Factual error: As Barbara Minerva is introduced together with her comical inability to walk properly on heels, she passes by "Henry" the elephant at the Smithsonian. But the elephant is on the newly designed infographic podium of our present day, inaugurated in 2015. In 1984 he'd have been on a simpler, differently designed stand. (00:20:10)
Continuity mistake: Minerva is on the floor picking up papers and trying to get her colleagues' attention. When they walk past her, she changes the hand she is using to pick the paper far away from her, and she has suddenly an extra paper standing conspicuously still vertically into the briefcase. (00:20:25)
Continuity mistake: Throughout the whole scene where she first interacts with Diana, Barbara's briefcase changes orientation in the closer shots on Kristen Wiig. For instance when she gets all giddy about the FBI involvement and asks "They're coming here?" the clasp on the suitcase is to the left (towards her hands), but then she replies "My help?" and the metal parts are exactly in the opposite direction. (00:21:00)
Continuity mistake: Gal Gadot just bumped into Kristen Wiig. She walks off and Natasha Rothwell (Carol) asks her if she knows her insignificant co-worker. When Wiig says "Remember you hired me? Started last week?" she has both hands clasped together at the briefcase in one shot, while in the reverse she's pointing at herself and only then her hands join supporting the case. (00:21:35)
Character mistake: Barbara is in her office looking for the one item they need help to identify when Diana walks in. She says "OK, item number 23." She suddenly finds it saying "here it is" and reaches in the box to grab the Dreamstone. The ticket says item #24. (00:22:18 - 00:22:50)
Continuity mistake: Diana approaches Minerva that is dealing with the antiques, in particular "The empress of Siam." The towel placed on top of the case changes position between shots. (00:22:20)
Continuity mistake: When Minerva finds the box with the stone and starts examining it with the magnifying glass, she is touching the side of the box with her left hand in a shot, but was not in the close-up. (00:22:45)
Continuity mistake: In the close-up when Diana silently looks at the stone and wind blows through her hair even indoors, she is holding the item with her hands positioned differently from before. (00:24:10)
Continuity mistake: Diana puts back in the box the citrine stone after silently using it. The tip of the prism is leaning against the corner, towards Barbara. Nobody touched the stone again, but when they decide to go out and laugh at the 'lame' stone, the crystal is perfectly at the center of the box and touching no edge. (00:24:25)
Continuity mistake: Diana after checking the stone out tells Barbara "If you need anything, I'm around." Barbara is writing on the clipboard, hand on top of the board, but in the reverse shot she is holding the board with it. (00:24:25)
Continuity mistake: Diana and Barbara are having their early dinner together; Diana says that she is not getting out socially, and you can see at the edge of the frame that there's food in her plate. With no implication of time passed (on the contrary, the conversation establishes a continuum), her plate simply vanishes after the cut. (00:25:40)
Continuity mistake: In a mistake endemic of dinner scenes and conversations in general, the hand position of Diana by the glass keeps changing between shot and reverse, multiple times. (00:25:50)
Continuity mistake: When Max gets in the Smithsonian and talks to Minerva he "does his thing", aka recites the line of his commercial and points a finger, opening then the hand. In an intermediate shot though he is still pointing instead of keeping the hand fully open. (00:32:10)
Factual error: As his secretary Raquel tried to tell him, Max has his kid with him because he gets to see him on weekends, and that's 'his weekend'. Good but...it is not the weekend. This is Wonder Woman 1984, and the robbery happened on July 1st, Sunday, and this scene happens two days after that. Maxwell's "weekend" is happening on a Tuesday. (00:36:25)
Continuity mistake: Maxwell Lord finds his son in the nearly empty top floor of his office. He hugs him while holding a large yellow envelope and other similarly sized ones, but at the cut the big envelopes are gone (he holds them in the other hand) and he is holding in his right hand just a few small ones. (00:36:25)
Continuity mistake: Maxwell Lord is confronted by an angry investor in his office while his son is with him. This guy, Simon, says it did not take much digging "to find that out." Pedro Pascal that was leaning against the map of the supposed oil wells turns towards him, but he is leaning again against the map in the next shot. (00:37:50)
Continuity mistake: When Diana picks up the receipt at the bottom of the artefact's box, the slip changes position between her hands between shots, and she is holding it with just the left hand in close-up, with both in the wider angle. (00:40:00)
Factual error: Diana decides to attend the party Lord invited her to. The music played as she makes her way through the various sleazeballs is "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" from Frankie Goes to Hollywood's eponymous album, which was released in 1984 yes, but just on October 29th, and almost a whole year later as a single. The movie takes places around 4th of July. (00:41:05)
Continuity mistake: Max approaches Dr. Minerva on the stairs at the party. When he tells her not to accept "the limitations of nature", look behind her at the people coming down the stairs; there's a very characteristic man with a moustache, tan sunglasses and greasy hair. Seconds pass, and when Minerva chuckles at Max's remarks, there's that same guy again descending that same flight of stairs. (00:42:50)
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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