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=== Character actions === | |||
* Seducing the guards as a means of escaping: this is done by female characters to male guards, and almost never in any other situation. Women's bodies provide distractions, playing on the libido of male characters, but only villainesses use long-term seduction to secure enemy loyalty, not heroines. | |||
* Seducing the villain's accomplices as a means of undermining their power: this is done almost exclusively by male characters, who win the loyalty of a movie's secondary villainesses through sexual charisma. [[James Bond]], for instance, is notorious in this regard. Another example occurs in the movie [[Willow]], where the evil queen's daughter is kidnapped by and becomes loyal to her own prisoners, and marries one of them in the end. | |||
=== Character functions === | |||
* A character whose hand in marriage is offered as a reward is almost invariably female. | |||
* Dead spouses who only exist to motivate the hero are usually female. | |||
=== Gadgets === | |||
* Sonic Lipstick in ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' | * Sonic Lipstick in ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' | ||
Revision as of 20:56, 10 January 2007
Plot devices that are gendered, often (or usually) unnecessarily.
Examples
Character actions
- Seducing the guards as a means of escaping: this is done by female characters to male guards, and almost never in any other situation. Women's bodies provide distractions, playing on the libido of male characters, but only villainesses use long-term seduction to secure enemy loyalty, not heroines.
- Seducing the villain's accomplices as a means of undermining their power: this is done almost exclusively by male characters, who win the loyalty of a movie's secondary villainesses through sexual charisma. James Bond, for instance, is notorious in this regard. Another example occurs in the movie Willow, where the evil queen's daughter is kidnapped by and becomes loyal to her own prisoners, and marries one of them in the end.
Character functions
- A character whose hand in marriage is offered as a reward is almost invariably female.
- Dead spouses who only exist to motivate the hero are usually female.
Gadgets
- Sonic Lipstick in The Sarah Jane Adventures
Discussions
- Sonic Stereotypes by Ide Cyan and comment thread, FSF blog 2007/1/6