Who Is She? Meet Wonder Woman’s Amazon Warriors

DC Comics celebrated the 75th anniversary of Wonder Woman last year and on June 2 she’ll finally star in her own live-action film. But fans have been wondering, where is the Wonder Woman marketing?

The official website, the landing page on Warner’s site, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram all have fun images. Some even give you the opportunity to turn yourself into Wonder Woman. I did this on the main website a few weeks back:

And this one I noticed randomly on Snapchat recently:

But “random” seems to be the word of the week when it comes to Wonder Woman’s marketing. You shouldn’t have to navigate to those places in order to see the content, it should be popping up left and right. As my pal Geek Girl Diva noted at SyfyWire.com, that’s not happening. My other pal Donna Dickens looked at the amount of promotional videos released. There’s more content out already for Justice League, which doesn’t hit theaters until November, than there is for Wonder Woman which is set to debut on June 2. Coincidentally, WB dropped two surprise TV spots yesterday. Interesting timing.

But videos aren’t, and shouldn’t be, the only kind of marketing. For the most iconic female superhero coming to the big screen in her own film, directed by a woman (Patty Jenkins), I expected a lot more by now. Fans have been waiting a long time, and hardcore fans are excited regardless of the marketing fail, but to think this film sells itself is a ridiculous notion. There’s certainly a lot that could be done, and I’m sure we’ll see more next month, but instead of discussing specific tactics I wanted to focus on one of the biggest selling points of this film – the Amazons. For that, I had to go diving.

Besides Gal Gadot as Diana Prince/Wonder Woman, there are tons of Amazons in the film. Do you know their names?

Btw, these women have been cast in #WonderWoman. So not only has the marketing done a disservice to Diana, but also the film’s WOC. pic.twitter.com/9y2QOO4lsH — Jermaine/Hero Nation (@jermainedesign) April 19, 2017

The promotional shots have only featured a few of them while the trailers have shown countless, albeit nameless, warriors. I have no idea how long they’ll be in the film, it might be only the first 20 minutes, and I have no idea how many of them have speaking roles but that’s never stopped anyone from promoting characters before. I’m hoping Warner will give us character posters for some Amazons (or an epic group poster like this) but in case they don’t, I want them to shine a light on them. They worked hard. Here are your hella-diverse Amazons.

There are likely a lot more women involved but I pulled from the film’s imdb page for this list. We’ll start with the most prominent person after Godot, Connie Nielsen who plays Queen Hippolyta, Wonder Woman’s mother.

Robin Wright as General Antiope, she’s Hippolyta’s sister, Diana’s aunt.

Lisa Loven Kongsli is Menalippe (to the left of Gadot in the group photo above). This photo, and many others are not from the trailers but other films and the actors’ social media pages. The action is too fast in the trailers to make out most of them at this point.

Florence Kasumba, who you may also remember as Black Panther’s bodyguard Ayo from Captain America: Civil War and East from Emerald City, is Senator Acantha in the film.

Ann Ogbomo is Phillipus. She must have impressed WB, she was also recently cast as Primus Alura Zod for Syfy’s Krypton.

Ann Wolfe is Artemis. She’s a well-regarded boxer who held world titles in three different weight classes simultaneously. She retired back in 2006 but has been training others since.

Patty Jenkins confirmed Ann Wolfe’s role in Wonder Woman as Artemis. (An Amazon originally from the Egyptian tribe of Bana-Mighdall.) pic.twitter.com/WLx5pRQHrS — Jermaine/Hero Nation (@jermainedesign) March 12, 2017

[Edit: Here’s a shot from the film Wolfe posted to Twitter. Bad. Ass.]

I AM ARTEMIS, MY HEART, MY, SPIRIT, MY SOUL, DON'T MAKE ME KICK YOUR ASS!! WW-22382rCC

ANN WOLFE as Artemis pic.twitter.com/kCsCeJbfkD — Ann Wolfe (@AnnWolfeBoxing) June 2, 2017

Eleanor Matsuura is Epione and I think I’m in love with her.

Come on America don’t let me down! Oh and fuck you Trump. #makeamericagayagain #makeamericaslayagain #imwithher #hillaryclinton #fuckyoutrump A post shared by Eleanor Matsuura (@eleanormatsuura) on Nov 7, 2016 at 11:25am PST

#womansmarch2017 A post shared by Eleanor Matsuura (@eleanormatsuura) on Jan 21, 2017 at 5:58am PST

Fun shoot today with a gorgeous crew #nuit A post shared by Eleanor Matsuura (@eleanormatsuura) on Oct 16, 2015 at 8:30am PDT

Doutzen Kroes is Venelia.

