If Wonder Woman 3 was still being made, it would be the perfect time for Diana to return to Themyscira and be reunited with her people and her mother. Related: Wonder Woman's Snyder Cut Ending Secretly Teased Justice League 3 Fate The Snyder Cut set up Wonder Woman 3’s most emotional possible storyline of returning to Themyscira with this moment. The last shot of Diana in the four-hour epic is her mourning the loss of her sisters while staring at the sunset. Throughout the film, Steppenwolf taunts Diana about the massacre he inflicted upon the Amazons when retrieving the Mother Box, making the moment when she gets the final blow and beheads Steppenwolf all the more powerful. The biggest hint given to where Diana’s storyline may go in the future was given in Zack Snyder’s Justice League. Seeing as Diana was first introduced with this backstory and it plays heavily into her arc of returning to being Wonder Woman, this is a storyline that should not go unresolved.

If the film was still being made, it could have addressed this by having Diana finally confide in someone or show in a flashback why she walked away from mankind and what that entailed. The cancellation of Wonder Woman 3 prevents this storyline from having closure and clarity.

Narratively, this progression does not make sense, unless there was an event that occurred 100 years before the present day that audiences have not seen yet. Wonder Woman 1984 failed to follow up on this storyline as well, instead showing Diana helping out people in trouble, though she did it in secret and would destroy evidence that she was there. In Zack Snyder’s DCEU plan for Wonder Woman, Diana walked away from mankind 100 years before the events of Batman v Superman which Diana confirms to Bruce Wayne telling him that “men made a world where standing together is impossible.” Many audiences assumed the answer to why Diana walked away from humanity would be in Wonder Woman but instead, Diana is ultimately inspired by Steve Trevor to fight for humanity. Asteria’s story being intertwined with Diana’s also would have helped evolve another unresolved storyline. Perhaps, if Asteria was included in Wonder Woman 3, she could have acted as a mentor figure for Diana, helping her navigate the world of man and showing her that she also lived by the philosophy that while humanity may not deserve their help, it's about what they as heroes believe to be the right thing to do. This is something that a lot of audiences would want to see explored. Related: Wonder Woman 3: Lynda Carter Set To Return In DCEU SequelĬonfirming that Asteria was still alive and played by Lynda Carter, opened up the door to Asteria’s journey and a possible meeting with Gal Gadot’s Diana. While this reveal could have only been a cameo for the original Wonder Woman, that would be a wasted opportunity. In the Wonder Woman 1984 post-credits scene, Asteria appears in a marketplace and reveals she has been helping people for a long time. Throughout the second film, the story of Asteria is told, an Amazon who wore gold armor and fought off the armies of men single-handedly to let the rest of the Amazons escape to Themyscira. If Cheetah were to be put into a different film in the DCU, there wouldn’t be enough time to truly focus on her arc and her friendship turned enemies relationship with Diana.Īnother character whose story was set up in Wonder Woman 1984 and now will likely never be finished is Lynda Carter’s Asteria. Without a third film, it’s unlikely that Barbara will ever be addressed. Since Cheetah is arguably one of Wonder Woman’s biggest villains, what Wonder Woman 3 needed to do was close out this storyline properly. If Cheetah’s ending was included in Wonder Woman 3 along with the previous suggestion of Diana making friends, it would have served the plot even better showing the difference between toxicity and true loyalty. This means that Barbara is still alive and well, with Diana’s powers. Even when Maxwell Lord renounces his wish, which would automatically take away anyone’s wishes that he granted, it would not affect Barbara’s wish to become more like Diana as she made it before Maxwell wished to become the stone. While everyone is shown to do so, Barbara does not. At the end of the second film, Diana encourages the world to renounce their wishes for the greater good.

Cheetah’s plot in Wonder Woman 1984 started as a possible friendship but ultimately dived into a villain arc that as of yet is not resolved.

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