Wonder Woman's Lasso Of Truth Explained

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Its names are many, from the Golden Perfect to the Lasso of Hestia. But its purpose is singular — it compels those within its bonds to tell the truth. Where did this fabulous rope come from? Well, we're here to divine the truth of Wonder Woman’s lasso.

The lasso began as part of the goddess Aphrodite's magical girdle, an item bestowed upon the Amazons that granted them strength and immortality. Queen Hyppolita, intrigued by its properties, instructed her craftswoman, Metala, to forge a golden rope from it. Metala did so, creating the very first iteration of Wonder Woman's wonderful lasso.

It was a finely-wrought golden chain that didn't, in fact, compel its subject to tell the truth but to obey. It was unbreakable, magically elastic, capable of binding groups of people, and, once coated in chemicals of Amazonian design, was able to transform Diana's civilian clothes into her Wonder Woman costume.

Then DC's landmark event, Crisis on Infinite Earths, took place.

Wonder Woman's lasso was left relatively unchanged, save for two major alterations. It now compelled the truth rather than obedience, and it was no longer an Amazonian design. This post-Crisis lasso was instead forged by Hephaestus, god of metallurgy himself, from the Golden Girdle of Gaea, tempered in the fires of Hestia.

But that wasn't the end of the lasso's changes, as the New 52 reboot of the DC universe changed the legendary tool still further. Nowadays, the lasso is known to the Amazons as "the Golden Perfect," a gift from the gods passed down through the generations.

It's a symbol of sacred trust — that of the Amazons in the gods and the gods in the Amazons. Only an Amazon of purest heart can wield it, making Diana a perfect candidate.

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Gift of the goddesses | 0:00
Truth in many forms | 1:49
In the air | 3:08
Superpowered insight | 4:05
In the wrong hands | 5:14
Reconnecting the truth | 6:36
Three heroines | 7:53
Big lasso lies | 9:01
Unbreakable | 10:30
Not so unbreakable | 10:49

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