Comments on: Superheroine peril and distress

By: Calvin

Calvin — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 17:28:49 +0000

Interesting seeing the results of the poll. Since your site is not all about superheroines in peril, you would think that the vast majority of those interested in your site would not be about peril either. Yet the majority are. You would expect this of members of peril sites, but even in yours the majority like it.

By: Amelia Thomas

Amelia Thomas — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 03:38:34 +0000

i love Bionic Woman. i wish there were real bionic women out there.`:”

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 01 May 2010 21:39:05 +0000

I always thought the point of having ‘superheroine’ on the internet was the element of peril. The big turn on is to ‘humiliate’ the arrogant and sexy superheroine. What is ‘humiliate’ ?? It all depends on personal taste/kinkyness, whatever you call it. Otherwise, what more are you offering than the likes of Wonder Woman or Bionic Woman on national television??

I think the tendency of men to want to humiliate women comes from evolutionary traits. The cavemen could spread their genes by raping women. It would be easier and more effective if the man enjoyed humiliating women (inflicting pain or knocking her unconcious etc). Men with such traits had the advangate to spread his genes. Now, in the 20th C, we all are civilized. Further add the society suppressing sexuality with religion (and don’t even think about rape). But the genes are still there and a lot of men still have the fantasy of humiliating women.

If I had to guess, to be consistent with this evolution explanation, the majority of people who voted against any kind of peril might be women (or lesbians).

By: underdog

underdog — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:19:25 +0000

I would perfer to see the superheroine sometimes win and sometimes lose. That way we don’t know whats going to happen and the comics are not as predictable as they are now. I like seeing the heroines lose from time to time ebcause like I said, it keeps the comics from being predictable and its a nce change from the majority of comics. Guess I just like the bad girls Jose. Thats just me.

By: Jose

Jose — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:39:11 +0000

The poll doesn’t say having heroines lose. Why would anybody want to see that? I voted for the middle one to have some “peril” included to make it more dramatic and have the victory at the end more satisfying but not to see a hero lose, fail, or die at the end.

Why would you want to see that? What’s the purpose?

I like MRK opinion on having the comics for action/adventure like. Peril is too closely associated with those other sites around the net.

By: underdog

underdog — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:47:32 +0000

You speak for everyone now Jose…lmao

Well the poll proves you wrong, so bite your tongue.

By: Jose

Jose — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:00:29 +0000

Not a bad idea underdog but most of us don’t care to see the heroine lose.

By: underdog

underdog — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:06:19 +0000

perhaps just offer alternate endings to the comics…if the heroine wins in the original story, offer an alternate ending for the fans of seeing the heroines lose, and vice versa

By: MRK

MRK — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:16:37 +0000

On the subjec of peril..

I think you should not go to the lenghts of calling it ‘peril’. Doing so, you narrow the idea of the heroine always been defeated, bound, etc.. which is what most people will think when they read the word superheroine peril’.

I think, what you could do is make the photsotires more ‘comic book’ like. With that in mind, challenge the heroine, sure, have a bad girl give her trouble which can be from a simple fight to knock down/drag out fight.

No problem if you have parts where the heroine is defeated, captured, etc.. that happens in the comics, tv series, animated series, etc.. and it must happen otherwise the stories become repetive and dull, you just have to be more imaginative in the ways she’s challenged or taken down, as well as more imaginative on how the heroine gets back on her feet and wins at the end.

You’ll have opportunity to have more varied stories and more varied photos, when they’re down, for example in the current story, the photo of SW down and out on the floor is very good, and you could have taken more from other angles or poses too. Variation.

So, the word/scenario of ‘peril’ is not the one you should aim at, more like action/adventure. That sounds better.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:58:10 +0000

Peril is necessary, the straightforward stories where the superheroine wins and encounters no trouble are pretty boring. I like to see some struggle and drama to keep things exciting. You don’t need to go overboard like many of the sites you mention, but having a formidable villain to face off with the heroine is always more intriguing.

My favorite is having a strong female supervillain to combat the superheroine!