More Than a Love Interest

A positivity sideblog about analyzing female characters in mainstream films

[morethanaloveinterest]

Projects Masterlist

If you are interested in costume meta or video essays on Disney Princesses, the Man from U.N.C.L.E., Pirates of the Caribbean, Star Wars Ladies, or Natasha Romanoff, check out what I've been working on under the cut:

(I wasn't able to put all the individual links, so please look at the smaller posts below to find everything)

Movie Analysis - Wonder why we fell out of love with the MCU? How love interests are treated in comic book movies? Or why streaming is so exhausting?

Catwoman - Let's go through and analyze each of the most well-known versions of the character and how she's changed over the years

Female Characters - Furiosa, Lisa Frankenstein, Evey Hammond, and the women in Lord of the Rings and the Man from UNCLE are wonderful characters to explore

Disney Princesses - For nearly 100 years, people have watched princess movies and many have wondered how good they are as role models, so let's talk about it

Pirates of the Caribbean - The franchise may only have two major female characters but they are by far the most unique when it comes to franchise films, so let's explore how they reimagine common tropes

Black Widow - Natasha Romanoff appeared in 7 movies across ten years, so let's explore how her character evolved over the years

Star Wars - The franchise is iconic for introducing exciting female characters but does not often stick the landing, so let's go through each trilogy and dig into why

[clementine-kesh]

not all character interpretations are valid some of you are sexist

[clementine-kesh]

not all character interpretations are valid some of you are racist

[laurens-german]

MIKA ABDALLA as Allie Hayes OFF CAMPUS 01.08 'The Line Change'

[pedro-reed]

Nikki M. James as Kirsten McDuffie DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN SEASON 2 (2026), created by Dario Scardapane, Matt Corman & Chris Ord

[eizagonzalezs]

[snowbairdd]

Quinta Brunson as Janine Teagues in ABBOTT ELEMENTARY (2021 – present), season 5

[inadvertently-biblical]

Hannah Waddingham as Rebecca Welton

TED LASSO - 3x03

[sentrysvoid]

10 Things I Hate About You dir. Gil Junger | 1999

[ellet0mkins]

"Yes, I… I never been brave enough to say that out loud before, but I think that's why I wrote the story, and then it all got too real, I got too scared, but now, well, you made me realize it's all okay. Don't blame me."

[bruceewayne]

Kamala Khan/Ms Marvel icons

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[devourallusurvey]

You ever think about many peices of media have zero women and thats just perfectly normal but if a peice of media has an all female cast people get... like that? Women should be allowed to kill over this btw

[loveshoplifter]

same but it's black people

[devourallusurvey]

That's right

[inthedarktrees]

Rhea Seehorn as Kim Wexler

“Bad Choice Road” | Better Call Saul

[wanderingcoasties]

“The LEGO Movie was my favorite movie of 2014, but it strikes me that the main character was male, because I feel like in our current culture, he HAD to be. The whole point of Emmett is that he’s the most boring average person in the world. It’s impossible to imagine a female character playing that role, because according to our pop culture, if she’s female she’s already SOMEthing, because she’s not male. The baseline is male. The average person is male. You can see this all over but it’s weirdly prevalent in children’s entertainment. Why are almost all of the muppets dudes, except for Miss Piggy, who’s a parody of femininity? Why do all of the Despicable Me minions, genderless blobs, have boy names? I love the story (which I read on Wikipedia) that when the director of The Brave Little Toaster cast a woman to play the toaster, one of the guys on the crew was so mad he stormed out of the room. Because he thought the toaster was a man. A TOASTER. The character is a toaster. I try to think about that when writing new characters— is there anything inherently gendered about what this character is doing? Or is it a toaster?”

— Bojack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg commenting on how weird gendered defaults in entertainment are, and why we should think twice about them. Excerpted from this longer original post. (via 360degreesasthecrowflies)

[oojamaflip-whatchamacallit]

#Shit I say this stuff all the time#Default is not male#Women are not a different species from men#It’s a toaster it’s make believe it can be whatever you fucking want it to be#Also voice actors get cast in the ‘wrong’ gender roles all the time#Do you know how many little boy characters are played by women#Do you know how many little boy characters are played by *Tara Strong*???#I did not watch an anime in which an adult man is played by a woman VA for 90 fucking episodes in the 90s#To have to suffer the stringent gender opinions of men who feel too threatened by the idea that a woman could be their equal

[baltharino]

Sister Act (1992)

[dailyflicks]

REGINA HALL as BRENDA MEEKS SCARY MOVIE (2000) dir. Keenen Ivory Wayans

[ceeyoutea]

Help.

The Mummy (1999) dir. Stephen Sommers

[kino-ani]

Dishonored (1931) Dir. Josef von Sternberg