Captain America: The Superia Stratagem - Part 5

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"You wouldn't pass for a guard-- they all look pretty NORMAL in their completely pantsless uniforms-- but maybe you could pass for superfolk! Yeah, that'd work! Because whenever I look at Captain America's figure, I think 'flat-chested woman!' I mean, if I compare you to Anaconda, the single most man-like-looking figure on this island, you two look only SLIGHTLY more masculine than that!"

I don't really mind the gynocracy that much, maybe because this is just too goofy and over-the-top for it to even register as satire, rooted as it is in the even more insane Thundra stories from the 1970s.

The thing about gathering 50 supervillainesses into one story, though, is that if you're not careful, they just become one vague mob, without any motivations of their own except to go where Superia points. Granted, a lot of these characters weren't terribly well-rounded to begin with, but you'd think people like Titania and MODAM would have their own agendas, or at least be harder for someone they've never met to boss around. You DO have two of her recruits trying to kill each other as a subplot.

I suspect that delving more into the villainesses' personalities would do more to show the folly of Superia's ideas than anything Captain America could do. (Gathering a group of ambitious super-criminals and expecting them all to coexist in a peaceful utopia is pretty naive, whether it's because they all have ovaries or not.) But then, of course, we wouldn't get to spend as much time with the Serpent Society and 1991's Favorite Marvel Character, Paladin.