Other aspects of the TV series, most notably the " Wonder spin " transformation and the convention that Diana Prince is powerless until she transforms into Wonder Woman, became incorporated in the 2005 restart of the comic book.

As the spin was refined, it involved Diana Prince making a counter-clockwise quarter turn and then a series of clockwise turns, with a mystical explosion of light, leaving her as Wonder Woman.

Eventually, it was revealed that Diana Prince was powerless, until she executed the spin and became Wonder Woman.

A couple of episodes would have Diana Prince attempting the spin, only to be interrupted by muggers or having to stop the process due to fear of exposing her secret identity ; in which she would not have turned herself into Wonder Woman, implying the process must be completed for her to do so.

Also implied is that the process must be precise ; the less experienced Wonder Girl attempted the spin only to find herself still an ordinary woman.

The spin returned a few times in the post-Crisis comic book, before the post-Infinite Crisis reboot of the series which brought the spin back as a primary feature, along with the TV show convention that Wonder Woman loses her powers in the Diana Prince identity.

During the filming of the pilot, producers were trying to figure out a way to show how Diana Prince became Wonder Woman, when Carter suggested that she do a spin.

At first, Wonder Woman would change into these newer costumes by performing an extended spin in which she first changed from her Diana Prince clothes into the standard Wonder Woman costume, then continued to spin until a second light explosion occurred and she would appear in one of the newer outfits.

However, this extended spin device was dropped for expediency and Diana was then able to change into any of the Wonder Woman costumes in a single change.

A percentile skill-based system, BRP was used as the basis for most of the games published by Chaosium, including Stormbringer, Worlds of Wonder, Call of Cthulhu, Superworld, Ringworld, Elfquest, Hawkmoon, Elric !, and Nephilim.

In March 2011, Elwes was selected to appear as Henry Detmer in the pilot episode of NBC's Wonder Woman.

Cover art for paperback edition of The Secret of Saturn's Rings ( 1966 ) Wollheim's first story, " The Man from Ariel ," was published in the January 1934 issue of Wonder Stories when he was nineteen.

Carmine Coppola wrote and edited the musical score, including the title song " Stay Gold ", which was based upon a famous Robert Frost poem and performed for the movie by Stevie Wonder.

One of the first appearances of a strong female character was that of Wonder Woman co-created by husband and wife team William Moulton Marston and Elizabeth Holloway Marston.

The fake film was Dog of Norway featuring " Muki the Wonder Hound ".

In reference to the dish barbecued dog in The Hollywood Hall of Shame, the authors explain that it was " a snack which produced a mixed reaction among the representatives of an industry that had given the world Lassie, Rin Tin Tin, Benji, Phyllis Diller, and Muki the Wonder Hound.

A year later, due to Depression-era financial troubles, the two were merged into Wonder Stories, which Gernsback continued to publish until 1936, when it was sold to Thrilling Publications and renamed Thrilling Wonder Stories.

When Calvin Coolidge announced in 1928 that he would not seek a full term of office in the 1928 Presidential Election, Hoover became the leading Republican candidate, despite the fact Coolidge was lukewarm on Hoover, often deriding his ambitious and popular Commerce Secretary as " Wonder Boy ".

The Lolita Anime series was the first hentai original video animation ( OVA ), released in 1984 by Wonder Kids, which mainly focused on underage sex, rape, and bondage.

The Franklin Wonder Five was the first team to win the state championship in three consecutive years, from 1920-1922.

The second Gershwin Prize for Popular Song was awarded to Stevie Wonder by U. S. President Barack Obama on February 25, 2009.

* In Wonder Woman Pre-Crisis comics, Mars was the base of the god Mars, ( see Ares ).

The Museum was the subject of a book by Lawrence Weschler in 1995 entitled Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, And Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology, which describes in detail many of its exhibits.

After a 1982 meeting with Stevie Wonder, in which the latter lamented the divide in capabilities and qualities between electronic synthesizers and traditional musical instruments, Kurzweil was inspired to create a new generation of music synthesizers capable of accurately duplicating the sounds of real instruments.

The halftime show was titled " A Celebration of Soul, Salsa and Swing " and featured Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Stevie Wonder, and Gloria Estefan.

" and " Turn the Beat Around ", then a special performance by Stevie Wonder and Estefan was given performing Estefan's hit " You'll Be Mine ( Party Time )".

