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moviemunchies · 9 months

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After the critical and popular acclaim of The Dark Knight, a movie beloved by just about everyone I knew at that time, we all wondered how Christopher Nolan would follow up in the next Batman movie.

The result, The Dark Knight Rises, was a bit divisive.

Eight years after Joker’s reign of terror, Batman is still blamed for Harvey Dent’s crimes and death,, with the Dent Act having cleaned up Gotham’s streets. Batman’s gone, since he’s supposedly won, and Bruce Wayne is a recluse. But the terrorist leader Bane, an expelled member of the League of Shadows, comes to Gotham with a plan to take over Wayne Industries’ energy project, turn it into a bomb, and eventually destroy the city, cutting it off from the rest of the country and causing the violent overthrow of society.

And Batman can’t do anything to stop him.

We’ll talk about some spoilers in this review. I don’t know if anyone cares, because this movie’s a decade old; I thought I’d throw that out there, anyway.

When it’s remembered at all, other than memes of Bane’s voice (no really, the Harley Quinn show uses it), it’s generally considered as the worst of the Nolan Batman films. And I think that’s true, but it’s a high bar, and the movie has a lot going for it. It’s more thoughtful than most superhero movies today, for sure–though that doesn’t mean all of these thoughts always work when expressed on screen.

Shortly after re-watching this movie, I saw Chris Stuckmann’s recent video on the film, and he brings up an idea that has made me think. He talks about how, in the previous movie, the Joker makes the assertion that once you get rid of the rules of society, people will tear each other apart–and what we see in this film is Gotham City tear itself apart (or at least, some of it–we don’t see much of what the average people are doing) once Bane brings down the ruling institutions. It makes me wonder. There were rumors that if Heath Ledger hadn’t died, the Joker would have played a role in this movie. And so I’m really, really curious and imagining an incredibly ambitious film that ties together both the League of Shadows storyline and the anarchy of the Joker. I’d like to think it would blow us all out of the water.

We didn’t get that though.

There are some baffling things in this movie. Bane’s voice has grown on me, but re-watching it’s annoying that the third act has two or three instances of Bruce Wayne/Batman just… appearing where he needs to be. I’m not asking for a full scene of how he got from the Pit to Gotham, I just want a throwaway line or something. I suspect that the film loses track of its characters. Miranda Tate/Talia is an example of this–at the trial scene, Bane asks her to be brought to him, and then she’s with the captives that Bruce sees when he pretends to be captured, and then later he asks where she is. Despite that he has no reason to think she’s anywhere other than where he left her. But she’s not, she’s with Bane again.

Actually, we should talk about Talia and her role in the movie. It’s fine, in theory, I guess–

[Waitwaitwait hang on! What do you mean, child Talia is played by Joey King in the flashbacks?!]

–but there’s so much work missing. We’re meant to believe that Bruce is falling for her, I think? They don’t have enough meaningful interactions for me to think that Bruce has reason to feel particularly attached to her, but after he goes broke he lets her into his mansion and has sex with her. Why? Well, so it’s a twist when it turns out that it’s Talia, and she wanted to kill him the entire time. Since her relationship with Bruce also comes out of nowhere though, it seemed as if the character only exists to make Plot Twists instead of being developed as a real person in the narrative.

Selina Kyle is an interesting character, and I appreciate her character arc here more. I don’t know if running off with Bruce is the best ending, as again, I don’t know if there’s enough work put into that romance; though unlike with Talia, but I can actually see that these two are attracted to each other, and actually grow more attached to the other as the story goes on.

[Side note that might be a Hot Take: does anyone ship Bruce/Batman with Talia? Other than Ra’s al Ghul?]

Upon re-watch, I found Selina’s character arc in this movie much more interesting. She’s someone who, over the course of the film, realizes how her selfishness has led to absolutely terrible consequences. I like that.

The fight scenes in this movie are… eh? They’re not good. I complained about it in the last movie; they’re worse here. Nolan is less interested in that aspect of action movies, I think. There are bits that are alright, but overall, it is miles behind every other superhero movie in this regard, which is a shame because this is Batman. Batman is supposed to be one of the greatest fictional martial artists of all time, and Nolan put together a very basic style for him, which is at its worst in this movie. Disappointing.

One of the most discussed aspects of the film is Bane’s rhetoric. Many took issue with how and his forces are presented. Bane gives several speeches about liberating Gotham’s people from corrupt elites, and yet he’s the villain, instead of a revolutionary hero. I’ve talked about this before, but these comments miss the point of Bane: he’s not a revolutionary. He’s a terrorist. He’s happy, like so many real-life villains, to use rhetoric about helping people get what they want or deserve in order to gain public support only to use that support for his own ends. He does not care about the liberation of Gotham’s people, he wants to blow them up because he thinks they’re beyond redemption.

Now, one could argue that the delivery of all of this is awkwardly done, or could have been done better, and I’ll accept that argument. But so often it seems like a lot of people seem baffled at the idea that villains convincingly lie to people sometimes to get what they want, or that benevolent ideology can be used as a cover for nefarious purposes. They’ve clearly never watched anything in pop culture as a religious person, I think. Look, maybe this is more right-wing than most Hollywood films now, but that’s a low bar, and as critic Jonathtan Chait put it, the movie only “submits the rather modest premise that, irritating though the rich may be, actually killing them and taking all their stuff might be excessive.” Some people find that too extremist, I guess.

The actual inspirations for the film are quite obviously the French Revolution and Tale of Two Cities, and I sort of like the idea of this story. Gotham is a mess, and horribly corrupt, even when they do get the crime off of the streets (even though the Dent Act is not how city laws work!), and so it requires fixing that corruption before things actually get set right.

I remember some doofus on Tumblr (the same one who was like, “Joker says he doesn’t have a plan but totally does! Gotcha, Nolan fans!”) who argued that the ending of The Dark Knight was ProBleMAtiC because it involves people believing a lie for the sake of the Greater Good–welp, this movie exists! And it shows that, yeah, that’s actually a massive problem! Let’s deal with that!

No, it’s not the best ending we could have gotten to this trilogy. But I don’t think it’s bad–I think it’s pretty good. It just isn’t up to the high standards of the previous film–which is pretty darn high! I think maybe it required a couple more editorial looks before completion. Still, I enjoyed this movie! Even though it’s the weakest link in the Nolan Batman trilogy.

#Movie Munchies #Batman #The Dark Knight Rises #Christopher Nolan #TDKR

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hardcore-lonewolf · 7 months

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Pocketwatch Question!

I know Kitten is into Robin I/Nightwing and Dick Grayson, so my inspiration of Ace will be based on her for blond hair and blue eyes like her mother with her father's insane madness.

Matt's permanent portrayal has changed from Noah Nixon from Generator Rex to Danny Rand aka Iron Fist from Ultimate Spider-Man, I loved Greg Cipes for voicing him so much.

His portrayal starts from Noah Nixon for S1 and S2, and Danny Rand for S3 and S4...that's the procedure.

