Jenkins went on to explain how she wanted to further subvert expectations with the ending by not killing off the villains and allowing Wonder Woman to win the day with words rather than violence. "I did a couple of things in this movie that everybody said we couldn't do: nobody dies, and she wins in the end with a conversation," the director added. "To me, this was a Trojan horse: I wanted to tick off every box of what you're looking for in a superhero movie, but actually what I'm hopefully pulling off is a subversion where instead you're saying to this younger generation that sees these movies, 'You have to find the hero within.'"