4th Of July 2018

Captain America and Wonder Woman 2018

Character Profile: Wonder Woman

The Origins of Princess Diana of Themyscira, a.k.a. Wonder Woman is a literary study of a female who brings with her the interminable strength of womanhood and the burden of a culture of her civilization. Even though she is endowed with the power of the ancient gods, her greatest power is the depths of her love and respect for everything in the world. Diana's origins in the 1940's put her into a role of establishing a new identity for women everywhere. Diana is strong, independent, and possesses a peaceful demeanor which offsets a fierce combativeness.

Diana's breaking the boundary bonds of domestication and balances the battle of female equality is what makes her likable.

Through Wonder Woman's origins we are introduced to an alegory of a woman who was sent as an emissary with the understanding that she can change the outside world. She's raised as a royal princess with all the hierarchy raised to believe that her limitless abilities are equal to a man. But once she learns that compassion can bridge the gap of outside world, the love for that same world sets her apart in conflict to her culture's aspirations. Wonder Woman has denied her own heritage believing that she and her Amazonian sisters will one day live in harmonious peace. 

Wonder Woman can get incredibly lonely.


In literature, Diana is a woman who doesn't fully understand how to love a man. Her naivety can hinder herself in any relationships making her vulnerable to broken hearts or rejection. She's never needed the love of a good man. Therefore that choice of remaining independently single could hinder her goals of first understanding the male species before uniting them in peaceful harmony.

Many superheros use violent weapons such as bladed boomerangs, power rings, heat vision, the most notable weapon that Wonder Woman uses is her enchanted lasso. The lasso is unique to Wonder Woman as she serves as a vessel of Truth when confronting adversaries. Truth defeats the lies of man's world. The lasso then serves as a symbol of connection to tether her taming ideals. Her gauntlet bands are also seen as defensive weapons to turn aside any offensive aggression made by man.

In the DC Comics story arc titled Infinite Crisis published in 2005, Wonder Woman is the first character tempted with disobeying the "thou shall not kill" commandment. In the battle she finds her friends succumbed to the powerful mind manipulator Maxwell Lord. Wonder Woman uses her lasso of truth to discover that the power that holds her best friend Superman captive. Lord's only claim that his death is the final resolution to free her mind-controlled friend. Wonder Woman's ultimate decision to take a life to save another results in her own selflessness potentially sacrificing her own immortal soul. Despite her good intentions, she is shunned by her superhero peers.

Everything that Wonder Woman stood for in the 1940's is now flipped in the opposite direction. Her belief that men and women can live in peace and harmony is not the same level as the post-modern feminist movement is. This only confuses her mission further by not only dispelling the masculine evils of misogyny, but she has to combat some of her own female gender who seek empirical power.

Wonder Woman is an ambassador for truth and harmony. It's all she can do.It's all she was raised to do.But for her alter-ego Princess Diana of Themyscira, she knows it's the measure of a woman to be free to achieve a woman's full potential.

Patriotic Pairing: The Super-Powered Couple as It Should Be

It was a long time ago that I was first inspired by the possibilities to create a story script based on my favorite YouTube channel. He was mixing and matching the Marvel and DC universe and formed one of the greatest pairings in Harley Quinn and Green Goblin. It inspired me to start writing again on my own and hopefully become just as good as that person.
Thus became the unpublished spin-off series that developed in my imagination and daydreams. I researched my pairing in popular fan-fiction websites as well as Google searching to see if anyone else in the fan fiction writing community had similar inspiration. I only saw a few mash up pictures, a YouTube video that mashed up the Lynda Carter and Matt Salinger roles, and quite a number of cosplay pictures. This unique pairing would only have to come from the fan fiction community - as both characters are owned by rival publishing companies.
Captain America and Wonder Woman.
I've studied relationships for a very long time and have arrived through my own thesis have come to several observations on the dynamics of real functioning relationships. Granted that this blog is about a proposed fictional fantasy relationship, it still needs to function under the same guidelines as real-world relationships.
There are several aspects of this featured relationship that I think could make Captain America and Wonder Woman successful fictional exploration.

1. Opposites attract. It's good for some couples to have similar world views and perspectives, but for other people, finding a mate in which traits and personalities conflict, can be an attractive connection that completes two people - making them whole. This is not to be confused with co-dependency. Offering a different context helps many couples.
2. Physical attractiveness. There is not an exact science to what chemicals in the human brain or body causes people to be attractive. But it is a key ingredient to any relationship.
3. Common goals/directives. Failed relationships find that peoples lives grow apart from one another. So, it is wise that long-term monogamous relationships function on the belief that the couple aims for similar aspirational achievements.
4. Shared Experiences and Teamwork. Couples need to grow together in harmony along with their own individual growth. A great way to grow as a couple, people must share the "workload" and exemplify a teamwork strategy of partnership.

Captain America and Wonder Woman are two fictional characters who have survived over time in popular culture. Their origins were born into a 1940s era who needed beacons of hope for humanity's potential for greatness. Within that same greatness each respective characters fictional exploits lies the drive and determination of the human spirit. They exist to understand and explore our own needs for wish-fulfillment and to study the complexities of raw human existence.