I think she should have taken her prisoner because she will probably be back.
Maru is kind of a classic comic book supervillain, she has a physical deformity, she's insane, and she wears a mask. She's like the Joker or Two-Face. When you let them go, they always come back!
I feel like if Ares had not been urging Diana to kill Maru, she would have killed her or at least captured her, but she was all conflicted because she didn't want to do what Ares said because he's the enemy, but it was actually the right thing to do, even though Ares was the enemy. It was like reverse psychology- bad guy tells good guy to do the right thing, and good guy doesn't do it because they don't trust bad guy, so they end up doing the wrong thing. Bad guy still wins, because mad scientist supervillain survives to create more monstrous things. Maybe Maru goes on to invent amphetamines and assist Dr. Mengele in WW2 or something. Maybe while running away from the WWI battlefield, she meets a young Corporal Hitler and fills his head with poisonous ideas that later come to evil fruition.
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Ariadne (28)
8 years ago
That is the cool way to look at it.
Yes if they show repercussions of Diana's actions to her letting Dr Maru go that would be very interesting. I totally agree that her going onto really help the Nazis or something to that effect will clearly prove what Diana did was a blunder.
So in summary I think viewing it as a blunder from Diana's side makes it more interesting. Hope that is how they go about with it.
Of course if there is no consequences then unfortunately this will be the age old cliche /trope of how female villains are somehow always let off easy even when the lead is a heroine.
Hence, I like the way you are looking at it. A screw up by Diana due to the mind games Ares played.
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Popcorn Kernel (2368)
8 years ago
In the flash forwards, where it showed Diana in the future in the burgundy turtleneck, what year do you think that was? It looked like 1970's to me which would be after WWII. So if the next movie in the series skips WWII and jumps ahead to the 70's (or later), then we'd miss any cool rematch between Maru and Diana. If letting Maru go was a mistake (and I definitely feel it was, in both real life and in comic book supervillain tropes) I hope they do not skip over Diana facing any consequences of that mistake.
Maru would actually make a great villain in a sequel, she could use her mad scientist skills to make a bunch of minions into mind controlled slaves with super strength. (making them a better match for Diana and the fights more fun to watch). Maybe she could even use mad scientist skills to lengthen her own lifespan. Almost anything is possible when the villain is a mad scientist.
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mikethemartian (6998)
8 years ago
I thought she was in the present day when she was at the Louvre. Wasn't she looking at an original WWI photographic print sent to her by Bruce Wayne?
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Apis (1624)
8 years ago
We see a glass pyramid in the courtyard of Louvre. It was built in 1989, so any time after that year.
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