"Game of Thrones" star Sophie Turner (left) took over the role of Jean Grey from Famke Jannsen (right) for 2016's "X-Men: Apocalypse." Next up: "X-Men: Dark Phoenix" in 2018.
Former "Whiplash" co-star Melissa Benoist is now Supergirl, which first aired on CBS but recently wrapped up its second season on the CW.
"THIS," the actress tweeted soon after she got the part, along with a photo of herself in costume. "I still can't believe I am wearing the House of El coat of arms."
Space assassin Gamora, embodied on the right by Zoe Saldana in Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy," returned to big screens in 2017. Next up for the movie version of Gamora is "Avengers: Infinity War."
In 2014, Marvel announced that the king of Asgard would actually be a queen. The female Thor (who was still the star of the Mighty Thor comic as of May 2017) was an instant hit; the first five issues of her series outsold its predecessor by 30 percent.
Since 2013, Ms. Marvel has been a Muslim teenager named Kamala Khan. "Ms. Marvel Volume 1: No Normal" was the best-selling graphic novel in October 2014. She's still chasing criminals in 2017.
The original Spider-Woman, Jessica Drew, returned to web-slinging with a brand-new ongoing series in October 2014. She was a hit then, and she's still in digital print as of May 2017.
In early 2015, Marvel announced the A-Force, an all-female hero lineup. Since then, She-Hulk and Co. have stepped into the vacuum left by the Avengers, who went AWOL during Marvel's Secret Wars storyline.
The A-Force storyline re-upped the tour of duty for classic super-heroines, but also introduced a new face: Singularity. Creator G. Willow Wilson described her as more of a cosmic event than a person, a pocket universe that chose to manifest in a human woman shape.
Marvel's Silk character has got clout, literally. She's a master at hand-to-hand combat, and she also has Spider-Man-like abilities. No wonder she still has her own title via Marvel Unlimited.
Batwoman has gone through many iterations, including a recent Vargas-inspired crime fighter in a comic series co-starring an equally retro Wonder Woman and Supergirl.
In a world filled with caped crusaders and psychotic antiheroes, the four women at the center of Image Comics' Rat Queens scratch a very neglected itch: that of fantasy geek girls.
Anyone who has played Dungeons & Dragons will recognize the classic team-up of the dwarven warrior, the halfling thief, the elven mage and the human shammy, but female readers will get an extra kick out of their combined girl power.
