11) Diana At The Louvre
As teased in the trailers, the beginning of the movie sees Diana examining her past at the Louvre museum in Paris. What becomes clear in the film, though, is that she also works there.
This recalls the Wonder Woman comics of the 1990s in which Diana took a job at Gateway City Museum of Antiquities. The curator of the museum was Helena Sandsmark, the mother of Cassie Sandsmark, who would later become Wonder Girl.
You’ll probably have noticed that the opening scene also sees an armoured van from Wayne Enterprises parked outside the Louvre to deliver some items to Diana. The licence plate of the van reads JL-828-VZM. As far as we can tell, the rest of it doesn’t mean anything, but the use of ‘JL’ is surely a nod to the Justice League that Bruce and Diana are about to form together, right?
10) Secret Origins
Diana is brought up to believe that she was sculpted from clay and given life by Zeus as a gift for her mother, Queen Hippolyta. It later transpires that she’s in fact a demi-goddess and the true daughter of Zeus.
This plot twist cleverly brings together both of Wonder Woman’s origin stories. The “sculpted from clay” backstory has been in place for most of the character’s long history but, when the DC universe was severely rebooted in 2011’s The New 52, out it went. Instead, Diana was reimagined as, you’ve got it, the offspring of Zeus. It was a change that proved to be quite controversial with longterm readers, so the decision to replicate that origin story here – for the character’s first ever live-action movie – could well vex some comic book fans.
Likewise, there’s a nod to the comics in the Amazons’ origin story in the movie. Though the fact that Zeus created them is a new addition, Hippolyta’s tale to Diana about their creation shows them rising out of a lake. In the comics, a group of women among the Greek gods made the Amazons out of clay found at the bottom of the lake.
