ext_2035 ([identity profile] telepresence.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] seriousfic 2010-06-16 01:54 am (UTC)

I think many or most action heroines could be described as more powerful than the average man, but I'm not sure that's what those action heroines are about thematically. When I think about Ms. Marvel I mostly think about someone struggling with her own potential and legacy as a superhero. When I think about Storm...actually, I'm not sure I think about Storm in those terms, she's kind of complicated and closer to a real person than most comic characters, IMO. Maybe being torn between mostly not trusting the world and being very cynical and being a leader and protector. When I think about Hawkgirl I'm thinking about her forgiveness and redemption arc, and being torn between two allegiances (because I mostly know her from the Bruce Timm Justice League cartoons).

(I'm not claiming any of these takes is definitive, just what I think of based on the slice of the characters I've been exposed to at a particular time, obviously under different creative teams and storylines and eras and editors and whatnot all these characters can change like crazy)

Anyway, so they're all powerful women living in a patriarchal world, but to me is seems like Wonder Woman has been more specifically about being a powerful woman in a patriarchal world than most. As far as the rest of the residents of Themiscrya go, my guess is that the general cultural perception is that pretty much all of them are at least Buffy/Xena class somewhat superhuman + highly martially trained + probably magic artifacts, certainly tougher than the average guy.

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