Comments on: Spider-Man 4 To Also Be Catwoman 2, As Villains Go

By: griff

griff — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:22:01 +0000

You’re right, Black Cat is Catwoman for Marvel. Mad, hadn’t thought of that before.
Call me sexist but I don’t like female superheroes whose names aren’t Wonder Woman…

By: halo

halo — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:31:13 +0000

They should reboot Poison Ivy (with Uma of freakin course!!) and let Raimi have a field day and keep the character intact.
It could only be better if they find a way to put Bruce Campbell in 4… sigh

By: Nick Bryan

Nick Bryan — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:34:31 +0000

Black Cat is a fairly thinly veiled Catwoman homage/outright theft, although she’s had some good moments since being created. Still, it would be the most fun if we ended up with Spider-Man 4 and a Dark Knight sequel coming out at similar times, both featuring their cat-themed cat burglars.

By: shooty*

shooty* — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:01:50 +0000

She would be a really, really crap villain.

Catwoman was a crap villain in the Batman movies. That’s why they had to beef Batman Returns up with Penguin and Max Shrek, or whatever he was called.

Bottom line: Female baddies are not threatening enough to make a film interesting, and/or have crappy powers, so are boring to watch and/or rarely command legions of foot soldier fodder. This is why there are no female major baddies in the Bond films (that I can think of).

The one exception to this would perhaps be Poison Ivy, and they already castrated her character when Uma Thurman played it.

By: JoeMomma

JoeMomma — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:30:37 +0000

Ok, so I get to be super-nerd now. But the Black Cat is way cooler than Catwoman. Also instead of a dancing around the attraction like Batman/Catwoman, Spidey and Black Cat do become an item.

Hopefully, they DON’T make her a villan, but rather stay closer to her being a partner.

Not sure if this will translate well into a film. But then I’m just a big Spidey Nerd.

By: magnetite

magnetite — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:40:56 +0000

“rusty thimble claws”

Lovely.