Wonder Woman (2017 film)

Wonder Woman (2017) is a live-action DCEU movie. It stars Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, Chris Pine as Steve Trevor, and Robin Wright as Antiope.

Diana, Princess of Themyscira, longs to train with her aunt and adoptive sisters as the Amazons hide from the world of men. Her mother Queen Hippolyta at first tries to dissuade her, saying that she's still a kid and should not know the horrors of war. Aunt Antiope starts training Diana in secret, telling her how Ares wiped out his sibling gods and that Zeus entrusted the Amazons with the only weapon that can defeat him.

One day, after Diana accidentally sent her aunt flying during training, she notices something fall out of the sky. It's a plane, with a man trapped inside. She rescues him and gets him to the Themyscira beaches; enemy soldiers follow, attacking him and the Amazons. The man is revealed to be Steve Trevor, a British spy that stole a notebook on chemical warfare from the Germans. It's World War I, and the Germans may be violating war protocols by developing gas masks.


 * Adorkable: Diana has a few moments in London, like when she tries out a few outfits that Steve buys for her, seeing if she can fight in them. She charges through a revolving door like it's an obstacle course, and swings her sword. Later, she makes a beeline for a baby, and Steve has to stop her. Before they leave London, Steve treats her to ice-cream, and she tells the vendor, "You should be proud."
 * Combat Pragmatist:
 * Antiope encourages Diana that there is a time and place to fight honorably. She demonstrates that if your back is to the wall, then you have to prepare to forsake honor and go for the cheap shot..
 * Steve is willing to fight dirty to defeat an opponent. He draws the line at poisoning them via gas because that could endanger civilians.
 * Likewise, Chief is perfectly willing to lob a grenade at an opponent unable to dodge. He has plenty of them on hand, and his fists as well.
 * Everyone Has Standards:
 * Steve was supposed to get in, get out, and report back on info that would convince the British that the Germans had upgraded their chemical warfare. He broke protocol and stole Dr. Maru's notebook when seeing her experiment on a chained-up soldier, as the latter was screaming in pain while a mask gagged him. Why? Because Steve realized that if he didn't act, innocents would die..
 * During the Veld scene, the British soldiers go Mass "Oh Crap" when they see Diana climb over the trenches and enter No Man's Land. They move to go help Steve and his crew when they provide backup for Diana; their commanding officer has to yell at them to hold their positions so they don't get killed. It's only when Diana makes sufficient ground that the officer gives them the go-ahead, and they're cheering, "She's done it!" as they end the stalemate.
 * Heroic Sacrifice:
 * Antiope takes a literal bullet for Diana, and uses her last words to order her to find the Godkiller and kill Ares.
 * In the climax,.
 * Hero of Another Story: Etta Candy mentions that she's running a militant women's rights organization in London..
 * Mama Bear:
 * Hippolyta has not properly led her warriors into battle since Zeus hid the Amazons on Themyscira. But when she sees Diana with a strange man on the beach? She raises her army and warns him to get away from her daughter.
 * Antiope has trained Diana to be the best warrior possible. She also spends much of the battle on Themyscira protecting her niece, taking a bullet for her.
 * Mass "Oh Crap":
 * The Amazons have this reaction when they see men for the first time in centuries, rowing boats to their shore. They all prepare to fire and do so after the Germans launch the first shot, with extreme prejudice. Hippolyta is terrified as it means that Diana's destiny of killing Ares will soon come true.
 * Steve's crew and the British soldiers have this reaction when Diana climbs over the trenches into No Man's Land to liberate the Veld. At first they watch with a growing sense of helplessness, fearing that she will be killed. Then Diana starts deflecting the bullets and larger cannonfire with ease...and Steve realizes that she's actually gaining ground while taking the gunfire. He goes to provide her some backup, while Charlie, Sameer and Chief follow. The British soldiers want to help, but their commander doesn't give them the go-ahead until Steve's crew clears the field and the trenches on the other side.
 * Properly Paranoid: Even though the Amazons have hidden from humanity for millennia, Antiope still trains regularly, while Hippolyta watches the cliffs for the day that Ares will return. Turns out that training pays off; when Steven's plane crashes just off the island, the Germans manage to find Thmeyscira and fire the first shots at the Amazons. The Amazons manage to slaughter everyone that hits their shores minus Steve, whom they keep alive for questioning, but suffer some casualties as well, including Antiope.
 * Reality Ensues: Diana thinks that if she finds Ares in human guise and kills him with the special Godkiller sword, mankind will no longer be corrupt. So she goes for and slays him. Only...the Germans are still loading the planes with gas. Steve tearfully tells Diana that killing one "bad guy" doesn't mean you stop a war or a conflict.
 * Reasonable Authority Figure:
 * Hippolyta doesn't want Diana to train with the warriors, to let her be a child for as long as she can. When she learns, however, that Antiope has been training Diana in secret for years and Antiope says that it's better to teach Diana the right forms so she'll be ready, Hippolyta acquiesces on the condition that Diana is trained harder than any Amazon. Later, when Diana prepares to leave with Steve for the London mainland at night, Hippolyta doesn't stop her daughter though she brings the Amazons for a proper goodbye as the pair prepares to mount a boat. She instead warns Diana that if she leaves, she might not be able to come back to Themyscira, and that the world doesn't deserve her daughter. Hippolyta gifts Diana with Antiope's tiara, as a memory of home and her beloved aunt, and says that Diana is her greatest love.
 * Sir Patrick Morgan of the London council is the only one willing to listen to Steve about the notebook he found and the potential upgrades to chemical warfare. He funds Steve's trip across the border, warning him and his crew to be careful. Technically he cannot sanction such a mission if the rest of the council disagrees, but he knows that Steve's instincts have never failed them..
 * Red Herring: General Ludendorff seems to be a monster of almost supernatural means. He's fine with killing his own superiors if they wish to pursue armistice with the British. When Diana hears that he will not accept a surrender, she concludes that he must be Ares because surely men do not seek war and needless destruction.
 * Sacred Hospitality: After the Amazons use the sacred lasso to interrogate Steve, they realize that he's not a threat like the Germans were. Hippolyta gives him private chambers and the medics attend to him, and he's locked up in a Gilded Cage while they discuss what to do with him. Steve doesn't seem to mind once his wounds are dressed and is willing to answer Diana's questions.
 * Would Hurt A Child:
 * It's revealed that the German soldiers are beneath their gas masks. This means that Isabel Maru and General Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff were  when trying to create a gas that would disintegrate the protections.
 * By necessity, in the climax,.