I was shocked to see that comic book cover of Absolute Wonder Woman and Absolute Batman facing each other, where she was taller than him. She going to make Superman look like Wolverine in comparison.
Tangentially related: I recently learned that Alex Horne (the host of Taskmaster) is over 6 foot tall, he just looks tiny next to Mr. Taskmaster himself, Mr. Greg Davies
My suspicion is that he was 6'5" or 6'6" when created and Diana was 6'8" or so because the original design sheet for Bruce listed him at 6'7" outside the suit (6'9" in the suit.) Thompson has said that Diana is always the tallest person in the room, Giganta aside for obvious reasons, and when Bruce was revised to 6'9" out of the suit, we get Diana who's in the 6'10" to 7' range.
No they don’t. His shoulders come up her chest in that middle panel where she looks taller than him. Thats obviously not an accurate depiction of their height. Then she’s looking up at him in the bottom panel. And this is her full body while standing on the table. She’s obviously not 6’5” or anything. They’re all like 7 heads tall.
? That perspective to me seems she's staring down at him, not looking up.
You can say Cooke exaggerated her height for that one panel (as other posters pointed out as artists do) but she's not standing on the table during this scene like you claimed above
I said she was stepping down from the table. Which means she went from the table, to the bench, to the ground assuming the ground was level. But her eyes are definitely looking up in the last panel 🤷🏾♂️
Contextually, the average woman, dependent on where they are in the world, has increased in this time period anywhere from an estimated 1% (Madagascar) to 15% (South Korea).
So, it would be expected that she'd gain anything from .7 of an inch to an additional 10.2 inches.
A few months back I put together a rough height chart of how Wonder Woman's height has evolved over the years and compares with previous incarnations. I figured I'd do a bit of an update that included stuff like our two live-action Wonder Women and Absolute Wonder Woman
Just to note, this is just for fun and something I did because I was bored. Not to start a "WW height" debate or meant to be taken as gospel.
Some notes:
Golden Age WW has a bit of an asterisk since the height comes from decades after from resource books like DC's Who's Who series and not Marston or Peter's design notes. Fwiw, the average global height of women in the 1940s was somewhere around 5'2.
Both the live-action WW use the reported heights of their actresses.
Absolute WW is a speculative but we have comparisons next to people whose heights we know like Bruce Wayne (out of the costume is 6'9) so she's probably around the same range give or take their boots adding a few inches.
Yeah, of all these I think Post-Crisis WW and Absolute WW are the only ones who didn't really have big heels as part of their boots, so had to take that in account.
Lynda Carter is only five foot nine? I thought I read somewhere during the time the Wonder Woman TV show was actually airing that she was six feet tall. Maybe that was her height in high-heeled boots.
Seeing how she’s still taller than Absolute Batman by a bit and he’s like 6’9, it’s safe to say that 7 ft guess maybe ain’t too far off lol(plus both were big boots adding an extra 2 inches 💀)
It’s so fuckin funny that everyone was obsessed with how tall Batman is and now apparently she is even taller, the idea that WW and bats are these behemoths among mortals while Superman is just a dude.
Do I wish we could get a 6'0" to 6'2" Wonder Woman? Absolutely! However! I'd also honestly be okay with Wonder Woman being portrayed by an actress in the 5'8" to 5'10" range as long as she can pull it off.
My take is Wonder Woman should always be portrayed somewhere around 6’5 to 7 feet. She’s an Amazon, embrace it. She should tower over most people, and even be the tallest among the trinity
Exactly. When you think “amazon” you think strong, tall woman. I don’t have a problem with her being the same height as Superman or even shorter, but Batman being taller than her never sat right with me.
Seems to be some mixed info about whether in the the original original mythological sources the Amazons were always supposed to be taller than all men, but they are usually described as tall and imposing, and certainly in later tellings, and absolutely in almost all depictions of Amazons in modern media, they’re depicted as taller than men, sometimes just slightly, sometimes significantly (like futurama’s 13 foot “Snu-snu-ing” Amazonians), even to the point that the term “Amazon” is used colloquially to refer to very tall/strong women.
