LOL - Megan Fox: Wonder Woman a lame superhero

[Vympel]

I LOL

“Wonder Woman is a lame superhero,” she tells UK’s Times Online. “She flies around in her invisible jet and her weaponry is a lasso that makes you tell the truth. I just don’t get it. Somebody has a big challenge on their hands whoever takes that role but I don’t want to do it.”

Damn straight.

[Stark]

OMG the nerds will be so angry.

I think her agent should have pitched the bondage/lesbian aspect and not the jet/lasso aspect.

[Havok]

I think my dream has been justified.

[RogueIce]

I don't think she would have made a good Wonder Woman anyway. She's got the long black hair for it, but to me a live action Wonder Woman would be more like Lucy Lawless in her Xena years.

Yeah I'm buying into the "lolz Wonder Woman's wonder bewbs" thing but hey, go with what you know.

[Darth Wong]

Wonder Woman would make a great character in a satirical superhero movie, or a porno superhero movie. But in a superhero movie which takes itself somewhat seriously, she just doesn't work.

[Stark]

Could anyone could have taken Megan Fox seriously as a physical superhero anyway?

[Darth Wong]

Could anyone could have taken Megan Fox seriously as a physical superhero anyway?

They could have taken her as seriously as any superhero who wears a bikini and deflects bullets with magic bracelets.

[Themightytom]

Biiiiiiiiiitch shut the fuck up Lynda Carter was hot.

Aslo, YOU'RE "hero" drives a tow truck?

Wonder woman = lame superhero because most of the DC female super heros are knockoffs of the man superheros. bat girl, super girl but wonder woman has been around for longer than..say transfoermers.

Hopefully they will ditch the Lasso O' truth but what the hell is so bad about the invisible plane? It DOES get stupid when we can see WONDER WOMAN THROUGH it, but they can retcon that. Wonder woman also can fly on her own, is pretty strong a martial arts expert and has a repore with animals.

...and megan fox is dressed like michael jackson.

[Darth Wong]

Biiiiiiiiiitch shut the fuck up Lynda Carter was hot.

Aslo, YOU'RE "hero" drives a tow truck?

Wonder woman = lame superhero because most of the DC female super heros are knockoffs of the man superheros. bat girl, super girl but wonder woman has been around for longer than..say transfoermers.

Hopefully they will ditch the Lasso O' truth but what the hell is so bad about the invisible plane? It DOES get stupid when we can see WONDER WOMAN THROUGH it, but they can retcon that. Wonder woman also can fly on her own, is pretty strong a martial arts expert and has a repore with animals.

...and megan fox is dressed like michael jackson.

Jesus fucking Christ, do you have any idea how to spell English words? "Also", not "aslo". "Your", not "you're" for the possessive form. "Heroes", not "heros". "Transformers", not "transfoermers". "Rapport", not "repore". And you should pay a guide to show you where the Shift key is, not to mention fixing some of your bad grammar.

[Stark]

They could have taken her as seriously as any superhero who wears a bikini and deflects bullets with magic bracelets.

Well we already know it would work as porn.

[Ford Prefect]

Could anyone could have taken Megan Fox seriously as a physical superhero anyway?

People bought Toby MacGuire as Spiderman, though admittedly Spiderman wears a lot more clothing than Wonder Woman. That said, I wouldn't take any chick under six feet seriously as Wonder Woman.

Wonder woman also can fly on her own, is pretty strong a martial arts expert and has a report with animals.

If you're going to try and present Wonder Woman in a positive light, how about mention her stupendously massive strength? She's not as powerful as Superman, but she's in the same ballpark.

[JME2]

Character wise (not powers-wise), Diana is definitely the weakest of the Big 7, even more-so than Aquaman. Fox's observations are accurate, if amusing. The recent animated film would probably be the ideal route to take in trying to adapt her to live-action media and keep it moderately believable.

[RogueIce]

Diana is definitely the weakest of the Big 7, even more-so than Aquaman. Fox's observations are accurate, if amusing. The recent animated film would probably be the ideal route to take in trying to adapt her to live-action media and keep it moderately believable.

True. Steve Trevor (or someone like him) basically reacting to some of the oddities of it with a good sense of humor really helped the movie. "Invisible missiles. Har har."

Also, it had the best explanation for her costume so far, as opposed to it being some mystical Amazon armor that for some reason looks like a star-spangled bathing suit. Though why "skimpy clothing" = "diplomatic attire" in Amazonian is a question for the ages...

[Vehrec]

Wonder Woman would make a great character in a satirical superhero movie, or a porno superhero movie. But in a superhero movie which takes itself somewhat seriously, she just doesn't work.

