This is the Moment of Awesome page for the Wonder Woman franchise at large.
Pages for specific installments:
Comic Books
- Wonder Woman Volume 1 (Golden Age to Silver Age)
- Wonder Woman Volume 2 (Post-Crisis)
- Wonder Woman Volume 6 (Dawn of DC)
- JLA: A League of One
- Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia
- Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons
Film
Live-Action Television
Western Animation
Comics
- More for the writer than the character: At the end of a story that involved a female villain with female Mooks, a fellow Amazon didn't understand why those women would work for the villain. Wonder Woman explained that she didn't understand the women in "Man's World": Many of them wanted to be slaves, not having the courage to take control of their lives and compete with men. Keep in mind that a man wrote this. In the 1940s.
- Everything Golden Age Etta Candy did
. - In a Silver Age Justice League story Wonder Woman was up against a robot duplicate of herself who seemed stronger and more powerful. Remembering her Amazon heritage, she dug in her heels, vowed that a mere thing of steel and wire would not defeat her, and defeated her counterpart.
- Wonder Woman #97, Wonder Woman is infected by a variant of Joker Venom. Her solution is to call upon the god Pan to "teach her how to dance in Chaos" and thus gain Insanity Immunity.
- "There's the door, Spaceman."
- The return of Barbara Minerva as the Cheetah in Wonder Woman (vol. 2) #206, killing Sebastian Ballesteros and leaving a trap for Diana:
- One comparatively low-key moment: Diana's coworker at the Taco Whiz (long story) has a daughter she can't afford to send to a prestigious school. The father is a deadbeat who also works for a mob boss. Diana gets the child support checks coming by camping out in the boss's office and answering his phone.Hello, yes. This is Mr. Sazia's residence. I'm afraid he can't come to the phone right now. Me? I am Wonder Woman. And who might... hmm. They hung up.
- Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia is a beautiful well executed modern Greek Tragedy, and was tons of fun for those who were sick of the increasingly jerkish and self centered Bat-God of the late '90s/early 2000s. It's especially nice as it is a story that could have been told at no other time, since main-continuity Batman usually would have been more reasonable.
- During Greg Rucka's run, already full of awesome, one moment stands out: Diana faces Medusa in an arena match. The gorgon has already petrified the child of one of Diana's employees, so It's Personal. And it gets worse: Circe has enchanted TV systems across the world, and if Wonder Woman loses, tens of millions of people get turned to stone with her. Right as it looks as though she's about to lose, she takes one of Medusa's severed hair-snakes and blinds herself. Then she takes Medusa's head off with one slice.
- In "Ends of the Earth", Wonder Woman started to lose her soul. So what does she do? She teams up with Beowulf to kill the freaking devil and takes it back.
- Her No-Holds-Barred Beatdown of Artemis (the goddess) in The New 52.
- Diana manipulating Strife to take her back to Paradise Island near the climax of Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang's run.
- An Offscreen Moment of Awesome: the First Born amassed a huge army to lay siege on Paradise Island and he was largely winning, with Diana needing to teleport to Mt. Olympus with Zeke, Zola and Hermes. The next issue has Strife note that the First Born actually retreated, and his army was decimated by the combined strength of Diana's allies.
- The First Born thinks he has Wonder Woman and her allies beaten and outnumbered. But then comes Ares, striding in very casual like, and informing the First Born he is going to fight him with his army. The First Born mocks him, asking who would follow Ares. Cut to a full splash page as Ares summons ghosts of soldiers that fought in wars that spanned all of human history.What soldiers? ALL of them.
- Diana tricking the First Born and banishing him to suffer seven more millennia in the abyss.
- Diana's plea to Athena not to destroy her "vessel" Zola.
- In Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman: "Gothamazon", by Gail Simone, Batman and his team get taken down by a Villain Team-Up including several of Batman's Rogues Gallery. Oracle calls Wonder Woman in to help keep things under control.Wonder Woman: She told me to use Gotham solutions. I told her, I am an Amazon. We invented Gotham solutions.
- Followed by Wonder Woman throwing a set of Wonder-rangs.
- Also, it turns out that Wonder Woman didn't see the point in making this a one woman show. She brings an army of Amazon warriors who help deal with the villains' collateral damage, leaving Wonder Woman free to conscript Catwoman and Harley Quinn through force of personality (and a near-explicit threat) to help her deal with the villains.
- In "Judgment in Infinity" story arc (Wonder Woman Vol. 1 #291-293), most of heroines of Earth-One (Supergirl, Batgirl, Wonder Girl, Black Canary, Zatanna, Starfire...) and Earth-Two (Power Girl, Huntress...) team up with Wonder Woman to take down the villain Adjudicator. Highlights include Wonder Woman tackling and tying up a Horseman of the Apocalypse, Supergirl smashing Nazi Panzer tanks◊, and Wonder Girl and Starfire holding another Horseman at bay to protect Raven.
- #41 from 2006 has probably the best moment ever: Wonder Woman vs. Power Girl (the latter being under hypnosis or something).
Justice League
- The producers noted any time there was a huge fight, Wonder Woman was always the one kicking the most ass.
- In one episode, she is being mind-controlled and takes on Black Canary, Huntress, Hawkgirl, and Vixen single-handedly. It's pretty one-sided (memorably, Vixen takes on the strength—and mass—of an elephant; Wonder Woman casually power-bombs her) until the signal that's controlling her stops her right before she bashes Vixen and Hawkgirl's heads together.
Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice
- Diana getting past Bruce Wayne at the Luthor philanthropic party to steal Wayne's file-hacking device. She outmaneuvers Batman.
- Her Big Damn Heroes moment dropping in with her magic shield to protect a defenseless Batman from Doomsday's heat vision. Audiences at the movie theaters break out into cheers when she does this.
- And then she fearlessly leaps into battle against a nigh-invulnerable monster with her sword at the ready. THIS is Wonder Woman.
