Western media has almost no good female characters.

The most famous female superhero, Wonder Woman, is a token for whom most people couldn't name a single member of her rogue's gallery. She's kinda masculine in her stoicism, and her feminine qualities aren't loud enough to counterbalance it. It makes her boring.
The most famous western female action hero, Lara Croft, was generally regarded as old and played out before they wokified her and brought her back into the cultural discussion in the process. She was sometimes memed as a crippled old woman. Not because she was hot, but because Japan offered better than this arrogant ball of snark and nobody cared. To this day, I think that it's kinda sad that this is the best that the west has to offer.
They had Harley Quinn, but they just couldn't help but suck all of the charm out of her character by turning her into a girlboss. Now people can't stand her. What changed, specifically? She used to be a cheerleader for her man. Even if it was misplaced, it turns out that people actually like that. Now she's just all about her, her, her.

The problem is that they're scared to combine all of the things that men love about women into one hyper-feminine package: hot, cute, graceful, humble, affectionate. Just putting these words together makes feminists' heads spin in a fit of self-righteous jealousy-fueled rage and their cowardly simps recoil. Just like how they have no shame trying to make male characters husbandos, pursuing waifuism is how you make female characters memorable.

>>213000928 (OP)
>hot, cute, graceful, humble, affectionate.
that's my wonder woman
yours must be a different one

>>213001436
She's taking the man's role here. Which is the heroic role, so that's a necessity for a hero, but this is adding to the masculine side of the scale that needs to be counterbalanced. Juvia could walk in and tell a normal police officer to sit down for his own safety and come across as ultra-feminine in the process, because the way that she'd do it would be very cute.

When I say that her femininity needs to be loud, I mean that she needs to strut it like John Rambo struts his masculinity. She's a superhero. She should be more quirky and femininely idealistic than your aunt. And it is going to be kinda unnatural, because the politically incorrect truth is that women aren't warriors and the things that people like about them aren't really suited to combat.
>LOSER INCEL VIRRAAAAAAH
You can either serve the crowd that likes women or you can serve insecure cunts. One of these has cost the entertainment industry tens of billions of dollars while the other is always building new IPs that draws in big money.

>>213000928 (OP)
> Western media has almost no good female characters.

Yeah they do. They’re just not action movie characters because women don’t like or support action movies. Why didn’t the ladies show up for The Ballerina like they did for Barbie? Why didn’t the ladies show up for M3gan 2.0 which was M3gan going full T2?

>>213000928 (OP)
>>213002016
Warrior women can be sexy and effective so I disagree.

>>213000928 (OP)
>a token for whom most people couldn't name a single member of her rogue's gallery.
I used to be into capeshit and I can name Cheetah and... Ares?

>>213002016
>weebo retard
oh, okay

>>213002016
My take on anime is somewhat similar to yours, in an inverted way. I find that the only good anime is that which apes western aesthetics, mythos, stereotypes or is generally inspired by it. Rarely is there truly good anime rooted entirely in its own people's culture.

>>213002291
Just to add to this, I do think western media could learn a thing or two from anime and the less restrictive treatment of female characters is certainly one of those things. But they also shouldn't just be 2 dimensional sex objects, because frankly that's just boring, and porn is available everywhere. Ideally, they're sexy but also well written. To want them to be exclusively sex objects is, ironically enough, simp behavior.

>>213000928 (OP)
Western media does have a plethora of good female characters. There’s just not very many good writers, creators, or executives in suits that are in these media spaces that are allowing for those stories to take place.

Good story telling used to take precedent, not so much anymore.

>>213002409
>she has a backstory that ties into her behavior with the people around her
>she's part of a tragic drama; her femininity is actively utilized to make the tragedy more tragic
>but because she's designed to be as hot as possible and acts in a manner that's pure distilled femininity, it's two-dimension porn
Funny how they don't call it porn when male characters are deliberately made to get women wet, isn't it?

BTW, the behavior that feminists call "sexual objectification" is how women actually behave, which people who've been around women should know but are often too cowardly to process and verbalize. "Running like a girl" is a phrase because that's how girls run. Girls do flirt with each other. They do tell cutesy jokes. They do dance around. Women actually do have feminine bone structures and secondary sexual characteristics. Most men can't build themselves like Sylvester Stallone or Arnold Schwarzenegger, much less like a space marine, but if some retard tried to say "men don't look like that", he'd be called a cuck.

>>213000928 (OP)
I thought wonder woman was just some dudes bondage fantasy come to life

Why didn’t women support this

>>213002409
Lex luthor is my kinda pervert....