I thought that was kinda the original concept, on both fronts. Look at all the old covers where she's tied up-it's obviously closeted bondage fetish.

[JME2]

Also, it had the best explanation for her costume so far, as opposed to it being some mystical Amazon armor that for some reason looks like a star-spangled bathing suit. Though why "skimpy clothing" = "diplomatic attire" in Amazonian is a question for the ages...

Drew Johnson drew a nice blend of Grecian armor and Diana's costume during the "Eyes of the Gorgon" which I liked:



I wish DC would just use this on a permanent basis as her costume makes no sense.

[Lord of the Abyss]

Yes, that costume is a lot better than the standard one I think.

Dress her in something like that, and make a point of showing off her strength and I think she'd come across as nicely superheroic. Power tends to add a certain dignity. Even the magic lasso would work fine if used for more than the bondage-and-truth-telling bits; something like lassoing a large statue with the rope, uprooting it and whirling it at helicopter rotor speeds about herself before loosing it at an enemy could be pretty impressive with good special effects.

[Steve]

It is sometimes used for that in various media (Justice League animated series for instance, I believe it was also used like that in the recent animated feature).

As with a lot of characters, Wonder Woman's quality is determined by the creative staff.

[ray245]

Which reminds me, how many superheros actually have good characterisation? There are many people who only look at how cool or awesome a superhero is due to the fact that he or she has AWESOME!TM superpowers.

Is there anything unique about Wonder Woman beyond the fact that she is a female superhero?

[Death from the Sea]

Character wise (not powers-wise), Diana is definitely the weakest of the Big 7, even more-so than Aquaman. Fox's observations are accurate, if amusing. The recent animated film would probably be the ideal route to take in trying to adapt her to live-action media and keep it moderately believable.

Really? more-so than Aquaman? I have a hard time seeing that.

[Tsyroc]

Which reminds me, how many superheros actually have good characterisation? There are many people who only look at how cool or awesome a superhero is due to the fact that he or she has AWESOME!TM superpowers.

Is there anything unique about Wonder Woman beyond the fact that she is a female superhero?

There's all the Greek and Amazon stuff. So she has a bit of an interesting background and mythology to draw on.

There can be quite a bit of culture shock on her part when she comes to "Man's World" because she's lived on an island of immortal women all of her life. She's also never been around men, children, the elderly, and fat people either.

Personally, I think the animated DTV Wonder Woman is about as good as they are going to get with a Wonder Woman movie. IMO one of the strong points of the more recent WW comics is that she's the ambassador for her people so she's constantly involved in politics and how her "superhero" actions are perceived on the political spectrum. That's the sort of stuff that rarely happens to Batman or Superman, so it's something that could set her apart from them.

I think that the people and culture she comes from can be interesting as can the people she surrounds herself with to help with her ambassadorial duties, and getting her Amazon message out. If too much focus is put on her being just a super hero it can be pretty boring. I think the character would be better served with a serious TV series or series of good TV movies. Putting her on the big screen means that too much of the interesting characterization is going to be dumped in favor of SFX and cheese cake eye candy.

[Oskuro]

Regarding Wonder Woman:

I'm not too well versed on the character, but found THIS to be really informative.

Now, back, to the Megan Fox discussion

[Tsyroc]

Regarding Wonder Woman:

I'm not too well versed on the character, but found THIS to be really informative.

Now, back, to the Megan Fox discussion

That video is excellent at showing the background of the current WW and what has happened to fuck the character over. I also like the Gale Simone recommendations although I wouldn't recommend her WW as much as this guy does. I do like it though.

Definitely an example of where DC's massive cross company events demolished what was a good book with a good story line all so the character could be included in the company's yearly sales gimmick.

[CaptainChewbacca]

Really, was a piece of net-humor ever MORE appropriate?



I think not.

[Pablo Sanchez]

Which female superhero can hold up her own film? The majority of them are really poorly realized and generally shitty characters, and most of the good ones are part of ensemble casts or larger narratives (e.g. Kitty Pride or the new Question). Not that I think that's a huge problem. The lack of good superhero comics intended for female audiences is probably due to the lack of such an audience as much as sexism in the industry. Comics are still overwhelmingly consumed by nerdy guys, though in some ways the fiction genre of shitty romantic novels (Danielle Steele, Stephanie Meyer, et al.) can be viewed as the ladies' answer to it.

[ray245]

Ah, many comic book fans are so easily impressed, that a good female character to them is a girl who fights and nothing else.

Which reminds me of another thing, is there any female author who has wrote a superhero comic series?