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The 10 Worst Love Interests In Superhero Movies

The way female characters are portrayed in superhero movies often varies greatly in quality, especially when they're more often than not relegated to being love interests for the male lead and nothing more (something which now looks set to change thanks to Captain Marvel and Wonder Woman). As a result, for every Peggy Carter and Pepper Potts, there's...well, the sort of characters you'll find listed here.

1) Rachel Dawes (The Dark Knight)

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That’s right, Rachel Dawes was so terrible that she actually gets a second mention in this feature. The main reason for that is because Katie Holmes was replaced by Maggie Gyllenhaal, an actress who managed to be almost as unimpressive and irritating as her predecessor. Despite being a step up from Holmes, the character still wasn’t all that well-written and again served as little more than a plot device in a movie which was severely lacking a strong female presence.

Her death was effectively done and served to set up one helluva final act, but it’s perhaps not a great sign when most of the audience is relieved to see her meet her maker. Thankfully, Christopher Nolan made up for the Rachel Dawes misfire with Catwoman and Talia Al Ghul (well, sort of) in The Dark Knight Rises. Of course, the latter’s death scene has been widely ridiculed while Selina Kyle wasn’t exactly very closer to her comic book counterpart, so they too were flawed. Just not as much as Rachel.