King Aquababy is kind of an asshole

[schmevil]

Absolute power corrupts even babies absolutely.



Aquapeople: just horrible.





Love the funeral wreath in the title. Classy.





Fire trolls. Avatars of comics fans? Hmm.

Oh, and then there's this Aquaman redesign by Katie Cook



This was part of a Project Rooftop series

Comments

[mad]

True, and that seems to be a trend with a lot of supervillains, actually. Give them a sympathetic cause/background to flesh them out and make you interested, but they're Still Wrong.

It's really amazing how conservatively themed Batman mythos is when you think about it.

Though sometimes a thoughtful writer will include something like "and then Bruce Wayne donated blah blah to this cause that helps in a less destructive way blah blah", but that can also be kinda sketchy.

[schmevil]

Batman is a ridiculously conservative character (not in outlook necessarily, but in his basic makeup) that it kind of needs to be. If you're going to pit these people against a super-genius billionaire, anything more than a sympathetic reading is out of the question. Like, you can't actually have the socialist villain be right and capitalist Batman wrong. He's... Good King Batman, The Boss Who Cares.

[stubbleupdate]

We were discussing in our staffroom how Batman would be at the head of The Big Society if he was a) real and b) British.

He's a private citizen who volunteers his time so that the government don't need to spend more on public services.

Plus, he's a bajillionaire who beats up poor people

[psychopathicus_rex]

I'm reminded of the Bruce Wayne/Ivy meet-up in 'Batman and Robin', where she hands him a list of demands to make his companies more eco-friendly. Bruce looks them over and says that, while they'd work, they'd also be extremely unsafe and endanger his workers' lives; she says 'so what?' and things progress from there. (I mean, not that anything from 'BaR' should be put forward as a good example, but it does do a fair job of fleshing out their respective positions. I'd like to have seen just what was on those papers, though.)