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rooter were scandalize to meetthe boy of Wonder Woman and Superman , but the truth about Hunter Prince is even more unexpected - and tragic . Hunter is just one of several of the Justice League ’s next shaver to have traveled back to the modern DCU , seeking their parents ' helper in preventing their blue reality from coming true . For other torpedo , it ’s a glimpse into the felicity that ’s coming to them and their sept . But for Wonder Woman and Superman , Hunter is a signaling of themistakesand regrets they ’re patently headed for .
That ’s really more applicable to Diana than Clark Kent , now thatJustice League#27has expose the truth of how Hunter came to call Wonder Woman and Superman his parent . Those who assumed that Superman and Wonder Woman were Hunter ’s biological parents ( as was intemperately implied ) are in for some good , orbadnews . If the superhero romance was a mate made in Heaven , the truth of Hunter ’s puerility is a disappointment . But if fans disliked the thought … well , the the true is n’t going to be any good .
gratuitous to say , if you wish to avoidSPOILERSabout the son of Superman and Wonder Woman , arrest reading now .
The Dark Secret of Wonder Woman’s Son
There ’s no period in sidestep the issue : Hunteristhe biologic son of Wonder Woman . The bad news is that not long after giving birth to one of the only Amazonian Male ( aside fromWonder Woman ’s duplicate brother , at least ) , Diana apparently decided she was n’t the proper person to raise Hunter at all . It ’s still a sore event for him , considering the clean discomfort and aggression he evidence being stick in the same way with the mother he has n’t seen in age . Making it all the more complicated is the fact that , even if Dianahada intellect for giving Hunter up , she ’s still more than two decades off from knowing what they are herself .
It ’s an challenging twist disregardless of the character in question , leaving fans to question just how regretful things would have to get for Diana to go forth even her own tike in the arms of another person . Hunter believe it ’s his sex to blame , feign that Diana would have embraced a girl with as much love and affection as her own mother did for her . While a sound theory - yield the laying claim and myths wall the all - female warrior - there ’s understandably more to the story than that . Even if Diana was force to deliver and promote Hunter off of Themyscira , the child reveal that they were leave there when their parents went off to engage state of war against a succeeding menace .
Left there by their parents for safety , but never to be call up . Well , theotherheroes were deposited on Themyscira by their biologic parents . Hunter did n’t have a mother to speak of … but he did have a father .
Superman Adopted Him as His Own
It should come as no surprisal to DC devotee that with Diana on the face of it generate Hunter up , it would be Superman who stepped in to fill up the role of a supportive parent . We have to give the originative squad of Bryan Hitch , Fernando Pasarin , and Oclair Albert citation for the misdirection in the previous payoff - group Clark and Diana together polar Hunter to let his appearing suggest shared blood . In the end , he trulyisthe son of Wonder Woman and Superman , behave of the first , and prove as the adopted son of the other . The idea that Hunter grow up with the presently - still - a - pre - teen Jon Kent as his ' big brother ' should warm up the heart of the Superman Family fans , but it ’s the young meaning in Hunter ’s wear that seems most poignant .
As was seeable in the former issue , Hunter sports a few visual signs of his mother ’s bequest . There ’s the golden eagle broach on his chest , her famous ' tiara ' wrapped around his arm ( sheisthe informant of his strength ) , and a dyad of Amazonian bracers . Which , count on the version of DC mythology behind those touch cuff , can speak intensity from a emblematic perspective ( godly natural endowment , store of past injury , or curb fury ) . When and why Hunter came into possession of those artifact , or why he would choose to wear thin the symbols of his absent mother are questions we hope get answer .
But for our money , it ’s the fact that Hunterchoosesto wear Superman ’s cape around his shoulders that evidence Clark Kent left just as much of a St. Mark . Diana ’s bracer and Lasso of Truth serve a determination … but to wrap himself in his father ’s symbol is a choice , not necessity .
The Secrets Hunter is Still Keeping From Both…
By issue ’s end , it ’s revealed that Hunter may have more than just unresolved mother issues putting him in a sour mood . As one of the leadership of this second - contemporaries Justice League , Hunter reminds the tike ofhappierparents that they ’ve come on a mission , not a family reunion . Since it ’s comic book we ’re talking about here , and with the children describing a coming superhero / supervillain war , it ’s a secure bet that this foreign mission wo n’t be accomplish with just words . But if these children force their parents ' hand , they may be cast the future in jeopardy … which would include their own being .
There may be more heartbreak on the way , especially given Hunter ’s reminiscing about a childhood shared with Jonathan Kent and Damian Wayne . Reminiscing cut short , as he recall that those days all take on place"before … “- without revealing beforewhat , incisively . Since Jonathan Kent and Damian Wayne are apparently wanting from the hereafter the children herald from , too many tragical theories are possible . Since Superman is also the Justice Leaguer with a non - superpowered wife , Lois Lane ’s future and potential death is also up for grab .
Hitch has left the door widely subject for a coming twist , hopefully explicate the the true of Wonder Woman ’s maternal enigma . Until we get the detail from someone whowasn’ta babe at the time it film position , we ’re giving her the benefit of the doubt .
NEXT:Meet The Rest of The Justice League’s Children
Justice League#27is available now .
