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I wonder: The trouble with Wonder Woman

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Quick! Give a list  of how many films each of the major icons of the world of comics has had since the great boom of the early 2000's.... Ok, so how many did you get? When I last asked myself that question the results went something like this: 6 Superman films( not including 2013's Man of Steel ) 7 Batman films 1 Green Lantern film The combined effort by Marvel's own in house studio and Sony have yielded over 20 films featuring Marvel's characters, several of which could stake a claim for the greatest superhero movie of all time in my heart. Now, whose missing from this list? Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman abscence from the Hollywood movie scene is almost a crime, given her cultural status outside of it, even I can see that, and I don't actually like the character! On some level, I can completely understand why it hasn't worked out for Wonder Woman thus far. Her origin is weird, her powers aren't, at least from a cinematic point of view, that impre