Supergirl Actress’s Extreme Statement Sparks Outrage About Women in Film
Posted by Jennifer Asencio | Updated
Supergirl will hit theaters on June 26, 2026, and audiences are in for a treat. However, according to the star Milly Alcock and many slop eaters who are waiting for the film, if it swims at the box office, it is certainly not that the plot has an amazing image. Guardians of the Galaxy (as I called it when the first trailer came out) and not because of lausterluster acting or over-the-top special effects. If Supergirl isn’t playing at the box office, it’s clear that audiences aren’t ready for a female-led action film, let alone a superhero one. At least, according to its star.
These comments are very similar to those made by actress Jennifer Lawrence after acting The Hunger Gameswhere she insisted that she was the first female action hero. Both Lawrence and Alcock were rightly called out for these absurd statements, because not only did female heroes and superheroes exist before The Hunger Games or Supergirlbut most of them are iconic.
He does everything Supergirl shills who support Alcock’s assertion that they forgot about Princess Leia, America’s first action hero? Did they forget about Ellen Ripley or Sarah Connor, two science fiction heroines who faced great hardships to fight the villains who would not stop until they killed these two women? Did they forget video game star Lara Croft, smart and beautiful as she parks in ancient archaeological sites? Did they forget that Samus of Metroid SHE WAS A GIRLas the game gasps in disbelief after the big reveal?
There are also recent examples of female-led success in action and superhero movies. Wonder Woman did well in theaters, although its sequel was not as good. Vice versa, Fury Road and took home a box from the bank office, but a prequel Furiosa and it didn’t sit well with the audience. However, the first movies in this series did very well and relied exclusively on Gal Gadot and Charlize Theron rather than their male leads to drive the plot forward and serve as the main characters. Theron repeated Fury Road success with Netflix’s The Old Guard, which was hugely popular upon release, while its sequel pales in comparison to the original.
Another factor in the discussion raised is the comment about violence against women Supergirl that’s what heroines like Ellen Ripley or Sarah Connor would be if their films were made today instead of the 1970s and 80s. Ripley and Connor have incredible superpowers: Ripley needs her booth training to use heavy equipment to defeat the Xenomorph, while Sarah Connor goes from a damsel in distress to an innocent relationship after 14 years of painful training that cost her the most important thing in her life. Even Ripley Marine’s partner in the AliensVasquez, was not an absurd female character, despite being so masculine in appearance and demeanor that one marine calls her a man.
These days, these women would have no disabilities, no PTSD from past experiences, and no mistakes to learn from. All the men around them are either incompetent buffoons or evil supervillains. Female actors today are often very strong or powerful, able to perform all the same miracles as the men around them. Basically, they are just male characters in female bodies. And sure, Supergirl is supposed to be incredibly strong, but Milly Alcock not only asserted that Supergirl is stronger than her male cousin, but she’ll let her win because she’s a girl.
Wonder Woman also had a lot of energy in her movie, with the hope of running that doesn’t prepare her for failure and loss. The audience did not care that Wonder Woman was more powerful than Steve Trevor (Chris Pine), because she was not a “Mary Sue,” that is, an interesting and perfect person with no conflict and everything is fine. Characters like that are flat, boring, and rightly so called when they appear in fairy tales and fiction. Most female characters today would be considered Mary Sues, except that these characters have become the norm, and their lack of any real flaws are ignored by producers and squeamish viewers.
Reaction to Supergirl it’s proof that audiences are getting tired of Mary Sue characters, and this iteration of Kara Zor-El seems to be just that. The fact that Milly Alcock misdirects this criticism by accusing film critics of misogyny follows the pattern of other fandoms blaming fans for material failure. We saw you with The Acolyte,we saw you with Doctor Whoand more recently, we have seen it with Starfleet Academy. And last year Superman the release wasn’t released for people who didn’t like the movie called Big People by the people who did.
And like other fandoms, accusations of misogyny against female-led action and superhero films are not only unfounded but have a rich history that contradicts them. It’s yet another example of filmmakers trying to escape accountability for making a bad movie by accusing fans of “toxic” behavior when they don’t agree to be told the underlying issues instead of a product that does justice to their passion. The fact that Supergirl it wasn’t even out before the blame game started that this movie can’t be good, and this time, even its promoters know it.
Supergirl in theaters from June 26, 2026. Is she really the woman of tomorrow, or “whatever”?
