Just an observation

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Does anyone seriously believe that Ginny was serious when she promised to let Harry go look for the Horcruxes and Voldemort alone? Does anyone want to make a guess when Harry will find that she has been either following him or going on the adventure by herself? Me, I say by the fifth chapter at most.

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[redcoast.livejournal.com]

Eh. See, that's what I don't like about the girlfriend role. She's always either saving him or he's saving her. Pretty soon, it starts to sound like a Baptist tent revival meeting.

I LOVE a good romance (hey, can you tell from my icons?) but what I love about it is the equal weight given to both participants. The Mary-Jane role is second fiddle to the Peter Parker one, and that's what I don't like about it.

That's just my opinion, though. Somebody out there must like it, or there's a lot of stories that wouldn't be as popular as they are!

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[fpb.livejournal.com]

Oh, I see. Well, I just love romance for its own sake. And having read Spider-Man from day one, I could never believe in M-J as the girlfriend or wife at all. She was the happy-go-lucky party girl for too long - after that, it always felt to me like, "well, let's pair him off with someone - anyone." I'd much rather, in that case, have paired him with the Black Cat or any one of twenty potential female companions that did not carry so much baggage.

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[redcoast.livejournal.com]

I don't read comic books, just watch comic book movies (a strange habit of mine, but I can't afford a new hobby). But it seems like most superheroes are bereft of getting girlfriends or wives who are their equals in character. I mean, Batman's girlfriends alone - !

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[fpb.livejournal.com]

Well... superhero movies... Cyclops and Jean Grey? (Although by all accounts the third movies slaughtered the great Dark Phoenix story of the early eighties.) As for the Batman, he has only ever had two girlfriends worthy of him - Catwoman and Poison Ivy - and they are both villains. Says something about the strangeness of his character.

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[redcoast.livejournal.com]

Lois Lane at least has her own storyline.

Jean Grey. Good example. (The third movie also slaughtered Cyclops. No shit.) I suppose it's my own bias that I didn't think about any superheroines or villains when I was searching my memories for superhero girlfriends that I liked.