Another Rare Cass Moment: Wonder Woman- Paradise Found

[espanolbot]

Context: Circe has decided to go mythological with her antics, and, after teaming up with several of Wonder Woman's other villains including the Silver Swan and the Argentinian version of Cheetah, she launches a plot to turn the male heroes of the world into animals, amongst other general spiteful hijinx.

With the whole world's supervillainess' running amuck, she decides that she needs to get help. So, she contacts Oracle to put out a message which is a more polite version of this,


What follows is both one of the best moments in Diana's series, and also somewhat depressing considering how many of those faces are no longer with us,





Steph also appears later, having being partnered up with Kyle Rayner, Jade and Batman, but unlike Cass' other appearance (one panel of her kicking Jinx in the face) she's basically just grinning like she's happy to be involved.

Also, there's a possible explanation for why Cass didn't show up in many other characters' series: she's shy.

Comments

Re: Im gonna get sooo much crap for this.....

[espanolbot]

I took it more as both being restricted by their mindsets. Wonder Woman had to honour the Hiketeia because it's part of her religion, and once it gives her the opportunity to hear why the woman being pursued by Batman is being pursued by him, it makes her more sympathetic to her side of the story.

Batman, meanwhile, is restricted by his mindset that murder is murder, and if you commit not just one but SEVERAL and then run from the police, then you deserve to be punished for it. Like Diana, he eventually found out the reason why the woman killed those people (on his own, as he's a detective and looked into the why as opposed to the who and how) he was a lot more sympathetic, but that didn't change his mind as she was STILL a multiple murderer who showed no real signs of remorse.

This is also why he was so down on Huntress for all those years, while he gave a free pass to Selina over her shooting Black Mask in the face. Both killed terrible people, but while Helena did it in a calculated way and felt no remorse over it, Selina killed one person who had repeatedly targeted her and her loved ones before she decided that killing him was the only option left, and then felt bad about it.

One murder, you get a pass if the victims are horrible people or if you were mindcontrolled (hence why he didn't instantly exile Cass when he found out she'd killed someone as a child). Keep doing it, and he'll try to bring the hammer down on you, particularly if you're doing it in his city.

Re: Im gonna get sooo much crap for this.....

[korvar]

Yeah, but he knew where she was, that she wasn't going anywhere, and for some (idiot ball) reason wouldn't just [i]tell[/i] Wonder Woman - who he claimed as a friend - what the hell was going on. Any plot that would fall apart for the lack of two seconds of dialogue has problems.

Both Batman and Wonder Woman are people who go out of their way to find smart ways out of conflicts. They had to be stupid in order for the fight to happen, so Greg Ruka could get the dominatrix shot of Batman under Wonder Woman's heel.