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  • Gail Simone's run on Wonder Woman manages to deliver at least one of these every issue, often involving the mutant albino gorillas that accepted Diana as their leader. The issue they first appear in has them hanging around in her apartment and looking at her magazines while their leader apologizes for the "flinging incident" while saying that it was due to poor judgment.
    • Later, when Diana comes home after a long day they're helping her get ready for a shower, and one of them asks if she would like "your usual flowery sludge for your hair."
  • Issue #24 and #25, where Diana goes to Hollywood to check in on the production of a movie about her (which turns out to be part of a plan by the Queen of Fables), is full of moments like this, with the many shots at misconceptions about Wonder Woman and the Amazons as well as against Hollywood film-making.
    • Diana and the others drive by a rehearsal, where we find out that the movie will feature a love triangle between Diana, Hercules and her mother Hippolyta. Considering what Hercules did to Hippolyta, Diana is understandably mortified and wants the whole movie shut down. The terrible idea for a story combined with Hercules' cheesy lines and the fact that movie Diana's outfit looks more like a two-piece bikini makes the whole thing so tasteless and ill-advised as to be hilarious.
    • As the Queen starts turning bystanders into past versions of Diana and sending them to attack her, Diana seems almost offended when one of them takes the form she had when she lost her powers and was retooled into a non-powered, judo-fighting spy:
      "Judo Diana": Still want to fight? Well, beware my claws, kitten!
      Diana: Is there no accuracy in this production? I wouldn't be caught dead speaking like that.
    • The bit when Diana walks through the Queen's projection of what the movie is intended to be, with the Amazons being portrayed as raging Straw Feminists:
      "Amazon: [Men] love war! They and worst of all—their women. And worst of all...
      Diana: [narration] Please don't say it, please don't say it...
      "Amazon": They leave the toilet seats up!
      "Amazons": [chanting] Kill the men! Kill the men! Kill the men!
      Diana: [narration] Urgh. Kill the screenwriter, is what I say.
    • "Suddenly, reopening a chapter of the Justice League Antarctica seems like a wise and reasoned plan".
    • With the battle won, one of the producers is still interested in making a whole franchise based on this terrible movie. One of the gorillas Diana brought with her, of all people, calls him out for how uninspired and exploitative the movie is. And the lack of a good second act.
  • The entirety of Diana's trip to Japan with Black Canary is a big CMOF, especially when they are trying on Stripperiffic costumes to disguise themselves as wrestlers in a metahuman fighting ring while making a Call-Back to Canary's comment that Diana has the "second most famous bosom" in the superhero community (after Power Girl).
    Black Canary: Ah, we look like high-end trashy hookers in a Tarantino nightmare. Perfect!
    Wonder Woman: Do we need to expose quite so much of the second most famous...
    Black Canary: Absolutely!
    Black Canary: Could not agree more. Summon the plane, would ya? We're Tokyo-bound!
  • Wonder Woman gets attacked by the alien Khund, and after defeating them talks with two of their leaders.
    Kho: When you used our weapons against us, that was so rad!
    Wonder Woman: "Rad"?
    Kho: Exquisite! Oh, to die by your mighty hand!
    Wonder Woman: I... I'm lost.
    Kharhi: I am Kharhi, Destroyer. I have the honor of being the Khund emperor's advisor. This is my daughter, Kho.
    Kho: I am such a fan, pardon my gush, warrior!
    Kharhi: She watches the MTV, I'm afraid.
    • A few pages later, WW is shown a statue they made of "her".
  • There's also her first experience with ale from Aquilonia.

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