Exaggerated physical differences between male and female superheroes. Superheroes like Thor and Black Widow may have what it takes to save the world in movies like Avengers: Endgame, but neither of their comic book depictions has a healthy body mass index (BMI). New research found that, within the pages of comic books, male superheroes are on average obese, while females are on average close to underweight. Source 4e.
This has been always a big question mark for a long while and of course this issue comes all the way to some saying it's for the purpose to sexualize women. However I don't see this happening with all superheroes since some of them are strong but not overly 'masculine' such as spider-man (In my opinion).
Edited: Felipe on 8th May, 2019 - 11:35am