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Lechtansi posted:It's funny, now that you mention it, Batman and Batman's villans are probably the least super-powered in the DCEU, and maybe even marvel. Eh, I think there are some obscurer characters who probably have less superpowered casts, like Green Arrow or the Punisher.
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fractalairduct posted:Eh, I think there are some obscurer characters who probably have less superpowered casts, like Green Arrow or the Punisher. Things generally don't go well for superheroes/villains when they come up against Frank. With the exception of Deadpool. He hasn't figured out a way to kill Deadpool yet. He cut him into a dozen pieces once and scattered them around NYC. It didn't work.
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May 8, 2020 06:37
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Batman is definitely street scale until he's palling around with the Justice League, when he suddenly gets to global scale, which is weird but it happens in comics pretty often. Spiderman is similar in that he's usually street scale but then the Fantastic Four will come knocking and he's suddenly dealing with aliens and poo poo.
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May 8, 2020 06:58
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Warbird posted:Oh now you're messing with me. Supes fucks too? I assumed it was a Ken doll situation. Ken doll, not Kent doll. Duh.
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May 8, 2020 07:32
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BlackIronHeart posted:Batman is definitely street scale until he's palling around with the Justice League, when he suddenly gets to global scale, which is weird but it happens in comics pretty often. Spiderman is similar in that he's usually street scale but then the Fantastic Four will come knocking and he's suddenly dealing with aliens and poo poo.
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May 8, 2020 07:34
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roomforthetuna posted:But Spiderman's pet villains are generally at least a *bit* superpowered, like having mechanical octopus arms or being able to smash through steel doors or shoot electricity or fly and shoot fire or fly and throw bombs or being the dried version of Clayface or doing hypnotic illusions or, er, the Lizard.
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May 8, 2020 13:25
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Warbird posted:Oh now you're messing with me. Supes fucks too? I assumed it was a Ken doll situation. Pincers.
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May 8, 2020 14:05
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Do you want to know how I got these emotional scars? 
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May 8, 2020 14:57
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Things generally don't go well for superheroes/villains when they come up against Frank. With the exception of Deadpool. He hasn't figured out a way to kill Deadpool yet. He cut him into a dozen pieces once and scattered them around NYC. There was that time that Frank killed the Marvel Universe. If I were king I'd make that the final installment of the MCU.
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May 8, 2020 15:25
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I hate to say this, but Cheryl is a terrible cop. She just let an unarmed newbie psychologist go into the cell of a homicidal maniac. You're a guard! You're supposed to keep people out! You don't just let them in because they ask aggressively! I know Gotham police officers are all useless, but that's some next level incompetence. Also, as much as I love bald Riddler, long haired Riddler was kind of a babe.
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May 8, 2020 17:30
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Warbird posted:Oh now you're messing with me. Supes fucks too? I assumed it was a Ken doll situation. The story of Jon Kent's introduction to comics is even wilder. It starts off with an event created solely because the DC Comics offices were moving where a bunch of cities from various universes whose timelines have ended (read Pre- and Post- Crisis DCU cities) and pitted them against each other. All the heroes band together instead of fighting, yadda yadda. One of those cities had a Post-Crisis Lois and Clark who, while being trapped conceived a child due to the city abduction temporarily shutting off Superman's powers. Some stuff happens as part of the event and the new family elect to go to the main Earth when the events of the New 52 starts except there's already a Superman and Lois that exists there. Instead they decide to just chill out in California for a decade in secrecy as various comic book events happen before catching up the to current events of the comics. DC Rebirth and other stuff happens such that there's only one Superman and Clark again and they've always had Jon (I think). tl;dr Comics are weird and dumb, but sometimes amusing.
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May 8, 2020 18:38
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So the implication there is that one of Supe’s powers is jizz so potent that it destroys any egg it comes in contact with? Also Clark and Supe are complete separate characters now?
