Which DC Movies Are the Most Feminist?

Batman Begins (2005)

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We may not like it, but we kind of get why superhero films from the early ‘90s aren’t able to pass the Bechdel Test. We do not get how a film like 2005’s Batman Begins can pass only one rule, even then by technicality. Martha Wayne, who’s alive for all of 30 seconds, and Wayne Enterprises’ secretary Jessica, who doesn’t say a goddam word, count as two of the three named female characters. One out of three — we know women in Gotham have the ability to speak to each other.

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