Diana, Steve, and some villains. Richard Donner himself responded by praising the movie and presenting the director with a literal baton (https://batman-news.com/2017/10/25/richard-donner-patty-jenkins-baton/).

But, while 2017’s Wonder Woman contains small nods to Donner within an original story, Wonder Woman 1984 is essentially a Richard Donner Superman movie adapted to star Wonder Woman instead. Maxwell Lord poorly occupies the space created by Lex Luthor, and the film ends with a ham-fisted, ineffective version of the 'Superman reversing time by spinning the world backwards' finale. The difference here is that all the terrible things that are caused by people using the Dreamstone – all the destruction and chaos and, ultimately, the firing of nuclear missiles – is just magicked away by the ver...

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