We "got here" because this new crop of showrunners and directors think the hero's journey is "outdated". They see it as a, and I'm about a cringe so hard that I might break the screen, a construct of the patriarchy because it's been used to tell stories about men who rise to the occasion to become heroes. That in and of itself is BS, because there's nothing in the hero's journey that says that the hero of the tale has to be a man. There's also this obsession with this idea that morally ambiguous characters are some how "nuanced" and deep, which is once again BS. So you have things like the Acolyte which tell us the good guys are really the bad guys, and the bad guys are somehow misunderstood because the good guys are really mean to them. UGH! We see how far this has gone, with Disney especially, with their whole movie Cruella. They tried to make a character who wants to murder puppies and wear them as a coat, whose name is literally "cruel devil", into a sympathetic character. A good example of a nuanced character is (and I'm not sure if this really applies but indulge me here) Anavel Gato from Gundam 0083. He believes in the cause, but he starts to question whether the mission is the best way to achieve that, and asks "Am I doing the right thing?". That seed of doubt is illustrative of a more complex and much more well thought out character than 10 Carol Danvers. There also seems to be this idea again, with Disney especially, that you can not show a woman being wrong, or having to pay for their crimes. How many times do we get what I call the "CW ending", where the bad guy (usually a woman like Alice on Batwoman, whom I call "Raging Karen) just walk out of the room? And then the good guys just let her go. No daring escape. No jumping out a plane and pulling the ripcord. Just "Oh, golly gee shucksie doodles. She's walking out of the room. If there were only some way I could make her pay for her crimes". Yeah, stop her and throw her in prison, ya moron! Disney seems to be the main offender here, but there's been plenty of others such as Star Trek Discovery. I had this other bit about how writers don't know how to write and can't create good guys vs bad guys plots anymore, but that's for another day.
Kudos to you for mentioning a gundam character. Gundam in my not so humble opinion, a much more cared and loved franchise than the current star wars franchise. Sunrise and Bandai has given the fans what they want in the form of Gundam Seed Freedom and the fans reciprocate it with 4 billion yen, making it the most successful gundam movie outside of the main timeline. In contrast, star wars has been used as a channel for identity politics and gave the fans star wars acolyte which is the worst tv show ever. Not as a star wars tv show, just a tv show. The fans has been derided and called names ranging from bigoted to racist when those words are more appropriately applied to themselves.
I suggest people actually go into it, the standard one is very much a mans, women have their own and that's the problem, they never adapt the classic female heroes stories from the past.
People keep forgetting to add that Valkyrie was literally a trafficker that had no problem selling aliens, including an Asgardian, with a strong possibility that they'd die. And now she's the king of New Asgard.
Then there’s simple word choice. Why the heck is she “king”? The term “queen” is there for female rulers. If you made a literal translation of certain languages to English, the term for a ruler might be purely masculine (such as “emperor” in Chinese, with “empress” always literally meaning a consort rather than a ruler), but that’s when you apply context and use correct English terminology. It seems the writers are in fact quite misogynistic and see female terms as lesser than the male equivalents.
@@John-fk2ky I don't remember if her being called King was in Endgame or if it was just in a Waititi movie, but if it was just the Waititi movie then you're probably overthinking it because Waititi is like a kid, and would do that for the same reason Elisabeth was the "king" of the pirates in Pirates of the Caribbean just because it's suppose to be funny or goofy and to take seriousness away from issues of authority.
Even though she was a drunkard she was still able to function well enough to do her job. Cut to Thor being a drunkard and suddennly he's overweight, playing video games and generally a joke.
Sylvie is the worst. The moment she showed her face, she told not only Loki, but us that "this isn't about you." She also proved it. She took Loki's first season away from him. It was her story. The only time she really took a step back, was in season 2.
The biggest irony, I always thought, about The Multiverse Saga at that point was that women were completely at fault for Kang being a threat. Sylvie killed He Who Remains, who was stopping the Multiverse going crazy, and Janet refused to talk about Kang and her time in the Quantum Realm.
This has happened with nearly every series Disney has produced in recent years that has a male lead. Kate Bishop saves the day in Hawkeye while he's stuck in a Christmas tree. The Obi-Wan series was hijacked by the Inquisitor Reva story. The writers in Book of Boba Fett made sure that Fennec Shand was always right and made to be superior to the title character in every possible aspect. And their most successful series, The Mandalorian...its success as a male-driven story could not be allowed to continue, so Bo-Katan had to be made the lead in season 3.
Season two did a monumental amount of weightlifting for that show. I was equal parts surprised and grateful season two showed us in great detail just how wrong Sylvie was in her actions, as well as demonstrated the extent of heroism that Loki had to step into in order to fix the problem that she created and single-handedly hold the entire Multiverse together. While her motivation for killing the one who remains as understandable, season two doesn’t pretend like what she did was the right thing.
Yeah, but they were badasses and did badass things. What about that? Never mind the multiple genocides of Captain Marvel. Forget about Wonder Woman hijacking a man's life. Don't worry about the fact that Echo was a ruthless killer that changed her mind for literally no reason. And dismiss the fact Ironheart has literally no character. All you need are flashing lights and explosions. And if you don't like it, you're the problem. The writers and directors? They did nothing wrong. Hell, they did nothing at all. It's bad because you have high expectations. (That they initially set 10 years ago but don't think about it.)
Since we’re on the subject, Disney did a better job with diversity and women when they weren’t even trying. (Jasmine, Tiana, Nani, Kenai) Also introducing the new generation of marvel heroes by having them be in streaming shows that less people watch than movies or even having them be side characters should’ve been an obviously bad idea One more thing is that Disney just gave us the acolyte with easily some of the worst female characters and protagonists in years
“When they weren’t even trying” That’s such a big lie as if you look up the development of the movies. Yes they’re trying. Along with watching the movies yourself
I liked it when Disney was aware of its damsel in distress trope and had the playfulness of poke fun of itself (Enchanted). This turned ugly when they went for bitter power grabs.
@@chasehedges6775 Whites aren't reliable narrators or critics hence why Asian cinema is thriving right now. The West isn't suffering because of DEI, it's dying due it lack of imagination and it hit a wall. White people just simply aren't creative anymore, they steal ideas from the East. Black Panther and Wakanda Forever were hella original
We "got here" because activists convinced studios that there was an untapped market for the "modern audience." That pandering to them would replace old audiences and boy did that backfire
If you wrote that out as part of how a character works, that’s perfectly normal. Being female should result in a character acting differently than a male character in the same situation. The problem is that the writers only focus on the character being female and that the character being the protagonist makes her a hero regardless of her actions. The character actually acting like a hero doesn’t even register to the writers.
Something you forgot about Riri Williams. She wasn't just told that she couldn't be the next Iron Man by her teacher. Riri forced the teacher to say that so she could prove the teacher wrong, at least in the comics (not sure what they'll do for the MCU version). She literally was like "Oppress me so I can prove you wrong, white woman".
Female heroes are great. The way that most currently are written just isn’t. Every character in that thumbnail could’ve been compelling, complex, and interesting characters in the right hands. Kinda wish the focus never shifted to “Strong female characters” And stayed locked at “a strong character who just so happens to be a woman, black, gay”, etc.
They *could* have been... if not for the reason that most of them have been pushed into it... which *prevents* them from being good. First, DEI... and second, Miss Andry... Or to put it another way... they exist simply TO exist... while expressing how inherently superior they are, compared to anything with "dangly bits".
Tina Majorino as Enola in Waterworld(1995) and Aubree Miller as Cindel in Ewoks The Battle For Endor(1985) are honestly better well written and better acted female characters than anything of these Modern MCU female superhero characters.
Except Wonder Woman and Black Widow... and Wanda, prior to that show... Off the top of my head, those are the only three exceptions in the current MCU. Most of the rest are just there to express the Miss Andry.
It seems like people, let alone women who actually hate women/girls got hired to write female characters by 2017 or so. Ophelia Sarkissian, I'm sorry, Anita Sarkissian and her "everything is ist/phobic", female-focused movement in video games spread across other areas. I've said it before, I'll say it again, Power Rangers has more interesting, funny, feminine, tomboy, caring, dynamic women/girls than the post-2017 MCU. Even in Power Rangers seasons that are not that good to most of us PR followers.
These writers unknowingly turn their female-heroes into villains, and audiences aren't allowed to call them out for doing it. I genuinely think they believe they're in the right for c̶o̶r̶r̶e̶c̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ reversing years of "toxic masculinity" as they call it, by replacing all male hero roles with masculine female ones. Their idea of a strong woman is constrained only to physical strength and appearances. They see having emotions, empathy, beauty in women as weaknesses to be discarded. To further my point, you now see more men depicted with these traits instead. The men in these shows are now the ones trying to convince the female heroes that they're doing something wrong, but are just brushed off with a 'You're just a weak, dumb man, I know better' attitude.
The fact they decry men for ‘toxic masculinity’ and yet portray their ‘strong female characters’* with the exact same ‘toxic’ traits and expect them to be lauded shows us far more about the writers than they realize. * I cannot call them heroes or protagonists because they clearly aren’t
Steve Rogers is by far my favorite superhero. He’s endeared himself to me with one simple line. “I don’t want to kill anyone. I just don’t like bullies, I don’t care where they’re from.” He spends every single one of his movies showing us that this is firmly where his values and morals are. He is a hero to aspire to.