Recasting her will be good for the rivalry between Kitten Moth and Catgirl, but I chose Lucy due to the Injustice trailer video in Arkham Asylum between Harley Quinn and Catwoman in their Arkham City skins.

Lucy Quinzel's character portrayal is Annie from Generator Rex mixed with Jinx | Powder from League of Legends, and Misty's portrayal will be Beverly Holiday from Generator Rex mixed with Stocking Anarchy from Panty & Stocking.

Knowing users make redesigns of heroes and villains are very savage...follow those people who recreated them if they're really savage.

I would usually picked my portrayals by watching shows like Invincible, Young Justice, Ben 10 (Not the Reboot...it's OS/AF/UA/OV), Generator Rex, Teen Titans (2003), the Last Airbender, X-Men: Evolution, DCAMU, the Secret Saturdays, Danny Phantom, Kim Possible, the Legend of Korra, Spectacular Spider-Man, Ultimate Spider-Man, TMNT (2003), Wolverine & the X-Men, and others.

Since Gizmo, Jinx, and Mammoth got some redesigns...Mammoth got a different design and I love it...we will choose the portrayals.

We got Psimon, Devastation, Gizmo, Shimmer, Mammoth, the Terror Twins, Jinx, Icicle Junior, and Holocaust.

Let's start with the sirens; Devastation, Shimmer, Tuppence, and Jinx...they need four more members to make this even.

I chose Blackfire, Terra, Ace, and Domino...I know Kitten was the original one till I realized that she has something I hate about her...and that'll be dating and using a mutated spider guy.

Blackfire's portrayal is Circe from Generator Rex with violet to blue dye within her black hair, I want her to be step-sisters with Wildfire and Starfire while having a big brother named Darkfire...portrayed as Moss.

Starfire's hair is an ombre with brown, pink, red, orange, and yellow for the fiery ends like fire...Blackfire's hair is now ombre with black, violet, blue, cyan, and white for the snowy tips.

Ace's portrayal is Annie from Generator Rex, the natural hair and eyes before becoming her new alias...this was Kitten's original portrayal.

Ace Spades will have Kitten's portrayed looks, Jinx's tattoos and color scheme to her hairstyle, Harley's clothing styles, Joker's insane madness, and their choice of weapons.

Domino's portrayal is still will be Beverly Holiday, though I want to give her Stocking's color scheme to her stuffed cat with Misty Kilgore's hair and clothing...her mother's portrayal is Rebecca Holiday to show off the resemblance between the two characters.

Going to the guys...Psimon, Tommy, Gizmo, Mammoth, Holocaust, and Icicle Junior.

For Billy's portrayal, I chose Walter aka Skwydd from Generator Rex.

For See-More, his portrayal will be Rex Salazar and I thought it'll be cool cause he has the Omega Nanite Goggles to the powers...watch the show...it's nostalgic.

It's up to Zatanna to protect Matt from crazy chicks...comment down below and follow.

#young justice #dc comics #teen titans #zatanna zatara #matt ferris #green lantern #zatanna #ben 10 #generator rex #noah nixon #danny rand #ultimate spider man #corps of willpower #pocketwatch #nephilim #pralag #half angel #half human #human

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ao3feed-brucewayne · 2 years

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Promises

by minnow_doodle_doo

Jason fought back tears, it wasn't fear because Bruce wasn't afraid, so he couldn't be either.

“Promise me, Jason.” Emotion found its way back into Bruce’s voice. “Promise me.” The last part cracked slightly, desperately.

“O-Okay I promise.” Jason nodded slightly.

Words: 2321, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 2 of Sons of Anarchy

Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen

Characters: Jason Todd, Tim Drake, Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson, Joker (DCU)

Relationships: Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne, Tim Drake & Jason Todd, Tim Drake & Dick Grayson, Dick Grayson & Jason Todd, Tim Drake & Bruce Wayne

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - No Powers, The Justice League is a Motorcycle Vigilante Club in this Sons of Anarchy AU, Bruce Wayne is a Good Parent, Bruce Wayne is Batman, Good Sibling Jason Todd, Hurt/Comfort, Kinda, more foreboding than anything

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/41747346

#IFTTT #bruce wayne #batman #the dark knight #the cape crusader #gotham #dc universe #ao3 #ao3feed

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thedcdunce · 5 years

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Poison Ivy

“Once you've been touched by poison ivy, you can never get rid of her.” - Poison Ivy

Real Name: Pamela Lillian Isley

Aliases:

Lillian Rose

Doctor Paul Irving

Gender: Female

Height: 5′ 6″

Weight: 110 lbs (50 kg)

Eyes: Green

Hair: Red

Skin: Green

Powers:

Chlorokinesis

Toxikinesis

Abilities:

Botany

Seduction

Hand-to-Hand Combat (Basic)

Weaknesses:

Vulnerability to Darkness

Mental Instability

Universe:

Earth-One

New Earth

Base of Operations: Gotham City

Citizenship: American

Parents:

Andre Chaumont; father

Anna Nguyen ; mother

Marital Status: Single

Occupation: Scientist

First Appearance: Batman #181 (June, 1966)

Last Appearance: Gotham City Sirens #26 (October, 2011)

Powers

Chlorokinesis: Semi-mystical connection to the plant world through a force called the Green. She is able to manipulate and animate plants.

Pheromone Control: Ivy is known to be able to seduce men and women alike, often using pheromones to do so, but even without the pheromones, her beauty is still an asset that can she can use to seduce.

Toxikinesis: A deliberate overdose of plant and animal based toxins into her blood stream that make her touch deadly. Ivy can create the most potently powerful floral toxins in Gotham City. Often these are secreted from her lips and administered via a kiss. They come in a number of varieties, from mind controlling drugs to instantly fatal necrotics. Her skin is toxic as well, although contact with it is usually not fatal.

Toxic Immunity: Immunity to all toxins, bacteria, and viruses.

Skin Pigment Manipulation: By reducing the intensity of her poison, she can give herself a normal skin tone, allowing her to move around in public without being recognized.

Abilities

Botany: Doctor Isley was a renowned scientist with a career in Gotham City. She's always had a fascination with plants and they have been the major direction in her life even after her accident. Her knowledge of botany allows her to better manipulate her plants.

Toxicology: Her specialization in Botany was Toxicology, at first she used her knowledge for perfumes, make-up and medicine. After her accident, she used her knowledge to grow thorny plants and poisonous traps for her enemies.

Seduction: Pamela Isley has always been a beautiful woman but she never used her looks or talents for personal gain until she became Poison Ivy. She taunts her trapped opponents with their human desires and can even infatuate thugs to her cause through her plants or her own means.

Hand-to-Hand Combat (Basic): Her athletic abilities have grown over the course of her career. She has learned a limited style of martial arts fighting, is proficient at climbing and leaping, and is a strong and fast swimmer.

Weaknesses

Vulnerability to Darkness: Poison Ivy requires substantial amounts of solar energy to live.

Mental Instability: Poison Ivy has been committed to Arkham Asylum on a regular basis. She speaks to her plants, finds extreme rage towards males and at a certain point sought out the destruction of the human race so only she and her plants would live.

