NazarethSavage

Why is she a celebrity here? Isn't this why we created America? So we can give royalty the finger?

Wonder Woman is supposed to have the beauty of a goddess and Android 18 seems to be modeled after an average 80's teenager. Wonder Woman wins by miles.

He stops at Black Canary or Nightwing, due to accumulated injuries.

And no way in hell is Canary taking Batman in a straight-up fight. Best she could hope for is to give him a great fight.

The outrunning bullet feat is nice but is contrary to years and years of her character being presented as not having speed on that level so it is painfully obvious that it's an outlier. Batman also has feats on that level FWIW.

Daredevil would also beat her.

Hulk looks white to you?

Here's a simple one.... 

@NazarethSavage: If you look at a long running series... in essence what are they? A compilation of many scenarios. And often when you create one scenario... it opens the door for 2 other scenarios to follow after it. The problem is that Marvel just hasn't had someone to make those scenarios. It's not due to a lack of potential.

I mean let's look at the first issues of X-men for an example. The very first issue was a very simple scenario... X-men fight off a bad guy with Magnetic powers. Okay.

A while later someone goes...

"Hey... what if we made Magneto have this backstory as a Jew during the Holocaust?"

"Ooooooh and because of his experiences he forms this view about mutants that conflicts with Professor X's!"

"And then we can write about how Magneto and Prof. X really actually like each other as people but they just disagree!"

"And then we can write about..."

And so on and so forth.

One idea fuels another is what I'm trying to say.

As for the issue of Marvel attempting this... well that's a whole other bag of worms that is worthy of it's own thread of discussion. "Why doesn't Marvel have many solo series for women, black characters, asian characters, hispanic characters, middle eastern characters, gay characters, transgender characters, etc.?"

@NazarethSavage I believe that it could be done. Hell, if I can come up with a bunch of scenarios I don't see why a professional writer can't. And making a new villain really wouldn't be that difficult. People forget that a person doesn't need super powers to cause trouble for the protagonist. They don't even have to be evil. They just have to cause conflict.

I should have made it more clear in my post. I meant the Marvel female solos not lasting.

Great post. Agreed 100%. Plus, most of the female solo books are spin-off from a more popular male counter-part (Supergirl to Superman, Captain Marvel to Captain Marvel, Wolverine to X-23, Batman to Batgirl, Conan ro Red Sonja, etc.),but none seem to last. I just wish they would give Storm, arguably their most popular and rcongnizable female super heroine (with a pretty vocal fanbase), a shot at a solo. Either way, I am in that skeptical category right along with ya.

@NazarethSavage: Plus she is an X-Man which also have a bad track record with solo's. I would love them to try it and it succeed, but I understand why they probably won't do it. Still if they are not careful DC will beat them to the punch.

@NazarethSavage: I don't believe a black female character has ever had a solo series, though Misty Knight was the central character in the last Heroes for Hire series which was great and underrated.

Hmmm... well that is where you and I disagree. I think it should support why Marvel should give her a try. If Marvel is willing to give their remotely unpopular white female character an on-going when compared to their immensely more popular black female character, then of course it is Marvel prerogative to do so. But it would seem more practical from a business perspective to push a popular character who hasn't had an on-going, before promoting a black/white male/female unpopular character. But to your point, if Marvel is to model how they do business I would argue that they should never have a female solo on-going because they can't or haven't shown to be capable of sustaining one. DC is completely different from Marvel so DC being able to have several female solo on-goings do well does not mean Marvel will or has had that same luck. To the contrary they haven't, so if I am to use your logic, from the perspective of making money, they should never attempt to market a female on-going.

If STorm wasn't actively advancing their business, which I don't believe you can disprove or prove that statement, they would just kill her off.

IF that statement is true why do Marvel continue to put her in tons of merchandising, games, etc. 

For example, there was much backlash from the marriage of Storm to BP from both fans of the characters. Marvel ultimately annulled the marriage. So do I think Marvel has to answer to me personally, of course not nor would I ever claim so. However, to the masses of people who read them they owe them a listening ear if they continue to wish to make profit.