Doutzen Kroes for Hunkemöller sports pic.twitter.com/9VVpUmX9NU — models daily (@supermodeldaiIy) November 23, 2016

Celebrating 150 years of @harpersbazaarus tonight in #nyc ❤️ #bazaar150 @tiffanyandco #bazaar150xtiffany A post shared by Doutzen Kroes (@doutzen) on Apr 19, 2017 at 7:05pm PDT

Mayling Ng is Orana and her Instagram page tells me she’s the Amazon making that amazing leap off the cliff while firing an arrow.

Samantha Jo is Euboea. She’s also a stuntperson who’s worked on Scott Pilgrim, Man of Steel (also acted in that), and Agents of SHIELD. Check out this interview she did earlier this month on the film.

[Edit: An Amazon costume photo post-film release]

Had to get one pic flexing the guns! 💪🏽 #wonderwoman #gunshow #amazon A post shared by Samantha Jo (@samanthawjo) on Jun 5, 2017 at 1:21pm PDT

Jacqui-Lee Pryce is Niobe. This is an image from Human on her reel. For anyone who remembers that NBC miniseries The 10th Kingdom, look again and you’ll see her playing a troll. Here’s a link to her Instagram.

[Edit: An Amazon costume photo post-film release]

Madeleine Vall is Egeria.

When troll goes business…👔 Photo: @photoartistpam #model #modeling #contrast #business #fighter #portrait #photoshoot A post shared by Madeleine Vall Beijner (@madeleinevallbeijner) on Apr 27, 2017 at 12:41am PDT

Brooke Ence is Penthiselea.

Tilly Powell and Jemma Moore are both listed on imdb as “Queens Guard,” perhaps seen here?

Powell has done stunts on tons of action films but it’s hard to find a useable photo of her. She’s middle/bottom on this picture:

And Moore:

Take me back! This time last year filming on a beach in a remote part of Italy with this beautiful for @wonderwomanfilm so excited for its release. A post shared by J e m m a M o o r e (@jemma_moore) on Apr 3, 2017 at 1:07am PDT

Zinnia Kumar is listed as “Amazonian Warrior & Entourage.” [Edit: updated on IMDB to “Amazon Townsfolk”] In my search I found out she’s a published scientist!

Big hair don’t care! #bondgirl vibes. #naturalhair A post shared by Zinnia Kumar (@xynnia) on Jun 15, 2016 at 5:58pm PDT

Marie Jackson is an “Amazonian War Council Member.”

Black and white #shoot#modelling#style#fashion#actorslife#shooting#photooftheday#instagood#hairstyles A post shared by Marie Wendy Jackson (@mwjackson14) on Feb 24, 2017 at 3:54am PST

Jolie Stanford is listed as an “Amazonian Warrior.”

She also had a cute group shot on her account:

Last night’s catch up dinner with some women I absolutely adore…shared some incredible times with this lot 💕 #amazons #amazonianwarriors #friends #london #londongirls #crew A post shared by Jolie Stanford (@joliestanford) on Apr 4, 2017 at 10:24pm PDT

[Edit: An Amazon costume photo post-film release]

Georgina Armstrong (also known as Georgina Rawlings) is another “Amazon Warrior.” She’s done stunts for Thor, The Amazing Spider-Man, and The Dark Knight Rises among others. She’s an equestrian athlete and according to her Instagram, Gadot’s riding stunt double.

Andrea Vasiliou is another Amazonian Warrior.

[Edit: An Amazon costume photo post-film release]

And another group shot of the “feisty warriors.”

Are we done? Well, I ran out of names but here are more Amazons seen in the trailers!

Themyscira:

And we shouldn’t forget two other major women in the cast. The fantastic Lucy Davis as Etta Candy…

And Elena Anaya as Maru/Doctor Poison.

For the record, I’d like to know more about these guys in your marketing too, WB.

Wonder Woman is an incredible character and I’m so glad we’re finally close to seeing her in her own film. But she’s not an island, she was just created on one.

[UPDATE: June 14] What’s that? 31 more Amazons?? Check them out here!

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