{"id":9904,"date":"2010-04-13T00:20:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T07:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9904"},"modified":"2010-04-13T00:20:22","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T07:20:22","slug":"the-thinning-of-amanda-waller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9904","title":{"rendered":"The Thinning of Amanda Waller"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rachel Edidin<\/a> described Amanda Waller:<\/p>\n

There is no one\u2013no one\u2013in the D.C. Universe more badass than Amanda Waller. She is smarter than Batman. She is tougher than Darkseid. And she is one of the most morally and humanly complex characters in fiction. She embodies a combination of deep compassion, profound ideals, and utter ruthlessness that female characters rarely get to touch\u2013and she will fuck up your binaries and paradigms better than any other character in mainstream comics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That was in a post about “Characters Who Break the Paradigm of Feminine Beauty in Comics.” As another person put it<\/a>: “Batman wishes<\/em> he was as hardcore as Amanda Waller.”<\/p>\n

So — awesome character. And to make things even better, here’s what Amanda Waller looks like:<\/p>\n

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(Amanda Waller is the one on the right.)<\/p>\n

\"\"Most fat characters in mainstream comic books are villains (The Kingpin, The Blob) or jokes (Bouncing Boy) or at best sidekicks of the protagonist (Franklin in Daredevil<\/em>). There are very few positive fat characters in mainstream comics, and none I can think of who are as positive, as complex, as powerful, and as central to multiple storylines as Amanda Waller.<\/p>\n

So it’s no surprise that a thin actress — Angela Bassett — has been cast to play Waller in the upcoming Green Lantern movie<\/a>. Rumor is that she’ll reprise the role in at least one or two other upcoming DC-universe movies, if things go as planned.<\/p>\n

And if the movie’s a hit, then there will probably be some pressure on the comic book to redesign their Amanda Waller to look more like Angela Bassett.<\/p>\n

Really, I’m relieved they didn’t make the character white<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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