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charge young woman who knows her mind and won’t let anybody take advantage of her. Mindy Macready has lifted herself out of the most horrific, messed up beginnings to become focused, level-headed, extremely loyal and unbelievably courageous. Tell me that’s not a good role model. Tell me that’s not something we should all aspire to. idea might’ve found fandom in print, but it never would’ve made it to the big screen. The character, with all her gung-ho brutality, is only made palatable by the more restrained attitude of her sidekick - and make no mistake, Kick-Ass is without a doubt HitGirl’s sidekick. But there’s a huge part of me that wishes it had happened. There’s a huge part of me that wishes she didn’t have to be softened, that fictional characters could be crazy and unrestrained and that readers or viewers would still look hard enough to see the real story underneath rather than simply stare open-mouthed at the blood and guts covering it. Because Hit-Girl is more than just a murder machine and it would do her a disservice to hand her to us on a plate. If we had to
Image © Marvel Comics, 2010

There are about five individuals on my ‘people I’d like to meet before I die’ list, and Hit-Girl is one of them. I realise it’s unlikely to happen, what with me being a real life person and her… well, not so much. To be honest, though, I think it’s a good thing. She’d probably kick my arse.

Kick-Ass 2 was released on August 14 in the UK, and August 16 in the US.

Cat Collins
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Mark Millar’s story was originally born out of an idea based on HitGirl and her father/mentor, Big Daddy. He eventually decided to sideline the rather extreme characters in favour of making a hero out of the more relatable everyman, Dave Lizewski. It was an understandable choice, and ultimately the right one. The original

wade through hefty diatribes about how difficult her life has been, how sad she is that her daddy lied to her and how awful it is to be a Hello Kitty fan by day and katana-wielding maniac by night we wouldn’t have Hit-Girl anymore. She’d be something else. Somebody else. And she’d be really, really annoying.

Image © Universal Studios, 2013

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