--- title: Wonder Women Recreate Sword Costume Trick in Selfies PHOTOS description: Fans of the superhero are experimenting with one of her costume looks from the film: carrying a sword cradled between shoulder blades. canonical: https://time.com/4821381/wonder-woman-sword-dress/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-16T15:26:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-08T09:07:55.597Z og:title: Wonder Women Have Their Backs Covered with This Edgy Trick og:description: Fans of the superhero are recreating Wonder Woman's sword hack with selfies og:url: https://time.com/4821381/wonder-woman-sword-dress/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta13b5b7d66bc7901/6988cf530b72e35e2e6ee03b/wonder-woman-4.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Film Review Wonder Woman og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Wonder Women Have Their Backs Covered with This Edgy Trick twitter:description: Fans of the superhero are recreating Wonder Woman's sword hack with selfies twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta13b5b7d66bc7901/6988cf530b72e35e2e6ee03b/wonder-woman-4.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Wonder Woman Superfans Have Their Backs Covered With This Edgy Sword Trick > Sponsored content. 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TIME's Belinda Luscombe interviews Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins for the 10 Questions series._  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jun 16, 2017 3:26 PM UTC TIME's Belinda Luscombe interviews Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins for the 10 Questions series.  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jun 16, 2017 3:26 PM UTC Aspiring [Wonder Women of the world](http://time.com/4818249/hillary-clinton-wonder-woman/) are taking their cues from one already-iconic scene in Patty Jenkins’ [blockbuster superhero film](http://time.com/4819569/patty-jenkins-wonder-woman-director-interview/) and copying the costuming — with edgy results. In one of [Gal Gadot’s](http://time.com/4792759/gal-gadot-on-wonder-woman-audition-jimmy-fallon/) most notable moments onscreen as the Amazonian princess, she enters a gala equipped only with a stunning blue ball gown and her sword, called God Killer, sheathed expertly in the space between her bare shoulder blades. It’s a dramatic visual, and one that has captivated audiences. It’s also inspired a number of women to test out her sword-carrying technique for themselves, recreating the unusual hold while dressed up in their [_Wonder Woman_ finest.](http://time.com/4814095/wonder-woman-the-mummy-box-office/) Using the #WWGotYourBack hashtag, many are submitting their looks to Twitter, showing that just like Gadot demonstrated, it is indeed possible to be black-tie appropriate _and_ ready for battle at the same time. (Just don’t try sitting down.) > [](https://twitter.com/GeekPride5/status/875710999780671488) > [](https://twitter.com/brandini0808/status/873000144861618178) > [](https://twitter.com/StJoan/status/873940325072605185) > [](https://twitter.com/tiffany12894/status/875070465336905728) > [](https://twitter.com/RPerrinRogers/status/875688384039198721) And it’s not just longswords that are getting tested with this new concealed-carry tactic. Why not a scimitar, a katana, a tomahawk or some regular old kitchen knives? > [](https://twitter.com/awildcelticrose/status/872854833849552896) > [](https://twitter.com/TabulaRasaCos/status/873017738951892992) > [](https://twitter.com/RLClintBarton/status/873743273801732096) > [](https://twitter.com/MzShastaLibra/status/872976438286315521) ## Transcript [00:01] Stay here I'll go ahead. [ MUSIC ] [00:07] [ SOUND ] [00:11] What is to be a badass? Yeah I think it's just [00:14] perseverance and incredible drive. To deal with [00:18] whatever comes in one's path and not fall apart, and [00:22] never be tempted into someone you don't want to be. [00:24] Get past them, and then boom, get down. Am I [00:27] badass? I would never say that. I leave at any [00:29] judgment up to the Gods. I do my best. [ MUSIC ] [00:44] I think that there was a very difficult time having a [00:47] female character that was a universal character that [00:49] was not a man in a woman's body. That's what I think [00:52] a lot of the female characters were like before, and I [00:55] think that Hunger Games really changed. changed that, [00:58] and was a woman leading a non- woman's film, but [01:01] there was a real belief system that only young men [01:03] drove the box office of these kinds of films. So, as long [01:06] as that was true, there was a lot of fear about having a [01:09] female led superhero film. << Never let your guard [01:10] down! You expect the battle to be fair, a battle will [01:14] never be fair. [ SOUND ] I'm [01:20] honored but yet I'm deeply surprised at every one of [01:23] these little milestones. Ones that we had. I'm sort of [01:26] makes me reflect. Wow, that's so crazy. I'm stunned by [01:30] the success of the film myself but I'm also surprised [01:34] how rare its been. I can't wait till enough women [01:38] filmmakers have had a chance to make movies of this [01:40] size and scale and those movies have. been able to be [01:43] successful. I think when that happens, there will still be [01:46] conversation about smaller issues, but it will be nice [01:49] that they can just be filmmakers making the films. << [01:52] I used to want to save the world. This beautiful place [01:54] [ SOUND ] But [02:06] the closer you get, the more you see the great [02:10] darkness within. Everything I see happening on the [02:14] World for the last little while is the collision of nations [02:17] coming on top of each other, and the collision of their [02:19] histories. And so I think what's really important right [02:22] now is that our fantasy of what a hero has been, that [02:25] there's a bad guy, and that here comes the good guy, [02:28] and they're gonna shut down the bad guy. That has [02:31] got to change if we want to deal with the current crisis [02:34] that we're in, because there is no bad guy and there is [02:36] no good guy. We are all to blame. So if we want to [02:40] move forward in this world, new kinds of heroics need [02:43] to be celebrated. Like love, like thoughtfulness, like [02:46] forgiveness, or we're not going to get there. No one's [02:49] coming to save us. It is our sacred duty to defend the [02:52] world. And it's what I'm going to do. 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