10 Best Love Interests In Comic Book Movies Ranked

10 Best Love Interests In Comic Book Movies, Ranked

This is a collection of comic book movie characters whose only function in the plot is to be the hero’s love interest.

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The romantic subplots are usually the most undercooked elements of comic book movies. While the superhero smash-‘em-ups and explosive set pieces steal the spotlight, the love interests are often one-dimensional stock characters who fall in love with the hero just because genre convention says they’re supposed to.

As a side note, this is a collection of characters whose only function in the plot is to be the hero’s love interest. Love interests who are superheroes in their own right don’t count. In Ant-Man and the Wasp, for example, the title characters have a romantic arc and share a cute dynamic, but they’re also both headlining superheroes.

10 Gwen Stacy (The Amazing Spider-Man)

There’s a lot that The Amazing Spider-Man franchise gets fundamentally wrong about the character, like his powers making him a brazen bully or needlessly dredging up his parents’ deaths as a J.J. Abrams-style “mystery box” plot point.

But Emma Stone nails her portrayal of the love interest, Gwen Stacy. Stone shares tangible chemistry with Andrew Garfield, while Gwen’s position as the daughter of a police captain creates an interesting conflict with Peter’s double life as Spider-Man.

9 Vicki Vale (Batman)

Romantic interests are often the weakest part of a Batman movie. Even god-in-human-clothing Christopher Nolan fell short on that front, with two dull Rachel Daweses and a sex affair with Miranda Tate that went nowhere. In Tim Burton’s original Batman movie, Kim Basinger’s Vicki Vale is used brilliantly to bring out the deep pain and melancholy simmering under Bruce Wayne’s confident facade.

Granted, Alfred letting her into the Batcave was disingenuous to the character, but on the whole, she’s a more memorable love interest than most.

8 Vanessa (Deadpool)

Vanessa could’ve just been a male-gaze wish-fulfillment one-dimensional sex object in Deadpool, but Morena Baccarin brings a real human charm to the character, and her on-screen chemistry with Ryan Reynolds makes Wade and Vanessa’s love feel real.

With any luck, Deadpool 2’s mid-credits timeline changes will stick and fans will get to see Vanessa take up the mantle of Copycat in a future Deadpool movie.

7 Pepper Potts (Iron Man)

Gwyneth Paltrow has said that she struggled to keep up with Robert Downey, Jr.’s ad-libs in the first Iron Man movie (a lot of the dialogue was improvised, because shooting began with little more than a solid story outline), but that helped to solidify Tony Stark and Pepper Potts’ unique MCU dynamic.

Their back-and-forth in the first movie, in particular, plays like a comic book version of old-hat screwball comedies like His Girl Friday.

6 Lois Lane (Superman: The Movie)

Margot Kidder is an underrated legend of the screen. In addition to bringing life to cult horror hits like Black Christmas and Sisters, Kidder played Lois Lane in the genre-defining Superman: The Movie.

Some of the movie’s most iconic moments belong to Lois, like “You’ve got me? Who’s got you?” and her shocking death setting the stage for Supes’ controversial time-reversing space flight.

5 Steve Trevor (Wonder Woman)

Steve Trevor is introduced into Wonder Woman as his plane is shot down off the coast of Hippolyta and Diana dives into the ocean to rescue him, in a role-establishing reversal of the usual damsel-in-distress trope. By refusing to accept the word “cheesy” as a negative thing, Patty Jenkins gave audiences an earnest antidote to the MCU’s bathos.

What brings Steve and Diana together is their shared affinity for doing the right thing and their need to fight back against invading forces of evil. Even when Steve returns in the sequel, his final sacrifice will have emotional resonance on rewatches.

4 Nakia (Black Panther)

Among many other revolutions to the genre, Ryan Coogler subverted the expectations of superhero love interests in Black Panther. Rather than simply being someone T’Challa has a crush on, the movie’s love interest has previously dated him, it didn’t work out, and they’re trying to make it as friends.

A relationship between T’Challa and Nakia probably wouldn’t work in the long run, because he needs to rule Wakanda and she wants to see the world, but it’s impossible to deny the sparks between them.

3 M.J. (Spider-Man: Far From Home)

The romantic subplot in Spider-Man: Homecoming is one of the movie’s shortcomings. Liz’s only major impact on the movie is the twist that reveals her to be the Vulture’s daughter, which was admittedly a fantastic moment that brought the house down.

Jon Watts significantly improved Spidey’s MCU romances in Far From Home, giving him a love interest that he actually shares chemistry with: M.J., his morose, yet vulnerable friend, played spectacularly by Zendaya.

2 Ramona Flowers (Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World)

Edgar Wright’s film adaptation of the Scott Pilgrim comics is criminally underrated, probably because it doesn’t neatly conform to the trappings of a single genre. It’s a cinematic feast for the eyes. Every frame oozes with style.

The story revolves around a relatable dork having to engage his new girlfriend’s exes in battle in order to win her heart. It’s perhaps the only comic book movie whose love story is the main focus, and it doesn’t waste it.

1 Peggy Carter (Captain America: The First Avenger)

Steve Rogers’ relationship with Peggy Carter is the beating heart of Captain America: The First Avenger. Hayley Atwell played Peggy as sweet, but tough. The movie’s romantic subplot has real emotional substance, owing greatly to Atwell’s chemistry with Chris Evans, which sustained the MCU characters for eight years and four movies.

Peggy is also different than a lot of her peers in that she’s one of the few comic book movie love interests that don’t end up with the hero at the end. Steve sacrifices himself at the end of the movie and doesn’t wake up until the 21st century, dwelling only on the fact that he missed his date with Peggy (by about 70 years).

Link Source : https://screenrant.com/best-comic-book-movie-love-interests-ranked/

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