Wonder Woman 1984: Diana’s New Superpower, Explained by Comics

Wonder Woman 1984 There are many surprises in store for Themiskira’s Diana. A new villain, a new era, and a new superpower.

That may not come as a surprise to modern superhero fans – but in Wonder Woman’s fantastic history, her standard set of powers is not so standard. Did you know that he was driving a kangaroo?

Here’s how Wonder Woman 1984The biggest leap is actually on the Comic Book Foundation.

[Ed. note: This piece contains spoilers for Wonder Woman 1984.]

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In Wonder Woman 184, Wonder Woman learns to fly! The Amazon Princess’s jumping, running, lassoing and invisible plane-ingings get a major upgrade around the world.

But he does it in a particularly unpredictable way. Just … by doing that. With a little help from Steve Trevor, Diana, who describes how a skillfully designed plane flies in the air, does the same with her roughly human-shaped body. I?

Flying Wonder Woman returns to comic book history

For a superhero of her size, Wonder Woman’s powers are oddly resistant to codification. Sure, Superman has gone through some period of power crap where he can do things like “super discovery,” “super ventrilioquism” or “getting himself back in time by accident.” But these days it is generally accepted that it is strong and bulletproof, it can fly, and it has laser eyes, breathing is stabilized, X-ray vision and sharp senses.

Wonder Woman is super strong and super durable, but not bulletproof – otherwise why does she need a brass thing? – And there are great fighters in the world with a lot of charisma to boot. But beyond that there is mud. He was able to use “mental radio” on various points in his history as if he were telepathic, acquired the ability to speak to animals by the goddess Artemis, could travel in different dimensions through meditation, or could speak too much. Any language with ease.

And Wonder Woman is not always able to fly. This is obvious once you think about it for a second. Why would he need an invisible jet if he could fly? Flight is no longer as closely associated with superheroes as she was in 1942. Even Superman could not fly – in the same place there is a sentence “buildings jump in one seam”.

For a long time, the Invisible Plane or Jet Wonder Woman served very well. Unseen Flight did not become one of its core strengths until 1987, when writer / artist George Perez killed a permanent reboot of his original story. Now, with the blessing of the god Hermes, Diana rises from the sky with some winged sandals.

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But it was not the first time he had learned to fly. In the 1970s, Wonder Woman (short, but memorable and infamous) lost all its power for a period of time, and when it was re-established it also discovered an ancient Amazon technique. She learned to ride in the air for short distances. In other words, she figured out how to fly like an airplane without having an airplane-shaped body.

Which is exactly what goes inside it Wonder Woman 1984, As strange as it seems on the screen. But you know what they say: the fish have to swim, the Amazon has to fly.