Wonder Woman (animation)



Wonder Woman is an animated film from 2009 and part of the DC Universe Original Animated Movies line, involving a kind of Super-Hero Origin for the title character. It stars Keri Russell as Diana / Wonder Woman, and Nathan Filion as Steve Trevor. The film involves Diana's first venture into the outside world in order to stop Ares, the Greek god of war, from gaining all the powers of Olympus and using them to destroy the world.

Along the way, she is helped by Steve Trevor, and the two become involved in a somewhat complicated partnership whilst trying to track down Ares.

"Hippolyta: And you could not find a bigger sword Artemis? Artemis: Sword? This is but my dagger."
 * Action Dress Rip
 * Adaptation Distillation
 * Adipose Rex: Hades. Lord of the Underworld, he's so large his throne is a lounge sofa!
 * A God Am I: Ares. Yeah, he was already a god to begin with; but then.
 * Almost Kiss: Steve tries this on Diana twice. The first time, he is very drunk and she rejects him (by moving out of the way as he leaned in, letting his head fall onto a bar stool). The second time, it looks like it’s about to happen after Steve both points out the hypocrisy of the Straw Feminism that some of the Amazons possess and expresses his true feelings for Diana... then she slaps him in the face (supposedly for attempting to make another move on her).
 * Amazons Speaking English: When they should probably really be speaking Ancient Greek.
 * Ancient Grome: Minor example, but the Amazons' battle armor is based on Roman armor.
 * And the Adventure Continues...: The movie ends with.
 * Badass Army: The Amazons.
 * Badass Normal: Steve Trevor.
 * Batman Gambit:
 * Big Bad: Ares.
 * Big Damn Heroes:
 * The Big Damn Kiss: Diana and Steve after.
 * BFS: Artemis wields one. Lampshaded by Hippolyta.
 * The Big Damn Kiss: Diana and Steve after.
 * BFS: Artemis wields one. Lampshaded by Hippolyta.

"Steve: No one messes with Lincoln!"
 * Black Chick Dies First: In the dogfight above the island.
 * Blondes Are Evil: Played straight with Ares and Thrax, averted with Steve.
 * Bloodless Carnage: Used and averted regularly, most notably in both decapitations.
 * Blood Knight: Artemis.
 * Book Ends: In the battle at the beginning of the movie, Hippolyta is seen slicing off the head of the son that she was forced to conceive with Ares. In the last battle of the movie,.
 * But Liquor Is Quicker: Implied with Steve Trevor's attempt to get Diana drunk, though he might have just been trying to get her to loosen up a bit. Too bad for him that Amazons don't get drunk.
 * Cannot Spit It Out: Inverted with Steve whenever the Lasso of Truth is used on him. He really hopes the Amazons can't mass produce that thing.
 * Changing Clothes Is a Free Action: Averted. Notable because the comic version of Diana once provided the page image.
 * Chivalrous Pervert: The film's version of Steve Trevor comes across as one.
 * Cool Plane: Her iconic invisible jet.
 * Creepy Monotone: Hades speaks like this quite a few times.
 * Defrosting Ice Queen:.
 * Double Standard: A major plot point.
 * Dual-Wielding: Some Amazons,
 * Even Evil Has Standards.
 * Even Evil Has Loved Ones Ares loved his son, Thrax.
 * Everybody Hates Hades: Played with.
 * Exact Words: Hades informs Ares that Zeus "begged me not to help you" when Ares asks him to remove his Restraining Bolt..
 * Eye Scream: Persephone loses her right eye in the opening battle.
 * Face Heel Turn:.
 * Fat Bastard: Hades again, at least towards the dead who serve him if his treatment of Ares' dead son is any indication.
 * Foot Focus: Diana spends her entire fight with Deimos barefoot since fighting in heels would be impractical.
 * Groin Attack:
 * Diana does this to Steve when they first meet (right after they have a brief sparring match in which Steve says that he thinks he "likes her"). Artemis also threatens to castrate him herself if he doesn't leave Diana alone.
 * Also in the opening by a couple of Amazons; seems Jewel Kick is a standard Amazon skill.
 * Hoist by His Own Petard:
 * Honor Before Reason: Steve saves Diana instead of stopping Ares. Diana promptly calls him out on his decision.
 * Hot Chick with a Sword: Dozens of them in the big battle scenes, as it happens.
 * Hot Amazon: Given who the film is about, as well as who her Love Interest is, it'd be impossible to avoid this one.
 * Hot Mom: Hippolyta of course.
 * Immortality: The Amazons and Ares are all immortal. Ares even has followers who have been waiting patiently for him to return since ancient times.
 * Ironic Echo: In the opening battle, Artemis rebukes Alexa for relying on wisdom from "some dead philosopher" rather than fighting with her sword. Later, during the battle in DC,
 * Lightning Can Do Anything
 * Monumental Damage: Including the Lincoln and Washington Memorials, the Reflecting Pool (at least from getting blood in it), the White House and the Capitol Building. That first one pisses Steve off.

