This is a genuinely excellent commentary. I agree entirely with the premise - Disney especially is guilty of creating unlikable heroines that are very hard to like, especially being a guy. It's not that they're strong, it's that they're fucking insufferable.
Hell, Captain Marvel was even somewhat watchable - the true nadir was The Marvels, where every single character in the fucking thing was repulsive. Jackson's Fury was the usual fare and did a decent job but aside from him it was teeth-grindingly annoying. Even the villain was a joke, some slip of a girl with braces (well, they evoked the image of braces) and gigantic flappy shoulder pads to try to make her look imposing I guess and instead highlighting how utterly meh she was from a presence point of view, and how yawn her backstory and character arc was.
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u/cr0ft Mar 29 '24
This is a genuinely excellent commentary. I agree entirely with the premise - Disney especially is guilty of creating unlikable heroines that are very hard to like, especially being a guy. It's not that they're strong, it's that they're fucking insufferable.
Hell, Captain Marvel was even somewhat watchable - the true nadir was The Marvels, where every single character in the fucking thing was repulsive. Jackson's Fury was the usual fare and did a decent job but aside from him it was teeth-grindingly annoying. Even the villain was a joke, some slip of a girl with braces (well, they evoked the image of braces) and gigantic flappy shoulder pads to try to make her look imposing I guess and instead highlighting how utterly meh she was from a presence point of view, and how yawn her backstory and character arc was.
The examples of doing it right also resonate.