Men are presented as strong, charismatic, skilled, dominant roles throughout with some defining features when the hero, e.g. knowledge, martial art skills, good looks, witty humour etc. Only recently have we started to have some changes to the stereotypical macho man image such as Silvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzeneger characters and super skilled killing machine characters like Tom Cruise, Matt Damon etc with geekier, wimpier yet more knowledgeable characters like Shia Labouef and Johnny Depp. Weaponry still remains the main iconography with male and masculine characters in action adventure movies.
Women have been subverting the traditional weak image ever since Sigourney Weaver played Ripley in the Alien series, with sex symbols the main attraction with characters such as Jessica Alba, Scarlett Johansson and Angelina Jolie although some still conform with the dependent images portrayed by Lois Lanae and Mary Jane from Superman and Spiderman. Women are presented much more as agile characters rather than gun-slinging ones, with Lara Croft and other Angelina Jolie characters fitting both in a much more feminine way than presented with male characters.
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