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1. ≋к≋и≋н≋у≋奇≋诺≋ (kino@fedi.intkos.link)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Feb-2023 01:47:33 JST ≋к≋и≋н≋у≋奇≋诺≋

   i hate superhero movies but my 2 cents on why all these female superhero movies and stuff keep flopping and widely suck is because they're totally hollow and inorganic and exist solely to be the token "strong girl character" thing. i don't think people dislike female protagonists, they just need to be organic and written organically with real backstories and stuff and exist for themselves vs. exist towards an agenda.
   
   a couple scifi movies i can think of immediately with very likable and very strong female protagonists, for example, would be alien, contact, and arrival. none of these characters existed to be strong girlbosses---they just existed as the main protagonists and they had organic, normal-human-being backstories and character fleshing out. they weren't mary sues or whatever the term is called. you could have swapped any of these female leads out for male leads and the story would still work and be just as good and enthralling, because the story *wasn't* centered around them being women WOW STRONG GIRLBOSS. the story itself was just altogether solid and the characters, male or female, were written to be believable normal people in extraordinary scenarios and i don't think ever once their gender or sex came up as a central or important or pivotal plot point or story arc.

   • pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Feb-2023 01:47:31 JST pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:

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     @kino
     
     > alien
     
     I think that's my go-to example for "completely believable female protagonist", the other is is Sarah Connor in Terminator 2. (It is a pretty believable transition given what happened in the first movie.)
     
     > written to be believable normal people in extraordinary scenarios
     
     Hallmark of good writing.
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   • Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Feb-2023 02:03:14 JST Moon

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     @kino Alien is such a good example that people have started writing off the example as "clliche" as if that meant it was untrue. No, it just means it's a settled matter that you're wrong lol.
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