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theflashjaygarrick · 8 hours ago

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Agreeing with all of this. Tbh the joke was more about how the characters are treated on a meta level then in-universe. So many articles about and summaries of booster gold’s character talk about his non-heroic or morally dubious origin and I was imagining what it would be like if the doctor got the same treatment.

In universe from a legal perspective both were treated a similar way. Death penalty for stealing the ship that gets mitigated to another punishment (exile vs imprisonment) because of their good deeds. Though yeah @gluecookie it always seemed funny to me they let him keep his broken TARDIS after all they did to punish him for having it in the first place.

When Doctor Who steals a time machine that belongs in a museum he's a 'beloved hero' and a 'role model for children' but when I, Booster Gold...

#Hope this makes sense #i saw some weird takes about booster’s origin story and that is what really inspired this #Also I find the similarities between the two funny #also the doctor is more anti capitalist in his plans for running away but also was a gallifreyan noble #while booster is very capitalistic in his plans but grew up in poverty and ruined his future trying to pay for his dying mums healthcare #theres interesting discourse to be had there imo #also about how cape comics are inherently carceral in a way that doctor who isn’t

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