While Viola Davis gave her all in her fleeting moments as Amanda Waller, this was another character that Warner Bros. Instead of allowing her to grow as she’s done in the comics, they chose to immediately skip her villainous arc in favor of her more comical antihero. But, in the end, as these films either sidelined these characters as mute slaves, ruined them with ridiculous hero makeovers, or subjected them to terrible writing, the attempts utterly failed.Įven DC has missed several opportunities to take this on with the early days of Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn. This isn’t to say Marvel hasn’t had others, but can any of us honestly name another one that matched Blanchett’s onscreen gravitas and intimidating presence? FOX’s X-Men franchise also had plenty of opportunities with iconic performances from Rebecca Romijn as Mystique, Famke Janssen as Jean Grey/Phoenix, and the newer versions of those characters played by Jennifer Lawrence and Sophie Turner. Looking back through the massive catalog of films, both comic adaptations and others of the past decade, how many of us can immediately recall more than one or two truly terrifying Femme Fatales? With Marvel, we’ve only seen a single truly terrifying female villain in Thor: Ragnarok, played to perfection by Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett as the ruthless Goddess of Death, Hela. In the age of Marvel and DC film adaptations reigning supreme at the box office, we have only been graced with the presence of actual, intimidating, ruthless female villains on the rarest of occasions.
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