It’s fair to say that Gal Gadot’s work as Wonder Woman has been a cornerstone of the DCU since her first appearance as the superhero in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Since then, a further three outings in Zack Snyder’s Justice League, and in Patty Jenkins’ excellent Wonder Woman and the sequel Wonder Woman 1984 confirmed Gadot’s status as one of the DCU’s biggest hitters.

However, earlier this month it was reported that a third Wonder Woman film was dead in the water after changes of leadership at DC Studios, which includes James Gunn and Peter Safran taking over the DCU and developing a ten-year plan. This being the case, it is far from certain what role or roles Gadot will play in the DCU moving forward. Here are three that we think are tailor-made for her.

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Catwoman

     Warner Bros.

We’ll start off with an obvious role. As one of Batman’s most devious enemies (and, along with the Joker, the oldest since she first appeared in comic book form in 1940), the character has undergone several evolutions over the decades. Julie Neymar’s origination of the role during the 1960s Batman television series portrayed her as scheming, but also vulnerable, with several episodes showing her in clinches with Adam West’s not entirely resistant Caped Crusader. Zoë Kravitz also played up the vulnerabilities of the character in The Batman earlier this year, winning plaudits across the board for a rounded, nuanced, and believable performance.

While it’s tempting to suggest that Michelle Pfeiffer’s portrayal of the character in Batman Returns was definitive, other versions have teased out shades of meaning in a role that remains, like that of Batman, endlessly malleable. Perhaps Gadot’s Catwoman might revisit the beats of Anne Hathaway’s portrayal in Christopher Nolan’s critically acclaimed The Dark Knight Rises, which made Selina Kyle a con artist with murky motives.

Poison Ivy

Staying with Gotham City, if Poison Ivy should ever make it back into a movie, Gadot would be a shoo-in for the role. The character’s recent appearances in the Arrowverse have been largely successful, with Nicole Kang’s portrayal of the character garnering praise in particular.

But for movie fans, the non-appearance of Poison Ivy in the DCU is an important piece of unfinished business. Most of Batman’s other famous antagonists have made their way onto the big screen over the last twenty years, from to Colin Farrell’s Penguin to Liam Neeson’s Ra’s al Ghul. Poison Ivy, however, inexplicably remains on the sidelines.

Another big-screen outing would also redress the character’s previous appearance in film. In Joel Schumacher’s infamous Batman and Robin, which, though it turned a profit, was recognized at the time as the worst of the four 1990s Batman films by a distance in spite of its stellar casting (George Clooney, Alicia Silverstone, Arnold Schwarzenegger), and has since been hailed as the worst movie ever made.

To be fair to Uma Thurman, who played the character, there was little to work with in the script, and Schumacher’s directorial decisions resulted in a film that accentuated the toyetic possibilities of the characters and setting to no good purpose other than selling merchandise. It was a risible showing for a character that has been embraced by fans as one of the DCU’s very best villains, and Gadot would doubtless bring a sense of gravitas to the character that was noticeably lacking in the 1997 film.

Mina Murray

     20th Century Fox

This choice might seem a little out of the left field, but there are compelling reasons why Gadot would be triumphant in the role of Mina Murray. Dracula fans know all about Murray, who is one of the main characters in Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel (she marries the novel’s protagonist Jonathan Harker), and is frequently depicted in film and TV adaptations.

But it is in Murray’s guise as a member of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen that Gadot would really shine. In this incarnation of the character, Mina is a chemist with vampiric powers after an encounter with Dracula. Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s story was famously committed to celluloid back in 2003, when, in spite of an impressive cast including Sean Connery, Jason Flemyng (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, X-Men: First Class), and Peta Wilson (La Femme Nikita) in the role of Mina, critics remained unmoved by the film’s uneven pacing and convoluted plot.

As it happens, a Hulu reboot is currently in the works. Is it too much to ask that Gadot find her way into the cast as Mina? Wilson’s work in the 2003 film was hamstrung by a somewhat underwritten part, and we continue to wait for the definitive portrayal. The actor who brought Wonder Woman into the twenty-first century is a natural choice.