Comic Book Resources recently boldly wondered aloud, “How Female Superhero Movies May (Already) Be Falling Into a Rut.” It only made sense, of course, as WONDER WOMAN is the first super hero film centered on a woman of this era and arguably the first successful one ever. With a sample size of one, who wouldn’t draw such conclusions?

To be fair to a ridiculously dumb and inflammatory headline, they were also anticipating CAPTAIN MARVEL which is also set in the past, albeit the 90s, not the World War I years.

However, I did some research and it turns out that this headline has a strong historical precedent that might make it clear how prescient and smart this headline really is. I present them now, below, for historical context. You are welcome CBR.

10 Other Times in History Publications Wondered if a Kind of Movie May (Already) Be Falling Into a Rut

1.) 1896- How Train Driving Directly Towards the Camera Movies May (Already) Be Falling Into a Rut

2.) 1927- How Movies That Bring Image AND Sound to the Screen May (Already) Be Falling Into a Rut

3.) 1941- How Newspaper Magnates Turned Failed Politicians Who Are Still Stuck on Their Childhood Toy Movies May (Already) Be Falling Into a Rut

4.) 1959- How Beat Generation Jazz Musicians in Interracial Relationship Movies May (Already) Be Falling Into a Rut

5.) 1960- How Sociopaths Who Are Obsessed With Taxidermy and Dress as Their Deceased Mothers to Commit Murder Movies May (Already) Be Falling Into a Rut

6.) 1968- How Movies That Begin With the First Violent Act Committed by Man’s Ancestors, Goes Into the Near Future, and End With a Man Being Reborn as a Vast Cosmic Being in Baby Form May (Already) Be Falling Into a Rut

7.) 1975- How Horror Musicals Depicting the Clash Between Two Milquetoast Leads and a Mad Transsexual Doctor and His Loose Cohort of Minions Movies May (Already) Be Falling Into a Rut

8.) 1984- How Lousy Hard Rock Band With Drummers Who Repeatedly Explode Tour Mockumentaries May (Already) Be Falling Into a Rut

9.) 2000- How Protagonists with Short-Term Memory Loss Attempt to Bring Their Wife’s Killers to Justice in a Story that Runs in Reverse Movies May (Already) Be Falling Into a Rut

10.) 2017- How Gillman-Human Woman Romance Movies May (Already) Be Falling Into a Rut