How would you kill off Wonder Woman?

[Emerald Ghost]

Imagine you are the writer of the WW book, and editorial tells you to kill off Wonder Woman, but keep the book going.

You have free reign. What do you do?

[tangentman]

Diana faces a major enemy, or even an army, in an epic, LoTR-style showdown. Familiar faces are wounded or even die. Wonder Woman defeats the enemy in style and without betraying her principles. However, she also allows the world to believe that she died in battle. Final shot is an anonymous Diana living in plain-clothes among mortals, no longer the Amazon champion bound by her mission, but a woman free to pursue her life.

Thus, I've "killed" Wonder Woman ;)

[Emerald Ghost]

I like that. A lord of the rings style fight...man does that evoke images. WW can kick butt. :)

[Kid Kyoto]

Tragic leg-shaving accident.

[Sean Whitmore]

I'd have Neron zap her to death and then Hippolyta would take over.

The hell you mean, "it's been done"? :confused:

Okay then, second try:

As Diana has a pretty pathetic rouge's gallery, I'd call in the big guys: the Gods. Ares finds some ancient loophole that lets him interfere with the mortal world without restraint, and he basically plummets the earth into war. People kill each other over petty differences, such as taste in music and politics, thinking their anger is righteous the whole time.

The heroes of the DCU do what they can, but short of jailing everyone on the planet, there's not much they CAN do. Not to mention many of them are succumbing to the anger as well. Appealing to Olympus does nothing, since Ares is now sovereign of Tartarus, and thus can't be ordered about.

Diana realizes the only way to stop the world's ignorance is for them to see the truth: that they are being manipulated. Diana asks the Gods to amplify her powers a millionfold, so she can share her truth-seeing Eyes of Pallas with everyone on Earth for just an instant. They do so, and the sudden truth the population feels breaks Ares' spell. The effort is too much for Diana, however, and she grows weak and dies.

As Cassie is still too young and immature to be Wonder Woman, the mantle is passed to Donna Troy, who needs a good name and reason to exist anyway. The book will continue with Donna, new to the A List, with Cassie serving as sidekick in a much closer capacity.


SEAN

[kane]

Magical spell to destroy the braclets, sniper, bullet in her head.

[heretic]

Imagine you are the writer of the WW book, and editorial tells you to kill off Wonder Woman, but keep the book going.

You have free reign. What do you do?
I presume asking Editorial what in the sam hill they are smoking and/or ignoring them is not an option?

Some full-blown Gottamerdug storyline ending with Diana's Heroic Sacrifice and someone (A Healed/Sane Vanessa Kapetelis? Artemis? A Ressurected Hyppolita? Someone New?) taking up the mantle could hope to do the idea justice, but I would not have an identifiable body in any case.

Diana faces a major enemy, or even an army, in an epic, LoTR-style showdown. Familiar faces are wounded or even die. Wonder Woman defeats the enemy in style and without betraying her principles. However, she also allows the world to believe that she died in battle. Final shot is an anonymous Diana living in plain-clothes among mortals, no longer the Amazon champion bound by her mission, but a woman free to pursue her life.
Cute idea, but you have the Power=Responsibility thing atop the fact that she honestly beleives in this mission of hers making that unlikely.

I could see her going icogneto for a time, but sooner or later something will come up where she needs to throw a bit of muscle around.

HTG

[Bicycle-Repairman]

Wonder Woman sacrifices her life to defeat the villain behind "Infinite Crisis", only to be reborn in a revised DCU timeline where she was a founding member of the JLA, Hippolyta is still alive, Steve Trevor is in love with her, and Donna Troy has an origin that makes sense!

[grendel824]

Not exactly an answer to the qualified question above, but I'm working on a "Last Darkseid" story that starts with WW being killed in the first few pages (and she's the last of the "big three" to get offed). If I ever break in or get a reliable artist, maybe I'll show you someday... ;)

[Cayman]

Let Greg Rucka write her.

Cay

[The Joker]

Diana faces a major enemy, or even an army, in an epic, LoTR-style showdown. Familiar faces are wounded or even die. Wonder Woman defeats the enemy in style and without betraying her principles. However, she also allows the world to believe that she died in battle. Final shot is an anonymous Diana living in plain-clothes among mortals, no longer the Amazon champion bound by her mission, but a woman free to pursue her life.

Thus, I've "killed" Wonder Woman ;)

I like that.

As that idea doesnt really go with the "cliche" act of killing a major character, only to be brought back from the dead several months later (which you just know would happen). Wonder Woman's eventual return, would then bring forward some very interesting development for the character I think if going on this type of "death" scenario.

[davids]

That lois is a mean one!

[Emerald Ghost]

That lois is a mean one!

Yeah, I would feel bad for WW though. She really wouldn't have a chance.

[tangentman]

Cute idea, but you have the Power=Responsibility thing atop the fact that she honestly beleives in this mission of hers making that unlikely.

I could see her going icogneto for a time, but sooner or later something will come up where she needs to throw a bit of muscle around.

HTG

Ahh, but I can account for that "With Great Power" expectation! Diana is living among people and helping them without the costumed heroics! She'll work anonymously (humility is also part of WW's character) in the vein of the Alex Ross "Truth" special. If a situation arises that requires Diana's powers, she'll probably take the "Buffy" route and use her powers subtly if there are too many witnesses around.