![]() Robin Wright is expected to return as General Antiope in Justice League. ![]() Jesus could walk on water, but could he serve face the way Antiope does when she’s killing men in her statement jewelry? If her scowl is the last face you see before you die, well, you’re welcome. It’s almost quaint! Pray tell, what will a gun do when Antiope is firing off arrows and glares? She runs up a shield, catapults into the air, twists around, and shoots soldiers three at a time. He mumbles an aside hoping the warriors have guns. When Steve Trevor crash-lands near Themyscira’s shores with the German Navy on his tail, Antiope launches into action. Genre stories like Wonder Woman need a mentor to guide our hero into maturity, and Wright’s more than up for the job she sneaks away with every scene she’s in. Antiope could look me in the eye and say, “I need loyalty, I expect loyalty,” and I would agree and declare that we were one nation, under Robin Wright, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. It’s nice that we get to fill in the blanks of her battle history ourselves. There’s a scar on her shoulder that we’re never told the story of. There’s all the strategy and steel of Claire Underwood, but Antiope wears her wounds with more pride. Cancel my dermatology appointment, hold my calls: Seeing Robin Wright go to war in Wonder Woman cleared my skin and paid my bills.Īs Antiope, Wonder Woman’s aunt and Themyscira’s greatest warrior, Wright hits her sweet spot. ![]() ![]() She’s majestic and elegant and entirely deserving of her own spinoff. House of Cards keeps her laser-focused and disconnected, but Patty Jenkins’s movie lets Wright build a character in more vivid hues. When did you realize that seeing Robin Wright barrel down a mystical beach, racing into a battle against a bunch of Germans, was exactly your purpose in this world? Wonder Woman’s first scenes deliver on a promise that feels predetermined: We needed - nay, deserved - to see Wright simultaneously shoot a trio of arrows into the chests of the pesky German soldiers who invaded her paradise of womanhood and statement cloaks. ![]()
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