#ALSO Peacemaker is like the polar opposite of the Comedian because his thing is he genuinely | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

robocops-a-christ-allegory · 8 months

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The summary of my Peacemaker and Comedian thoughts are I believe paul kupperberg when he said the comedian had no influence on his reboot of Peacemaker because turning charlton Peacemaker into a piece of shit who committed war crimes in Veitnam is a very obvious route that makes sense.

Also you can tell Kupperberg was a liberal and Moore was a anarchist because Peacemakers actions are explained like 50% by his personal trauma and mental state and THEN 50% by like Being A US Soldier while the Comedian does not have the "literally mentally ill" explanation and is like that almost entirely because he's a US soldier. Like Comedian is having a evil but "reasonable" (as in: acting like this for his own personal gain, not because he experiences delusions) reaction to his circumstances while Peacemaker is portrayed as like "he's a bad guy but alot of his actions are because he's 'insane'".

Like I know the intent is to make him more tragic but it is that very liberal like "well its not the systems fault ENTIRELY its also because of Peacemakers intrisnically broken brain !!!" and I think that difference between them is really interesting honestly

#I love melodrama so I love Peacemaker but you know. Im always talking about how his 80s backstory was rough.#Like I will always say it IS a thing that hes like that as a condemnation of us nationalism too theres a really clear comparison being made #to like the nazis and the US Peacemakers actions in vietnam are constantly referred to as him basically becoming his father #But yeah the fucking 'his nazi dad hallucination made him do it!' thing hangs over him.#Anyway. I think the comedians a good character but obviously i hate him and #cant stand him. Peacemaker is a different kind of character because #The Comedian exists to be a monster and to be dead and #Peacemaker had to be able to like exist in comics.#ALSO Peacemaker is like the polar opposite of the Comedian because his thing is he genuinely #believes hes doing the right thing or at least he WANTS to believe he is and the Comedians whole thing is #he knows hes evil and in the wrong but he benefits from it so he does it all anyway #Peacemaker is taking this dead seriously the comedian is the comedian but in the end theyre both tools that kill people for the government

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