While you often hear about Spider-Man, Superman and Batman, the world of comics is not without its fair share of super heroines.
And still, as Neil Curry reports, their roles are often overlooked.
Super heroine movies are few and far between.
And the most prominent among them, Supergirl and Catwoman, have been closer to box office kryptonite than a soaraway success.
They always talk about the trinity -- Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman -- and you still haven't seen a Wonder Woman movie, ever.
And she's been around almost as long as Superman.
Wonder Woman is still unique,
because she is this female hero that isn't a sidekick, that saves the day, ultimately, and isn't saved herself.
And we just don't have enough other female heroes like that out there.
Kristy Guevara-Flanagan's mission for justice led her to produce a documentary on the sparsity of the super heroine.
There were other women featured in comics. There were some female superheroes.
But it wasn't until Wonder Woman that there was a really iconic character to capture people's imaginations.
And she is one of the few to survive for almost 70 years now.
Wonder Woman gained a new super power in the 1970s, the ability to reach a global TV audience with Linda Carter's hit show.
They did not think that a woman could carry a show.
And, well, we proved them wrong, and made a lot of money for the network. A lot of money.
I don't think women literally need to hold up a bridge, but there's [there are] ways in our lives in which women are heroes all the time.
And we need to recognize that and maybe even broaden what it means to be a hero.
For people who prefer to confine their heroics to the weekends, the comic convention, once a bastion of boyhood fantasies, is now taking on a new look.
When they originally started making characters, they were trying to appeal to the more male-dominated fanbase,
whereas it's expanded a lot since then and it hasn't quite caught up.
Well, I think people see a woman and think,
"Oh, she's gonna go feminist on me." or "Oh, she's gonna be all whiny and like preachy and things."
And I think that's quite a bad stereotype.
No one seems to be able to get women quite right.
They'll always either portray them as like completely evil or really ditzy.
I predict you will see pretty much as many super heroines and superheroes as time goes by.
In the meantime, girls are left to put their own spin on the few traditional super heroines.
While viewers of an appropriate age can turn to a new breed of super heroine in the weeks ahead
as the sequel to the hit movie Kick-Ass brings the return of Hit Girl to cinemas around the world.