History Film / WonderWoman1984

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** As [[spoiler:Diana is losing her powers, she gets shot at several times and knocked into enough force to kill an ordinary human. As she's no longer MadeOfIron, what once was OnlyAFleshWound is now problematic; Steve has to help her walk, and tries calling for a medic or anyone to help them. There's a real chance that Diana ''will'' die from the blood loss or body trauma, and Steve knows it's not worth it. He convinces Diana to renounce her wish not only to save the world, but so that her life won't be sacrificed for his. Diana would give up her life for Steve, but she knows she can't sacrifice the world for it]].
** The President's wish for more nukes to intimidate the Soviets instead results with the USSR declaring WorldWarThree because hundreds of nuclear missiles appeared out of nowhere. The President even admits that he would do the same if the reverse occurred.

* EvilIsSexy (InUniverse): Barbara after being granted her first wish to become “like Diana,” which includes being “strong and sexy.”

The film takes place in the year [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin 1984]] and follows [[ComicBook/WonderWoman Diana of Themyscira/Wonder Woman]] as she fights against new perils including a former friend, [[ComicBook/{{Cheetah}} Barbara Minerva/Cheetah]] (Creator/KristenWiig), and shady businessman Maxwell Lord (Creator/PedroPascal). She also finds out that her late lover ComicBook/SteveTrevor (Creator/ChrisPine), who perished during World War I, somehow came back from the dead.

* WhipItGood: Diana makes ample use of her Lasso of Truth as a combat whip once again, as seen in the trailer. And [[SpinToDeflectStuff not just for that]].

* ExtraStrengthMasquerade: [[spoiler: Absolute chaos emerges as Lord grants the US President his wish for more nuclear weapons, and that's before he uses the satellite system to start granting any and all wishes around the world regardless of being in conflict with each other. Diana manages to get him and the rest of the world to renounce their wishes, which seems to stop the immediate problem (supernatural acts are supernaturally reversed) but it's not explained how the world seems to move on so easily after such a strange event. There is some hints that exposure to the magic without understanding what it is creates a disorientation effect, as a few people Lord has to coerce into making their wish, especially the President, seem hypnotically confused at the situation]].

* AluminumChristmasTrees:
** Egypt was undergoing a period of instability, having signed a humiliating peace treaty with Israel in 1977, dealing with the assassination of President Anwar Sadat in 1981, and suffering massive economic downturn all throughout the 1980s. While the film may have exaggerated Egypt's issues, such issues still existed.
** The invisible jet scene was called out by some critics for being unrealistic, claiming that turning a jet invisible wouldn't do anything about radar. In reality, radar detects things by bouncing radio waves and/or microwaves off of them in much the same way the eye sees things by catching light reflected off of them. All three are forms of electromagnetic radiation, and making an aircraft less visible to radar is accomplished in part by using coatings and materials designed to absorb radio waves rather than reflect them; it only stands to reason that if a jet were made invisible to light, other forms of EM radiation like radio waves would pass through it too.

A third ''Wonder Woman'' film was greenlit following the release of this film, with Jenkins set to return as director and Gadot reprising the title role. Production is set to start in mid-2023.

* EatingTheEyeCandy: Men (and [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer women]]) stop to check out Diana in her white dress that's slit to show off [[ShesGotLegs her impressive legs]], and Barbara in her [[LittleBlackDress tight black dress]] and diamond-studded heels, when they turn up at the gala.

** [[spoiler:Barbara and Maxwell are softened compared to their comics counterparts; in the Golden Age, Barbara tried drowning Wonder Woman by sabotaging her restraints for a charity stunt and Maxwell Lord ended up causing a crisis that was only solved by Diana snapping his neck. Here, both are convinced to stand down and give up their wishes]].

* {{Trumplica}}: The resemblance between this movie's version of Maxwell Lord and UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump has been noted by a number of reviewers and media outlets. He's a failed businessman desperately trying to give the outer appearance of success. Even the hair is similar.

** [[spoiler:Barbara and Maxwell are subject to this; in the Golden Age, Barbara tried drowning Wonder Woman by sabotaging her restraints for a charity stunt and Maxwell Lord ended up causing a crisis that was only solved by Diana snapping his neck. Here, both are convinced to stand down and give up their wishes]].

* {{Trumplica}}: The resemblance between this movie's version of Maxwell Lord and UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump has been noted by a number of reviewers and media outlets.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the comics, Wonder Woman's conflict with Maxwell Lord infamously ends with her executing him on live television as it was the only way to stop him from further ruining the world. In the film, [[spoiler: Lord is peacefully removed from power and gets to quietly retire and go back to his family, while the nation and the world begins to heal from the mayhem he wrought.]]

