Grant Morrison Blasts Batman V Superman's Take on Wonder Woman

Gal Gadot's take on Wonder Woman isn't what the character's creator William Moulton Marston would have wanted "at all," according to comic book legend and Wonder Woman: Earth One writer Grant Morrison.

Talking with Nerdist, Morrison addressed his forthcoming Earth One hardcover, and said that part of his mission statement was to take the character back to authorial intent, leaving behind some of what she's become more recently:

I sat down and I thought, "I don't want to do this warrior woman thing." I can understand why they're doing it, I get all that, but that's not what [Wonder Woman creator] William Marston wanted, that's not what he wanted at all! His original concept for Wonder Woman was an answer to comics that he thought were filled with images of blood-curdling masculinity, and you see the latest shots of Gal Gadot in the costume, and it's all sword and shield and her snarling at the camera. Marston's Diana was a doctor, a healer, a scientist. So I went back to those roots and just built it up again.

What would a society of immortal women that's been around for 7,000 years have done? They wouldn't still be chopping men's head's off; they've got art and architecture and philosophy and poetry and it's got nothing to do with men. So Yanick Paquette did this amazing design job, where there are no phallic objects. The only phallic objects are like these Greek towers that are almost like this haunting echo of the culture they came from.

Wonder Woman's Invisible Plane is now shaped like a vagina, it's the most incredible thing. It opens up in the back and it has a little clitoris hood, everything is a female-based design. It's all based on shells and natural stuff. He's created this entire newly designed world for the Amazons. And for the first 48 pages, there are no men — it's just women talking to each other. And then halfway through the book, we're building up to this big fight, and then I thought, "No, I'm not." This book isn't about fights, there's not going to be any fights. So we threw out the rules of traditional boy's adventure fiction. It's the most exciting book I've done in years, it changed everything I'm thinking about the future.

Morrison recently made similar comments during his interview with ComicBook.com in support of his new, Humble Bundle-distributed series Avatarex. In addition to comments about a more aggressive Wonder Woman, the writer said more generally that he was "bored" of militaristic superheroes like we've seen in the Dark Knight and Avengers movies.