re: Wonder Woman Tomatometer Watch Thread (219 reviews; 93%; 7.6/10) [NO SPOILERS]

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I don't know. World War I claimed the lives of 17 million people all told. World War II claimed the lives of 60-80 million people, with the majority of those deaths being civilians (with a good many of them victims of mass genocide).

I think the Second World War gives the First World War a run for its money in terms of depression.

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The "War to end all wars" is so much more depressing than World War II for many reasons:

-It was completely unnecessary.

-All it accomplished was to break up an empire (ended the Ottomans), begin Russia's march to communism (Lenin and the Bolsheviks took power in 1917), and crush a country and its people (Germany) for no reason other than simple retribution.

-It turned a small conflict between two small countries into a huge conflict based off of a massive series of alliances that no one ever expected to have to honor. Aside from Austria-Hungary and Serbia, none of the countries involved had any real reason to fight aside from honoring an alliance.

-It served as a proving ground to test new horrible ways to cause death and suffering (trench warfare, chemical warfare).

-The net amount of land gained in World War One was one fricking mile. Nine Million dead for ONE MILE OF LAND.