I'm just here to let an American explain to me what Europe is like.
Is there a term like "mansplaining" for that?
Hopefully, you are right about Japan's fascination with female heroes, but IIRC the Forbes article I mentioned earlier claimed "The Hunger Games" did not do that well in Japan.
Keep thinking no one outside of the U.S. has ever heard of Wonder Woman, or that it was a widely distributed character over the decades. Meanwhile...
...from 1964/65. Yep, no one outside of North America was aware of the character in print, or ever laid eyes on her various TV adaptations. This new film must be a shock to anyone outside of North America, as the source was nowhere, and I mean nowhere to be seen!
For goodness sakes dude. She's not saying that there hasn't been exposure of wonder woman overseas. She's just saying that the wonder woman brand is not in the same ballpark as Superman which is similiar to here in the states. Yes there was that Linda Carter series way back in the late seventies. But what else has there really been since then outside of comics and cartoons which are niche markets? Most people raised between 1980 and 2017 are not going to have any idea who Wonder Woman is and only went to the movie because the trailers intrigued them or word of mouth. They certainly didn't go because D.C has been hitting their movies out of the parkKeep thinking no one outside of the U.S. has ever heard of Wonder Woman, or that it was a widely distributed character over the decades. Meanwhile...
...from 1964/65. Yep, no one outside of North America was aware of the character in print, or ever laid eyes on her various TV adaptations. This new film must be a shock to anyone outside of North America, as the source was nowhere, and I mean nowhere to be seen!
What are you even talking about?
I never claimed there are no WW comics published in Europe. I even specifically said they exist. So spare me this kind of stupid straw man. Your posts are getting really bizarre here.
My point is that she wasn't very well-known compared to true worldwide pop culture icons like Superman or Batman.
Indeed. (You beat me to this response M'Rak!) . The poster also mentioned Central AMerica.
As far as I know Gal Gadot is being heralded as a national hero in Israel. The movie itself is a big success there, too. No doubt due to one of their own being its main star.
No, I gave it an A rating in this thread and praised it, but some are treating it as if was Star Wars in 1977. Few comic adaptations ever walk on that particular street in terms of importance to film. Despite my own judgement of what were the greatest superhero films (some are just great films), I doubt any reached that level.
The use and introduction of the character in Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice cannot be underestimated; it was the big hook to sell the character, so the success of WW did not happen in a vacuum. It--like the MCU films--are part of a series, so its simply logical to acknowledge WW's appeal was generated by her perfect handling in Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice.
Wonder Woman is well known overseas, with the comic and a wealth of merchandising distributed in numerous countries for decades. As just one example, in 1979, the Japanese version of the now-defunct publication Starlog, featured a certain character prominently on the cover--
--and this kind of character exposure was not limited to Japan. So, Wonder Woman is not some new, underexposed or mystery character. From personal travels over the years, I've seen all manner of WW products, and the foreign language distribution of the Carter series as well as The Super Friends (with WW being one of the main characters).
You're two examples are 40 and 50+ years ago, that doesn't necessarily mean that she's well known today, or even that the character was that well know to the general public back then. All it means is that a genre magazine promoted the show, and the comics were distributed in other countries. I'm pretty sure there are a lot of movies that have been on the cover of the US Starlog over the last 40 years that people today have no awareness of, and the Guardians of the Galaxy team featured in the movies have been in comics books for almost 20 years and most of the general public had never heard of them before the movie came out.Keep thinking no one outside of the U.S. has ever heard of Wonder Woman, or that it was a widely distributed character over the decades. Meanwhile...
...from 1964/65. Yep, no one outside of North America was aware of the character in print, or ever laid eyes on her various TV adaptations. This new film must be a shock to anyone outside of North America, as the source was nowhere, and I mean nowhere to be seen!
