Thread:Mesektet/@comment-3581997-20160615160106/@comment-3581997-20160704071716

It's actually a pretty old role. Women seem to get the run as villains way, way more than protagonist. The big bad of most Greek fables is Hera, goddess of womanhood, most druidic stories which have been re-spun as fairy-tales have evil witches as your default, the single most independent female character in any Disney film is still Maleficent and even the likes of Marvel and DC have far more well built female characters on the villain side of the line, for every Ms. Marvel there are at least 3 Mystiques, Destinies and Emma Frosts.

Seems to be that female characters come in two tones usually, pure and innocent or femme fatal, at least for heroes. When they are villains they can hit the entire spectrum though. Some are civil rights leaders gone too far; see Mystique, some are loyal soldiers; check Arcane Olga, some are morally grey thieves; see Elektra, some are haunted by their own passed; Livia Drusila, but these are all villain characters. There are only three female characters on the good side of things that weren't relegated to either being soft spoken cherub or lip puckering femme fatal bad girl and those are Buffy Summers, Agent Lin Mei and Genkai, and the former two were invented by the same writer.

I mean there are others, but seriously sit down and check how many interesting female protagonists there are in any given work vs the number of interesting female villains.