Classical female heroes are fantastic, look and Victorian English stories, Greek stories, Chinese stories. And females heroes in movies and TV before the 2000's where 80 to 90% great (Aliens, Tomb Raiders, Kill Bill, Terminator 1+2, Gone with the wind, etc etc)
9:52 to 10:56 I still can't believe they did that to She Hulk, in the comics and cartoons while she enjoyed her powers she never treated Bruce wrong and never tried to proof the haters wrong. Nowadays they have her whining about how no one takes her seriously, hates being attractive (even though that's what she wanted) and wishes she was like Bruce where he's always in fear of hurting/killing his loved ones. The point of She Hulk was that she was the opposite of the Hulk.
In Wonder Woman 1984 Steve is in the body of another man but we as the audience see Steve, helping us forget this fact and make it palatable. Diana sees the face etc of the other guy, unless she is hallucinating through 'love'.🙄 So it's actually worse than you described.
And they had sex, thus raping the aforementioned man’s body. Not to mention it was highly suggested that he was gay so they also too away his sexual preference
The biggest issue I have found with the "Characters" is that they are not characters in the story. They are the Self-Inserts for the female writers who don't care about the damage they are doing to a beloved IP, they just want people to ooo and aaa over them. Then they show their true colors when the film or show bombs, using every flavor of ist/phobe they can to push the blame onto everyone else except them...
Devalue a cause by using cheap spiteful tokenism and compound the damage by hiring the popular kids who mocked comic books, scifi and fantasy writing until the genres became popular, and only see a cause as a means of self gratification
The past female characters were like this: weakness is really what makes a female character strong, where they learn from it and work their way to overcome it. It takes time, yes, but time to heal, grow and develop mentally and physically while still maintaining yet perfecting emotional traits. That way, being labeled as a hero is earned. This era's female characters are like this: you are female, so you HAVE to be an emotionless, perfectly skilled robot queen who talks agenda down on everyone who simply wants to help. Yeah, good times. 😢
It's ironic that so many modern writers think they're being progressive with many female and minoroty characters when, in fact, most of the time, they've ended up writing 1 or 2 dimensional stereotypes who are more insulting than inspiring or even interesting. There's so much hubris is believing that we didn't already have amazing female characters in Sci Fi in the past. The late 90s and early 2000s had some of the best action/sci fi female characters to grace the small screen. Gove me 10 Jadzia Daxs over any of todays 'modern' female heroes.
I've already forgotten about all of these females pretending to be super heroes but you gone and reminded me about them! Now, I was reminded of just how crap they were or their story were. However, your breakdown of their flaws and the crappiness of their stories was marvellous! Remembered why I was subscribed to your channel. 👍
Luke Skywalker….Aunt and uncle killed, obi-wan killed, fails in training, hand cut off, finds out Vader is his dad, etc…..Rey basically is given all his stuff with no struggle and steals his name
Don’t forget they make the guy who tried to find the good in a cold blooded murderer and help him find a form of salvation decide to kill his nephew because ‘he had bad vibes’ or something, and then screwed off to who knows where to sulk and drink green milk. And then there’s the tragic story of a fiery princess and leader of a rebellion who took no shots from anyone that becomes little more than a floor mat of a pathetic ‘resistance’. Oh we can go on all day about how DEIsney screwed everyone over in the Sequels.
I would also blame popularity off OP characters and "grey character" since it seems many writters are trying to go down this route not realising if they aren't handled well they become horrible character tropes
@@chinonsomichael9839 well it got cringe towards the end of the show supergirl run in my view . Even the interviews were like that to the point I thought I was watching I cringe bridal shower masquerading as an interview maybe someone else loved that and that’s fine but don’t get your knickers or boxes in the twist when that puts someone else off the project or product . Like seriously the easiest interviews and seasons had substance to them that was interesting to watch for me but it wasn’t there for me going forward. I still think that the actor who played lena Luther was great in her role in the show just the quality overall went down the drain for me. I don’t have an opinion on the film version of super girl as I haven’t seen enough clips of that Version to make a balanced judgement because the film she appeared in didn’t appeal to me .
I'd say The CW, specifically, are the real villains here. They took the opportunity to create a comically accurate and memorable DC Multiverse that DC fans wanted and that normies could enjoy and turned it into an atrocious carnival bad writing, bad production and bad acting. All for the main purpose of promoting their own personal woke agenda. That's was clearly the only thing that they really cared about.
10:10 I still can’t get over this shit they pulled in she-hulk. What makes it worse is that these people are cousins, but in the comics they love each other like siblings. So it’s not like she didn’t know he went through all this shit. And she still said this garbage to his face. For me, this was the absolute lowest point the MCU has gone for me.
I never thought about the morals of these “heroes” until now, I was always disliked them because they were obviously made to step on their predecessors, and bring a middle-finger to the fans. I never thought about the fact that these individuals were written without the concept of what a hero actually is. That being someone who puts their own lives aside for the greater good.
One that particularly bugged me was America Chavez from Dr Strange 2. It was supposed to be his movie, but she is pushed as basically the greatest thing ever, (even though she's insufferably boring), giving him basically no room to do anything that mattered. Dr Strange 1 was one of my favorite MCU films, it sucks that he didn't get a sequel of his own.
Female lead movie somehow needed to be directed by activist female director. I feel that is the main reason. If you are activist director, i think you are more suited to direct a documentary or mockumentary. Anyway they have more of an agenda driven movie than purely story focused movies. If you want good female protagonist superhero movie? Just give it to a well know action movie director and let that person make a good movie, and just make the protagonist be female that would go much better. I guess they can’t let a male director direct female and that would defeat their purpose…
I don't think the studios or the writers they hire understand what the audience would like to see. Like General Motors they insist on making products they want to sell, not creating stories that people want to experience and care about. I have never cared about Superhero movies . The whole "super powers" mechanism in stories (or film) was always a thematic crutch to lean on when ideas finally died off. In classical story telling the "heroic" characters died, often as an exponent of suffering. Now, the only one suffering is the audience that has to pay for this slop. I do not think this is even a gender based thing anymore, all superheroes sort of suck now.
Two things turned me off while watching Captain Marvel. First, she was a jerk to nearly everyone around her (especially but not only the men), and never stopped being a jerk: rude, arrogant and dismissive. And second, her great breakthrough to gain her full power was...she just decided to. The childhood montage at the end showed she had always had that 'fall down and stand back up' trait, not that it was significant growth of character. (OK, the third major turnoff was what they did to ruin Fury, but that's a different rant.) But yeah, the key problem to me about current female heroes is precisely that they almost never seem to really struggle, they just inherit/steal/stumble/wish their way to power and victory, and are usually arrogant jerks along the way. There's no sense of risk or peril, just the wait until the director decides enough screen time has passed and it's time to wrap it up.
The problem is representation. It's not hard to write a good female character but when it's "representation" she becomes a representative and everything she says and does is a reflection of all women. We have a bunch of stoic girlbosses learning they were perfect all along and not to let society hold them back because it's a safe direction.
When Madem Web came out, I ask my niece which one are you going to be? She said, "None! I'm going to be Spider-Man." That just shows a mind of a child is stronger than a Writer & Director. What studios need to learn about Super Hero Movies female or male. Is give us a movie that we relate to. Like "No Way Home" when Spider-Man saves MJ on the Satue of Liberty, alot of us felt his pain, his memory when he lost Gwen. That's a "Related" Feeling.
Its obvious that characters without or that never acknowledge their flaws and keep winning without any challenge always end being either boring or obnoxious. Everyone knows that but some people have such massive egos that they keep doing them like that anyway and then after keep crying when nobody likes them.
The older Hong Kong martial arts films had better female characters than we see now. The bigger problem is that some of the characters we see in the MCU now are based on half decent comic characters! She-Hulk in the comics actually has a good story, so do many of the other females. (not all though) I **kinda** disagree with you on Wanda. She did/does what she is doing because her mind broke. She, herself is not evil, her broken mind is what is driving everything along. The fact that she can do all these things is just feeding it. I don't like the story, but I kinda understand it.
I've given up entirely on Marvel and DC. I can't even escape into video games anymore either. Everything coming out of America is just s*** now. I don't know what else to say about it.
They do suck. Any hero needs to be brave in the face of adversity and any hero story needs to show character growth and development, irrespective of whether the hero is a man or a woman. Ripley in the first two Alien films and Sarah Conner in the first two Terminator films is a perfect example of this. Modern females heroes are no longer portrayed this way because the same ideological activism that wants to replace all male heroes with "diversity" also cannot have the sacred downtrodden women portrayed as flawed in any way. If everyone (well, not men obviously) is accepted as perfect just as they are, there is no room for growth. There is no character journey and therefore they are unrelatable.
There are masculine ideals. These ideals are rejected as a consequence of the current rash of leftism. It’s hard to write a story about a hero without these ideals. For example, we would never call a guy a great man if he hasn’t done anything noteworthy. In our current climate saying a woman who has done an equal amount of nothing is anything less than great is offensive. So we have “heroes” that aren’t doing anything admirable but we are supposed to like them because they’re women and they deserve admiration for existing.
Princess Leia, Ellen Ripley and Sarah Connor. 3 heroic female characters that were well written, well developed and loved by the fans. Most of the comic book female characters (other than Wonder Woman) were just copies of male characters with little development or thought and movies made that lack of development worse with very lazy writing. I liked the Jessica Drew Spider-Woman and the early She Hulk comics despite their obviously being copies of a male character. I'm sure movie writers could make a decent female super hero film but I'm not holding my breath.
What many modern writers forget in their criticism of older works and ancient civilizations, women weren’t left behind during war because their women. But because women are the creators of life and the final protectors of their children. Even in a Lion Pride, many female lions will join together and even attack and even kill a male lion if he either doesn’t pull his weight or fails to protect the cubs. Some even criticized fictional works from Tolkien to anime, for having female characters being only healers and while I can completely understand. I also prefer at least a few female fighters in my fantasy, but a female healer or any healer is vital in any campaign. As a healer brings vast knowledge and of course medical care. Many in the part would sacrifice themselves so the healer can live, because of their importance to the overall mission. What’s also missing from many female characters in recent years, is the ability to be empathetic and nurturing.
