Megamind (2010)

[foxfirefey]

So, unless it happened in the very very beginning of the movie I missed, Megamind utterly fails the Bechdel Test--one woman with no other women to talk to! Even worse, she's pretty much the rope involved in a tug of war between two pillars of manpain. One of whom (her coworker with a crush made into a superman, no less) decides that when she rejects him romantically, he should kill her.

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[holyschist]

I did like that the villain was a Nice Guy, but I am very unfond of Good-Woman-Motivates-Bad-Guy-to-Become-Good as a plot device, and the usual 5-1 male-female character ratio rather depressed me.

And you know who would have been an awesome new superhero for Metro City, and could have taken the movie in a whole different direction? Roxy.

I wonder what kind of movie it would have been if Megamind had shot her with the gun and set her up as his new rival. Possibly a less predictable one.