Pre-Crisis

Pamela Isley was born in Washington, daughter of a wealthy family. She attended college in Seattle, where she studied botany. Pamela fell in love with Marc Legrand, one of her teachers and they started a relationship. Eventually, Pamela stole some special herbs from a local museum to help Legrand with some experiments, but he betrayed and poisoned her using the same herbs she had stolen for him. Pamela survived the poisoning and as a result, she became invulnerable to all poisons. These events were known by the FBI, but they had Pamela's name wrongly recorded as Lillian Rose.

Turning to crime, Pamela adopted the alias of Poison Ivy and appeared in public for the first time in Gotham City in order to challenge the most renowned criminals for the title of Public Enemy No. 1. She managed to outmatch them, but she was confronted by Batman and Robin. Using her charms, she almost escaped from them, but Batman recovered just in time to capture her and placed her in prison. Later, Ivy attempted to escape prison using Batman as her enforcer, but her plan backfired and she was captured once again.

Eventually, she escaped from prison and joined the Injustice Gang, but they were all defeated by the Justice League. Not long after this, Ivy became a member of the jury on a mock trial run by criminals in Gotham, which was staged in order to determine who had killed Batman. The whole situation was a plan concocted by Batman to capture the Joker, which allowed Ivy and the other criminals to avoid capture.

Some time later, Ivy joined forces with Catwoman and Madame Zodiac in order to confront Batwoman, Batgirl and Huntress. Although successful at first, Ivy and Catwoman were captured and defeated while Zodiac betrayed them and escaped, leaving them behind. When Ivy escaped once again, she planned her revenge against her former lover, Marc Legrand and transformed him into a tree-like creature under her command. Ivy started a new series of crimes, but she was confronted by Wonder Woman, who turned the Legrand creature against Ivy and caused their apparent demise.

Return to Gotham

Ivy had survived her encounter with Wonder Woman and after a short stint with the Injustice Gang, she returned to Gotham City with a grand scheme to steal the assets of Wayne Enterprises from Bruce Wayne. Ivy's plan was almost successful, but despite his hypnotic suggestion, Bruce Wayne resisted Ivy's commands and challenged her as Batman. Ivy's plan came crumbling down when Batman and Robin worked together against her and her trusted assistant revealed the truth to the authorities. Ivy was subsequently arrested and Wayne recovered the assets of his company.

However, Ivy was soon released due to lack of evidence and good behavior and she started working on her next scheme. She allied with a scientist and together, they created plant monsters that could potentially destroy Gotham. Ivy then used some executives from Wayne Enterprises to give the creatures their energy. Her recklessness caused Ivy to be confronted once again by Batman, who foiled her plans with help from the new Robin.

Post-Crisis

Doctor Pamela Lillian Isley grew up in Seattle; daughter to wealthy yet distant parents. In college, she specialized in botany and toxicology and was a very promising, but naive, student. Her professor, Doctor Jason Woodrue, later known as the Floronic Man, seduced her, hoping to persuade her into becoming a human test subject for his experiments. These experiments, according to Isley, were torturous. Twice, she was nearly killed, and ended up in the hospital for six months. Woodrue fled the authorities, while Isley was left with a changed physiology. Toxins in her bloodstream made her touch deadly and immune to all poisons, viruses, bacteria, and fungi. She also gained the ability to produce pheromones that she could use to seduce men into doing her bidding. Unfortunately, the results of these experiments also also left her barren, and she has treated her plants as her children ever since.

Enraged at her betrayal by a man, Isley suffered violent mood swings. She later caused a boyfriend to have a car accident by bringing about a massive fungal-overgrowth in his lungs. Isley then left Seattle, eventually settling down in Gotham City.

Her first act, there, was threatening to release her suffocating spores into the air unless the city met her demands. Thus, she became infamous as Poison Ivy.

Criminal Career

After several encounters with Batman, Ivy was locked in prison for a while, until she was released on parole. Joining forces with a criminal known as "The Grip", Ivy used her pheromones and seduction tactics to steal from wealthy men. Unfortunately, her victims also died and investigations revealed that they had been killed by a disease that was slowly killing Ivy as well, as a result of the weakening of her poison immunity. Batman located Ivy and after a brief confrontation, she understood that her life was in danger and agreed to be hospitalized, where she would be properly treated and eventually recovered.

After a massive breakout from Arkham orchestrated by Bane, Poison Ivy escaped and created an army of "deadfellows", after which she attended a Charity Function at the Gotham Civic Center, where she released some plant spores in the air to mind control all the wealthy men of Gotham and she took them to her hideout, the greenhouse Neo Eden. Batman thwarted Ivy's plans and stopped the eco-terrorist.

Leaving Gotham

A few years after her arrival, she would try to leave Gotham forever, escaping Arkham to settle on a desert island in the Caribbean. She molded the barren wasteland into a tropical paradise and stated that for the first time in her life, she was happy. It was soon firebombed, however, when an American-owned corporation tested their weapons systems out on what they thought was an abandoned island. Ivy then returned to Gotham, punishing those responsible. After being willingly apprehended by Batman, she resolved that she could never leave Gotham, at least not until the world was safe for plants. From then on, she dedicated herself to the mission of purifying Gotham.

Injustice Gang and Harley Quinn

Poison Ivy was a member of the original Injustice Gang of the World, which fought the Justice League on several occasions. She also joined the Secret Society of Super-Villains for a mission against the Justice League. Years later, she was coerced into being a member of the Suicide Squad. During this time she used her abilities to enslave Count Vertigo.

Ivy is also friends with the Joker's sidekick Harley Quinn. Unlike most villain team-ups, their partnership seems to be rooted in genuine friendship, and Ivy really wants to save Harley from her abusive relationship with the Joker.

No Man's Land and Hush

Following the destruction of Gotham in an earthquake, the ruins of the city were declared a No Man's Land. Rather than fight over territory like most of Batman's enemies, Ivy held dominion over Robinson Park, and turned it into a tropical paradise. Sixteen children who were orphaned during the quake came to live with her, as she sympathized with them, having suffered a traumatic childhood herself. She cared for them like sons and daughters, despite her general misanthropy.

That winter, Clayface paid Ivy a visit, hoping to form a bargain with her. This would entail her growing fruits and vegetables, while the orphans harvested them, and then he would sell the produce to the highest bidder. She wanted nothing to do with the plan and attempted to kill him with a kiss. Clayface overpowered her and imprisoned she and the orphans for six months in a chamber under the lake in the park. He fed her salt and kept her from the sun to weaken her. Eventually, Batman came and discovered the prisoners. The two agreed to work together to take Karlo down. Batman battled Clayface and instructed Robin to blow up the lake bed above, allowing the rushing water to break apart the mud, effectively freeing Ivy. She fought Karlo, ensnaring him in the branches of a tree and fatally kissing him. She then proceeded to sink him down into the ground, where he became fertilizer for Ivy's plants. Batman, originally intended to take the orphans away from Ivy, but recognized that staying with her was what was best for them, and they remained in her care until the city was restored

After Gotham City was reincorporated into the United States, the city wanted to evict her from the park and send her back to Arkham Asylum. They also mistakenly believed that the orphans in Ivy's care were unwilling hostages. The Gotham City Police Department threatened to spray the park with a powerful herbicide that most certainly would have killed every living plant in the park, including Ivy, and more than likely do harm to the children as well. Ivy refused to leave the park to the city and let them undo the work she had done, so she chose martyrdom. It was only after Rose, one of the orphans, was accidentally poisoned by Ivy that she surrendered herself to the authorities in order to save Rose's life. Batman then became aware that Ivy was still more human than plant.

