No Female Superheroes

Seconded!

Honestly, this bothered me too. Instead, we get Lisa crushing on Fall Out Boy in the beginning and that's it. Come on, there is Clobber Girl, Brainy Baby, and Cocoa, and they could have even used the Entangler, Vampire Edna or the Jazzler - all three who appeared in the Simpsons Comics. Missed opportunity - Clobber Girl Lisa would have been awesome to have!

LisaSimpsonOH wrote:
I know that this is a very Lisa Simpson complaint, but what can I say? I was hoping that chapter four would involve a female superhero, as I've had Archer Lisa and Fireball-Throwing Marge trainging for their moment to join the Avengers, er Justice League, er whatever. But it's an exclusive boys club apparently. Very disappointing for a show that has one of the best female characters in television history.

I fully support you. In addition to these and other heroes listed in the thread, I had hopes for Sailor Moon Kumiko. Maybe even Hot Flash. There should be female supervillains too! Bring on Charcoal Briquette!

How about some diversity, too? Bumblebee Man and Icelandic Carl, for example.

Martin and Moe set the bar pretty low for inclusion (especially Moe), yet still there has been failure. This is a very male, white event. And no, it is not okay.

FreeWillUnit wrote:

How about some diversity, too? Bumblebee Man and Icelandic Carl, for example.

Martin and Moe set the bar pretty low for inclusion (especially Moe), yet still there has been failure. This is a very male, white event. And no, it is not okay.

^^^^^^^^^^^ This. All of this! Again - I loved the event, the whole concept of it, the comic book genre, etc - BUT, it was beyond exclusionary to the point that the only time a female was involved is when she was in love with one of the superheroes or had to hang out with Milhouse - so basically, a total accessory, stuck in the background and eliminated from said story when she was needed any more. No diversity in characters either - Martin in a dress really doesn't count...
My hope is that this series runs again next year and opens up a lot more - but then again, some of these characters should have been around this time, not stuck in as an appeasement the second time around. (too much coffee this morning, really riled up and suffering from lack of clicking..)

FreeWillUnit wrote:
This is a very male, white event. And no, it is not okay.

White? Or yellow, maybe?

The same episode featured Xena. She would have been a nice addition to the collection.

I would have liked to have seen at least one of the female superheroes from the show, but I think if it were clobber girl then it would have caused the issue of a stretch dude skin not being released (the two characters go together, IMO), as Bart just had the Bartman skin released. They could have added Lucy Lawless, though, without it being an issue because of the Collector (in the episode she reminds the kids that she is not Xena, but Lucy Lawless). But then they would have to go through the process of getting the rights to use her image in the game, I believe... Which is probably way more of a hassle for them.
Too bad, though. All of them would have fit in to the event very nicely! :D

i agree, more female super heroes needed!!!! this is ridiculous, i mean spider pig got in but not a lisa skin????

This doesn't come to me as a surprise to be honest. For those of us who were around from the beginning, and went on the forum, you'd know how much complaining was done just to get the core female characters into the game.

Ever since this game came out it had a heavy bias towards male characters. Even when female characters started coming out, more of them ended up being limited time, or premium. It was always extremely annoying and odd to even male players.

The only thing I can hope for is that they release a super hero event part 2 with all female characters to even out the playing field.

Overall though a feminist could have a field day with this game, easily calling it sexist. I suppose that wouldn't bother the creators too much, because it's not the worst thing the simpsons as a whole has done.

Igcognita wrote:

AJtheboss1 wrote:
This doesn't come to me as a surprise to be honest. For those of us who were around from the beginning, and went on the forum, you'd know how much complaining was done just to get the core female characters into the game.

Ever since this game came out it had a heavy bias towards male characters. Even when female characters started coming out, more of them ended up being limited time, or premium. It was always extremely annoying and odd to even male players.

The only thing I can hope for is that they release a super hero event part 2 with all female characters to even out the playing field.

Overall though a feminist could have a field day with this game, easily calling it sexist. I suppose that wouldn't bother the creators too much, because it's not the worst thing the simpsons as a whole has done.

I also remember people were just as defensive and coming up with excuses, and when all else failed, just flat out called people Feminst for wanting female characters added. To me that's RIDICULOUS!!!!! Why does someone have to be a feminist, to just want so of our favorites added to the game that just happen to be women.

I personally made fun of the game for almost exclusively adding males. I called the game a virtual c0ckfest. :lol:

Things have changed since then which is nice. Sadly old habits die hard with these developers. :roll:

Actually I find it extremely odd that they'd exclude female characters in main events, simply because of the demographic. This game has a ton of female players. You'd think they'd want to cater to them too.