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So yesterday I'm flipping the channels and come across TBS or somebody airing Equilibrium. One of those dystopian future movies full of gun fu and people in black and stuff. And I managed to catch the scene where the writers establish that no matter what the "good" guy does, its justified. In this scene, the Gestapo Cops and the NinjaPriestSuperCops (Taye Diggs and Christian Bale) bust up some rebels who are defending a kennel full of puppies. Yep illegal puppy owners. So, as per standard orders, the Gestapo Cops start executing puppies. One manages to get away briefly and run up to Bale. The Actor Who Would Be Batman picks up the puppy, which is one of those black and white patchy, bendy eared totally adoroble ball of fluff types. It even licks Bale once on the face. And then, even though he gives the almost sad look of the morally conflicted, he gives the puppy back. And the Gestapo Cops shoot it...
This means that no matter WHAT Bale does later in the movie as the Rebel Leader its justified. He's fighting PUPPY KILLERS. No matter how many people he has to gun down or friends betray or whatever he is in the right. He is the Avenger of the Puppies...
And thats close to how most hard-core comics seem to work. The Authority can be a giant pack of drunken, power-mad, sadistic pricks. The people they fight would unleash repulser blasts on maternity wards or engage in mass murder for no reason whatsoever or are serial-rapist, inbred hillbilly cyborg psychopaths. Anything the heroes must do is justified. Because there bad guys are just. That. Evil...
And after a while that really wears on you. Especially if you look at comics where the bad guys are totally evil (the revamped Gorilla Grodd) and yet their opponents don't act like fucking head-cases to beat them. And why is it that JASON FUCKING TODD makes Batman turn the prick dial up to level 11, while dealing with the Joker for a decade or so of comic time just left him broody?
This means that no matter WHAT Bale does later in the movie as the Rebel Leader its justified. He's fighting PUPPY KILLERS. No matter how many people he has to gun down or friends betray or whatever he is in the right. He is the Avenger of the Puppies...
And thats close to how most hard-core comics seem to work. The Authority can be a giant pack of drunken, power-mad, sadistic pricks. The people they fight would unleash repulser blasts on maternity wards or engage in mass murder for no reason whatsoever or are serial-rapist, inbred hillbilly cyborg psychopaths. Anything the heroes must do is justified. Because there bad guys are just. That. Evil...
And after a while that really wears on you. Especially if you look at comics where the bad guys are totally evil (the revamped Gorilla Grodd) and yet their opponents don't act like fucking head-cases to beat them. And why is it that JASON FUCKING TODD makes Batman turn the prick dial up to level 11, while dealing with the Joker for a decade or so of comic time just left him broody?
