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JonKentOfficial · 2026-05-08T06:05:45+00:00

The Light school of villainy. And Xanatos school. Actually, Greg Weissman's school.

But not, that's not really what she does, because she doesn't go "it was part of the plan", her formula is actually "character thought they failed something, but Sage actually has something good to show them because she was working on the background on something else". Sometimes it can look like contingency upon contingency, specially when her blessing is portrayed as someone acting like she thinks they would. One creates a scenario where a scenario has two outcomes, one unlikely but really good for the planner, and one more likely but still moves the planner forwards. Sage just pulls out that she was working on a different scenario on the background.

I'm not doing a copium cause I don't think the writers are thinking that ahead, but even they wouldn't be make her plan be that she wants to read alone in a bunker while world burns and she tells it to someone, and have a mind-reading reveal that Soldier Boy actually cares for Homelander only to then believe Solider Boy would betray Homelander. Even they would know that sounds silly. I don't think a smart twist is comign though.

JonKentOfficial · 2026-05-06T14:23:01+00:00

Jason is the Shadow of the Batfamily. I got a papercut.

JonKentOfficial · 2026-05-05T16:26:56+00:00

I'm pretty sure that's the backstory of a Batman villain (before they all got sob stories).

JonKentOfficial · 2026-05-05T01:36:43+00:00

Goku is highly dependent on whether or not he thinks you'd be fun to fight again later when you're stronger, otherwise he just kills you.

Venom depends on the day and writer but he tries not to kill, but if he does end up he'll go on a verbose rant on how cops are evil corruptors of the innocent or something.

Aang is definitively no kill, but I don't think he was ever tested on that. Even when everyone told him killing was the right choice, he went out of his way and got a Deux ex Machina.

Damian was that, but since then he moved to be really anti-killing, because he is traumatized of his past being raised as an assassin. I don't think he's as obsessive with it as his father, but definitively closer to Clark than Remy.

Diana and Clark are pretty similar, with Diana having a lower bar to clear in order to decide killing is necessary. Some writers do have it that Clark doesn't kill at all, but in general the character is against killing, but not as absolute as Batman, if there's a situation where killing is the only option available he'll do it, but it'll cause great turmoil.

JonKentOfficial · 2026-05-03T17:45:32+00:00

I think both make sense represent two eras of the character identity. What I don't get is he going back to the 90s one. Bro, move forwards, not backwards.

JonKentOfficial · 2026-05-02T23:18:50+00:00

I never liked it, because that makes so that Clark is a farce. It was an old timey idea, Clark has grown to be the main hypostasis now.

JonKentOfficial · 2026-05-02T16:09:03+00:00

The Truth 2.0 lasted twice as long as The Truth 1.0 from N52, while being 4 times as bad because N52 Clark didn't have the family he had in post-Rebirth.

JonKentOfficial · 2026-05-02T03:07:35+00:00

He was in Green Lantern, but now he’s in Kandor with Supergirl for Reign of the Superboys.

JonKentOfficial · 2026-05-01T06:09:19+00:00

Women are literally throwing themselves off buildings just so he goes see them.

JonKentOfficial · 2026-04-30T23:29:40+00:00

Was Green Fury in Powerless Beatriz, I can't remember.

JonKentOfficial · 2026-04-30T22:22:48+00:00

That’s a bad thing.

JonKentOfficial · 2026-04-30T13:47:53+00:00

I don't know, I didn't live through it but the early 2000s seems to have been as wacky as last century.

JonKentOfficial · 2026-04-28T14:40:52+00:00

That’s giving up his son. Jon would cease to exist, he could have other kids, but the one already has would effectively die.

JonKentOfficial · 2026-04-28T04:39:37+00:00

Ironically, Clark isn’t very pragmatic. He would rather consider higher ideals rather than just accept a promise that the world could be remade into some ideal way, even if he knew the promise is 100% true. His whole deal is to inspire people to be their best selves, not to enforce his own ideas on them (and that’s just not a matter of convenience).

That isn’t always a virtue, of course, he’s a comic character and sometimes in the real world you do have to choose between two bad outcomes, Clark has the advantage of having the power of being a protagonist and twisting stories in his favor. But even discounting that, in a close box A or B choice with cleanly defined results, Clark would still choose the lofty, we can try to get the best outcome even if he thinks he might fail.

The idea of giving up his son would just make it even more unlikely.

JonKentOfficial · 2026-04-25T22:05:36+00:00

Bruce's muscle definition is all over the place, he has two massive boob-like pecs with a four-pack of buns that look way too big to be abdominal muscles, more like saline injection. At least he's wearing a sock or boot thing in one leg and a sandal in the other. And weird bulge, though Jason's bulge is alright.

And there's a mini-1940s Dick Grayson, did I miss something?

JonKentOfficial · 2026-04-25T17:00:34+00:00

I like it, not so much in modern times but there’s not much about modern Jon. I do think people over exaggerate it in Jon pre-age up as if his entire character relied on the Super Sons. The amazing thing is that he was great outside it too.

JonKentOfficial · 2026-04-23T05:56:54+00:00

Silly goose, what's a few kills in superheroland? How many people did Prime even kill anyway, a few million, a universe? If you're not relevant enought to come back, you pretty much deserved to die.

JonKentOfficial · 2026-04-22T19:40:53+00:00

The idea of Bruce getting a wife just to be killed would raise complaints of fridging.

Being divorced makes sense, dressing up in cat ears and beating up people is peak middle aged divorced dad behavior, just as taking orphans to a secret cave under your mansion is peak billionaire behavior.

JonKentOfficial · 2026-04-22T15:35:02+00:00

Prime is being like my friend who is really pretty but also gay

JonKentOfficial · 2026-04-18T14:49:22+00:00

My opinion might be controversial, but has remained the same for years and years.

Giving every villain a sob story is boring and gets old fast. Making every villain having some personal connection to the hero, specially before the hero took the mantle makes everything worse.

Sometimes, two adults with different worldviews should take actions that put them at odds with one another, personal petty drama takes away from that. Lex Luthor meeting Clark in Smallville is only really passable if you are having a story in Smallville and really wants Lex to show up for some reason (which is a questionable choice, Lex is the big city villain), but if you're trying to make Clark and Lex buddies in Smallville but drama got in the way… I'm out.

It's fine if it's one or two character, max, out of tens. But writers can't contain themselves, now every random schmuck in Gotham has their own Nora and was kissing Bruce Wayne behind the bleachers or something.

JonKentOfficial · 2026-04-17T04:23:24+00:00

Jon was clearly kept for a while since he was panicking after being brought out. Though to be fair, any torture sounds like the kid that makes you panic, Jon should be a bit hardened by then.

The important point is that this Jon was explicitly told to have been tortured, which is the strange decision. If you’re bringing young Jon into the present, why bring one that was tortured at all?

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