The lasso possesses incredible strength and is virtually unbreakable. He renounced his plan when the lasso showed him that such a war would not only destroy all life on Earth as he wished, but also any potential worshippers he sought to gain from it. The fires are said to even be able to cure insanity, as they did in the case of Ares, God of War, when he attempted to incite World War III. It is also infinitely long, and can lengthen depending on its user's desire. Furthermore, simple physical contact with the lasso can be enough to have this effect such as when Barbara Ann Minerva attempted to swindle it from Diana, but was forced to confess her intentions when she held the lasso. Įmpowered by the fires of Hestia, the lasso forces anyone held by it to tell the absolute truth. William Moulton Marston later retconned the origin story in Wonder Woman #1 (June 1942), in which it is shown that her mother gave it to her after Diana won a tournament on Paradise Island, before she left the island for the United States. Originally the lasso was given to Wonder Woman when she returned to Paradise Island. It is given to Diana after Hippolyta consults the Goddesses. It is so strong that not even Hercules can break it. In the post- Crisis George Pérez rebooted the lasso by establishing that it was forged by the god Hephaestus from the Golden Girdle of Gaea once worn by Antiope, sister of Hippolyta. Diana demonstrated a remarkable level of skill with the lasso, performing such feats as twirling it to create air currents (upon which she could float) and spinning it to emit certain frequencies that disrupted spells. ĭiana coated it in special Amazon chemicals that allowed it to transform her civilian clothes into Wonder Woman's garb. In addition to being unbreakable, the lasso was also infinitely elastic. This effect could be used on larger groups of people, although this reduced its efficiency. The powers forced whoever was bound within it to obey the commands of whoever held the other end. The lasso was formed from Aphrodite's girdle, which made it indestructible and its magical properties were granted by the Goddess herself. And because Wonder Woman used it to extract confessions and compel obedience, the golden lasso was of course nothing less than a lie detector Like the lie detector upon which it was modelled, Wonder Woman's Golden Lasso produced truth-and by implication justice and freedom too-through coercion.
In a 1997 academic article, psychologist Geoffry Bunn incorrectly reinforces a correlation between the lasso and the systolic blood-pressure test, stating:Īnyone caught in the lasso found it impossible to lie. The idea behind feminine allure was that submission to a pleasant controller (instead of a harsh one) was more pleasant and therefore made it more likely that people would submit. So Marston created the Magic Lasso as an allegory for feminine charm and the compliant effect it has on people. Wonder Woman's Magic Lasso or Golden Lasso was the direct result of their research into emotions and was more about submission than truth. Marston's wife, psychologist and lawyer Elizabeth Holloway Marston, one of his inspirations for the Wonder Woman character, also played a key role in his lie detector research.īut the lie detector had nothing to do with Marston's creation of the Magic Lasso. Blood pressure was one of several elements measured in the polygraph tests that were being perfected since as far back as Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso, in 1895. William Moulton Marston created Wonder Woman but he also worked, in the period before, during and after World War I, on understanding and perfecting the systolic blood-pressure test while working on his Ph.D.
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