Your Feminist Avengers Post 4: Moondragon

I would like to like Moondragon better. However, if you look up the definition of entitled in the Marvel Universe, you will find Moondragon.

Moondragon is a human being who has achieved both physical and psychic perfection. You can do this too, if you train with outer space monks. Delusional, she believes she’s a god, and while she is influenced by the entity from which she takes her name, she’s a powerful metahuman with privilege issues.

As my friend Steve said, I talked about the Wasp’s costumes, but I didn’t object to Moondragon’s. Well, Steve, I do object to Moondragon’s 70’s costume. Like you said, this is very much accessory, and not costume.

Does this costume hearken back to a freer, more liberated time, or is Moondragon’s costume Marvel trying to equivocate that naked is cool? Well, all I gotta say is wherever you come down on opinions about the costume, I don’t think you can do much advanced martial arts in an outfit like this.

Fortunately, Moondragon’s outfits settle down a bit as she moves forward in time.

Moondragon dances on the edge of morality throughout her career at Marvel. Full of herself, she is a short-lived Avenger. She is often monitored by other heroes and heroines who don’t trust her, and they shouldn’t. Under the right circumstances, you could even see Moondragon as a villain rather than a hero. However the character is fully realized. She’s not a pleasant character, but she is a strong one. I’d rather not see Moondragon in a Marvel film.

Author: Catherine Schaff-Stump

Catherine Schaff-Stump writes fiction for children and young adults. Her most recent book, The Vessel of Ra, is the first book in the Klaereon Scroll series. She is currently working on its sequel, as well as penning the middle grade adventures of Abigail Rath, monster hunter.

4 thoughts on “Your Feminist Avengers Post 4: Moondragon”

  1. She was not terribly well handled during her mid-70s stint; as you say, the sense of entitlement was ridiculously unsupportable (though her effect on Thor was notable, with her constant assertions that he was far more powerful than his Avengers comrades – arguably true). And the costume… sigh. Not familiar with what might have been done with her since – she seemed to drop off my radar quite a while before I actually stopped reading. I don’t miss her at all.

  2. Didn’t she actually become a villain at one point? I seem to remember her turning on the Avengers and leading them into a trap or something. Regardless, she always seemed deliberately unlikable to me.

  3. Moondragon was actually pretty cool during her stint with the Guardians of the Galaxy. Good writers and true love can work wonders.

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