McGowan, 42, took to Instagram to criticise the genre for 'regurgitating cliche' and 'excluding women', reported Digital Spy.
"Thoughts on the current state of tent pole films aka superheroes. I'd like to petition for other stories to be added to the slate.
"Where are the human stories? I don't want green goblins and tight outfits. I want intelligence, daring, work that drives society forward. I want a mirror, not every cliche regurgitated ad nauseum," she wrote.
"From Scarface, to Lebowski, to M, to Anchor Man, to the sublime Carol, to Chinatown, to Sullivan's Travels. Let's bring complexity back. Let's be the badasses we used to be.