30 Day Female Character Challenge Day 11

[uberreiniger]

Day One: Favorite lead female character
Day Two: Favorite supporting female character
Day Three: A female character you hated but grew to love
Day Four: A female character you relate to
Day Five: Favorite female character on a male-driven show
Day Six: Favorite female-driven show
Day Seven: A female character that needs more screen time
Day Eight: Favorite female character in a comedy show
Day Nine: Favorite female character in a drama show
Day Ten: Favorite female character in a scifi/supernatural show
Day Eleven: Favorite female character in a children’s show
Day Twelve: Favorite female character in a movie
Day Thirteen: Favorite female character in a book
Day Fourteen: Favorite older female character
Day Fifteen: Favorite female character growth arc
Day Sixteen: Favorite mother character
Day Seventeen: Favorite warrior female character
Day Eighteen: Favorite non-warrior female character
Day Nineteen: Favorite non-human female character
Day Twenty: Favorite female antagonist
Day Twenty-One: Favorite female character screwed over by canon
Day Twenty-Two: Favorite female character you love but everyone else hates
Day Twenty-Thre: Favorite female platonic relationship
Day Twenty-Four: Favorite female romantic relationship
Day Twenty-Five: Favorite mother/daughter and/or sister relationship
Day Twenty-Six: Favorite classical female character (from pre-20th century literature or mythology or the like)
Day Twenty-Seven: A female character you have extensive personal canon for
Day Twenty-Eight: Favorite female writer (television, books, movies, etc.)
Day Twenty-Nine: A female-centric fic rec
Day Thirty: Whatever you’d like!

Day Eleven: Favorite female character in a children’s show: I am going to date myself again here. I am from a generation of men who grew up being sexually dominated by the Baroness. G.I. Joe was a program where the Louisana bayou teemed with Australian outlaw bikers and just-out-of-Vietnam military equipment fired high powered lasers that never killed anyone. And none of us noticed. We were all too busy hoping today's episode would be that one where the Baroness and Scarlet kung-fu fight in their bikinis. When that wasn't on we had Cheetara clobbering apes, jackals, and reptiles (psychoanalytical archetypes of violent sexuality one and all,) with her phallic staff (note the elegant banana curve as she pole vaults with it.) Or there was Masters of the Universe and didn't those two coils of metal look so nice as they snaked their way around Teela's boobs? Yep, the 80's were a good time to be a boy. All the fanservice we could ever ask for and we didn't even know what it was.

My answer is none of those characters though in my prepubescent way I lusted for them all and I am not ashamed to admit it. The Baroness, Cheetara, and Teela were women you take home for the night. The woman you take home to meet your parents... Now that is Stormer from Jem and the Holograms.

I've spoken of my love for her before, I know. But it bears repeating. She was in with the show's "bad guys" but she was really good. She was sweet, compassionate, vulnerable, yet still rocked out in a bitchin' glam-punk rock band. She never got the screen time she deserved. Her role in every episode was normally to tell the other two Misfits that their latest crazy scheme wasn't such a good idea, get verbally smacked down for it, and then say nothing when she was proven right in the end. Maybe they were short-changing her, or maybe the writers knew she was too much woman for them to handle. I always hated seeing her abused by her teammates. But in the innocence of my childhood imagination I was always there for her, ready to make everything alright.

Comments

[para-xylene.livejournal.com]

Stormer was my favorite, too. I used to draw her makeup on my face with blue highlighters. It was pretty easy to wash off. In fact, until that show, I never had any interest in makeup at all. I was far too busy pretending to be comic book!Serpentor or comic book!Stormshadow. They didn't wear make up. ;)

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

I know Stormer's makeup had to be easier to recreate at home than Serpentor's hooded cobra jumpsuit!

[para-xylene.livejournal.com]

My favorite picture of him was shirtless, too. Easy to recreate, but not something a thirteen-year old girl should be considering. In the comics he never had the jumpsuit. Also, he was brilliant! Cartoon Serpentor had me beating my head against the tv. Actually, I'd get so pissed off that I was banned from watching GI Joe for a while.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

I never read the comics as a child but apparently I really should have. Cartoon Serpentor was all caps before there was such a thing. "I AM SERPENTOR AND THIS I COMMAND!!!!"

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

*snerk* Nice pic.

And yes, to all of that.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Errr, pick. (though the icon is good too).

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

It's relieving to know I'm not the only one who thought of the cartoon heroines of the 80's that way :)

[redstar826.livejournal.com]

hmmm, I think I can add 80's cartoons as yet another reason why I turned out to be such a lesbian LOL

We were all too busy hoping today's episode would be that one where the Baroness and Scarlet kung-fu fight in their bikinis.

I like where this mental image is going...

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

Did you ever see the episode of G.I. Joe about the Games Master? That episode was just... weird. And made me feel things down there I wasn't ready to feel.

Jem

[rustie25.livejournal.com]

Having just revisited the Holograms via HUB, I would have to agree with you. I used to think I liked Kimber (because she was a redhead) but after watching it as an adult, I think she is toooooo whiny. Jem/Jerrica is too know it all. Shayna and Aja are fine, but sort of in the shadows. Stormer is the angel on Pizazz's shoulder saying "Dont do it!" and Stormer had some cool stories where she went behind the back of the Misfits to do good.

Also as an adult, I think Rio is WAY too controlling when it comes to Jem/Jerrica, especially being the he doesn't know they are the same person and insists on being in love with both of them, yet doesn't allow either to show any interest in anyone else.

Re: Jem

[rustie25.livejournal.com]

Also, Stormer was the only Misfit doll I had. :)

Re: Jem

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

You know how I like redheads but I couldn't stand Kimber most of the time. In fact, I think the only episode where they did a good job of making her sympathetic was the one where she and Stormer teamed up. As a child I always thought Rio was quite bossy and whiny and temperamental. You just know that guy developed acid reflux later in life.

Re: Jem

[rustie25.livejournal.com]

That episode was one of my favorites! I recorded Jem on HUB for awhile, but they never showed it. Hopefully I will catch it sometime.