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Show 216 mandate when it disagrees with her own desires-most crucially in the fact that she has chosen to live among men, and won't be persuaded otherwise. The bracelets are more functional than the average accessory-their material (referred to alternately as "Amazonium" and "Feminum"), combined with Wonder Woman's light reflexes, allow her to deflect bullets. But it isn't as though the bracelets appear unremarkable enough that any one, from superhero to secretary, might wear them. About four inches long, gleaming the silvery color of solid Feminum, they must have been heavy, and Wonder Woman is probably the only one who can wear bracelets like that without, at minimum, limited wrist mobility. Despite their usefulness, leaving the bracelets in her bag with the rest of her costume would have been helpful for Diana, if for no other reason than it would allow her to wear short sleeves that day. Or stretch when she felt like it. The problem with the bracelets is when Wonder Woman does not wear them, she loses control of her strength, destroys indiscriminately, shouts "Kill! Kill! Kill!" without prompt. Why this happens is a complicated story. Wonder Woman was created by Dr. William Moulton Marston (writing for the first six years of the series under the pseudonym Charles Moulton)-a man with a mad scientist-like intelligence that propelled him toward academic brilliance and justified his disregard for social convention. Marston received his Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard in 1931. He is best known, better even than for his creation of Wonder Woman, as the inventor of the lie detector. Although |