NBC Rejects 'Wonder Woman' Pilot

[DedmanWalkin]

Woman in Man's World is a terrible story but Stranger in a Strange World would be more interesting and everyone could relate to it.

How about Alkyone, the Queen's crazy guard who hates Diana, finds a way to get Diana exiled from Paradise. So she gets cast out without her powers but still has the armbands and perhaps the lasso. She ends up in some city in the United States not knowing anything and not possessing her superior stats so she must find a way to survive. She gets to see the grim and gritty side of humanity from the very bottom. This is when she decides that she should use her skills and equipment, sparse as it may be, to help the helpless. She could initially fight pimps, drug dealers, and murderers and work her way up. Then she could either earn her other powers or have them given to her for being selfless.

I think the real problem with Wonder Woman as a character stem from her lack of loss. If you look at Bruce or Clark, they both took tragic losses of their parents. What has Diana ever lost? What has she ever had to mourn? Nothing, she was born into a world that loved her so much that they granted her enormous power and let her do whatever she wanted with it. Sure she has to shoulder the burden of being an ambassador and a superhero and a person but that is nothing different from what Batman or Superman have to do everyday.

[Zoom]

Superman was an awesome character before he lost his dad (his biological parents don't count because he wasn't old enough to even remember them). There are dozens of awesome characters who haven't lost anything.

[DedmanWalkin]

Superman's loss of his biological parents and even his entire planet I think is especially relevant given all he learned from his fortress and his experience with the Black Mercy Plant. Were it not an especially tragic loss, he would not have been so righteously pissed when it was taken from him.

My point is that she has no real pain in her life. Pain makes characters awesome, pain makes them human, pain makes them understandable.

Name all characters you think are awesome and we will see if my assertions are true.

[Erik-El]

Wonder Woman has lost several close friends in her life and even suffered the loss of her mother for a while. She also suffered the decimation of her people and was abandoned by and even had to fight her gods several times. She has suffered loss.