* StupidCrooks: The jewel thieves in the mall, especially the chubby one who is so incompetent that he singlehandly ruins what was otherwise a clean operation and only makes it worse like threatening to throw a girl to her death for no reason despite his own buddies shouting at him to stop it.
* StupidEvil: In the opening sequence, the four robbers have a pretty decent plan that would allow them to get in and out without notice. One of the robbers messes it up by having an unsecured pistol tucked in his pants that he drops as they all leave the jewelry store. When he gets noticed, one of his partners tries to appear like another patron, and the robber outs him immediately by calling out to him. Then he panics and holds a child over a railing. How he expected this to allow him to get away is anyone's guess. Even his partners are horrified by this and try to argue him down with one even saying "what are you doing".

** As [[spoiler:Diana is losing her powers]], she gets shot at several times and knocked into enough force to kill an ordinary human. Being MadeOfIron, before OnlyAFleshWound would occur but not here. Steve has to help her walk, [[spoiler:and tries calling for a medic or anyone to help them]]. There's a real chance that [[spoiler:Diana ''will'' die from the blood loss or body trauma, and Steve knows it's not worth it. He convinces Diana to renounce her wish not only to save the world, but so that her life won't be sacrificed for his. Diana would give up her life for Steve, but she knows she can't sacrifice the world for it]].

* SwappedRoles: The first film features a world-wry Steve guiding [[FishOutOfWater a literally out of place]] Diana on the life outside Themyscira. Once he returns to life through a reincarnation of sorts, Diana has to guide Steve on how things are [[FishOutOfTemporalWater since his return]].

* ApocalypseHow: A [[ApocalypseHow/Class1 Societal Disruption on a planetary scale]] is caused by [[spoiler:Lord massively disrupting the world economy, granting wishes to everyone by hijacking TV satellite signals while simultaneously stealing people's health and life force, and causing both the US and Soviets to begin a nuclear war.]] A [[ApocalypseHow/Class2 Societal Collapse on a planetary scale]] was narrowly averted by Diana convincing everyone to [[spoiler:renounce their wishes, causing the nuclear missiles to disappear in the sky]].

* AdvertisedExtra: Creator/ConnieNielsen and Creator/RobinWright are both billed in the opening credits but only get enough screen time for the Themysciran race in the opening sequence.
* AluminumChristmasTrees: Egypt was undergoing a period of instability, having signed a humiliating peace treaty with Israel in 1977, dealing with the assassination of President Anwar Sadat in 1981, and suffering massive economic downturn all throughout the 1980s. While the film may have exaggerated Egypt's issues, such issues still existed.

* BackFromTheDead: One day after finding a wish-fulfillment stone, Diana bumps into ''Steve Trevor'', 66 years after he perished in the explosion of Ludendorff's superweapon plane at the end of the first film. Though given he's in another person's body, takes a while for her to recognize Steve.

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Diana has sex with Steve Trevor…while he is ''possessing the body of another man, who did not consent to having sex with Diana.''

* AspectRatioSwitch: The [[BookEnds first and last scenes]] are in the expanded Creator/{{IMAX}} ratio[[note]]that is 1.43:1 in IMAX Grand Theater (GT) auditoriums and 1.90:1 on HBO Max and other IMAX theaters. Everywhere else, it's all in Cinemascope, thus averting this trope[[/note]] while the rest of the movie is in Cinemascope.

** According to the film, every empire where the Dreamstone has been (including Rome, Carthage, the Mayan) collapsed without any reason at all. While there are a few civilizations like the Mayan whose exact downfalls are a mystery, many such as Rome and Carthage had their downfalls well documented by history.
** In real life, subway already existed for a couple of decades in USA at the time the first movie was set, yet in the montage where Diana shows modern things to [[FishOutOfTemporalWater Steve]], one scene shows Steve being awestruck while watching a moving subway train.

* AdultFear: The climax has this. One husband wishes for his wife to drop dead, and he's ForcedToWatch as paramedics futilely try to revive her. You also have the threat of nuclear war and people having four minutes to get to a shelter. [[spoiler:In the middle of this, Max through the Lasso of Truth sees Alistair running among the chaos, screaming that he wants his dad, and goes MyGodWhatHaveIDone because his son will die with all of the wishes]].

A third ''Wonder Woman'' film [[https://deadline.com/2020/12/wonder-woman-3-wonder-woman-1984-opening-box-office-1234661808/ was officially greenlit]] following the release of this film, with Jenkins set to return as director and Gadot reprising the title role.

* AnachronismStew: Steve reacts with amazement when he sees an escalator and an underground train, things that were around decades before his death in 1918. The scene in the Metro station also depicts modern signage that wouldn't have been used in the 1980s - the Green and Silver Lines are depicted on maps despite not going into service until years later, and overhead signage shows the upcoming trains even though that didn't exist at the time either.