Superheroine Peril – a debate?

Interestingly on the post about Astro Girl here, a few guys were talking about superheroine peril – y’know the sort of thing: superheroine gets beaten, humiliated, tickled, stripped naked and then sometimes all sorts of bad things.

The topic arose because in the film Astro Girl the trailer makes out that the story starts off quite positively for Astro Girl and she’s sexy, strong, and all the things you’d associate with a superheroine.

Then things take a turn for the worse as she’s hit by some what looks to be kryptonite-laced arrows. Then the bad stuff begins, but it then makes out Astro Girl fights back, beats up the bad guys and then everything then returns to normal.

Now, personally that isn’t my cup of tea. However I KNOW that there’s a lot of people out there into stories moving in that direction. Don’t get me wrong – I sometimes like my superheroines to be arrogant, to beat the men in the story,  etc. Sometimes its the other way around and in some stories the girls are sometimes up against it, and sometimes not.

I try and keep the SuperSexyHeroines.com website down to family-rated fun though, and although I get hundreds of requests for comic books, video clips and photos of the girls in all sorts of bother I refrain because the SuperSexyHeroines.com website is not the medium for that. There are lots of other websites out there, all making a LOT of money, for that sort of thing.

So, that’s my stance. I’m personally not into it, but I understand the wants and wishes of others.

The point of this post was to see other peoples reactions because I’ve never really seem a debate about this. I’m not saying we debate about whether its wrong or right: there is no definitive answer for that.

What I would like to hear is other peoples thoughts, and what THEY like about the superheroines genre, what they like about the girls, do you like the girls coming out on top, is it the strength, is it the fact that such a powerful female could be overcome, etc?

– Jon