I actually think having female fighters in anything but high magic fantasy or with firearms is a detriment. I used to not care, but I’m seen too many girls my size who I could actually fight (and I’m not in the best of shape) supposedly take down guys who would be hard to simply knock over without them putting up any resistance. It’s less believable than magic. It’s a violation of known reality to have a woman try to match a man strength for strength. Having her use different weapons and tactics helps, but without magic or firearms leveling the playing field the fight becomes a lot harder to take seriously.
Agatha would have been a perfect example for this video (thought not surprising she wasn't as no one watched or cared about the show xD). At the beginning we are told she is a mass murderer and no one trusts her. Yet we are shown her looking sad behind people's back, caring for the teen and the group starts liking each other in general. Maybe Agatha is a misunderstood villain, maybe she didn't do that much evil after all or had good reasons for it? Nope, the last episode shows her being a mass murderer and we are never given a reason why she does what she does (she just wants "power" for reasons?). Can't wait to root for her!
I really liked the female heroes in the first ten years of the MCU. But from the moment they felt the need to group them all together separate from everyone else in End Game as some kind of weird ''look at us'' marketing moment it soured them. Then the writing for female characters went down the drain too. Teenage girl Ant Man, teenage girl Iron Man, She-Hulk, Echo, Agatha. All so unlikeable. Star Wars tanked their franchise with this nonsense so Marvel decided to follow suit for some reason.
Good video and good points. The misandry in today's pop culture is part of what makes these female characters insufferable, and modern entertainment unwatchable. Someone let me know when sanity and decency returns, and when they decide to make a good Fantastc Four movie based on the actual characters, and when season two of Andor drops. Until then I'm completely checked out. Thanks.
My favorite kind of characters are the Kryptonians, or the Hulks, or Asgardians of their universes. People who can move planets around they're so powerful. I love seeing them interacting with regular people and being kind, men or women. I wanted to love shows like She-Hulk or movies like Captain Marvel. I love these ultra powerful heroes just being kind to regular people and thinking "yeah maybe I can do a few things that you can't, but I don't think that makes me better than you." Instead the attitude these projects gave the women was "no I'm *definitely* better than you. In like, every way possible.". Like the writers are living out their fantasy of being the superhero equivalent of the high school Mean Girl. Popular and demanding everyone acknowledge their superiority.
The girl power bit in the endgame fight made no sense. Imagine If in the middle of all the fighting your teammate ditches you just to gather in a corner with all the other girlies cuz...ovaries ??🤨🤨
Even being generous that they didn’t ditch the others and just ended up there, they were originally all over the place. How the heck did they end up all in one spot? It doesn’t work no matter how you look at it.
That girl power scene in End Game…my whole theater groaned. I rolled my eyes so hard. Everything I love about being a woman has been taken away from these characters. They’ve turned them into men.
My take: it used to be that superhero or action/adventure nerd/genre movies were made by people who liked superheroes and other nerdy/genre stories. Occasionally those creators would make something with a female lead (Sarah Connor, Ellen Ripley, Mrs. Brisby) and it would be awesome because it was created with skill and love. But, lately, those superhero/nerdy/genre movies have become so popular that they have attracted creators who don't love the genre, but are just there for a paycheck. Or, more infamously, people who are using the popularity of the genre to push their own agenda....The newcomers either don't know how to work with the conventions/tropes of the genre, or they are actively trying to subvert it. Either way, we get terrible, terrible movies.
Disney is trying so hard to be inclusive, they are excluding others, I am not even seeing some of my favorite characters like Blue Marvel, Brother Voodoo, Blade, T'Challa, and Monica Rambeu. Why can't we see Blue Marvel and Monica Rambeu show. They elevate the female by ignoring the male characters, in the shows and movies.
Spider-Gwen is a well developed hero. I like her character arc. She starts the 2nd movie with drums and breaking up the band. She has a problem and says "I can't fix this". She resolves her daddy issues in a heart warming way. She ends the movie with drums and making a new band. It wasn't about her identity, it was about her struggle. Fantastic character.
that what was thrown on a screen in the darkened room prophesied things none but Nyarlathotep dared prophesy, and that in the sputter of his sparks there was taken from men that which had never been taken before yet which shewed only in the eyes
It’s head-cannon time: Somewhere in a Hollywood studio room: Studio head: “So, do you have a new female character for this story?” Writer: “Yes sir, she’s a narcissist who’s just naturally better at everything than men with no training or practice and belittles men because she’s oppressed by the patriarchy, and she’s also diverse” Studio head: “Brilliant, don’t change a thing, audiences will love her then”
Kind of, I was deep into comics back when dinosaurs walked the land. Of all the characters that were female the only one I liked was Rogue. And that was mostly because she first put Carole Danvers in a coma and then killed her
The source of the problem started from the top. Companies listen to investors, and some of our biggest investors decided that DEI is the answer to our problems. The world was then engaged in the biggest experiment in affirmative action.
What really pisses me off is that furiosa wrongfully suffered from so many poorly written female heroes/protagonists which caused the movie to bomb because so many people assumed is was gonna be the same thing we already seen in things like star wars anf marvel. Cuz she was a believable female protagonists in which she mostly played a supporting role in the movie and had to gradually learn about the wasteland. She had nothing to prove nor did she try to prove anything to anyone and only wanted revenge because she lost her mother. And best of all, Dementus was never afraid of her, not once did he beg for his life, he made her really work for a satisfying revenge which is pretty unheard of nowadays
Another main issue is the avoidance of women as main villains in the MCU. It is not even about popularity. Zero coincidence. Aldrich Killian, no superpowers, was in 1 comic in the 2000s and is the big bad in 'Iron Man 3' with another minor villain's powers (Mallen). Kaecilius, 3 comics in the 1960s, big bad in 'Doctor Strange'. Arthur Harrow, no powers, 1 Moon Knight comic in the 1980s, mystically enhanced big bad in the show. Meanwhile, *WELL* over 50 villainesses exist in Marvel comics. Cate Blanchett knows about them, hence she expressed Marvel Studios being tardy with them, and hoped for more to be adapted after her as Hela (albeit, not the Hela we wanted but she was good as Odin's daughter). 7 years later, the MCU has only adapted Melina Vostokoff/Iron Maiden, one of Natasha's most intense enemies who later fought The Avengers, is not allowed to be Natasha's main villain in Natasha's own movie but her *NON-ARMORED MOTHER AAAND BUDDY!* (Shout-out to 'What If...?' S2 Ep5's writers, they care) That is like Batman being adapted with Ra's Al Ghul being his foster dad and friend. Let alone Antonia Dreykov not being a conscious villain who would never forgive nor excuse Natasha. Her as a Taskmaster is not a problem, her lack of character is (Tony Masters better pop up though). They adapted Nebula and made her the only Guardians villain to become a hero ally while not having that aspect in the comics. They apparently adapted Nakia, one of Wakanda's most intense criminals, spiteful enemy to T'Challa, and made her a hero ally, T'Challa's love and mother to the next heir. That's like Superman being adapted with Livewire as his love interest and baby mama. Yelena Belova got adapted. Her and Natalia are kinda complicated in Earth-616 but they are still rivals. Earth-19999 going full duo with them was fun yet clearly another part of avoiding letting women do what hero men and villain men get to do in these movies nearly all the time; be adapted as complex enemies with dynamic debates. They adapted Irish bloodline Titania's name and style for a Pakistani bloodline woman which would have worked just fine if she were has much of a rival to Shulkie as she is in the comics and was her main villain. Why does Dudebro Hulk get that spotlight? Oh yeah, muh massage-a-knee. Alongside a nice Abomination 🙄, they had multiple z-list *MALE* villains in that therapy session, again ignoring female villains. Dar-Benn was in 3 1990s comics, his name is used for a woman instead of adapted Hala the Accuser and painting Zawe Ashton blue. Hala was adapted in the 'Marvel Rising' cartoon and Telltale's GOTG game. Dar-Benn, never adapted before. Typhoid Mary, one of Kingpin's best henchwomen, should have been the main villain in a better handled 'Echo'. Adding more layers and rivalry that does not include just repeating "muh Fisk and muh Maya". We do not have this issue with male villains. M'Baku and Loki and Abomination being cool peeps is not what I wanted, let alone Swordsman being an ally THAT soon with no history with Clint 🤦🏿♂️, but it's not nearly all male villains in the MCU. Women who are always villainous are avoided on purpose so much that it is clear there is an agenda which culminates to wanting women who do horrible stuff to never be defeated. Hence, Bruce Timm tried to gaslight us into thinking Gotham City does not have more than 3 or 4 female criminals, so they gotta use male-rooted villains for women yet there are over 12 Gotham villainesses (Anyalized has a detailed video on them). Yeah, they got a kid version of Nocturna but we're talking adult women with no potential for being too young to know what she does is wrong being avoided en masse.
the problem is that marvel have given up on the back stories that gave this women alot more meat on the bone in the comics when done right, sadly loving the comics and the stories which are the source of its success seems to be thing to have in Hollowood for some reason, they find comics beneath them and so are the fans of the genre and its tools of trade and the people who came before then who know how to write the female superheroines. really shame.
I agreed, they ruined Wonder Women and Black Widow, my favorite female heroes. In the process they also ruined the superheroes shows PERIOD! I also have favorite male heroes too which I am sick of seeing them bow down or made to look stupid to the female ones. I miss the days where they work together equally without prejudices to each other. The same is happening across the movie industry period in all forms of movie and it is tiring, I literally gave up watching movies and tv series. It has structed the gaming industry too. They think the future is female, but they're wrong and it shows here lately. I`m a women saying this.
