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** A good question would be why did she seemingly forget how to fly by the time BvS and Justice League happens.
** Just because she doesn't use the power in chronologically-later installments, doesn't mean she doesn't have it. Hell, you could argue that she may have used it to a certain extent to jump in front of Batman to protect him in BvS and when jumping the bomb out of the building in Justice League (Zack Snyder's version anyway) and maybe even the final scene of Wonder Woman when she's jumping into action over a river right before the credits roll.

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** A good question would be why did she seemingly forget how to fly by the time BvS [=BvS=] and Justice League happens.
** Just because she doesn't use the power in chronologically-later installments, doesn't mean she doesn't have it. Hell, you could argue that she may have used it to a certain extent to jump in front of Batman to protect him in BvS [=BvS=] and when jumping the bomb out of the building in Justice League (Zack Snyder's version anyway) and maybe even the final scene of Wonder Woman when she's jumping into action over a river right before the credits roll.
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** Simple. Maxwell destroys himself, but then then reforms a second later. "I was destroyed, satisfying the conditions of the stated wish, but you didn't say that I have to remain in that state for very long."
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*** That wasn't sexism. The man was in front of her on the curb so the cab picked the closest one.


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** We see one missile exploding in midair rather than vanishing, so it's possible that's a regular missile self destructing to abort the attack after the wished silos vanish.


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** Barbara wished directly on the Dreamstone, not on Lord. She'd be human again because the "apex predator" stuff came from him giving her power later, but she should still have Diana's "strong, cool, sexy". It's very likely she was intended to die since renouncing clearly wasn't on the agenda, but for whatever reason a shot of her alive was added in editing.


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** The above answer is incorrect. Alistair had already made his wish ("I wish for your greatness"), so he couldn't wish for anything more.
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* If Maxwell can wish (by proxy) that broadcasting his image via particle beams count as him touching everyone, why couldn't he have earlier turned to a flunky and gone "Oh wow so many visitors and so little time! Don't you just wish I didn't have to lay my hands on them all individually and do it by sight?"?
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*** And then that one person's television shows his desired program as his wish is fulfilled, but for everyone else they still see Max's broadcast normally.
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** Or maybe, just before the reversals started, some random horrified witness to the missile launches cried out "I wish that wasn't happening!", and ''that'' person '''didn't''' reverse their wish.

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** Or maybe, just before the reversals started, some random horrified witness to the missile launches cried out "I wish that wasn't happening!", and ''that'' person '''didn't''' reverse renounce their wish.
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** Or maybe, just before the reversals started, some random Russian witness to the missile launches cried out "I wish that wasn't happening!", and ''that'' person '''didn't''' reverse their wish.

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** Or maybe, just before the reversals started, some random Russian horrified witness to the missile launches cried out "I wish that wasn't happening!", and ''that'' person '''didn't''' reverse their wish.
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** Or maybe, just before the reversals started, some random Russian witness to the missile launches cried out "I wish that wasn't happening!", and ''that'' person '''didn't''' reverse their wish.
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*** It's shown that contact with the Dreamstone isn't necessary to renounce a wish when Wonder Woman renounces her wish before Max gets to the satellite system, so Barbara could have renounced her wish without touching him and then gotten a new wish.
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[[folder: Why did Steve have to die at the end of the previous movie?]]
* The plot to ''1984'' makes Steve's HeroicSacrifice at the end of the first Wonder Woman movie pointless from a storytelling perspective. Even if they got married after the war and lived happily ever after, he would have inevitably died of old age by the mid-80's, forcing Diana to face the reality of loving a mortal. It would have made her selfish actions in the movie far more understandable if the loss was still fresh in her heart rather than spending 70 years in mourning.
** 1.) The sacrifice Steve made during World War I was a key factor in her realizing Ares was wrong and that there were things in humanity worth recognizing. (... Sort of. The movies don't have the firmest grasp on what Diana's exact feelings on humanity were after that period, but Steve's selflessness was at least what kept her from going off the deep end, most likely.) 2.) His death ties into ''84''s theme of truth being better than lies in that Diana is trying to cheat by bringing him back from the dead, which also cheapens and demeans the nobility of the sacrifice he made. 3.) It alleviates some of the complaints levied at Diana pining for Steve in ''Batman V. Superman'' and ''Justice League'', since it's not just her obsessing over someone she knew for a few days' time 100 years ago; this way, instead, she had a chance to be with Steve again just a few decades ago and then lost it, which more believably would have such an affect on her.
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* When Max is allowing everyone's wishes to come true, Alistair wishes Max would just come home. Wouldnt that mean Max suddenly gets blinked back to be with Alistair?

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* When Max is allowing everyone's wishes to come true, Alistair wishes Max would just come home. Wouldnt Wouldn't that mean Max suddenly gets blinked back to be with Alistair?Alistair?
** He ''did'' end up reuniting with Alistair thanks to Diana's intervention. As the movie shows elsewhere, not all wishes are granted instantaneously.
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* When Max is allowing everyone's wishes to come true, Alistair wishes Max would just come home. Wouldnt that mean Max suddenly gets blinked back to be with Alistair?

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