1) Steve Trevor’s Role
Something that was slightly worrying about the first Wonder Woman trailer was the emphasis on Chris Pine as Steve Trevor, to extent that it sort of sidelined Gal Gadot. As charismatic an actor as Pine is, we don’t want the movie to forget the real star of the show. Thankfully, the second trailer makes plain that this was just a tactic to hold back most of the Wonder Woman material until the new preview. It also makes clear that in no way is Trevor the hero of this film. Sure, he’s still a brave military man, but he’s basically the damsel in distress.
This is best shown in the scene where Diana protects him from some hoodlums in an alleyway, using her bracelets to deflect the bullets. It’s a moment that very much recalls a famous sequence in 1978’s Superman, where Supes saves Lois Lane from a thief by subtly catching the bullets.
This puts Pine in that Lois role as the love interest that the hero needs to protect. After many, many instances of women being reduced to those types of roles in superhero movies, it’s refreshing to have things on the other foot for a change.
We also later see Diana tenderly stroke Steve’s face, which is a rare sign in these trailers that the pair will actually go down a romantic route. Fans of the character will of course already have known this, though, as Trevor has appeared as Diana’s love interest from the beginning in the comics and in on-screen versions too, like the 1970s TV series.
