Diana attacks Ares's. Steve manages to commandeer the now airborne bomber - Wonder Woman 2017

Diana and Ares's engage in combat, fighting their way across the complex, whilst Steve manages to commandeer the now airborne bomber. He flies the plane to the near maximum altitude before shooting the gas bombs with his pistol to prevent the gas from reaching anyone else, at the cost of his own life.

Diana returns to London the victory celebrations.

Wonder Woman's ending without too much preamble. the ending of Wonder Woman.

So ... Diana "kills" Ares. To clarify: Diana kills Ares insofar as a character can ever be killed in a comic book movie about gods and heroes. What matters is that Diana believes she has killed Ares and, ultimately, killing Ares is what she set out to do from the very beginning of the movie.

But, while Diana vowed upon leaving Themyscira that she would slay the god of war, I'm pretty confident at this point that she really shouldn't have and that the story beats leading up to the third act back up my claim.

Before we can talk about that, though, let's get one very important thing out of the way: Wonder Woman has been a killer in her comic book form (and even cheesy '70s TV form) for a very long time. I'm not saying Wonder Woman shouldn't kill, I'm saying she shouldn't have killed Ares this time, for reasons I hope will become clear.

Wonder Woman has killed Nazis, gods, clones of Hitler and Medusa. Diana even technically killed Batman once. She killed Maxwell Lord, lost her friendships with Batman and Superman *and* got kicked out of the Justice League for a while.

We'll come back to that last example again later, but it's critical that this point be clear: Saying Diana shouldn't have killed Ares in her 2017 film debut isn't the same as saying Superman shouldn't have killed Zod in Man of Steel (BTW, spoilers for Man of Steel, I guess).

Clark Kent, to his very core, is not a killer. When people question Kal-El's choice to kill Zod in Man of Steel, it is primarily because it goes against all established canon for one of the most famous characters in recorded fiction ... and also because it doesn't feel earned in Man of Steel's story.

But, just between us squirrel friends, I am more okay with Superman killing Zod in Man of Steel than I am with Diana killing Ares in Wonder Woman. Frankly, Man of Steel is an extremely violent movie where Clark's mentors teach him to protect himself before he protects anyone else. The DCEU Superman bears very little resemblance to his comic book counterpart (or his previous movie versions). "Killing is wrong" is, frankly, not in the DNA of Man of Steel. I don't like that very much, but that's the nature of the beast. Of course Superman kills Zod -- there is no moral imperative within the narrative telling him not to.

Contrast that with 2017 Wonder Woman, a movie which features a version of Diana who fights for love, for justice, and because she wants to bring an end to war in Man's World both for their own sake and the sake of her sisters on Themyscira. And, on top of all that, I believe this Wonder Woman story has baked within it the lesson that killing is not always the answer; that you don't always fight war with more war.

All good hero stories involve a protagonist who takes a journey and learns lessons from the world and its people along the way. And while Diana does a heck of a lot of teaching of her own (undoubtedly the best part of the entire film is when she inspires the Allies to save a small town from subjugation and death), her story wouldn't be worth telling if that education weren't a two-way street.

Enter Steve Trevor. From the very outset of Wonder Woman, we learn that Steve is not a glory-seeking warrior but an information-gathering spy whose purpose is to find the most speedy end to conflicts both immediate and long-term. At this point, World War I is nearly over, and for Steve to understand Doctor Poison's plans and prevent them before they happen could be the tipping point that brings the entire war to end all wars to a close.

But Diana does not believe Steve at first. She believes in the stories her mother taught her growing up about evil gods who would poison men's minds. Diana believes that if she can kill Ares and Ares alone, all conflict among men will cease.

Likewise, Steve does not believe that something supernatural like Ares could exist at all. He is so utterly in the muck and mire of a war unending that he has begun to lose the forest for the trees. Both Steve and Diana lack faith in humanity, but for completely opposing reasons.

Wonder Woman is a 2017 American superhero film based on the DC Comics character of the same name

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