I thought those things made her escape all the more realistic. The salient fact for me is not that the heroine manages to escape all on her own (it provides a nice commentary that sometimes even superheroes need outside help and a bit of dumb luck to get by) but that she is not a passive onlooker in her own rescue. Dinah gave as good as she got all the way.
Dude, she spent two issues in a wheelchair. Realistically, people need to recover from having their legs broken, not being superhuman or anything. And she still managed to kick ass. Personally, human failings and frailities are things I love to see in superheroes, because it's how they overcome them that make them heroic.
Atop that, I feel confident in saying, if it'd been Batman whose legs were broken, he wouldn't have spent the next two issues in a wheelchair. Um, Knightfall?
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Re: Wherein I open my big fat mouth...
Date: 2009-06-24 10:51 am (UTC)Dude, she spent two issues in a wheelchair. Realistically, people need to recover from having their legs broken, not being superhuman or anything. And she still managed to kick ass. Personally, human failings and frailities are things I love to see in superheroes, because it's how they overcome them that make them heroic.
Atop that, I feel confident in saying, if it'd been Batman whose legs were broken, he wouldn't have spent the next two issues in a wheelchair.
Um, Knightfall?