Comment on The Girl in the Spider's Web's Hero Is a "Feminist Batman"

Hacker-vigilante Lisbeth Salander is like a "feminist Batman" according to Fede Alvarez, the director of the forthcoming The Girl in the Spider's Web, and having now seen 20 minutes of the film I can attest that it's an apt description of the character played here by Claire Foy. As depicted in the original Swedish movies, the David Fincher remake of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, as well as the late author Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy, Lisbeth Salander -- a hacker extraordinaire and investigator who metes out justice against male abusers and powerful figures who try to get away with their crimes -- has many of the staples associated with superheroes. She's an avenger dressed in black who has a traumatic origin story, a lair, a cool vehicle, gadgets, a secret identity, a reporter ally/love interest, and, in The Girl in the Spider's Web, she even wears a mask of sorts.