A petition had complained about Wonder Woman, calling her “a large breasted, white woman of impossible proportions, scantily clad in a shimmery, thigh-baring body suit with an American flag motif and knee high boots—the epitome of a pin-up girl.” None of that means she’d make for a bad ambassador, and many actual models have been ambassadors. Plus, with the most famous depiction of Wonder Woman at the time being Gal Gadot from the upcoming film, very little of that description was even accurate (just the part about the boots and bare thighs, maybe).
To really judge Wonder Woman, we’d have to stack her against all the other fictional characters the UN had ever made ambassadors. But it turns out there haven’t been a great many of those. We could only find two. One was Tinkerbell, an ambassador for the environment because she dresses in green. The other, also for the environment, doesn’t quite qualify as an iconic character: It was “Red,” from Angry Birds.
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