In Wonder Woman #25, Simone gave the Amazons an adage: “Don’t kill if you can wound, don’t wound if you can subdue, don’t subdue if you can pacify, and don’t raise your hand at all until you’ve first extended it.” Those scenes would not have worked in Wonder Woman’s usual historical context of World War II.Īnd still others stress that Amazonian forgiveness has important limits. set Diana’s origin in World War I and filmed final scenes in which German troops throw down their arms, just as relieved and sympathetic as our heroes. Others use specific scene setting, as with 2017’s Wonder Woman. Some do this by acknowledging that it’s easier to offer the hand of forgiveness when you’re a nearly indestructible princess from a society of immortal philosopher warriors. Some of the best Wonder Woman stories walk the line of offering even the worst monsters a path to redemption, without being tolerant to a fault. Image: Greg Rucka, Nicola Scott/DC Comics It has been depicted as capable of turning the loyal infantry of para-military fundamentalist groups to repentance in minutes. Modern Wonder Woman writers, including George Peréz, Greg Rucka, and Gail Simone, have expanded on that idea of truth, refining the lasso’s effect to something more like if a Vulcan mind meld came with a decade of therapy, condensed into one moment. A person who submits to Diana’s loving authority naturally also tells her the complete truth when asked. Marston also helped to invent the polygraph test, and while we now know that it’s not as accurate as he would have hoped, it goes to show another of his personal interests that shaped Wonder Woman stories. It’s simply part of the rules of the fiction: People under the lasso are compelled to choose freely, and that’s not a contradiction. Wonder Woman stories aren’t about how the lasso logically works, any more than Superman stories are about how he produces enough thrust to fly.
“How do we know they’re not just being mind controlled?” Well, it’s magic, of course. You might wonder what the difference is between compelling someone and forcing them. His original version of Wonder Woman’s golden magic lasso was a shortcut to loving submission, compelling those within its coils to submit to Diana’s compassionate dominance. Core to his philosophy was the concept of “loving submission,” and the idea that only those who have the capacity to willingly submit to a loving authority should ask for the same submission from other people.
The polyamorous psychologist and inventor saw Wonder Woman stories as an opportunity to voice his view of a more harmonious way for men and women to live together. William Moulton Marston is justifiably infamous for not being your typical Golden Age superhero creator. Wonder Woman’s creator had some ahead-of-his time ideas Image: DC Comics The lasso is the whole point of Wonder Woman. A deus ex funem, if you will.īut the lasso isn’t just the kind of overpowered item you’d never give the player characters of a D&D game.
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Wonder Woman’s magic lasso is a lariat, a zip line, a whip, and everything else you can craft from an unbreakable, seemingly prehensile, and infinitely extendable rope.Īnd yes, it also has some pretty huge influence over the human mind, the kind that, if creators aren’t careful, can make the ending of a Wonder Woman story (and, specifically, the ending of Wonder Woman 1984) seem kind of trivial.
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