Xmen had the issue of trying to be 3 completely opposed things at once: 1: A comic about how "le racism against minorities is bad!", 2
ool superhero powers, 3: Low to high-tier adventure!
Combining all three had the result of a bunch of guys who are constantly in dramas and complain how everyone is scared of them accidentally blowing up the world and how mutants are bad (while every other Marvel character looks away for reasons), and then the next chapter they travel through time to stop the Terminator future from happening. Mutant powers are all over the place and some are clear winners, and if that's the case, you're pretty much god, doubly so if you practice as it seems they have infinite improvement (if you're important enough to matter).
Mutants arent to be feared, meanwhile you have them being able to toss buildings at each other, sometimes causing Man of Steel level of collateral damage.
The minority groups analogy gets kind of lost when said minorities can sometimes kill entire an entire city just by existing like with that kid that Wolverine had to put down because his power just so happened to literally kill anyone near him, with no way to turn it off.
Unless that was meant to be an AIDS analogy, which....
Well, also One Piece was able to sell merchandise and had quite the sex appeal. Anime/Manga plots can get pretty fucking autistic themselves (The ending of MHA comes to mind as a recent example) because mangakas tend to range into "excentric but harmless" to "Absolutely deranged".
Dont get me started on the number of anime/manga that had a lot of potential and were killed at the crib because of corporate nonsense.
I guess what I am trying to say is that both western and japanese media have their own brand of retardation.
Someone mentioned Batman originally killing people and dropping them from buildings? Well you won't be prepared for Wonder Woman. Shit is crazy. Bondage bondage bondage.
Wonder Woman's "kryptonite" back on the day was being tied up by a man. It was one of the earliest examples in comic books of the "The Writer's poorly disguised fetish" trope.
That was crazy
ever read golden age Supes but I know silver age Superman is a dick and Lois and Jimmy go on some extremely wild adventures.
Silver Age Superman is a dick but, to be fair, so is everyone in the silver age. They were constantly doing mean spirited pranks on each other (like faking their own deaths to trick Superman into telling them his secret identity) and Superman wasnt afraid to use his powers to do some crazy shit as well. I cant recall them but if you are familiar with cartoons where most of the casts are dicks (not even villanous but just dicks), then you can imagine what to expect.
The writers didnt give a shit and were having fun, wanting YOU to join on the absurdity.
Some people say they would be Homelander but I want to believe most would be Silver Age superman, benevolent at their core but not afraid to use their powers for selfish things.
Question: Has the death of the second Robin ever been done in media? I believe there's that good movie that dealt with Jason's death and resurrection, but I believe this hasn't happened in any live action movie nor series, right?
Outside of the Forever and BnR, the Batman movies never really had any robins whatsoever. Batman V Superman did allude to Jason Todd's death with that sprayed on suit in the batcave
and in the Snydercut of Justice League, they had Batman and Joker talk about it when the former promises that when this is done, he WILL kill him for what he did while the latter mocks him over "sending a bird boy to do a man's job". Its clear Jason Todd and his death were a thing (tho Red Hood wasnt, who knows if that wouldnt change had this universe stuck around), he just never appeared
Oddly enough, he has always been a contentious topic for the live action scene because the idea Batman would trust a little kid with fighting crime is crazy (but I guess the idea of a grown man fighting crime in a bat costume isnt?). The Nolanverse "cheat" by having Blake turn out to be named "Robin" *, sort of making him a combination of Dick, Jason and Tim.
And it doesnt seem like that will change anytime soon, even with The Batman or the Gunnverse.
* a "fix" to that scene, if you had to have it, was to have the dialogue being "You should use your full name, it rolls off the tongue well. Anyway, here are your documents, Mr Grayson"