Poison Ivy later came to believe that her powers had begun killing the children she looked after, so she asked Batman to help her reverse her condition to make her a normal human being again. Though it was a success, she was convinced soon after by Hush to take a serum that would restore her powers, but she apparently died in the process. When her grave was visited later, however, it was covered with vines and ivy, suggesting that her death would be short-lived.

Ivy was back in Gotham when Riddler set his Hush plan in motion. Promising her money, Riddler used Ivy to mind control Catwoman and Superman. Ivy was captured, though unbeknownst to her this was part of Riddler's plan. When Riddler was finally discovered, he was hunted by all the criminals he manipulated and sought Poison Ivy's protection. However, Ivy wanted to destroy Riddler as much as everyone else and tried to eliminate him. Ivy succeeded on destroying the Riddler by making him realize that he was no longer a criminal force in Gotham and left him in a catatonic state.

One Year Later

One year after the events of the Infinite Crisis, Ivy was alive and active. Her control over flora had increased, apparently on a par with that of the Swamp Thing or the Floronic Man. She also appeared to have resumed her crusade against the corporate enemies of the environment with a new fanaticism, regarding Batman no longer as an opponent, but merely as a "hindrance".

Later, it was discovered that Ivy had been feeding people, including tiresome lovers, incompetent henchmen, and those who returned her smile to a giant plant which would digest the victims slowly and painfully. She referred to it as a guilty pleasure. In an unprecedented event, the souls of her victims merged with the plant, creating a botanical monster called Harvest, which sought revenge upon Ivy. With the intervention of Batman, however, she was saved. Ivy was left in critical condition, and the whereabouts of Harvest were unknown.

Countdown

After recovering, Ivy caught the Trickster and Pied Piper eating fruits in one of her gardens. Her plants then told her that the men had hurt them and she proceeded to ensnare them with intent to kill, if not for the intervention of Deathstroke.

Later, Ivy was contacted by Catwoman, who wanted to get revenge over Hush. Ivy was in charge of locating every single hideout Hush had used and she stole all the money stashed in those places.

Final Crisis

Poison Ivy was recruited by Libra for his Secret Society of Super Villains, and later fell under the control of the Anti-Life Equation. This resulted in a direct confrontation with the Spectre, the Question and Radiant.

Battle for the Cowl

After the Black Glove's failed plan to destroy Batman, all the inmates from Arkham Asylum were transferred to Blackgate Penitentiary until Arkham was completely decontaminated. On their way back to Arkham, the vehicles that transported the inmates were assaulted by a new Black Mask, who freed the inmates, blew the asylum in front of all of them and forced them to join his army. Ivy was among the inmates who joined Black Mask's group and under his instructions, she teamed up with Killer Croc, located the Batmobile and attacked Damian Wayne, who was saved by the timely arrival of Nightwing.

Following Black Mask's plan, Ivy and Croc joined Firefly to burn and destroy Penguin's warehouses. However, tired of being manipulated by Black Mask, Ivy released a series of chemicals that nullified the chemical implant Black Mask was using to control them and Ivy freed herself from his grasp. She went to Catwoman's place, looking for Selina, but instead she found Harley Quinn and Riddler, who explained that they were also looking for Catwoman. Putting their differences aside, they teamed up and found Selina, unconscious on the streets.

Gotham City Sirens

Some time later, after rescuing Catwoman from Boneblaster, a new villain trying to make a name for himself, Poison Ivy took her back to Edward Nigma's townhouse. When there, Catwoman saw that Ivy had been keeping the Riddler under mind control so that she and Harley Quinn could use his townhouse as a hideout. Catwoman decided that with Gotham City more dangerous than ever, thanks to all the gang wars and a new Batman, a partnership with the other two women would be advantageous. However, Ivy feared that Catwoman had lost her edge and prowess, and consulted with Zatanna regarding the nature of Catwoman's injuries. Zatanna responded that Catwoman had psychological wounds that would need healing, more so than physical ones. Ivy resolved that she and Harley would provide Catwoman with "positive female reinforcement", and the three agreed to become a team.

Ivy joined Selina on a mission at the Club V, where Selina was tasked to follow Vicki Vale. However, when Harley crashed the place in order to retrieve her stolen pet hyenas, Ivy was forced to help her fight against the various criminals in the building.

After many adventures together, Harley Quinn betrayed her companions and broke into Arkham Asylum with the goal of killing the Joker. However, she ultimately chose to release Joker from his cell instead, and together the two orchestrated a violent takeover of the facility. Poison Ivy arrived and tried to convince Harley that the Joker was evil, but Harley Quinn refused to believe her. After they were defeated by Catwoman and Batman, Catwoman told Ivy that they would no longer be a team, angry at Ivy's earlier attempt to drug her in order to discover Batman's identity. Poison Ivy was then incarcerated in Arkham Asylum.

Ivy soon escaped and made amends with Harley Quinn. Together, the two set off to find Catwoman and make her pay for her betrayal. The two of them found Catwoman and fought her on the streets, where Catwoman confessed that she saw good in the both of them, and only wanted to help them. When she told them that she had only kept tabs on them because Batman wanted to keep them under control, Ivy took her anger out on the city by using giant vines to destroy buildings, cursing at Batman for manipulating her. Batman was about to arrest them, but Catwoman helped the two of them escape.

Fun Facts

Poison Ivy was Supergirl's first kiss.

#poison ivy #pamela lillian isley #pamela isley #lillian rose #doctor paul irving #injustice gang #Suicide Squad #injustice league unlimited #Harley Quinn #Secret Society of Super Villians #secret society of super-villians #secret society of supervillians #Joker League of Anarchy #the society #dc #DC comics #thedcdunce

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seether23 · 5 years

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#joker #injustice league #Joker League of Anarchy #legion of doom #clown prince of crime #DC comics #DC Universe #dc villians

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girlsofcomics · 5 years

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Scorch

-Real name: Aubrey Sparks

-A.k.a.: Aubrey

-Publisher: DC Comics

-Type: Human (granted demoniac powers)

-Afilliations: Secret Society of Super Villains, The Joker League of Anarchy

-Powers: Fire control, heat generation, teleport.

#character #scorch #aubrey sparks #aubrey #DC comics #DC.#dc girls #human #demoniac powers #secret society of super villains #the joker league on anarchy #fire control #heat generation #teleport

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batmanarkhamanarchy · 7 years

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About Justice League Action’s “E. Nygma, Consulting Detective”... (Spoilers)

BEST. EPISODE. EVER!