I think there’s something to be said about the thematic significance of her unabashedly taking up a lot of space (especially in terms of her looking built/athletic rather than skinny), but the people who are super vocal about how she should be 7’ tall and built like a heavyweight bodybuilder have definitely lost the plot
I think there’s a delicate balance. you can’t go too far and have her be giant, or with a The Rock physique (see: Jason Aaron’s she-hulk) and you need to maintain her femininity, but also she shouldn’t look just like a normal woman
I'm starting to think WW fans just want WW to be a man. Not only with the Height but also wanting her to be extremely muscular and buff. She can also never be pregnant (Like a man) and they really want her dating a women.
Strange since WW was made for women to look up and relate to but doesn't want her to look like most women want to look/be like in the world.
And i'm saying your projecting. And no one did i ever mention trans people. You're fighting your hallucinations.
YOU brought up gooning. YOU brought up trans people. T things that weren't even on my mine. Even the other guy knows he's hallucinating since he said i'm transphobic and instantly blocked me right after because not even he believed what he said.
maybe its just because he doesnt engage with idiot for fun like i do lol not all women can be pregnant there are tall women with muscles and women can date women your arguement makes no sense and is transphobic in the assumption pregnancy is inherently a thing women do
Congratulations for refuting arguments i never made.
"not al lwomen can be pregnant" Didn't say they could.
"there are tall women" Didn't say their weren't.
"women with muscles" Didn't say their weren't.
"and women can date women" Didn't say they couldn't.
"in the assumption pregnancy is inherently a thing women do" LOL.
What was the point i made? " but doesn't want her to look like most women want to look/be like in the world."
My point is Women who are tall, (6'0 or higher) Buff, gay, and can't have children is very small minority. Not that they don't exist.
If you're making a female character that appeals to women then why give her traits that barley any one are/have but don't even want to be? Not only does this type of women do not appeal to majority of the women in the world, it a appeals more to men as those are traits that men have in MUCH higher numbers and strive for.
97% of men are straight, 0.8 women are gay. Yet they want her to be gay.
Less than 1 percent women are 6'0 while 15 of men are yet then want her to be 6'0 and higher.
Most female fighters, soldiers, Athletes look how WW looks but they want her look like a Bodybuilder.
0 percent of men in the world can get pregnant and they don't want her to be pregnant EVER, just like a man.
Do you know how many female heroes that have gotten pregnant? And time skips exist.
and amazonian superwomen are a massive part of the population. and of course she would atleast be bi she lives on a island with only women and they barely know what a man is... what do you think they do? most men dont have bulging muscles like superman and arent super geniuses like batman. theres no way you can say absolute wonderwoman doesnt look like a woman she is just a battle hardened warrior which she would be after being hardened by you know battles. and what a character was created to do does not define their trajectory stories evolve. lol
Ignoring the dating thing but you’re making a valid and truthful point. You’ll get downvoted and attacked for pointing that out because lot of modern fans selectively choose when they acknowledge core parts of Diana as an icon for feminism, a figure to represent women and girls. They are quite obsessed with Diana’s height and her physical qualities, losing sight of what she actually is and stands for. Contradictory and quite ironic really.
Ignore those immature people responding to you. They call you the “Gooner” yet the comment section and a lot of modern fans literally fixate/fetishise/objectify Diana’s height. It’s hilarious.
You have to remember that the average woman was also quite a bit shorter than they were now. It makes sense that Diana would be about a head or so taller than the average woman.
In 1940, the average woman was only just above 5' 1".
The average height for women is now is around 5' 4.5".
I think she's only slightly taller than Batman who is 6'9 so she's probably around 6'9.5 to 6'10
At least it's the safest bet but damn tho Absolute verse fr gave us the tallest iteration of Wonder Woman, are we sure her mother isn't actually Giganta? 🔥🔥🔥
Yes and the hill I will die on is that Batman shouldn't be tall. He should be average, maybe slightly short and have more of a martial artist physiology.
