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Actors Gal Gadot (R) and Lynda Carter pose as the UN names the comic character Wonder Woman its Honorary Ambassador for the Empowerment of Women and Girls during a ceremony at the United Nations Economic and Social Council Chamber on October 21, 2016, in New York.
Gadot plays Wonder Woman in a film to be released in 2017, while Carter portrayed the character on television in the 1970s. The honorary title comes as Wonder Woman turns 75 years old. / AFP / TIMOTHY A. CLARY (Photo credit should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)