The women’s role, however, is to exist to be seen and looked at by the male, nothing more. Contradicting, Wonder Woman defies all standards of dominance and stereotype in her newest solo film that came out this year. Gal Godet plays the strong Amazonian princess, finding herself directly a part of World War One battle, breaking the streak of the lack of solo female representation in superhero action movies (Truitt, 2017). Not only was this film a giant leap in the positive direction for societies view on women’s power roles, but it made defied project revenue earning box office sales upwards of $800 million (Hughes, 2017). In the movie, she is independent and strong, defying the standards as described by Bordo, proving that women can act too.
However, generally a female’s acknowledgement in the sea of superheroes, with few exceptions (Wonder Woman), is only worth something when a male superhero is present or has first existed. This concept is delineated notably in movie art as shown