But by draining Diana of her powers, 1984 puts Diana in a position where she has to use her wits, an idea that the movie isn’t exactly sure how to handle. At this point in her life, Diana’s familiar enough with the nature of her heritage to understand that she’s far, far more physically powerful than most people she encounters, and you see that she fights with restraint in order to avoid hurting her enemies too badly. One of the more interesting things about the story is how it grapples with the previous film establishing that Diana is actually a demigod in addition to being an immortal Amazon. She’s increasingly forced to need a mysteriously-resurrected Steve Trevor in moments where she’s in danger. With her whole suite of powers activated, there are few objects that Diana wouldn’t be able to wield effectively as a weapon, but 1984 presses on this idea as the plot gradually begins to sap Diana of her god-given abilities. It plays to much younger audiences and gives you a sense that she’s come to see the lasso as a useful means of transportation, at least indoors. When faced with a squad of armed thieves attempting to rob a mall, Diana swings through on her lasso in one of the film’s more whimsical scenes. She works as an anthropologist in her civilian guise when she isn’t zooming around the city busting crime in her Amazonian battle gear. Before 1984‘s plot properly kicks in, however, we’re reintroduced to a woman who has taken up a new life in Washington D.C. Of course, Diana’s centuries of wisdom and training still make her more formidable than any mere mortal. Despite witnessing the rapid evolution of humanity’s machines of war between the events of Patty Jenkins’ first Wonder Woman movie and 1984, Diana swings into the story armed only with her classic armour, her headgear, and her trusty lasso.
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