Hello, lovely amazing readers! I’m back, with some more information on superheroines and how awesome they are. For this second blog, I will regale you with tales of new advances in the world of superheroines in cinema (spanning the 2000s and beyond).
Let’s start with Elektra. Elektra, a very popular comics superheroine, beat the bad guys in her own movie in 2005 on January 14. Having watched it, I can say that this movie is at best exciting and at worst dumbfoundingly confusing and badly written. Elektra was a box office bomb. Since that flop, Elektra has been the most highly cited film (besides Catwoman) as an example of why the comic industry shouldn’t create any more movies starring superheroines.
In July 8 of 2005, another comics based movie hit theaters. This movie, The Fantastic Four, was based off of one of the first ever supergroups in comics. It didn’t do as badly as Elektra and Catwoman, but it was not the best of movies. The Invisible Girl stood out as a very strong female character, refusing to let her three male teammates outshine her.
No other movies really shook the comic world until Marvel’s Iron Man, released May 2, 2008. The movie was fairly popular, and more Marvel movies followed. Iron Man 2, released on May 7, 2010, was the first of the new Marvel movies to introduce a female superhero: the Black Widow.
Black Widow landed a much larger role in the movie The Avengers, which pretty much started the superhero movie craze. She was the one superheroine in the six person Avengers team. Fans loved Black Widow, and she made a reappearance in Captain America: The Winter Soldier as Captain America’s co-star.
Marvel even upped the ante by bringing in yet another black-clad assassin in Guardians of the Galaxy, the surprising summer hit of 2014. Gamora was her name. She may have been a green alien, but she did a great job of holding her own alongside her four superhero teammates.
The year 2015 forecasts even more hope for superheroines in cinema. Captain Marvel is coming out in 2018, while Wonder Woman debuts in 2017. However, these two movies are only, after all, two movies among a plethora of those to be led by superheroes. Marvel alone has the movies Ant-Man, Captain America: Civil War, Doctor Strange, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, The Spectacular Spider-Man, Thor: Ragnarok, Avengers: Infinity War Part 1, and Black Panther scheduled to come out in that order. And then Captain Marvel.
I wouldn’t say things are quite fair yet.
~Tia
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