Today I want to take a second or two to talk about a theory
I recently saw on Nerdist on YouTube.
Specifically that Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and the Flash from the DC
cinematic universe may actually be Kryptonians, or perhaps descendants of
ancient Kryptonians.
The principle of the theory is that it would be easier to
explain their amazing abilities by chalking them up to Kryptonian heritage,
adding that they would be less affected or completely immune to Kryptonite
because they had that weakness bred out over time. The idea stems from two places. The first is from Man of Steel where Jor-El,
explaining the history of Krypton, talks about ancient Kryptonian colonies,
citing why there was a Kryptonian scout ship located on Earth, buried under ice
for thousands of years. Okay, that’s our
jumping off point which actually leads into the second place, Wonder Woman’s
sword.
Nerdist pointed out in their video that there is some
writing on the blade that is decidedly not ancient Greek and theorized that the
writing isn’t simply decorative, since the production company spends a lot of
time with attention to details. Here’s
what I could find as far as the blade was concerned.
They’re right, that’s not simply ancient Greek. It actually looks like a conglomeration of
several writing styles from the ancient world.
So here is it: It’s possible that the ancient Kryptonians who came to
Earth in the scout ship over 5000 years ago encountered ancient humans and were
considered gods due to their amazing powers.
Wonder Woman is, by accounts in the film, a daughter of Zeus, who could
be the leader of the ancient Kryptonians, and probably figures as the chief god
of any polytheistic religion. Her
amazing abilities stem from this heritage.
Atlantis, founded by an offshoot of these Kryptonians and Aquaman, again
possibly the son of Poseidon, also half Kryptonian. Barry Allen could be of the blood line of
Kryptonians and only had his powers activated by a bolt of lightning due to
them lying dormant for generations.
Sounds pretty straight forward, but there are a few hiccups
in the theory. Namely the writing style
established for Kryptonians by Man of Steel
None of these symbols looks like anything on the sword for
Wonder Woman. Something should cross
over but none of these symbols even come close to matching up. If Kryptonians founded the writing style for
Ancient Greece, you’d think at least a few of their symbols would have
surfaced, but they are completely different.
The second major problem comes from a story telling
aspect. This theory, while straight
forward is also incredibly lazy. Part of
what makes the Justice League such a great story telling platform is that you
have a group of characters from a very diverse background. Everyone brings something very different to the
table and if you tie in three of your major characters, characters who historically
have very unique back stories and make them all cousins, you start turning the
JLA into the superhero equivalent of the mafia.
It just feels out of place and I hope they don’t do it. I would hate for them to explain the extraordinary
away in one hand wave as “They’re all basically Kryptonians.”
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