Revealing mistake: Diana saves the kids, with the kids being dummies so obvious to spot it's not even funny. (01:25:40)
Continuity mistake: Wonder Woman loses the grip on her lasso of truth when she Tarzans her way towards the kids, but the moment she turtles up in front of the incoming escort vehicles the lasso is there on her belt. (01:25:40)
Other mistake: Barbara is on the phone with Diana (which per se is already a feat, an international call from a public phone in 1984) and tells her what she discovered. It's broad daylight for both of them and meanwhile the TV announces that Max came into possession of half of the world's oil reserves, which were in Arabia. Let's assume he had someone from his escort party wish him there, but then again, if he could just teleport, he wouldn't take planes and helicopters as he keeps doing throughout the movie. And the news say that a "instability resulted in a nationwide run on gas." Already? It barely just happened now. Timing seems all over the place. (01:27:10)
Character mistake: When Barbara gives the hilarious back story of the wishing stone, she mentions that "Romulus, the last emperor of Rome, he had it on him when he was assassinated in 476." That's an amazing historical find in itself, because Romulus Augustulus (just "Romulus" is not really correct) was never assassinated; he had to abdicate the title in that year, but then lived the rest of his life in exile. It's worth noting that the novelization of the movie talks about Romulus, Rome's FIRST ruler, and his 'mysterious disappearance'. (01:27:45)
Character mistake: Barbara mentions that Kush went extinct in 4 AD. Maybe the fourth century? In 4 AD the civilization was still alive and well, and the collapse happened around the 4th century. (01:27:45)
Suggested correction: Barbara didn't say it went extinct in 4 AD. She says the stone appeared in Kush in 4 AD.
Factual error: Diana tells Steve to sum up Barbara's report that the stone appeared in places that all have something in common; "Their civilization collapsed catastrophically, without a trace as to why." That's just ridiculous; one could even argue it could apply to the Maya, who did suffer a sharp decline historians have not reached consensus on, or the Kingdom of Kush's, due to not a great abundance of historical sources, but Carthage? And the Roman Empire had been in a crisis for centuries and it is far from being some mystical overnight disappearance. (01:27:50)
Suggested correction: She never says this sentence. She just said the stone was there, not that it caused unexplained collapses of civilizations.
Never? "The stone has traveled the world to seemingly random and different places, but they all have something in common; their civilization collapsed catastrophically, without a trace as to why." She says that sentence as I quoted it. If that's not a clear implication (together with what happens in this movie when in less than a week the whole world is on the brink of destruction) that it is the stone that caused it, I don't know what it is.
She doesn't say it in the version of the movie I have. Not at that timestamp anyway.
She says it to Steve when she hangs up, my timestamp is about half a minute off since I pointed the beginning of the conversation about civilizations collapsing, I apologize if it caused an inconvenience.
Oh wait, now I know what you mean. She is just jumping to conclusions there. She means that the real reason was the stone, not what history tells them.
