The Wonder Woman final credit scene in 1984 and the cameo on Amazon explained

After a long wait, superhero films were again widely released with Wonder Woman 1984 reaching international cinemas and HBO Max.

And the return of superhero movies can mean just one thing: the return of final credits scenes with Easter egg moments that may or may not make sense, depending on how much you know about that superhero franchise. So, let’s look at the one in the middle of the credit Wonder Woman 1984.

[Ed. note: This piece contains spoilers for Wonder Woman 1984.]

The brief scene brings back an ancient Amazonian warrior in more ways than one. We follow a figure in a blue cloak as she walks through an open-air market and prevents a heavy pole from falling on passersby by simply lifting her arm and catching it. She tells a grateful woman that her name is Asteria – the same as the heroic Amazon mentioned earlier in Wonder Woman 1984.

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The scene also reveals that Asteria is played by Lynda Carter, the last actress to play Wonder Woman in live action before Gal Gadot.

Carter is an actress and musician, but arguably the most famous for playing Diana Prince / Wonder Woman in 1975 Wonder Woman TV shows. It was the first live-action adaptation that the Amazon warrior saw – and there wouldn’t be another live-action show about a superhero until 2002 Birds of prey.

Asteria is a new role for Carter – and a new character for the DC scene. Well, to be fair, there are some Amazons called Asteria here and there in Wonder Woman’s 80-year history, but none of them are particularly notable. According Wonder Woman 1984, Asteria stood up against the whole world to give her sisters time to escape slavery, wearing a golden eagle armor made with all their armor together. Her sacrifice was that she would have to walk alone in the World of Man forever. Final credits from Wonder Woman 1984 show that it is still there, incorporating the ideals of the Amazon.

Secret Amazons ???

The idea of ​​even more women like Wonder Woman walking outside Themyscira is no stranger to the DC Universe – Paradise Island wouldn’t be so idyllic if it were a prison (although there is that nasty thing about not being able to go back if you leave).

In the comics of the 2000s, Lex Luthor had his own bodyguard from the Amazon heritage, based on the character Mercy Graves of Superman: the animated series. Centuries ago, in the medieval era of sword and witchcraft on Earth, the Amazon Exoristos was exiled from Themyscira and joined a heterogeneous crew of various barbarians and magic users for comics Demon Knights, one of the most underrated gems of DC Comics 2011 New 52 relaunch.

And then there’s Bana-Mighdall, an entire dissident Amazon tribe in the World of Man. When the gods granted the Amazons freedom from their slavery and the island of Themyscira, the Bana-Mighdalls raised their middle fingers – after all, the gods had allowed them to be enslaved in the first place. These deadly Amazons carried out bloody vengeance against all the men who chained them and, finally, founded a secret city in Egypt with the blessing of Egyptian goddesses.

For 3,000 years, they honed their mercenary culture, kidnapping local men to populate their breeding stables, until Wonder Woman rediscovered them and helped them reintegrate into Amazonian society on Themyscira. It doesn’t seem like Asteria is the type of person to join war-loving and cynical Bana-Mighdall, but who knows? Perhaps they will appear in a Wonder Woman 3.