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Tweak says, "You, sir, are incorrigable"

bluefall (bluefall) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-05-16 14:52:00

Entry tags:

char: cheetah/barbara minerva, char: wonder woman/diana of themyscira, creator: gail simone, creator: greg rucka, publisher: dc comics, series: when wondy was awesome, series: world of wondy

WWwA update, and Diana's take on 24
Look, pretty Diana!

For those who're interested, Chapter 17 of When Wondy was Awesome (in which Veronica Cale is Not A Nice Person and Diana writes a book) is now up at my journal. I can't put it here, because while each individual chapter is actually not so bad, the Rucka set as a whole is in flagrant violation of the 1/3 rule, and there was no way I could trim it down from the 1/2 issue format of our old LJ incarnation without shredding it. But it's good stuff, so go over there anyway. ^_^

Offered, for once, without comment.

From Rucka:

From Simone:

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	nevermore999 2009-05-16 06:16 pm UTC (link)
	You know, it's really the more "Why don't they liiiiiike me? They're my siiiiisters" that annoys me more than the bitchiness. On what planet is Diana that pathetic. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kagome654 2009-05-16 09:56 pm UTC (link)
	Hey now, everyone wants to be liked :( (Reply to this) (Parent)

bluefall
2009-05-16 09:59 pm UTC (link)

I think it's the combination of the two. Diana being a slightly more aware version of the Superbuddies take on Mary Marvel - an innocent sweetheart mystified and saddened by Fire's brattiness and the general inability of the Superbuddies to be friendly or responsible people, all "I don't get it, how can they act this way?" would... still probably not be *all* that funny, Mary's exaggeration only works because she's an ingenue, but it would at least be a legit parody of Wonder Woman. Perez' Diana really was too naive to live, and Jimenez played that disappointed dismay up too, so taking that over the top is definitely an angle you can take with the character.

Conversely, you could play her up as super-responsible and super-good to a point that's just silly. She's not mad, she's just disappointed, and she knows they can all do better, and that there's more to Bea than she's showing and she could be a good *example* to Mary and the boys, all uber-maternal in a way that aggravates the hell out of Bea and delights Mary (which also aggravates the hell out of Bea). And Diana understands that too and thinks that Bea should be better than that as well, and et cetera. That would also work, and be a natural and effective exaggeration-to-parody of the character.

When you try to do both at once, though, it's not "look this character can be taken to silly extremes" like everybody else in the cast anymore, it's "look, if we exaggerate wildly in two totally incompatible directions, this character becomes hypocritical, inconsistent and stupid, and aptly mocked by our other characters" and then you're on the Character-Bashing Badfic Failboat.

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