News Steve Trevor’s problematic resurrection in Wonder Woman 1984

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We knew coming into “Wonder Woman 1984” that Steve Trevor (Chris Pine), who died in the first film, would somehow be back, alive and well, 70 years later. We didn’t know how it would work, of course. We just knew that Chris Pine would pop up in period-appropriate clothing, and so that probably meant he wouldn’t just be a ghost or vision or something.

Now that we’ve seen “Wonder Woman 1984” and know how Steve came back to life, we have a whole bunch of new questions. And not just logistical ones. Some of our questions are ethical in nature, and we’re curious about why a character like Wonder Woman — a sort of beacon-of-light kind of character — would ignore them completely.

Steve’s resurrection is a little more complicated than we’re used to in these sorts of situations in movies and TV shows. His physical body is not revived. He isn’t simply conjured into being. No, it’s just his soul that has returned — in another man’s body.

Eventually, Wonder Woman is forced to renounce her wish in order to get her powers back and save the world. And when she does and Steve leaves again, I guess this guy regains his consciousness right in the middle of the chaos of the climax of the film, having no idea what’s going on.

“Wonder Woman 1984” never stops to ponder the weirdness of that situation. It actually glosses over it by having us look at Chris Pine’s face the whole time instead of that of Kristoffer Polaha, the actor who plays the person whose body Steve is possessing.

But this certainly awkward. For several days, this unnamed guy loses control of his body while Steve and Diana have their harrowing adventures. He wakes up with, at minimum, a bunch of extra scrapes and bruises. Diana had sex with him at least once without his consent. The whole movie they were risking this man’s life, without letting him choose to get involved.

Steve didn’t have any choice here either, at least in regards to living in this guy’s body. But Diana did. And when she eventually did renounce her wish in the third act, it’s not because of any concern for that guy, but because she knew she had to in order to save the world. If the world hadn’t spiraled into chaos, she would have been happy to have Steve just take over that guy’s existence until he died.

It’s frustrating that “Wonder Woman 1984” isn’t really concerned about any of that, that a character who is sort of the shining star and the beating heart of the DCEU would completely ignore the many ethical complications of Steve’s return from the grave.

The weird thing about this whole situation is that they could have just had Steve manifest in a new body instead of doing this possession thing. You would think that the entire reason they would do it this way would be to invite the ethics conversation I’m having here. The Dreamstone is just magic, and it doesn’t have any rules except those set by the writers.

Let's Talk About Steve Trevor's Problematic Resurrection in 'Wonder Woman 1984'

Wonder Woman uses magic to bring Steve back from the dead, but the circumstances of his return are pretty unusual even for resurrections

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Kind of a waste if you ask me since they should have just Kane Milohai help bring Steve Trevor back from the dead by creating a new immortal body for him while Wonder Woman would have to fight her way through the realm of the dead to convince Death itself to give/let Steve live again, It could'of been a easy sob story about the loss of a loved one and how to move past it with action tossed into it.

But they went with Body Possession instead... weird but not that creepy as it's been done before. Still would of preferred my version though