At a guess, he overheard parents group complaints about them being deadly weapons, and, having never been told "there are no dangerous weapons, only dangerous men", he naturally adopted it.
Ironically, he's actually kind of dangerous.
At a guess, he overheard parents group complaints about them being deadly weapons, and, having never been told "there are no dangerous weapons, only dangerous men", he naturally adopted it.
So many Comics writers being nerdy males who haaaaaaated the bad boy trope might have something to do with that, lol. Plus the fact that superheroines typically went with either superheroes or Author Inserts (LOOKIN’ AT YOU, TERRY LONG YOU PERMED FREAK!!).Skavenger wrote: ↑Wed Oct 06, 2021 11:06 pm It's also interesting that there's TONS of "female villain who could turn good if she just admitted she loved the hero" characters out there, there's remarkably few "male villain who would turn good with the love of the heroine" even though the "good girl thinks a bad boy just needs love to be tamed" tropes in movies and TV. The closest thing to that is usually "an evil brother or former best friend who could be good if they could let go of some pain."
I'm honestly a bit mind-blown that the Catwoman books have run for THAT LONG. While "The Bat-Verse is a Big Seller" is something that's generally been true for 30+ years, the notion that one of Batman's biggest enemies having the most successful "Villain Book" by a wide margin still surprises me. Granted, they did it by giving her other villains to fight, but still. We're talking like 90+ issues of the '90s book, then years of runs in the various post-2000 runs. Yet nobody on Wikipedia ever bothered to sum up most of it! I was actually almost entirely finished by Bat-verse building (there's about a month to go on here yet- don't worry, I'm not wrapping up soon!), and then I found out she had a handful of Mirror Image Villains pop up!Skavenger wrote: ↑Wed Oct 06, 2021 10:07 pm Catwoman isn't the first "villainous romantic interest" in story history, but she's one of the more iconic ones. The problem is that while it creates great drama in the "will they/won't they" formula along with twists on "good vs evil" and "desire vs duty," it tends to reduce most of the female characters to being a possible "prize" to be won in the fight against evil. "Oh, if that silly woman would just realize that if she kisses the hero, she can be good and live a happy life." Even Catwoman's been reduced to this a few times, which is kind of demeaning to such an interesting character.
After all, we all know that Batman's first love is Lady Justice.
I actually liked Catwoman's solo runs, because it actually showed her own motivations and let her have her own life outside of "that woman Batman sometimes chases for sexual tension." She got her own romantic interest in Slam Bradley, she got a supporting cast, she ran for mayor of New York, if I remember correctly...it was a good time.
While I'm not wild about the color combination, I do love that outfit. At this point I'm kind of tired of Catwoman wearing the leather-looking catsuit that was made popular in Batman Returns by Michelle Pfeiffer.
Jabroniville wrote: ↑Tue Jul 13, 2021 11:45 pm
LOl- "The Tattooed Man"? What kind of ABSOLUTE DILDO would refer to himself as "The Tattooed Man" !?!