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* Depicting the [[Green-Skinned Space Babe]] solely as the hero's love interest or as a [[Shameless Fanservice Girl]] with little understanding of modesty would be seen as distasteful at best, and heavily sexist at worst due to the changing standards both in how women should be depicted and on the issue of sex in general. Starfire is still allowed to get away with this role because she was one of the first of these types of characters to be prominently featured, when most alien heroes were male, and because her romance with Nightwing is widely acknowledged as one of the things that made the [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]] so successful, so not having her would be a major change in direction.

* Having a male hero who casually flirts with women on a regular basis and depicting him as a [[Nice Guy]] would be looked at very badly today due to the greater awareness of sexual harassment. [[Nightwing]] still gets away with it, both because he is so iconic in the [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]] that it would be impossible to change without considerably compromising the Titans, and because despite his flirting, he is consistently depicted as remaining strictly loyal to whoever he is dating.

* The [[Most Common Superpower]] has become extremely outdated, and giving superheroines large boobs has both been lampshaded, mocked, and the frequent subject of criticism due to unnecessarily sexualizing superheroines. Most modern superheroines now have moderate or average busts. However, older heroines like [[Wonder Woman]], [[Zatanna]] and [[Power Girl]] still keep their large busts because they were created at a time when there were not any issues with it. Power Girl is especially notable because it is acknowledged by everyone that it would be impossible for her to be given her extremely large bust today, but it is now so well known with the character that any attempt to decrease it has often led to fierce criticism.

* Several superheroine outfits, such as the [[Leotard of Power]] or miniskirts have come under criticism for showing off too much skin, being [[Impractically Fancy Outfit]], and for unnecessarily sexualizing superheroines who wear them, with more newer superheroines wearing less revealing costumes. However, older heroines like [[Supergirl]], [[Wonder Woman]], [[Zatanna]] and others are still allowed to wear them because many of them either made them popular in the first place, or having them not wear them would be such a major change in the character that it would be poorly received.

* The [[Anti-Hero]] trope has fallen under particularly harsh criticism in recent years, but especially the many that emerged in the Nineties and first half of the 2000's, due to their willingness to use lethal force, carry firearms, often heavily sexualized bodies and the many disagreements they had with more typical heroes. Many of these characteristics have become discredited or under harsh scrutiny and thus the majority of them were either written out, killed off or turned into villains, and it would be very hard for them to be depicted as heroic today. The two main exceptions are Rose Wilson, aka Ravager, and Jason Todd once he was resurrected as the Red Hood. Rose was one of the very few Asian American heroines who did not fall into being [[Captain Ethnic]], or being too reliant on Asian American stereotypes, instead being a genuinely complex character barring the middle period of the 2000's Teen Titans run. Jason Todd as Red Hood not only had plenty of valid points about Batman, that many fans actually agree with, but was consistently depicted as being motivated by a genuine desire to clean up Gotham, but do a better job than Batman, making him much different than most forms of anti heroes in that they only look out for themselves. Unsurprisingly, both have still been prominently featured, with a lot of their worst traits removed and being turned into genuinely kind people.

 

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