Expected. I did not believe the film version would have her running around in a costume that looks like a cheap onesie.
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Expected. I did not believe the film version would have her running around in a costume that looks like a cheap onesie.
The original Cheetah (in the comics), as noted, was just a person wearing a form fitting outfit. Her name was Priscilla Rich, an upper class socialite who was envious of WW's abilities. Rich herself didn't have super strength, speed, etc. She merely deluded herself. But the character in the movie is called Barbara Minerva, which is the concept George Perez crafted into the blood lusting were-creature who posed a credible threat to Wonder Woman. Now, I could be quite mistaken, but I think what we're seeing in these images is Ms. Minerva before she is cursed with a form of lycanthropy, keeping the big reveal a secret until the movie draws closer to its release.
Funny enough, the current 'SuperHero Girls" series on Cartoon Network has kinda' merged the Priscilla Rich and Barbara Minerva characters, though she uses the more recent name. She starts as simply a high school rival of Diana, jealous of the amazon's physical prowess in gym class and her overall popularity with the student body. She returns to her stately manor of a home and enters her father's study. Seems he is something of an archeologist. To make the scenario more acceptable for "family time" viewing, instead of making blood sacrifices to a dark god trapped within a plant (as depicted in the Perez comics), Minerva seizes a cat statue and invokes what she thinks is a curse upon Diana. Turns out it gives her the shapeshifting ability to turn into a hybrid cat creature with enough agility, strength and stamina to hold her own against the princess of the Amazons, though it does not manifest itself until later.
Funny enough, the current 'SuperHero Girls" series on Cartoon Network has kinda' merged the Priscilla Rich and Barbara Minerva characters, though she uses the more recent name. She starts as simply a high school rival of Diana, jealous of the amazon's physical prowess in gym class and her overall popularity with the student body. She returns to her stately manor of a home and enters her father's study. Seems he is something of an archeologist. To make the scenario more acceptable for "family time" viewing, instead of making blood sacrifices to a dark god trapped within a plant (as depicted in the Perez comics), Minerva seizes a cat statue and invokes what she thinks is a curse upon Diana. Turns out it gives her the shapeshifting ability to turn into a hybrid cat creature with enough agility, strength and stamina to hold her own against the princess of the Amazons, though it does not manifest itself until later.
That could be it, but movies and TV shows have been known to take elements from one version of a character and use the name of a different version. If they intend her to be a multimovie villain, I could see her being human here the whole time, but then have them set up the hybrid version in a post-credits scene.
There's been a slight name change and the character will now be known as The Cougar.
That is so lame. But, I've known since they announced who was playing "Cheetah" that this was going the MCU route with having a terrible villain, so as long as the overall plot is good and WW is as good a character as she was in her first movie, I can ignore the shitty casting and concept of "Cheetah". Heck, WW 1 didn't have great villains, but it was still a really good movie, so I don't think this will hurt the sequel too much, unless they waste too much time on the villain.
Trailer tomorrow, sneak peek here:
https://twitter.com/WonderWomanFilm/status/1203358507652698113
https://twitter.com/WonderWomanFilm/status/1203358507652698113
Poor Debbie Domaine. No respect.
It won't.
Wonder Woman riding the lightning current is a homage to the Metallica cover from that same year
Gal Gadot said that they realized it was a bad idea to have her "abandon mankind" after WW1 and are ignoring that statement.
I think it's safe to say that from here on out, what few DC movies that still have any kind of inter-connectivity (probably not many) are just going to flat out ignore BvS & JL.
I guess stupid is as stupid does.
Why did DCEU ever bother with trying to set up a connected continuity when they're not going to hold to it anyway?
Oh well. In the end, if the movie is good, I don't really care anyway.
Because they chose a man to head it who didn't understand the characters.
This, plus they tried to play catch-up with the MCU by rushing straight through to the team up movie after just one stand-alone origin. It's a similar situation Sony blundered into with the 'Amazing Spider-Man' franchise, only they gave up before they could even roll film on their villain team-up movie.
Marvel works where others do not largely because despite a few missteps, the larger connected universe serves as the support structure for the individual stories, not the other way around.
And they were willing to do more with lesser known characters that the public weren't as familiar with, as opposed to going with the big guns that were a guaranteed draw. Gave them more wiggle room.
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