"Darth Vader, Freddy Krueger, Supreme Leader Snoke and Voldemort all have one thing in common — they’re villains with disfigured faces. In Wonder Woman, Dr. Poison (played by Elena Anaya, who is not facially-disfigured herself) plays a similar role as one of the film's main villains as a character who wears a prosthetic mask to cover her visibly scarred face.
Dr. Poison falls into the easy trope that suggests disability — and in this case, specifically facial disfigurement — means that a character is evil. We never find out Dr. Poison’s backstory and whether her facial scarring caused her to become a villain or happened after she already was one, but the message is the same: We should be afraid of people whose faces and bodies are different from our own.
Showing facial disfigurement as a signifier for evil has consequences for real people with facial disfigurements. It gives the audience the impression that if we don’t see disability and disfigurement as inherently evil, we must see it as something worth pitying, even when the disabled person has been nothing but villainous. We aren’t supposed to come to conclusions about Dr. Poison based on her actions in the film, but instead based on the way her face appears."
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