Every once in a while, someone gets it into their head to redesign Wonder Woman's costume - in spite of the fact that it's pretty much perfect the way it is. Sure, it's been refined a little over the years, but the basic design is as ideal for comics as could be. Still, someone gets self-conscious about being able to see Diana's thighs, or the fact that there's a lot of primary colour, and before you can say "Xena rip-off" they're throwing on Grecian armour and leather skirts and all manner of pseudo-historical whatnot. This may be Donna rather than Diana, but it's exactly what I mean - this is a design that's trying too hard to look like someone's ideal of Wonder Woman, rather than just being Wonder Woman. That's not a criticism of the toy - it does rather play into the story, in which Donna is trying to be Wonder Woman without really feeling the confidence to just wear the costume the way it's meant to be. Still, whether it's intentional of not, it results in a figure that looks... well, awkward. Where Wonder Woman herself is a picture of confident simplicity, Donna's whole look is an awkward attempt to capture the power that Diana just has in her own body. The ornate shoulder armour, the breastplate, the heavy greaves and kneepads are all intended to look powerful, but in fact they hide Donna's body - you can see Diana's strength, in her bare shoulders and thighs, but Donna's is hidden beneath armour and the leather skirt she borrowed from Xena. That acknowledged, it's not a bad rendition of her. The restrained metallics on her armour are deep and consistent, and match perfectly from the breastplate to the 'belt' and lower body armour, which is actually part of the soft rubber skirt section. The lasso on her belt is the usual gold cord - it can be removed easily, since the clasp is also soft rubber - but it sits very nicely where it is, and since her only open hand is intended to hold her sword, the lasso's probably better left where it is. Her face is really good work, similar to Diana's in a family resemblance way, but not identical. She's got a bit more makeup, and like her costume, she looks as if she's trying to look resolute and determined, rather than just being it from within like Diana does. The only real disappointment, so far as construction and paint goes, are the ornate armour plates on her shoulders and knees - they're intended to be the same metallic shade as the rest of the armour (indeed, the knee plates are meant to be parts of her boots), but they're painted black with a gold highlight to catch the detail, and while the detail does show up well, they're left too dark overall. A gold base closer to the rest of the armour, with a lighter, more silver highlight, would have yielded better results. Articulation is never DC Direct's strong suit, and Donna is a bit limited even by their standards. Her hair sits right on top of her shoulder plates, meaning there's only one angle she can face without her head being forced to tilt down. Promotional photos of the prototypes showed the shoulder plates mounted at a downward angle, rather than flat on the shoulders, and I wonder if that's mucked up the intended articulation range - they're not mobile, so it can't be fixed anyway. Otherwise she has the usual set: ball joint shoulders, peg elbows, swivel wrists, peg hips and knees. With such limited arms, and no ankle articulation to provide extra stability, she's basically limited to just standing there - no fancy posing possible. What with the heavy soft rubber cape she's not very stable on her feet, so the standard Wonder Woman base is necessary to keep her upright, unless you intend to stand her very carefully and never, say, walk around in the same room as her without tip-toeing. This is an odd figure - not a great costume, and not one we're likely to see again, since Donna abandoned it half-way through the arc it was featured in and went back to her red bodysuit, and later the starfield one in Countdown and so on. It doesn't look bad by any means, but it's not iconic, it's not famous, and there's nothing especially impressive about the figure itself - if I had to pick a least favourite of the Wonder Woman line, I regret to say this'd be it.