Hollywood doesn’t make characters like Poison Ivy anymore

Uma’s performance as Poison Ivy is arguably the sexiest performance in a PG-13 movie intended for kids. Her costumes are so seductive looking and she has so many sexual innuendos in her dialogue and makes sexy poses throughout the film. This trend of the sexy superhero/supervillain was already present in the classic 1960s Batman with Catwoman and Batman Returns in 1992 with its even-sexier take on Catwoman seemed to continue into the 2000s with examples such as Jennifer Garner as Elektra in the Daredevil movies, Jessica Alba as Invisible Girl in Fantastic Four, and Svetlana Khodchenkova as Viper in The Wolverine, but in more recent years there has not been as overtly sexy characters in main roles. It likely comes down to trends related to metoo and “woke” culture, but it seems as though superheroes/supervillains are not allowed to have any references to sex/romance, and whenever they do it’s treated as a lame joke (eg Black Widow talking about having a hysterectomy). It seems as though the studios are trying to make sex/romance not a factor in film stories in general. Look at the Star Wars sequels for example, they could never decide on the romantic angle to take the characters with Rey’s relationships with the other male characters being all over the place, so really it became the first Star Wars trilogy to have no romantic relationship as a driving force to the plot and characters making it lifeless. That’s what separates this film from other blockbuster movies over the decades is how vitality inducing the film is, especially Poison Ivy being the character that introduced young boys to the idea of being attracted to hot girls. The kids of today don’t get to experience that and it makes me wonder if it has had an impact on puberty in America in the last decade since adolescents watch superhero movies the most around the ages that puberty begins, so not having the “sexy girl” character makes them have delayed puberty.