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Are the laws of physics different on the show?

posted 9 years ago by crockett_john
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The show has lots of things that wouldn't make sense in real life, such as how Wonder Woman can see bullets coming out of a gun and move fast enough to block them, and doing that without ever getting hit by any fragments. Things like that are explained by magic or super-powers or whatever, but it's part of th show and if you watch the show, you have to suspend disbelief at least enough to enjoy the show.

There are other things that I don't think are explained by magic and super-powers, or at least not that I have been led to believe. For example, Wonder Woman uses her lasso on a hovering helicopter. Then, she pulls her lasso and the helicopter is forced to land because it can't pull away from her super strength. Unless the helicopter is loaded beyond it's maximum weight or suffering some kind of power loss, shouldn't the reaction be that the helicopter stays where it is and Wonder Woman get pulled upward instead of the helicopter coming down and Wonder Woman staying put?

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[–] Jimmy-128 9 years ago

They're "Silver Age" physics--the type of physics that allows Superman to stop the Earth in its orbit momentarily by ramming into it repeatedly, with no side effects.

My main gripe was how much her strength level fluctuated depending on what the story needed at that point. If she can lift a car several feet off the ground, as she does in the pilot, Marcia shouldn't have lasted five seconds with her--that fight should have ended the second Marcia came in to grapple and gave WW the chance to break a few bones.

[–] crockett_john 9 years ago

I think it's more believable in the comic books. On screen, it's harder to make believable, like when a thug is trying to shoot Superman or Wonder Woman and our hero reaches out and bends the barrel down like it's make of licorice. I get it that the hero is supposed to be strong enough to do that, but are we also supposed to believe the thug is willing to stand there and hold the rifle or pistol while he or she does it?

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I'm just expressing my opinion.

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[–] Jimmy-128 9 years ago

The first time, I'd find it believable--like Lois Lane's "You've got me? WHO'S GOT YOU????" from the first Superman movie. Seeing someone do something that's supposed to be impossible always produces a moment of shock.

By the time Superman or Wonder Woman have been in the public eye for a while, though, that shouldn't stop the average thug for more than a second.

[–] crockett_john 9 years ago

Yeah, I know what you mean. If criminals know one of these super-heroes is out there, they shouldn't be so surprised.

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I'm just expressing my opinion.

You may all go to hell, and I will go to Texas.

[–] amazonprince71 8 years ago

There is a theory that Wonder Woman (at first anyway) was weaker when she came into conflict with other women. (maybe it was psychosomatic because deep down she couldn't believe a "sister" would turn on her). It would explain why her strength levels varied in the first 3 episodes when she was up against Marcia, The Baroness and Fausta.

[–] Geek_XX 8 years ago

I don't know if she was weaker. I think her attitude towards fighting women differed from fighting men and deliberately held back when she did fight a woman.

For instance, when she was fighting Marcia, maybe she figured she had a better chance at reasoning with her than defeating her.

When Marcia didn't let up, she finally landed one big punch that pretty much knocked her out.

Even Fausta. She kept talking to her and reminding her that women in the third Reich were merely fodder in the war and weren't worthy of any man in the fatherland. Thankfully Fausta listened and turned against the Nazis.

[–] dpcole7 8 years ago

People watch TV and movies featuring bank robbers and murderers all the time. Doesn't stop them from being shocked when they become victims of bank robbers or murderers in real life.

But was that the intent the makers of the show thought of? Maybe, maybe not. Even then, not everybody knew of her existence anyway, or would believe it if they saw her.