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key elements of Superman that the new movie absolutely nails:

Clark Kent, aka Superman, is a good person. He is kind, compassionate, honest whenever he can be, humble, and dedicated above all else to helping people and saving lives.

The reason he is like this has NOTHING to do with his alien heritage - in fact, it's despite that heritage. It's because he was raised by a loving couple in rural Kansas who couldn't be more proud of the hero he's grown up to be.

Lex Luthor, despite or rather because he's as genius and powerful as an "ordinary" human can be, is SO jealously, psychosexually, obsessed with Superman. Absolute kudos to Nicholas Hoult for every moment onscreen.

Lois Lane is a brilliant reporter, and the less emotionally intelligent person in this relationship. She will question Superman relentlessly and call him on his assumed authority even while loving him, and she will go to objectively insane, very nearly deadly lengths for a story & also to save him. At the end of the day, Superman saves the world, with a little help from friends, but Lois Lane - assisted by Jimmy Olsen & other Daily Planet staff! - saves Superman.

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he's so pathetic

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Hope

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Nightwing after a long art break

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Red Hood in Position

Based on this post

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"Bruce is allowed to have boundaries/not want to kill/Bruce shouldn't kill the Joker" -> yep fully agree no issue here

"it's so unreasonable of Jason to demand that of Bruce!" -> aaaaand you lost me.

The chronology of the last issues of Starlin's jaybin are absolutely crucial -a lot of people jump to UTH and assume they have the info on Jason's viewpoint but that's actually jumping in the middle of the story, it's missing so much context.

It goes like this:

-Jason, voluntarily or accidentally, directly or indirectly, causes the death of Felipe Garzonas. Nobody gonna weep.

-Actually, José Garzonas, Felipe's father, does have his grievances, and sets up a trap to kill Batman and Robin. After a fight scene of transcendental absurdity, Bruce climbs on an unstable pile of cars and when José shoots at him, the cars fall and kill José. Somehow this is Jason's fault. Bruce explains to Jason that it's the natural reaction of a father to his son's death to try to avenge him.

-Jason's relationship with Bruce is conflicted. He finds out that his birth mother isn't who he thought and leaves the country to look for her.

-Bruce hears about Jason leaving but goes to Africa for separate reasons and coincidentally finds Jason and helps him find his mom. Jason is hurt by the disappointment that Bruce isn't actually here for him.

-Jason immediately latches onto Sheila, not even bitter about having been abandoned, instead expressing immediate empathy, trust and affection towards her.

-Sheila betrays Jason, chooses the Joker over him after a stand off with guns in a warehouse and then they explode and both die.

-Jason comes back to life and finds out his father didn't kill/doesn't seem to attempt to kill Jason's murderer.

-> Jason sets up a confrontation between him and Bruce in a warehouse with a stand-off with guns and explosives rigged in the building.

So it's like, yeah, Bruce shouldn't be expected to kill the Joker. But it wasn't Jason who set that expectation: it was himself. And from Jason's perspective, it makes perfect sense.

(also would like to point out that in the final scene of UTH Jason isn't asking Bruce to kill the Joker okay byyye)

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There's this trend with authors like Alan Moore or George RR Martin who are considered highly talented legends in their respective fictional genres, and any discussion of say, the misogyny in the killing joke or asoiaf becomes a quick pivot to how oh the books were fine, you see the misogyny in these works was incredibly well written and layered and thematic and actually a win for the women that got brutalised. But you see it's everything that came after, it's dcs response to the killing joke and the game of thrones TV show where the misogyny became bad actually. Poor Moore and Martin were trying to right something very intelligent and subversive with feminist leanings and everyone around them just interpreted their artistic genius in a way that made it sexist :(

This is something I've seen expressed many times and every time I can't help thinking it's a load of bullshit.

