10 Perplexing Comic Book Questions Solved By The Internet

5. How Come All Female Superheroes Have Big Boobs?

Of course, we already know the actual reason for this: it's because superhero comics are sexist as owt, mainly written and drawn for horny young males for horny young males to gawk at. That's why you get Emma Frost's barely-there costume, skin-tight spandex and all the other costumes designed to show off the frankly impossible proportions every female comic book character boasts, which seems almost totally based on the girl of Sir Mix-A-Lot: big butt, itty-bitty-waist, huge boobs. What's the in-universe explanation for this, though? Has nobody ever wondered, in the fictional Marvel or DC universes, why all these women superheroes are model-gorgeous, perfect specimens?

Reddit has. And it has the answers, too. One particularly enterprising user suggests that most superheroes have the "power" of genetic perfection, which means that all the dudes look like Adonis, whilst the girls all have "wide hips, large full breasts, good posture, good healthy skin and strong musculature". Another, slightly more cynical (but realistic) explanation is that they work much the same as celebrities in our world. There are probably superpeople who don't fit into the accepted beauty standards, they never get media coverage, and thus never get popular. So then they probably retire and become supervillains, we suppose.