Why was Steve Trevor not Steve Trevor, and how did he become Steve Trevor?
In the new Wonder Woman 84 (2020), Diana Prince makes a wish to see Steve Trevor, her lost love. In the next scene, a stranger approaches her and says something only Steve Trevor would know. In a subsequent scene, you see Chris Pine staring into a mirror at the stranger who approached Diana, and they are one and the same person. Yet Diana sees him as Steve, and he knows what Steve knows.
How was this possible? How was Steve Trevor someone else, and how did her wish have something to do with it?
Best Answer
It's unclear how the wish granting system works in the movie, but whatever you wish for somehow manifests but not exactly the ways you might have imagined for.
For example,
Barbara wishes to be strong like Diana so she gets strength like Diana but not the other qualities.
Emir wishes for his inheritance to be recognized, so a tall wall comes up.
How do you explain all that ? We can say it's element of magic which is unexplained.
Similarly Diana wishes for Steve to come back, well maybe if she had specifically asked for Steve in his body the story would had been different. But she only asked for Steve, so my guess is the spell working behind the wish-system brought back Steve's set of memories from some cosmic database of memory.
As Steve was dead years ago bringing his body might be difficult for spell-system unless it was preserved in some ice ( like Captain America ).
Steve's memory possessed the body of a random stranger. But Diana chooses to see only Steve in that body and hence the face of Chris Pine.
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How was Steve Trevor alive?
Steve is brought back to life by the Dreamstone, which is a magic rock that grants wishes, \u201cMonkey's paw\u201d-style. That is, it gives you what you asked for, but also takes something away. So Diana Prince (Gal Gadot) wishes that Steve would be alive again, and it works!How did Wonder Woman meet Steve Trevor?
Steve Trevor was a intelligent Air Force officer during World War II when his plane crashed on Paradise Island, the home of the Amazons. He was then healed by Princess Diana who followed him to Man's World and became Wonder Woman.Who did Steve Trevor possess?
As previously explained, Steve's soul has possessed the body of Handsome Man, a random Washington, D.C. citizen.Steve Trevor: DC Origins
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Answer 2
How was this possible?
Magic
How was Steve Trevor someone else?
The original Steve Trevor is deceased and his body, thus, no longer available.
did her wish have something to do with it?
Yes
When Diana wished Steve would come back his "spirit" is transferred into a new body of a currently living person.
When the "new" Steve is able to convince Diana that it is really him, she sees him as Steve from then on.
Of course, out-of-universe, this is an excuse to include the "original" Steve and have him be amazed at the way the world has advanced since he's been gone. The "return" of Steve is also crucial to Diana's choice to renounce her wish despite it meaning that she will lose Steve forever.
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