• DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
      26·
      12 days ago

      I feel like that is a comic nerd specific context.

      Or maybe we’ve just agreed, as a society, not to bring it up, like that time Batman lynched a homeless guy and laughed.

        • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
          26·
          12 days ago

          It should be noted that Batman’s no killing rule is a later addition to the character, so early comics are cheating a bit.

          I think it says a lot about the original character concept and his position as a millionaire/billionaire regardless.

          • doctortran@lemm.eeEnglish
            10·
            12 days ago

            I see you’re just going to deliberately leave out the context.

            That wasn’t a homeless person, it was a patient at the asylum. Hugo Strange had injected him and 4 others with grown hormone that turned them into mindless, rage filled monsters, and there was no cure. It’s needlessly violent and careless but that is in no way “Batman lynching a homeless man”

            I don’t know what it is with people on Lemmy trying to dishonesty reframe the legacy of that character just because he’s wealthy. It’s so petty and pointless.

            • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
              8·
              12 days ago

              1: Guess where 40’s asylums got a lot of their patients. Guess what happened to most of them if they did get released.

              2: There was a cure, Batman himself made it in the comic.

              3: Do you think being a victim of a medical experiment makes it better?

              Nice “real context,” simp.

          • Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world
            7·
            12 days ago

            Huh, that is very interesting

            Also fwiw, by the end of year of writing, the batman writers settled on his “no killing” rule.

    • doctortran@lemm.eeEnglish
      12·
      12 days ago

      Under the original run by Marston, yes. And it wasn’t a “fantasy”, so much as it was an attempt at depicting a strong female character by routinely depicting her bond and then breaking those bonds.

      • CitizenKong@lemmy.world
        8·
        11 days ago

        Well, it was also a fantasy. Marston was into BDSM femdom (he wrote erotic novels before WW) and was in a polycule with two women.

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    12 days ago

    When I was 6 or so I had a Wonder Woman comic, or maybe it was a record that went along with the comic, whatever. Wonder Woman was tied up and my tiny pee pee went rock hard. And here I am today.