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Wonder Woman

Adaptation Dye-Job in this franchise.

Multiple Media

Comic Books

  • Steve Trevor is blond in the comics, but dark haired Lyle Waggoner was better known and cast well before Lynda Carter was discovered for the title role. No effort was made to address his hair color. The show went on to add and change many aspects of the Wonder Woman mythos with many of them being retconned back into the comic books.
  • Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman: Steve is brunette rather than his traditional blonde in "Brace Yourself".
  • Wonder Woman: Earth One: Steve is African American in this continuity and accordingly his hair is black.
  • The Legend of Wonder Woman (2016): Philippus normally has brown eyes, befitting her African heritage, but here her eyes are green instead. The Heyday sisters also have their traditionally blonde hair changed to orange.
  • Etta Candy was a redhead in the Golden Age comics Wonder Woman (1942), Sensation Comics & Comic Cavalcade, but almost every iteration since has been blonde, until the Wonder Woman (Rebirth) version was made African American with black hair.
  • The New 52's Wonder Woman (2011) changed the hair, eye and skin colors of most of the Greek Pantheon's manifestations:
    • Ares' normally blonde hair is shown to have been orange in flashbacks but has turned white in the present as feelings of being worn out have manifested physically.
    • Artemis' brown hair and eyes are switched out for an entirely monochromatic blueish-white look.
    • Apollo's blonde hair and blue eyes are switched out for purplish-black hair and skin with glowing orange eyes.
    • Demeter's curly brown or black hair is now green, and so is her skin.
    • Dionysus' formally purple hair is now red and black, and his formerly brown eyes are yellow.
    • Hermes goes from brunette to blue skinned, teal haired with solid black eyes.
    • Hades has traded his black hair and pale skin for dripping candles and mint green skin.
    • Hephaestus' brown eyes are now black and red and his human appearance and skin have been swapped out for pinkish skin with hands and feet that look burnt black and cracked.
    • Zeus' normally white formally blonde hair is now dark brown dreadlocks.

Films

Live-Action TV

  • Wonder Woman (1975)
    • Steve Trevor, blond in the comics and most adaptations, is here played by the brunet Lyle Waggoner. The same thing happens to Paula Von Gunther.
    • And the exact opposite happens with Fausta Grables, who was brunette in the comics but played by the blonde Lynda Day George on the show.

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