@krspaceT: I always thought that people had issues with how they dressed, not how they looked like.

Ultimate X-23? Since when?

First, I have to saw the DC pic is horribly ugly. They have long necks, & the faces are just gross. The Marvel one is better, but not much.

There are attractive people & ugly people in real life. I assume there are ugly super people, but just like in real life they dont draw much attention to themselves. As for Bruce wayne or Tony Stark. A lot of hollywood actors are attractive. The guys who played Clark, Lex, GA, Zod, they were all good looking guys, & I can say that completely secure in my heteroness. So yeah, rich guys will be attractive, they can afford the healthy lifestyle

If powered people

@TheCrowbar said:

@krspaceT: I always thought that people had issues with how they dressed, not how they looked like.

Same. I mean looking hot is one thing, but fighting in heels and a thong is a little ridiculous.

There's an Ultimate X-23 now Since when?! last time i check she didn't exist in the ultimate universe

@Blood1991: i know right? i mean i can barely manage to spend a whole mundane day wearing one of those things, let alone save the world. Itd be a bit distracting if your trying to kick some bad guys ass and all you can think about is fixing that killer wedgie.

but besides that, in an industry that considers parallel universes, frequent time travel and magic pretty normal, i really don't think too much about how unrealistic the costume choices are haha.

Although X-23 is physically attractive, sometimes her stories like to sacrifice her attractiveness for realism and depiction of her rather strong personality. Other heroines, like these above, usually go through dramatic situations with only few scratches to not damage their look (I'm not an expert, maybe I'm wrong). But when X-23 had her limbs cut off, not to mention being constantly burned to muscle tissue, it was hard to think about her attractiveness (X-Force, when she was carrying her arm while escaping from the facility. It wasn't very sexy if you ask me). Such situations gives drama, but also realism and brings attention to her personality rather than her look. As for her look itself, she has quite good genes (Wolverine represents strong manliness and dr Sarah Kinney wasn't ugly at all) so the fact that she has a pretty face and a good body is not a big surprise (visually she is a perfect copy of her mother). Since she doesn't give a damn about her look, her clothes were rarely provocative (with only exception being cropped top X-men shirts). She was seen quite often wearing ordinary clothes like dark jackets and blouses not revealing her breast (surely not like in the pictures above). I like how writers adds dose of realism to her stories and I really like the fact that X-23 is not heavily sexualised. For me she is the most realistic heroine in Marvel Universe.

@ambival1: All of this Right here

speaks so much truth.

I've thought about this before. It first occurred to me when I posted a rant somewhere on here about how all the female mutants in the X-Men had to be hot. It used to be Jean Grey was the 'hot' one then it became all X-Men were attractive females. Someone posted the tongue-in-cheek remark that they (mutants) got the 'good genes'. Still don't know if I buy it, but it's as good an explanation as any and better than most.

It really doesn't explain at all outside the mutant realm - superheroes/heroines that got their powers from some freak accident. But for mutants, maybe I'll kind of buy into it.

All in all, should we really treat this subject so seriously? In all the movies, tv shows, games etc women are usually pretty, cause attractiveness brings audience's attention. I'm not talking simply about sexualism, characters looking nice and strong (or weak and miserable, it all depends on the story) are easy to identify with. Some writers wants an action based story, so they put well builded, usually handsome guy, or a skinny, nice looking girl - making a breach of the rule generally ends with smaller, more elite audience, unless the story, by making an departure from classic solutions, brings you different, but still strong emotions.

@ambival1:

Unfortunately, Laura went in the direction all females seem to go in with her new outfit when she joined Avengers Academy. (Bra instead of cropped top). Still much better than others, I agree.

@Blood1991:

If anything, maybe the perfectly coiffed hair can be annoying, lol. I mean -- I draw the line at the women ALWAYS having great hair days, you know? That's going too far....

Great blog, I always enjoy the topic of how characters are depicted in a visual medium. Discussion is a good thing.

@lykopis: Lol, perfect hair exceeds comics. You would think that a zombie apocalypse would make hair products hard to find, but it's been two fictional years in The Walking Dead show and those mofo's all have perfect hair.

in real life they all would have had that sh!t in a bun or chopped it off like Carol.

@Blood1991:

That's it. **takes off ear-rings and kicks off heels** The line has been crossed. I am going b@tsh*t crazy on the world now...

@lykopis: *hands battery powered hair trimmers and runs like hell* May chaos ensue.

@Blood1991: ;p

@lykopis: I'm not reading Avengers Academy, X-23 is not portrayed well in this series (opinion based on rumors, but the bra thing says for itself)

I don't see why we need to look beyond financial motivations for this...

@ambival1: Just her losing her series made me almost lose it -- but the bra thing...ugh. Now with this whole Battle Royale rip-off they are doing, who knows what's going to happen to her.

It is on the long list things that are in need to be improved. We should expect more from Marvel as they are the ones who made heroes who do not follow that standards. They do have one Big Bertha when she power up she big fat powerful lady. She was a parody of the super models but we got one. It s a slow process that needs to pick up the pace. how ever we can also blame the readers but we have to make a variety.

@DeviousBastard said:

Ultimate X-23? Since when?

@Lightburst said:

There's an Ultimate X-23 now Since when?! last time i check she didn't exist in the ultimate universe

Funny thing I read about her Ultimate counterpart appearing from her wikipedia page... But that read a little too much like fan fiction and since anyone can edit it and the fact that it hasn't been blasted all over comics sites I know that it was just some fans hopeful imagination

@Tommy_X: I already took off the wiki himself.

Finally, an answer!