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While I haven't been following the Marvel movies or the comics that much, I've always known that Natasha (Black Widow) is highly trained "standard" woman not a woman with super-powers.

Even the idea that she was given the Soviet version of the Super-Soldier serum doesn't really change that.

She's not a She-Hulk and thus has to use different tactics that She-Hulk would use.

Too many people want a female character to be a Superwoman without vulnerabilities.

Of course, these are often the same people who dislike a male character that lacks vulnerabilities.

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Jun 21, 2022Liked by Caroline Furlong

I read a YA novel where the heroine spoke contemptuously of princesses killed by a giant and how they should have rescued themselves.

And rolled my eyes with the knowledge that she would get away with tempting Nemesis, though she should have found herself a helpless prisoner at some point.

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Jun 21, 2022Liked by Caroline Furlong

>> If I could do that research for fun, what was preventing these “professionals” from doing the same for their livelihoods?

:grumpy: They can't mange basic IRL history, why would they do it for a fandom?

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