Of these, Thor was disqualified for throwing his hammer ( he was allowed to use it since he was powerless without it ), The Incredible Hulk was disqualified because the Champion refused to " soil his hands on a mindless animal ," Wonder Man was disqualified for tearing up the ring after being battered badly in the first round, Sasquatch was knocked out in the first round, and Colossus was defeated by technical knockout in the first round when he was unable to continue fighting.

In 1924, Bobbie the Wonder Dog stopped briefly in The Dalles while on his 2, 600 mile journey home by foot from Indiana to Silverton, Oregon.

With Jerry ' Wonder ' Duplessis, Jean also composed the score of the documentary Ghosts of Cité Soleil, He also helped produce the film and he appears briefly onscreen speaking by telephone in 2004 to a " chimere " gang-leader and aspiring rapper, Winston " 2Pac " Jean.

During the London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony, the song was briefly played during the Isles of Wonder introductory film charting the course of the River Thames, as it flows past Eton.

* In Justice League: The New Frontier, Superman briefly mentions to Wonder Woman that Hourman is dead ; Superman was probably referring to Rex Tyler version.

The original Earth-Three Syndicate made a few post-Crisis appearances, when Ultraman and Power Ring appeared in the Animal Man series and then again in Infinite Crisis when Earth-Three was temporarily recreated and models of the Earth-Three Ultraman, Superwoman, and Alexander Luthor, Sr. were briefly merged with the Superman and Wonder Woman of Earth-1 and the Superman of Earth-Two and Wonder Woman of Earth-2.

Lilith stayed on with the Titans briefly, during which time she accompanied the team on a trip to Donna " Wonder Girl " Troy's home island of Themyscira.

Winger briefly feigned embarrassment, but then claimed she was late for something she had to do, tore off her grey dress to reveal a Wonder Girl costume, and ran through the audience to exit the theater, to much applause.

In the fifth season of the animated Teen Titans series, a girl bearing a resemblance to the Donna Troy version of Wonder Girl — a brunette with star-shaped earrings — is seen briefly in episodes Homecoming, Part 2 ( 2005 ) and Calling All Titans ( 2006 ).

Conn partnered with Albert T. Armstrong, Joseph Jones, and Emory Foster to manufacture a twin-horn disc phonograph called the ' Double-Bell Wonder ' that was produced in two iterations briefly in early 1898 before a lawsuit by the Berliner Gramophone Company caused production to cease.

Wonder Man is briefly revived by Kang the Conqueror to battle the Avengers as part of his Legion of the Unliving, and later " resurrected " as a zombie by Black Talon and the Grim Reaper to attack the Avengers once more.

* Blüdhaven appears briefly in the Justice League Unlimited television series episode " Grudge Match " as the backdrop for a meta-human fighting match organized by Roulette in which female Leaguers under mind control ( including Fire, Wonder Woman and Black Canary ) fight it out.

* In the fifth season of the animated Teen Titans series, a girl bearing a resemblance to the Donna Troy version of Wonder Girl — a brunette with star-shaped earrings — is seen briefly in episodes " Homecoming, part II " ( 2005 ) and " Calling All Titans " ( 2006 ).

Several other characters from outside the primary continuity have lifted the hammer, including: Conan the Barbarian ; Dargo Ktor ( Future Thor ); Loki ; Magni ; Rogue ( after absorbing the entirety of Thor's life force and thus essentially becoming Thor ); Miguel O ' Hara ( Spider-Man 2099 ); Woden ; Alex Power ; and the DC Comics characters Superman ( though he was unable to later that issue and Thor claimed Odin had briefly lifted the enchantment ) and Wonder Woman.

In the 1974 television movie Wonder Woman starring actress Cathy Lee Crosby, the island of the Amazons is shown briefly but not named.

Despero briefly allied with villains Morgaine Le Fey and Enigma and became god-like until stopped by the combined efforts of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman.

Samson is a highly skilled hand-to-hand combatant, which, coupled with his physical attributes, has allowed him to engage the Hulk for extended periods of time, and briefly held his own against the combined forces of Iron Man, Wonder Man, Sub-Mariner, and Hercules, after they had first fought the mindless Hulk.

In 1989, he briefly starred in a small role as a basketball team captain in the episode titled " Loosiers " ( originally aired February 28th ) from the second season of The Wonder Years.

She appeared briefly in 1998's DC Universe Holiday Bash II special, in the story " I Left My Heart at the Justice Society Canteen ", and in All-Star Comics 80-Page Giant # 1 ( Sept. 1999 ), in a story, " Way of the Amazon ", in which Ma Hunkel takes valorous center stage amid Liberty Belle, Phantom Lady and Wonder Woman.