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> Edit: Maybe it's a bad idea to say this out loud, but when you get protagonists who are "just born preternaturally awesome", they're generally female, right?
by karpierz 5y ago
> Edit: Maybe it's a bad idea to say this out loud, but when you get protagonists who are "just born preternaturally awesome", they're generally female, right? I'm not sure the same trend applies for male protagonists.
I think this is a bit of selective memory ala: https://xkcd.com/385/ https://xkcd.com/385/
Did you have particular movies in mind with this? The whole Marvel universe is riddled with male protagonists who are simply better than other people. That's the whole schtick that the Watchmen criticises.
- Joeboy 5y agoSurely the whole point of Watchmen was that superheros aren't better than other people. For the last couple of decades cinema's been reinventing (male) superheroes as "complex characters" with flaws, moral weaknesses and questionable motivations. Like you say, maybe I'm remembering selectively but I think that's less the case for Black Widow, Captain Marvel or Wonder Woman than it is for Iron Man, Superman or Batman. Can you imagine Marvel greenlighting a female-led equivalent of Logan? For what it's worth, I now regret saying anything, and will try to restrain myself from saying anything else.
- darkerside 5y agoAtomic Blonde was a great example of a total badass female character who actually had to earn her ending