Why Did No One Pick Up The Wonder Woman Series?
Explain to me why female heroes are still a relative novelty.
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Explain to me why female heroes are still a relative novelty.
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Exactly what I thought. Maybe Wonder Woman, despite her popularity and iconic image, is just a shite character that has no appeal to modern audiences. There are lots of shitty female super hero comics, their main problem being that they are made to appeal to guys (so their primary characteristics are their sexy appearance, rather than their personality/super power). Saying that, there are blatently some good female characters out there that deserve a strong adaptation. Remember when they tried it with Catwoman? Yeesh, I wonder if a good writer could have made a good movei about her.Sixcess said:She's got a terrible name that sounds like the title of a feminist tract from the 70s.
She's got a terrible costume.
She's got a terrible back story - try making Princess Diana of the secret island of the Amazons sound like anything other than bad pulp fiction or a juvenile lesbian fantasy.
Speaking of juvenile fantasy - her comics run is more renowned for thinly disguised bdsm themes than anything else so the character's 'golden age' isn't something people want to harken back to. William Moulton Marston was a very strange guy.
Finally, her live action track record is just bad. Sure the 60s Batman was campy, but both the Burton and Nolan versions have plenty of fans, and the first couple of Christopher Reeve Superman movies were so well done the last reboot made a point of casting someone who looked as much like Reeve as possible.
What does WW have? Linda Carter's run may be a camp classic, but it's not exactly what you want people to think of if you're trying to do a proper revival, but it's what people outwith comic book fans (i.e. most viewers) will think of.
So yeah, I don't think this is a problem with female action heroes - I think this is a problem with this particular female action hero.