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Yeah it's a thing where Hollywood think that Men have to be bulked up muscly to seem the part, when in fact people like Bruce Lee who was 173 cm (5 ft 8 in) and 64 kg (141 lb) and Jet Li who is 168 cm (5 ft 6 in) and 66kg (145 lb) and toned would likely kick all their arses. Can even add in Jackie Chan and David Carradine (as Caine in Kung Fu), to the list of what really is powerful but looks like it wouldn't be. [strike]Christian Bale as Batman is also one that is an exception to the recent rule, yes toned but not bulky however his suit does a lot to protect him.[/strike]
With the Women, Lucy Lawless as Xena was fairly normal and look at Buffy, Skye/Daisy or Agent Carter, same thing, personally I think Kono in H50 and Melinda May in AOS fall into the Jet Li and Bruce Lee category (don't let their slight frames fool you).
Somewhere along the line Hollywood decided that the bulked up Pro Wrestler for men look is what sells, while ironically Pro Wrestling is now going the opposite direction for men (as in bulked up is now the odd one out). The Women wrestlers are a mixed bag now, Alexa Bliss is a Champion and she's 155 cm (5 ft 1 in) and 49 kg (108 lb), Sasha Banks is 165cm (5 ft 5 in) and 52 kg (114 lb), where someone like Nia Jax is the exception. Look in the Lucha Libre field and you have people like Sexy Star at 160 cm (5 ft 3 in) and 57 kg (125 lb) beating men who are 185 cm ( 6 ft 1 in) and 96 kg (211 lb) like Johnny Mundo.
Gal Gabot as Wonder Woman fits in fine to all that for mine, yeah she's attractive, as was Linda Carter and the comic version of Wonder Woman. Seriously as far as the story goes she fits in fine, trained from a young age to become who she is, no different to what was seen in Kung Fu or any Jet Li or Bruce Lee movie. At 178 cm (5 ft 10 in) and 59 kg (130 lb), Gal is Jet and Bruce's size so I don't see a problem, bulk muscle means nothing vs toned.
Bale was around 200lb (90kg) for Batman... there's a clip of him saying how one of the crew joked "are we shooting batman or fatman?!"... he was likely even bigger before cutting to get to the 200lb weight by shooting time...
Looking at the two, it's likely Bale was heavier than Hemsworth who played Thor...
Yeah I'm way wrong on that bit, somehow in my mind he was smaller, looking at pics it seems I confused the Bale in Batman with the Bale doing the press tours promoting it. The actors who have played Spider-man or Grant Gustin as The Flash would have been a better example, even Stephen Amell as Arrow would have been a better example, while cut not so bulky.
Actually now I type it out, TV/Streaming seems to have more realistic looking ones than the movies do, guess it's due to the length of time and so as not to get continuity issues. Imagine if they had to bulk up for a 23 season Series and keep at it for 5 or so years, they'd be dropping like flies or like all those steroid wrestlers who have died in there 40's.
Yeah... thats a lot of cheese burgers!
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