The Riddler is back and in top form! He’s egotistical, actually intelligent unlike his “War of Jokes and Riddles” counterpart, and he literally can’t go without solving a riddle; which coincidentally Joker uses to his advantage to try and kill old Batsy.

Riddler is a detective in this too! Of his own vocation! No memory loss needed! This episode was everything that “War of Jokes and Riddles” SHOULD have been. Brent Spiner did a wonderful job!

You see, DC, this is why people love your animated stuff and hold them in such high regard (look at BTAS for cryin’ out loud) and part of why people have such a problem with Teen Titans Go. Your characterization is usually better in your animated stuff and the good stuff is more prominent whereas the comics nowadays whatever’s good is there seems to get lost in a sea of poor writing decisions.

Great job to everyone involved! And seriously, if you love Riddler, watch this episode!

#tessa liveblogs #tessa talks #Justice League Action #riddler #joker #non arkham anarchy

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redjaybathood · 3 years

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Jason traps Bruce with his scheme to make Batman kill the Joker. Bruce refuses and throws the Batarang. He cuts his throat. The building blows up. Bruce goes for the Joker who is tied and jumps out of the window. He planned and executed that explosion. He has the best chances to get out alive, even injured.

The next day, the body is found in the rabble. Bruce is not particularly interested. Joker is back in prison, somebody threw a bomb on Bludhaven and he cannot contact Dick, this is his priority. If Red Hood wants to fake his death with another body double, and lay low until the next time (and it’s always the next time with criminals and psychopaths), Bruce allows him to do so because he has other things to worry about. He will get him next time.

When he comes around to it, he wants to check the body, find out if possible who died so Jason could get away. If they had a family - which Bruce doubts, as most likely, it was another assassin from the League - Bruce will help to get them closure.

Only he cannot find the body. It was autopsied and cremated under the name of John Doe. The ashes were released to a woman named Talia Head. Bruce must admit that Red Hood was very thorough in faking his death, but it doesn’t matter. He will come back.

Only he doesn’t. Years go by, Bruce himself has a near-death experience that also doubles as a time travel experience. He gets back, thanks to Robin. Tim. Dick was holding the fort back in Gotham as Batman, and it had taken a heavy toll on him. Not the least because he didn’t have a partner for half of his tenure, as Tim left the city to save Bruce.

Years go by. Tim stops being Robin before he is twenty. Says he has to reinvent himself, and Robin will be forever a child in the eyes of the public, it’s undignified. He uses Red Robin, then Drake, then he is Robin again, sheepishly. Says that instead of reinventing who he is he will prefer to redefine what being Robin meant. There’s no one better than him for it. There’s no one who wants to contend.

Years go by. Bruce still holds resentment over Talia’s involvement with Red Hood, certain that it was her throwing his son in Lazarus Pit that drove him mad, as well as her twisting the truth to play them both off each other. To what end? He doesn’t know. He never met her again. Any League involvement he had in Gotham was tied to her father before petering out completely.

He tried to keep tabs on her activities, both to thwart her future plans and on the lookout for Red Hood. He still didn’t come back, and it made Bruce paranoid, looking for the traces of him in all new vigilantes and villains that fit the age and description. Anarchy, Clownkiller. But there was nothing.

For all his best attempts, he never managed to see or hear anything suspicious from Talia’s side. She hid too good, being in the public eye, having taken over Lexcorp and guiding it to the best practices, a better future through actions and technology. She reduced the impact the corporation had on the environment and, in cooperation with pocket politicians of President Luthor, made real progress on stopping global warming. In interviews, she was very outspoken about her reasons.

“I am very selfish. I know that you expect a different reason for doing what I do. It seems like a charity. It isn’t true. Lexcorp is making money using green technology because it is profitable, and it will be only more profitable as the world develops, and we will be always ahead of that development as we started earlier. We are lobbying for the raise of minimum wage and we’re strict about our hiring practices and work environment and implementing four days work week because numerous studies, as well as our practice of three years, showed that it will make employees more productive - and it will make Lexcorp more money. The tax debt we owed was paid to the state in full because we know that under President Luthor’s governance the money won’t be funneled away to line some politician’s pocket. It will be used for the betterment of society. And, in the end, the better lives people lead, the more they can consume, and, yes, it means we get more profit. But that is not all.

I am a mother. I always wished for my sons, my son to live a better life than I had. To live in a better environment, in a kinder world. I want to keep him safe and happy, that’s a wish of a selfish mother in me.”

That bit interested Bruce. Did she develop some kind of parental relationship with Jason, was that what made him succumb to her ways instead of his training? He tried to find the information about her son. Maybe that’s where Jason was, doing her dirty work from the shadows of Metropolis.

The results astounded Bruce. The son she was talking about was a teenager. For all intents and purposes, a normal kid going to a public school in Metropolis. The same one Clark’s Jon did. Clark, when he called him about that, told that Jon knew the kid, though they weren’t friends or anything. Not for the lack of Jon trying. Damian, that’s what his name was, was pretty interesting and, Clark smiled wryly when he retold this bit, just plain pretty. A bit older than Jon, tall, dark, with mysterious air around him and perfectly styled hair. He excelled in art and Biology, had a lot of pets. All of this made a pretty good first crush material, in Clark’s son's opinion. But while Jon had tried, unsuccessfully, many times, to ask him out, the kid refused, citing political differences and a bit of feud between their parents. Clark said it made him feel like Luthor was the kid’s father. Though Damian might have as well-referred to Lois and Clark still trying to catch Lexcorp on their lies.

But Bruce checked the date of birth on file. Talia rarely if ever left the League at the time, as he very well knew, and most often it was to visit Bruce. It was when they were together, after a fashion. She did get pregnant then, with Bruce’s, but lost a baby… Of course, that might have been another lie.

Bruce decided to confront her. But her bodyguards, Lady Shiva, if you might believe it, and Shado, and Cheshire, never gave Batman a chance.

He asked to meet as Bruce Wayne, on behalf of Wayne Enterprises. The response was, they would rather talk to Luke Fox, who replaced his father at the time.

He made a very generous and, frankly unnecessary, based on how new everything looked, to the public school Damian went to. He asked for a chance to meet the students, at least representatives of the student council, of which Talia’s, and perhaps, his, son was a part of. He met them, but Damian Head had not given a hint of recognition. But he also hadn’t given a chance for Bruce to collect a DNA sample from a cup of soda he drank in the meeting. It was that absence of proof that made him almost sure.

And yet, years went by, and he couldn’t contact his estranged son (?) at all. Any of them. Because Red Hood never showed up.

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On The Dark Knight Rises...

Doug Walker did his Nostalgia Critic review on TDKR, and as I’d expected, he reinforced how the admittedly lacking execution of one particular aspect of the film still colors a misconception he still has.

