8 Worst Things Wonder Woman Has Ever Done

3. Killed Billy Batson - The Flashpoint Paradox

Wonder Woman Mera The Flashpoint Paradox
Warner Bros.

Flashpoint is one of the most brilliant, engaging, and outright fascinating comic book arcs of the modern era.

While we all love to speculate on 'what ifs?', Geoff Johns' story went and brought so many of these alt-world possibilities and made them real in a complete reshaped DC Universe. And it was all the fault of one man: Barry Allen.

Having gone back in time to save his mother, The Flash had triggered a whole new timeline in which the landscape of DC Comics was flipped on its head. For example, Captain Cold is Central City's protector, Green Arrow is an arms dealer, Bruce Wayne died that night in Crime Alley, Thomas Wayne is a brutal, alcoholic Batman, Martha Wayne spiralled into insanity and became The Joker, Superman is captured by the US government and used as a science project, and Cyborg is the world's greatest hero. And let's face it, when Cyborg is the best that you've to offer, that's when you know things are particularly dire.

Where Wonder Woman fits into Flashpoint, is that she and her fellow Amazons are at all-out war with Aquaman and Atlantis. As in, full-on, brutal, bloody, world-shattering war.

Diana beheading Queen Mera was bad enough, but the worst act carried out by this clinical, callous incarnation of Wonder Woman saw her - in the video adaptation of Flashpoint, at least - kill Billy Batson.

In this Flashpoint world, Batson and five others combine to become a take on Shazam called Captain Thunder. In the Flashpoint movie, Diana forces Captain Thunder to revert back to his six-children form before she murders Billy with the jagged remains of her sword.

Senior Writer
Senior Writer

Once described as the Swiss Army Knife of WhatCulture, Andrew can usually be found writing, editing, or presenting on a wide range of topics. As a lifelong wrestling fan, horror obsessive, and comic book nerd, he's been covering those topics professionally as far back as 2010. In addition to his current WhatCulture role of Senior Content Producer, Andrew previously spent nearly a decade as Online Editor and Lead Writer for the world's longest-running genre publication, Starburst Magazine, and his work has also been featured on BBC, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, WhatToWatch, Sportkskeeda, and various other outlets, in addition to being a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic. Between his main dayjob, his role as the lead panel host of Wales Comic Con, and his gig as a pre-match host for Wrexham AFC games, Andrew has also carried out a hugely varied amount of interviews, from the likes of Robert Englund, Kane Hodder, Adrienne Barbeau, Rob Zombie, Katharine Isabelle, Leigh Whannell, Bruce Campbell, and Tony Todd, to Kevin Smith, Ron Perlman, Elijah Wood, Giancarlo Esposito, Simon Pegg, Charlie Cox, the Russo Brothers, and Brian Blessed, to Kevin Conroy, Paul Dini, Tara Strong, Will Friedle, Burt Ward, Andrea Romano, Frank Miller, and Rob Liefeld, to Bret Hart, Sting, Mick Foley, Ricky Starks, Jamie Hayer, Britt Baker, Eric Bischoff, and William Regal, to Mickey Thomas, Joey Jones, Phil Parkinson, Brian Flynn, Denis Smith, Gary Bennett, Karl Connolly, and Bryan Robson - and that's just the tip of an ever-expanding iceberg.