One of the more head scratching elements of
Wonder Woman 1984 was its bizarre Dreamstone plot in which a person’s ultimate wish brings about negative consequences. In the film, Diana’s (Gal Gadot) wish for the return of Steve Trevor (Chris Pine), who was killed off in 2017’s
Wonder Woman, is granted but at the expense of her powers. Barbara Minerva (Kristen Wiig) wishes to be more like Diana and ends up becoming just as powerful as Wonder Woman, but loses her, ah, nice personality in the process and grows Cheetah hair. Max Lord wishes to be the wish maker and becomes sick (?) and so grants the world all of their wishes and steals their health (?) … ?