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Afrer preview screenings in select cinemas on December 23, Wonder Woman 1984 opens in New Zealand cinemas on Boxing Day.
Barbara Ann Minerva was born on the pages of a comic book, but is writ large in the tradition of tough-talking, no-nonsense cinematic bad girls such as Kitty Collins in
The Killers, Laura Hunt in Laura and Betty Anderson in Peyton Place. The nemesis of the iconic heroine Wonder Woman and known as the Cheetah, Barbara Ann Minerva is the result of 1940s-era comic-book-grade pop psychology: the indulged childhood and split personality in deadly combination. Don’t you know me? the feline-skinned dark reflection asked of her, staring back in a somewhat hokey-in-hindsight broken mirror origin moment. I am the real you, the Cheetah, the treacherous, relentless huntress.