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Huh? Every HW movie ends up with a female finishing a job where man could not. First come to mind, look at the Aliens series.
Not that she would have gotten anywhere had she not been bailed out by several males along the way... I don't think that's an example of what the OP is trying to say.
Rey in Star Wars the Force Awakens is definitely a "Mary Sue" though. Obviously has force powers, but masters them faster than any character in the universe, pilots the Falcon better than Solo, basically does everything expertly well right off the bat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Sue
Hollywood "Faux Feminism" is the worst kind. There's NO true empowerment of women. Beauty, youth, and sex are the practically the only valuable commodities women have going and it'll remain that way, as it's been for ages. Nobody blinks an eye when every 40- 50-year-old action star gets paired with a 22-year-old leading lady. No matter what her capabilities are - she's always going to be a sexified in some form.
So I don't see unrealistic expectations anywhere in H-wood, just more of the same old, status quo. It's packaged a little differently, but as commented above, Wonder Woman (also Cat Woman and Black Widow), a super fierce, multi-faceted, and skilled woman, still has to squeeze herself into tight pleather catsuits to appease ..someone. Not herself, I'm sure.
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