clavicularity:

marvelwomenkickingass:

Mahmud A. Asrar’s Women of Marvel series

My question, right, my question is

When we have so many awesome lady superheroes

Many of whom are reasonably well known to the general public

Why are we getting movies about fucking Ant-Man?

Has anyone even heard of this guy before? Is he some super iconic hero and I’ve entirely missed it?

And even is he is, okay. So I just checked wikipedia, and I know that’s not a super reliable source and it’s possible that the exact numbers may vary slightly, but I don’t think they’d vary enough to make my point invalid. And my point is that according to this entry, since 1944 there have been 30 films based on Marvel comics released to date. Of this, there were:

21 in which the title hero was male

7 about a group of superheroes (mostly consisting of men)

1 in which the title hero was female

One film. ONE. IN 67 YEARS. And that is just live action films that have already come out. Animated films? All about men. Films that planned to come out in the future? ALL ABOUT MEN.

Is it really too much to ask that we get a film about, say, Black Widow? Or an origins movie about one of the female Xmen? Or any lady hero at all? Really, is that too much to ask?

so today is the day of people on my tumblr dash talking about issues that are super close to my heart and being 100% on my side and I - I don’t think I can handle how much love I am feeling right now for the internet

aka

YES

WHERE IS MY FUCKING BLACK WIDOW MOVIE, ANT MAN CAN SUCK MY DICK. I want a she-hulk movie, a storm movie, a black cat movie, a jubilee movie, an elsa bloodstone movie, a tabitha movie

I want superhero movies about ladies. I mean, fuck knows there are basically a million lady superheroes and the comics about lady superheroes (hello there, wonder woman, batwoman, supergirl, birds of prey, batgirl, huntress) sure do seem to be selling well???? and even the superhero cartoons (sup young justice, teen titans) include actual lady superheroes who are amazing and gorgeous and viewers clearly like them

but oh dear lord no surely we can’t put them in movies!! and ESPECIALLY not as the star!!!!!! even if they’re more well-known and are legit pop culture icons (HELLO THERE WONDER WOMAN) than some of the dude heroes getting their own films these days

seriously. ant man. jesus fuck, go eat a dick. and someone go make a birds of prey movie, it would kick all the ass in the world.

speaking of actual data though, I was thinking about the DC and Marvel films that have lady superheroes as the actual star, and I came up with….okay, so there’s that Catwoman film that came out a while ago that seemed to have nothing to do with catwoman, and Elektra, and ok I never read any of those comics so I have no idea about that one and won’t say a bad word about it….and that’s where I can’t think of anything else. that’s it. please tell me I’m just forgetting things, guys, because there seriously has to be more than two lady superhero films ever.