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listen man if my father gave me a condescending lecture on why killing people is bad because the people who love them will go to any lengths to avenge them AND THEN I got murdered and he did seemingly nothing, I too, would come back from the dead to psychologically torture him

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What I will never understand is the way people invalidate Bruce's very valid feelings of betrayal and rage whenever someone plasters a bat symbol across their costume and then proceeds to kill.

He's fought for and built up this legacy based on his values of justice, rehabilitation, and the sanctity of life itself; something very personal to him and a direct reflection of his world-view -- only to watch it get desecrated by people that believe they know the "right way" of enacting justice, most often people closest to him.

Imagine if one of the superboys were to parade around the fact that they were wearing the Superman crest when committing actions that directly go against Clark's ideology and mission. I bet you, people would not attack or invalidate Clark's feelings of betrayal then.

However, when it is Bruce, there's always some sort of insidious desire to demonize him and everything he's built.

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dick brazilian CONFIRMED?

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jack drake is the funniest man in the world he should not have been responsible for a child

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James Gunn’s biggest strength is taking the most obscure and bizarre characters and making an audience fall in love with them. He literally brings out the worst in them, shows us why they’re the way they are and then rehabilitates them for the viewers by focusing solely on their life. It’s so unique.

I was wondering how he’d apply this method to someone as colossal and well know as Superman but he’s managed to use the same technique, making a character that’s too big and grandiose for an audience to relate to… relatable. And he did this without losing his “super” side. He just honed into his humanity, especially while he was in “super” mode.

The first gem of this working? The fucking intro. I sat up straight when it went from “3 centuries ago…” to “3 minutes ago, Superman just lost his first fight.” Wow. Finally. An unexpected beginning for a very predictable character.

Then? The scene between Lois and Clark. The sheer helplessness of someone like Superman against twisted words meant to goad and frustrate. Don’t we all deal with the exact same things on an almost daily basis? Not only is this Lois critical of Superman but also willing to tell him as much. Plus, she isn’t sure if she loves him while knowing that he, someone a majority of the world would give anything to be with, definitely loves her.

Then!!! They show him fight a Kaiju-esque creature with only the intention to knock it out. I mean, he sucker punches it and then rushes to stop it from falling on a building full of people… then he saves a squirrel. What in the Superman is going oooon 😭

THENNN!!!!!!! They show us his parents. His gorgeous GORGEOUS midwestern-ass, delicate lil normal looking parents in their tiny farm house calling their son, proud of his writing and terrified for his life. More than anything else, they made me see who Clark Kent was and why his Superman was so precious about every kind of life. This dorky, self-conscious, overthinking, frustrated, emotional, but-will-still-not-curse Superman is a gem. Clark is a gem.

Plus, David’s acting is phenomenal. Yes yes his switch up from Superman to Clark is cool but more than that? The frustration in every line of his face when he talks to Lois, the exasperation whenever Krypto is around, the sheer delight at writing his article and getting it published on the front page, the desperation to find his cousin’s pet, the agony of being around Kryptonite, the most genuine and wholesome earnestness that literally CARRIED the movie…

Sigh. I’m officially a Superman fan and it’s because of the writing, direction, and acting in this comic-accurate portrayal of Clark-you-clumsy-oaf-Kent.

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Personally, I hate it (in comics, fics, animated anythings) when any member of the Batfamily has a cordial relationship with non-Gordon cops. I much prefer the realistic best-case scenario of tolerance to the worst-case scenario of purely antagonistic and hostile.

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Lmao not to give away some personal hang ups but oh my god in a hilarious but mildly nightmarish turn, my most grievous annoyance with a character in any media I'm consuming (it's cheating lol) has cropped up in every single piece of media I hath consumed in three days.

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if i ever won the lottery nobody would know but there’d be signs

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Personally, I hate it (in comics, fics, animated anythings) when any member of the Batfamily has a cordial relationship with non-Gordon cops. I much prefer the realistic best-case scenario of tolerance to the worst-case scenario of purely antagonistic and hostile.