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(ideas) Wonder Woman: Ambassador
Recently, srs has been posting a few thoughts on the Wonder Woman TV Series. Which reminded me that I've been meaning to post some of the fanfic outlines I've been working on. Let's start with Wonder Woman: Ambassador(The file says it was last updated in August, which feels wrong) , which would be the fanfic version of a Joss Whedon movie.
No, seriously. Here's the cast;
The only A-list actor in there is Rosario Dawson, and she's a secondary character. Though since Joss likes recycling, he'd probably just cast Gina Torres.
Anyway, Hippolyta (Marina Sirtis) is the Theymiscran ambassador to the UN. Embassy full of women, Diana is officially an "aide". Strong warrior, but insecure in the Patriarch's World.
Anyway, she's riding in an SUV with her mom after a UN session, and they have a bonding talk, and Di gets out of the SUV, walks a few feet away, and it explodes with her mum in. She turns with a cry, and as the Amazon bodyguards try to keep her away from the flames, scanning for assassins, the credits start.
//after title, Di punishing a punching bag in the PI embassy gym,
imagining it's the man who attacked her mother. Mala walks in, and,
without a word, grasps the bag. Bonding moment. Backstory about how Hippolyta used to be Wonder Woman, back in WW2. Joke about how great she looks.
///"I want to know."
"Who tried to kill her?"
"Yes."
Etta: "Good question."
FBI SSA Etta Candy(Patricia Belcher, basically playing the same woman she does in Bones) introduces herself and agent Thomas Tresser, and says she'll be in charge of the investigation.
//H is stable, but critical, beyond reach of modern medical science, Doctor Athena Snow(who is a woman) gently suggests the ray to a despairing Di.
//Scene where Tresser calls his friend in DC for help. It's the voice of David Boreanaz, implied to be Seeley Booth from Bones, and we can hear Brennan fangirling wildly in the background. "She's in a coma!" "Can I talk to her daughter?"
//Since this is a pseudo-Whedon story, Di will be Ambiguously Bisexual. For example, one of the people guarding her mother is a childhood friend of Di. The dialogue could be interpreted as the guard(Gina Torres, BTW) talking about things used to be less complicated when they were younger, or when they were dating. Comforting hugs, etc. The doctor, has an odd amount of concern for Di's well-being. Heck, I want wall-to-wall women. There'd be an injoke when Trevor pokes his head in to find Di, and she's talking with GinaGuard. After he leaves with Di, he says "I don't like her." That reference (Firefly, Out of Gas) isn't a Whedon-thing; that's just me.
//Di opens the secured cupboard where the Wonder Woman outfit is being kept. Looks at it, contemplatively, and removes the Lasso of Truth. Character exposition with Tresser or one of the Amazons about how Di doesn't quite feel she can live up to her mother's legacy. This establishes vulnerability, and is a typically Whedon thing to do.
//While waiting outside someplace on a stakeout, Di and Tresser discuss the Healing Ray, and Di mentions it's purple. Tresser is amused, and Di blushes.
//After all the leads come to dead ends, often literally, Di retreats to the embassy. After some conversation with the doctor and a few friends in her mother's room, the ray arrives. Di takes a call from Tresser on her cell phone and steps outside, and he tells her they found red hair on one of the murder victims. Di remembers Doc Snow has red hair, and enters the room, only to be shot by Doc in chest with silenced gun, like in that Dark Knight scene in Dent's hospital room. Snow drops clip and reloads.
//The doctor exposits at Di how hard it was to make a bomb that wounds instead of killing.
As Di is lying on the floor trying to get her breath, she realizes her friends in the room have all been shot as well, including her "childhood friend" from earlier. ("JOSSS!") "Don't worry, Legs, I didn't hurt your mommy." Snow takes ray and leaves.
As Di struggles to stand, she updates Tresser (having accidentally put it on the speakerphone earlier) and rips off her blouse, Superman style. The bullet is embedded in the golden W of the Wonder Woman costume, and the theme starts up.
Di puts on Bluetooth, after a running gag about her not being able to run certain bits of Patriarch tech.
