Wonder Woman 1984 Every New Power Diana Uses (And How She Got It)

Wonder Woman 1984: Every New Power Diana Uses (And How She Got It)

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Wonder Woman 1984 takes Diana on a new adventure with an old flame, but the Amazonian hasn’t rested on her laurels. Here are all her new abilities.

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Wonder Woman 1984 Every New Power Diana Uses (And How She Got It)

Here are all of Diana’s new powers in Wonder Woman 1984. Introduced in 2017’s Wonder Woman as the daughter of Zeus and Queen Hippolyta of the Amazonians, Diana Prince is one of the DCEU’s strongest superheroes right from the start. As a native of Themyscira, Diana already possess super strength, increased speed, inhuman durability, and agelessness, and even among her own kind, she’s the best of the best. As a demigod, Diana is granted even more powers, including God-killer blasts and a resistance to lightning. These gifts Diana displayed during her adventure with Steve Trevor in World War I, but the sequel picks up many decades later – and Diana hasn’t been sitting idle.

Wonder Woman 1984 sees the greedy opportunist Maxwell Lord become one with the Dreamstone, granting wishes for others and then seizing whatever he desires from each victim in return. Over the course of his wish-granting spree, Lord amasses oil, land, soldiers and presidential control, all in the name of “wanting more.” Meanwhile, the Dreamstone triggers Barbara Minerva’s transformation into the villainous Cheetah, who desperately tries to protect Maxwell Lord from Diana’s interference. With two very different opponents to navigate, Diana must call upon all of her abilities.

Fortunately, Diana has been training diligently ever since her arrival in the world of men. From utilizing her divine heritage to expanding the use of trademark weapons, Diana exhibits an arsenal of thrilling new abilities in Wonder Woman 1984. Here are all of them, as well as how they were obtained.

Flight

Wonder Woman 1984 Every New Power Diana Uses (And How She Got It)

Previously, Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman has been able to jump really, really far, but the power of pure flight à la Clark Kent has eluded her. For a brief moment during her battle against Ares (at the end of the original Wonder Woman) movie, she appears to float for a second, but when Wonder Woman 1984 begins, this hasn’t yet blossomed into a new skill. However, it’s heavily suggested that Diana has been considering how to fly over the past 64 years, as she reveals to Steve Trevor how impressed she has always been by his natural affinity for piloting planes – something she never got the hang of. Diana listens keenly as Steve describes how it’s all about air currents and wind, and this sets up a new string to Diana’s bow.

As Wonder Woman 1984’s final clash draws closer, Diana recovers her powers by renouncing the Dreamstone’s wish, then resolves to stop Maxwell Lord as his wishes spiral out of control. She leaps into the air and begins to float unsteadily, before remembering Steve’s words on how to manipulate the air around her. After some adjustment, Diana is soaring through the clouds like a true pro. Although the Amazonian utilizes her Lasso of Truth to hang from lightning and whips the air to propel herself forward, Steve’s instructions were the key to unlocking this feat. Diana flies effortlessly from Washington D.C. to the U.S. government’s island satellite base, but her new ability isn’t comparable to Superman’s flying skills. Where the Kryptonian is able to levitate and traverse the sky self-propelled, Diana’s flight ability is perhaps what Buzz Lightyear would call “falling with style.” By leaping, air-whipping and riding air currents, Diana flies like a bird or a plane, but not like Superman.

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Diana learning to fly in Wonder Woman 1984 has roots in the DC comic books, with various incarnations of the character adding this convenient travel method to their skill set. In DC’s Silver age, Diana rode air currents exactly how Steve Trevor describes in Wonder Woman 1984, while the New 52 series sees Hermes personally bestow his own God-given gift of flight onto the Amazonian (which does compete with Superman’s power). Gal Gadot’s character appears to blend the two, with Steve establishing the importance of the wind, and Diana adopting Clark’s signature “one fist forward” flight pose.

Invisibility Casting

Wonder Woman 1984 Every New Power Diana Uses (And How She Got It)

Aside from flight, Diana Prince’s other major power change in Wonder Woman 1984 is casting a shroud of invisibility over inanimate objects. Needing a quick ride to Egypt (or a horrifically stereotypical Egypt that bears little resemblance to real life), Diana and Steve hijack a fully-fueled F-111 Aardvark from the Smithsonian. Unaware of Radar systems, even Steve’s piloting skills can’t elude the authorities, but Diana has a trick up her sleeve, rendering the entire plane invisible. This is Wonder Woman 1984’s interpretation of the Invisible Jet from DC comic lore, but Diana makes a regular man-made plane disappear, rather than the aircraft being a product of Amazonian technology as in the source material.

As for how she turns the F-111 invisible, Diana reveals that after learning her true heritage in 1918, she’s been attempting to reproduce her father’s divine abilities. Since Zeus was the one responsible for hiding Themyscira from the outside world, Diana deduces that she too should be able to turn things invisible, but over the past six decades, she’s only managed to magically conceal a coffee cup. Taking a big step up from Starbucks, Diana uses Zeus’ magic to make the plane invisible for what seems like the entire flight. This new ability should prove incredibly useful for Wonder Woman’s future exploits, but also leaves the door open for Diana to borrow other powers from her absent dad.

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New Lasso Of Truth Powers

Wonder Woman 1984 Every New Power Diana Uses (And How She Got It)

Diana hasn’t just upgraded herself since moving from Themyscira to the human world – her Lasso of Truth also comes with new abilities in Wonder Woman 1984. Both Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot have confirmed their intention with the 2020 DCEU sequel was to make Wonder Woman less openly aggressive. Whereas Diana in 2017’s Wonder Woman was still very much a warrior, wielding a sword and shield against her enemies, the Amazonian has become far more merciful in her old age. Wonder Woman 1984 spells this out right from the beginning, and it’s by design that no character actually dies over the course of the film (aside from an English cafe owner, and even she comes back). To make up for the absence of her sword and shield, Diana makes far better use of her Lasso of Truth in the 1980s. The rope’s newfound importance is demonstrated during the opening shopping mall fight, where Wonder Woman foils a robbery, and even splits her lasso to tackle multiple opponents.

More importantly, Diana reveals that her Lasso of Truth actually comes with more than one setting. Previously, anyone in contact with the rope would be compelled to honesty, no matter how brutal or embarrassing the truth may be. In Wonder Woman 1984, Diana reveals to Steve that her lasso can also reveal the truth to others in the form of visions, and she proves this by showing her resurrected boyfriend the final moments of Asteria, sparing viewers a lengthy exposition monologue in the process. Diana puts this new power to great effect in Wonder Woman 1984’s final battle, hooking the lasso around Maxwell Lord’s ankle and communicating with the entire world to make them renounce the Dreamstone.

Golden Eagle Armor

The marketing for Wonder Woman 1984 put the Golden Eagle Armor front and center as the major new addition to Diana’s arsenal. Ultimately, the new getup proves to be more style than substance, as Cheetah tears large chunks off the wings almost immediately after Diana appears in the shiny suit for the first time. As revealed during the aforementioned Lasso of Truth flashback, the Golden Eagle Armor originally belonged to Asteria – an ancient Amazonian who stayed behind in the human world so her fellow warriors could flee back to Themyscira. The gear itself was constructed from the armor of every fleeing soldier, but Asteria evidently disposed of the costume in order to escape (or due to its fatal weakness against cats, who knows?). The Golden Eagle Armor was originally designed by Alex Ross for DC’s “Kingdom Come” comic story, and eventually explained as a gift to Diana forged by Pallas – a much different origin story compared to Wonder Woman 1984’s Asteria legend.

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