[Discussion] Flawed canon and "bad" characters

[anenko.livejournal.com]

Who are your favourite "guilty pleasure" female characters? The ones who aren't good examples of what can be done with female characters, but who you deeply love anyway?

Have you spent hours creating backstory for a female character whose sole purpose in canon is to provide eyecandy for fanboys? Do you feel wildly passionate about a woman from a badly written, sexist series? Is your OTC a woman who died in the first episode of a new series, before the opening credits even began to roll?

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[se-parsons.livejournal.com]

I have loved Catwoman and Wonder Woman since I was a child. In fact, all those DC girls who were merely created as eyecandy or as somebody's kinky bondage fetish.

Sadly, seeing they are still usually written by fanboys, they are ordinarily horribly, horribly mishandled. But they have the potential to be awesome, and sometimes are despite their writers.

Brubaker's stint on Catwoman was pretty solid, but not perfect. I wish they would give her a woman writer who could really write noir and grit and women as human beings - not the mysterious irrational OTHER so many of the writers seem to view them as.

[harriet-spy.livejournal.com]

My favorite in that regard was SELINA'S BIG SCORE, which was an all-Darwyn Cooke effort.