Have you watched Road to El Dorado? Or Dreamworks' Sinbad? All slash or slashy inclinations aside, ask yourself this: Could the movies have worked without the women?
And that's what I'm talking about. A character is unimportant when it can be replaced either by a trinket, a perfectly unimportant extra, or altogether removed without damaging the plot. This isn't perfect math, but it's usually the case with some female characters.
Let's suffer a bit. Let's think of the Batman & Robin movie. A truly horrible, yes, but Batgirl. Tell me now: couldn't they have beaten Uma Thurman and the Terminator without her help? You bet your ass they could.
An example of the opposite would be characters like the one you mentioned. Depth makes them interesting. They make the story richer by being there.
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All slash or slashy inclinations aside, ask yourself this: Could the movies have worked without the women?
And that's what I'm talking about. A character is unimportant when it can be replaced either by a trinket, a perfectly unimportant extra, or altogether removed without damaging the plot. This isn't perfect math, but it's usually the case with some female characters.
Let's suffer a bit.
Let's think of the Batman & Robin movie. A truly horrible, yes, but Batgirl. Tell me now: couldn't they have beaten Uma Thurman and the Terminator without her help? You bet your ass they could.
An example of the opposite would be characters like the one you mentioned. Depth makes them interesting. They make the story richer by being there.