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story where she takes over crime-fighting duties in Gotham City , her philosophy is epitomized when she tells another hero , “ You don ’ t fix a broken leg by scaring it , Oracle . It ’ s time to try the splint over the sword ” ( Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman Vol . 1 # 2 ).
This philosophy was present in Wonder Woman ’ s comics immediately preceding the 1975-1979 television series . In Wonder Woman Vol . 1 # 213 , she uses her lasso to force a pacifist and a career criminal to help her , and both citizens ultimately work together to use the lasso to help save Wonder Woman from a robot . “ Ironic , isn ’ t it ,” the Flash narrates , “ a violent criminal and a devout pacifist both rallying to a common cause when the moment of truth came ...” ( 18 ). The style of these issues would greatly reflect the television series to come . In # 212 , to rescue a female prime minister from the Cavalier , a villain who manipulates women to do his bidding through pheromones , Wonder Woman changes into her costume by twirling her lasso around her . She bursts through a wall , supposedly at the behest of her “ friend ,” alter ego Diana Prince , uses her prehensile lasso , and turns her tiara into a boomerang . She subsequently gets a job at the United Nations Crisis Bureau . In the show , Wonder Woman would twirl to change into her costume , burst into many rooms at the supposed behest of Diana Prince , fight misogynistic , manipulative villains with a prehensile lasso and boomerang tiara , and get a job as an agent at a government organization . And of course , both the comics and the television show were full of her bullet-deflecting bracelets .
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The Wonder Woman television series brought this comics style to the screen , and was a step forward in complexity from the campy , lighthearted Batman television series . Much like
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