It seems like everybody and their grandmother is making funny Deepfake videos these days. It’s almost gotten to the point where the novelty has worn off due to it basically being the same joke told over and over. But sometimes an idea comes along that impresses due to its sheer absurdity andWonder Womanis the latest subject of such an unusual concept.
YouTube user Pooj’s Variety Hour apparently looked at the dramatic “no man’s land” scene from 2017’sWonder Womanand decided to put their own twist on it. Rather than simply replacing the face of Amazonian hero Diana with someone who looks like her, likethe Deepfake video of Sebastian Stan as Luke Skywalker, they decided to go several steps further by instead inserting the face of legendary scowler Danny Trejo. The results are somehow both exactly as expected and also still very much worth watching.
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While nothing else about the scene is changed, the face replacement alone is enough to draw attention. Seeing Trejo wordlessly deflect bullets and mortar shells is more than worth the effort put in, and based on how technically complicated Deepfakes tend to be, there was likely a good amount of effort behind this video. It perhaps wasn’t quite as involved astheStar WarsDeepfake that tried to outdoThe Mandalorian, but it’s still impressive in its own right.
This particular scene is notable as the being first time Diana (a.k.a Wonder Woman) truly acts as a hero, walking out into the middle of a battlefield to draw the enemy’s fire and give the soldiers a fighting chance. Even though she hadn’t exactly lived a sheltered life up until that point, she had lived an isolated one, making her decision to fight for a cause like this all the more significant. It’s dramatic, epic, and really takes on a whole new vibe when the face of Machete himself unexpectedly shows up on the screen. Apparently,Wonder Womanis a popular target for spoofvideos.
It’s almost as if the scene itself was tailor-made for this sort of comedy, as the first few shots refrain from showing Wonder Woman’s face. This effectively builds up anticipation and makes it so the video could easily catch someone unaware that it involves a Deepfake, quite possibly resulting in a spectacular double-take when Trejo’s face appears for the first time. It’s just a flash at first, but that’s enough to make any unsuspecting viewer think, “wait, what?”
Videos like this really make this seem like a technological future, and the proficiency will only get more and more precise as time goes on. So look forward to the next few years, when it likely won’t be surprising to see something likeTrejo, an avid gamer himself, inserted perfectly into something likeGrand Theft Auto.
