5 Reasons The Superhero Bubble Won't Burst Any Time Soon
4. We Havent Even Begun to Delve into Female Superheroes
All the superhero movies that have come out in the past fifteen years or so have generally been sausage fests. If you only know them from the movies, you would think superheroes are mostly men, but you would be very wrong.
Fantomah, Lady Luck, Black Widow (not THAT one), Red Tornado (not THAT one, either), Phantom Lady, Black Canary: these are all female superheroes who debuted BEFORE Wonder Woman. Women superheroes go all the way back to the Golden Age of Comics in the 1940s. There is an untapped wealth of women and girls from both Marvel and DC. And while there have been women on teams like the Avengers and X-Men, Hollywood seems downright afraid of making a movie with a female lead.
DC and Warner Bros. have a Wonder Woman movie on the horizon, but if Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice doesnt live up to their expectations, they will probably end up shoving Batman into it somehow. So what if portions of the movie are supposed to take place in the 1920s? Just make Batman a time traveller, or something!
Maybe if the new Supergirl show is a success well see more of a push for solo female stars. Ant-Man and the Wasp is certainly a step in the right direction, but as with Supergirl, the Wasp is stuck in the shadow of a man. If pop music is any indication, people love an independent woman, so how about some more on the silver screen?