Steve and Diana decide to travel to the front lines to stop Ludendorff, accompained by Steve's team: spy Sameer, marksman Charlie, and smuggler Chief. Steve believes Ludendorff will complete and use the gas regardless of an armistice, and Diana concludes Ludendorff is Ares himself and slaying him will end the war. In London, Steve delivers Doctor Poison's notes to his superiors at the Imperial War Cabinet, including Sir Patrick Morgan, who is trying to negotiate an armistice with Germany. Certain that Ares must be responsible for the "war to end all wars," Diana defies her mother's orders and leaves Themyscira in search of him with Steve. Interrogated with the Lasso of Truth, Steve reveals that he is an Allied spy in World War I and has infiltrated and stolen information from a weapons facility in the Ottoman Empire run by German general Erich Ludendorff, whose scientist Doctor Poison is producing a new deadlier form of mustard gas. The Amazonians engage and kill the German soldiers in pursuit of him, but Antiope dies protecting Diana. Diana nevertheless disobeys her mother and is secretly trained by her aunt Antiope.Īs a young woman, Diana rescues pilot Steve Trevor after his plane crashes off the coast of Themyscira. With his last ounce of strength, Zeus left the Amazons a weapon capable of destroying Ares if he ever returned. Raised on the island of Themyscira, the land of the Amazonians, the child Diana dreams of becoming an Amazonian warrior but her mother Queen Hippolyta forbids it, telling her the story of how Ares the god of war corrupted mankind and killed all the other gods except Zeus. In present day Paris, Diana Prince receives a World War I-era photograph at the Louvre and recalls her childhood. 3 References to the broader DC Extended Universe.