For eighty years , Wonder Womanhas been   one of the   fiercest warriors inDC Comics . During that time , she has   proven that she is no unknown to give , with herdeath inDark Nights : Death Metalbeing one of the   adult outcome last year . Even so , as one of DC ’s Big Three superheroes , Diana Prince has not vanish from its macrocosm since her death . Reappearing in her ownWonder Womanseries afterDeath Metal , it appears that Diana is poised to make her reentrance back on Earth – this time with one belittled , but important modification .

InWonder Woman#777 , Diana was toss across her aspect by Janus using the God Scraper arm   ( written by Michael W. Conrad and Becky Cloonan , pencil by Emanuela Lupacchino , inks by Wade Von Grawbadger , colors by Jordie Bellaire , letters by Pat Brosseau ) . Since then , Diana has had a small scar on her   cheekbone from the wound . Despite being such a celebrated warrior , it is strange for Wonder Woman to sport a scar that is a testament to   the battles that she ’s fought .

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With her payoff to Earth bound to pass off at some point in the close futurity , bringing Wonder Woman back with her newfangled side scar would not only give her death the weight unit that it deserves , but also even out some of the ways that she has been depicted across her publication chronicle . Scars have long been used in superhero comics and beyond as a way to express and emphasize details of the journey that characters have gone on . WithBatman in particular   consume his own scarsincorporated as part of   his type design , it is time that Wonder Woman also have one of her own .

On another level , Diana ’s scar opens up new ways of understand the core stem that drive her character , continue hercurrent comics ’ geographic expedition of her identity . It is significant that she fix the mark from Janus , consider that   the popish god ’s evil half   murdered the gods on Olympus and represents the peril of a time to come with no esteem for the past . In many ways , some of Wonder Woman ’s best forcefulness rest in her ability to broker an agreement between the past tense and hereafter , and go along her cicatrix would be a stark admonisher of these qualities about her character .

Wonder Woman ’s current cartoon strip have take on a deep dive into the feeling of legacy and afterlife , examine how the sacrifices she ’s made as a warrior havealtered her path as a demigoddess . Diana ’s death inDark Nights : demise Metalhas pay her cartoon strip the opportunity to explore everything that makes her unique in the DC Universe . And while she may seem untouchable as opposed to a human , battle - hardened warrior like Batman , keeping her facial scar would be a knock-down admonisher of the sacrifices that Diana has made for the groovy good . Never before has a poor boy likeWonder Womangone on a pursuit to relieve the gods of Olympus like this before , and this journey should be memorialized through sustain her face cicatrix .

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Wonder Woman’s cheek scar from Janus in Wonder Woman #778.

Wonder Woman’s cheek scar from Janus, from Wonder Woman #777

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