They're based on the feminist movement, and this is why the female heroes are awful. Everything is about sticking it to the man, being better than a man, and actually becoming a man! It's absurd.
I loved the first Captain Marvel, I like that Cara is headstrong & impulsive. The sequel was a gigantic disappointment. It had all the ingredients to be a perfect film, it could have been Marvels best solo film. Imagine the movie opening from the Kree villains perspective while Captain Marvel decimates their fleet & destroys the central intelligence. Show the aftermath, show Cara carrying the burden quietly. Then introduce Ms Marvel, an idealistic fan girl that learns her hero caused a galactic catastrophe. Show Captain Marvel growing from a flaws, show Ms Marvel viewing her hero in a new light. It could have been so good. I think back on Ashoka Tano and her first appearance, people hated her and rightly so. Then a dose of humility turned everyone around. Doing that for Captain Marvel would have endeared the audience to her. God I hate that movie.
I noticed that you didn't mention Kate Bishop from the Hawkeye show, do you have any thoughts on her in the show. BTW, great video, and I agree with your opinions. We really need well written female characters back, especially in superhero media.
I am sick of stories that expect the audience to celebrate women just because they are women! Yes, you can have female characters who work for and achieve amazing things. yes, you can have likable heroic female main characters from Riply to Catness everdine and a lot in between. you can even have female characters who are; like several so called "damsels", of the passed, kind, likable decent people who support the hero and whom the hero wants in his turn to keep safe. But the modern mantra is always that the female hero needs no other motivation than seeking power and doing down men, and the female villain; well pretty much does the same thing, especially when there are no consequences for her actions, and the audience are just supposed to applaud this, because feminism good! And if the audience don't like these aggressive, snarky power junkies, well it is they who are "misogynist!" This is why I actively avoid anything written or produced after 2017 without a very strong recommendation! especially if it features a female main character. indeed, these days I've mostly just been reading a lot of older stuff, because frankly if I want decent female characters; not to mention male characters who aren't useless simps, the passed is the only place to find them!
i am glad you put donner superman in the clip. You can narrow superman in one way. what is superman. answer a friend. He not a god, he not jesus. He just a friend. Female superhero for the most part are none of those they work so hard to be the perfect girl boss that the lose site that they can just be a friend.
All that they really had to do with the first Captain Marvel movie to make her character fit better in MCU canon was to base her movie right before the events of 'Avengers Infinity War' & not tried to make it a half-assed prequel. Female characters have been written by many self-proclaimed feminists/activists in recent years & have turned out terribly as a result. As these female characters are basically feminst power fantasies where women triumph over either ignorant or tyrannical men. While most audiences just want to be entertained by great characters & stories. The fans are the ones that care a great deal about many of the characters on screen & aren't going to react well to them being disrespected for no reason. The entertainment that is made by many of these feminists/activists doesn't appeal to most women or most men. So these studios tend to end up putting out flop after flop. A similar thing has happened to the gaming industry, too.
The central thesis is that they're not willing to invest in the female heroes like they did their male counterparts. We'll look at two different comparisons, first of which is Iron Man vs. Ironheart. For Iron Man, Tony Stark is forced to see the damage that his company has inflicted on the world by its manufacturing and sale of advanced weapons. He fails almost immediately, and creates the Iron Man suit as an act of desperation, then starts to build it up to correct the mistakes he's made. We watch his repeated failures to get the suit working, dealing with things like the freezing issue, and learning the responsibility that comes with it. With Ironheart... she's pretty much just awesome from the word go, and never suffers anything akin to the setbacks Tony had. Spider-Man, another male hero attached to Iron Man, ALSO has to deal with consistent consequences and coming up short, but Riri is *never* trusted with that kind of vulnerability. Then we have Rey vs. Luke. Luke nearly dies four times in Ep IV alone, and has to be bailed out by his friends each time, and in his first duel with lightsaber, he's nowhere CLOSE in the fight. Vader goes into Daddy Spank mode, and just sort of casually beats him from one side of Cloud City to the other, and Luke loses a hand, as well as having to be saved by the very friends he came to save. Rey... literally goes even up with Kylo the very first time she even ignites a lightsaber, and is never on the backfoot throughout three movies. She is just the best, all the time.
The idea that Mjolnir suddenly is sentient or that it can grant the power to be Thor to whom it chooses was out of nowhere and made no sense either. It was just an excuse to make Jane into better Thor.
i'm just gonna drop a comment in the vague hope that one person reads it and goes on to write a character with it in mind. when you're writing a character, disregard their gender and think of them as just a person, THEN make changes as necessary to things like pronouns. have a good day/night
Interesting fact : the writers of black widow, she hulk, wandavision were not fan of the comics, didn’t read any of the comics, were not familiar with the marvel movies or they were not into superhero comics at all. They ultimately decided to redefine the characters and thought that it would work better for the story the writers wanted to tell.
Even Male characters who go through no struggle in some capacity are usually not compelling. But you can make overpowered characters that are compelling, Galen Marek from Star Wars, Omni man from invincible, Thor from marvel, Super man from DC, etc. The same can be said for some female characters, Wonder Woman isn’t super broken, but she’s definitely pretty powerful all things considered. If you make her character just about her physical abilities and add your own vitriol ideology into her, ofc she will suck. However she can be likable and compelling if you do it right just like with all the male characters I listed. But most of these writers now days are terrible; power fantasy’s is all they can manage to think of when they are creating a character because it’s a projection of their resentment and hatred (usually towards men) and physical strength is one of the main advantages we males have they can basically do nothing about. Hence why powers of extreme strength appeal to women, she hulk is the embodiment of this resentment fantasy and it’s obvious that was the intent. It’s perfectly possible to make physical powerful strong female characters without being a hatful sexist dick about it, but modern feminism has never been about equality and fairness between the sexes, it’s a power fantasy filled with ego narcissism with no moral compass, just parasitic venomous vitriol that has a superiority complex.
She-Hulk was the worst so far, but has Captain Marvel, Task Master and Echo coming close behind. I actually liked the latter in Hawkeye and found her cool in the comics, but the story in her own show and her new powers sucked indeed.
The reason why female heroes suck is the way they are writing . For example when writing a stoic character the thing that makes him so stoic is they just are quiet and are listening to everybody around them, female stoic characters can never shut up basically off female characters become this never shutting up obnoxious thing because they're usually portrayed as nothing bothering them
Basically, the writers are trying to make women just as physically strong as men, when what's more realistic, is a more visceral form of fighting and survival like Sarah Conner in T2. Not pure display of perfect fighting technique and strength, but just a savage brutality from a will to survive and not get hurt. And I can't remember if Peppermint was like that too? I might be imagining it. But anyway, instead of being creative about how a woman would overpower men physically in a fight, activist writers will not stand for a woman to NOT be 100% physically on par with men, and that's why intuitively, something feels off, something feels cringy when we watch these kinds of shows and movies.
WE WANT WRITERS! Good writers period.
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@@Liqo315 Yep
Yes, we do.
I rather take writers without a period. But who are we kidding, most male writers in current Hollywood wish they had a period....
We "got here" because this new crop of showrunners and directors think the hero's journey is "outdated". They see it as a, and I'm about a cringe so hard that I might break the screen, a construct of the patriarchy because it's been used to tell stories about men who rise to the occasion to become heroes. That in and of itself is BS, because there's nothing in the hero's journey that says that the hero of the tale has to be a man.
There's also this obsession with this idea that morally ambiguous characters are some how "nuanced" and deep, which is once again BS. So you have things like the Acolyte which tell us the good guys are really the bad guys, and the bad guys are somehow misunderstood because the good guys are really mean to them. UGH! We see how far this has gone, with Disney especially, with their whole movie Cruella. They tried to make a character who wants to murder puppies and wear them as a coat, whose name is literally "cruel devil", into a sympathetic character. A good example of a nuanced character is (and I'm not sure if this really applies but indulge me here) Anavel Gato from Gundam 0083. He believes in the cause, but he starts to question whether the mission is the best way to achieve that, and asks "Am I doing the right thing?". That seed of doubt is illustrative of a more complex and much more well thought out character than 10 Carol Danvers.
There also seems to be this idea again, with Disney especially, that you can not show a woman being wrong, or having to pay for their crimes. How many times do we get what I call the "CW ending", where the bad guy (usually a woman like Alice on Batwoman, whom I call "Raging Karen) just walk out of the room? And then the good guys just let her go. No daring escape. No jumping out a plane and pulling the ripcord. Just "Oh, golly gee shucksie doodles. She's walking out of the room. If there were only some way I could make her pay for her crimes". Yeah, stop her and throw her in prison, ya moron!
Disney seems to be the main offender here, but there's been plenty of others such as Star Trek Discovery. I had this other bit about how writers don't know how to write and can't create good guys vs bad guys plots anymore, but that's for another day.
Great post.
Goated 0083 mention
Kudos to you for mentioning a gundam character.
Gundam in my not so humble opinion, a much more cared and loved franchise than the current star wars franchise.
Sunrise and Bandai has given the fans what they want in the form of Gundam Seed Freedom and the fans reciprocate it with 4 billion yen, making it the most successful gundam movie outside of the main timeline.
In contrast, star wars has been used as a channel for identity politics and gave the fans star wars acolyte which is the worst tv show ever. Not as a star wars tv show, just a tv show. The fans has been derided and called names ranging from bigoted to racist when those words are more appropriately applied to themselves.
I suggest people actually go into it, the standard one is very much a mans, women have their own and that's the problem, they never adapt the classic female heroes stories from the past.