I refer to his incessant whinging about how Bane being connected to Ras Al Ghul and the League of Shadows from Batman Begins somehow renders the events of The Dark Knight a “detour” or “filler”, derailing the concept of narrative escalation across the trilogy by virtue of “repeating” and “taking a step backwards”, and supposedly it could’ve only worked as a proper trilogy if it continued to expand on the Joker or Harvey Dent-based plot threads or was just three main villains completey unrelated to each other a la the Raimi Spider-Man Trilogy. The heavy reliance on what was established in Batman Begins compared to what got done in The Dark Knight is what most breaks his immersion, not unlike those who the same is true of regarding The Rise of Skywalker being seemingly more favorable towards following The Force Awakens’ lead than The Last Jedi’s.

Except there are two big problems with this outlook:

1. The League of Shadows was not the only evil group present and active in the plot of Batman Begins. The mob in Gotham City was a thing too, having a direct influence on the bulk of the city’s crime and corruption, and in fact, by virtue of Joe Chill being connected to the Falcone Gang and Bruce chronologically meeting Carmine Falcone prior to meeting Ras, the mob was just as much the “first villains” in the story as the League of Shadows. That film ended on the note of Gotham’s worst criminals at large in the streets, Falcone’s forced permanent retirement leaving a power vaccum in the mob looking to be filled by other crime bosses, and the mob having let the Joker within their ranks as a way of counteracting Batman. The Dark Knight thus follows up on where its predecessor left off, and ultimately the mob is dealt with in such a way that they’re not really a big factor in the final installment. The Joker pretty much supplanting them led to consequences that would fully manifest in said final installment.

2. The Joker was not the only major villain in The Dark Knight. There was also Harvey Two-Face, his great masterstroke that the falling action and final resolution of the film’s story centered around. Dent’s descent into madness and villainy getting covered up with a lie about Dent dying a heroic last stand at the hands of Batman, leading to Batman being a scapegoat and fugitive of the law who could only fight crime from the shadows, and the Dent Act being passed, is what put everything into place for the events of The Dark Knight Rises to happen, including the comeback of the League of Shadows. Bane’s entire argument against Gotham is based around the idea that its once open corruption, criminality, and ugliness is now no longer so visible only because it is being concealed from the public, hidden below the surface of a Big Lie used to establish peace and order under false pretenses. Added to that, he and Talia had to have paid close attention to what the Joker did to very nearly bring the city to its knees and plunge it into chaos, so in a sense they were fulfilling his vision (turning Gotham into a mad city of wild, chaotic, self-serving anarchy and lawless disorder that tears itself apart) before also fulfilling Ras’ (totally destroy Gotham to “cleanse” it of all its vices.)

When looking at the narrative of all three films as a whole, there was a cycle of escalation involving mutliple villains and two different evil entities plaguing Gotham City (the mob and the League of Shadows) where in the end, there was no avoiding the end of Batman’s career all coming down to what he’d fought against at the start of it - the League of Shadows attempting to destroy Gotham - and Bruce having to lay down everything he had in order to save it, all while forging a legacy and a symbol of justice in the once rotten city that could live on to fight and inspire long after he’s thrown in the cowl.

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listen theres just so much stupid shit in the dark knight rises i dont even know where to begin like the pit prison thing? whats the fucking deal with that? why is it there where is it why are people thrown into it how the fuck did a child make it out of there how the fuck was a child the ONLY one to make it out of there and how does not using rope for safety help?? why was robin a cop why was he just doing his whole thing the whole time not even doing shit with/learning from batman like thats not even robin at that point thats just some 'good cop'. literally anne hathaways catwoman was the only character i felt anything positive for and she was barely fucking in it which is a fucking tragedy. theres one scene with alfred where he tells bruce how much he wishes he'd found a better life outside of gotham and ngl that shit hurted but like it just feels like nothing now that ive seen the ending after slogging through All That like i dont care i dont fucking care about any of it im not emotionally invested i wish this movie never happened. what the FUCK was bane even on about what was the point what was the point!!! hes like communism anarchism evil here let me give these people their city then fucking blow it up 5 months later and why? fuckign why? what was his DEAL hes like ouhgohu i was born in hell world is a fuck league of shadows gotham bad im gonna blow it up but thats totally liberation or something. idk anarchy equals terrorism i guess. also yeah cops are so good and cool you guys they arent corrupt at all even tho the last two movies fucking hammered in how corrupt the city is but uhm no its not. yes it is. its not tho. oh and bane isnt the guy its actually brunette woman number 3 or 4 i lost count shes actually the big bad or something i dont fucking know. ninja liam neeson is a ghost? why was the scarecrow here what does he even have to do with bane why does he have a big fuckoff throne. listen batman begins was like a 3/10 it was boring as fuck but whatever. the dark knight was like a 6/10 because joker funny memes sometimes. this is like a 1/10 and makes the other movies feel worse im so glad im done with them im so fucking glad. how the fuck are any of these considered better than the batman why the fuck do critics and audiences love them am i just stupid? am i missing the point? could someone please explain the fucking point. this just feels like bad propaganda. how much of the budget was from the military or whatever

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Another Day, Another Prompt

Ok, Gotham of the future has Arkham being a prison/asylum out in space with the hope that, being so heavily guarded, even if you breakout, there’s no place for you to run or escape. Bruce, despite being who he is, signs up to be a temporary guard there for six months to a year, because it will look good on his transcripts to become a Galactic Guardian (Space Cops/non-powered Justice League kind of thing).

Bruce quickly becomes one of the favourite guards as, unlike others like Dougherty and occasionally Alvarez (still mad at him over the Professor Pyg affair in the Narrows) who treat the inmates like trash, he treats them like human beings. So Warden Strange upgrades him to the ‘Red Level’ inmates, which includes inmates such as The Penguin, The Riddler, Victor Zsasz, Barbara Kean, her partner Tabitha Galavan, the infamous cat burglar, Catwoman, and others. Again, Bruce becomes a favourite as he treats them like people and gives them none threatening things. Mostly magazines, puzzle books, and such, but they appreciate anything to alleviate their boredom. When Strange sees this, he decides Bruce is ready for the ultimate test.

The Legion of Horribles, a group so out of control, none of the guards will even go feed them unless they’ve been hit with knockout gas first. But, Bruce is a determined little shit, so he meets Firefly, Poison Ivy, The Scarecrow, The Mad Hatter, Harlequin, Mr. Freeze, and the ringleader twins; Anarchy (Jerome) and Joker (Jeremiah). Now, this group expect Bruce to be like the others, but he’s not; he uses his, admittedly subpar, sewing skills so Bridgit can have some pretty, light clothes to wear as opposed to the dull grey suit she always wears. He fixes Victor’s area so it doesn’t get too hot, he gives Ivy some decent plant food for her babies, manages to get Jervis some decent tea, has deep philosophical debates on the merits/hindrances of fear, gets Ecco... whatever it is she needs to keep her mind occupied, and he’s just generally interesting to the twins.

What Bruce doesn’t know, is that they have access to his room via the air-ducts and, because they’re all interested, Jonathan creates a powerful aphrodisiac gas, and they are all able to watch him masturbate in increasingly interesting ways thanks to Strange, as he wants to see where such an attraction could lead. This goes on for almost a year, and soon Bruce will be heading off to the academy, which he can’t help but inform the other guards about, but those like Dougherty don’t want him to leave as he’s the only one who can control the Horribles.

