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• MAGIC LASSO THAT FORCES ANYONE TO TELL THE TRUTH SERIES

Empowered by the Fires of Hestia, the Lasso forces anyone held by it to tell and understand the absolute truth. It is able to restore people's lost memories, hypnotize people, get rid of illusions, and people who are in its circumference will be protected from magical attacks. The Lasso also appears to be able to alter in length, based on it's wielder's needs. Franchise/WonderWomans lasso of truth is either the source of Dianas truth related her truth-related powers, a conduit for them them, or and an entirely unrelated magical item that forces those wrapped in it to tell and face the truth depending on the writer DependingOnTheWriter and current continuity.

MAGIC LASSO THAT FORCES ANYONE TO TELL THE TRUTH SERIES

The DC wiki describes this version's powers as follows: The Lasso of Truth may also be resisted by those without the sanity or mental capacity to reliably tell truth from lies in their own minds: such as Bizarro in 2008's Trinity, or The Joker in both his own '70s series and Injustice: Gods Among Us. It was only post-crisis that it explicitly became a lasso of truth, but even then it had other powers. It would be like Diana having Kal (Superman) hold the Lasso of Truth and she would ask him Kal.

(images taken from this CBR article: When Did Wonder Woman's Golden Lasso Become a Weapon of TRUTH? which also contains a much more comprehensive history of the changes over time) The Lasso of Truth can only force you to tell the truth, and even compel you to do what the one holding the Lasso commands of you. Answer (1 of 9): At first, I thought this would be an obvious no due to the Right against self-incrimination found in the US 5th amendment (answer specific to the US of course). If she says "Answer truthfully" as a command, then not speaking is not an option, as we see in this case where you can imagine the person (a foreign national on a mission for their country) might choose silence rather than truth, if that were an option.īut that wasn't its only use, even into the 70s (though this particular scene is from '67) it was used for non-truth related control: Obviously, if Wonder Woman wanted someone to answer her question, she would simply use that property. In the early comics, the lasso compelled OBEDIENCE on anyone who was bound by it. Bizarro is a Superman villain who is the antithesis of the Man of Steel with all of the same powers of the Kryptonian. In the ORIGINAL comics, it wasn't a lasso of truth at all! Truth was just a side effect. a magical golden lariat that forces anyone captured within it to obey the wielders commands and tell the truth.