Dunno how to put it properly into words but lately I find myself thinking more about that particular innocence of fairy tales, for lack of better word. Where a traveller in the middle of a field comes across an old woman with a scythe who is very clearly Death, but he treats her as any other auntie from the village. Or meeting a strange green-skinned man by the lake and sharing your loaf of bread with him when he asks because even though he's clearly not human, your mother's last words before you left home were to be kind to everyone. Where the old man in the forest rewards you for your help with nothing but a dove feather, and when you accept even such a seemingly useless reward with gratitude, on your way home you learn that it's turned to solid gold. Where supernatural beings never harm a person directly and every action against humans is a test of character, and every supernatural punishment is the result of a person bringing on their own demise through their own actions they could have avoided had they changed their ways. Where the hero wins for no other reason than that they were a good person. I don't have the braincells to describe this better right now but I wish modern fairy tales did this more instead of trying to be fantasy action movies.
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How the Wayne family handles injuries sometimes
Bruce: My arm feels weird.
Clark: It's broken!
Bruce: Oh is it?
Clark, using x ray vision: I can see the bone snapped in half.
Bruce: Oh, that's why I winced earlier.
Clark: What the hell?
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Nightwing: Okay, I can fall down now.
Nightwing falls to the ground.
Wally: Oh my god!
Nightwing, unphased: I'm fine, they didn't break my hip too bad... I just can't stand for an hour or two. Can you carry me?!
Wally: Okay this was in a dream I had.
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Damien: Hello Jon.
Jon: Hey pal- You hand is bleeding.
Damien: I got stabbed in the hand. I must've done the stitching wrong.
Jon: You sewed your wound?
Damien: Yes, probably missed a stitch.
Jon: ... Awesome!
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Tim: Hey, question is the wall over there purple or blue?
Bernard: That wall is white.
Tim: I'm going color blind again, be right back.
Bernard: I should look into that, but... he fixed it last time.
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Roy: There's an arrow in your arm!
Jason: Ah shit, yeah it is.
Jason yanks it out with ease.
Jason: You can keep this.
Roy: How strong is your pain tolerance?
Jason: I died once so... super strong. I am numb to the pain... sometimes it feels good.
Roy: Why have I heard... all of you say that?
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