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Aug. 2nd, 2015 09:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scarfmanAt the end of Alan Moore’s great run writing Saga of the Swamp Thing in the 80s there’s a Batman crossover. There are Louisiana court officals who have got it into their heads to prosecute Swamp Thing’s girlfriend for sexual deviancy, since Swamp Thing is a plant; and somehow they all end up in Gotham City. In the last scene Batman makes a speech to the court officials that I can’t find online and don’t quite remember verbatim.
Batman may have noted that Wonder Woman was made of clay by the Queen of Paradise Island and asked the court officials when they were going to prosecute Colonel Trevor. I do remember he said that Starfire, the Teen Titan whose boyfriend was Nightwing whose first hero identity was the first Robin, is an extraterrestial from a planet where the people descended from cats. There were probably at least two other examples, since there are many such in the DC universe; perhaps including Red Tornado the android and his girlfriend Kathy Sutton.
The punchline was,
“And then there’s what’s-his-name. The one in Metropolis.”
And the problem with the character in the Man of Steel films is that he is not, cannot reasonably be developed into, and to appearances was conceived as the deconstruction of, the character whose mere mention destroyed that court case.
Batman may have noted that Wonder Woman was made of clay by the Queen of Paradise Island and asked the court officials when they were going to prosecute Colonel Trevor. I do remember he said that Starfire, the Teen Titan whose boyfriend was Nightwing whose first hero identity was the first Robin, is an extraterrestial from a planet where the people descended from cats. There were probably at least two other examples, since there are many such in the DC universe; perhaps including Red Tornado the android and his girlfriend Kathy Sutton.
The punchline was,
“And then there’s what’s-his-name. The one in Metropolis.”
And the problem with the character in the Man of Steel films is that he is not, cannot reasonably be developed into, and to appearances was conceived as the deconstruction of, the character whose mere mention destroyed that court case.
