Movie Sequel Villain Poll?

As for villains, I'm more partial to Circe than Cheetah, but I suspect Cheetah would work better as a "next movie" villain. Circe is another figure from myth, and that might feel a little repetitive even if her goals and methods are well different from Ares. Cheetah, OTOH. . . while she may be *empowered* by ancient magical forces/possessed by a god, she's a modern person with motives and beliefs drawn from the modern world.

That said, I would *not* recommend some form of tragic lycanthropy type story, about being the victim of a curse. I'd rather go with the "Barbara Minerva, Evil Lara Croft" version, where she is pretty much totally in control of her actions. She just has goals and beliefs that are contrary to Diana's. Diana wants to protect the world from dangerous forces of myth and legend. Barbara wants to exploit them, and is indifferent to the harm they may cause to others.

Also, I'd specifically play up the reversal of the normal tropes: unlike most villains, the Cheetah doesn't have grand evil plots that either specifically target the hero, or are just so vast in scope as to inevitably involve her anyway. To the contrary, she normally tries to avoid involving Wonder Woman, because she doesn't ( usually ) want to beat Diana, she just wants to achieve her goals. Diana goes out of her way to *deliberately* interfere in these plots, not because they target her and hers, but because the plots themselves are wrong. "The Cheetah sells a magic idol to a rich dude in Indonesia that lets him extend his life by shedding blood" is something Diana stops, because its wrong, not because it would harm her. Emphasize that Diana is a proactive hero.

 

Apparently, according to Wikipedia, Eva Green was considered for Circe for this Wonder Woman. I'd love to see her play Circe in the sequel, but I really want Cheetah. It'd be perfect if Wonder Woman II had both Circe and Cheetah. Still not sure who I want to play Cheetah, though. Charlize Theron would be great, but I see her more as Veronica Cale.

 

I'd do Circe for this movie and have Barbara Minerva as a major character to set up Cheetah for a third movie.

Circe needs to be done well though and not like Enchantress from the SS move. Also, this is a bit of wishful thinking on my part but Circe could bring Steve back somehow! I know it probably won't happen but a man can dream

 

I'm a fan of Eva Green and she'd be perfect for Circe but I wonder if she's too obvious a choice since she'd played villains in the past.

 

I'd go with Circe and Cheetah for the sequel, with the former as the mastermind, and the latter as more of a victim, like say...Joker and Two-Face in TDK. I think you could also have Giganta as a fun villain for the opening action scene.

As for the threequel, I'd want it to deal with the gods who have returned from the underworld, Ares included, (maybe that's what Circe ends up accomplishing at the end of the second movie?) and I'd like it to be basically be an adaptation of Azzarello's run, maybe with a different director at the helm. Maybe a two-parter.

 

What, exactly, is wrong with picking an actor who is talented and proven in a given type of role?

 

Eva Green will be too busy playing Catwoman, if you go by all the fan castings of her for The Batman and for Gotham City Sirens.

 

No two-parters. No movie should be done that way. I feel like Cheetah should be the main antagonist of the sequel and maybe have Circe lurking around, but disguised as a normal human who goes basically unnoticed till the end of the movie where it teases her role and the third film.

 

How about Big Barda as the villain?
Yes, I know, it'd really be dependent on how the JL film script could make allowance for this, but imagine: Earth demi-goddess vs New God(dess)... they'd be a good match, powers-wise. Plus background-character development-wise, the mandatory short origin overview of Barda becoming who she is in the hellpits could make her sympathetic and not one-dimensional, story-speaking.
Maybe even have some Amazons throw down with the Furies. Have the shade of Ares pulling Granny Goodness' strings to bring about the battle. Could connect to the Apokolips storyline in JL.

It'd be fun.

 

Big Barda isn't a villain. And she's not a Wonder Woman villain, especially.

 

The problem is that we just got three "unambiguously evil" villains in this movie, and they were one of the weaker elements of an otherwise great film.

So I'm not exactly keen on doing that again.

 

Dr. Poison was (rather limply) given a sympathetic final moment.

But regardless, the Barbara works best when she has her own agenda and isn't anybody's victim. That's how George Perez created the character.

 

How is my idea "another unambiguously evil villain"? Its explicitly a redemption story, its just one focusing on a villain who has agency in her villainy rather than being a helpless victim.

 

I'm not too familiar with Wonder Woman's rogues gallery. Is there a Lex Luthor-ish human villain who despises Diana and all she stands for?

Given the themes of the first movie, I think it makes sense for the second movie to build on the idea of combating the essential evil in the human soul (rather than corruption stemming from the gods).

From what I've seen of Cheetah, I think she could certainly work in that context, perhaps along the lines of Barbara seeking to exploit divine powers, as suggested above (rather than being a victim of a curse).

But another character without any supernatural powers at all could play an important role, imho.

 

The First movie dealt with War.I think the next one shld deal with extremism.
Have Wonderwoman fight with an ISIS like terrorist organisation who does atrocious acts in the name of the Greek god's.The head of this Organisation will be Circe.

 

I know.

The thought came to me when recalling an old JLA comicbook scene when Diana and Barda were sparring in the Watchtower... --Barda was giving her a run for her money. And since Black Adam is possibly being considered as a Supes villain in the next Cavill film -and he's not a traditional canon adversary for big blue- why not a Barda for WW?
Cheetah, Circe -even a Deva- would be great... but kinda predictable, imo. A Barda-as-opponent with clever story tie-in to the Apokalips JL story (importantly, if conceived and told well) could be a "huh. that's not so bad a twist" moment for the well-versed fanboy.

The visuals of a Amazonian-Apokaliptan girl fight appeal to me. Maybe have Lashina's lash against the WW's Lasso of Hestia for a few scenes would be trippy.

Anyway, just throwing it out there. That's what pseudo-speculative threads in forums are for....

 

Veronica Cale or Max Lord.

 

I want Circe simply because I want more of Themyscira's backstory/mythology.

 

A villain who destroys ancient artefacts, etc.

 

The gods with the underworld being explored

 

Circe, I think there's a lot you could do with the character anyway.

 

I would love Ares to return personally.

 

Not just Ares but all the gods of Olympus returning

 

I'm just wondering how that would work though. Patty Jenkins wants the sequel to take place in the United States. And all the gods had been killed long before the United States existed.
To me it would seem silly to resurrect them all and have them rampaging through the streets of New York or Metropolis or Gotham, or whatever part of the United States the movie takes place in.