It's kind of ironic for this comic , though, that Marston chose the Cheetah for a powerful, sexy villain - and not the far more appropriate Leopard.
Why ironic? Because Marston was all about female empowerment and 'love bondage'.
Cheetahs cannot be bred in captivity - that is to say, in human captivity. In the wild, cheetahs reproduction involves one or more males hunting down a female and keeping her captive by running her down whenever she tries to get away. Then, they mate. They are keeping her prisoner to fuck her.
Cheetahs literally cannot conceive unless this happens. It has to do with ovulation and shit. Efficient! But it does make cheetahs the only species of vertebrate that I am aware of that HAS to be raped to get pregnant.
I wonder who the first writer will be to hit on this.
