To think we need Wonder woman back?

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OK so DS is into superheroes - big time. We tend to stock up on action figures at car boot sales, jumbles, and the odd BOGOF offer at toy stores. Yet NONE of those readily available are female figures.

DS (aged 4) maintains that this is because 'girls don't have adventures'. So am now combing eBay for Wonderwoman, Catwoman and any other female action figures I can find...and they are much pricier than the male equivalents. Oh and they don't tend to come with any neat accessories either.

I am just so fed up of this kind of thing. Does anyone remember watching the 1970s TV series of Wonderwoman as a kid? And just thinking Wow, she's so COOL... Where have the heroines gone??? Should we petition the Beeb to bring Wonderwoman back?

I was also not allowed tonplay with my cosins cars or planet of the apes doll my stepdad really was an arse this was late 70s early 80s girls were meant to like tea sets and sindy which I likec but also loved xmen and the hulk

A Storm movie would be aces.

Gamora presumably will be big soon as Guardians of the Galaxy comes out in a few weeks.

Yes she does she is underated imo halle berry hardly got any lines in the new film

Don't forget we get to see Scarlet Witch in the next Avengers film too.

I wanted to be Jubilee as a kid. Or Cheetara

I think the comics are catching up (Tank Girl anyone?) and there is some good stuff out there for kids in the older age ranges (Hunger Games looks pretty good) but for the younger kids... not so much. And if gender indoctrination gets entrenched really young then that is going to be hard to shift later.

I mean he's only 4... he's too young to actually watch X-men or Hell-Boy or whatever. And all the time he's just getting these messages that girls don't have adventures, they don't get to do the exciting stuff (CBeebies, I'm looking at you...). So yeah it just...its really depressing!

He should meet my dd-she was being 'Supergirl' yesterday, her own made up version who wears a pink tutu with a black knights helmet and motorbike wellies. She was busy saving 'good' batman from the 'bad' batman and joker!

Yaaaaaay! She sounds splendid Backtobedlam!

My DS' superheroes and he were working out the great mystery of 'who turned off the bathroom light in the night so that the landing was all dark' today. Turned out to be a very naughty hermit crab who gets up to all sorts of tricks (it was kind of an Octonauts/Superheroes cross this arvo).

It made me laugh so hard.... it is hardly saving the world, but it shows you what a little boy regards as REALLY scary...

Ha ha, love it when you see them using their imaginations and the way they can seamlessly mix all sorts of characters/storylines. I think it helps that my dd has a brother so she is used to playing superheroes with him. I do agree though that there do need to be more female superheroes-a lot of the 4-7 age group of tv program's seemed to be aimed at a specific gender.

My DD is superhero obsessed (shes 3) and does sometimes ask why there are more boy characters than girls - its depressing.

I would LOVE a Storm movie - she was always my fave

I just wish she were old enough to watch Kickass...

Not sure about UK Netflix, but US Netflix definitely has all the good X-Men cartoons, UK might too. X-Men: The Animated Series, X-Men: Evolution, and Wolverine and the X-Men.

Wolverine and the X-Men is probably most suited to younger kids of those three, but there's only one series. X-Men: The Animated Series has some older themes, but I was probably around your sons' age when I watched it and it sparked my lifelong love for the X-Men and Marvel.