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They never let anything about Wonder Woman stay around and become "iconic." Even her setting. Superman has Metropolis, Batman has Gotham, Flash has Central City, Green Lantern has Coast City, Green Arrow has Star City, Hawkman has Midway City, Atom has Ivy Town. I could keep going, even with less popular characters. Sometimes they do stories where they try to set them up in a different city, like Seattle, or St. Roche, but there's a core concept that they can return to at least. What does Wonder Woman have? Themyscira isn't the equivalent to Metropolis, it's the equivalent to Krypton or Oa or Thanagar or Mars. They've done runs where they try to set her in Washington or London or all sorts of other places, but never built up her own setting.
And what are her supporting characters? Steve Trevor and Etta Candy are good ones, but they're ashamed to use them because Steve Trevor is a man who isn't completely useless, so it makes feminists mad, and Etta Candy is fat and funny, so that also makes feminists mad. Of course Steve being a warrior who tries to help Wonder Woman, even if he doesn't have powers, basically being a human counterpart to her, works great when Lois Lane does it for Superman, and makes both of them great love interests, but we can't let that happen because Wonder Woman gotta need no man! So they keep trying to do other shit with Trevor, like making him liaison to the Justice League just so he could watch Superman cuck him. And Etta Candy has to get made skinny and black and a badass super spy who is never allowed to be funny, because... uh fuck it. Just make it a 100% different character, and an utterly generic one at that. There are a few Themysciran secondary characters that are alright, but given that they don't have that relationship with both parts of Diana's identity, it's not really the same. Again, Hippolyta is much closer to Jor-El than she is to Pa Kent. And even Pa Kent isn't actually as important in terms of regular secondary characters as Perry White. Wonder Woman's closest equivalent is just a bunch of different government agents or whatever, who never become mainstay characters. But then it's hard for Wonder Woman to have characters who primarily interact with her "human side" because a lot of times they just don't give enough of a shit to even give Wonder Woman an alternate identity. And I know a lot of people will say that's good because it makes her more unique, but it does away with a lot of her classic portrayal, and only makes it more difficult to actually establish a consistent version of the character.
And villains? Come on. Hades and Ares are so lame as villains that they could turn them into good guys in New 52 and it was better than any of the stories where they were villains. But it's not even like they evolved into that, like when Luthor became a good guy around Rebirth, they just rebooted into good guys because everyone knows that they were never worth giving a shit about. Tigra is the closest Wonder Woman has to an actual nemesis, which is basically the equivalent of if Superman's arch nemesis was some low level guy like Metallo or Parasite. Baroness von Gunther is a good one, but has been underused. Maybe the movie will fix that, but I don't exactly have much hope for that movie. And even then, they had to pull some pretty ridiculous shit to continue having her relevant for so long when she's intrinsically tied with WWII, and they don't want to just 100% rip off Red Skull. Who else do you have? Doctor Psycho? Great, another mad scientist, but since it's Wonder Woman, we'll say he hates women. And sometimes he's psychic, but sometimes he's not, because it doesn't actually matter because he doesn't actually have any meaningful connection to the protagonist. Who else is there? Angle Man? I'll admit I haven't read all his appearances, so someone please tell me what makes this guy anything more than a one time villain, or one of those background filler characters who shows up when every villain in the world breaks out of jail at the same time or something. What does he have that actually connects him to Wonder Woman?
The fact is that Wonder Woman as a series actually sucks. She's a logo for feminism, and because of that, they can't admit that she's not actually good, because a ton of people who have never read a single comic in their entire lives would go apeshit over admitting that a series they never read isn't actually good. None of this is to say there aren't good Wonder Woman stories, there are, but a lot of the best ones are ones that those same people who haven't read them, but claim to love the character, would go apeshit over, because they aren't just feminist drivel, or they actually try to do more thought provoking things like examining the inherent sexism of an island that only allows women, instead of unironically calling it "Paradise Island." Then the same people who accept and even defend "Paradise Island" will make fun of the Invisible Jet.
Know how bad Wonder Woman sucks? Just think, how strong is Wonder Woman? I'll tell you how strong Wonder Woman is. It's however strong Superman is at the time. Superman actually has stories about why his power level may fluctuate. Yet even though Wonder Woman doesn't get these (except for stories where she full on loses her powers), her power is always just shown as "as strong as Superman," because that's all she is. She's just there for feminists to be able to say there's a female superhero as strong as Superman. Of course there's Supergirl, not to mention like a million alien and god characters who are way stronger than Superman. But fuck it, you can't expect casuals to actually read comics and know about them. And they'll get mad that Supergirl is just girl Superman, ignoring the actual unique character and history that she has, because they never actually cared about characters or stories to begin with. These same people will think of Superman as "Generic Hero Man," but claim to love Wonder Woman, when the only reason they like her is literally because they see her as "Generic Hero Woman," and don't know or care about any of her stories, because even those stories are so disconnected that it gives her a history of, overall, just being treated as "Generic Hero Woman" even in her own series. If she was good, she would have more consistent elements, and they wouldn't just have to keep throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks.