Continuity mistake: When the Amazonian contestants are lined up, there are 5 other Amazons to the side that are doing some warm up exercises. There are just three when Diana's mother is looking at the arena from her platform. In the same area those three disappear in the aerial shot of the stadium before the race starts, but are there by the 'ref' in the shot from the gong platform. Also, when the athletes sprint there are now a group of two and one of three. (00:02:30)
Continuity mistake: When Antiope is talking to her as she is getting ready for the contest, behind Young Diana there are a few warriors who walk their horses towards the large portal (that was closed initially and now is open). Their distance from Diana change incoherently between shots, and so do their numbers. Particularly noticeable as Diana gets ready to sprint before the gong; two girls watching and clapping become three talking amongst themselves. (00:03:00)
Other mistake: The contest begins with 9 Amazons, but there are only 6 horses on the beach. One could think then that maybe it's an elimination game and it's done on purpose to weed out the slowpokes who finished last the first part of the race. Then again...they race to pick up their bow and arrows from seven racks. (00:03:20)
Continuity mistake: The contest begins and Young Diana is racing with other 8 Amazons. Their first goal is to get to a platform by either climbing ropes or using some mechanical contraption. When you look at the shot when Diana lands on the platform though, it is her, 4 on the ropes and 2 others in the air catapulting themselves on top like she did. That is a total of 7 contestants out of 9, and seems rather unlikely that two of the elite amazon athletes could pull a muscle jogging across the yard, which seems the only reason why they wouldn't be anywhere near the contested spot. Somehow it's again 9 Amazons in the faraway shot of the poles, but only 6 in the shot from the base of the poles. (00:03:45)
Other mistake: To win the race, the 9 Amazons need to shoot color coded targets from a wheel that has 7 possible 'arrows'. That seems already rather impossible, since the colors are unique to the contestants. Moreover, Diana's color, blue, is consistently on top in the 12 o'clock position, but their rivals' insignia in yellow and red change position, adding an unfair advantage to the heroine, or to be precise, they are at 10 and 2 the first time, 4 and 7 the rest of the time. (00:05:55)
Continuity mistake: Diana falls from the horse holding her bow in the stunt shot from behind, but the bow is already on the floor in front of her in the next shot of the fall. (00:07:15)
Character mistake: Diana losing the race is presented by the movie as some sort of a judgement call from her aunt who tackles her as she is about to finish, to punish her for cheating taking a shortcut. "But I would have won!" she cries, and her aunt explains to her that it would have not been right. Simply put...No! That's not the case; the movie itself shows that Diana missed a checkpoint, which are recorded and represented visually in the main stadium by flags being unrolled each time one is reached. She did not take a shortcut, she went through the wrong path. (00:08:05)
Continuity mistake: When young whiny Diana is being consoled by her mum, Connie Nielsen has the thumb on the top of Diana's shoulder either through hair or free from it, depending on the shot. (00:10:30)
Factual error: In one of the first establishing shots featuring Max's voice saying "Welcome to the future", a girl with a very movie 80s attire jogs in the street and she passes by a billboard with a Budweiser ad with girls on a beach towel. But it's an ad released in 1987. (00:11:20)
Continuity mistake: A couple walks in front of the TVs in the store window during Max's speech. The guy has a cigarette packet in hand, but when Max's voice finishes the sentence with "but are you reaping the rewards?" he has already a cigarette in his mouth. (00:11:25)
Other mistake: In the end credits, two actors are credited as "Camaro driver" and "Camaro passenger." The sports car that appeared in the movie (without a mandatory front license plate) was however a Pontiac Firebird Trans Am. (00:11:35 - 02:26:00)
Other mistake: Wonder Woman is downtown in DC saving random people. She kicks a red sports car that was probably going to run over a hideously dressed jogger. She kicks it from the right side. The car spins towards the middle of the crossroads, and its hood faces the left turn of the crossroads. For a moment we see Wonder Woman go 'woosh' crossing the road in front of the car that is at a full stop in that position. It does not even begin to make sense, she is not coming from the same part of the road she was at. (00:11:45)
Factual error: Very nice of the production department to set a scene up inside the iconic "Commander Salamander" store. They could however remove the display rack from Paintglow, which sports the internet address of the company rather prominently. (00:12:00)
Factual error: In the brief showing of the arcade at the mall, not featured as prominently as other anachronistic arcades is the recognizable (it allowed 4 players at the same time) coin-op cabinet of Gauntlet, a game a released only in 1985. (00:12:45)
Factual error: The video games Operation Wolf and Rampage were visible in the Family Amusement Center arcade during the opening. However, this would not be possible during the movie's 1984 setting since Rampage wasn't released until 1986 and Operation Wolf wasn't released until 1987. (00:12:48)
Continuity mistake: The criminal is holding the kid hostage dangling her outside the platform. His partners in crime try to talk him down; the curly haired guy with the sage jacket is waving with one arm, then the other; the bag switches hands. (00:14:40)
Other mistake: Wonder Woman pushes the cute kid to safety onto a big FAO Schwarz plush. She then lassos the two baddies and springs to the opposite side of the mall hall to capture the last two, then turns to her left and exchanges knowing looks and complicit winks with that kid that is still sunken into the plush toy. They should be nowhere near close enough for her to do that. (00:16:00 - 00:16:40)
Continuity mistake: When Wonder woman dashes towards the last of the goons who were robbing the store at the mall, his buddy who is already on the floor has his hand on his belly in the first shot, behind his keister in the next. (00:16:30)
Revealing mistake: Wonder Woman tosses from the shopping mall building the four criminals neatly wrapped up in a banner. The guys smash in their fall the roof of a police car, and they softly bounce as if they landed on a mattress. (00:17:00)
Continuity mistake: The 4 guys packed up by Wonder Woman are according to the credits Buzz Cut, Bad Skin, Flat Top and Scowler. Buzz Cut is the leftmost one in their sandwich, but depending on the shot Bad Skin (the nervous one who caused all the mess) is facing him or away from him. (00:17:00)
Answer: When Barbara Minerva wished to be just like Diana, she was granted the same strength and powers as Wonder Woman. Barbara additionally became less humane and even more powerful and dangerous after morphing into "Cheetah." Diana needed the armor to outmatch and defeat Barbara. She was also expecting to fight a multitude of soldiers to get to Max. The armor was originally Asteria's, who needed the extra protection when she battled an army to save the other Amazons.
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