To maintain analogy, at least they didn’t use vampire boys female co-star, who’s range portfolio includes looking kinda gassy, crampy, and usually quite tired and is about as interesting looking as copier paper.
Did you see that one scene where she was like “Ehh…”. Captivating!
Yeah, the power fantasy makes sense, so why not a woman built like a crossfit athlete or womens physique competitor? Even women’s bodybuilding competitors have fetishists. Dudes have to be roided out to the gills to get acting jobs, but that same expectation isn’t there for women.
Because just like you identified: that is a fetish. That is a smaller demographic. The artist are trying to appeal to the mainstream. Just like how being huge and strong appeals to the exact same mainstream male power fantasy. It’s why I reference Rob Howard.
The artist are appealing to their current demographic.
You are all forgetting that a Batman has no superpowers.
He relies on his skill, wit and intelligence.
He is intelligent enough to know that to pounce around the city and beat up crooks with no guns means that he has to be in prime physical condition. He works out. He takes gear. He eats chicken and rice.
Well, this one flopped but mostly because the movie sucked balls. For this chick, her tiny frame and the lack of good fight choreography(good as in “I can accept that it’s possible Black Widow can really kick that kind of ass in reel life because it’s done well enough for me to go along with it” kind of good). I admit I spent most of the movie imagining tossing her around like a rag doll because I was so fucking bored.
Exactly, superman has super powers, so they can just write it off as that. Batman doesn’t have superpowers and takes on people who do. Dude bent a gun barrel in a recent movie. Unless that strength is coming from a supernatural source, he needs to look the part.
Like I said before, Superman is a worse character than Batman (IMO), so I could care less who directs a movie about him. Homelander in The Boys is how Superman was meant to be.