Star Trek Discovery had such awful writing
People keep forgetting to add that Valkyrie was literally a trafficker that had no problem selling aliens, including an Asgardian, with a strong possibility that they'd die. And now she's the king of New Asgard.
Ikr she was literally betraying the prince of her own kingdom while Hela was killing other Asgardians.
Then there’s simple word choice. Why the heck is she “king”? The term “queen” is there for female rulers. If you made a literal translation of certain languages to English, the term for a ruler might be purely masculine (such as “emperor” in Chinese, with “empress” always literally meaning a consort rather than a ruler), but that’s when you apply context and use correct English terminology. It seems the writers are in fact quite misogynistic and see female terms as lesser than the male equivalents.
@@John-fk2ky I don't remember if her being called King was in Endgame or if it was just in a Waititi movie, but if it was just the Waititi movie then you're probably overthinking it because Waititi is like a kid, and would do that for the same reason Elisabeth was the "king" of the pirates in Pirates of the Caribbean just because it's suppose to be funny or goofy and to take seriousness away from issues of authority.
Even though she was a drunkard she was still able to function well enough to do her job. Cut to Thor being a drunkard and suddennly he's overweight, playing video games and generally a joke.
@StefanHillier Yeah his very real and understandable trauma and his reaction to it was made into a punchline instead of serious and sad.
Sylvie is the worst. The moment she showed her face, she told not only Loki, but us that "this isn't about you." She also proved it. She took Loki's first season away from him. It was her story. The only time she really took a step back, was in season 2.
The biggest irony, I always thought, about The Multiverse Saga at that point was that women were completely at fault for Kang being a threat. Sylvie killed He Who Remains, who was stopping the Multiverse going crazy, and Janet refused to talk about Kang and her time in the Quantum Realm.
This has happened with nearly every series Disney has produced in recent years that has a male lead. Kate Bishop saves the day in Hawkeye while he's stuck in a Christmas tree. The Obi-Wan series was hijacked by the Inquisitor Reva story. The writers in Book of Boba Fett made sure that Fennec Shand was always right and made to be superior to the title character in every possible aspect. And their most successful series, The Mandalorian...its success as a male-driven story could not be allowed to continue, so Bo-Katan had to be made the lead in season 3.
EXCELLENT NERDWORD WORK. FEMINIST FEMALES CHARACTERS LACK OF STORYLINES
Season two did a monumental amount of weightlifting for that show. I was equal parts surprised and grateful season two showed us in great detail just how wrong Sylvie was in her actions, as well as demonstrated the extent of heroism that Loki had to step into in order to fix the problem that she created and single-handedly hold the entire Multiverse together. While her motivation for killing the one who remains as understandable, season two doesn’t pretend like what she did was the right thing.
We need Heroines, not Female Heroes.
I think Quake, from Agents of Shield, is a good female hero
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@@raymondamador1487She’s an exception. I liked her as a character as well
@@raymondamador1487She started as a hacker and became an agent/superhero by tragedy mainly Grant Ward.
... those are the same thing
Yeah, but they were badasses and did badass things. What about that? Never mind the multiple genocides of Captain Marvel. Forget about Wonder Woman hijacking a man's life. Don't worry about the fact that Echo was a ruthless killer that changed her mind for literally no reason. And dismiss the fact Ironheart has literally no character. All you need are flashing lights and explosions. And if you don't like it, you're the problem. The writers and directors? They did nothing wrong. Hell, they did nothing at all. It's bad because you have high expectations. (That they initially set 10 years ago but don't think about it.)
don't forget the sky beam
Since we’re on the subject, Disney did a better job with diversity and women when they weren’t even trying. (Jasmine, Tiana, Nani, Kenai)
Also introducing the new generation of marvel heroes by having them be in streaming shows that less people watch than movies or even having them be side characters should’ve been an obviously bad idea
One more thing is that Disney just gave us the acolyte with easily some of the worst female characters and protagonists in years
“When they weren’t even trying”
That’s such a big lie as if you look up the development of the movies. Yes they’re trying.
Along with watching the movies yourself
I liked it when Disney was aware of its damsel in distress trope and had the playfulness of poke fun of itself (Enchanted). This turned ugly when they went for bitter power grabs.
Trying is the problem. When a character is a mouthpiece for a race or gender they cease to be a coherent character.
@@SammyRobinson62232 The passive aggression is strong.
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I’m just saying that the the comment isn’t true at all
I feel bad for the actress who played Layla in MoonKnight, May Calamawy. She did her best but her character was horribly written.
Why did she leave out conveniently Black Panther: Wakanda Forever? Literally that is hands down the best female Superhero group
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Black Panther 2 sucked
@@chasehedges6775 Whites aren't reliable narrators or critics hence why Asian cinema is thriving right now. The West isn't suffering because of DEI, it's dying due it lack of imagination and it hit a wall. White people just simply aren't creative anymore, they steal ideas from the East. Black Panther and Wakanda Forever were hella original
@@chasehedges6775 White movies suck. The best movies are East Asian
Elizabeth Olsen deserves better than the MCU, IMO. She’s a talented actress.
Who would've thought we'd be saying that 5 years ago? wow lol
She was always good tho especially in Age Of Ultron(2015)
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We "got here" because activists convinced studios that there was an untapped market for the "modern audience." That pandering to them would replace old audiences and boy did that backfire
And studios, being the greedy, coked up zombies they are, actually bought that.
Absolutely the modern audience.
They're women first, heroes second.
Man bashers first - and only.
If you wrote that out as part of how a character works, that’s perfectly normal. Being female should result in a character acting differently than a male character in the same situation. The problem is that the writers only focus on the character being female and that the character being the protagonist makes her a hero regardless of her actions. The character actually acting like a hero doesn’t even register to the writers.
Something you forgot about Riri Williams. She wasn't just told that she couldn't be the next Iron Man by her teacher. Riri forced the teacher to say that so she could prove the teacher wrong, at least in the comics (not sure what they'll do for the MCU version). She literally was like "Oppress me so I can prove you wrong, white woman".
Oh, I'm sure the new origin will have that teacher dressed in a suit designed by Hugo Boss; specifically the 1939 collection.
Female heroes are great. The way that most currently are written just isn’t. Every character in that thumbnail could’ve been compelling, complex, and interesting characters in the right hands.
Kinda wish the focus never shifted to “Strong female characters” And stayed locked at “a strong character who just so happens to be a woman, black, gay”, etc.
They *could* have been... if not for the reason that most of them have been pushed into it... which *prevents* them from being good.
First, DEI... and second, Miss Andry...
Or to put it another way... they exist simply TO exist... while expressing how inherently superior they are, compared to anything with "dangly bits".
Tina Majorino as Enola in Waterworld(1995) and Aubree Miller as Cindel in Ewoks The Battle For Endor(1985) are honestly better well written and better acted female characters than anything of these Modern MCU female superhero characters.
Except Wonder Woman and Black Widow... and Wanda, prior to that show... Off the top of my head, those are the only three exceptions in the current MCU.
Most of the rest are just there to express the Miss Andry.
It seems like people, let alone women who actually hate women/girls got hired to write female characters by 2017 or so. Ophelia Sarkissian, I'm sorry, Anita Sarkissian and her "everything is ist/phobic", female-focused movement in video games spread across other areas. I've said it before, I'll say it again, Power Rangers has more interesting, funny, feminine, tomboy, caring, dynamic women/girls than the post-2017 MCU. Even in Power Rangers seasons that are not that good to most of us PR followers.
It's not women they hate. It's feminity.
ha funny i was before i was watching this i was looking for lore about lauren shiba ( a female red ranger from power rangers samurai)
@@Dawsatek22 Nice. And Lauren is also more interesting than a bunch of women characters lately. Even though we had her for 3 episodes. 😆😫
By people you mean f-menists??
How do they hate women though??
I don't think they do, they just are
using them to push a narrative.
These writers unknowingly turn their female-heroes into villains, and audiences aren't allowed to call them out for doing it. I genuinely think they believe they're in the right for c̶o̶r̶r̶e̶c̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ reversing years of "toxic masculinity" as they call it, by replacing all male hero roles with masculine female ones. Their idea of a strong woman is constrained only to physical strength and appearances. They see having emotions, empathy, beauty in women as weaknesses to be discarded. To further my point, you now see more men depicted with these traits instead. The men in these shows are now the ones trying to convince the female heroes that they're doing something wrong, but are just brushed off with a 'You're just a weak, dumb man, I know better' attitude.
The fact they decry men for ‘toxic masculinity’ and yet portray their ‘strong female characters’* with the exact same ‘toxic’ traits and expect them to be lauded shows us far more about the writers than they realize.
* I cannot call them heroes or protagonists because they clearly aren’t
Steve Rogers is by far my favorite superhero. He’s endeared himself to me with one simple line. “I don’t want to kill anyone. I just don’t like bullies, I don’t care where they’re from.” He spends every single one of his movies showing us that this is firmly where his values and morals are. He is a hero to aspire to.
Classical female heroes are fantastic, look and Victorian English stories, Greek stories, Chinese stories. And females heroes in movies and TV before the 2000's where 80 to 90% great (Aliens, Tomb Raiders, Kill Bill, Terminator 1+2, Gone with the wind, etc etc)
Older stuff is better, really.
@@chasehedges6775 Yup, because people created stories in good faith, not to _prove a point_
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9:52 to 10:56 I still can't believe they did that to She Hulk, in the comics and cartoons while she enjoyed her powers she never treated Bruce wrong and never tried to proof the haters wrong. Nowadays they have her whining about how no one takes her seriously, hates being attractive (even though that's what she wanted) and wishes she was like Bruce where he's always in fear of hurting/killing his loved ones.
