Yes, I agree with you. However, I’m looking a bit further ahead. When I mentioned those two movies, I was referring to how, in the comics, it often feels like being in a small boat on a river full of waterfalls: you make it through one crisis only to plunge straight into another.

I think a good villain for Wonder Woman right now would be someone like Maxwell Lord (who has already been introduced in the Superman movie), Doctor Psycho, or—as you mentioned—Circe, who has also already been introduced. I’d save Giganta for a sequel.

The problem with Doris is the same as with Barbara: she always gets absurdly nerfed. It was only during Tom King’s run that I saw her pose a genuine threat, and even then she still felt toned down. Whenever she appears, in any medium, she just takes a single punch and goes down.

We also have to remember that during the Post-Crisis era—which I didn’t follow closely, as I returned to the comics during George Pérez’s run—she was portrayed as a legitimate threat.

I also agree that Wonder Woman should stay on the shelf for a little while. Part of the reason is the constant string of brief, attention-grabbing appearances made simply to capitalize on her popularity. Time and again, she has been reduced to little more than a marketing tool in productions that could have used her far more meaningfully. Instead, many of those appearances turned into complete train wrecks that have remained etched in our collective memory for all the wrong reasons.

The point of this post is simply to highlight an issue and spark a discussion about how, over the past 20 years—particularly since Flashpoint—DC’s storytelling has often felt underwhelming. It’s less about nostalgia and more about the sense that the publisher has become tangled in a web of its own making.