on Female Superhero movies…

Sigh… I’ve seen a couple people talking about this list, so i figured I’d post my response as its own thing.

This list is ridiculous. It’s fanboy wish fulfillment dressed up as feminism. Here are my problems with it.

1) Wonder Woman – This one is fine. Wonder Woman *SHOULD* have a movie, and one has been in preproduction at all times for the last 3 decades. But DC’s movie division has their heads too far up their asses to let this happen. I would love for there to be a Wonder Woman film. And the Justice League films that are spinning off of Man of Steel may finally let this happen. But despite what fanboys want to believe, MOS was not a “good” film. It was a boys club smash-em-up. Which certainly has its place, but it’s far from being what needs to happen in order to make female superheroes a viable movie marketplace option. I *HOPE* this gets better. But just wishing for it is not enough.

2) Black Widow – This one is fine. I’m surprised Marvel Studios didn’t try this yet, since they have Scarlett under contract.

3) Oracle – No! First there’s the DC film problem. Second, Oracle is one of MY favorite characters, but she can’t work in a standalone superhero film. There are two things that make her interesting. First she USED to be Batgirl. In order to make that work, you have to spin her out of the Batman universe, and that character doesn’t exist in the current slate of Batman movies. And since DC has uncrippled her in the comics, she almost certainly never will. Doing her without the Batman tie-in essentially means you have to make a movie like Catwoman. Second, she’s NOT a superhero. In order to make a faithful Oracle movie, you need to actually have her controlling other heroes, and in an action movie that would make her not the star. You could make a serviceable Birds of Prey movie, and they tried to make a BOP tv series a while back. I was the only person in the world who watched it.

4) Rescue – Again, NO! You COULD do this, since Pepper was introduced in the Iron Man movies, but I actually don’t really want to see Paltrow trying to carry her own superhero film. Also, if you’re going to make a female superhero, I’d rather see a standalone character who works in her own right (Wonder Woman or Black Widow work here) rather than “the girl version of a boy hero” which honestly would be just as insulting and leads to problems like the Supergirl movie.

5) Armor – You’re kidding right? This is fanboyism at its most problematic. Of all the women who have ever been in the X-men, why not pick the one with the least mainstream recognition ever. Who cares so long as there’s good special effects, right? If you want to spin out of the X-men universe, Storm and Rogue have already been introduced and would be fine. Psylocke would work well too. Armor has as much reason to appear in a mainstream film as a D-Man and Dr. Druid buddy flick.

There are lots of female characters they could have that don’t have logistical problems. Like I said, the first two two obviously could be worked with. You could do Captain/Ms. Marvel or on the DC side Black Canary. If you want to go more obscure, but pick characters that could stand alone, Silver Sable would be awesome as would Dakota North or Zatanna or a non-Batman’d Huntress.

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And now Ant-Man is getting his own movie. We’re prepared to have the worst possible man before the most wonderful woman. We’d rather a hero famous for beating women than being one. And she’s really not surprised, this being the exact kind of shit she came to our world to fight.