The point of She Hulk was that she was the opposite of the Hulk.
Don't ask questions. That's problematic.
Just consume product.
Ewh... no thanks 🤮
I'm against Consumerism
In Wonder Woman 1984 Steve is in the body of another man but we as the audience see Steve, helping us forget this fact and make it palatable. Diana sees the face etc of the other guy, unless she is hallucinating through 'love'.🙄
So it's actually worse than you described.
And they had sex, thus raping the aforementioned man’s body. Not to mention it was highly suggested that he was gay so they also too away his sexual preference
The biggest issue I have found with the "Characters" is that they are not characters in the story. They are the Self-Inserts for the female writers who don't care about the damage they are doing to a beloved IP, they just want people to ooo and aaa over them. Then they show their true colors when the film or show bombs, using every flavor of ist/phobe they can to push the blame onto everyone else except them...
Devalue a cause by using cheap spiteful tokenism and compound the damage by hiring the popular kids who mocked comic books, scifi and fantasy writing until the genres became popular, and only see a cause as a means of self gratification
The past female characters were like this: weakness is really what makes a female character strong, where they learn from it and work their way to overcome it. It takes time, yes, but time to heal, grow and develop mentally and physically while still maintaining yet perfecting emotional traits. That way, being labeled as a hero is earned.
This era's female characters are like this: you are female, so you HAVE to be an emotionless, perfectly skilled robot queen who talks agenda down on everyone who simply wants to help.
Yeah, good times. 😢
It's ironic that so many modern writers think they're being progressive with many female and minoroty characters when, in fact, most of the time, they've ended up writing 1 or 2 dimensional stereotypes who are more insulting than inspiring or even interesting. There's so much hubris is believing that we didn't already have amazing female characters in Sci Fi in the past. The late 90s and early 2000s had some of the best action/sci fi female characters to grace the small screen. Gove me 10 Jadzia Daxs over any of todays 'modern' female heroes.
Less politics, more good written stories
Comic book characters are best in animated form. This is doubly true for female superheroes.
Took the words right out of my mouth 👍🏾
I can't stand what the MCU did for the Wasp, she was my fav character of the EMH cartoon
Aways good to hear the NerdWord!
Same 💯💯
I've already forgotten about all of these females pretending to be super heroes but you gone and reminded me about them! Now, I was reminded of just how crap they were or their story were. However, your breakdown of their flaws and the crappiness of their stories was marvellous! Remembered why I was subscribed to your channel. 👍
Luke Skywalker….Aunt and uncle killed, obi-wan killed, fails in training, hand cut off, finds out Vader is his dad, etc…..Rey basically is given all his stuff with no struggle and steals his name
Don’t forget they make the guy who tried to find the good in a cold blooded murderer and help him find a form of salvation decide to kill his nephew because ‘he had bad vibes’ or something, and then screwed off to who knows where to sulk and drink green milk. And then there’s the tragic story of a fiery princess and leader of a rebellion who took no shots from anyone that becomes little more than a floor mat of a pathetic ‘resistance’. Oh we can go on all day about how DEIsney screwed everyone over in the Sequels.
I said from the moment i saw it that TFA is a rehash of the original SW story. It’s almost exactly the same.
I would also blame popularity off OP characters and "grey character" since it seems many writters are trying to go down this route not realising if they aren't handled well they become horrible character tropes
Super girl started it all
Supergirl was awesome, she wasn't trying to belittle superman or that she's better like she hulk and ironheart
No, GB2016 started this shit
@TheNightman. Super girl failed so bad that made Hollywood think: super heroines movies aren't worth the effort. Gb2016 didn't have effort
@@chinonsomichael9839 well it got cringe towards the end of the show supergirl run in my view . Even the interviews were like that to the point I thought I was watching I cringe bridal shower masquerading as an interview maybe someone else loved that and that’s fine but don’t get your knickers or boxes in the twist when that puts someone else off the project or product . Like seriously the easiest interviews and seasons had substance to them that was interesting to watch for me but it wasn’t there for me going forward. I still think that the actor who played lena Luther was great in her role in the show just the quality overall went down the drain for me. I don’t have an opinion on the film version of super girl as I haven’t seen enough clips of that Version to make a balanced judgement because the film she appeared in didn’t appeal to me .
I'd say The CW, specifically, are the real villains here.
They took the opportunity to create a comically accurate and memorable DC Multiverse that DC fans wanted and that normies could enjoy and turned it into an atrocious carnival bad writing, bad production and bad acting.
All for the main purpose of promoting their own personal woke agenda.
That's was clearly the only thing that they really cared about.
10:10 I still can’t get over this shit they pulled in she-hulk. What makes it worse is that these people are cousins, but in the comics they love each other like siblings. So it’s not like she didn’t know he went through all this shit. And she still said this garbage to his face.
For me, this was the absolute lowest point the MCU has gone for me.
I never thought about the morals of these “heroes” until now, I was always disliked them because they were obviously made to step on their predecessors, and bring a middle-finger to the fans. I never thought about the fact that these individuals were written without the concept of what a hero actually is. That being someone who puts their own lives aside for the greater good.
Fiona Belli from Haunting Ground is better written than most female characters nowadays.
One that particularly bugged me was America Chavez from Dr Strange 2.
It was supposed to be his movie, but she is pushed as basically the greatest thing ever, (even though she's insufferably boring), giving him basically no room to do anything that mattered. Dr Strange 1 was one of my favorite MCU films, it sucks that he didn't get a sequel of his own.
Female lead movie somehow needed to be directed by activist female director. I feel that is the main reason. If you are activist director, i think you are more suited to direct a documentary or mockumentary. Anyway they have more of an agenda driven movie than purely story focused movies. If you want good female protagonist superhero movie? Just give it to a well know action movie director and let that person make a good movie, and just make the protagonist be female that would go much better.
I guess they can’t let a male director direct female and that would defeat their purpose…
I don't think the studios or the writers they hire understand what the audience would like to see. Like General Motors they insist on making products they want to sell, not creating stories that people want to experience and care about. I have never cared about Superhero movies . The whole "super powers" mechanism in stories (or film) was always a thematic crutch to lean on when ideas finally died off. In classical story telling the "heroic" characters died, often as an exponent of suffering. Now, the only one suffering is the audience that has to pay for this slop. I do not think this is even a gender based thing anymore, all superheroes sort of suck now.
Two things turned me off while watching Captain Marvel. First, she was a jerk to nearly everyone around her (especially but not only the men), and never stopped being a jerk: rude, arrogant and dismissive. And second, her great breakthrough to gain her full power was...she just decided to. The childhood montage at the end showed she had always had that 'fall down and stand back up' trait, not that it was significant growth of character. (OK, the third major turnoff was what they did to ruin Fury, but that's a different rant.)
But yeah, the key problem to me about current female heroes is precisely that they almost never seem to really struggle, they just inherit/steal/stumble/wish their way to power and victory, and are usually arrogant jerks along the way. There's no sense of risk or peril, just the wait until the director decides enough screen time has passed and it's time to wrap it up.
The problem is representation. It's not hard to write a good female character but when it's "representation" she becomes a representative and everything she says and does is a reflection of all women. We have a bunch of stoic girlbosses learning they were perfect all along and not to let society hold them back because it's a safe direction.
When Madem Web came out, I ask my niece which one are you going to be? She said, "None! I'm going to be Spider-Man." That just shows a mind of a child is stronger than a Writer & Director. What studios need to learn about Super Hero Movies female or male. Is give us a movie that we relate to. Like "No Way Home" when Spider-Man saves MJ on the Satue of Liberty, alot of us felt his pain, his memory when he lost Gwen. That's a "Related" Feeling.
Its obvious that characters without or that never acknowledge their flaws and keep winning without any challenge always end being either boring or obnoxious. Everyone knows that but some people have such massive egos that they keep doing them like that anyway and then after keep crying when nobody likes them.
I GUARANTEE you that NO ONE car called Jen Walters.
The older Hong Kong martial arts films had better female characters than we see now.
The bigger problem is that some of the characters we see in the MCU now are based on half decent comic characters!
She-Hulk in the comics actually has a good story, so do many of the other females. (not all though)
I **kinda** disagree with you on Wanda.
She did/does what she is doing because her mind broke.
She, herself is not evil, her broken mind is what is driving everything along. The fact that she can do all these things is just feeding it.
I don't like the story, but I kinda understand it.
I've given up entirely on Marvel and DC. I can't even escape into video games anymore either. Everything coming out of America is just s*** now. I don't know what else to say about it.
I agree, but this video was put out around 2 years too late to be considered controversial or groundbreaking at this point lol
They do suck. Any hero needs to be brave in the face of adversity and any hero story needs to show character growth and development, irrespective of whether the hero is a man or a woman.
Ripley in the first two Alien films and Sarah Conner in the first two Terminator films is a perfect example of this.
Modern females heroes are no longer portrayed this way because the same ideological activism that wants to replace all male heroes with "diversity" also cannot have the sacred downtrodden women portrayed as flawed in any way.
If everyone (well, not men obviously) is accepted as perfect just as they are, there is no room for growth. There is no character journey and therefore they are unrelatable.
There are masculine ideals. These ideals are rejected as a consequence of the current rash of leftism. It’s hard to write a story about a hero without these ideals. For example, we would never call a guy a great man if he hasn’t done anything noteworthy. In our current climate saying a woman who has done an equal amount of nothing is anything less than great is offensive.
So we have “heroes” that aren’t doing anything admirable but we are supposed to like them because they’re women and they deserve admiration for existing.
It's the people writing them. Self inserts and activist writers are killing IPs and genres.