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May 8, 2020 18:53
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Warbird posted:So the implication there is that one of Supe’s powers is jizz so potent that it destroys any egg it comes in contact with? Also Clark and Supe are complete separate characters now?  No idea! Maybe they're too potent, maybe they're too alien without depowering. Who knows!As for Clark and Supes being separate people, yes and no. Part of the whole, realignment of the canon (again) involved with rsolving having two Clark Kents involved the sudden appearance of a Clark Kent such that there was, at one point, the Post-Crisis Clark, the New 52 Clark and this new Clark. I forget where he came from, and I think he was just a figment from Mr. Mxyplztk (sp?) who merged them all together and helped restitch the timeline such that Supes and WW still had a thing at some point but then Supes goes back to Lois and marries her and has a kid or something. Idk. This part of comics canon is extra weird and wrinkly because of how mixed up it is and the wildly varying visions on Superman at the time by writers and editorial until a firm decision was finally made. Superman is (and always was in the canon) one person. Bonus: Despite there now being a 12 year old Superboy who's the legit offspring of Clark and Lois, he got aged up suddenly and shunted into the future to be a part of the Legion of Superheroes despite most of the young Superboy's comics being fairly fun. This is mostly because of Brian Bendis and also because there apparently isn't ever enough room for two different Superboys to exist in one setting. Edit: lmao at early Joker basically looking like Heath Ledger.
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May 8, 2020 19:03
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Warbird posted:So the implication there is that one of Supe’s powers is jizz so potent that it destroys any egg it comes in contact with? Also Clark and Supe are complete separate characters now? Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex. No, really, I'm pretty sure that was exactly what the writers were thinking of.
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May 8, 2020 19:05
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Warbird posted:So the implication there is that one of Supe’s powers is jizz so potent that it destroys any egg it comes in contact with? Also Clark and Supe are complete separate characters now? Since no one else has posted it yet: http://www.rawbw.com/~svw/superman.html
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May 8, 2020 19:09
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So Jason Todd existed. That's funky. "You wanna know how I got these emotional scars?"
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May 8, 2020 19:18
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Mr. Ferris was a rollercoaster of emotions.
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May 8, 2020 19:43
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Warbird posted:So the implication there is that one of Supe’s powers is jizz so potent that it destroys any egg it comes in contact with? Also Clark and Supe are complete separate characters now? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_aMss1p8EQ This should be canon, even Superman's jizz is probably a weapon of mass destruction. Edit: As for this week episode, Dent, what an rear end in a top hat, poor Jim. Angry Lobster fucked around with this message at 20:58 on May 8, 2020 |
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May 8, 2020 20:17
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Aaah! I love that once they introduce Dent you're kinda thinking "oh are we getting this show's origin story for Dent?" and then Ivy attacks but nope, not her... the bomb is going off and Dent's in the asylum with it! but no, it's not the bomb... there's a guy with a flamethrower DIRECTLY next to him! but nope, not that either. Harley spits on his bad side and calls him Two Face. That's the origin story. This show is a loving onion it has so many layers, I love it!
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May 8, 2020 21:23
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Wow, this Harvey Dent, gently caress that guy, holy poo poo. Also kind of like that he used his DA voice at the end there to get across he really is just two sides of the same coin. I hope that's the last we've seen of the Joker, too, or at least villain Joker- normie Joker can stay. Maybe he's great with Batman, but Harley's got her own poo poo going on, poo poo that doesn't need Mistah J or his baggage.
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May 8, 2020 21:33
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CommissarMega posted:Wow, this Harvey Dent, gently caress that guy, holy poo poo. Also kind of like that he used his DA voice at the end there to get across he really is just two sides of the same coin. Yeah, I'm perfectly fine with normie Joker just happily living his life as a civilian and being the world's greatest stepdad. This is the perfect end of his arc for this show, plenty of other villains to pit Harley against.
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May 8, 2020 21:44
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There's definitely gonna be at least one more episode where some villain tries to "revive" The Joker and he reaches the brink and ends up staying normal.
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May 8, 2020 21:46
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This episode wasn't bad on it's own merits, however an episode without King Shark, Clayface and Bane feels lackluster compared to the rest of the season, not bad, just bland.
