10 Ways Comic Book Movies Keep F*cking Up Female Characters

If you look at Alexandra Shipp's portrayal of Storm in X-Men Apocalypse, they not only shoehorned in a backstory, but they created a completely new one. The Ororo Munroe of the comics was a powerful Kenyan who was born from a long line of priestesses.

How come Black Panther gets to tell a very similar story in his upcoming solo-outing and Storm doesn't get her 15 minutes of fame? Even Guardians of the Galaxy was light on the origins as Gamora and Nebula were automatically thrown into the mix. Let's hope that they can make some improvement with Pom Klementieff's appearance as Mantis in the second film.

Then we have the reverse, where a drawn out origin makes for boring viewing. Take for example 2015's maligned Fantastic Four. Kate Mara's Sue Storm has her origin lumped together with the rest, and any attempt to make a "modern" version of the team felt like a milked cash cow. Let's leave Fantastic Four there, because Mara's sour-faced hero put feminism back by another five years just on its own.

Looking back to the days of old, Tim Burton's Batman Returns has just the right amount of secretary Selina Kyle before she was thrown from a high-rise and became the PVC-clad kitty-psycho. Burton had the exact idea of how you can take an origin and completely reinvent it - take note Marvel, not turning Storm into an Egyptian pick-pocket.

Even the upcoming Wonder Woman film looks a little light on the origin. Admittedly we only have a trailer to go on, but so far it looks like 90% of the action will take place away from Themyscira. Compare this to Batman, who had had two reboots in the past 10 years, and you see where the problem is.

I am sure that Patty Jenkins will give Diana Prince the justice she deserves, but only will time will tell if it is enough to save the genre before Captain Marvel takes to the skies in 2019.

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