A Legacy I'd Like To See...

I love the idea of Madame Fatal. I honestly do. I've never, sadly, read any of the comics themselves, but I think that it's one of the more entertaining ideas for a superhero I've ever read.

Now, being the legacy nut that I am, I really *really* want to see someone new take on the name in Richard Stanton's honor (making up for being reduced to a birdcage joke, hmph.)

It occurred to me though, honestly, in today's society, a man dressing like an old woman to stop crime is simply not edgy enough. As entertaining as *I* find the idea, my generation is a jaded, cynical bunch.

So my suggestion is to take one of those cracked out gender-shifting type plots and make it a reality. Make the new Madame Fatal a man somehow transformed or brain-switched into a female body.

Maybe borrow a page from Ghost in the Shell, and have it be an android body. The persona occupying it would be male of course. :-)

It's really easy to fuck this sort of thing up, I admit, but it could be an interesting way to play with gender perspectives. How people react differently to men and women. Things like that.

And heck, I'm a gamer, I've seen the kinds of female characters that men seem to like to play in RPGs...we wouldn't need an excuse for a very skimpy showy costume.

Okay, I admit it. I only want to make this character to poke fun at the gamer guys. :-) But I think he/she could be fun!

Cross-Dressers Get No Respect:

Aw, poor Madame Fatal. Dress up like an old woman to fight crime a few times and you're reduced to a Birdcage joke at Wesley Dodds's funeral. Poor guy. :-(