Posted: 20 September 2012 at 9:24pm | IP Logged | 8
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The comments section of the Amethyst review mentions that Amy is threatened with rape in the first issue of her comic from 1983. Which, looking at the issue, turns out to be true. She's threatened with rape twice within the space of a single page. First when captured, she is brought before the master villian's aide and told that she is to be killed, although once his master sees her "great beauty, perhaps he will not be so hasty to put you to death." Ogres lead her away to a dark corridor and begin undressing. They tell her to "be nice. This will be easier if you cooperate." All of this occurs literally within moments of her having mysteriously transformed into an adult woman from a thirteen year old girl. So... had to two scenes been reversed and the actions described above taken place in her Nu52 debut, the writer would no doubt be taken to task for darkening what was "originally" a scene of a kick-ass, punker chick kicking the hell out of three boys who'd tricked an insecure girl into a threatening situation behind the bleachers. Of course, there could theoretically be a girl's comic printed someday wherein the heroine or her friends are not threatened with rape, but that would be relatively rare in comics, to say nothing of fantasy and romance fiction.
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