User blog comment:BIONICLEToa/Why can't Marvel have a main female role in their films?/@comment-3317214-20140318212815

As far as villains go, we've had Mystique. And we'll have Nebula in Guardians later this year. So, that's something. It's not a lot, but it's a start.

But for female heroines in general, it's worth noting that of the top 50 highest grossing films, there are only four with female leads: Frozen, Alice in Wonderland, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, and Twilight: Breaking Dawn pt 2.

This could be because films with female leads don't tend to make as much money. Or maybe because film companies don't produce as many films in the first place with female leads. Or maybe, these two reasons are self-perpetuating. So yeah, this seems to be a problem, not only with superhero films, but with other types of films as well.