Princess Leia, Ellen Ripley and Sarah Connor. 3 heroic female characters that were well written, well developed and loved by the fans. Most of the comic book female characters (other than Wonder Woman) were just copies of male characters with little development or thought and movies made that lack of development worse with very lazy writing. I liked the Jessica Drew Spider-Woman and the early She Hulk comics despite their obviously being copies of a male character. I'm sure movie writers could make a decent female super hero film but I'm not holding my breath.
Insightful and well said. It's been a pleasure watching your channel grow. Keep up the good work.
What many modern writers forget in their criticism of older works and ancient civilizations, women weren’t left behind during war because their women. But because women are the creators of life and the final protectors of their children. Even in a Lion Pride, many female lions will join together and even attack and even kill a male lion if he either doesn’t pull his weight or fails to protect the cubs. Some even criticized fictional works from Tolkien to anime, for having female characters being only healers and while I can completely understand. I also prefer at least a few female fighters in my fantasy, but a female healer or any healer is vital in any campaign. As a healer brings vast knowledge and of course medical care. Many in the part would sacrifice themselves so the healer can live, because of their importance to the overall mission. What’s also missing from many female characters in recent years, is the ability to be empathetic and nurturing.
I actually think having female fighters in anything but high magic fantasy or with firearms is a detriment. I used to not care, but I’m seen too many girls my size who I could actually fight (and I’m not in the best of shape) supposedly take down guys who would be hard to simply knock over without them putting up any resistance. It’s less believable than magic. It’s a violation of known reality to have a woman try to match a man strength for strength. Having her use different weapons and tactics helps, but without magic or firearms leveling the playing field the fight becomes a lot harder to take seriously.
I think the modern versions of female super heroes are unpopular but the original comic book versions of those female heroes are actually good
You have a pretty voice. It's very comforting.
Agatha would have been a perfect example for this video (thought not surprising she wasn't as no one watched or cared about the show xD). At the beginning we are told she is a mass murderer and no one trusts her. Yet we are shown her looking sad behind people's back, caring for the teen and the group starts liking each other in general. Maybe Agatha is a misunderstood villain, maybe she didn't do that much evil after all or had good reasons for it? Nope, the last episode shows her being a mass murderer and we are never given a reason why she does what she does (she just wants "power" for reasons?). Can't wait to root for her!
I really liked the female heroes in the first ten years of the MCU. But from the moment they felt the need to group them all together separate from everyone else in End Game as some kind of weird ''look at us'' marketing moment it soured them. Then the writing for female characters went down the drain too. Teenage girl Ant Man, teenage girl Iron Man, She-Hulk, Echo, Agatha. All so unlikeable. Star Wars tanked their franchise with this nonsense so Marvel decided to follow suit for some reason.
Good video and good points. The misandry in today's pop culture is part of what makes these female characters insufferable, and modern entertainment unwatchable.
Someone let me know when sanity and decency returns, and when they decide to make a good Fantastc Four movie based on the actual characters, and when season two of Andor drops. Until then I'm completely checked out. Thanks.
My favorite kind of characters are the Kryptonians, or the Hulks, or Asgardians of their universes. People who can move planets around they're so powerful. I love seeing them interacting with regular people and being kind, men or women. I wanted to love shows like She-Hulk or movies like Captain Marvel. I love these ultra powerful heroes just being kind to regular people and thinking "yeah maybe I can do a few things that you can't, but I don't think that makes me better than you."
Instead the attitude these projects gave the women was "no I'm *definitely* better than you. In like, every way possible.". Like the writers are living out their fantasy of being the superhero equivalent of the high school Mean Girl. Popular and demanding everyone acknowledge their superiority.
The girl power bit in the endgame fight made no sense. Imagine If in the middle of all the fighting your teammate ditches you just to gather in a corner with all the other girlies cuz...ovaries ??🤨🤨
Even being generous that they didn’t ditch the others and just ended up there, they were originally all over the place. How the heck did they end up all in one spot? It doesn’t work no matter how you look at it.
I literally looked at my friend in the theater and said, “really”?!
That girl power scene in End Game…my whole theater groaned. I rolled my eyes so hard. Everything I love about being a woman has been taken away from these characters. They’ve turned them into men.
My take: it used to be that superhero or action/adventure nerd/genre movies were made by people who liked superheroes and other nerdy/genre stories. Occasionally those creators would make something with a female lead (Sarah Connor, Ellen Ripley, Mrs. Brisby) and it would be awesome because it was created with skill and love. But, lately, those superhero/nerdy/genre movies have become so popular that they have attracted creators who don't love the genre, but are just there for a paycheck. Or, more infamously, people who are using the popularity of the genre to push their own agenda....The newcomers either don't know how to work with the conventions/tropes of the genre, or they are actively trying to subvert it. Either way, we get terrible, terrible movies.
My hero's are, Quake & Yoyo(AoS), Ivanava & Delin(Babylon 5), Zahn(Farscape), Camina Drummer(The Expanse), anyone else?
Mine were Jadzia and Kira from DS9, Sam Carter from Stargate, Max from Dark Angel, Daria and Jane, and Liz Lemon.
@@stackels97 Good list, tbh I forgot about most of these. I'll update the list, ty
Disney is trying so hard to be inclusive, they are excluding others, I am not even seeing some of my favorite characters like Blue Marvel, Brother Voodoo, Blade, T'Challa, and Monica Rambeu. Why can't we see Blue Marvel and Monica Rambeu show. They elevate the female by ignoring the male characters, in the shows and movies.
Spider-Gwen is a well developed hero. I like her character arc. She starts the 2nd movie with drums and breaking up the band. She has a problem and says "I can't fix this". She resolves her daddy issues in a heart warming way. She ends the movie with drums and making a new band. It wasn't about her identity, it was about her struggle. Fantastic character.
that what was thrown on a screen in the darkened room prophesied things none but Nyarlathotep dared prophesy,
and that in the sputter of his sparks there was taken from men that which had never been taken before yet which shewed only in the eyes
It’s head-cannon time: Somewhere in a Hollywood studio room:
Studio head: “So, do you have a new female character for this story?” Writer: “Yes sir, she’s a narcissist who’s just naturally better at everything than men with no training or practice and belittles men because she’s oppressed by the patriarchy, and she’s also diverse” Studio head: “Brilliant, don’t change a thing, audiences will love her then”
Kind of, I was deep into comics back when dinosaurs walked the land. Of all the characters that were female the only one I liked was Rogue. And that was mostly because she first put Carole Danvers in a coma and then killed her
The source of the problem started from the top. Companies listen to investors, and some of our biggest investors decided that DEI is the answer to our problems. The world was then engaged in the biggest experiment in affirmative action.
What really pisses me off is that furiosa wrongfully suffered from so many poorly written female heroes/protagonists which caused the movie to bomb because so many people assumed is was gonna be the same thing we already seen in things like star wars anf marvel. Cuz she was a believable female protagonists in which she mostly played a supporting role in the movie and had to gradually learn about the wasteland. She had nothing to prove nor did she try to prove anything to anyone and only wanted revenge because she lost her mother. And best of all, Dementus was never afraid of her, not once did he beg for his life, he made her really work for a satisfying revenge which is pretty unheard of nowadays
Well written, well read, good points, cmearly explained, and a good voice. Subscribing
Another main issue is the avoidance of women as main villains in the MCU. It is not even about popularity. Zero coincidence. Aldrich Killian, no superpowers, was in 1 comic in the 2000s and is the big bad in 'Iron Man 3' with another minor villain's powers (Mallen). Kaecilius, 3 comics in the 1960s, big bad in 'Doctor Strange'. Arthur Harrow, no powers, 1 Moon Knight comic in the 1980s, mystically enhanced big bad in the show.
Meanwhile, *WELL* over 50 villainesses exist in Marvel comics. Cate Blanchett knows about them, hence she expressed Marvel Studios being tardy with them, and hoped for more to be adapted after her as Hela (albeit, not the Hela we wanted but she was good as Odin's daughter).
7 years later, the MCU has only adapted Melina Vostokoff/Iron Maiden, one of Natasha's most intense enemies who later fought The Avengers, is not allowed to be Natasha's main villain in Natasha's own movie but her *NON-ARMORED MOTHER AAAND BUDDY!* (Shout-out to 'What If...?' S2 Ep5's writers, they care) That is like Batman being adapted with Ra's Al Ghul being his foster dad and friend. Let alone Antonia Dreykov not being a conscious villain who would never forgive nor excuse Natasha. Her as a Taskmaster is not a problem, her lack of character is (Tony Masters better pop up though).
They adapted Nebula and made her the only Guardians villain to become a hero ally while not having that aspect in the comics.
They apparently adapted Nakia, one of Wakanda's most intense criminals, spiteful enemy to T'Challa, and made her a hero ally, T'Challa's love and mother to the next heir. That's like Superman being adapted with Livewire as his love interest and baby mama.
Yelena Belova got adapted. Her and Natalia are kinda complicated in Earth-616 but they are still rivals. Earth-19999 going full duo with them was fun yet clearly another part of avoiding letting women do what hero men and villain men get to do in these movies nearly all the time; be adapted as complex enemies with dynamic debates.
They adapted Irish bloodline Titania's name and style for a Pakistani bloodline woman which would have worked just fine if she were has much of a rival to Shulkie as she is in the comics and was her main villain. Why does Dudebro Hulk get that spotlight? Oh yeah, muh massage-a-knee. Alongside a nice Abomination 🙄, they had multiple z-list *MALE* villains in that therapy session, again ignoring female villains.
Dar-Benn was in 3 1990s comics, his name is used for a woman instead of adapted Hala the Accuser and painting Zawe Ashton blue. Hala was adapted in the 'Marvel Rising' cartoon and Telltale's GOTG game. Dar-Benn, never adapted before.
