What Went Wrong With Wonder Woman 1984? Why DC’s Failed Sequel Still Stings 3 Years Later

Wonder Woman 1984 had the difficult task of following up on one of the DCEU’s best movies, and the sequel’s failure to live up to its predecessor stings even more a few years after its release. Wonder Woman has been one of the “big three” in DC Comics for decades, but despite several Wonder Woman portrayals on the small screen, she never developed the storied cinematic history of her Justice League partners, Batman and Superman. Of course, that changed when Wonder Woman (2017) found financial and critical success, putting Gadot’s Amazonian warrior at the center of DC’s pop-culture relevance.