Female Lead Heroes can work if they get the right vehicle. Bionic Woman, Xena, the Charmed ladies, Alias, Buffy, Wonder Woman all worked on their shows because of the tone and manner of story fit the character.

Come on a Black Widow “James Bond’ type film or a majestic WW live action film would kick all sorts of ass.

What is sad is that there is a lack of CONTENT related to Women in a super hero fashion.

[i'm more focusing this toward Mr. Wesley's reply now, which might have some baring on all of this. And expanding edc's reply as well.]

-perhaps what’s the real deal is that it comes down to who’s writing what, and what their goal is to achieve with the character.

Some questions to consider:
What is the character’s point/journey/state of being have to do with us? Does the character being female, effect how they approach a situation? Do they face bias? What do their foes think of them as an adversary? Is gender important to the character? All these things are important to WHAT and WHO the character is. If the character is merely to fill in a “quota” of having a female protagonist, then it can be very shallow and borderlining on pure gender stereotype [and even solely as a sex-object/eye candy]. -And if we make the character overtly feminine and caring, we lose the ability for the character to act as a “super hero” type of personality. Tricky tasks to meet from a writers point of view, especially if a writer isn’t a female [not to say that men can't write convincing females, but they always say that you should always write what you know.]

It’s a hard balance, but I don’t know of many female characters who are done with care to make a fully realized woman super hero.

Actually me and my best friend we’re having this conversation not to long ago. We’re actually quite interested in making a female super hero, who isn’t about being on “the rag”, or managing a family- but somebody who is strong and who has more purpose than being “eye-candy.” [though nothing wrong with looking sexy!]

Anyways just a few additional thoughts I wanted to add to this conversation.

Sorry if i rambled.

Catwoman
Elektra
Supergirl
My Super Ex-Girlfriend.

Begs the question: did these movies fail because they were superhero movies for women, or because they were crap?

catwoman and elektra.

perhaps if the screenwriters focus on character or substance rather than the sex of a person, we can look up to a character, male or female.

I mean, I don’t think it’s an overdone genre in a way there can be, like more than one IN A SINGLE YEAR!

There are differences in gender roles. Im not saying that those roles have to be set in place. But there is psychological evidence about the fantasies and desires relating to the differences between the two sexes. As stated, there is some overlap. But, men like to reinvent themselves in their dreams into someone entirely new, while females more often then not create a new reality around themselves where they are the princess (taken from gaiman).

Although women may view Buffy and Xena as strong female characters, I guarantee a majority of the audience was male or Whedonites.

There is no denying the lack of success in female comic characters. Something should be done to change this because I believe there could be a future in it… but it may just involve changing alot about the world and how to raise our children.

that aside, how did the quiz turn out? Are you?

If a girl wants to watch and like a superhero movie, thats what she sould do. Same goes for a guy and a musical.

I don’t know what Josh Tyler’s intention was when writing this article, but i can’t picture any sane human being supporting this pile of S#^%.

Please do not apologize for me, he may have not expressed his idea well but his logic is spot on..

I can apologize, on behalf of men everywhere, for that guy’s idiocy?