Every Screen Adaptation Of Wonder Woman Ranked Worst To Best

Every Wonder Woman screen adaptation reveals something about what Wonder Woman means to the world and just how messy that meaning can be. Join us as we explore the highs and lows of the Amazon princess, from 1960s homebody to 2000s career girl, as we rank every screen adaptation of Wonder Woman from worst to best.

What do people love about Wonder Woman? Is it her bravery, her ceaseless commitment to good, her fighting prowess?

The minds behind the canceled 2011 Wonder Woman TV series starring Adrianne Palicki decided it was none of the above Rather, as the unaired pilot argues, people like Wonder Woman because beneath the lasso and bracelets, she's just a silly bachelorette who wants to flop onto her couch with her cat and a glass of wine to catch a screening of The Notebook. It's not all bad, exactly. Though the series takes some serious left turns in imagining Diana as the CEO of "Themyscira Industries," a company we see as chiefly concerned with selling buxom dolls of their vigilante boss, it's also not afraid to show her eager to do what's right and stand up against her own objectification.

But the overwhelming impression is that of a series embarrassed by its own source material. Add in a limp lead performance from the usually reliable Palicki and some truly clumsy camera work, and you get the most disappointing Wonder Woman adaptation of all time.

Audiences worldwide might remember Lynda Carter's twirling, tiara-sporting Wonder Woman as an emblem of 1970s entertainment, but they're significantly less likely to recall her 1974 predecessor. That Wonder Woman was played by tennis pro Cathy Lee Crosby, only one year before Carter's Amazon princess would take the small screen by storm.

Why did one iteration so eclipse the other? Well, right off the bat there's Crosby herself. Clad in a reinterpretation of Wonder Woman's classic costume that looked more like a fleece ski vest than anything else, this Diana wasn't much more than a generic 70s style kung-fu fighter - pitted against villains no one remembers today. Of the many liberties taken, not one of them improved upon the classic canon. Years later, Crosby's Wonder Woman is mostly a footnote in the character's history a justified fate for an enterprise so alienated from its origins. Keep watching the video to see every screen adaptation of Wonder Woman ranked worst to best.

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NBC's canceled Wonder Woman pilot | 0:18
Wonder Woman TV movie | 1:19
Who's Afraid of Diana Prince? | 2:08
Justice League: War | 3:05
The New Frontier | 4:01
The Lego Movie | 4:56
The Wonder Woman animated movie | 5:50
Justice League: Gods and Monsters | 6:46
Super Friends | 7:46
The Brady Kids | 8:31
Justice League Action | 9:25
Superman | 10:17
Batman: The Brave and the Bold | 11:19
Justice League | 12:00
Wonder Woman: Bloodlines | 12:54
DC Super Hero Girls | 13:30
1975's Wonder Woman | 14:27
Gal Gadot's DCEU Wonder Woman | 15:25

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