and good god, at least spend half a second googling this before you come into my inbox saying stupid shit. both the new 52 and marvel now have had at least 10 female-lead titles, and they’ve both canceled 3 of those since they each launched. DC received heavy criticism for the treatment of female characters in its reboot BECAUSE they had been known for strong female characters for most of their history, and people were angry to see them go backwards. DC had always been known as the big two company with iconic female characters. batgirl, catwoman, supergirl and power girl, starfire, lois lane, harley quinn, batwoman, poison ivy, black canary, fucking WONDER WOMAN, who is THE FEMALE SUPERHERO IN THE MINDS OF EVERYONE REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT THEY READ COMICS.
and ok. DC has put out ONE MOVIE so far and one tv show, to marvel’s 10. tell me, of the 10 mcu films and tv show, which one was primarily about a female character?? oh that’s right, NONE OF THEM. the majority of marvel’s female characters in the films have been introduced as love interests, and ALL of them have been white, and of all of the female characters introduced so far, only natasha is considered an avenger and main superhero, and she is not considered “worth” a solo film. and idk if you actually saw man of steel but lois lane and faora-ul were pretty “kick ass,” despite the film’s flaws. like pal, I love all of marvel’s female characters, but it’s clear that marvel’s priorities do not lie in adding as many female characters as male ones, and definitely not in telling their stories.
and now that marvel is moving into their third phase, the flaws in their marketing and plans for their extended universe are becoming more apparent, which is why marvel fans (NOT DC FANS I’D LIKE TO POINT OUT) are criticizing them so heavily. we are frustrated with the lack of action marvel is taking, which is why we are so vocal about it on this stupid fucking website. it’s not because we hate marvel, or because we’re diehard DC fans. DC fans aren’t saying SHIT about marvel, because they CAN’T, because DC is TERRIBLE AND THEY KNOW IT. this is all marvel fans, who want the franchise we love to do better.
and come on. right now, the ONLY areas that marvel are beating DC in are their quantity and the quality of their shared universe and in how they handle their PR. DC is floundering in trying to recreate what marvel has going for it, and yes, they are struggling a bit. man of steel was definitely nowhere near as good a film as most of marvel’s movies, and arrow is, well. arrow. but the flash looks amazing, and constantine could pull through. plus DC has shown it’s more willing to racebend major characters. iris west and her father were cast with black actors, and as of right now, batman vs. superman looks like it is going to have more major characters of color than the avengers due to dwayne johnson and jason momoa’s casting.
[sidenote: arrow, unlike AoS, is doing more to bring in characters from the comics, which is apparently a good selling point for them. arrow also was the first to have an openly queer superhero (and supervillain? idk super-ambiguous assassin character I guess), with sara lance, instead of marvel’s “let’s adapt a prominent lesbian character and not reference her sexuality ever, and then kill her” approach. DC comics had been doing more for queer representation than marvel, although they fucked it up a few times. like DC’s not perfect, they’re erasing john constantine’s bisexuality, for one, but NO ONE EVER SAID THEY WERE.]
stan for marvel. that’s fine. but understand you’re stanning for a company who has continued to hire a known sexual harasser. you’re supporting a company who whitewashed prominent jewish/romani characters and then are having them volunteer for a nazi organization. kevin feige has made repeated statements that imply he believes diversity is a negative quality that should not be a priority for marvel. again, as far as we know, they have killed victoria hand, who could have been the first lesbian character in their universe, without ever mentioning her sexuality. claudia kim’s casting is the FIRST TIME a woman of color who is not painted green will appear in a prominent role in marvel’s films. they turned a character who had been cast with a latino actor into a member of a nazi organization. they also turned a character who is PLAYED BY A JEWISH ACTOR into a nazi. doctor strange and ant-man are the only solo movies announced for phase 3, and a black panther film is still nowhere in sight.
in the comics, marvel has fridged sharon carter, who is one of the main women in the captain america mythos, right before she showed up in the mcu, just to make steve rogers really sad. and that same writer is the one I mentioned above, who wrote a tone-deaf racial-based comic advocating assimilation rather than acceptance and then told people to drown in hobo piss if they disagreed with it. he has also put a white male original character in a title that had last belonged to a female character, who is now dead and will probably remain dead because no one remembers rikki barnes. they canceled iron patriot—the first 616 solo book starring a black character—before it was even released, making it a 5-issue limited series.
like we are not trying to get you to hate marvel. most of us, like I said, are marvel fans!!! we love marvel, that’s why we’re HERE. but we accept its flaws, and are trying to get them to change. you don’t have to like DC but you’re a fucking idiot if you actually think marvel is without sin. and come on, DC fans are sticking around because they like the characters, that’s the nature of fandom. if you’ve ever been a fan of an extended series, whether it’s comics or a tv show or a book series or a movie franchise, you KNOW there are ups and downs in the quality of it, but you are STILL A FAN.
acknowledge the problematic elements of your fave. you don’t have to tear down other fandoms who know how shitty their canon is in order to make yours seem better? because all it does is make marvel fans look like, idk, the sherlock fandom. or the supernatural fandom. do you really want to be the supernatural fandom? don’t be the supernatural fandom.
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