Wonder Woman in Blackest Night: one panel summary

[thebigapricot]

Comics Alliance has put up what I think is a pretty accurate (and funny) 60 second overview of Blackest Night. My favorite is Wonder Woman.


And for legality, Wonder Woman and her "crush" in the Hiketeia


Tags:
char: wonder woman/diana of themyscira, char: batman/bruce wayne, title: blackest night

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[protogarrett]

Why is she stepping on his head?

[sherkahn]

They just fought over someone under Wonder Woman's protection, someone who had established a sacred bond of protection with Wonder Woman that to violate said bond would incur the wrath of the Furies, someone who committed a horrible murder in Gotham and who had Batman was pursuing to bring her back for capital murder trial.

And as we know, Batman gives passes.

[protogarrett]

Lame. Did she at least punish the person herself?

[jaybee3]

No the girl killed herself so the Furies got their way in the end anyway.

[sherkahn]

Wonder Woman could not. Part of the sacred bond between protector and protectee. The aforementioned cause of the problem solved the issue by killing herself.

[cyberghostface]

The person who Bats was after was a teenage girl who killed some men who had pretty much got her sister into some sort of pornography/sexual slavery ring, had gotten her addicted to drugs and raped her a couple of times, and then killed her and made it look like an overdose so they could get away with it.

But Batman could care less about all that, because he views everything in strict black and white (unless it's his son, of course).

[protogarrett]

Ah. And then Batman thought he could take Diana... how?

I mean, it's not like he has something like a kryptonite ring to counter her with.

[bluefall]

It's not so much that he thinks he can take her as that he has no choice but to try; he's as bound by his oaths and personality to seek Justice for Dani's victims (no matter what kind of men they were) as Diana herself is bound to protect Dani. Which is the whole point of the story, it's very Greek tragedy that way.

If you take it out of that framework, though, it works too; you can argue pretty easily that Bruce obviously doesn't want to force Diana into anything. He has zero chance of going through her, and he knows it, but he's got at least a minuscule chance of going around her, so why does he try to go through her both times? Because he doesn't want to do that to her. He wants a solution they can both live with that doesn't involve strongarming or betraying the culture of a respected friend. He's just not entirely conscious of that, or doesn't know how to ask for it, or some combination of the two, so he makes a self-sabotaging attempt at unilateral victory instead.

Ultimately, his vision of justice has more shades of grey than her oath, so given time to work things out, she could probably have satisfied him that a lifetime of being, basically, Diana's slave, is an acceptable punishment for her crime, and he'd have let it go. But the Furies wanted their tragedy, so they pushed Dani to suicide before Bruce and Diana could get that far.

[xammax]

Or the fact that she did killed those people. They were bad people but you can't run off and kill them, otherwise the line of how bad does someone have to be.

Hey I'll admit even the GCPD dropped it, but it is not normal peoples place in society to kill those who have wronged them. What I never got is why that girl thought killing herself was the answer. If you recognize the crazy guy in a Bat costume is right then go to jail. Release Diana and just go to jail. Its not like Batman was not even sympathetic in the story but he was right.

[cyberghostface]

Now I'm not following Batman at the moment, but isn't Damien a murderer? And right now he's playing Robin.

And obviously what happened with the girl was a very slippery slope, but I had no sympathy whatsoever for Bats in the Hiketia. If I was a police officer, and someone shot a child molester who eluded the legal system and had molested a family member of the killer, I would probably look the other way.

[bluefall]

Don't forget Jason!

That said, it does seem like an odd thing for even Bruce at his most CE and hypocritical to spend this kind of energy on. If she'd killed, like, the Joker, I could see him flipping out, but it's much more typical for him to let the deaths of murderers go when there are innocent deaths to worry about (and when are there not?). He's never made any effort to investigate Helena, for instance, even though he'd have to at least suspect she had a hand in Cassamento's death, and it's not like he's ever tried to bring Ollie or Dinah or Hawkman to trial even though none of them have ever faced a jury over their killings, that I'm aware.

Going all-out on Dani to the point of chasing her across state lines is pretty unusual for him. (Though of course once Diana tells him to fuck off, it becomes a matter of principle.)

[zordboy]

"If I was a police officer, and someone shot a child molester who eluded the legal system and had molested a family member of the killer, I would probably look the other way."

Then as a police officer you'd be in a great deal of trouble and probably end up on trial and in prison yourself.

Good thing you're not, then.

[cyberghostface]

Okay fine.

If I was a vigilante who operated outside of the law and dressed up like a giant bat and had murderers in my employ, I'd look the other way.

Better?

[shewhohashope]

Me too! As a police officer you're bound by the law, but as a vigilante you're doing insanely illegal shit all the time anyway.

[zordboy]

Which is a great understanding of *your* mindset, but for someone who was so deeply traumatised by the loss of two people, you have to sit back and understand that for him, one life -- any life -- is one too many. There's no chance of redemption when you're dead.

And that is an awfully slippery slope for someone who could be the most prolific serial killer in the world if he really, really put his mind to it.

[cyberghostface]

And yet, he still has no problems working with murderers such as Jason Todd or Damien, right?

[intertobamf]

Damien hasn't killed anybody as Robin (nor is the current Batman Bruce Wayne). And since when has Batman worked with a killing Jason Todd?

[cyberghostface]

Then when Batman comes back, I'm sure that he'll see to it that the current Robin pays for his previous crimes, right?

And wasn't it heavily implied that Jason Todd pushed a rapist off a building during his stint as Robin?

[koschei]

The killings were completely righteous and justified, Greek tragedy however completely compelled Batman to be even more of a ginourmous douche than usual.

[katogekkani.livejournal.com]

Bruce is into S&M!

[catey]

He always was, I think. By the way, I found this a while ago, so I thought I'd share. Have no idea who made it, so sorry if there is no credit. It's a fanart.