Given its track record when it comes to women, it's no surprise that Hollywood has failed to create superheroines as richly conceived as those running around on television or in Hong Kong cinema where for decades alpha gals have been soaring through the air and kicking up their high heels to battle villainy and, often times, their own personal demons.

The latest Hollywood movie to give comic books a bad name, "Elektra" stars Jennifer Garner as a superheroine who dons fetish-wear the color of blood before laying waste to every man in sight.

"Your parents must have had a sense of humor," the broodingly handsome and plucky love interest says to Elektra about her mythopoetic name. She answers in the negative: no they did not and neither does she. This chick may have a complex (or two), but like the rickety vehicle supporting her and the hopes of Marvel Comics, she emphatically does not have a sense of humor.

Created in the 1980's by the comic-book auteur Frank Miller while he was working on Marvel's "Daredevil," Elektra initially popped up as the titular superhero's onetime romantic foil turned nemesis. Decades later she showed up again, this time in the barely watchable potboiler of the same name starring Ben Affleck.

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