I really hate those origin stories that have the hero hating her powers because she doesn’t want to be different, I mean I understand why and all but I often find the reluctant hero archetype a little frustrating.  I think I liked the movie Jumper.
Topics: Comic Books, Comics, Film, Liz Sherman, Video Games

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Karen Healey over at Girl-Wonder.org is commenting about the return of Stephanie Brown (The Spoiler) to the Robin comic.  Stephanie was killed off in Batman comics with a story that echoes the “Women in Refrigerators” syndrome.
Topics: asides

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Has anybody else noticed how it has suddenly become terribly unfashionable to have an imagination? It used to be a real point of pride among the terminally smug that they never enjoyed movies nearly as much as the books they were based on...
Topics: General, imagination, Jane Eyre, Novels, To Kill a Mockingbird

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In the original Donkey Kong game you play a character named Jumpman (who later became known as Mario) whose job it is to rescue ‘the Lady’ (later known as Pauline). This is one of the early if not first example of the now classic damsel in...
Topics: Donkey Kong, Pauline, Street Fighter II, Video Games

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Pretty much every time I see a new heroine emerge on a movie or TV series these days, I notice the same kind of buzzwords creeping in - she’s feisty, she’s independent, she does thing on her own terms… I read interviews with the...
Topics: buffy, General, ripley

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