Wonder Woman has since then been depicted in movies ... fairness and compassion becoming a symbol of empowerment for women and girls in much of the world. “Think of All the Wonder We Can Do ...

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Though Wonder Woman drifted from her feminist beginnings, she re-emerged as a symbol of female empowerment – even on lunch box sets like the above (from 1977). NMAH Wonder Woman goes to court.

But Wonder Woman is more than a timely symbol. “So often superhero victories are obvious,” Jenkins says in an interview with TIME. “There’s a bad guy. He’s going to kill people.

Wonder Woman is a truly enduring symbol, but it is still easy to forget that she is thousands of years older than either Superman or Batman, her counterparts in the DC Trinity of Heroes.