Typhoid Mary, one of Kingpin's best henchwomen, should have been the main villain in a better handled 'Echo'. Adding more layers and rivalry that does not include just repeating "muh Fisk and muh Maya".
We do not have this issue with male villains. M'Baku and Loki and Abomination being cool peeps is not what I wanted, let alone Swordsman being an ally THAT soon with no history with Clint 🤦🏿♂️, but it's not nearly all male villains in the MCU. Women who are always villainous are avoided on purpose so much that it is clear there is an agenda which culminates to wanting women who do horrible stuff to never be defeated. Hence, Bruce Timm tried to gaslight us into thinking Gotham City does not have more than 3 or 4 female criminals, so they gotta use male-rooted villains for women yet there are over 12 Gotham villainesses (Anyalized has a detailed video on them). Yeah, they got a kid version of Nocturna but we're talking adult women with no potential for being too young to know what she does is wrong being avoided en masse.
the problem is that marvel have given up on the back stories that gave this women alot more meat on the bone in the comics when done right, sadly loving the comics and the stories which are the source of its success seems to be thing to have in Hollowood for some reason, they find comics beneath them and so are the fans of the genre and its tools of trade and the people who came before then who know how to write the female superheroines. really shame.
I agreed, they ruined Wonder Women and Black Widow, my favorite female heroes. In the process they also ruined the superheroes shows PERIOD! I also have favorite male heroes too which I am sick of seeing them bow down or made to look stupid to the female ones. I miss the days where they work together equally without prejudices to each other. The same is happening across the movie industry period in all forms of movie and it is tiring, I literally gave up watching movies and tv series. It has structed the gaming industry too. They think the future is female, but they're wrong and it shows here lately. I`m a women saying this.
I think the entire superhero genre has to die if you ever want to see good story telling back in cinema.
Aliens, Underworld, Sarah Conner, Princess Leia, well written movies, bad azz women.
They're based on the feminist movement, and this is why the female heroes are awful. Everything is about sticking it to the man, being better than a man, and actually becoming a man! It's absurd.
You just keep making sense in video after video!
If the Internet hates something, that tells me I should like it because I have a mind of my own.
I loved the first Captain Marvel, I like that Cara is headstrong & impulsive. The sequel was a gigantic disappointment. It had all the ingredients to be a perfect film, it could have been Marvels best solo film. Imagine the movie opening from the Kree villains perspective while Captain Marvel decimates their fleet & destroys the central intelligence. Show the aftermath, show Cara carrying the burden quietly. Then introduce Ms Marvel, an idealistic fan girl that learns her hero caused a galactic catastrophe. Show Captain Marvel growing from a flaws, show Ms Marvel viewing her hero in a new light.
It could have been so good. I think back on Ashoka Tano and her first appearance, people hated her and rightly so. Then a dose of humility turned everyone around.
Doing that for Captain Marvel would have endeared the audience to her.
God I hate that movie.
It's very difficult to not think that women can't make art.
I noticed that you didn't mention Kate Bishop from the Hawkeye show, do you have any thoughts on her in the show. BTW, great video, and I agree with your opinions. We really need well written female characters back, especially in superhero media.
The sad thing about Jane Foster is that in the comics her arc is really great and an emotional rollercoaster imo
Meanwhile in the movie???
If anyone has watched any of the 'When Men Don't Hold Back' series of videos on YT, stories like this become even more amusing.
I am sick of stories that expect the audience to celebrate women just because they are women!
Yes, you can have female characters who work for and achieve amazing things.
yes, you can have likable heroic female main characters from Riply to Catness everdine and a lot in between.
you can even have female characters who are; like several so called "damsels", of the passed, kind, likable decent people who support the hero and whom the hero wants in his turn to keep safe.
But the modern mantra is always that the female hero needs no other motivation than seeking power and doing down men, and the female villain; well pretty much does the same thing, especially when there are no consequences for her actions, and the audience are just supposed to applaud this, because feminism good!
And if the audience don't like these aggressive, snarky power junkies, well it is they who are "misogynist!"
This is why I actively avoid anything written or produced after 2017 without a very strong recommendation! especially if it features a female main character.
indeed, these days I've mostly just been reading a lot of older stuff, because frankly if I want decent female characters; not to mention male characters who aren't useless simps, the passed is the only place to find them!
Insecurity is the archnemesis of the modern heroine.
i am glad you put donner superman in the clip. You can narrow superman in one way. what is superman. answer a friend. He not a god, he not jesus. He just a friend. Female superhero for the most part are none of those they work so hard to be the perfect girl boss that the lose site that they can just be a friend.
All that they really had to do with the first Captain Marvel movie to make her character fit better in MCU canon was to base her movie right before the events of 'Avengers Infinity War' & not tried to make it a half-assed prequel. Female characters have been written by many self-proclaimed feminists/activists in recent years & have turned out terribly as a result. As these female characters are basically feminst power fantasies where women triumph over either ignorant or tyrannical men. While most audiences just want to be entertained by great characters & stories. The fans are the ones that care a great deal about many of the characters on screen & aren't going to react well to them being disrespected for no reason. The entertainment that is made by many of these feminists/activists doesn't appeal to most women or most men. So these studios tend to end up putting out flop after flop. A similar thing has happened to the gaming industry, too.
The central thesis is that they're not willing to invest in the female heroes like they did their male counterparts. We'll look at two different comparisons, first of which is Iron Man vs. Ironheart. For Iron Man, Tony Stark is forced to see the damage that his company has inflicted on the world by its manufacturing and sale of advanced weapons. He fails almost immediately, and creates the Iron Man suit as an act of desperation, then starts to build it up to correct the mistakes he's made. We watch his repeated failures to get the suit working, dealing with things like the freezing issue, and learning the responsibility that comes with it. With Ironheart... she's pretty much just awesome from the word go, and never suffers anything akin to the setbacks Tony had. Spider-Man, another male hero attached to Iron Man, ALSO has to deal with consistent consequences and coming up short, but Riri is *never* trusted with that kind of vulnerability.
Then we have Rey vs. Luke. Luke nearly dies four times in Ep IV alone, and has to be bailed out by his friends each time, and in his first duel with lightsaber, he's nowhere CLOSE in the fight. Vader goes into Daddy Spank mode, and just sort of casually beats him from one side of Cloud City to the other, and Luke loses a hand, as well as having to be saved by the very friends he came to save. Rey... literally goes even up with Kylo the very first time she even ignites a lightsaber, and is never on the backfoot throughout three movies. She is just the best, all the time.
The idea that Mjolnir suddenly is sentient or that it can grant the power to be Thor to whom it chooses was out of nowhere and made no sense either. It was just an excuse to make Jane into better Thor.
I’m glade so many can see the obvious issues and not chalk it up to sexism we all just see bad malicious writing
i'm just gonna drop a comment in the vague hope that one person reads it and goes on to write a character with it in mind.
when you're writing a character, disregard their gender and think of them as just a person, THEN make changes as necessary to things like pronouns.
have a good day/night
Interesting fact : the writers of black widow, she hulk, wandavision were not fan of the comics, didn’t read any of the comics, were not familiar with the marvel movies or they were not into superhero comics at all.
They ultimately decided to redefine the characters and thought that it would work better for the story the writers wanted to tell.
Even Male characters who go through no struggle in some capacity are usually not compelling. But you can make overpowered characters that are compelling, Galen Marek from Star Wars, Omni man from invincible, Thor from marvel, Super man from DC, etc. The same can be said for some female characters, Wonder Woman isn’t super broken, but she’s definitely pretty powerful all things considered. If you make her character just about her physical abilities and add your own vitriol ideology into
her, ofc she will suck. However she can be likable and compelling if you do it right just like with all the male characters I listed. But most of these writers now days are terrible; power fantasy’s is all they can manage to think of when they are creating a character because it’s a projection of their resentment and hatred (usually towards men) and physical strength is one of the main advantages we males have they can basically do nothing about. Hence why powers of extreme strength appeal to women, she hulk is the embodiment of this resentment fantasy and it’s obvious that was the intent. It’s perfectly possible to make physical powerful strong female characters without being a hatful sexist dick about it, but modern feminism has never been about equality and fairness between the sexes, it’s a power fantasy filled with ego narcissism with no moral compass, just parasitic venomous vitriol that has a superiority complex.
She-Hulk was the worst so far, but has Captain Marvel, Task Master and Echo coming close behind. I actually liked the latter in Hawkeye and found her cool in the comics, but the story in her own show and her new powers sucked indeed.
A well done video with a reasonable explanation of female superheroes. Cancelled.
creators are losing their creativity in the fictional universe
nope. The fem ladies simply h8 us guys and are ruining the franchises. That's all
The reason why female heroes suck is the way they are writing . For example when writing a stoic character the thing that makes him so stoic is they just are quiet and are listening to everybody around them, female stoic characters can never shut up basically off female characters become this never shutting up obnoxious thing because they're usually portrayed as nothing bothering them
All these Marvel movie failure heroines, and Battle Angel Alita will never get another movie...
The problem is... they are NOT heroes. They are just people with powers.
Basically, the writers are trying to make women just as physically strong as men, when what's more realistic, is a more visceral form of fighting and survival like Sarah Conner in T2. Not pure display of perfect fighting technique and strength, but just a savage brutality from a will to survive and not get hurt. And I can't remember if Peppermint was like that too? I might be imagining it. But anyway, instead of being creative about how a woman would overpower men physically in a fight, activist writers will not stand for a woman to NOT be 100% physically on par with men, and that's why intuitively, something feels off, something feels cringy when we watch these kinds of shows and movies.