10 Things Everyone Always Gets Wrong About Wonder Woman

DC ComicsClark Kent. Bruce Wayne. Diana Prince. One of these is not like the other. The alter egos of Batman and Superman are almost as well known as their costumed counterparts, as each part of their character is common knowledge - everybody knows the tragic origin story of the Dark Knight, they know the one weakness of the Man Of Steel. They dress up as them at Halloween, they appear on lunchboxes, they get multiple successful film franchises between them. For Diana Prince - otherwise known as Wonder Woman - things are a little different. For the most part, people's perceptions of the Goddess Of Truth consist of the campy seventies TV series starring Lynda Carter, which consisted mainly of punching Nazis and wearing what looked a bit like a star-spangled nappy. Unlike Batman, who eventually manage to shake off associations with the similarly silly Adam West series, Wonder Woman has never quite recovered in popular culture. She's seen as a relic of a past age, comic book ephemera, a bit of a boring character who's rightfully been forgotten by most. Which isn't how it should be. With Gal Gadot recently cast in the part for Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice, and the great New 52 comic book series by Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang, there's been a renewed interest in Wonder Woman. There's also been a lot of disinformation, a lot of half-remembered facts about Lynda Carter, and a lot of people struggling to get their heads around her admittedly confusing origin story. We've pinpointed some of the most common misconceptions, and throttled them with our lasso of truth to set the record straight about ten things everyone always gets wrong about Wonder Woman.