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I'm tired of the cliche in cartoons (simpsons, family guy, futurama etc) where the female encounters a problem, goes to a gym to relax, a guy approaches them, gives them roids, they grow huge overnight,they like the way they look and keep going, get angry, realize it's a problem because they have roid rage and then suddenly shrink back to normal overnight only to realize they could have solved their problem without running from them.
Always depicting muscular women in cartoon as antagonists who have a strong entry scene only to be beaten or killed very fast by the protagonist.
Another thing, why is that in cartoon the muscle woman shown as a good person gets killed first even before anyone else dies.
Also I agree with what @czach08 has stated.
It's kind of a general trope but magically or otherwise growing for whatever purpose, completing that purpose, but not actually having earned anything in the process. Sometimes acquiring a skill or size or strength and then returning back to normal. i think it's pretty cheap and devalues the work that actual women put in to look or perform a certain way.
Reports of celebs that state they're showing off their INCREDIBLY toned abs, or legs, or arms and then the images show no muscle.
Female characters in cartoons getting muscled as a throwaway gimmick and they lose it all.
A muscled female but they're just a background character.
Some character visits a gym and there's only men lifting weights.
Girls and women who possess superhuman strength but aren't visibly muscled.
Muscled women being used for a joke now that fat jokes are off limits
I want to insert an opposite cliche which I am tired of. Action hero girls who are like a stick, fighting big dudes and beating them. At least make them a little muscular so we can believe a little bit that she can beat strong thugs. That's what I liked about Carla Dune in the Mandalorian. She was some one you could say just by looking at her that she can kick ass
I'm tired of the cliche in cartoons (simpsons, family guy, futurama etc) where the female encounters a problem, goes to a gym to relax, a guy approaches them, gives them roids, they grow huge overnight,they like the way they look and keep going, get angry, realize it's a problem because they have roid rage and then suddenly shrink back to normal overnight only to realize they could have solved their problem without running from them.
This sounds so specific, but it shows how tired that story is 😭
I want to insert an opposite cliche which I am tired of. Action hero girls who are like a stick, fighting big dudes and beating them. At least make them a little muscular so we can believe a little bit that she can beat strong thugs. That's what I liked about Carla Dune in the Mandalorian. She was some one you could say just by looking at her that she can kick ass
Marvel and DC movies are still guilty of this. Though I wonder how buff Marvel will make She-Hulk.
Muscled women being used for a joke now that fat jokes are off limits
Since muscle women are still considered “weird” by today’s social norms, I don’t mind poking fun at that. But I am tired of the same joke being “she looks like a dude!”
I want to insert an opposite cliche which I am tired of. Action hero girls who are like a stick, fighting big dudes and beating them. At least make them a little muscular so we can believe a little bit that she can beat strong thugs. That's what I liked about Carla Dune in the Mandalorian. She was some one you could say just by looking at her that she can kick ass
I agree 100%.The problem is there are no muscular actresses that can play a lead in a movie. If the actress becomes muscular, she won't get cast in any movies.
Liefield's take on Cap's anatomy is certainly one that needs to be seen lmao
Liefield's take on Cap's anatomy is certainly one that needs to be seen lmao
Liefieldian Cap has bigger implants than the girls on this site 🤭
I agree 100%.The problem is there are no muscular actresses that can play a lead in a movie. If the actress becomes muscular, she won't get cast in any movies.
There are plenty of examples of guys getting bulked up for a movie role and then returning to normal size once filming is over. There's no reason a woman couldn't do the same.
im 100% sure their agents and managers would dissuade them for image reasons. hollywood is a deeply stupid place and people here are gladly ok to suspend disbelief that Angelina Jolie could beat up ANYTHING than see a physical manifestation of strength in a woman.
Hollywood has always had simplistic ideas about what works and what doesn't. All it takes is one popular buff lady character, and they'll be scrambling to have more.
I agree 100%.The problem is there are no muscular actresses that can play a lead in a movie. If the actress becomes muscular, she won't get cast in any movies.
I've come to find there are, but they're lesser known and their muscles get them typecast. And since Hollywood probably thinks "buff women don't sell", these actresses aren't given a fair shake.
I have a sort of cliché out of my life. A friend of my wife once went with her to a sports course. The friend was really bad at sports. Afterwards she told, she really felt her muscles already growing (she meant it). She does not want to look wide like a cupboard. Therefor she does not participate anymore in that sports course. This is sort of super naive.
Another story, same naivety. I once had a girl friend. She thought, me and her, we could go out for a run so she would get fit. And afterwards she wanted to do situps. At some point she told be, she is afraid of getting too muscular. I smiled and repeated this would not happen ^^
Maybe this belongs in the stories section, but I'll put it here - what are some tropes and clichés you're tired of seeing when it comes to muscle women in movies, TV shows, comics, etc?