The Golden Eagle Armor of Asteria is a powerful Amazon artifact in Wonder Woman 1984, but what is its origin in the original Wonder Woman comics?
Warning: SPOILERS for Wonder Woman 1984.
The Golden Eagle Armor worn by Diana as she flies into a battle with the fate of the world in her hands is one of the visual highlights of Wonder Woman 1984. Yet the history behind this legendary costume in the comics is quite different from the story Diana tells Steve Trevor when she shows him the ancient Amazian artifact.
Despite growing up in a warrior culture, Wonder Woman rarely wears heavy armor when she fights. This is largely because the culture of the Amazons in DC Comics encourages violence only as a last resort, and putting on weapons can be interpreted as a fight. The Amazon way of fighting also depends on the freedom of movement and the use of the power of an enemy against it – two things that are usually harder to do when wearing heavier armor.
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As such, the Golden Eagle Armor serves as a visual sign for the readers of Wonder Woman cartoons. The armor tells without words that Diana is on her way to a battle that will truly test her abilities, and that she feels the need for extra protection. To know how powerful Wonder Woman is thanks to her nature as an Amazon and her divine heritage, every battle in which she feels the need for heavy armor must be a big deal – which is certainly the case if she is Maxwell Lord and the Cheetah to meet. in Wonder Woman 1984see climax.
Golden Eagle Armor Explained
The Golden Eagle Armor is revealed at the end of Wonder Woman 1984The second hour, when Diana and Steve Trevor return to her apartment to plan their next move after learning about the power behind the Dreamstone and how Maxwell Lord used it in some way to give himself the power to give to others to meet people’s wishes. When Diana examines a series of screens she has set up in one room of her apartment to monitor Washington DC, Steve sees a large bundle in the corner of the room and asks Diana what it is. She explained that it was an ancient artifact of her people; an armor once worn by their greatest warrior, Asteria.
According to legend, the Amazon queen Hippolyta freed her people from slavery at the same time that Ares began to kill the other Olympians, prompting Zeus to use the last of his power to banish Ares to the human world and the island of Themyscira as create a refuge. for the Amazons. It still had to fight the Amazons through the armies of man to reach Themyscira. One Amazon warrior, Asteria, voluntarily stayed behind and single-handedly fought the armies of Man, buying time for the rest of her sisters to escape to the paradise that Zeus had made for them. To help her in this, the other Amazons gave up their own armor so that the Amazon blacksmiths could forge the metal into a special armor – one strong enough for one warrior to wear it and ‘adopts the whole world.“
As incredible as this legend was, it was presented as a factual version by a vision Diana shared with Steve through the Lasso of Truth. Diana also revealed that she searched Man’s World for some sign of Asteria after Steve’s death. The only trace of Asteria that Diana found was the Golden Eagle Armor, without any indication of what happened to the legendary warrior after her heroic final stance.
Wonder Woman 1984’s Asteria: Where is she?
The fate of Asteria was revealed in the post-credit scene of Wonder Woman 1984, where a brunette woman with one hand caught a falling pole without breaking her stride as she walked through a busy market. Stopped by an unbelieving mother, whose baby carriage was almost crushed by the pole, the woman reveals her name as Asteria and that she ‘do it long.“Asteria was played by Lynda Carter, who was the first live action Wonder Woman on television, and it was a cute Easter egg for the fans. Yet it was also an indication that Asteria was still alive and not inactive during the thousands years since the Amazons hid, although there is no indication of where she is now in the modern DCEU and exactly in what role she may play Wonder Woman 3.
Wonder Woman’s Golden Eagle Armor In DC Comics
Originally designed by artist Alex Ross, the Golden Eagle Armor appeared for the first time in the 1996 mini-series Kingdom is coming. This is happening in the not-too-distant future of DC Comics’ post-crisis timeline, the events of Kingdom is coming was later moved to Earth-22, following the reform of DC Comics’ multiversity during 2005 Infinite crisis event. Wonder Woman puts on the Golden Eagle Armor Kingdom Come # 3 before you were about to end a riot that broke out in the supervillain prison known as The Gulag, which could possibly end in a battle that would destroy the earth.
The Golden Eagle Armor was used to explain a vision of the battle that Pastor Norman McKay experienced, which inherited the Sandman’s prior knowledge and became an unconscious host of the Specter. One of McKay’s visions shows a golden eagle fighting in the air with a black bat; an image that made little sense within the context of McKay’s other prophetic nightmares. However, the significance became clear when the battle began and Wonder Woman, dressed in the Golden Eagle Armor, found herself with Batman, who wore a mechanized suit that enabled him to fly and hit with an Amazon to trade.
The Golden Eagle Armor was formally launched in the modern DC Comics timeline in Wonder Woman # 144 in May 1999. The performance of this issue prompted Wonder Woman to fight a new villain named Devastation, created by Zeus’ father Cronus as a dark mirror of Diana. Faced with a warrior who was equal to her in all respects except that she had no sense of mercy, Diana had to put on the Golden Eagle Armor so that she had a defensive lead against the more aggressive devastation. Later stories revealed that the Golden Eagle Armor was forged by Pallas, a blacksmith from Amazon, and handed over to Diana as a gift. Although the Golden Eagle Armor was intended to be ceremonial in nature and worn only for special occasions, Amazon artisans are nothing, though not practical, and Pallas made the armor functional as well as aesthetically pleasing. This is completely different from the history of the Golden Eagle Armor offered in Wonder Woman 1984.
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