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Only love can truly save the world.
— Wonder Woman · 2017
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
It reverses the film's opening confidence: Diana began wanting to save the world, and learns that nobody can do it by force, only by choosing better. The line sounds like a greeting card, but the film has earned it with Steve Trevor's sacrifice and her refusal to take revenge. Fans quote it as the character's creed.
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In context
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The line comes from Diana's voice-over at the end of Wonder Woman (2017). In 1918 she has just spared Doctor Maru and destroyed Ares after realising, through her memory of Steve Trevor, that humans have goodness in them, and the team has celebrated the end of the war. In the present day she sends Bruce Wayne an email thanking him for the photograph of her and Steve. Over it she repeats the narration that opened the film, now changed to end: she learned that every person holds both light and darkness, and that only love can truly save the world.
Sources (3)
- Springfield! Springfield! transcript: Wonder Woman (2017)opening narration; closing narrationReference checked
- Wikiquote: Wonder Woman (2017 film)Diana Prince sectionReference checked
- Wikipedia: Wonder Woman (2017 film)Plot, endingReference checked
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