![]() ![]() ![]() Above all she's a do-gooder dedicated to righting wrongs in a version of the DC universe where that means battling killer bees and teaching important lessons about the dangers of drag racing. Her Wonder Woman is a whole-hearted hero, but one can imagine her rolling her eyes - good-naturedly, of course, but still. She's nowhere near sarcastic - this is, after all, the cartoon that gave us the Wonder Twins - but Shannon Farnon's performance has a knowing lilt to it. Wonder Woman is a particularly bright spot in this primary-colored panoply: A fairly straightforward depiction, from her Amazonian heritage to her invisible jet, she nevertheless maintains a certain wry edge that stands out against her teammates. Today's children, fed a steady diet of genre-savvy Teen Titans Go! episodes, might scoff at Super Friends' stiff animation, sunshiny morals, and truly awful interpretations of teen slang, but its earnest invocation of superheroes at their squeaky-cleanest still manages to charm. Before Batman: The Animated Series, Teen Titans, and DC Super Hero Girls, there was the ever-cheery Super Friends. ![]()
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