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 Finally
the question has an answer. It seems that it was not that they didn't
wanted to make a
Wonder Woman
animated series, it was just a question of rights. Nevertheless the
creators of the series don't give up the idea of eventually making a
series with the Amazon Princess. |
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In
"Justice League"
there are two two-part episodes which are such fine pieces:
"Paradise Lost"
and
"Fury"
in which they introduce
Aresia,
loosely based on the comics'
Fury.
Let's see some comments about the character which will throw some
light about the conception of this animated version of
Wonder Woman. |
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Rich Fogel about
Wonder Woman in Justice League:
"She’s a little bit younger and more innocent than we’ve seen her in
the past. She is literally the princess who’s fresh off the
island—she’s never been off Themyscira before—and so she has a shock
of culture coming out into Man’s World and her expectations of how
people should behave towards her are different. It makes her a lot of
fun to deal with because she’s haughty, but she’s also innocent. And,
she also has issues with her mother." |
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Paul Dini on
Wonder Woman’s absence from the previous shows:
“There’s kind of a licensing problem. If we wanted to do Wonder
Woman as a
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series, we could do that, [but] if it was a guest-shot, it
was a little more problematic. I don’t really understand it—it just
turned out to be easier all the way around [to use Barda in Batman
Beyond’s The Call]…we love Wonder Woman—Bruce [Timm] did that great
design of her, which is now a maquette at the Warner Bros. store. At
some point, we’ll do Wonder Woman…we just need to fight that battle
when we get to it.” |
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Bruce Timm said:
She was probably the most challenging character of all of them in this
show. Everyone else we kind of figured out who they were pretty
easily, but we had a lot of discussions about Wonder Woman. With
Batman, you could easily say “Batman: Year One,” that’s the Batman we
want to do…but with Wonder Woman we couldn’t really point to any
previous version of Wonder Woman and say, “Well, yeah, that’s Wonder
Woman.” We had to say, “Well, is she Lynda Carter? Is she the George
Pérez Wonder Woman? Is she Xena?” And none of those things worked
exactly for what we wanted to do with the show. So the personality as
just described by Rich is kind of what we came up with. And, since we
had Hawkgirl in the cast as well, we wanted to make sure that they
weren’t just two peas in a pod. We wanted to make sure that their
personalities really contrasted with one another, so [that] they’re
not just “the girls.” |
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Shaun McLaughlin on Wonder Woman:
“She’s royalty. She’s royalty from someplace who decided to make her
way in this world. By royalty, I don’t mean she’s untouchable or
above everybody else.” |
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Bruce Timm on Wonder Woman’s personality:
“What we keyed in with Wonder Woman is that she’s a Princess and from
a completely different culture. In a weird way, she’s more of a fish
out of water than the rest of the League. In the first episode, we
introduce her to Man’s World. That really forms her whole personality
and how she deals with this culture that’s radically different from
the one in which she was raised...[Her voice] is not haughty or
imperious, but she is a Princess and is used to being treated with a
certain amount of deference. She doesn’t quite get that from the
League, so Wonder Woman is a little taken aback by that. It makes for
interesting conflicts.” |
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Bruce Timm on Wonder Woman’s Amazonian roots:
“…I don’t want to overuse that aspect of Wonder Woman. I want to
explore different facets of Wonder Woman’s personality. The two
Wonder Woman story arcs we’ve done this season probably had too much
to do with her Amazon past. They’re both good stories, but we’ve put
a moratorium on Hippolyta and the Amazons for the time being.”
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Bruce Timm on Wonder Woman’s design:
“There was no special trick to designing Wonder Woman. Over the
years, I’ve gotten pretty good at designing female characters. She’s
pretty straightforward. There wasn’t any previous comics version that
I used as a template, but I tried to simplify some of the details on
her costume for animation purposes. She’s your typical Bruce Timm
gal, a little taller and broader in the shoulders, but what you would
expect.” |
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Rich Fogel on Aresia:
“I think that Aresia is one of our more interesting and original
villains. Her hatred of men drives Fury." |
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Other villains appearing on the series and related to Wonder Woman are
The Cheetah, Felix Faust and Lord Hades. |
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Although
Wonder Woman appears on most of the episodes of "Justice League," the
following two sets of episodes are specially relevant:
