10 Most Sexist Comic Superheroines Still Being Published Today

8. Zatana

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All right, magicians do often dress oddly. Just look at Doug Henning. But few magicians boast as much cleavage as Zatanna Zatara, DC Comics' magic-using superheroine.

Zatanna gained a new, actually more modest, costume in DC's New 52 reboot. But most fans associate Zatanna with her traditional costume: top hat, cane, white gloves and ultra-tight bustier squeezing out mountains of cleavage. Then there's that bikini bottom that comes with it. Zatanna looks like more like a sexy French maid than either a magician or a crime-fighter.

Zatanna has also been rather flirtatious across the DC Universe. She's had serious relationships with John Constantine and Doctor Thirteen. Nothing wrong with that. But what was Zatanna, or the writers crafting her adventures, thinking when she started flirting with the Barry Allen version of the Flash so shortly after his wife died?

 
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