25 Wonder Woman Easter Eggs & References You Must See

4. Sassoon And Owen

Obviously, one of the key underlying messages of the film is that senseless war is bad and a tragedy of the condition of mankind, which it shares with the sentiments of the famed World War I poets who used their own art to object to the war.

Two of the most illustrious poets of the period were Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon (the former of which died tragically as war came to an end), whose work forms the basis of lots of studies of the genre.

As a nod to their importance, their portraits actually appear in Wonder Woman, amongst the pictures of the fallen soldiers that Diana looks at back in London (including Steve Trevor).