5. The Pants Are Essential
Warner Bros. TelevisionIn 2011 Adrianne Palecki starred as Wonder Woman in a pilot for a new TV series about the superheroine. NBC decided to pass, and the series was never made, but the David E Kelley-helmed feature length episode made its way onto the internet (as these things are want to do) and fans had a field day picking apart everything they thought lead the network to their decision. Amongst everything else - including Palecki's performance and the creator of Ally McBeal's unsuitability at writing superhero stories - the main target for their ire was her costume.
Because she was wearing trousers. For some reason, what Wonder Woman wears is one of the most hotly debated issues in comic books, even today. Rumours that Gal Gadot's version of the character will be covering her legs up in the Batman v Superman film has already got people riled, which is pretty silly. Despite being such a malleable character in terms of her origins, MO and the like, the one thing that people latch onto as totally essential in Wonder Woman is that she walk around in sparkly underpants. Which is probably down to them watching Lynda Carter doing much the same when they were at a...well, an impressionable age. Yes, we are implying that it's mostly men making this assertion. Of course Wonder Woman can wear whatever she pleases - we certainly wouldn't want to tell her what to do, would you? - but there's no debate over why she's spent most of her career in what amounts to a metal corset and underwear. She did briefly have trousers in her New 52 incarnation, changed at the last minute to pants because presumably, sex sells. But look, Wonder Woman spent the seventies in a jumpsuit, she's
had redesigns like this, and her origins are constantly changing. She can stand to wear trousers without totally breaking her character.
