In a red-carpet interview with the BBC at the “First Steps” premiere in London, a reporter asked Garner about the response from certain … fans … who were upset that the “Silver Surfer” is female. The “Wolf Man” actress gave a gracious response – in which she embedded a savage, blink-and-you-missed it schooling.

While there might have been an initial wave of online grumbling upon seeing a female Silver Surfer and erroneously believing this was a simple gender-swap of Norrin Radd, the original Marvel Comics iteration of the gleaming alien,