Thursday, April 27, 2023

A to Z Challenge: Wonder Woman

 After Superman and Batman, Wonder Woman has been DC's third big hero, the first major female superhero.  Naturally there have been a lot of figures of her over the years.

The first one I got was a New 52 one in a two-pack with Katana as I mentioned previously.  She is kind of buff with the New 52's silver accessories instead of gold and bluish hair and came with a short sword:



I got pretty much all the DC Multiverse ones from the 2017 movie because they were at Five Below stores.  I think I got mine mostly in Brighton and Saginaw.  There was the Wonder Woman with an overcoat:


The regular Diana one:


Her mother Hippolyta:


And I even got this other Amazon Menalippe that along with Steve Trevor let me complete the Ares Build-A-Figure:

Then later I got a Rebirh version only because it was part of the Lex Luthor Superman armor series.  This one is more like the movie one without the star-spangled shorts:


But my favorite is the Lynda Carter version I got from Amazon for pretty cheap.  It comes with the stand and lasso and a cape.  Other than the wonky arm joints it's pretty awesome:



Wonder Woman!

They made a bunch of McFarlane figures from WW84 like this one:


The weird Todd McFarlane original you can still get pretty cheap; a few weeks ago it was only like $11 on Walmart's site:

There are some other ones too:


I don't think there are quite as many variants of Wonder Woman as Superman or especially Batman.  Here are a couple of other ones:


The first one is an older Mattel one from Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Strikes Again, where Wonder Woman has a daughter with Superman, which set up the lame third entry in the series.  Then there's the one from "Endless Winter," a completely forgettable (and forgotten) limited series that for some reason McFarlane made a whole line of figures for.  Because it's cold, she's wearing a lot more clothes.  And lastly we have one from Shazam: Fury of the Gods, which kinda spoiled her appearance in the movie for those who hadn't watched it--which is most everyone.

There are also a variety of figures from various cartoons (except I don't think they made a Superfriends one) and the Superhero Girls line.  From Amazon Vine I got the potbelly pig Wonder Woman has in the Superpets movie.  I haven't seen the movie so I don't know what its name is.

Sometimes in the comics (and in the Wonder Woman TV show) she'll have a sidekick called Wonder Girl.  Mattel made a figure of the blonde one; I don't know what exactly her name was.  The other one is Donna Troy, who I think was the first one but was also part of the Teen Titans at times.  That figure is an upcoming McFarlane one from the Titans comics.  

I wish McFarlane would make the latest Wonder Girl, Yara Flor, who first appeared in the Future State comics as the future Wonder Woman (though Diana is still alive, just doing other stuff like running Paradise Island or whatever) and was so popular that they kept the character around.  That would have solved my upcoming issue with the Y entry.

Great Hera that's plenty of stuff for today.

2 comments:

C. D. Gallant-King said...

I really want to like Wonder Woman (her original, golden age stories were awesome and ridiculous), but the fact that she's currently drawn like every other female super hero - ie, using a porn photo for reference - drives me nuts. I would love to see female artists draw her, which from what I can find has happened very rarely, if ar all on her regular series.

Gal Godot was pretty good as Wonder Woman, but I still wish they'd gotten someone more like Lucy Lawless in her prime for her.

Timothy S. Brannan said...

I do rather love Wonder Woman.

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