"Hippolyta: What other depraved thoughts might you be thinking? Steve: God, your daughter's got a nice rack."
 * Most Common Superpower: Lampshaded by Steve Trevor to the point of almost making a Gag Boobs joke.

"Steve: Let's get you changed into something that won't get me arrested for solicitation first."
 * Mugging the Monster: A bunch of thugs try and mug Diana and Steve outside a bar. Bad idea.
 * Mythology Gag: Possibly. In the closing scene, Diana is seen wearing glasses as part of a new secret identity and begins changing for combat by pulling opening her shirt to reveal her costume underneath.
 * Non Action Girl: Alexa, much to the bane of her sister Artemis.
 * Offing the Offspring: Heroic example: Hippolyta beheads the son Ares "forced on her", who was murdering her fellow Amazons for his father.
 * Off with His Head: The fate of Ares' son.
 * Oh Crap: Used repeatedly throughout the film. Particularly effective when Diana herself uses it.
 * One-Winged Angel:
 * Our Presidents Are Different: A trigger-happy one who jumps to conclusions rather quickly. However, it is mentioned that Ares' mere presence inspires violent thoughts in man, and he was standing on the White House roof for a while.
 * Our Zombies Are Different: All of them are . Any more who are killed instantly
 * Outdoor Bath Peeping: Steve Trevor when he first arrives on Themiscyra.
 * Panty Shot: Diana gets one during the fight with Deimos. Arguable, since the "panties" are the bottom half of her normal costume.
 * Physical God: Ares.
 * Power Makes Your Hair Grow: Part of is his hair going from short and close-cropped to ankle-length.
 * Reason Why You Suck Speech.
 * Reasoning with God Some of the characters talk directly with Greek gods and goddesses.
 * Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Subverted. It looks like Ares plans to sacrifice Persephone--who betrayed her fellow Amazons to free him--to open the gates of Hades, but he simply uses one of his cultists as a sacrifice instead.
 * Running Gag The magic lasso ends up leading to a bunch of funny moments with Steve being forced to be brutally honest with Diana and the Amazons. It actually creates another running gag: use of the word "crap", which is a term the Amazons had never heard before.
 * R-Rated Opening: The movie opens with a brutal battle sequence that includes the above-mentioned beheading, and the first line is about sex (Hippolyta taunting Ares about not being good in bed).
 * Word Of God says that there had to be several edits to many of the film's fight scenes, because the original first cut had earned an R-rating by the MPAA.
 * Sex Is Evil and I Am Horny The Amazons' philosophy of isolating themselves from the rest of the world was partially in response to Queen Hippolyta's former relationship with Ares which had led to the birth of their son, Thrax who became a violent killing machine like his father. So the Amazons all seemed to see all of mankind as corrupt and evil.
 * Shout Out Steve seeing and nicknaming Diana, "Angel" is a shout out to how Steve gave her that same nickname back in Bruce Timm's Justice League series during the "Savage Time" episodes (another work of Bruce Timm).
 * Sibling Yin-Yang: Artemis and her sister Alexa.
 * Straw Feminist: Wonder Woman and some of the other Amazons have tendencies in this direction, but mostly seem to get over them by the film's end.
 * Stripperiffic: Wonder Woman's outfit; lampshaded a few times by Steve Trevor.


 * Tempting Fate: "What other depraved thoughts must you be thinking?"
 * "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Given by Trevor to Diana after.
 * Title Drop: By the little girl at the end. Up until then, the titular character had been called "Diana".
 * Violet Eyes: Hippolyta.
 * Villainous BSOD: Ares has one after his son Thrax is beheaded by Hippolyta.
 * Vorpal Pillow: Alexa. Justified in that she had just been stabbed and the hand over her face doing the smothering was Ares'.
 * What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic: Hippolyta and her Amazons battle to defeat the god of war's forces... in front of The Vietnam War Memorial (which fortunately did not suffer Monumental Damage).
 * What the Hell, Hero?: See Honor Before Reason above.
 * Why Couldn't You Be Different?: Artemis is not happy with her sister Alexa's non-warrior ways. Instead of grieving for her death, she's angry at her failure.