Wonder Woman 1984 is the most recent addition to the DC Extended Universe and as a sequel to 2017's Wonder Woman. Unfortunately, despite being a decent follow-up, it wasn't able to get the same critical success as the first and only managed to receive a 59% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The movie does feature a blend of returning characters and some brand new faces, including ones that fans might recognize from the comics. While all of them had a role to play, some characters had much more complete arcs than the others.
Asteria - 0:49
Asteria (Lynda Carter) was one of the Amazons' greatest warriors and the original owner of the winged Golden Eagle armor that Diana uses in the movie's final battle against Cheetah and Maxwell Lord.
She appears briefly in the movie when Diana uses the Lasso of Truth to show Steve the history of the armor, which was used to hold back the armies of men so that the rest of the Amazons could escape to Themyscira. She also appears in the movie's post-credit scene when she saves a woman and her baby from a falling pole, revealing that she's still alive.
Antiope - 1:14
Antiope (Robin Wright) was Diana's aunt and the general of the Amazon army. Although she was killed when the Germans invaded Themyscira in the first movie, she appears in the opening of the sequel during the flashback to the Amazon tournament.
She walks up to Diana, telling her to be careful and to try her best, as she prepares for the tournament. She then pulls Diana out before she can throw the final javelin and win the contest after cheating, reprimanding her by saying that "no true hero is born from lies."
Hippolyta - 1:23
Diana's mother, Queen Hippolyta (Connie Nielsen) is also in the movie, only appearing in the flashback scene to oversee the Amazon Games.
When Diana is disqualified, Hippolyta comes to comfort her daughter as they both watch the other champions celebrate around the statue of Asteria. She then tells her that her time will come and one day, she will achieve greatness much like she did.
Babajide - 2:27
In the second half of the movie, Barbara, Diana and Steve go to visit Frank Patel (Ravi Patel), a shaman in Washington D.C. to learn more about the Dreamstone, which originally belonged to his Mayan ancestors.
He gave them information from a book that was handed down to him by his great-great-grandfather, which revealed how the artifact destroyed Mayan civilization. This then led Diana to discover that the stone was created by Dechalafrea Ero, the God of Treachery and Mischief.
Steve's Host - 2:31
Many were confused about how the movie was going to bring Steve back when his return was first announced. However, the movie revealed that he wasn't really there. Instead, his spirit is inhabiting the body of another random person only listed as "Handsome Man" in the movie's credits.
While Steve is a main character and gets a lot of screentime, his host (Kristoffer Polaha) definitely doesn't and only appears when Steve first reveals himself to Diana in his new form near the beginning of the movie. He also appears at the end too when the unnamed character has a brief conversation with her while they watch the snow and admire the Christmas decorations.
Alistair - 7:40
Alistair Lord (Lucian Perez) is Maxwell Lord's son that first shows up at his office unexpectedly when Maxwell forgets that it is his weekend with him. After his father leaves to acquire more power, Alistair spends most of the movie sitting in his father's office, waiting for him to come so that they could spend time together.
Even though Maxwell neglects him for most of the runtime, a lot of his actions seem to come from his desire to live up to his son's expectations of him. In the end, Max's love for Alistair is what gets him to renounce his wish and reunite with him.
Steve Trevor - 28:04
Despite sacrificing himself in the first movie, Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) returned after Diana subconsciously wishing for him back using the Dreamstone. After waking up in a random apartment, he looks for her name in the phonebook and followed her before reuniting with her at the Smithsonian's fundraiser.
The pair then chase Maxwell Lord before discovering that his powers were the result of the stone as well. After learning that Diana was losing her powers because of him being there, he eventually manages to convince her to renounce her wish so that she can regain her strength and stop Maxwell Lord, causing his consciousness to disappear.
Barbara - 31:55
One of the new characters the movie introduces is its second antagonist, Barabara Minerva (Kristen Wiig). While she originally starts out as an awkward and overlooked co-worker of Diana, she eventually becomes stronger and more confident after using the Dreamstone to become like the Amazon, losing her humanity as she becomes more powerful.
Her turn into a villain comes after learning that Diana wanted to undo the effects of the stone, resulting in her fighting Diana twice so that she could keep her powers. Before the second fight, she received another upgrade, which transformed her into Cheetah, making her even stronger. Diana eventually defeated her, turning her back into a human after renouncing her wish.
Maxwell - 33:46
The movie's main villain, Maxwell Lord (Pedro Pascal), starts off as an unsuccessful oil tycoon that uses the Dreamstone to give himself its powers. He begins traveling around to get people to wish for things so that he could acquire influence, power, and wealth for himself in return.
However, with each wish he grants, his health starts to deteriorate so he decides to use his new resources to get everyone in the world to make wishes at the same time, allowing him to drain their lifeforce as well. In the end, Diana gets him to properly renounce his wish, stripping him of his powers before he goes to reunite with his son.
Diana - 1:04:26
Picking up 70 years after the events of the first one, the sequel reveals that Diana Prince (Gal Gadot) has been continuing to secretly save people as Wonder Woman, while serving as a senior anthropologist at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C.
After getting ahold of the Dreamstone, she silently wishing for Steve Trevor to be back, where the two reunite at a fundraising event for the museum. The pair then spend the rest of the movie following Maxwell Lord and trying to figure out the source of his power. Eventually, Diana learns that she was losing her powers as a result of bringing Steve back, putting her in more danger. Following a heartfelt goodbye to Steve, she regains her powers and goes to take down Lord by getting him to renounce his own wish, reverting the world back to normal in the process.