by Ran
Wonder Woman's twin sister Nubia.
Two women of African ancestry figure very prominently in Wonder Woman's history. One in particular, Nubia, is actually her sister -- her twin sister. Nubia made her debut in 1973 in issue #204 of DC Comics' Wonder Woman where she defeats WW in combat. She's also known by the title, The One True Wonder Woman.
The other, Philippus, trained a young WW to be an Amazonian warrior. Philippus made her comics debut in 1987 in issue #1 of the second volume of Wonder Woman. She's one of the original Amazons who rose from Captain of the Guard to General of the Amazon army and, eventually, Queen. Philippus also established a romantic relationship with WW's mother, Hippolyta.
There were very short glimpses of at least one dark-skinned woman in the origin trailer (see for yourself, below) for Wonder Woman, debuting this June, but it's not clear who she is. This could be Philippus as there's accompanying narration directing someone to train WW. And of course good trailers don't reveal much. But after the recent egregious casting of Aloha, Ghost in the Shell, Doctor Strange and Urban Myths you gotta wonder. So whether Nubia, Philipus or some unnamed, miscellaneous dark-skinned Amazon appears in the movie remains to be seen.
Philippus - Amazonian general and Wonder Woman's combat instructor.
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The answer is yes. And the irony is that a Moroccan character in the movie complains that his dream of becoming an actor is hopeless because he's "not the right color". Meanwhile, the role of Wonder Woman's combat instructor and the Amazon general, Philippus, traditionally a Black woman (as you pointed out), is filled by a white woman in the movie. Smh #hollywoodstillsowhite
ReplyDeleteabove, you can see a symptom of our modern civilization: the pseudo "progressive" SJW. If this idiot had seen the film, would be Artemis to replace the role of Philippus and that she is black in the film (why? I don't know).
ReplyDeleteSeeing that the article was published more than a month before the movie was released I'm guessing that he hadn't seen the film yet...so the idiot seems to be you.
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