not 50%-50% with SM and it certainly won't be with BM. BM is DC's biggest money cow. He is allowed to do stupid things all the time that go against the nature of his character, like one-shottiing Aquaman,Cheetah,WW,Green Lantern,etc, tagging Flash, hurting Darkseid with a simple kick etc. But you can bet WW won't one-shotte joker or bane even when she is millions of times stronger than them, why?, because in many cases popularirty>>>>>>>>power levels."
Power levels have nothing to do with a relationship between two characters. It's the power obsessive fanboys that freak over Batman punching Cheetah, or Deathstroke outmaneuvering the Flash or whatever. This all stems from the horrible misconception that a character that's physically stronger = a better character, so lowly street level humans should know their place and always play second fiddle to the alien power houses.........or so some fanboys/girls of Supes, WW, MM, AM..etc would like you to believe.
Personally I don't agree with this line of thinking, as you might've guessed already. The fact that Batman managed to punch WW in the face, using a 600 million war machine, doesn't spit on WW's legacy, and doesn't mean that DC is favoring Batman over Wonder Woman. Maybe I believe that because of my extensive background in reading Marvel comics, were human characters can deal with any super powered aliens with the right tech and preperations, or because I think that the power levels in the DC universe are ridicules and should be dropped significantly to make writing interesting stories around the characters more manageable. The point is still that the problem lies with the people if they get pissy over who defeats who. Batman got stomped (literally I might add) by WW and nobody got angry over it.
I can't defend nonsensical writing, but that fault lies with the writer not the character. I'm merely discussing the merits of making two characters enter a relationship, based on their established history, and what they stand for. A will written relationship should benefit both characters, and if the writer can't handle that then that's either is his fault, or the characters were not suitable to each others in the first place.
"Generally power level is not the key for a good story, but it is a key when it comes to respecting the rank of a character. It's not enjoyable to see a powerhouse struggling with street levelers just because its partner is more popular and happens to be an street leveler. An story like that just can't be taken seriously, and because of that is not enjoyable."
Not if it makes sense. I can understand Batman being able to fight WW in an advanced power suit, I can enjoy that. However, if I saw Batman knocking WW out with a punch, without any explanation, I would definitely hate it, as that doesn't make Batman look any good, he would just look dumb and I'd lose any immersion I had with the story.
The problem with people however, is that they would never accept their favorite character losing to a character they deem to be lower, no matter what the circumstances are. Take the Batman vs. Justice League fight from Endgame as an example. Batman only managed to take WW out of the fight by tricking her through the use of a magical artifact that rivals her own lasso, and yet people are calling that a humiliating defeat for WW despite the fact that Batman didn't even beat her physically.
I personally thought the whole fight was smart, and the Iron Man fan in me wanted Batman to do something like this for a long time. I thought the fight was well choreographed and the end results didn't leave any character humiliated as many claim (well maybe with the exception of Aquaman, but he had it coming). Of course many would say I'm biased for Batman, but I honestly don't see it that way, because although this might be a rare occurrence in DC, Marvel has stuff like that all the time, and many times it comes from characters that I'm not very fond of (Captain America, Black Panther, Reed Richard) and yet I never thought it was bad writing.
"With SM she is portrayed as a powerhouse but she spends all the time glorifying him like she should be honor to breathe the same air that SM breathes, and her personality and character development are lacking in the relationship(SM is in the same situation in that aspect)."
I explained before how I think that the current relationship between Superman and Wonder Woman is being handled the way it should be, and that's to say it's going badly, because that's how I believe a realistic relationship between the two would play out. It would start sweet but will inevitably end due to the fundamental differences between the two that are not easy to reconcile. Of course it could be written better, there is no doubt about that, but that hinges on the writers not the characters.
"I haven't seen an equal relationship between WW and any of the 2 men of the trinity yet. So unless things change, then i prefer to see her with Steve, there are stories where they show real chemistry as a couple, where both count on each other, grow together, and he has shown he'd go to the end of the world and beyond for her."
Batman and WW never got into a relationship so that you can judge it. Unless you're counting their general interactions outside the possible relationship, and in that case that has nothing to do with anything. Especially considering that WW is one of the few characters that Batman was never shown to look down on or dismiss, at least not since the 2000's.
Steve works with Diana because there is really nothing more to him than being her love interest. I explained how the fact that WW pretty much fell for the first man she encountered does not reflect on her positively, especially when the man in question isn't that remarkable in the first place. At least her relationship with Superman makes much more sense, as compared to Steve he's an extraordinary person. Still, if written well, Steve can have potential because really he's only defined by his relationship to Diana, so it shouldn't be a difficult thing to accomplish, but I still think she should branch out outside Superman or Steve. It doesn't even have to be Batman for that matter.
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