Wonder Woman holding the Lasso of Truth from Wonder Woman v2 #186.

The Lasso of Truth is a fictional weapon wielded by DC Comics superheroine Wonder Woman, Princess Diana of Themyscira. It is also known simply as The Magic Lasso. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (398x601, 69 KB) Summary Wonder Woman 186 by Adam Hughes. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (398x601, 69 KB) Summary Wonder Woman 186 by Adam Hughes. ... A lasso is a loop of rope that is designed to be thrown around a target and tighten when pulled. ... DC Comics is one of the largest American companies in comic book and related media publishing. ... Batman and Superman, two of the most recognizable and iconic superheroes. ... Wonder Woman is a fictional DC Comics superheroine. ... Themyscirian Amazons Art by Phil Jimenez Themyscira is a fictional island nation in the DC Comics universe. ...

A length of golden cord or fine chain links, it is unbreakable, and is capable of confining even beings as physically powerful as Superman and Captain Marvel. It has no set length -- or rather, it appears to be as long as Wonder Woman requires for the task at hand. Superman is a fictional character regarded as one of the most famous and popular comic book superheroes of all time, and one of the first to embody several of the aspects modernly associated with them. ... Captain Marvel is a comic book superhero, originally published by Fawcett Comics and now owned by DC Comics. ...

In William Moulton Marston's original conception of the character, and well into the Silver Age, her lasso would force whoever was held to it to obey any command, not just tell the truth. That power was toned down in the mid-to-late Silver Age, following the lead of the live-action television series and the Super Friends animated series. Dr. William Moulton Marston (May 9, 1893–May 2, 1947) was a psychologist, feminist theorist, and comic book writer / co-creator of the Wonder Woman character with his wife Elizabeth (Sadie) Holloway Marston. ... A silver age is a name often given to a particular period within a history, typically as a lesser and later successor to a golden age, the metal silver generally being less valuable than gold. ... A silver age is a name often given to a particular period within a history, typically as a lesser and later successor to a golden age, the metal silver generally being less valuable than gold. ... Lynda Carter in costume as Wonder Woman. ... The title card for the first Super Friends series. ...

By the time of George Perez's Post-Crisis reboot, the lasso as an instrument of Truth rather than Compulsion was firmly established. George Pérez (born June 9, 1954 in The Bronx, New York) is a Puerto Rican-American illustrator and writer of comic books. ... Crisis on Infinite Earths was a 12-issue comic book limited series (identified as a 12 part maxi-series) and crossover event, produced by DC Comics in 1985 in order to simplify their fifty-year-old continuity. ... ReBoot poster. ...

In the Perez re-invention, the Lasso was forged by the god, Hephaestus from the Golden Girdle of Gaea that was once worn by Antiope, sister of Queen Hippolyta. Empowered by the Fires of Hestia, the Lasso forces anyone held by it to tell the absolute truth. The fires are said to even be able to cure insanity, as they did in the case of Ares, God of War, when he attempted to incite World War III. He renounced his plan when the Lasso showed him that such a war would destroy all life on Earth, including any potential worshippers he sought to gain from it. Hephaestus, Greek god of forging, riding a Donkey; Greek drinking cup (skyphos) made in the 5th century B.C. Hephaestus (IPA pronunciation: ; Greek Hêphaistos) is the Greek god whose approximate Roman equivalent is Vulcan; he is the god of blacksmiths, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metals and metallurgy, and fire. ... Diana discovers the long lost Golden Girdle of Gaea. ... For other uses, see Antiope Antiope, in the fictional DC Comics universe, was the Amazon sister of Queen Hippolyta, and aunt to Wonder Woman. ... For the Marvel Comics character, see: Hippolyta (Marvel Comics). ... In Greek mythology, virginal Hestia is the goddess of the hearth, of the right ordering of domesticity and the family, who received the first offering at every sacrifice in the household, but had no public cult. ... Ares. ...

In later Post-Crisis comics, the power of truth was written as innate to Wonder Woman herself, with the Lasso merely a focus of that power. Storylines in the Morrison-era JLA comics depicted the lasso as an archetypal manifestation of universal truth, and, once broken, disrupted the underlying truth of reality itself. This allegorical interpretation is often ignored in later stories and by much of fandom, as the lasso was long established as magically unable to break, and was never before stated to be the ultimate representation of truth. Crisis on Infinite Earths was a 12-issue comic book limited series (identified as a 12 part maxi-series) and crossover event, produced by DC Comics in 1985 in order to simplify their fifty-year-old continuity. ... Look up innate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Grant Morrison (born January 31, 1960, Glasgow) is a Scottish comic book writer and artist. ... The Justice League is a DC Comics superhero team. ... An archetype is an idealized model of a person, object or concept from which similar instances are derived, copied, patterned or emulated. ... Fandom (from the noun fan and the affix -dom, as in kingdom, dukedom, etc. ...

This lasso should not be confused with the lasso of the current Wonder Girl, Cassandra Sandsmark. That lasso, given to her by Ares, has the power to shock a target with "Zeus' lightning" if Cassandra ropes her target and becomes angry with them. Cassandra Sandsmark is the current Wonder Girl, a superheroine from DC Comics. ... In Greek mythology, Ares (battle strife; in Greek, Άρης)[1] is the Olympian god of war and son of Zeus (king of the gods) and Hera. ... Statue of Zeus Phidias created the 12-m (40-ft) tall statue of Zeus at Olympia about 435 BCE. The statue was perhaps the most famous sculpture in ancient Greece, imagined here in a 16th-century engraving. ...

In the Elseworlds tale Red Son, Wonder Woman was subdued and restrained in her own lasso by the Soviet terrorist incarnation of Batman. In order to free herself and rescue Superman from Lex Luthor's deadly red sun lamps, Wonder Woman snapped the cords of her "indestructable" lasso. The shock of the incident appeared to age Diana, leaving her grey-haired, frail, and unable to speak. Elseworlds logo. ... Spoiler warning: Superman: Red Son is a comic book published by DC Comics unveiled under their Elseworlds imprint in April, 2003. ...

The Lasso In Other Media

As mentioned above, the live-action television series and the Super Friends animated series led the way in re-interpreting Wonder Woman's lasso as a device compelling those bound to tell the truth, rather than complelling obedience. Lynda Carter in costume as Wonder Woman. ... The title card for the first Super Friends series. ...

In the Justice League animated series, the lasso is only used as an exceptionally long, flexible, and unbreakable rope. This omission might be explained by the presence of the Martian Manhunter in the cast; his telepathic powers gave the writers a convenient way to extract the truth from adversaries, but could be more readily thwarted when the plot demanded it. The Justice League, sometimes called the Justice League of America or JLA for short, is a DC Comics superhero team. ... The Martian Manhunter (Jonn Jonzz), alternately known as the Manhunter from Mars, is a comic book superhero appearing in DC Comics. ...

In Justice League Unlimited, Wonder Woman's lasso can once again compel the truth; the sudden manifestation of this ability is never explained in the series (nor, it should be mentioned, is the equally-sudden debut of her Invisible Plane). Justice League Unlimited (or JLU) was an American animated television series produced by and aired on Cartoon Network. ... Beginning in the late 1940s, Wonder Woman used an apparently invisible jet to travel around. ...