Few colorful villains with any exceptional power have appeared in the series. Here we have a kind of dr jekyll and mr hyde in a female version. Dr. Janis, who has discovered a formula that turns her into a Formicide, a woman with the abilities of ants and with the power to communicate with them, her purpose is not used for evil but rather she tries by means of threats to prevent an unscrupulous businessman finances a highly toxic pesticide. At first, Wonder Woman chases her to stop her, but once she finds out about this detail, she ends up joining her fight.
4 Reviews
Wonder Woman vs Ant Woman?
Joxerlives10 February 2012
Warning: Spoilers
Formicida Wonder Woman vs Ants. Oh dear this is bad stuff although at least we have a semi-costumed villainess for once instead of dull gangsters in bad suits. Also it defies convention when WW just turns up at the skeet range and throws her lasso around the corporate executive to see if he's the guilty party, you think she'd maybe try that a little more often. And he's innocent, even though he has 'evil industrialist' stamped all over him! Also WW takes the opportunity to demonstrate her marksmanship which is pretty unusual and I don't think you would ever get that nowadays if they remade the series. Really though the entire ep is pretty laughable although Lynda in her costume could make absolutely anything watchable 3/10
Ant Man's Distaff DC Counterpart Having a Bad Hair Day
GaryPeterson6715 February 2009
Warning: Spoilers
This episode had a lot of promise going in, guest starring the once-popular duo of Shields & Yarnell and featuring a real super-powered villainess to challenge Wonder Woman. But the story turned into a muddled affair about a would-be Monkey Wrench Gang of eco-terrorists who are targeting the chief of a chemical company (played by Robert Alda). The ending was too pat, from the old Scooby Doo playbook, where everyone admits they were guilty and wrong and is eager now to do the right thing.
Robert Shields has stated he and his wife Lorene Yarnell were "embarrassed" to appear on the show (then why did they agree to do it? Was someone holding a gun on them?) and their lack of enthusiasm shows. One does admittedly feel sympathetic towards Yarnell, who was made to wear a frizzy wig and a low-cut spandex suit while popping her eyes wide and gritting her teeth, emitting a high-pitched whine by which she communicates her orders to her legions of ants.
Yarnell aka Formicida is actually a scientist who developed the chemical pesticide that her boyfriend sold to Alda's chemical firm for a million dollars. Now she wants to stop production of it because it has been subsequently discovered it will poison the ground after four years, doing more harm than good. Do Shields and Yarnell offer Alda a refund on the million he spent on their pesticide? No, instead she orders hordes of ants to infiltrate Alda's buildings to eat away their structural supports, causing them to collapse (insert stock footage of ants gnawing on wood, followed by stock footage of building demolitions). The morality in this episode is muddled at best, both Alda and Formicida being both wrong and wronged.
Only in television would a chemist being followed and threatened call Diana Prince and request a meeting at an old warehouse. Why not choose a public setting or better yet the IADC offices where there is security? The warehouse meeting does however provide the setting for Wonder Woman's one good fight scene with Formicida. The warehouse is conveniently stocked with stacks of empty cardboard boxes and old mattresses (which make for kid-friendly impacts when the characters throw each other around).
There's a nod to Stevenson's Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde when the mousy scientist drinks her ant hormone potion and transforms into the formidable Formicida. You know she's a scientist because she wears a white lab coat and has a big hand-drawn picture labeled "The Ant" on the wall that looks like it was swiped from a third-grade science fair exhibit.
"Formicida" was a tremendous disappointment. The third season opening credits try to move the show away from its comic book origins, but the plots and stories seem more directed towards younger viewers than the first (and best) season or even the second. Steve Trevor is again wasted as he so often was in the second and third seasons, having only a couple scenes that serve merely to pass along information.
Three stars for the always beautiful Lynda Carter.
Robert Shields has stated he and his wife Lorene Yarnell were "embarrassed" to appear on the show (then why did they agree to do it? Was someone holding a gun on them?) and their lack of enthusiasm shows. One does admittedly feel sympathetic towards Yarnell, who was made to wear a frizzy wig and a low-cut spandex suit while popping her eyes wide and gritting her teeth, emitting a high-pitched whine by which she communicates her orders to her legions of ants.
Yarnell aka Formicida is actually a scientist who developed the chemical pesticide that her boyfriend sold to Alda's chemical firm for a million dollars. Now she wants to stop production of it because it has been subsequently discovered it will poison the ground after four years, doing more harm than good. Do Shields and Yarnell offer Alda a refund on the million he spent on their pesticide? No, instead she orders hordes of ants to infiltrate Alda's buildings to eat away their structural supports, causing them to collapse (insert stock footage of ants gnawing on wood, followed by stock footage of building demolitions). The morality in this episode is muddled at best, both Alda and Formicida being both wrong and wronged.
Only in television would a chemist being followed and threatened call Diana Prince and request a meeting at an old warehouse. Why not choose a public setting or better yet the IADC offices where there is security? The warehouse meeting does however provide the setting for Wonder Woman's one good fight scene with Formicida. The warehouse is conveniently stocked with stacks of empty cardboard boxes and old mattresses (which make for kid-friendly impacts when the characters throw each other around).
There's a nod to Stevenson's Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde when the mousy scientist drinks her ant hormone potion and transforms into the formidable Formicida. You know she's a scientist because she wears a white lab coat and has a big hand-drawn picture labeled "The Ant" on the wall that looks like it was swiped from a third-grade science fair exhibit.
"Formicida" was a tremendous disappointment. The third season opening credits try to move the show away from its comic book origins, but the plots and stories seem more directed towards younger viewers than the first (and best) season or even the second. Steve Trevor is again wasted as he so often was in the second and third seasons, having only a couple scenes that serve merely to pass along information.
Three stars for the always beautiful Lynda Carter.
Antwoman vs Wonder Woman
coltras3515 April 2022
Wonder Woman finds herself pitted against a formidable and fearsome foe when the interest of the IADC is aroused by the mys'.terious destruction of office blocks all belonging to a giant conglomerate about to market a new and deadly pesticide.
An odd episode with an equally odd idea of ants being ordered by a hot babe to cause destruction, but comic books are just as wacky and inventive. It would have been better if the Ant Woman had remained a villainess instead of an eco warrior. That way you would have a confrontation between two strong ladies ( sort of like WW vs Cheetah), but still this isn't too bad. It's wacky, but well meaning with the environment issues and diverting enough.
An odd episode with an equally odd idea of ants being ordered by a hot babe to cause destruction, but comic books are just as wacky and inventive. It would have been better if the Ant Woman had remained a villainess instead of an eco warrior. That way you would have a confrontation between two strong ladies ( sort of like WW vs Cheetah), but still this isn't too bad. It's wacky, but well meaning with the environment issues and diverting enough.
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