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May 8, 2020 22:13
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Angry Lobster posted:This episode wasn't bad on it's own mretis, however an episode without King Shark, Clayface and Bane feels lackluster compared to the rest of the season, not bad, just bland. Yeah, the side characters add a LOT and when they're missing you really feel it.
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May 8, 2020 22:29
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Angry Lobster posted:This episode wasn't bad on it's own merits, however an episode without King Shark, Clayface and Bane feels lackluster compared to the rest of the season, not bad, just bland.
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May 9, 2020 03:34
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It's interesting how much this show decenters Batman. In a lot of other DC properties, even ones where Batman isn't the protagonist, he exists as this kinda mystical personification of badass justice. But here he's... not that. Still wealthy, heroic, and supremely competent, but no longer bordering on messianic.
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May 9, 2020 07:05
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I love that they just poo poo on The Dark Knight. I mean, I loved Dark Knight and still consider it the third best Batman movie ever (behind the two Michael Keaton ones) but I'm perfectly fine with this show satirizing some of the edgelordy things that made it so popular.
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May 9, 2020 08:31
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You can love something and poke fun of it anyway. Like everything in this show, for example.
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May 9, 2020 09:06
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God, you're so smug.
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May 9, 2020 11:07
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Warbird posted:So the implication there is that one of Supe’s powers is jizz so potent that it destroys any egg it comes in contact with? Also Clark and Supe are complete separate characters now? With all the seperate multiverses, alternate timelines, and mustard-covered cockheads in the DC universe it's hard to keep track! But at one time Larry Niven thought so long and hard over this that he eventually wrote an essay: http://www.rawbw.com/~svw/superman.html Edit: drat you, Brock Samson! Swollen Member fucked around with this message at 14:23 on May 9, 2020 |
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May 9, 2020 14:21
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:Do you want to know how I got these emotional scars? Gonna take restraint not to change the thread title every week.
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May 9, 2020 16:20
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Alan Tudyk could really give Mark Hamill a run for his money in the "best Joker voice" category if he gets to do this long term.
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May 9, 2020 17:01
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Skippy McPants posted:It's interesting how much this show decenters Batman. In a lot of other DC properties, even ones where Batman isn't the protagonist, he exists as this kinda mystical personification of badass justice. Yeah, it's great, isn't it?
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May 9, 2020 17:05
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I have no idea what's happening in this show. I genuinely thought the idea for season 2 is going to be "no Batman, no Joker", but they're leaning into both even more than in S1. What was even the point of this episode long flashback? What did we learn?
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May 9, 2020 21:46
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Xander77 posted:I have no idea what's happening in this show. I genuinely thought the idea for season 2 is going to be "no Batman, no Joker", but they're leaning into both even more than in S1. That the show really needs the rest of her gang to be great
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May 9, 2020 21:48
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Xander77 posted:What was even the point of this episode long flashback? What did we learn? We learned that Harvey was the only thing keeping Gordon off the deep end.
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May 9, 2020 22:06
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I think its cool that the batman-verse can still tell interesting stories even without its main protagonist. That being said, this episode was really weak. Not very many jokes, it didn't move the plot forward and it was missing most of the cool character interactions.
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May 9, 2020 22:11
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Xander77 posted:I have no idea what's happening in this show. I genuinely thought the idea for season 2 is going to be "no Batman, no Joker", but they're leaning into both even more than in S1. It was mainly about Harley's relationship with Ivy, and exactly why Ivy's so attached to her. It also fleshed out this arc's main antagonist, Two-Face, and showed us what makes him tick.
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May 9, 2020 23:01
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Blueberry Pancakes posted:We learned that Harvey was the only thing keeping Gordon off the deep end. Bane is Harvey's new Gordon.
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Darth Walrus posted:It also fleshed out this arc's main antagonist, Two-Face, and showed us what makes him tick. Well, I don't know if I'd say "fleshed out" given that we basically learn that Harvey only cares about his own image and promotion. Which was pretty clear from the last episode with Bane. BIG HEADLINE posted:Bane is Harvey's new Gordon. I'm not sure Gordon getting on steroids would be better.
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