The Marvel Cinematic Universe is amazing for a lot of reasons. Weaving together a plethora of films as well as an upcoming television series into one world, keeping Robert Downey Jr. working, and also feeding the superhero film thirst that is never quiet quenched. However, there is at least one thing it does terribly. Women. So far in their universe there isn’t one film where the lead is a female superhero and that isn’t for lack of characters. Marvel claims they will work a female oriented film into the universe but couldn’t give us any definitive plans. 

Director/producer Louis D’Esposito commented on the diversity of the cinematic universe claiming,

“There’s obviously a drumbeat that is banging louder and louder that we want a female lead superhero,” he says. “… [W]e have strong female characters in our films from Black Widow to Pepper Potts to Peggy Carter and you never know. Maybe there’s an offshoot film with one of them. Or Captain Marvel, you know?”

Oh you mean pretty much the only three female main characters you have given us who by no means get the amount of screen time as any of the male actors? C’mon. While yes, the Marvel superhero world is dominated by the male heroes, there are plenty of amazing women who could easily get their own film that links up with cinematic universe.

D’Esposito added that we won’t see the female-centric film anytime soon.

“It’s hard,” he says. “because we have a small group at Marvel. We do two films a year. To get those two films done and to do them right takes a lot of work and manpower. And female-power, obviously. To add a third film and to just put it in the slate right now is difficult. We have these next three, four, five films coming out and that’s what we’re really concentrating on.”

Phase 2 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has already begun with November 8th’s Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier on April 4, 2014, Guardians of the Galaxy on August 1, 2014 through to, finally Avengers: Age of Ultron on May 1, 2015. “Phase Three” will then begin with the Edgar Wright-directed Ant-Man on November 6, 2015. That’s all in addition to the ongoing “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” television series on ABC and future “One-Shot” shorts.

So ladies and young impressionable tweens, do get your hopes up for a female superhero project anytime soon. But according to D’Esposito, you have Pepper Pots to look up to as a role model!