--- 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  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 Stay here I'll go ahead. [ MUSIC ] [ SOUND ] What is to be a badass? Yeah I think it's just perseverance and incredible drive. To deal with whatever comes in one's path and not fall apart, and never be tempted into someone you don't want to be. Get past them, and then boom, get down. Am I badass? I would never say that. I leave at any judgment up to the Gods. I do my best. [ MUSIC ] I think that there was a very difficult time having a female character that was a universal character that was not a man in a woman's body. That's what I think a lot of the female characters were like before, and I think that Hunger Games really changed. changed that, and was a woman leading a non- woman's film, but there was a real belief system that only young men drove the box office of these kinds of films. So, as long as that was true, there was a lot of fear about having a female led superhero film. << Never let your guard down! You expect the battle to be fair, a battle will never be fair. [ SOUND ] I'm honored but yet I'm deeply surprised at every one of these little milestones. Ones that we had. I'm sort of makes me reflect. Wow, that's so crazy. I'm stunned by the success of the film myself but I'm also surprised how rare its been. I can't wait till enough women filmmakers have had a chance to make movies of this size and scale and those movies have. been able to be successful. I think when that happens, there will still be conversation about smaller issues, but it will be nice that they can just be filmmakers making the films. << I used to want to save the world. This beautiful place [ SOUND ] But the closer you get, the more you see the great darkness within. Everything I see happening on the World for the last little while is the collision of nations coming on top of each other, and the collision of their histories. And so I think what's really important right now is that our fantasy of what a hero has been, that there's a bad guy, and that here comes the good guy, and they're gonna shut down the bad guy. That has got to change if we want to deal with the current crisis that we're in, because there is no bad guy and there is no good guy. We are all to blame. So if we want to move forward in this world, new kinds of heroics need to be celebrated. Like love, like thoughtfulness, like forgiveness, or we're not going to get there. No one's coming to save us. It is our sacred duty to defend the world. And it's what I'm going to do. 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