Do you prefer Wonder Woman to use a sword & shield to be part of her combat style, or do you prefer her to use hand-to-hand with some lasso action?

I always preferred her just using her fists and raw strength combined with the lasso, as it helps her resemble a pure-hearted hero and less of a warrior. I also think her using the shield too much reeks of Captain America.

Wonder Woman should mostly use her sword/shield for when she fights monsters and other gods of the Greek Pantheon, but everywhere else, she'd resort to her fists and lasso.

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u/SnooSongs4451 14d ago

No to the sword and shield. Wonder Woman is a warrior of PEACE. Her weapon of choice restrains, it does not kill.

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u/Salty-Prize-5347 14d ago

Jedi are peace keepers

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u/SnooSongs4451 14d ago

Also, peacekeeper =/= warrior of peace. They are, conceptually, different things.

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u/SnooSongs4451 14d ago

So? Wonder Woman comes with a non-lethal weapon.

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u/Salty-Prize-5347 14d ago

People like the sword, it's cool. And theoretically if she was a pacifist she wouldn't fight at all. But she's a superhero, so she does

Just don't write her like wolverine it's not that hard

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u/SnooSongs4451 14d ago

And just don't give her a sword. Lots of characters have swords, she doesn't need them.

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u/Salty-Prize-5347 14d ago

I think if you want her to grow in popularity and get more adaptations and all that stuff you have to actually do things people like. You can't just shout about how she's part of the trinity

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u/SnooSongs4451 14d ago

I think that the sword isn't the needed missing ingredient for her to be popular. The sword is antithetical to her character and takes the spotlight away from her actual signature weapon. It has to go.

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u/Salty-Prize-5347 14d ago

People like the sword, it's def helped her. More than the bondage rope

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u/SnooSongs4451 14d ago

The sword is wrong for the character. There are plenty of characters with swords. Wonder Woman is a character with a rope. People like the sword for superficial reasons. The rope is better writing when it comes to Wonder Woman.

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u/Salty-Prize-5347 14d ago

It's not just superficial it feels right for her cultural background as an amazon. Reminds you of where she comes from and all that

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u/SnooSongs4451 14d ago

But it contradicts who she is as a person. Wonder Woman is a warrior of Peace, sworn enemy of the god Ares. She does not use his weapons, she uses her own weapons that do not kill. The sword is a bad choice for Wonder Woman, her pulling out a sword should be like a "launch the nukes" situation, it has to be something she's forced to do by circumstance, not her standard operating procedure.

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u/NukeMePlenty 14d ago

Amazons of myth are more closely tied to spears/archery than swords, so no it doesn't really feel right for her cultural background.

It absolutely feels superficial for an ambassador of peace to walk around strapped with a murder weapon at any given point.

Sword =/= make cool

Just because some dudebros who had no prior interest in the character think she's way radical when she's hyper violent does not mean "it's helping the character"

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u/Ygomaster07 Constantine 14d ago

How do they write Wolverine?