S is on headset phone as she approaches the metal detector. Makes "one second" gesture and shoots both guards. Walks outside, out of embassy, into waiting car. "To the heliport, Jehus." Her real personality veers between "professional mercenary" and "joker" (but not The Joker) often. Kinda like Baroness from the GI Joe live-action movie. Her real name is Dr. Barbera Minerva. (The future Cheetah.) Athena=Minerva, and her symbol is owls. Such as snowy owls. "Snow" liked the symmetry.
Once she's safely in the car, she switches to Kryptonite bullets,which are portrayed as glowing green, in her dual pistoles. And buckles up. Chase sequence ensues. Di is in an embassy car, keeps putting herself in the line of fire to protect civillians, does cool stuff with her lasso, and at some point realizes her bracers are bulletproof.
//Di jumps to M's car, and after some fighting, M rips Di's earpiece out/phone away, so they can both hear Tresser saying "Get down!" just before his SUV hits them. Di is shell-shocked, and when she wakes up, Minerva is dragging her up by the hair. Di clutches at it, still stunned. Then she realizes M is yelling at the also-stunned Tresser to drop the guns he's pointing at M.
//The woman gently rotated her pistols in Diana's ears, like they were Q-tips. "I don't know how you survived earlier, but I don't think your boyfriend over there wants to find out if your ears are bulletproof."
//"Do it," Diana grunted.
"What's that?" The doctor bent over. "You want me to kill you? No, nonono, that would leave me without a hostage."
"Do it," Diana said, stronger this time, and the assassin realized that the raven-haired woman was looking at the agent--
Tresser fired both guns. Due to differences in their caliber, they arrived at Diana's bracelets slightly behind one another, both ricocheting into the assassin's pistols and sending them flying into the air.
//Di takes down killer as sirens approach, then rushes to the embassy with the Ray, in defiance of the chain of evidence. "Go on," says Tresser. "Maybe I can distract them with these--are these Kryptonite bullets. And besides, I believe you have diplomatic immunity." Sometime later, Hippolyta wakes up, the Wonder Women hug, and H asks what happened while she was asleep. Medium shot pan away from them, fade to black.
//The stinger is Minerva in the back of a police van as it stops, and she hears a commotion outside. The door is opened, a shadow falls on her, and she smiles. I have no idea who the actual guy who hired her to steal the ray is, mind you. It just needs a JLA tie-in.
"Grr. Argh."
Combat: Srs made some interesting points back in July, which caused me to find a few Youtube videos. A lot of geeks (read:me) know that the reason Di got a lasso in the first place was probably because her creator was interested in bondage. (Ironically, she wears less by way of pants today than she did when she was created.) As a nod to that, she sees use of her Lasso offensively as "punishing" criminals. Rope fighting isn't something you see in movies much, so if you have a decent choreographer, you end up with the next Muay Thai. Cue every producer in Hollywood trying to figure out an excuse to put rope-fighting in their movies, just like every post-Bourne movie tried to be gritty and realistic and stab people with pens. It is established that Di is (at the time) vulnerable to bullets. Maybe she powers up in/by a later movie.
Also, Minerva's K-Bullets? She fires with them during the chase, and they clearly do a lot more damage than normal bullets. Di reports this to Tresser, and he asks if the bullets are green. When Di says yes, he swears and says they're probably kryptonite. Advises caution.
Characters: Whedon-esque, so lots and lots of banter and Buffy-speak. "-Your whippy-thing," says Tresser. "It's a lasso!" retorts Diana.
Relationships and Sexuality: Diana's lived on an island full of women all her life, so she's barely had any contact with men, much less friendships, much less relationships. I prefer to have her and Tresser become friends with the possibility of something more, rather than have her fall swooning into his arms.
Politics: Mention "Kasnia" at some point. Di has to do all her mom's paperwork and parties as well(hilarity ensues), and some of the suspects for the bombing include political enemies.
Minority representation: The title character is Greek-ish, most of the main cast are women. Nonetheless, someone would still complain about the lack of Asians in a Mediterranean embassy. (See also: Firefly and how there ain't no featured Asians in a strongly Asian-influenced 'Verse, and how Joss Can Never Be Allowed to Live it Down Ever.)
Costume: Good luck! But seriously, she's still wearing her pants and normal shoes throughout the chase sequence, so we don't get to see what happens.
