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How important is when Superheroine is being dominated is the capture for people?

I like to have the villain or villainess have to work for it. When a supposed superheroine give up without a fight or cowers easily; I am disappointed.

Oh I agree!!! Like Batgirl in the cat whiskers scene, she really puts up a struggle as the 2 henchmen wrestle her to the ground and straddle her, even to the end she struggles!!!!

I like a feisty, defiant heroine. Despite knowing she is going to face certain (but never inevitable) death, she remains resilient and defiant. Batgirl, Linda Carter WW, Mrs Peel,99, April Dancer, Charlie’s Angels, Penelope Pitstop, O-girl, Nylonika.

I like the idea that a heroine signed up for the danger and adventure. She’s less a victim and more of a participant.

For me the capture is 3/4 of the charm, especially for a superheroine. Seeing her powers subverted, or tricked - or just plain overpowered - is where the appeal is.

Damselbinder wrote: ↑

1 year ago

For me the capture is 3/4 of the charm, especially for a superheroine. Seeing her powers subverted, or tricked - or just plain overpowered - is where the appeal is.

Couldn't agree more with damselbinder here. Time spent thinking through the best, most ingenious takedown of a heroine is time well spent for author and reader alike!

Damselbinder wrote: ↑

1 year ago

For me the capture is 3/4 of the charm, especially for a superheroine. Seeing her powers subverted, or tricked - or just plain overpowered - is where the appeal is.

Absolutely. When the tables are turned, the cocky and confident heroine is taken down a peg or two, and she realizes she is powerless to defend herself against the villain, to me that is the engine that drives superheroine peril. To the victor go the spoils of war, let the debauchery begin!

bushwackerbob wrote: ↑

1 year ago

Damselbinder wrote: ↑

1 year ago

For me the capture is 3/4 of the charm, especially for a superheroine. Seeing her powers subverted, or tricked - or just plain overpowered - is where the appeal is.

Absolutely. When the tables are turned, the cocky and confident heroine is taken down a peg or two, and she realizes she is powerless to defend herself against the villain, to me that is the engine that drives superheroine peril. To the victor go the spoils of war, let the debauchery begin!

I don't necessarily think the heroine needs to get "taken down a peg or two" - sometimes the spice of the situation is that it's unfair, that the heroine's heroism was exploited to capture her; that in a fair world she WOULD have won, but she didn't.

A defiant heroine is generally preferred. Part of what makes superheroine peril so fun is the battle of wits and wills between the heroine and villain/villainess. Not to say that you can't have fun with methods to instantly demoralize a heroine, taking a hostage and compelling them to surrender that way, exploiting some trigger left in them from a previous defeat, etc. but generally I'll prefer a heroine with some fight in her.

Worse captures ever are whining, pouting heroines from the get-go. Quick whiners have me closing the video or story file almost immediately. Total turn-off!!

Damselbinder wrote: ↑

1 year ago

For me the capture is 3/4 of the charm, especially for a superheroine. Seeing her powers subverted, or tricked - or just plain overpowered - is where the appeal is.

I dunno, I tend to enjoy scenes where there is an aftermath, once the superheroine is captured. My favorite parts of Fausta, for instance, are not the chloro scene, nice as it is, but the scenes that follow where a helpless Wonder Woman is carried out and loaded into the limo, and then from the limo into the plane.

Lurkndog wrote: ↑

1 year ago

Damselbinder wrote: ↑

1 year ago

For me the capture is 3/4 of the charm, especially for a superheroine. Seeing her powers subverted, or tricked - or just plain overpowered - is where the appeal is.

I dunno, I tend to enjoy scenes where there is an aftermath, once the superheroine is captured. My favorite parts of Fausta, for instance, are not the chloro scene, nice as it is, but the scenes that follow where a helpless Wonder Woman is carried out and loaded into the limo, and then from the limo into the plane.

Oh yeah, don't get me wrong that stuff is great as well.

Worse captures ever are whining, pouting heroines from the get-go. Quick whiners have me closing the video or story file almost immediately. Total turn-off!!

For me, the capture is the thing. Especially if the heroine is knocked out. I expect her to fight to the end, even if she's terrified. I like it when they show flashes of their fear but cannot stand it when then whimper like a kindergartner.

Peril is optional. I think only half the times Batgirl (played by Yvonne Craig) was KO'd did she face peril.

KO with peril: Catwoman's gas & pattern cutter, Louie's gas & hot oil dispenser, and Olga/Egghead's slippery caviar & iced scimitars/caviar vat.
KO without peril: King Tut's queen hitting her with a vase, Penguin's gas, and Shame hitting her (and Batman & Robin) with pinatas.