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DC Officially Replaces Wonder Woman

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There have been plenty of Wonder Women throughout DC history. Diana Prince might be synonymous with the name, but everyone from her mother Hippolyta to Artemis of Bana-Mighdall has carried the mantle. After quite a long time, though, we’ve finally got our new Wonder Woman following months of speculation, and this time, DC’s latest addition is considerably more sinister.

Next Level: One Shot #1 has officially introduced an evil clone of Wonder Woman, alongside similarly twisted copies of Batman and Superman, with the three part of a mysterious group known as the Drones, genetically engineered superhumans created using the DNA of DC’s most powerful characters. The new Wonder Woman retains Diana’s immense strength and speed, while sporting black markings around her eyes and a spiked variation of her traditional armor.











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The Resistance, Zion

The Matrix

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The Wasteland

Mad Max

The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.

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Blade Runner

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Dune

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Star Wars

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DC’s New Wonder Woman Has a Disgusting Superpower

Written by Gerry Duggan with art from Fernando Blanco, Next Level: One Shot #1 follows Deadshot as Rick Flag reveals the Drones and their connection to a new incarnation of Cadmus.

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The organisation has been creating bespoke superhumans that can be sold to the highest bidder, even combining abilities from different characters. Deadshot encounters one particularly horrifying example possessing the powers of both Man-Bat and King Shark.

The Drones have an even stranger ability: versions of the mind-controlling alien Starro are concealed inside their stomachs, which they can vomit onto another person and use to create a copy of them. Deadshot discovers this when the trio scan him to create another duplicate.

However, the Wonder Woman, Batman and Superman Drones aren’t necessarily villains. They appear to have rebelled against Cadmus and intend to destroy its hidden army of clones, despite expecting the mission to kill them. Wonder Woman’s Drone subsequently describes the group as “the last Suicide Squad.”

The Drone conspiracy is going to be the key that connects all of DC’s new Next Level titles. In those, Rick Flag suspects that Vixen, Etrigan, members of the Bat-Family, Teen Titans, Doom Patrol and Red Hood could secretly have been replaced. It’s very similar to Marvel’s Secret Invasion arc, when Skrulls infiltrated the superhero community by impersonating our beloved heroes. In the story, Deadshot is also given technology capable of detecting the Starro creatures inside Drones, potentially making him crucial to uncovering the conspiracy.

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And with Cadmus capable of cloning Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman — or combining different characters’ powers — there’s no telling how far its infiltration has spread.

Next Level: One Shot #1 is available now from DC Comics.


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Release Date

June 2, 2017

Runtime

141 minutes

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Director

Patty Jenkins

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Writers

Allan Heinberg, William Moulton Marston, Zack Snyder, Jason Fuchs

Producers
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Charles Roven, Geoff Johns, Richard Suckle, Stephen Jones, Zack Synder, Deborah Snyder, Jon Berg, Wesley Coller, Steven Mnuchin

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