With the latest movie in the DCEU, Wonder Woman movie, it's undeniable that it leaves a fair number of major questions unanswered.
While the story is generally straightforward - man finds wishing stone, it's cursed, a lady turns into a cat, etc. - there remain a number of plot points that just don't make sense, or at least need some elaboration. Whether or not the answers will come in Wonder Woman 3 is anyone's guess.
Steve Trevor Is Back, Maybe
One of the biggest questions the trailer for Wonder Woman 1984 brought up was how, exactly, Chris Pine's Steve Trevor was suddenly back and in 1984 when he died in 1918. The movie answers this, of course, as Diana's wish on the Dreamstone, but the odd thing about it is that Steve seems to have taken over someone's body to do it.
However, Diana and the audience only see Chris Pine, but the mirror shows a different face, played by Kristoffer Polaha. The movie never makes it clear whether everyone sees Steve Trevor or if that's just Diana's imagination.
Max Lord Steals From The Wishers
The Dreamstone isn't complicated. It's a Monkey's Paw - someone makes a wish on it and it grants that wish, but with a terrible consequence. Once Max absorbs and becomes the Dreamstone, and is the one granting and taking, things become a lot more confusing. Max seems to have the power to take whatever he wants from the wishers, including their health.
He can even change his mind over what he takes, as he does to Emir Abydos. Furthermore, does that mean the Dreamstone was taking Diana's powers for some unknown purpose? There's a lot the movie doesn't make clear about the Dreamstone.
Asteria Hides For Centuries
Asteria is the owner of the golden armor, which she used to fight off the armies of men to allow the Amazons to escape to Themyscira. This happened millennia ago, but like all the Amazons she ages much slower than normal humans, meaning she's essentially immortal.
As the movie shows, Asteria is definitely still out there, but Diana says that she searched for Asteria for years and couldn't find her. Even ignoring whether Asteria knew about Wonder Woman's defeat of Ares, which she must have, it seems inconceivable that she and Diana wouldn't have met at some point.
The God Of Lies
While Maxwell Lord and Barbara Minerva are the primary antagonists for Diana Prince in Wonder Woman 1984, the overall main villain is never seen: Dechalafrea Ero, otherwise known as Dolos or the God of Lies, who created the Dreamstone that grants both Max and Barbara their dark desires.
Unlike Ares in the first movie, the God of Lies is never seen, there's not even a picture of them or how they created the Dreamstone. It's weird that Wonder Woman 1984 is so unspecific about its real villain, and whether or not the God of Lies is still out there.
Barbara Stops Being Cheetah
After enduring being ignored, humiliated, and harassed, Barbara Minerva uses the Dreamstone to wish to be like her friend Diana, which inadvertently gives her the same powers. Eventually, and with some further wish-work from Maxwell Lord, Barbara fully transforms into the apex predator of her dreams, the Cheetah.
Unlike Max Lord or everyone else who made a wish, however, the audience doesn't see Barbara renounce it. The movie shows Wonder Woman fighting Cheetah, then after Diana gets Max to renounce his wish, Barbara is no longer the Cheetah. Audiences are left wondering whether she renounced it off-screen, or whether Max losing his powers made Barbara lose hers.
Diana Prince And The Golden Armor of Asteria
As seen on all the movie posters, the image of Wonder Woman wearing the winged golden armor is a striking one. Unfortunately, there is the question of how Diana found the armor in the first place. When Steve Trevor asks her about it, she tells the story of how it belonged to Asteria the Amazon, but Diana fails to mention where and how she got hold of it.
A huge golden angel suit thousands of years old would definitely have been cut up and sold at some point, but even if the immortal Asteria kept hold of it, she must have lost it somehow. Fans may never know.
Diana Speaks To The Entire World And No One Re Her
In Bruce Wayne chides Diana for not being an inspiration to the world like Superman, saying that he'd never even heard of her until then.
While Diana does take precautions not to be caught on camera, there's no escaping from her attacking White House security personnel, or speaking to literally everyone in the entire world. In 1984, that would also include a Bruce Wayne who had just lost his parents a few years prior.
The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of
The whole of Wonder Woman 1984 revolves around the Dreamstone, a Monkey's Paw-like artifact that can grant wishes, but at a terrible cost. Max Lord is obsessed with getting hold of the stone and using it to get everything he felt was owed to him, but something the movie doesn't make clear is how Max found out about the Dreamstone in the first place.
It took Barbara Minerva a lot of digging with all the resources of the Smithsonian to find out the history of the stone, and she knew what she was looking for. It seems unlikely that a small-time conman like Max would discover such an awesome power by himself.
Max Lord Should Get Punished For Nearly Destroying The World
While it's easy to have sympathy for Maxwell Lord after everything he's gone through, there's also no doubt that he's guilty of many terrible things during the course of Wonder Woman 1984. Even ignoring prison-worthy choices such as conning investors into a Ponzi scheme with fake oil sites, there's also the little matter of Max nearly wiping out all of civilization for his selfish ends.
If it hadn't been for Max's concern for his son, Alistair, he probably would have succeeded. And yet, audiences don't see Max get any comeuppance for his insane level of selfishness. The President or the Secret Services will probably want a word with him, at the very least.
Barbara May Still Have Diana's Powers
One of the most confusing plot points involves Barbara Minerva and her transformation into Cheetah, or most specifically, what her status is at the end of the movie. She is clearly alive and no longer in her Cheetah form, but Wonder Woman 1984 doesn't make it clear whether or not Barbara still has any powers.
The problem is that Barbara made two wishes: one on the Dreamstone, the other with Max. The second transformed her into Cheetah, but the first gave her Diana's powers, and that may not have been undone. At least this is a way she can return in Wonder Woman 3.
