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char: black bat/batgirl/cassandra cain, title: batgirl

DC Women Kicking Ass - Most Kickass DC Female 2011 Is...

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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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	no subject nezchan 2011-11-23 01:46 am UTC (link)
	Here's an interesting side note. According to Wikipedia, the Atlas of the DC Universe says that Gotham is located in southern New Jersey. New Jersey doesn't have the death penalty. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 19 comments) (Show 19 comments)

	no subject master_nate 2011-11-23 01:57 am UTC (link)
	New Jersey also doesn't have the Goddamn Batman.. Seriously though, if we want to get picky, didn't New Jersey ban the death penalty in 2007? I think this was published before then. Correct me if I'm wrong. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 2 comments) (Show 2 comments)

	no subject nezchan 2011-11-23 02:03 am UTC (link)
	Looking a bit deeper, I see there hasn't been an execution there since the 70's. Yeah, fictional universe, and yeah Gotham seems to operate as a sovereign country at times, but it's amusing all the same. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject master_nate 2011-11-23 02:28 am UTC (link)
	I was being nitpicky anyway. Like you said, there haven't been any executions since the 70's, so for all intents and purposes you might as well say they don't have them. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject aeka 2011-11-23 02:25 am UTC (link)
	Gotham in JERSEY? I'm sorry, that just made me LOL. For some reason, I was always under the impression it was in New York? (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 8 comments) (Show 8 comments)

	no subject nezchan 2011-11-23 02:31 am UTC (link)
	I remember going to Shoujocon down in Jersey some years ago, my friend greeted me at the shuttle bus with "Welcome to New Jersey, we apologize for Newark." Swap that out for "Gotham" and you're set. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 3 comments) (Show 3 comments)

	no subject master_nate 2011-11-23 03:27 am UTC (link)
	Welcome to Gotham Stay the fuck away from anyone dressed in a costume without a bat theme. Especially clowns. We are not kidding at all. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 2 comments) (Show 2 comments)

	no subject nezchan 2011-11-23 03:32 am UTC (link)
	Some days, stay away from the bat people too. Especially the midget ones. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject icon_uk 2011-11-23 08:21 am UTC (link)
	Stay the fuck away from anyone dressed in a costume without a bat theme. Or is bird themed, heavy on the red. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject master_nate 2011-11-23 02:48 am UTC (link)
	Gotham is a nickname for New York. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 3 comments) (Show 3 comments)

	no subject dr_archeville 2011-11-23 04:22 am UTC (link)
	I vaguely recall some comic writer -- I sadly cannot recall who -- once saying that Gotham was New York at night, and Metropolis was New York during the day. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 2 comments) (Show 2 comments)

	no subject master_nate 2011-11-23 05:20 am UTC (link)
	Sounds familiar. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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saralakali
2011-11-24 10:52 am UTC (link)

That is true, however in all the retcons since the 80's, Gotham is now in New Jersey, about where Little Egg Harbor is. Metropolis is in Delaware. Central City used to be where Athens, OH is but now Central City and Keystone City are where the two Kansas Cities are. Star City used to be an analogue of LA and Coast City used to be an analogue of San Diego, but they've both been moved up the California coast.

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	no subject junipepper 2011-11-23 03:18 am UTC (link)
	Gotham, Exit 4... (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 2 comments) (Show 2 comments)

	no subject nezchan 2011-11-23 03:32 am UTC (link)
	No! Sleep! Til Crime Alley! (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject master_nate 2011-11-23 05:21 am UTC (link)
	DUN Dun!!! Dun dunnnnnnnnn Dun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject dr_archeville 2011-11-23 04:21 am UTC (link)
	Doesn't that book also list Metropolis as being in Delaware? (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject nezchan 2011-11-23 04:24 am UTC (link)
	Dunno, but I gather they're relatively close to each other. In both cases pretty close to NY, which helps since they're both based on the city to some degree. For some reason I like the idea of Gotham being in Jersey. For one thing, it prevents Jersey Shore from ever existing in the DCnU. Because even Batman wouldn't put up with that in his state. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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espanolbot
2011-11-23 10:47 am UTC (link)

And apparently they have the electric chair, the gas chamber AND lethal injection there. Don't places in the States usually have just one?

I remember that there was a story from Ed Brubaker's Catwoman run, which had a childhood friend of Selina who was sentenced to death by lethal injection on the basis that they thought she'd robbed a liquor store, killed the clerk and stuffed his body in the trunk of her car before going on a highspeed chase that left her boyfriend dead (her bf did it, she just happened to chose the wrong time to hitch a lift with him somewhere).

The guys transporting her back to death row after her final appeal was overturned said that the last time Gotham sentenced a woman to death was for some Manson-ish hippy death cult thing back in the 1970s.

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skjam
2011-11-23 01:01 pm UTC (link)

Some US states used to allow the convict to choose between two or three methods. I remember years ago reading that one inmate had chosen firing squad instead of lethal injection because he wanted the most violent execution method he could get.

On a tangent, I recently reviewed a Swedish crime novel on my Dreamwidth journal, Cell 8, which is all about the death penalty. "But Sweden doesn't have the death penalty" you might say. Exactly.

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