Wonder Woman Mistaken For Marvel Character By Newspaper

04/29/2017 11:34 am EDT

Wonder Woman is "the latest Marvel superhero adventure" according to the first page of the Calgary Sun's entertainment section.

Except that it isn't. For her entire 75-plus year history, Wonder Woman has been owned by DC Comics and has existed in the DC universe. The upcoming Wonder Woman movie will be a part of the DC Extended Universe, not the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

This likely seems obvious to fans familiar with the superhero landscape but may be less obvious to the casual, mainstream observer.

One reader felt obligated to respond to the error and sent a letter to the paper's editor reading, "I was excited to see an article on the upcoming movie Wonder Woman but was shocked to see such a big error, in large print, on the cover of the ENT section of Sunday's newspaper. Wonder Woman is a DC universe character, NOT a Marvel character. Thankfully, the article had it right but that's a pretty big oops, especially for diehard fans!"

The paper's response reads, "Sorry, we hire mere mortals for newspapering and sometimes they do human things, like screw up."

Mistakes happen, but this seems like a pretty significant gaff, especially since the body of the article had it correct and a simple Google search would have been all the fact-checking needed to get it right in the headline.

Wonder Woman currently has a 4.04 out of 5 ComicBook User Anticipation Rating, making it the ninth most anticipated upcoming comic book movie among ComicBook.com readers. Let us know how excited you are about Wonder Woman by giving it your own ComicBook User Anticipation Rating below.

Before she was Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), she was Diana, princess of the Amazons, trained to be an unconquerable warrior. Raised on a sheltered island paradise, Diana meets an American pilot (Chris Pine) who tells her about the massive conflict that's raging in the outside world. Convinced that she can stop the threat, Diana leaves her home for the first time. Fighting alongside men in a war to end all wars, she finally discovers her full powers and true destiny.

Wonder Woman is directed by Patty Jenkins, from a screenplay by Allan Heinberg & Geoff Johns, story by Heinberg & Zack Snyder and Jason Fuchs, and stars Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Connie Nielsen, Robin Wright, Danny Huston, Elena Anaya, Lucy Davis, Saïd Taghmaoui, Ewen Bremner and David Thewlis.

Wonder Woman opens in theaters June 2, 2017.

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