#Female superheroes and villains movie

#Female superheroes and villains movie

Why havenвЂ™t they lept into a Black Widow solo flick? The idea of a вЂBudapestвЂ™ movie starring Black Widow and Hawkeye would undoubtedly intrigue fans, not least with Black WidowвЂ™s extensively mysterious past offering plenty of material to work with.Д®qually, the prospect of a Miles Morales Spider-Man on screen would be interesting. Time and again Marvel and DC play it safe, with male solo films, white males solo films at that. The reality is, and I now speak for both male and female fans, weвЂ™d love to see more female heroes on screen. Quite the opposite вЂ“ film companies seem to avoid female hero solo flicks as if the audience wonвЂ™t come running with their cash in hand, waving it frantically like they do for all the other hero films. Image: ColliderДЄllow me to clarify, IвЂ™m not suggesting that only male characters will appeal to males, and only female characters to females. If that doesnвЂ™t scream in film makersвЂ™ faces that there is a substantial female demographic watching their movies, to whom they should damn well appeal, I donвЂ™t know what does. These days comic conventions have a huge emphasis and focus on films cast panels, sneak previews etc. Even so, the audience that attends comic conventions is almost equally split between male and females. The report states that its near impossible to gauge the demographics of comic book buyers because the majority shop in independently owned stores. What I am saying is that there are plenty of non-White heroes, plenty of female heroes, even plenty of LBGTQ heroes that arenвЂ™t making it to the big screen вЂ“ and the bottom line is, this audience would welcome them. IвЂ™m not saying heroes should change ethnicity or gender just to proportionally represent the audience after all, these are characters born in comics and bringing them to the screen unfaithfully would open a whole other can of worms. Why should a team of heroes inaccurately represent the demographics? Ultimately this means, in the US, only 60% of the population identifies as White. Looking at the wider diversity issue, since 2009 the majority of babies born in the United States have been of racial minority. ThatвЂ™s 83% of EarthвЂ™s Mightiest Heroes born of systematic privilege. If we look at MarvelвЂ™s The Avengers, weвЂ™re shown a team made up of five white, straight, good-looking males. The trouble is, how can the comic book industry expand its audience when it continually and intentionally appeals to the same fan-base? Image: ComiConverse Granted, the audience of this material is really what it should be representing. вЂњFemale characters make up only 30.9 percent of the DC universe and 30.6 percent of the Marvel universe.вЂќД¬onsidering we live in a world in which 51% of the population are female, this isnвЂ™t representative. Recent research by reveals that the demographic ratio of female to male characters in both Marvel and DC comics is tremendously imbalanced. To begin looking at this problem, we should call upon the basis of these cinematic empires the comic book world. There are plenty of female heroes and there are no viable reasons to neglect them. I refuse to stand by as an astonishingly extensive roster of female characters across both Marvel and DC be ignored by filmmakers, or only to be functional as a love interest. There is a gaping lack of female heroes on the big screen at the moment. Yet one thing remains to be an enormous imbalance across all вЂsuperhero cinematic universesвЂ™. The MCU is flourishing, the DCEU steadily on its way and the comic-book cinematic industry is one of the most successful within the film industry.