Faora from Man of Steel

Faora, Zod’s lieutenant in the 2013 Man of Steel, is a fantastic take away from an otherwise ho hum movie. Though the movie didn’t fair well, as we have said time and time again, Faora has remained a fan favorite due to her brute strength and her fighting prowess. Her extensively calculated hits are precise and strong and make her a contender when up against Kal-El or Superman. In what is probably the greatest fight to take place inside of an IHOP, Faora confronts Kal-El alongside her partner from Krypton who is never named outright. She takes Kal-El on at first by herself, she appears calm and cool, hardly out of breath after every take, a real soldier, trained down to the last detail.

Her often quoted line, “The fact that you possess a sense of morality, and we do not, gives us an evolutionary advantage. And if history has proven anything… It is that evolution always wins,” is delivered in between hits and throwing Kal-El through buildings. In terms of combat, Faora is the better trained and stronger fighter but Kal-El ultimately wins, as he tends to, because of his developed heat vision and flight that Faora has not yet have. With Faora we see how inexperienced Kal-El truly is when it come to hand-to-hand combat. Her costuming is fantastic, making her look a warrior in head-to-black armor, her own black cape, and weaponry. She looks like a force to be reckoned with as she most certainly is. Add in the fact that she is played by a German actress (Antje Traue), with a terrifying accent, and you’ve got a villain that fans everywhere are begging to see again soon. A fantastic representation of our female comic book movie villains.