re: Cat Vasko Will Write Warner Bros.’ Female-Centric Plastic Man Movie

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If there were ever a comic character you could play around with, without drawing any sincere, deserved anger from a fan base, it should be Plastic Man. That won't prevent people from pretending they care about him, of course.

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Maybe, maybe not.

However, there are a significant jokes that the humor is built around in Plastic Man that actually is male centric. That's a pretty big part to the character's style.


Regardless, taking a male character and turning him female should be a 100% no on any accounts at this point. Not to sky scream, but those are not the characters as they were written. And vice versa. We shouldn't take female characters and make them male either.

This was cool and unique to do, when it was cool and unique, and NOT politically motivated. When artists used to do this, it was more about "What if..." now, and you'll probably disagree, it's about making a statement. It isn't experimentation, it's political theater, and that's why it's a problem.

Think Starbuck in BSG. That was fine, few people complained, and it wasn't meant to be a statement, but rather to add new layers to BSG. And it worked. She had a great arc .