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Entry tags:char: black bat/batgirl/cassandra cain, title: batgirl
Behind the cut!

Well, the final Versus came down to Wonder Woman and Cassandra Cain, and the winner by 1192 votes to 1167 is...

...

CASS! HA!

In celebration, some bits from the story No One Dies Tonight, in which Cass carries out her memorial rite on the anniversary of the time she killed someone, by making sure no one dies violently in Gotham. At all.

This includes breaking into a gas chamber to keep a murderer from being executed.










The convict is bewildered by a mysterious ninja breaking him out of his execution, which considering he was ready to die starts to get him worried as to what's going to happen next. The pair then bump into the mother of the woman that the convict murdered, which knocks the wind out of Cass' sails,


Reluctantly, Cass returns him back to the guards (whose ammunition she stole on the way into the prison), and breaks out of the prison again, devastated that she wasn't able to keep the titular promise that she made to herself at the beginning of the issue.

This is from issue 19 of Cass' series.

http://dcwomenkickingass.tumblr.com/post/13154974640/winner

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[personal profile] theredhood
2011-11-23 01:35 am UTC (link)
Which was ultimately the message of the story; "Sweet kid but honey, you have NO idea how this world really turns sometimes." As a reader, I don't think we were meant to empathize with her, just feel sorry for her inability to comprehend what you pointed out. As others have said, it was intentionally formative for the character.

In a broader sense, the semantics we've opened up here could be applied to Batman himself; How many stories do we have where he's busted up mob meetings and put 8 - 10 dudes in full body casts just to, I dunno, find out where the Penguin sequestered a stolen diamond? Quite a few. How many stories do we have where Batman uses his world's greatest detecting to track down a murderous internet pedophile? Comparatively not so many.

Does that mean that Batman really hates guidos but is happy to let kids be diddled? You can't really leap to that assumption. Dude's Batman. He has a lot of stuff going on, and he can't always fight every bit of corruption.

Though he tries, and that's why we love him.

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nezchan: Navis at breakfast (cereal, navis)


[personal profile] nezchan
2011-11-23 01:49 am UTC (link)
That, and we can assume that he does routine crimefighting offscreen, as the "camera" doesn't follow him 24/7. So maybe he takes care of the pedos between Joker breakouts. Gotta pass the time somehow.

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[personal profile] korilian
2011-11-23 11:31 am UTC (link)
Some types of crime fighting are just more respectable than others :).

"It's okay to build me an armor tank car, but ooh tapping phones, that's going to far!"

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