Does Wonder Woman Exist in the Arrowverse?

Does Wonder Woman exist in the shared DC Universe of Supergirl, The Flash, Arrow, and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow?

Well, it’s hard to say.

In the ad above, numerous women from the cast of Supergirl descend on the alien dive bar in National City, with Kara/Supergirl eventually revealing that she has boots borrowed from “a friend” — a replica of the pair Gal Gadot wears in the Wonder Woman movie.

There are literal winks at the camera from TV‘s most recoganizable Wonder Woman, Lynda Carter (who plays a Durlan shapeshifter who managed to get herself elected President of the United States on the series), and a knowing look from Kara herself (Melissa Benoist) as thematically-appropriate music rises in time to give way to Wonder Woman footage.

Looking at this alone, one would assume that it says nothing at all about whether there is a Wonder Woman in “the Arrowverse,” and one would likely be right. At a minimum, there is no point in time where Rhea (Teri Hatcher), President Marsdin, Supergirl, and the other characters assembled here would have been in the dive bar together. By the time Supergirl realized that the President was an alien, for instance, the final conflict with Rhea was in full swing and the idea of them being so chummy wouldn’t have worked.

What’s the most interesting thing is that this ad came on the heels of an episode of The Flash where there was an Easter egg featuring the name of Cheetah, one of Wonder Woman’s most notorious villains, and raised questions about whether there is a Wonder Woman at all in this universe.

In the post-Crisis on Infinite Earths, pre-Flashpoint DC Universe, Wonder Woman had been on Themyscira for years before finally joining man’s world after Batman, Superman, and other were already active as superheroes. She wasn’t one of the first crop, and some Silver Age stories even had to be rewritten to replace her with Black Canary, so there’s certainly an argument to be made that the lack of her being overtly referenced doesn’t mean much.

Batman, for instance, hasn’t been named, but his existence in-universe has been teased in dialogue several times on Supergirl, and Gotham City definitely exists, having been named specifically both in Supergirl and onscreen in text on DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (when the Waverider travels and scrolls through cities and years).

So does Diana exist on The CW?

There’s nothing to say either yes or no specifically, although we would argue that in a universe where Superman and Batman exists, so too must Wonder Woman — whether or not we see her.

Before she was Wonder Woman, she was Diana, princess of the Amazons, trained to be an unconquerable warrior. Raised on a sheltered island paradise, when an American pilot crashes on their shores and tells of a massive conflict raging in the outside world, Diana leaves her home, convinced she can stop the threat. Fighting alongside man in a war to end all wars, Diana will discover her full powers…and her true destiny.

Joining Gadot in the international cast are Chris Pine, Connie Nielsen, Robin Wright, David Thewlis, Danny Huston, Elena Anaya, Ewen Bremner and Saïd Taghmaoui. Patty Jenkins directs the film from a screenplay by Allan Heinberg and Geoff Johns, story by Zack Snyder and Allan Heinberg, based on characters from DC Entertainment. Wonder Woman was created by William Moulton Marston.

The film is produced by Charles Roven, Zack Snyder, Deborah Snyder and Richard Suckle, with Rebecca Roven, Stephen Jones, Wesley Coller and Geoff Johns serving as executive producers. Warner Bros. Pictures presents, in association with RatPac-Dune Entertainment, an Atlas Entertainment/Cruel and Unusual production, Wonder Woman.

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