More Public Opinions from Comicbook Universes

[espanolbot]

Inspired by this post I've decided to post some more comments from the general public in various comicboook universes to see how much of a difference there is between them.

I mean, we all know the standard Marvel reaction to any superhero or supersituation that they come across...


...and whether they are throwing hotdogs or some similar wet object of the same shape depends on who is writing. But how do other universes fare?

Just to note: these aren't the defining comments of each universe or series, just ones that I thought were interesting or funny.

First up, the Hellboy-BPRD Universe, specifically the Hell on Earth storyline, where after several Lovecraftian beasties have made large attacks on highly populated areas both in the US and abroad, the UN decides to fund the organisation as they're the aforemost authority when it comes to gigantic wiggly things that turn people into smaller wiggley things.


Heh heh heh, it's funny because the BPRD fought the Nazis (and collaborated with the Soviets when necessary)!

Over to Birds of Prey, when a man who was saved by a redheaded girl in a batgirl costume gives an account of the rescue to the police,



Hm, so both Babara and Misfit have epic boobs then apparently? Also, ew for that apparently being the only way the cop can think of to describe her and the other guy apparently thinking that it was accurate. Oh, and Misfit? Your time if coming in my next Cringeworthy Comics Moments entry!

A moment from Batgirl, where Steph (who, unlike Charlie can be happy and quippy without being thoroughly irritating) encounters a reaction she's never gotten from superheroing before, and also Nell, the now retconned Batgirl of the Future!



They did turn against her briefly in a future issue, but that pretty much seemed to be temporary thing, and I think that the GCPD even apologised to her over the misunderstanding.


And the final moment from the old DCU for now, from Bruce Wayne: Murderer, which shows that people in Gotham actually kind of liked Bruce Wayne, before the whole Occupy Gotham thing that happened recently anyways.

Oh, and the term Deezee is short for deserter, and was used to describe people who fled Gotham before No Man's Land and came back once the city was opened up again and jobs became avaliable. The first guy is being kind of unfair, because 1. Bruce lives outside of Gotham City most of the time, and 2. he campaigned in Congress to stop NML from happening, campaigned to end it and spent billions to rebuild the city after Lex Luthor effectively ended NML through sheer force of money. Either way he's coming off as a massive dick.


And finally, the Wildstorm perspective of superheroes, from Captain Atom: Armageddon, where Captain Atom gets teleported to the Wildstorm Universe after getting blown up in Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, and then proceeds to blow up the Wildstorm Universe in order to reboot it.

Comments

[big_daddy_d]

Wait. What?

[espanolbot]

She has a habit of accidentally hurting or killing people through either basic common sense or lack of people skills.

Such as her causing an entire city block in Metropolis to get exploded, causing Superman to evict the team from the city.

Or her starting a fight with Black Alice, a power meta who was on medication to control her violent moodswings and was making a determined effort to NOT be a supervillain, because she saw Barbara as HER mentor and any other teen superhumans hogging her time are obviously trying to steal Babs away from her. Charlie's shouting and physically pushing Alice around caused her to go on a relapse that kept going for the rest of the DCU, up through Secret Six and up to the reboot.

Or her deciding to kick Barbara in the face, out of her chair, on the basis that "superheroes fight, and then become friends!".

I get that she doesn't MEAN to leave a wake of destruction behind her, but she seemed to also lack the basic selfawareness required to stop too.

She said she couldn't save her family from a burning apartment building. Fine, they established she couldn't teleport living things without exploding, that I can except...

But all she does is stare up at her family burning to death from the street below. Look, if you can't save them, call the fire department, and grab a fire blanket, bucket of water, or a fire extinguisher or something, and fight for time until someone comes along who can actually DO thing bloody useful!

[akodo_rokku]

To be fair though, almost none of that was written by a good writer. It was all after Gail was off Birds.

[mrstatham]

Still counts. Misfit under Simone was still a brat who basically badgered her way onto the Birds and basically lied about her past.