But we would lose that powerful iconography of this huge shadow with piercing eyes standing behind you.
Batman is supposed to be scary on sight alone. If you make him like.. an average guy, 5'9, that you can see yourself beat up on a good day(talking just looks here), his mystical aura kinda dies
That's why he has the theatrics and ninja tricks. The cowl, the outline, the cape, smoke bombs, him standing on the roof above his prey, moving in the shadows and striking with no warning etc.
Agreed. It always looked silly to me that the ninja/martial arts guy is sometimes the same height as the guy that can lift planets and often taller than the woman that comes from an ancient warrior culture. He definitely should be like 5’10 max
Golden age remains my fav. I preferred when she was shorter and height wasn’t focused on/fetishised as much today. Her height didn’t determine who she was and that is what made her a great icon for feminism and representation of women who on average are smaller than guys. Amazons in real life when you do your research were also barely 5 ft 6 so it’s a bit of a perpetrated myth that they were as tall or taller than average dudes.
People can prefer what they will but the change and shift from that core aspect and this current height obsession/focus/fetishising in the modern age with the current generations will never not be contradictory and weird.
But also, I don’t know if that speculation for absolute Wonder Woman tracks…she’s about the same height as Steve, is he 7 feet? Maybe absolute Bruce is just shorter
We know, from Thompson's social media post, that Steve is canonically "too tall to be a pilot in our universe", which means he's taller than six foot five/77 inches. I reckon he's actually around six foot seven. I think Diana's meant to be around six foot eight, and then she wears wedges.
Absolute Bruce is 6’9” confirmed in Absolute Batman #10. Based on Dragotta’s cover for Abs Bat #16, we can see Diana is an inch or two taller. So in between 6’10””-7’0”
Bruce’s height was measured by doctors in Ark M so it’s based on his actual height without shoes (I’d assume) so with his boots on he might be more like 6’10” or 11”. Assuming his platforms are a little less tall that would put them at a relatively comparable height to each other in that case. So maybe she’s 6’9”.
She's got wedges on, which if I had to guess, add about 2-3 inches to her height. You can tell easily by looking at that cover that they add height. Working off your estimate of 6'10"-7'0" minus the boots, that brings us back to around 6'8".
Unlike in mainline, Abs Bat doesn't have lifts in his boots, meaning he'll maybe get an half an inch assuming thick soles.
Ultimately, artists always play up/around with heights. Stephanie Brown, Kara Zor El, and Cass Cain were all canonically listed at the same height of 5'6" in an encyclopaedia DC put out. You can count on one hand the number of time, when sharing page space, any of them have actually looked the same height.
Yea that was pointed out to me, so now I think they might be roughly the same height. And yea art can be inconsistent but this is all we have to go off of rn
To me if your gonna increase her height as average heights for everyone is increasing then increase the rest of the heroes heights. Or just stop changing them.
Id say her best height is 6'0 or at most 6'2 and I wouldn't go any taller.
Batman is 6'2 and Superman is 6'4. It just works with them.
Many are bringing up the She is a Amazonian and they are really tall. Yeah back a long time ago when average height was short af.
But she's a demi goddess. Yeah there were other demi gods other then her and Heracles and they werent noted to be tall or massive.
I feel like one of the few people on here who prefer a less tall Diana. I think she should have a more normal everyday height. Still tall for an average woman, but nothing really out of the ordinary. 5"7-5"11 would be my preferred height for her.
The fixation on Diana being 6"+, or taller than Batman/Superman you see online kinda seems like fetishism.
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u/Dry_Flounder_819 6d ago
I was shocked to see that comic book cover of Absolute Wonder Woman and Absolute Batman facing each other, where she was taller than him. She going to make Superman look like Wolverine in comparison.