Writeups.org -- huge encyclopaedia of characters, chiefly from super-hero comic books. It's great.
Sorry, I guess I didn't make that clear - I want a world where there are lots of choices, too.
I want to see a paradigm shift where people stop holding up superheroes as role models and read comics solely for the entertainment value. Take off the fan goggles for a second, and it's immediately obvious that most superheroes are ridiculous people with extremely self-centered motives adhering to a fatally outdated morality that no self-respecting youngster should ever pattern themselves after.
Hahaha, true true. I wouldn't mind seeing her with short hair, or a (more practical/professional-looking) style that keeps it up out of her face.... but maybe she feels, like, "I did that all those years in the Air Force and now I want to do something totally different since I can".
I think that's patently untrue. You're suggesting that self-sacrifice; accepting responsibility; treating those around you with dignity; respecting life; and standing up to bullies are vestiges of a 'fatally outdated morality'? Those seem to be exactly the qualities on which people (young or old) should pattern themselves. And, in a Captain Marvel thread, I don't see how you can claim super-heroes have extremely self-centered motives, considering Carol recently sacrificed her sense of self and her personal history to save a city full of strangers.
Or are you just trolling?
I think superheroes can be role models, insomuch as they demonstrate values like courage and fairness and doing the right thing even when it's hard (though clearly some fans don't get that message, or we wouldn't have a new forum), and that they encourage big dreams and tell kids "you can do anything". I think most people, even kids, know that the vigilantism that superheroes engage in is fantasy.
All Human Beings (and Asgardians, Aliens, etc) are flawed.
Carol is no exception, and I love her, and all my other heroes, for precisely that.
Even if you wipe away all the morally questionable actions of all these superheroes, comics still adhere very closely to the notion that some people are just inherently special and don't need to live by the same rules as everyone else. And while it may seem like a positive lesson to show these empowered individuals using their abilities for good, the stories very rarely question whether the heroes really have the proper judgement or perspective to determine the utility of their own actions. For example, the way that Batman ruthlessly tortures petty street criminals is at best unhelpful and at worst senselessly cruel.
Isn't it how we deal with out flaws that really make us human?!