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themyskira:docinquirus:givemesomethinganything:blacksupervillain:bookishandi:jennyquantums:themyskira:Wonder Woman vol. 2 #210#this is THE most important moment in comics to me #this is THE defining moment of diana #not only of wonder woman #but of d i a n a #there is NO hesitation #there is no mourning #there is no fear #there is what is right #there is what needs to be done #and there is a HERO who bears the pains #for the human race so they wont have to #diana will sacrifice EVERYTHING #and she wont hesitate to do it #y’all can fucking keep batman #but i’ll stay with diana any dayWAIT, THIS DOESN’T SHOW JUST HOW AWESOME DIANA IS.This is from ruckawriter’s run on WW (the best ever, imho). Medusa turns one of Diana’s employees into stone (Diana is a full-on ambassador as well as superhero) and then challenges Diana to a fight. Diana is skeptical, but Aphrodite pretty much says, “Listen, we’re not gonna take this shit from Medusa, you gotta fight her.” So Diana shows up pretty ready, blindfold, armor, all that. But it turns out Medusa has manipulated the event to be televised, so that after she defeats Diana, she can look into the screen and turn all the people watching into stone. Just TAKE THIS SHIT IN FOR A HOT SECOND (all images courtesy of scans_daily)Then the stuff above happens. YES, BITCHES, DIANA—WHO HAS RECENTLY HAD A SWORD RUN THROUGH ONE OF HER KIDNEYS— TAKES ONE OF THE SNAKES SHE CUT OFF MEDUSA’S HEAD WHILE BLINDFOLDED AND SQUIRTS THE POISON IN HER EYES SO SHE IS BLIND SO MEDUSA CAN’T FUCK WITH HER.Why? BECAUSE SAVING AND AVENGING EVEN ONE MORTAL LIFE IS WORTH HER OWN GODDAMN VISION THAT’S WHY. But after that badass “Never?” THIS PHOTO SET LEAVES OUT THE BEST PART. WONDER WOMAN IMMEDIATELY CHOPS OFF MEDUSA’S HEAD. NO HESITATION. NO NEGOTIATION. NO DESTROYING A WHOLE CITY JUST TO BEAT HER UP A LITTLE MORE. CHOP AND DONE.And then?DROP THAT MIC, DI.DROP IT LIKE THE MAGMA-HOT SHIT THAT IT IS. To Rucka’s credit, this wasn’t no false-ass sacrifice, either. She stays blind AND STILL SAVES EVERYONE’S ASSES.How does she get her sight back? She does something for Athena and Athena grants her one boon. So what does our Diana do? Ask for her sight back?NOPE. SHE ASKS FOR LIFE TO BE RETURNED TO A CHILD KILLED BY MEDUSA.And Athena was like, “Shit, Wonder Woman, you’re better than all of us, I guess you can have your sight back, too.” And Diana’s pretty much like, “Fine, that’s cool I guess, I was still getting shit done without it.”THIS IS WHY I HAVE A LOT OF GODDAMN FEELINGS ABOUT WONDER WOMAN.And David Goyer is writing her first film appearance This is all awesome until that last comment brought me downEven though she coulda probably just kept her eyes closed and cut off Medusa’s head. Just saying…Medusa is magically compelling Diana to open her eyes — that’s what the purple speech bubbles signify. You can see Diana physically struggling against it in the first panel. She knows she can’t hold out for much longer, so she does what needs to be done to end the fight.(Also, small correction to the poster above — Medusa doesn’t kill one of Diana’s employees, she kills the employee’s young son, and Diana is so filled with grief and rage that she’s fully prepared to end Medusa then and there. But Medusa chooses this moment to invoke Ares, challenging Diana in the war-god’s name, and by her own people’s law Diana is forced to honour that challenge. That’s how Medusa (working with Circe) sets the stage for the big televised battle.) -- source link

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