This Princess Diana is revealed to have had a daughter. Later in the film, Diana explains that, when Zeus first created Themyscira, it was Asteria who stayed back to fend off the attacking waves of men, allowing her fellow Amazons to flee to their new home. In the center of the coliseum is a golden statue of a fallen hero: Asteria. It seems likely Asteria and Diana will link up in some capacity in “Wonder Woman 3.” Is Asteria a villain or hero? Diana mentions during “Wonder Woman 1984” that she had been looking for Asteria but had no success, only managing to find Asteria’s golden armor. The original Wonder Woman actress Lynda Carter appeared as Asteria in a surprise cameo. Is Zeus still alive in Wonder Woman?ĭespite his death, his legacy lives on both through his daughter Diana, also known as Wonder Woman, and through the powers of the wizard Shazam and his champions, the Shazam family, whom are able to harness some of Zeus’ power for their own use. In the mid-credits scene of the film, it was shown that Asteria is alive and well, thriving in the modern world. WW84 made several references to Asteria, including her valiant backstory when Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) asked Diana about Asteria’s golden armor that Diana keeps hidden away. The character Asteria, who was portrayed by Lynda Carter in Wonder Woman 1984, has a very different comic book counterpart. Wonder Woman 1984’s Asteria Has a Very Different Comic Book Counterpart. Who is Asteria in the Wonder Woman comics? As Diana (Gal Gadot) explains deep into the film, Asteria was the one who held off men as the enslaved Amazons escaped to Themyscira.
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Whether this is the last we’ve seen of Carter as Asteria or if Patty Jenkins will include her in Wonder Woman 3 remains to be seen, but considering how many people enjoy the 1970s Wonder Woman TV series and cherished Carter’s iteration of the character, it’s definitely fitting that she gets to stand out in the DCEU as a hero too.Asteria is the name of the legendary warrior in whose honour the Amazon Games, Wonder Woman 1984’s opening sequence, are held. While Diana and the rest of the Amazons believe that Asteria died millennia ago, it turns out that like Wonder Woman, she’s been living in man’s world and using her special abilities to protect people. I remember trying and trying to figure it out, and then just getting chills when we figured it out. And so I loved it for both of those reasons, that we could tease it throughout the film, and then reveal that that’s who we’re talking about. She is the great hero that came before us, that has inspired us to be the people we are today. The Golden Warrior really symbolizes what Lynda symbolizes to us. Here’s what Patty Jenkins had to say about Asteria’s importance in the Expanding The Wonder featurette: As such, her sisters held the Amazon Games to honor her memory, as well as built a statue of her in the Amazonian coliseum. It worked out for the best anyway, as Carter said back in late 2016 that her schedule conflicted with when Wonder Woman was shooting.Ĭasting Lynda Carter as Asteria for Wonder Woman 1984 certainly checked the ‘special’ box, as Diana Prince told Steve Trevor about how Asteria donned the golden armor to hold back the tides of man as the Amazons could safely flee to Themyscira.
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There’s no question that many moviegoers would have easily spotted Carter, but ultimately Geoff Johns, director Patty Jenkins and the rest of the creative minds behind the 2017 movie decided that she deserved a more important role. So there’s a version of the Wonder Woman story where Diana of Themyscira would have crossed paths with a cameoing Lynda Carter at Selfridges, the department store where Etta Candy helped Diana find some clothes to help her better blend in with man’s world during World War I.
And so she became this mythic Golden Warrior. It needed to feel like if she’s gonna play somebody, she’s gotta play somebody special.
We originally talked in the first film, ‘She’ll pass her in Selfridges.’ And it didn’t feel special enough. During the section chronicling Lynda Carter’s cameo, co-writer Geoff Johns said the following about the actress: Wonder Woman 1984 is now out on home media, and among the bonus features that accompany the movie is a featurette called The Making of Wonder Woman 1984: Expanding The Wonder.
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