It’s simply part of the rules of the fiction: People under the lasso are compelled to choose freely, and that’s not a contradiction. Wonder Woman stories aren’t about how the lasso logically works, any more than Superman stories are about how he produces enough thrust to fly. “How do we know they’re not just being mind controlled?” Well, it’s magic, of course. You might wonder what the difference is between compelling someone and forcing them. His original version of Wonder Woman’s golden magic lasso was a shortcut to loving submission, compelling those within its coils to submit to Diana’s compassionate dominance. Core to his philosophy was the concept of “loving submission,” and the idea that only those who have the capacity to willingly submit to a loving authority should ask for the same submission from other people. The polyamorous psychologist and inventor saw Wonder Woman stories as an opportunity to voice his view of a more harmonious way for men and women to live together. William Moulton Marston is justifiably infamous for not being your typical Golden Age superhero creator. Wonder Woman’s creator had some ahead-of-his time ideas Image: DC Comics The lasso is the whole point of Wonder Woman. A deus ex funem, if you will.īut the lasso isn’t just the kind of overpowered item you’d never give the player characters of a D&D game.
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Wonder Woman’s magic lasso is a lariat, a zip line, a whip, and everything else you can craft from an unbreakable, seemingly prehensile, and infinitely extendable rope.Īnd yes, it also has some pretty huge influence over the human mind, the kind that, if creators aren’t careful, can make the ending of a Wonder Woman story (and, specifically, the ending of Wonder Woman 1984) seem kind of trivial.
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