1. Starfire If your problem with Starfire's design is that it is completely impractical for a flying crime-fighting lady, why does your 'fix' include a miniskirt?
This. Also, Starfire also has the (somewhat lame but at least it's there) "excuse" for her "sexy" swimsuit costume that her powers are fueled by SUN, absorbed by her skin. More skin exposed = recharges more quickly.
Then why doesn't she just walk around naked? Save the people who want to imagine her such a great deal of hassle, and in her current sexbot state, I doubt she'd care. ;)
OP, this is spot on. Also, Mr. Wonder Woman isn't, y'know, from Greece (right? I'm pretty sure she's from a whole 'nother problematic planet). She looks like Sophita from Soul Calibur II dusted in flour.
Everyone, and right now I pretty much really do mean EVERYONE, involved in the New 52 complete-fucking-fiasco (because no, DC, as a comics-loving woman, I am not fucking sold on your shit) seems to have two modes of thought on How To Draw Superheroes That Are Also Women:
1) DC's way, of vaguely-animated sexbots that men can comfortably whack off to if that's what they want; 2) This way, of assuming that any sexuality a woman displays is exploitative and wrong and what we wimmins don't want.
Also, wtf is wrong with Ms Marvel as she is? Yes. It's a bathing suit and sexyboots. HOWEVER, it is a bathing suit and sexyboots filled by a woman that will kick your ass as soon as look at you if you are misbehaving, and it is also the bathing suit and sexyboots Ms Marvel wore when she rode a nuclear missile into space and used the energy from the resulting explosion to take down the Sentry. I feel completely okay with her bathing suit and sexyboots. She is portrayed enough as a real woman (we really won't speak of Avengers 200) that I feel
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Ms Marvel was the one I had the biggest problem with, tbh. Maybe it was just the style she was originally drawn in - big and BAMF. She has muscles and wide shoulders and yes, she's "standard" beautiful, but she's not standard feminine, especially for comic books.
It was also the change that made the least sense. However little I agreed with the net result, in general you could see what the guy was aiming for in the origin story (though I did consistently have the sense that these "redesigns" were actually characters of his own, one and all). Ms Marvel, though, noooooot so much.
Lol, right. And I get his redesign of her... if there were other female characters who looked like they could kick ass and take names, instead of lowering the physicality of the original design.
My favorite version of Starfire was from the animated Teen Titans. Her outfit was like the fix and by design skimpy, but it wasn't used for titillation.
Edited to say that I had a fully functioning thought, accidentally erased it by trying to copy & paste a phrase and when I tried to get it back accidentally posted the phrase. I no longer even remember what it is I actually was going to say.
The Fix: Two parts Vincent Price, one part Christopher Lee and one part Dr. Orpheus, this Dr. Strange is still magical, but with a more coherent design direction.
MMMMMno. I don't know where he's getting the other two names, because that is Dr. Orpheus, pretty much to the letter.
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If your problem with Starfire's design is that it is completely impractical for a flying crime-fighting lady, why does your 'fix' include a miniskirt?
This. Also, Starfire also has the (somewhat lame but at least it's there) "excuse" for her "sexy" swimsuit costume that her powers are fueled by SUN, absorbed by her skin. More skin exposed = recharges more quickly.
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OP, this is spot on. Also, Mr. Wonder Woman isn't, y'know, from Greece (right? I'm pretty sure she's from a whole 'nother problematic planet). She looks like Sophita from Soul Calibur II dusted in flour.
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1) DC's way, of vaguely-animated sexbots that men can comfortably whack off to if that's what they want;
2) This way, of assuming that any sexuality a woman displays is exploitative and wrong and what we wimmins don't want.
Also, wtf is wrong with Ms Marvel as she is? Yes. It's a bathing suit and sexyboots. HOWEVER, it is a bathing suit and sexyboots filled by a woman that will kick your ass as soon as look at you if you are misbehaving, and it is also the bathing suit and sexyboots Ms Marvel wore when she rode a nuclear missile into space and used the energy from the resulting explosion to take down the Sentry. I feel completely okay with her bathing suit and sexyboots. She is portrayed enough as a real woman (we really won't speak of Avengers 200) that I feel ( ... )
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I like Ms. Marvel big and BAMF, dammit.
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The Fix: Two parts Vincent Price, one part Christopher Lee and one part Dr. Orpheus, this Dr. Strange is still magical, but with a more coherent design direction.
MMMMMno. I don't know where he's getting the other two names, because that is Dr. Orpheus, pretty much to the letter.
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