No, seriously. Here's the cast;
Starring Bridget Regan
Alan Tudyk
Charisma Carpenter
Rosario Dawson
Emily Blunt
and Marina Sirtis
Directed by Joss Whedon
The only A-list actor in there is Rosario Dawson, and she's a secondary character. Though since Joss likes recycling, he'd probably just cast Gina Torres.
Anyway, Hippolyta (Marina Sirtis) is the Theymiscran ambassador to the UN. Embassy full of women, Diana is officially an "aide". Strong warrior, but insecure in the Patriarch's World.
Why?Joss Whedon.
Anyway, she's riding in an SUV with her mom after a UN session, and they have a bonding talk, and Di gets out of the SUV, walks a few feet away, and it explodes with her mum in. She turns with a cry, and as the Amazon bodyguards try to keep her away from the flames, scanning for assassins, the credits start.
//after title, Di punishing a punching bag in the PI embassy gym,
imagining it's the man who attacked her mother. Mala walks in, and,
without a word, grasps the bag. Bonding moment. Backstory about how Hippolyta used to be Wonder Woman, back in WW2. Joke about how great she looks.
///"I want to know."
"Who tried to kill her?"
"Yes."
Etta: "Good question."
FBI SSA Etta Candy(Patricia Belcher, basically playing the same woman she does in Bones) introduces herself and agent Thomas Tresser, and says she'll be in charge of the investigation.
//H is stable, but critical, beyond reach of modern medical science, Doctor Athena Snow(who is a woman) gently suggests the ray to a despairing Di.
//Scene where Tresser calls his friend in DC for help. It's the voice of David Boreanaz, implied to be Seeley Booth from Bones, and we can hear Brennan fangirling wildly in the background. "She's in a coma!" "Can I talk to her daughter?"
//Since this is a pseudo-Whedon story, Di will be Ambiguously Bisexual. For example, one of the people guarding her mother is a childhood friend of Di. The dialogue could be interpreted as the guard(Gina Torres, BTW) talking about things used to be less complicated when they were younger, or when they were dating. Comforting hugs, etc. The doctor, has an odd amount of concern for Di's well-being. Heck, I want wall-to-wall women. There'd be an injoke when Trevor pokes his head in to find Di, and she's talking with GinaGuard. After he leaves with Di, he says "I don't like her." That reference (Firefly, Out of Gas) isn't a Whedon-thing; that's just me.
//Di opens the secured cupboard where the Wonder Woman outfit is being kept. Looks at it, contemplatively, and removes the Lasso of Truth. Character exposition with Tresser or one of the Amazons about how Di doesn't quite feel she can live up to her mother's legacy. This establishes vulnerability, and is a typically Whedon thing to do.
//While waiting outside someplace on a stakeout, Di and Tresser discuss the Healing Ray, and Di mentions it's purple. Tresser is amused, and Di blushes.
//After all the leads come to dead ends, often literally, Di retreats to the embassy. After some conversation with the doctor and a few friends in her mother's room, the ray arrives. Di takes a call from Tresser on her cell phone and steps outside, and he tells her they found red hair on one of the murder victims. Di remembers Doc Snow has red hair, and enters the room, only to be shot by Doc in chest with silenced gun, like in that Dark Knight scene in Dent's hospital room. Snow drops clip and reloads.
//The doctor exposits at Di how hard it was to make a bomb that wounds instead of killing.
As Di is lying on the floor trying to get her breath, she realizes her friends in the room have all been shot as well, including her "childhood friend" from earlier. ("JOSSS!") "Don't worry, Legs, I didn't hurt your mommy." Snow takes ray and leaves.
As Di struggles to stand, she updates Tresser (having accidentally put it on the speakerphone earlier) and rips off her blouse, Superman style. The bullet is embedded in the golden W of the Wonder Woman costume, and the theme starts up.
You're writing a story, remember?You know what I mean.
Di puts on Bluetooth, after a running gag about her not being able to run certain bits of Patriarch tech.
