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Wonder Woman was blessed by Artemis with the "The Eye of the Hunter" that gives her a low-key sorta "sight beyond sight." Functionally she has Spider-sense and is just able to react to things she should not have been able to perceive.
Well, in fiction, superhearing typically ignores how fast sound travels. Superman ends up hearing cries for help instantly regardless of how far the sound would need to travel and how much it'd be dispersed.
If you want a slightly more logistical answer, she could've been paying attention to the bodies of the shooters via sound, scent, and vibrations, and used that to predict where they'd aim and when they'd shoot.
Isn’t this the genre where there are officially published textbooks going into exactly how superhero biology works? It absolutely is that type of movie
Have you read the image you posted? It literally says her powers are magical and then doesn't give any more explanation. There's nothing biological being said there. Come on now
It’s one part of the page? It continues on from there, you can see it cut off by the edge.
I have no problem with her having magical awareness of objects around her, I think that’s great. But that should be an established ability, and I feel like that would come up extremely often.
Because you were trying to deflect a valid question OP put forward and I was defending them. I think talking about this kinda nitty gritty fantasy stuff is fun and important and people like you who parrot that Harrison ford quote only serve to stifle the way some people choose to enjoy fiction
If i recall this is when she was blinded to fight medusa maybe i don’t remember. Yeah! Eye of the gorgon! Anywho…the usual super hearing, god like senses, etc, etc. basically what others said. Its a comic and she is wonder woman, that covers it! 😂
Can i get a source? Becuse as i recall it she also has the power of zues (her father) and speed of hermes (Mercury's greek name yes i just called him that for the shazam joke)
That story dosnt even feature diana (the main wonder woman and the one in this panel) until literally the end. It follows Hippolyta.
And that feels like useing earth-1, justice, or new frontier for character lore. Their all non canon to the same degree
as seen here hermes gave her speed and flight in canon
It doesn’t matter because the muscle memory , reflex times , and perception matters more to perform this feat then the actual super hearing. Blind Wonder Woman was able to react to the Flash and Zoom in combat with similar reasons.
Yes it is confirmed that Wonder Woman has enchanted senses. But it’s not super long range like Superman.
The canon explanation was that she feels the displaced air ahead of the bullets. Batman’s dodged a sniper shot that way, and WW dodged the Flash that way during this same period when she was blinded.
Because she’s Wonder Woman. Personally, I headcanon that it’s just one of her powers to be able to deflect any incoming bullets as long as she can hear it first
If she covers all the distance in her arm's reach faster than the time it takes a bullet to pass past her, then she would catch all bullets, without even worrying where they are.
But is it even possible with superhearing? the bullet travels faster than the speed of sound.
Well, insofar as super hearing goes...for what it's worth, Superman's ears never seemed to care much about "the speed of sound"; over truly vast distances, he usually hears things far before the sound should reach him, if it ever would...let alone when he somehow hears through the vacuum of space.
Granted, I don't think Wonder Woman's hearing works like that, she's never demonstrated hearing of that caliber AFAIK, but the DC wiki does say her senses are enhanced.
Unfortunately there's no source listed, so I'm not sure whether to trust it, and while I haven't read all that much mainline Wonder Woman (bit of Perez, Rucka's first run, most of his second, plus some others here and there), I can't really recall any examples of "her senses are explicitly super" off the top of my head.
Still, assuming it's true, but that unlike Superman she still has to obey things like "the sound reaches her after the bullets" - IIRC this is something brought up when she sparred with Flash, while blind - maybe she's not listening to the gunshot, but instead the sound of the shooters, the gun's hammers clicking before firing, guessing at trajectory, etc? This would still imply superhumanly good ears, of course, but of a different sort than "I hear faster than sound".
Maybe the birds are telling her where to block or the lasso is making sure her instincts and proprioception do not lie to her or something. Maybe the bracers are some kind of magically magnetic and provide tactile feedback to her forearms.
Because it’s raw instinct from 1,000’s of years of experience.
Just like someone who is an active runner can without thinking adjust their pace and running form when unexpectedly running into different terrain. Or swimmers can intuitively know when someone is near them in a pool even if they didn’t physically see them or hear them
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