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Do unattractive female comic book characters exist?

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gotez

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The reason why there are so many attractive women in comic books is to make up for the fact there are so many unattractive women who read comics.

 

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Two of the three witch hosts from DC's early '70s horror title the Witching Hour, E.C.'s Old Witch, Aunt May, Tigra, Thundra, Harlequin, Sugar from Sugar and Spike, etc.

 

Tigra is sexy.

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Most comic book characters embody a physical ideal ( at least from an adolescent perspective) or caricature.

 

Most male superheroes are taller, fitter and better looking than the average male even within their own comic book world, the same for female heroes and the respective romantic interests of both. Most villains are physically less attractive or at least deliberately not an ideal, and adult sidekicks are often heavy, nerdy or otherwise less traditionally "attractive" than the heroes they support.

 

The most bizarre part of the appeal of the early 90s Image style artists and their still lingering influence is that the ideal became caricature, with stick figure females sporting enormous fully spherical boobs, and males with tiny heads and arms thicker than their waists.

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Most comic book characters embody a physical ideal ( at least from an adolescent perspective) or caricature.

 

Most male superheroes are taller, fitter and better looking than the average male even within their own comic book world, the same for female heroes and the respective romantic interests of both. Most villains are physically less attractive or at least deliberately not an ideal, and adult sidekicks are often heavy, nerdy or otherwise less traditionally "attractive" than the heroes they support.

 

The most bizarre part of the appeal of the early 90s Image style artists and their still lingering influence is that the ideal became caricature, with stick figure females sporting enormous fully spherical boobs, and males with tiny heads and arms thicker than their waists.

 

Well said. I guess the thing that struck me was the fact that there was a much higher percentage of "unattractive" male comic book villains whereas female villains don't necessarily have to follow the "villain = less attractive" rule. Which makes perfect sense to me based on the comic book demographic. Although there have been some great examples offered up in this thread. (Judge McGruder is in the lead in my mind).

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