Barbara and Tabitha overhear Dougherty planning to *give* Bruce to the Horribles to make sure they behave, and have Selina sneak through the vents to the Horribles level to warn them. What do they do in retaliation?

Massive jailbreak, they take over the ship as opposed to trying to flee, gives one of the only other good guards, Jim Gordon, to the Red Level inmates who are very happy about this, and another good guard, Alfred Pennyworth to the devious doctor who was always on their side, Dr. Leslie Thompkins, and take Bruce for themselves. What follows? Kinky sex all around.

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The Dark Knight Trilogy: Horrifying Scenes That Still Make Us Cringe

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Later this month, Zack Snyder’s Justice League is hitting HBO Max. Despite the anticipation and a near-guaranteed positive reception from the vocal #ReleaseTheSnyderCut fan contingent, this will likely be Snyder’s last foray in the DC Universe. Indeed, one of the studio’s chief complaints with Snyder’s vision, which they believe impacted box office receipts, was his darker tone when compared with the quippier MCU. However, Snyder’s approach only mirrored many of DC’s most popular storylines, from Frank Miller’s violent The Dark Knight Returns to the on-screen The Dark Knight Trilogy from director Christopher Nolan. Snyder can hardly be blamed for expanding on what audiences were already responding to when it came to DC characters on film.

Less than a decade ago, Warner Brothers was hot off of the success of Nolan’s trio of films that no one would describe as light-hearted or quippy. The Batman of Nolan’s films was not inspired by the kid-friendly or campy iterations of the character found in the Batman TV series from the ‘60s or Joel Schumacher’s films, but by Miller and David Mazzucchelli’s Batman: Year One, and Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale’s Batman: The Long Halloween. That is to say Nolan and Christian Bale’s Batman sought to be a street-level, gritty, interpretation of the character that emphasized noir and a grounded reality.

Snyder didn’t make Batman too dark for film audiences, that was already done by Nolan. Below are just a few examples of the darkest, most horrific moments from The Dark Knight Trilogy.

“Swear to me!” – Batman Begins

Audiences knew they were in for a different type of Batman from the moment they heard Bale’s gravelly voice while he was in the suit. Whether Bale goes too far with his growly tenor and into comedic territory is up for debate, but the choice is certainly memorable.

Bale really gets to rough up his vocal cords during a specific scene in Batman Begins where the Dark Knight confronts crooked cop Arnold Flass about Dr. Jonathan Crane’s mysterious drug shipments. After failing to strike fear in Flass, Batman hangs the portly man upside down from a building. When Flass swears to God that he doesn’t know anything, Batman replies, “Swear to me!” his face tremoring with rage. This is the opposite of one of George Clooney’s one-liners during his time under the cowl. Bale’s Batman establishes himself as something to be scared of and as an all-seeing force to be reckoned with.

The Demon Bat – Batman Begins

While horror has seeped its way into Batman comics many times, particularly during Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo’s recent run with the character, there hasn’t been a ton of nightmarish imagery present in the film adaptations of the character. However, the hands down scariest portrayal of the Caped Crusader on screen comes in Batman Begins. When Bruce Wayne said he wanted to strike fear in the hearts of criminals, this must have been what he was talking about.

In the climax of the film, when Cillian Murphy’s Scarecrow attempts to poison Gotham City’s water supply with his fear toxin, the good doctor is confronted by Batman and given a taste of his own medicine. The fear toxin takes effect and Crane begins to see Batman as a demonic, literal interpretation of the Batman, with black goo dripping from his mouth and jet-black eyes. This monster version of the Bat was certainly a step in the right direction for comic fans hoping the Batman films would get the terror element of the character right.

Bruce Attempts to Kill Joe Chill – Batman Begins

This scene from the first film in Nolan’s trilogy is the darkest because of how real it feels for the main characters. The moment happens not when Bruce Wayne is masquerading as a vigilante dressed as a bat, but when he’s a young man still trying to come to grips with the murder of his parents. Bruce learns that Joe Chill has been paroled so that he can testify against Gotham crime boss Carmine Falcone. Bruce waits outside of the courtroom with a gun, intending to kill Chill after his testimony. But when Chill arrives at the public lobby, one of Falcone’s goons beats Bruce to the punch, shooting Chill dead.

Bruce’s childhood friend Rachel Dawes discovers Bruce’s intentions and slaps him across the face. She berates Bruce and tells him that his father would be ashamed of him, something that undoubtedly must be hard to hear for the angry, grieving young Bruce. This moment serves as a sort of rock bottom for the character before he decides to leave Gotham behind and travel the globe, immersing himself in the criminal underworld, a journey that would inevitably lead to him becoming… the Batman.

Joker’s Pencil Trick – The Dark Knight

No one needs to spill more ink about how brilliant Heath Ledger’s portrayal of the Clown Prince of Crime, the Joker, was in The Dark Knight. It’s an iconic performance that has forever shaded the public’s perception of Batman’s greatest nemesis. He’s simultaneously funny and scary, brutal and sniveling, chaotic and cunning. He can make you smile then suddenly want to shield your eyes.

It’s all right there from his first real introduction in the film when he struts into a meeting between Gotham’s crime lords and offers his services in killing the Batman. Nailing the core components of the character, his penchant for showmanship, his violent tendencies, and his twisted sense of humor, the Joker pulls off a “magic trick” by slamming a gangster’s head through a pencil that was stuck upright on a desk. Not exactly the kind of party trick that you’ll see Ant-Man performing in the MCU!

The Death of Rachel Dawes – The Dark Knight

While the Joker hatches many unsettling schemes in The Dark Knight, like televising himself murdering Batman imposters, threatening to blow up hospitals, and the game theory ferry experiment, his most despicable crime is also his most personal one. After being taken into custody, the Joker reveals that he has set up a no-win trap for Batman, forcing him to choose between Rachel, his love, and Gotham’s White Knight, district attorney Harvey Dent. The Joker has them tied up in different locations, rigged to explode on the same timer, and Batman only has time to save one of them. Joker gives the hero their addresses, but in a cruel twist, switches who is where. Bruce believes that he’s saving Rachel but saves Harvey instead. Meanwhile, the GCPD tried to rescue Harvey, but arrives just in time to watch the building holding Rachel burst into flames.

While Rachel may have been an underserved character, only really used as a victim and love interest until her ultimate fridging, her death was still a shock and a dark turn that other superhero movies, barring the otherwise forgettable The Amazing Spider-Man 2, have always refused to make. Rachel served somewhat as Bruce’s moral compass, and her death left the vigilante adrift and prone to his darkest impulses.

The Transformation of Harvey Dent – The Dark Knight

The flipside to the above is that Batman’s last-minute rescue of Harvey Dent leaves him scarred, traumatized, angry, and fundamentally changed. It’s not just that Harvey loses half of his face and becomes a grotesque victim; it’s that the minute Rachel dies, all of his idealism and motivation to be a force for good and change dies with her. With one act, the Joker takes away the hero that Gotham really needs to end corruption and injustice.

