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New Wonder Woman 1984 footage is extremely revealing

Diana of Themyscira isn't afraid to speak truth to power... or, failing that, to just kick power's ass.

WarnerMedia unveiled new footage from the upcoming Wonder Woman 1984 at their HBO Max presentation this week, and it features Diana (Gal Gadot) engaged in a brawl in an unlikely place: inside the White House.

The promotion machine for the sequel to the 2017 smash hit Wonder Woman is finally starting to kick into gear, and while it doesn't look like the new footage is going to be released online, we have a detailed breakdown thanks to the folks at IGN.

The footage heavily features Chris Pine's Steve Trevor, whom you may remember appeared to be quite dead at the conclusion of the first film. It's unclear how he'll return, especially considering the roughly seven-decade time jump between the two movies; Diana may be a virtually ageless quasi-goddess, but when it comes to Trevor, the filmmakers will have some pretty heavy narrative lifting to do in explaining his apparent resurrection and failure to age. Perhaps they'll steal a page from the classic '70s and '80s Wonder Woman television series — when it jumped time periods from the '40s to the '70s, the presence of Trevor, portrayed by the same actor (Lyle Waggoner), was hand-waved with the explanation that '70s Trevor was actually the original guy's son... who looked identical to his father, right down to the haircut. Sure, why not?

At any rate, the new footage opens with a shot of Trevor and Diana strolling along by the Washington Monument, with Diana wearing the type of flowing, white dress that one might expect to see on Themyscira, but not necessarily in Washington, D.C. "I can almost see it, like a beautiful dream," her voiceover intones, as she caresses Steve's face. Is this a dream? Her attire would seem to suggest it, and her mournful narration might have had us thinking that Trevor is actually dead, if not for the next scene.

In it, Trevor and Diana are under attack from gun-wielding assailants in the halls of the White House, and it certainly seems like no dream. Diana is wearing that crazy new armor that was teased in a promotional one-sheet back in June, and she has her hands full protecting Trevor from incoming gunfire while taking down baddies. The clip briefly moves to slow motion as Diana snatches away an attacker's gun and deftly unloads it, then she brings her lasso into play, roping guys in and pulling them towards her so she can deliver finishing blows in a Scorpion-like maneuver. The clip ends as Diana uses her lasso to deflect a bolt of energy from an unseen opponent.

The footage reveals that Diana will be facing down some powerful enemies, both in terms of political power and... well, freaky energy bolts. Unfortunately, it doesn't clue us in as to the deal with Trevor, so we'll just go ahead and guess that he somehow survived his plane blowing up at altitude, then went on to invent the most amazing anti-wrinkle cream the world has ever seen.