What would the female version of James Bond be like?

[Leigh]

For no objective reason what so ever, the idea of this makes me face plant. Make a super cool spy character, with no relation to the 007 franchise and I'm all good for it. But simply making some artificial reconfiguration of a pre-existing movie-verse just reeks of Generation X and Y's inability to invent an idea from scratch, instead of bathing in the richness of an older and more creative generation of folks.

We got James Pond in the late eighties, that's enough.

You mean the same generation who gave us Supergirl, Batgirl, and a bunch of other female versions of popular characters to appeal to a female demographic instead of making a new superhero from scratch?

That generation?

At least they created the original vision in order to invent the bastardised derivatives. Making everything dark and brooding is the early 21st century equivalent of the 1980s ambition to have a Pepsi trademark in every frame of a motion picture.

Make a character that works. A female James Bond would just be cringeworthy, and belongs on fanfiction.net, where the rest of the internets bad ideas exist.

I'm not a fan of the baby boomers, but they invented the Web, so I exclude them from severe lambast...despite screwing up every other facet of life.