Wonder Woman 1984 ending embraces the lasso of truth's subversive history
Photo: Clay Enos/Warner Bros. Pictures Wonder Woman’s magic lasso is a lariat, a zip line, a whip, and everything else you can craft from an unbreakable, seemingly prehensile, and infinitely extendable rope. And yes, it also has some pretty huge influence over the human mind, the kind that, if creators aren’t careful, can make the ending of a Wonder Woman story (and, specifically, the ending of Wonder Woman 1984) seem kind of trivial. A deus ex funem, if you will. But the lasso isn’t just the kind of overpowered item you’d never give the player characters of a D&D game. The lasso ...