Deliberate mistake: When Diana and Steve visit the Mayan guru hideout, they find an issue of Pro Wrestling Illustrated with Jerry Lawler on the cover. It's the August 1984 issue though, that couldn't be there since it's still early July. The prop department knew what they were doing there though; if you look at the cover, you can see they modified it and it actually says July 1984. (01:29:40)
Other mistake: The clocks inside the Oval office and the one you can see behind Carl as he is giving Diana the boring tour point at different times despite the two scenes happening simultaneously. (01:43:45)
Other mistake: It is a comic book world and all that, but the plot device used here references the real world "particle beam technology" from the Strategic Defense Initiative "Star Wars" program. If the US had, in 1984 even, the capacity to generate enough particles and use them that way, it's hardly possible that the rest of the DCU could have evolved to be like our normal world as shown in the following movies; the quantity of energy alone to irradiate the whole planet at once is enormous. This technology also makes computers receive a TV signal, evidently, since we see normal desk computers and monitors broadcast his speech. Let's not forget that this apparatus was built, in a working state and ready to be used even before any crazy magic was involved. (01:46:00)
Revealing mistake: Maxwell is surrounded by the Secret Service, but these trained specialists look around idly and confused when he gets lasso'd and turns towards Diana telling her "Well, aren't you resourceful", as if they wouldn't see the cartoon rope. The guy on the left even appears to be fumbling with his communicator or belt weapon. (01:47:00)
Continuity mistake: When Diana backhands the bullet into a vase of the White House, she stops Max, but he is in a completely different pose in each of the two shots. (01:48:35)
Continuity mistake: When Barbara reveals herself at the White House and walks towards WW telling her "I can't let you do this, Diana", her left hand is closed or with the fingers straight out. Similarly, Pedro Pascal's tie pokes out at different levels in the various shots. (01:48:50)
Continuity mistake: When Wonder Woman and Steve are knocked back in the corridor by Cheetah, the man lying down by the tray has his arm closer or further away from the tray depending on the shot. (01:48:50)
Continuity mistake: After the first clash with Cheetah in the corridor of the White House, Diana and Steve ignore her momentarily and try to apprehend Maxwell. Diana cuts his path, but Cheetah promptly jumps her and superman-punches her into the hall. You can see in the same shot Maxwell falling face down, and Steve's hand popping in frame. Diana is on the ground, Cheetah poses all stoic, but in the following part of the scene Steve is once more 'just' arriving and Pedro Pascal is face up. (01:49:25)
Revealing mistake: When Cheetah is under fire from the security of the White House and runs towards the camera to grab a column and swing around it like a pole, she is not Kristen Wiig - appears to be a purely CGI shot. (01:50:25)
Continuity mistake: When Diana is pushed into the hall by Cheetah, she has a bleeding fresh wound with a couple or streams of blood. When she is on the ground after Cheetah hurls a guard at her, the blood has dried up. (01:50:25)
Revealing mistake: An enraged Cheetah almost literally mops the White House floor with Diana flailing her around with the lasso. Wonder Woman is sent back first into a pillar, which disintegrates from the impact. Very good, but not so good is the other piece of pillar that comes down and bounces like rubber by her. (01:51:45)
Continuity mistake: When Barbara tosses Diana against the painting, the painting stays in position; she manages to put Wonder Woman with the back to the wall and as they struggle you can see that the painting, now crooked to one side as shown briefly during Cheetah's leap, is hanging from a higher spot than before. (01:51:45)
Continuity mistake: Once Barbara frees Maxwell from the handcuffs, she looks at him and says "Go." By Wonder Woman and the chair in the background there's a woman holding some papers, and she was not in the action phase before. (01:52:10)
Continuity mistake: During the riots, Diana and Steve say goodbye to each other. She holds his face (imaginary one as it is) between her palms; he mentions "This crazy new world" and Gal Gadot's thumbs are on his cheeks, but immediately behind his ears in the reverse shot. (01:57:10)
Suggested correction: Not a mistake in the movie for Barbara to give inaccurate information on history, since she is rushing through all of it without fact checking everything. He focus is the stone, not what happened to Romulus.
lionhead
I don't see what's wrong with saying it's a character mistake, really. By that logic, any bit of historical context provided in a movie could be incorrectly stated as long as it comes from someone who is in a rush. I find more interesting to report when something said in a movie for a serious purpose is wrong and not challenged.
Sammo ★
She's not an educated historian, OK for her to be mistaken. If she however says wrongful things about something she is supposed to be an expert in, that's a character mistake.
lionhead
It's not OK for her to be mistaken because when you specifically research for something (she has super-fast reading powers now and her task was to do some complex history research, it was not a random mistake playing Trivial Pursuit) there's no way to get that piece of information wrong; she is tracing the path the stone took, the fate of its last known owner is important. That being said, I don't particularly care about her status as expert (which she is, having done a specific research as said); dramatically speaking it's the bit of historical context the movie provides, it should not have mistakes in it when they do not have a payoff.
Sammo ★
I agree with Sammo. It's a character mistake.
raywest ★