S is on headset phone as she approaches the metal detector. Makes "one second" gesture and shoots both guards. Walks outside, out of embassy, into waiting car. "To the heliport, Jehus." Her real personality veers between "professional mercenary" and "joker" (but not The Joker) often. Kinda like Baroness from the GI Joe live-action movie. Her real name is Dr. Barbera Minerva. (The future Cheetah.) Athena=Minerva, and her symbol is owls. Such as snowy owls. "Snow" liked the symmetry.
Once she's safely in the car, she switches to Kryptonite bullets,which are portrayed as glowing green, in her dual pistoles. And buckles up. Chase sequence ensues. Di is in an embassy car, keeps putting herself in the line of fire to protect civillians, does cool stuff with her lasso, and at some point realizes her bracers are bulletproof.
//Di jumps to M's car, and after some fighting, M rips Di's earpiece out/phone away, so they can both hear Tresser saying "Get down!" just before his SUV hits them. Di is shell-shocked, and when she wakes up, Minerva is dragging her up by the hair. Di clutches at it, still stunned. Then she realizes M is yelling at the also-stunned Tresser to drop the guns he's pointing at M.
//The woman gently rotated her pistols in Diana's ears, like they were Q-tips. "I don't know how you survived earlier, but I don't think your boyfriend over there wants to find out if your ears are bulletproof."
//"Do it," Diana grunted.
"What's that?" The doctor bent over. "You want me to kill you? No, nonono, that would leave me without a hostage."
"Do it," Diana said, stronger this time, and the assassin realized that the raven-haired woman was looking at the agent--
Tresser fired both guns. Due to differences in their caliber, they arrived at Diana's bracelets slightly behind one another, both ricocheting into the assassin's pistols and sending them flying into the air.
//Di takes down killer as sirens approach, then rushes to the embassy with the Ray, in defiance of the chain of evidence. "Go on," says Tresser. "Maybe I can distract them with these--are these Kryptonite bullets. And besides, I believe you have diplomatic immunity." Sometime later, Hippolyta wakes up, the Wonder Women hug, and H asks what happened while she was asleep. Medium shot pan away from them, fade to black.
//The stinger is Minerva in the back of a police van as it stops, and she hears a commotion outside. The door is opened, a shadow falls on her, and she smiles. I have no idea who the actual guy who hired her to steal the ray is, mind you. It just needs a JLA tie-in.
"Grr. Argh."
Combat: Srs made some interesting points back in July, which caused me to find a few Youtube videos. A lot of geeks (read:me) know that the reason Di got a lasso in the first place was probably because her creator was interested in bondage. (Ironically, she wears less by way of pants today than she did when she was created.) As a nod to that, she sees use of her Lasso offensively as "punishing" criminals. Rope fighting isn't something you see in movies much, so if you have a decent choreographer, you end up with the next Muay Thai. Cue every producer in Hollywood trying to figure out an excuse to put rope-fighting in their movies, just like every post-Bourne movie tried to be gritty and realistic and stab people with pens. It is established that Di is (at the time) vulnerable to bullets. Maybe she powers up in/by a later movie.
Also, Minerva's K-Bullets? She fires with them during the chase, and they clearly do a lot more damage than normal bullets. Di reports this to Tresser, and he asks if the bullets are green. When Di says yes, he swears and says they're probably kryptonite. Advises caution.
Characters: Whedon-esque, so lots and lots of banter and Buffy-speak. "-Your whippy-thing," says Tresser. "It's a lasso!" retorts Diana.
Relationships and Sexuality: Diana's lived on an island full of women all her life, so she's barely had any contact with men, much less friendships, much less relationships. I prefer to have her and Tresser become friends with the possibility of something more, rather than have her fall swooning into his arms.
Politics: Mention "Kasnia" at some point. Di has to do all her mom's paperwork and parties as well(hilarity ensues), and some of the suspects for the bombing include political enemies.
Minority representation: The title character is Greek-ish, most of the main cast are women. Nonetheless, someone would still complain about the lack of Asians in a Mediterranean embassy. (See also: Firefly and how there ain't no featured Asians in a strongly Asian-influenced 'Verse, and how Joss Can Never Be Allowed to Live it Down Ever.)
Costume: Good luck! But seriously, she's still wearing her pants and normal shoes throughout the chase sequence, so we don't get to see what happens.