or even
to find just a single decent, modestly dressed, somewhat realistic rendering of your favorite characters. I'd love to be able to find a good role model in the Marvel universe, but its tremendously hard to do when the majority of the female characters are under dressed Mary-Sues. I mean, so far we've had two main personality types. I mean, we've got two main personality types among the Marvel women.
Hot headed, independent, with a single soft spot for this one guy and a fair bit of cleavage, like the Black Widow
or even worse, wimpy and overall annoying. Like Mary Jane Watson.
Of course, she can have a fair bit of cleavage too.
Marvel has no shortage of realistic characters, but unfortunately the majority of them are men.
That's why I was so happy when I found out about the 'Characters and Creators' program, though Pintrest. Marvel is aiming to create more representation for their female characters, including a focus on the female X-Men, plus solo comic books for She-Hulk, Ms. Marvel, and more. Sweet!
The new Ms. Marvel, to be frank, seems utterly amazing. A sensibly dressed, Muslim heroine will throw a wrench in the traditional rut and bring a whole lot more diversity into the universe.
Now, to clear things up a bit. I've got no problem with a few exposed midriffs, or even the occasional Emma Frost type. But when I'm looking at, say, Storm, in a similar outfit, it gets annoying. I understand if the costume fits the character, but if it doesn't, I don't.
With the changes Marvel is going to make, I'll hopefully be able to empathize with a few more characters, and have more fun enjoying plain old superhero awesomeness at the same time. So thank you, Marvel.
(Hello, it is the Clara Oswald here from Pinterest.)
ReplyDeleteI like what you said about the Emma Frost types. It's true that there will be these types, and that makes sense and is fine. But I see Storm as a much more classy lady, who would dress like we saw in the movies, and seeing her in those unitards makes me mad.
Yeah :) That was my point exactly. It's fine when it makes sense, but I don't see the point if they wear clothes like that just to show how attractive they are.
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