Forbes: The Warped Morality Of ‘Wonder Woman 1984’

Luddendoff was killing villages full of people with poisonous chemicals Diana letting him live would've been the most stupidest thing in a comic book movie. It's not about being an angel him continuing to live would've resulted in millions of more deaths and that's a fact. That's the only part I like about this version of Wonder Woman. She said that her number 1 mission and her purpose was to rid the planet of war killing a Nazi general would pretty much fit into that pretty nicely.

The only thing I can agree with you on in the parts of your comments that I can decipher is that Wonder Woman was a dumb fuck for letting the doctor live when she killed her boss the general but apart from that you're on your own. She didn't kill the general based on whether he was a threat to her or not but because he was a threat to millions of people.

I think he means Ares Ares.  Not the guy she thought was Ares.

Not really.  They could have used him as an anti-war message. 

What? He was going to destroy the world he needed to die. Don't be stupid.

I agree with you that Wonder Woman was a dumb fuck for letting Poison live instead but from the very beginning of the movie she left her home to rid Earth of wars for me that meant killing those that cause wars in the first place. Nazi or not he was a mass murdering psychopath.

What I am saying is how the movie played till that final act to me was that in the end Diana would recognise her own distorted view of how things were, come to terms with them and choose to be better, thereby defeating Ares, he's the god of war how do you out fight the god of war, the act of fighting him empowers the fucking guy.

Diana throughout the film is shown kind of obsessed with battle, yes all Amazons fight, but Diana was like a moth to the flame in that regard, even when her mother forbid it Diana sought it out, when the idea to go and kill Ares pops in her head she leaps at it, she abandons her people and life to go on a murder quest against someone who has never done anything to her, through out the movie any time Diana has a choice between confronting or avoiding conflict she confronts, she gets off on the violence, the second Steve doesn't support her violent tendencies she turns on him, she actually doesn't even recognise her own part in the tragedy that happened, Luddendorf gasses the town because Diana freed it, obviously Luddendorf is a psycho and would find another excuse to kill someone with his gas, but still Diana put the target on the villages back, which I thought would be recognised in the final act, but isn't.

To me it felt like the movie would build to Diana kills Luddendorf then nothing happens, Ares appears and tells her he didn't cause this, they did, he doesn't incite war of violence, people do it on their own, maybe says how humans are like the gods in that way, which makes sense, they were modeled after them, but the Amazons were not hence their more peaceful ways, the train for battle but they do not seek it out, unlike Diana because she is not like other Amazons, this is where/how her heritage is revealed.

In the end I feel like blaming Ares for everything was a cop out, more interesting would have been for the war to be humanities fault, the war was coming to an end anyway no need for them to have everyone suddenly not being into war just because Ares is dead, make it Ares doesn't create conflict he is just empowered by it, humanities lust for war and conflict is what gives Ares life, not the other way around.

Now with Jenkins saying that she wanted a smaller ending and the big climatic fight was the studios idea this could be why, maybe they did intend for the final act to have Diana come to understand her own as well as humanities underlying desire to battle is not something to be blamed on Ares but on themselves, after all if Ares is the cause of the war then why the fuck is there WW2 AFTER Ares is dead? shouldn't humanity be peaceful now?

The point about the General is that she thinks he is Ares, but she doesn't wonder how or why Ares the god of fucking war is a pussy, or that she a mere lone Amazon is a threat to him, sure the sword she thinks can kill him, but why does she not think hey this is odd how can I overpower Ares? he killed all the other gods but I a mere Amazon am stronger than him? which goes to my thinking Ares would have taunted her with this, saying how she lost reason in battle, so focused on the kill she couldn't see the obvious before her.

Like I said I am nto against her killing Luddendorf, I just think the ending was switched up and the intent that was running throughout the film got cut off before paying off in the end and replaced by a cheap sugary sweet ending by comparison.

Wonder Woman was naïve and at times impatient but her goal was always to rid the world of wars or to end the wars of all wars in any way I think you've got an idea of Wonder Woman that maybe the director put into your head and you decided to run with it. Even in the comics she snapped someone's head off.