Wonder Woman (2017)
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Will Wonder Woman have an Invisible Biplane in this era? I hope they've thunk this thing through....
You're thinking on the wrong track, though. Amazon technology is supposed to be more advanced than ours. That's why, in the comics, Wonder Woman was able to have a supersonic stealth aircraft in 1942. So there's no reason to expect that the design should parallel the contemporary aircraft of Man's World.
(Also, the modern interpretation of Wonder Woman is that she can fly under her own power, which renders the invisible plane/jet redundant. Not sure if that applies to the DCEU version. I seem to recall seeing a trailer clip of her flying toward Doomsday, but it might've been a superstrong jump instead.)
I'm on the right track...in the '40s it was a propeller aircraft; in the jet age it got upgraded to a jet. Taking that design lineage backwards, in WWI she should be using a biplane...maybe a triplane.
But the intent was that it was an advanced aircraft capable of supersonic flight and invisibility. The rendering reflected the limitations on the artist's understanding of aircraft design; he couldn't show a supersonic aircraft more realistically because they hadn't been invented yet, so he had no referent. It would be as misguided to expect a modern interpretation of Wonder Woman to be restricted by those 1940s limitations as it would be to insist that a modern interpretation of Starfleet like Enterprise or the 2009 movie should use the same 1960s-style switches and light bulbs and chronometer dials that TOS was limited to. Real-world limitations on execution should not be mistaken for in-story limitations.
Sticking to my Bat-Guns here...supersonic, invisible bi/tri-plane or nothing. Previous incarnations have reflected aircraft of their era, this one should be no different.
Besides...if it's invisible, how could we tell? I suppose if she needs Etta to hand-start it by swinging the invisible propeller....
Besides...if it's invisible, how could we tell? I suppose if she needs Etta to hand-start it by swinging the invisible propeller....
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If she couldn't fly very fast or very far, the way Superman can, then a plane would come in handy.
In Amazons Attack... (the mythos was upside down, so at this point in history invisible Planes were not Amazon tech.) wouldn't it have been fun to see thousands of Invisible planes attacking America?
Then by that logic, Gal Gadot should be dressed in a Wonder Woman costume based on female bathing garment fashions of the late 1910s. And the movie should be silent and filmed in black and white.
Yes, they have advanced invisible jet airplanes...and swords and horses.
I don't like mixing primitive aesthetic with advanced magic science.
Where are their invisible jeeps & rifles? Where are their oil refineries that produce the jet fuel? Where is their heavy industry that produces advanced alloys? Are there Amazon welders & flight computer technicians? It's the same reason Thor's world is so silly to me. Sure, the tech is so advanced it's like magic. And he uses a hammer. A magic science hammer. The clumsiest most impractical possible form for an advanced weapon to take. I don't like the idea of trying to turn magic themed heroes into aliens with advanced technology.
I've never cared for the invisible plane, so I'm hoping it's not in the DCEU.
EDIT: Going back to the whole diversity debate, according to the description on Wikipedia, the post-Crisis Amazons were "the reincarnated souls of women slain by men throughout pre-history". There's no reason that all of those souls had to have come from white women.
That's what it certainly looks like to me, although I guess it could be the other way around, with the Amazons in Man's World. I'm wondering where all of this takes place in the Diana/Steve relationship. The fact that she's in the generic Amazon armor, and on Themyscira makes me wonder if this is their first meeting. If so, I don't see the other soldiers surviving much longer.
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Steve Trevor's plane crashed and he washed up on Paradise Island. Diana nursed him back to health and took him back to the outside world. This is the character's history.
Well, for what it's worth, William Moulton Marston and H.G. Peter portrayed the Amazons as a technologically advanced civilization from the start, so that's not something that later creators have accreted onto it. I'm not sure if the same goes for Thor. I think the comics portrayed the Asgardians as actual Norse gods all along, and the MCU retconned them as aliens mistaken for gods. But I'm not sure.
Indeed, and the post-Crisis Amazon characters did include women of color, most notably Philippus.
