25 Wonder Woman Easter Eggs & References You Must See

25. Wonder Woman's Origin

The film chooses to focus on an origin story closer to the New 52's version of Wonder Woman, rather than older incarnations. Hippolyta tells her that she was hewn from clay and that her father - Zeus - breathed life into her having created the Amazonians to help protect mankind.

The story also references Pygmalion - who made himself a woman out of clay and begged Aphrodite to make her live, but also closely resembles an older Amazonian origin from the comics. There, a group of women among the Gods restored the souls of women unjustly killed by men by forming them bodies out of river-bed clay. The sight of them emerging from the lake clearly draws from that.

Incidentally, the whole opening of the movie feels like an homage to DC Universe; Rebirth, which begins with a monologue (from Wally West in that case) with a remarkably similar message.