“Het is een wonder!” – Wonder Woman and her name

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You know, one giant missed opportunity in Wonder Woman is that they didn’t use the moment in Veld, after she destroyed the church tower, to establish her name. ‘Wonder’ means ‘miracle’ in Dutch/Flemish. ‘Het is een wonder!’ would be a perfectly natural thing for the people there to exclaim in that moment.

It could have stuck with her companions, and/or be written on the back of that photo taken in Veld – a little legacy of those people.

“They called you a miracle,” said Steve. “Miracle woman.”

“They said that I brought them a miracle,” she corrected lightly, and in the gloom he couldn’t tell if she were blushing, but she sounded like maybe she was a little. “When I think of it like that, Wonder Woman doesn’t sound quite so…  it feels kind of nice.”

Would have been a nice touch if her name got given to her, or at least inspired by, the people who caused her to come into her own

(and that maybe she later adopted/accepted it as name to remember them, too)