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Post by redsycorax on Aug 6, 2022 1:26:44 GMT
Okay, so there seems to be an opportunity for an interesting Times Past story here. In DC canon, we've seen Clark and Lois, Bruce and Selina tie the knot on Earth-Two, but we haven't seen Diana and Steve Trevor do so. Are we supposed to think that their nuptials were trouble-free? What else might have transpired on the great day? Would some of Earth-Two Diana's rogues gallery turned up to try and ruin things and if so, which ones? Which JSA/All Star Squadron members and their spouses might have been in attendance? Jay and Joan, Lois and Clark, Bruce and Selina, Carter and Shiera, Libby Lawrence and Johnny Quick...?
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Post by jonclark on Aug 6, 2022 6:06:13 GMT
Actually just when did Diana decide to marry Steve despite not having fulfilled her mission? Or was that logic only part of the Silver Age Earth 1 lore?
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Post by redsycorax on Aug 7, 2022 23:21:20 GMT
Perhaps her mission changed? Perhaps with the advent of nuclear weapons, it then became 'stop man's world blowing itself up?' Is there any specific point in Diana and Steve's lives that we can point to in the mid-fifties and say that at that point, the transition to their Earth-One counterparts occurred? I mean, apart from the obvious power loss in 1969 and Steve's first death storyline, which strikes me as a little too late for our purposes. What about earlier?
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Post by dave on Aug 8, 2022 3:06:18 GMT
Wonder Woman of Earth Two's adventures didn't end until 1958. The Earth 1 Diana didn't appear until after Harry G Peter died. He drew virtually all the Wonder Woman stories until his death in January of 1958.
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Post by DocQuantum on Aug 8, 2022 3:18:34 GMT
Roy Thomas established in Wonder Woman #300 that the Earth-2 Wonder Woman married Steve Trevor in December, 1962. Does no one ever think to check our Timeline first? Most of the answers can be found there.
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Post by redsycorax on Aug 8, 2022 4:21:22 GMT
I've had a look at Wonder Woman 300. All we really know is that Earth-One's Wonder Woman visited the Earth-Two Wonder Woman and found out that she'd married her Steve twenty years ago, and they had a daughter, Lyta (the later Fury) with little about the surrounding circumstances or what led Diana to make that decision at that point in time. So, the question still remains what exactly happened and there is therefore ample opportunity to expand this into a more comprehensive Times Past story set in December 1962. Hmmm... only a couple of months after the Cuban missile crisis. Wonder if that had anything to do with it...? : dc.fandom.com/wiki/Wonder_Woman_Vol_1_300
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Post by starskyhutch76 on Aug 8, 2022 17:50:34 GMT
We know that her marriage wasn't approved of by Hippolyta and/or the gods since Wonder Woman lost her immortality.
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Post by redsycorax on Aug 8, 2022 23:55:31 GMT
And yet, they named their daughter Lyta (Fury) after Diana's mother, so the estrangement might have been from the gods rather than from Hippolyta herself. There might be a divine precondition rule that if any quasi-supernatural being marries a mortal, they must surrender their immortality. Perhaps in view of Diana's prior history of service to the deities in question, however, she aged more slowly than might be the case otherwise.
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Post by jonclark on Aug 9, 2022 5:56:44 GMT
I thought that losing her immortality was a result of leaving Paradise Island and had been true since 1941. And she still aged slower which is why she was so eager to find a way to extend Steve's life in "The Generation Saga". Seems odd for the gods to punish her by taking her immortality but still leave her with an extended lifespan.
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Post by johnreiter902 on Aug 9, 2022 13:06:16 GMT
My understanding was that when Wonder Woman married, she lost her immortality, and after that aged normally. I can't site a source for that however
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Post by redsycorax on Aug 10, 2022 2:00:21 GMT
Perhaps it was out of the hands of the gods. Perhaps there's simply a divine law which transcends the individual preferences of the gods in question, which can be (and was) mitigated in the case of Diana and other honorable and virtuous individuals, but which cannot be reversed wholesale. Thus, E2 Diana's slower ageing compared to her Steve.
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