Castration comes in many flavors in Wonder Woman, and they all taste very cool indeed. Wonder Woman emasculates Trevor repeatedly, calling him "a pathetic lightweight," and teaches a little girl a thrust attack so she can take apart boys who won't let her play swords with them. (When it comes to sexual desire, truth lassos are often double-edged swords.) There are more than enough wisecracks about how hot Wonder Woman and the Amazons are, usually delivered by Trevor and more than once as he's wrapped up in a truth lasso. Savvy film and comics fans can tell right there and then that Ares' deal with the devil will not end well for him.Īlong the way, Wonder Woman skewers roles of both sexes in ways that will probably make fanboys and feminists equally happy.
Even Ares' unchecked male ego and aggression are somewhat humanized in the shadow of a celestial evil like the king of the underworld, who rudely bitch-slaps Ares' dead son in a deliciously nasty scene.
Hippolyta doesn't have long to wait before an overly protected Diana is longing for action, her subject Persephone is freeing Ares from prison, and, pardon the pun, cocky Air Force pilot Steve Trevor ( Serenity's Nathan Fillion) is dropping out of the sky like one of Zeus' cruel jokes.Īlley thugs are just comic relief compared to the hellish horror of Ares, who is ultimately empowered by a slimy Hades ( Oliver Platt, with delight, no doubt) to wreak havoc on Earth. It doesn't take long for her to procreate without help: Hippolyta molds her baby Diana into being, using nothing but her hands, earth and some electrifying lightning from Zeus.īut like most paradises, Amazonian island nation Themyscira only looks good on paper. Hippolyta's guilt over her union with Ares and the bloodbath it creates sets the table for a literal battle of the sexes featuring more than one shadowed decapitation, plenty of hot-chick jokes and buckets of PG-13 gore.Īfter Hippolyta is stopped by Zeus and Hera from killing Ares outright, she is rewarded with a hermetically sealed paradise wherein she and her sisters can live, forever free from male violence.
Sex, or its disturbing aftermath, plays just as great a role in Michael Jelenic's clever script for Wonder Woman as it does in the character's back story. But war is just part of her myth, as we see in the early moments of Wonder Woman, when Diana's mother, Hippolyta (an excellent Virginia Madsen) beheads her own son Thraxx in front of his father, Ares (the always reliable Alfred Molina), during a horrific battle between the Amazons and the god of war's minions.
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