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Warner Bros. just gave the DC Extended Universe its first real look at 1984 — fanny packs, neon and all.

Patty Jenkins premiered the debut teaser for “Wonder Woman 1984” on December 8, 2019, at Comic Con Experience in São Paulo, unveiling Gal Gadot’s Diana Prince back in action a decade after the events of the first film. Insider’s video series “Pop Culture Decoded” broke down the footage frame by frame, cataloguing the comic-book Easter eggs and plot hints tucked into the two-minute clip, all set to an orchestral remix of New Order’s 1983 track “Blue Monday.” The trailer leans hard into its Reagan-era setting while planting seeds for two new villains and one very unexpected reunion.

• Diana still keeps a framed photo of Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) and the watch he gave her — before he reappears in 1984 wearing period-appropriate track pants and a fanny pack.
• Pedro Pascal debuts as infomercial huckster Maxwell Lord while Kristen Wiig’s archaeologist Barbara Minerva is shown before her transformation into the villain Cheetah.
• The final shot reveals Diana’s Golden Eagle armor, a design lifted from Alex Ross’s artwork in the 1996 DC miniseries “Kingdom Come.”

A Teaser Built for a Comic Convention Crowd

Warner Bros. picked CCXP, Latin America’s answer to San Diego Comic-Con, to debut the footage rather than a traditional trailer drop — a signal of how much the studio is leaning into fan-service detail for this sequel. The clip trades the first film’s WWI trenches for shopping malls, aerobics and fireworks, establishing the 1980s setting almost immediately through Maxwell Lord’s speech, which is staged and shot to echo a Ronald Reagan-style televised address. Jenkins packed the footage with sequences built specifically for pause-and-rewind viewing, from Diana disabling mall security cameras with Antiope’s tiara to avoid being caught on tape, to swinging between structures on a lightning bolt using the Lasso of Truth.

Steve Trevor’s Impossible Return

The biggest gut-punch in the teaser is confirmation that Chris Pine’s Steve Trevor is back, despite sacrificing himself at the climax of 2017’s “Wonder Woman.” The footage lingers on Diana’s apartment, where the framed photo of Steve and the watch he gave her sit as quiet mourning props before he simply shows up again, dressed for the decade in track pants and a fanny pack. No explanation is given in the trailer itself, but a sequence of the pair flying a jet through Fourth of July fireworks nods directly to the invisible jet from DC Comics lore — long-rumored to make its live-action debut in this film.

Diana still keeps his photo and his watch — and then he’s just standing there, in 1984, wearing a fanny pack.

Maxwell Lord and the Making of Cheetah

Pedro Pascal’s Maxwell Lord is introduced as a slick, TV-ready businessman selling something the trailer only teases, giving the character an infomercial-huckster energy rather than the corporate-shark version comic readers know. Kristen Wiig’s Barbara Minerva, meanwhile, appears first as a mild-mannered archaeologist alongside Diana, with the footage stopping short of revealing her full transformation into Cheetah — a deliberate tease that lines up with how the character’s arc unfolds across the comics. Readers who followed the studio’s earlier marketing for DC properties like The Batman will recognize the same slow-reveal villain strategy at work here.

The Golden Eagle Armor’s Comic-Book Roots

The teaser’s closing image — Diana suited up in winged, golden armor — sent comic fans straight to their back issues. The design traces to Alex Ross’s artwork for “Kingdom Come,” the 1996 DC miniseries that imagined an older, battle-hardened Wonder Woman, and its inclusion here suggests the character will face a threat serious enough to require it. Flashbacks woven into the same trailer show a young Diana competing in Amazonian athletic contests on Themyscira, tying her current predicament back to the warrior culture that raised her.

Warner Bros. had “Wonder Woman 1984” dated for a June 5, 2020 theatrical release at the time of the CCXP debut, giving Jenkins roughly six months to build out the marketing push around Pascal’s Maxwell Lord and Wiig’s still-transforming Cheetah before audiences see how the fanny-pack reunion actually gets explained.