The film calls to mind the kind of thing SuckerPunch was satirizing, offering Potts a few moments of action but completely shortchanging her as a character with her own agency.
In one of the movie's better running gags, she proves it again and again when she delivers a vicious suckerpunch to the throat of anyone foolish enough to threaten her well-being.
It's no surprise all this could lead to Michael Cera and Jason Schwartzman clashing swords in the comic-book-and-videogame-inspired movie "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" (2010), or Emily Browning facing a giant samurai in "Sucker Punch" (2011).