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Tweak says, "life is beautiful"

superfan1 (superfan1) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-10-22 17:37:00

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char: huntress/helena bertinelli, char: man-bat/kirk langstrom, creator: chris yost, creator: derek fridolfs, creator: dustin nguyen, publisher: dc comics, title: streets of gotham

Streets of Gotham #5
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Damn it,I accidentally deleted the other post. :(

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	kagome654 2009-10-23 12:00 am UTC (link)
	Out of all Batman's villains I think Manbat would be pretty low on the list of 'needs killing.' (Reply to this) (Thread)

	bluefall 2009-10-23 12:02 am UTC (link)
	BUT HELENA'S A KILLER SHE'LL KILL ANYONE SHE'S KILL-CRAZY DON'T YOU SEE IT'S WHAT SETS HER APART SHE'S AN ANGRY KILLY WOMAN THAT'S HER THING. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kagome654 2009-10-23 12:12 am UTC (link)
	Of course! How could I forget!? 'SHE'S A DAMAGED AND ANGRY WOMAN, HEAR HER ROAR! RWAAR' (Reply to this) (Parent)

	zordboy 2009-10-23 12:16 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, this. If we need to have Huntress turn edgy and homicidal, could we save it for the villains who have body-counts in the triple digits (and hell, Joker alone probably hit ten-thousand-victims-and-counting years ago)? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	unknownscribler 2009-10-23 09:15 am UTC (link)
	She's clearly being set up for morality fail. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

janegray
2009-10-23 04:22 pm UTC (link)

I hate when the writers do that.

They can't explain why the Joker shouldn't be killed, so they portray anybody who presses the issue as a psychopath who'd gleefully kill even relatively-harmless villains and whose opinion should therefore be completely disregarded.

It's like a woman saying she loves the colour pink, and they paint her whole house, all the walls, floors, ceilings, furniture and pets pink, and when she complains they go all "BUT I THOUGHT YOU SAID YOU LOVED PINK!"

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unknownscribler
2009-10-23 04:38 pm UTC (link)

Pretty much.

And the thing is, the Joker could so very very easily given a reason why he can't be killed; he's a monkey paw and killing him just means some other poor bastard becomes the new Joker, like a memetic viral version of the Slayers from Buffy (if you ever interact with the Joker, you're a potential host when the time comes for the legacy to pass on). The kicker could be that they may have different interpretations of the role, so one might be a psychotic killer, another a caperer that don't deliberately kill while another specifically won't kill because it's funnier to leave his ~~audience~~victims alive.

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	jlbarnett 2009-10-23 11:04 pm UTC (link)
	they're never going to give something explicitly superhuman about Joker. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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