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Re: [Supers] Stat Wonder Woman
A popular war hero and symbol would be a target they would be much more cautious about. Than you factor in her possible known relationship and role as dignitary of another country and her combat prowess.
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05-23-2017, 07:46 PM | #44 |
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No Amazon ages while on Themiscyra. That's why Hippolyta is still Queen and they still have a population. Whether Amazons in general or Diana in particular age while off the island has been subject to multiple-version-itis. Most of the time regular Amazons do age.
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The Divine power modifier means that it - as well as all of her other similar powers - are turned off if she ever violates her Vow of Chastity (-10%), though they are not turned off automatically if she is in life-threatening danger (+5%). She can regain those powers by performing a significant act of penance (-5%), which would probably be a "renewal of virginity" religious ritual on Paradise Island under the priestesses (this is drawn from similar practices mentioned in various Greek myths).
The pre-Crisis Earth-2 Wonder Woman (aka the Golden Age version) only started aging once she married Steve Trevor and had a daughter of her own, though she aged slower (this version joined the Gods of Olympus after the Crisis on Infinite Earths, and hence stopped aging, as well as actually regaining some of her youth). More modern versions have varied on whether she ages when away from the island; most of the time she hasn't been away long enough for it to matter.
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The movie she is long lived but the trailor says she will lose her immortality if she leaves the island. WHo kows if that is accurate or complete though.
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05-24-2017, 08:33 AM | #47 | |
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05-24-2017, 08:59 AM | #48 | |
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What does "chastity" mean in this context? By the formal definition, if Diana married Steve Trevor and had a monogamous relationship with him, she would be chaste. I'm not sure if that's what you mean. Back in the 1950s and early 1960s, my recollection is that the Amazons as a group were faced with losing certain gifts of the gods if a man ever set foot on Paradise Island (it wasn't called "Themiscyra" then). But I also recall scenes of the Amazons going through really intensive training. Supposedly "bullets and bracelets" was something they all learned, for example. How that reconciles with Diana using her enchanted bracelets to deflect bullets I don't think was ever made clear. But it seemed as if Diana was not transcendentally blessed beyond the other Amazons; the blessings of the gods seemed to be "the best of the Amazons" in spirit. But of course DC has not been all that consistent about her. It's like the way Superman's powers were originally the product of advanced evolution that gave all Kryptonians superpowers *on Krypton*; later they came from Krypton having higher gravity that made them all strong and fast; later the impenetrable skin came from Earth's yellow sun; later still all his powers came from the yellow sun.
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I'm kinda-sorta leaving it up to "the writers" to decide, but if I was playing her I'd go with "no sex with men"; the Amazons revered Sappho, after all....
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