"Wanted" is a retelling of Cinderella  Find out why Mark
Millar's comic book Wanted really should have had singing mice
and a pumpkin coach.  Cinderella is an uber-girlie movie (I am
using the movie, primarily in this comparison.) aimed at preteen
girls. Wanted is Mark Millar's violent and cynical comic book
aimed at adult men. Although the atmosphere of each is
different, the two stories' structures, caveats, and appeals to
their audience are incredibly similar. Is a glass slipper and a
pumpkin coach all Wanted needs? You be the judge.  Both stories
are initiated by loss. Wesley, the hero of Wanted, and
Cinderella both lose a loving father. Not only that, but they
lose the protection and the inheritance they should have had
from that father. Cinderella's father, in story and in the
movie, was wealthy and loving. With him gone, at the time the
story was set, she's powerless. Wesley's a man in the modern
era, but the power he has is taken away from him by his
upbringing.  Cinderella might have done fine on her