Why every A-list male superhero has a female variant but the same doesn't happen with A-list heroines?
Why every A-list male superhero has a female variant but the same doesn't happen with A-list heroines?
Why every A-list male superhero has a female variant but the same doesn't happen with A-list heroines?
Cause the best heroines barely edge out at the top of the B-list?
the only heroines that i can see as A list are wondie and the most notable female x-men like jean grey, rogue and storm
None of the X-Men characters outside of Wolverine, Cable, Gambit and Deadpool have ever managed to hold solo books for long, because most of them have no life outside of their team. Jean moving away from the X-Men to become a cosmic solo character might have worked, but they chose to kill her and keep her dead for years instead, and the average X-book writer just sees her as a love interest for Scott or Logan.
The MCU is likely a good indicator that Marvel could easily have positioned Wanda as one of their top heroines if they'd wanted to, but in the comics and the MCU they chose to repeatedly sabotage her instead.
In the 2010s up until now, Magik could have gotten a solo as well. As the mutant teleporting sorcerer. But now they’ve separated her from Limbo, saying there’s too much trauma there for her. And she hasn’t displayed time travel abilities in a while.
At the height of her popularity in the 2010s that probably would have worked, but it's not just Limbo and powers that are the problem, Magik's popularity was very much tied to THAT costume. A lot of her older fans hate it, but if you want her to sell, she needs to be wearing it. And not any of the toned down versions of it Marvel keep trying to do to preserve the basic look without showing as much skin.
Her Extinction Team outfit was sweet too.
Heroines are for cooming. Everyone knows this, but few want to acknowledge it. It just doesn't work the other way around.
>A-list heroines
wonder woman
see
I mean there kinda is a male version of Wonder woman, it's called Thor. You'd probably have to factor in the lack of really popular female heroes there are. You wouldn't want to make a female version of a c-lister.
The only A-list superheroine is Wonder Woman. And hey, Wonder Man exists.
wonderman was just marvel making it impossible for DC to copyright the name "wonderman" just for shits and giggles
Yeah that was a joke.
I always felt that Jean had the best potential for being the A-list heroine Marvel always wanted, if she could become the Phoenix without going crazy. But they never went for it and instead chose to push Carol.
Originally he was just a one-appearance character who died in his debut issue, DC had asked Marvel to never use him again, and in the 60s they complied.
Legend has it that in the 70s Marvel saw DC's Power Girl as a similar attempt at making it impossible for them to launch spin-off characters from Luke Cage Power Man, and brought Wonder Man back in retaliation, and periodically gave him solo material just to hold on to the rights to the name.
Because in real life, every male wears pants. Every female can wear pants and dresses. But males don’t wear dresses.
Moon Knight doesn’t have a female equivalent
he's b-list at best
Do you really want a Black CanaryMan?
Or a Black Male Widow?
Carol Danvers has the now living Genis Vell, a male version of her Captain Marvel identity.
But the new Variant Champion covers do show a potential boy version of Ms Marvel.
Women look sexy wearing skintight versions of male clothes.
Males don’t look stunning at all wearing female clothes.
The Teen Titan Powerboy had a chest window but his costume was full black, with black hair.
Android Red Tornado looks radically different than Ma Hunkel.
They tried with Wildfire, the younger brother of Starfire. But he basically looks like a male Tameran.
Marvel has Wiccan from Scarlet Witch, but he’s gay anyway and where’s typical sorcerer garb.
Is there any current solo A, B or C lister who needs a female version?
Static ?
The entire point of female variants is to easily increase the amount of female characters in comics. Its not just a fun gender-bending story; it doesn’t go both ways. The last thing marvel or DC wants is more popular male heroes.
Wasn’t there a “male” Vampirella?