Lex Luthor has a coy-looking assistant who is sacrificed halfway through the film. Lois Lane comes dangerously close to sexy-lamp status.Īnd it’s not just Lois - several other women in the film serve as convenient plot points. In 2014 I interviewed comic-book writer Kelly Sue DeConnick, and she pointed out that if your female character can be replaced by a sexy lamp, she’s not a real character. To be fair, Lois is an intrepid journalist who pursues stories about government-conspiracy theories, and actress Amy Adams has defended the character as a “powerful woman.” But she’s still a plot device. A little boy might come away from Spider-Man wanting to be Peter Parker, but who wants to be dangled from high heights like Mary Jane? Fans, especially female fans who make up nearly half of comic book readers, are disheartened by the lack of powerful female figures with whom they can identify on screen. It’s a typical female archetype we’ve seen in dozens of superhero movies from both Marvel and DC over the years. Heck, even when Lois tries to help, she gets into trouble. She has to be saved by Superman four different times over the course of the film: once during the flashback to Man of Steel, once when she’s captured by a terrorist group while doing her job, once when she’s thrown off a building by Lex Luthor and once when she tries to help Superman by retrieving a weapon and winds up gets trapped in a collapsing building. Like the many damsels in distress who have populated superhero movies before her, the character can’t catch a break. But for every Wonder Woman, there is a Lois Lane.
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