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  • Wonder Woman has arrived in theaters, and much to the disappointment of comic-conscious

  • nerds, it went incredibly light on the Easter Eggs.

  • Sure, we were treated to an island full of Amazons that seemed pretty faithful to their

  • comic counterparts.

  • But the film didn't have a single inexplicable time-traveling Flash cameo.

  • What's a wonder-nerd to do?

  • Let's roll up our sleeves and see what secret DC references we were able to find between

  • the frames of Wonder Woman.

  • And of course, super spoilers ahead.

  • We all scream.

  • Because it's a comic book movie, Wonder Woman borrowed a huge chunk of its content from,

  • you know, comic booksjust in a very general sense.

  • However, eagle-eyed readers of DC Comics' New 52 version of Justice League were quick

  • to spot a story beat cribbed directly from the comic pages.

  • In the first few pages of Justice League #3, Princess Diana has pretty much the same conversation

  • with an ice cream vendor as she does in the film, though the comic presents a more modern

  • setting.

  • The story quickly diverges, however, as modern Diana is quickly attacked by Parademons from

  • another planet, while movie Diana remains hell-bent on hunting down Ares.

  • The scene gets another adaptation in the animated feature Justice League: War, further cementing

  • the fact that despite having a pretty good grasp on pleasure, Amazons don't have anything

  • on humans.

  • They have an isolated island paradise...but we have Ben & Jerry's.

  • Point, mortals.

  • Four eyes

  • Wonder Woman doesn't have a very extensive history on screen compared to some of her

  • contemporaries.

  • But her 1975 TV show is a thing of legend, mostly because it was straight-up goofy fun.

  • What kind of Amazonian magic does it take to spin around to change your clothes?

  • We never found out, but plenty of people got dizzy trying.

  • Notably, 1975's Wonder Woman employed the unrealistic trope that if you wear a pair

  • of glasses, you're completely unrecognizable as the same human you are without your glasses.

  • So, when the cinematic Wonder Woman pops on a pair of specs as part of her disguise to

  • blend in with lowly humans, it's quickly called out by Etta Candy as being completely ridiculous.

  • Because honestly, it's about time someone did.

  • Official business.

  • Because Bruce Wayne is the richest man in the world, he can afford to send armored cars

  • anywhere he wants, even if they just contain a single photograph.

  • Meanwhile, the rest of the 99 percent just has to settle for the post office losing their

  • birthday presents in the black hole that is New Jersey.

  • Still, when Bruce sends around his Waynemobiles, you'd think he'd be a little more subtle about

  • the fact that he's the guy assembling a group of superhumans called the Justice League

  • but no.

  • When you're Wayne levels of rich, you spring for vanity plates, and you make sure those

  • plates have the initials of your secret super-team on them.

  • Having the letters 'JL' lead off your armored car's license plate is real subtle, Bruce.

  • What does your other car say?

  • "I'M BATMAN"?

  • God Killer.

  • So, as we learn by the end of the movie, it turns out that the magical God Killer sword

  • can't actually kill gods.

  • And just like in the afterschool specials of yore, the power to kick some godly butt

  • was inside Diana all along.

  • As far as DC Comics is concerned, the God Killer sword is generally the domain of the

  • mercenary villain known as Deathstroke, the Terminator.

  • The far-too-powerful weapon was crafted by one god to kill another, and was given to

  • Earth's greatest assassin.

  • So while it's clear that Wonder Woman's big-screen sword wasn't the real deal, there are rumblings

  • of Deathstroke appearing in the DCEU.

  • Could we get a look at the real God Killer sword in the future?

  • Amazon prime.

  • While it's not really an Easter Egg, DC went all out in including Princess Diana's many,

  • many friends and relatives on Themyscira.

  • While some were named on-screen, a handful are only mentioned in the credits.

  • Every single one of these Amazons has had a few comic pages dedicated to them, even

  • if most of them are largely interchangeable warrior women.

  • But maybe we'll see a couple of them again in Wonder Woman II?

  • It's a miracle.

  • There's not a whole lot of information about that mystery gas General Ludendorff was snorting

  • in order to Hulk out.

  • But DC comics has a pretty weird history of its heroes and villains taking strange substances

  • to perform superhuman tasks.

  • One early example of this appeared in 1940 under the name "miraclo," a "miracle vitamin"

  • that enabled the Golden Age hero Hourman to do heroic things for sixty action-packed minutes.

  • While miraclo was developed for positive purposes, it eventually fell into the wrong hands and

  • became a substance that Batman fans will be very familiar with: venom.

  • Whether or not Dr. Poison's power-up gas will eventually find its way into the bubbling

  • tubes of the supervillain Bane is anyone's guess.

  • But the foundations have been laid to break the Batfleck.

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