Top 10 female superheroes who deserve their own TV show

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2. The Invisible Woman / Sue Storm

Who she is: Sue Storm is a member of the Fantastic Four, who can become partially or totally invisible at will. She also has the ability to bend wavelengths of light around target objects and she can manipulate the energy around her to create force fields.

The character gained widespread popularity after 20th Century Fox released their first Fantastic Four film. Jessica Alba played Sue Storm in the 2005 film and its sequel. The movie stayed pretty close to her origins — cosmic radiation gives the group its power — but much like Catwoman, she’s known more for her relationship with Reed Richards and the Fantastic Four than anything else. Perhaps it’s time to correct that.

Why she deserves a tv show: Generally speaking, a lot of Sue Storm’s conflict derives from problems in motherhood. Throughout the years, she has difficulty managing her first son’s overwhelming power and struggles to conceive a second child. The character enters into periods of bitterness and depression, which are two emotions ripe for exploration in a television series. The more important aspect for television shows about superheroes is to bring them down to Earth. How can the audience relate to a character on a personal level? Sue Storm’s struggles are universal, especially for women, and not often depicted on television.

Who could play her: Jessica Alba is doing nothing right now, but we need someone younger new. It can’t be Kate Mara (sorry) because we have to completely disassociate ourselves from that movie. Like, for the rest of eternity. Enter: Nina Dobrev. If Dobrev gets at least one decent action sequence in XXX: Return of Xander Cage, she can have the job.

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