Pop culture website The Mary Sue went as far as describing the incident as "rape" or at best "fantasy rape", while countless users took to social media to call out the storyline.
WW84 director Patty Jenkins responded to criticism on Twitter in late December, retweeting a tweet from the account @DustyDontShoot, who had fiercely defended furore over the body swap.
The tweet links WW84's body swap trope to the likes of 1988 Tom Hanks film Big, in which a child is in the body of an adult and has sex with an adult woman. It also points out that Diana revoking the wish meant she and the mystery man never actually slept together.
But users quickly hit back at Jenkins, with one declaring the correlation "false equivalence".
Others though didn't see an issue with the plot point.
