Two new trailers for female led superhero projects by Marvel and DC dropped recently.
First off, we have a full trailer for the new superheroine movie: The Marvels, which teams up Captain Marvel, Photon and Ms. Marvel, two of them already starred in feature films (Kamala had her own show) but Photon had a secondary role in Wandavision besides being introduced in the first Captain Marvel movie. The trio will stop the Kree and figure out why they are swapping places every time they use their powers.
Can Marvel finally have their own female-only superhero movie and make it good? Who knows. It looks fine for what it is but I am not getting my hopes up high because the last few superheroine movies weren't all that great. It's good to see that they have been giving women a more respectable place in the franchise in recent years, considering what they used to do with Black Widow and all that.
Hopefully it will deliver.
Next up, Harley Quinn and her friends will give us more laughs in this brand new season of her show. I remember liking this series for the most part but it became a bit tiresome and self complacent for much of it. It just kind of felt like a normie show that didn't require much thought or knowledge about the comics, which is fine, we are dealing with its own version here, enough people like it to make it worth watching after all these years.
Looks like they will keep up the sex and violence, raunchiness is the show’s bread and butter, with the writers being moderately successful at it. It goes overboard sometimes and it’s also, again, very normie with that subject too, evidenced by the fact that Nightwings butt will be a pivotal part of the show in this new season, which is an old tired joke that stopped being relevant years ago for comic fans.
Either way, it does look fun so far. I hope it will be good.
Gotta say, for comic book and geek media, this is another good sign of progress. It's nice the way we have gotten more mainstream female lead movies and tv shows. Keep them coming!
While the MCU doesn't have the best reputation with female characters, they have gotten better over the years but they still don't include that many interesting action women. However, the recent Ant-Man movie features a very cool strong lady named Jentorra.
She was originally a character from the series Realm of Kings: Son of Hulk released in 2010. I might look into that one some other time but for now let's stick to the movie version of the character, a character so different from the comic counterpart it might as well be brand new.
Katy O'Brian.
Martial artist and former police officer Katy M. O'Brian plays this original rendition of Jentorra, who goes from being a sorceress in the comics to the leader of The Freedom Fighters who oppose the tyrannical Kang in this movie.
Jentorra is shown to be a strict and tough boss, whose astounding physical abilities and fighting strategies prove to be useful. Her determination and frustration with the state of her world fuel her constant battle against the forces of the already mentioned bad guy, who ends up being defeated by the end, but mostly by work done by Ant-Man and his companions.
Jentorra behind the scenes.
Very rarely does Hollywood employ women with less normative body types, as they are often neglected or type casted as the butt of a joke regarding their "femininity" (I am looking at you, Grown Ups 2) but thankfully, this movie treats Jentorra with the utmost respect and manages to give us a rather compelling supporting character.
She delivers some exposition as she kind of introduces the main protagonist and his daughter to the world they now find themselves in.
The tough warrior has some issues with Ant-Man and especially his daughter, Cassie. However, while she holds a grudge against Cassie for the first half of the movie (because the girl and her father got her men jailed), the two begin some sort of friendship after Cassie rescues Jentorra and her people.
Jentorra meditating in her cell.
Cassie saves Jentorra.
Jentorra is also seen often during the battle sequences at the last act and manages to come out alive of the huge battle that takes place at the climax. Her world is free from Kang and they celebrate.
The mighty warrior leads her people.
This leads me to wonder if perhaps Jentorra could become a recurring character in future MCU projects or if perhaps we will see more of her story in the form of comics or in a TV series. After all, the actress said that a lot of the characters' motivations and backstory wasn't seen or discussed in the picture. You can tell because Jentorra only has about five minutes of screentime and is merely a secondary character.
Let's hope we can see more of this great new woman warrior!
