I think I might be the first one to comment that I didn't quite like Hit-Girl. I don't hate her nor do I object to her being a bad-ass capable of decimating no-name henches. Hell, I was pretty disappointed with the relative ease the big bad managed to put her down with. (I made a HUGE frowny face at that scene.) The issue? Problem? IDK concern? Thing-I-don't-like is her background and the fact that she'd been brainwashed for 6-7 years by her father. It seems to suggest that if Big Daddy hadn't raised her to be that much of a sociopath, Hit-Girl's bad-assery would never come to pass. Why must girl characters require intense conditioning/tutelage in the ways of bad-assery unlike the average boy who just needed an outlet?
Why can't girls whose parents didn't raise them with a twisted moral compass be just as bad-ass as Hit-Girl? I think that's what turned me off about the character. Had her father never been released from jail, and if her guardian had continued to raise her, would Hit-Girl still have that vendetta? Would Hit-Girl still be as willing to cuss and kick-ass and slice and slaughter?
It just makes me sad to think that only maladjusted, angsty, twisted backstories will allow a girl/female character that kind of awesome in mainstream media.
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Why can't girls whose parents didn't raise them with a twisted moral compass be just as bad-ass as Hit-Girl? I think that's what turned me off about the character. Had her father never been released from jail, and if her guardian had continued to raise her, would Hit-Girl still have that vendetta? Would Hit-Girl still be as willing to cuss and kick-ass and slice and slaughter?
It just makes me sad to think that only maladjusted, angsty, twisted backstories will allow a girl/female character that kind of awesome in mainstream media.