NBC ’s fresh Wonder Woman TV series is making a good effort to be ridiculous . There ’s the costume . There ’s the mad buffer script . But creator David E. Kelley will have to leaven his game to be as haywire as the comics .
Seriously , we feel as though Kelley is seek to make Wonder Woman more camp and cockeyed than NBC ’s other late costumed bomber show , The Cape . Which is a great goal . But he should really purport higher — here are 10 completely bonkers plot line from the Wonder Woman comic that we hope Kelley finds elbow room for in his television show .
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Wonder Woman ’s abode of Themiscyra , otherwise hump as Paradise Island , is border by a shoal of megalodons , or mega - sharks , that ward the island from the ocean . The mega - sharksoffered themselves up as a sacrificeto protect the island from a Kraken and another giant sea ogre that were trying to lash out the island . And their numberapparently includesSwiftmaw the Wonder Shark .
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According to the Amazons Attack miniseries , in which the Amazons obtrude upon Washington D.C. , the Amazons have a bee arm . At one point , Batman verbalize the telephone circuit , “ Bees . My God . ”It has become a vast cyberspace meme . Also in Amazons Attack :
Winged horses assault Air Force One .
Amazon pointer can pierce through scrapper super acid
A mystic house of cards surrounds Washington
Hippolyta throws a plane at Wonder Woman
And the government polish up up women , because any adult female could be an Amazon .
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In the Kingdom Come miniseries , the future Wonder Womanwieldsthe Sword of Hephaestus , which is a charming artillery so sharp it can “ cut up the negatron off an atom . ” And it can cut Superman , because he ’s vulnerable to legerdemain .
Wonder Woman realizes that Steve Trevor never want to go out with Wondy ’s alter ego , Diana Prince — because Steve is obsess with Wonder Woman . And when Steve does go out with Diana , all he wants to do is talk about how great Wonder Woman is . So instead of , I do n’t know , getting a living , or talking to Steve about it , Wonder Woman takes Steve to a carnival , where she ’s planted magical mirrors in forward motion — which metamorphose Wonder Woman into a distorted reflection that Steve is embarrassed to be seen with . Luckily , let a really grandiloquent or really round body turns out to be improbably utile for fighting criminal offense . Morehereandhere .
Back in the Golden Age geological era , Wonder Woman face up a peck of weird opposition , includingHypnota the Great , the Blue Snowmanand Doctor Psycho . But perhapsthe coolest was Queen Atomia , ruler of the subatomic realm , who faced Wonder Woman whenever she got shrunk down to midget size . She planned to “ take over the earth , one corpuscle at a meter . ” Which could take a while . She also planned to steal all the world ’s atomic number 92 and employ it for her own evil purposes . Here ’s an amazing chronological succession , where she explain how she controls the neutrons , viaScans Daily .
So they can make her oeuvre in their garden , in the lighting — because seals ca n’t go out in the brightness . Because , uh … just because . And they be after to immobilize Wonder Woman , along with the other women , in block of methamphetamine hydrochloride , until … they feel like defrost them . It makes total sense . [ ViaSuperdickeryandScans_Daily ]
For quite a while , the Amazons on Paradise Island were in the business of reforming all of Wonder Woman ’s female villains , by imprisoning them and indoctrinate them into “ lie with authority . ” The prisoner were given special magical girdle that sapped their willpower and made them obedient , and over time , distaff baddies were educate to obey Queen Hippolyta and the other Amazons — to the point where when Cheetah attempt to lead a uprising , most prisoners do n’t want to escape .
During a long geological era in the 1960s , Wonder Woman lost her powers , and started clothe “ mod ” as just plain Diana Prince — as a manner of prove that she did n’t need superpower to kick ass . Luckily , she had a blind Chinese man named — no kidding — I - Ching who could train her in soldierly humanities . She fought an international terrorist named — no kidding — Doctor Cyber , who actually managed to pour down off Steve Trevor .
You did n’t think we were go to ignore the most insane running play radical in Golden Age and Silver Age Wonder Woman comic , did you ? chain and ropes and riata are a huge part of the Wonder Woman mythos — she wears watchband that are basically part of the manacles that the Amazons used to wear upon as prisoners of man . And any time a gentleman chain those bangle together , she mislay her powers . But that does n’t really explain the awful amount of clock time Wonder Woman spend marry to a bomb , tie to a position , chained up with a Nazi rocket flying towards her , tied up with her own lariat , in predicament thraldom , and fundamentally helpless in a huge smorgasbord of ways . It ’s sort of her thing .
Well , maybe there are some storyline that Kelley should just leave alone after all .
Additional coverage by Katharine Trendacosta
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