It’s not just that Dent falls; he falls hard. He murders police officers (corrupt though they may be), kidnaps children, and introduces as much anarchy into Gotham as the Joker. Ultimately, he’s stopped by Batman, but his death and fall from grace is a demoralizing moment, and the decision to lie and prop up Dent as the hero he was rather than the monster he became is a necessary but deeply troubling withholding of the truth. Don’t let the triumphant score and imagery at the end of The Dark Knight fool you; this is a supremely downbeat ending.

Bane Breaks the Bat’s Back – The Dark Knight Rises

Batman is a badass who is rarely bested on screen. Even in Zack Snyder’s interpretation of the character, he’s able to subdue a figurative god in Superman. However, in Nolan’s third and final Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises, Batman finally meets his match, and it’s not pretty. After being lured into the sewers by Selina Kyle, Batman walks right into a trap and fight with Bane, the jacked terrorist who was excommunicated from the League of Shadows, and is every bit as badass as Batman. After eight years sitting on the shelf and a career of crime fighting that has left him battered, Batman is absolutely demolished by Bane, who pummels Bruce before finally picking the hero up over his head and snapping his back over his knee. Heroes occasionally lose on screen, but not like this.

Alfred’s Arc – The Dark Knight Rises

Alfred Pennyworth is a crucial character in the Batman mythos, and he’s typically portrayed as a compliant, if slightly disapproving, enabler. However, that’s not so in The Dark Knight Rises. Portrayed by Michael Caine, Alfred breaks hearts by revealing to Bruce that Rachel intended on marrying Harvey Dent and sternly telling his surrogate son that his war with Bane will eventually lead to his death and that he “won’t bury” another member of the Wayne family.

It’s one of the most emotional moments of the film. Alfred basically abandons Bruce, a decision that heightens Bruce’s isolation and hero’s journey. Alfred only returns toward the end of the film for Bruce’s funeral where he tearfully confesses to the late Waynes’ gravestones that he “failed” them. While Alfred’s story ends on a hopeful note, with him spotting Bruce alive and well in Italy, it’s still quite the breakup between Master Bruce and his most loyal advisor.

The Story of Talia al Ghul and Bane – The Dark Knight Rises

While the best villains typically have sympathetic backstories, few have as a traumatic and scarring one as The Dark Knight Rises’ villains, Talia al Ghul and Bane. Toward the end of the film, it’s revealed that Talia grew up in the same place that Bruce found himself in after Bane broke his back. Born in a primitive prison known as the Pit, Talia watched as her mother was assaulted and killed by the other prisoners. The pair were placed in the Pit in exchange for Ra’s al Ghul, with Talia’s mother agreeing to take his place in exchange for his freedom. Talia only survived through the protection of Bane, who eventually helps Talia escape the prison, but he’s badly beaten and disfigured in the process.

Following Talia’s escape, she locates her father and he returned with the League of Shadows to exact revenge on the prisoners that killed his wife and the men who put her there. Afterward, Ra’s and the League saw to the treatment of Bane, but were unable to stop the continual pain he experienced. Eventually, Bane is recruited into the League, wherein he is given a mask which supplies him with analgesic gas to curb the constant pain from the injuries he sustained while protecting Talia. If you thought Bruce had a traumatizing backstory, you must have merely adopted the dark.

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My Hero Academia Chapter 218 Review

Start of a new arc! Lets get the board set up for the new game we’re about to start. So lets dive in.

We open on... December apparently. And it looks like its time to enjoy the snow. Just give’em a week of it and you’ll all be sick of it. Also, Tsuyu can go into hibernation apparently.

Bakugou and Todoroki are at their license exam today.

After some admittedly good banter with Kaminari, we get a TV commercial about Detnerat... What with everyone’s watching choices bringing up potential arcs?

First with Youtube and Gentle, now just random TV commercials? Got plot convenience playhouse.

So we a commercial which has a sales pitch given to us by... What I can only presume is a fever-dream version of the Joker from Batman the animated series. He talks about going into hero industry as manufacturing personalized support sets. With the motto he’s spouting, “Everyone is Different.”

He does oddly bring up that people with powers were the minorities once. And we cut to inside of this guy hosting the commercial’s office. Apparently, he’s the president.

He’s talking with assistant, who might be Nezu’s long lost brother, about the fact that their entry into the hero world is a little less than well received. But the president says that they’ve done well with superpowered individuals for a while now. So they should be getting some support soon.

The assistant, Miyashita, finds it odd that his boss called quirks superpowers. Which now that I think about it, that makes sense. Everyone calls their powers quirks, so perhaps calling them superpowers is archaic. Maybe even seen laughable given that we have scientific data on about quirks and what causes them.

The reason for this change in vocabulary is due to a book that we saw being published when Endeavor and Hawks. Written by Destro a villain we first saw mentioned by Gentle. Wow, this has been built up for a while.

Miyashita read the book, but finds Destro’s manifesto of liberation to just be a bunch of hot air used to justify their terrorism. Saying makes his boss a bit... Unnerved. (This obviously showing a contrast to early where Miyashita said the boss would forgive any little comment)

Seeming to grow a sttrange darkness from his face, the president snaps Miyashita’s neck. Crying afterwards in some show of remorse.

We cut to later that evening with the president narrating about how early years when the government was trying to make laws to help coexist with people with superpowers, the ideology of liberation began.

The idea that superpowered individuals had the right to use their powers however they wanted. All of it being lead by a man named Destro who made a quirk liberation army. While he was defeated and his accomplices arrested, Destro finished his writing and took his life.

However, he apparently had children that not even he knew about. From the way the panel is laid out, it implies all of these guys are his children. Damn, Destro got around. (Also we see all of them make a L solute on their foreheads. Good ol Horikoshi and his use of subtle artistic hints that don’t need to be spelled out)

It actually seems like the Superpower Liberation army wants to go to war with the League of Villains. Now they’ll be interesting as we’ll see, this guy and Shigaraki could be said that they’re fighting for the same goal.

He’s asked about why he’s developing support items and the President responds that he there are people who all speak Liberation, they just don’t know it yet and we cut to a villain in a high tech mask stealing wallets with water.

But then

Bakugou and Todoroki with their licenses arrive to do fight this guy.

Post Chapter Follow Up: Well I’m intrigued. Now I’m not as excited as I was when we started the 1-A vs 1-B arc, but this is still interesting. Mainly because I wanna see what makes the Liberation army different from Shigaraki.

When it came to Overhaul, he was business man who wanted to use the the League as he controlled society, not toppled it. But both the League and Liberation army seem to advocates of anarchy. Freedom to live their lives how they want.

But what immediately makes them different is the small fact that the Liberation army wants to fight the League and not work with them. So Im curious.

As for the UA kids its fun to see them act like normal kids and while the moment of Todoroki and Bakugou coming in is cool. I don’t really care. It was so obvious that they were going to pass that I just was like, “yeah that, okay.” Not dissing their development, but I’m just saying it was predictable.

Anyway, its a good breather chapter and has made some interesting suspense.

Final Verdict: 7/10

Good pacing

Good addition to world’s lore

Intriguing premise

Ultimately just a buffer though

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