Additionally, I'm curious:
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: Ben, Johnny, and Reed go to Planet Zero but leave Sue, the one girl among them, behind. Keep in mind that in the source material, Sue went with them on the trip to space that gave them their powers. Amusingly, it makes Josh Trank's insistence that his version of Sue is more progressive than the "Slutty secretary" version in the comics look ''that much more sexist''.
This comes from the YMMV page for the movie Fant4stic (the 2015 Fantastic Four) and it made me think - between this and more recent examples such as Faye's character arc in the Cowboy Bebop reboot (if not the whole show), I'm inclined to believe there's a trope at play. It's a very specific form of Shooting the Message (not specific to reboots but certainly common) that tends to presume the politics of a given work will be more progressive than previous adaptations, only to turn out quite the opposite.
I doubt this is the case, but for sake of asking, do we have a trope for that?
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: Ben, Johnny, and Reed go to Planet Zero but leave Sue, the one girl among them, behind. Keep in mind that in the source material, Sue went with them on the trip to space that gave them their powers. Amusingly, it makes Josh Trank's insistence that his version of Sue is more progressive than the "Slutty secretary" version in the comics look ''that much more sexist''.
This comes from the YMMV page for the movie Fant4stic (the 2015 Fantastic Four) and it made me think - between this and more recent examples such as Faye's character arc in the Cowboy Bebop reboot (if not the whole show), I'm inclined to believe there's a trope at play. It's a very specific form of Shooting the Message (not specific to reboots but certainly common) that tends to presume the politics of a given work will be more progressive than previous adaptations, only to turn out quite the opposite.
I doubt this is the case, but for sake of asking, do we have a trope for that?