6) Will Steve Trevor Return?
If Gal Gadot wasn’t so damn perfectly cast as Diana, the star of the show would definitely be Chris Pine as Steve Trevor. The Star Trek actor gives one of his best performances as the roguish yet charming spy and his chemistry with Gadot makes them one of the best superhero movie couples we’ve had in a while.
All this makes it even more heartbreaking when Steve dies at the film’s climax. In a scene that’s a little reminiscent of the end of Captain America: The First Avenger – which, funnily enough, also featured a heroic wartime Steve (played by a Chris) sacrificing himself in a plane – Steve heroically stops Ares’ plan to hit London with Doctor Poison’s gas bombs. He goes up in a big ball of flames and it seems pretty final for Wonder Woman’s lover.
But is this really the last we’ve seen of Steve Trevor? As Pine is such a bankable star and a huge asset to this movie, it would be a real loss if he didn’t feature in Wonder Woman 2. In the Lynda Carter-starring Wonder Woman TV series, actor Lyle Waggoner played both the wartime Trevor and his son Steve Jr. Could the DCEU take a page out of that book and recast Pine as his own son then? Stranger things have happened.