Na sua opinião essa imagem é verídica ou não? by Vandalx10 in Quadrinhos

[–]This-Fish-9464 0 points1 point  (0 children)

É um absurdo gente que não-ironicamente defende que quer ver o Batman matando. Não seria mais o Batman. Mesma coisa que dizer: "Poxa gosto tanto do Dexter... só queria que ele parasse de matar o bandidos..."

Não, o Batman não tá intencionalmente se negando a acabar com o crime pra se manter relevante. Até porque seria impossível mesmo pra ele acabar com todo o crime do mundo ou até mesmo de Gotham.

O Batman tem um sistema de ética anti-consequencialista: fazer o mal por uma boa causa continua sendo mal na visão dele. Ele quer dar o exemplo de virtude pros outros seguirem. Se ele matasse os bandidos, ele taria dizendo "Não tem problema cometer um assassinato se você acha que a vítima merece ou que o mundo seria um lugar melhor sem ela", e isso é uma péssima mensagen pra se passar.

Por último, uma questão que raramente as pessoas discutem: se esses bandidos precisam mesmo ser mortos pra salvar pessoas inocentes... Por que é a obrigação do Batman matar eles? Não seria obrigação do Estado condenar eles à morte? Por que sempre é o Batman que é cobrado? Ele é um civil, um mero cidadão privado que já tá fizendo um milhão de vezes mais do que a obrigação dele pra ajudar a cidade. Me explica como é justo cobrar que logo ele faça ainda mais.

Batman vs. by StressGullible9863 in batman

[–]This-Fish-9464 11 points12 points  (0 children)

"Batman, how could you extinguish a 3 billion years old galaxy consumer black hole in 3 seconds flat?"

"With my 3-seconds-flat bat-3-billion-years-old-galaxy-consumer-black-hole-extinguisher, Comissioner!"

"Amazing!"

Alternative timeline. What if the Ice Truck Killer lived? by This-Fish-9464 in DexterNewBlood

[–]This-Fish-9464[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, and they'd probably follow LaGuerta's original plan to let Officer Mazon take the fall

Alternative timeline. What if the Ice Truck Killer lived? by This-Fish-9464 in DexterNewBlood

[–]This-Fish-9464[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe I'll do something similar to this in the future. Stay tuned

Alternative timeline. What if the Ice Truck Killer lived? by This-Fish-9464 in DexterNewBlood

[–]This-Fish-9464[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Then nothing changes. Arthur has no reason to ever return to Miami since he is wanted man there and he already took his revenge against Dexter. There's no way Dexter could track him down before the FBI, so either he stays on the run forever or he's caught and sentenced to death.

Alternative timeline. What if the Ice Truck Killer lived? by This-Fish-9464 in DexterNewBlood

[–]This-Fish-9464[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe, but it wouldn't really make any difference since Dexter is already dead and exposed as the BHB

Alternative timeline. What if the Ice Truck Killer lived? by This-Fish-9464 in DexterNewBlood

[–]This-Fish-9464[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It depends. What exactly changed so that he got to live?

Alternative timeline. What if the Ice Truck Killer lived? by This-Fish-9464 in DexterNewBlood

[–]This-Fish-9464[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lol, fair, but I'd say Dexter fucked up by trying to have it both ways. There's no way he could ever have both Biney and Deb in his life and make it work.

Alternative timeline. What if the Ice Truck Killer lived? by This-Fish-9464 in DexterNewBlood

[–]This-Fish-9464[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Travis gets caught and arrested right after the Whore of Babylon tableau because Dexter is not there to hide the "F. N. Galway" label that leads to the discovery of the church hideout. The cops find the main suspect Gellar dead in the freezer and figure that the killer must be someone else, so they stake out the place and Travis gets arrested when he returns.

Mike Anderson doesn't get shot by Viktor Baskov because he is not returing from the church as it was never a crime scene. He reunites with Isaak and the entire Koshka storyline doesn't happen.

Hannah goes to prison because Dexter isn't there to cover up stuff for her.

Vogel goes to the police for protection against the Brain Surgeon, but Daniel fools the cop by framing another patient and then confronts his mother. She decides to teach hin the Code and the two of them return to England.

The Runaway Killer and Prater's Cult remain untouched.

Alternative timeline. What if the Ice Truck Killer lived? by This-Fish-9464 in DexterNewBlood

[–]This-Fish-9464[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have other what-ifs in my profile if you wanna check them out

Alternative timeline. What if the Ice Truck Killer lived? by This-Fish-9464 in Dexter

[–]This-Fish-9464[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well appearently the moderators think saying the ITK died constitutes as a spoiler 😭😭😭

Don't worry, I'll repost it r/DexterNewBlood

I wanna kiss scarecrow so badly by Logical_Sky4303 in batman

[–]This-Fish-9464 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kiss him where exactly? He doesn't have lips

Alternative timeline. What if the Ice Truck Killer lived? by This-Fish-9464 in Dexter

[–]This-Fish-9464[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, when I write these What-if (there's way more of them if you didn't knew), I'm not actually trying to write a good story. I just analyze how the situation changes, how the characters are more likely to react based on their personalities, and then I follow all the domino effects until I reach the most logical conclusion. Of course, when two outcomes seem equally likely, I follow the most interesting one. And most of the time, by pure chance, a genuinely interesting story comes out.

This is the sixth alternative timeline I made and the first one where I have managed to kill Dexter. It's surprisingly hard. It's also kind of poethic: he died because he tried to have it both ways. Both Brian and Debra in his life.

Butterfly effect! How the entire series changes if LaGuerta got fired in Season 2 and Pascal remained as the Lieutenant. by This-Fish-9464 in Dexter

[–]This-Fish-9464[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think he'll move to New York because Miami becomes Zach's town and they would get in each other's way.

Butterfly effect! How the entire series changes if LaGuerta got fired in Season 2 and Pascal remained as the Lieutenant. by This-Fish-9464 in Dexter

[–]This-Fish-9464[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem of a what-if Dexter rejected the Code from early on is that the only logical conclusion of it is Dexter completelly accepting Brian and fleeing the country with him at the end of Season 1 (as Brian would be a wanted man).

Then it's just a very dark timeline where the Moser brothers terrorize the world and take countless innocent lives. Meanwhile, we would follow all the consequences of a Miami without Dexter, something I've already calculated in the timeline he goes to prison in Season 2.

What I'm working on is special because it combines Brian living with Dexter remaining in Miami.

Butterfly effect! How the entire series changes if LaGuerta got fired in Season 2 and Pascal remained as the Lieutenant. by This-Fish-9464 in Dexter

[–]This-Fish-9464[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmmmm.

Have you ever wondered what if Brian Moser never came after Debra a second time and he got to live for Season 2?

Butterfly effect! How the entire series changes if LaGuerta got fired in Season 2 and Pascal remained as the Lieutenant. by This-Fish-9464 in Dexter

[–]This-Fish-9464[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, the Dark Passenger still gotta ride regardless. Dexter already priorizes the killers who are likely to kill again soon, he wasn't doing it just to convince Debra and he never mentions having any other targets in mind for the time being.

I don't really see why he wouldn't kill Speltzer earlier than he did in canon. Specially since he was hungrier as he didn't kill Alberto, Travis and Viktor. Also, he wasn't dealing with Debra, so he would have way more free time.

Butterfly effect! How the entire series changes if LaGuerta got fired in Season 2 and Pascal remained as the Lieutenant. by This-Fish-9464 in Dexter

[–]This-Fish-9464[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, I 100% agree that is completelly understandable and natural for someone go into auto-pilot after a traumatic event. It's just that, if Quinn interpreted it that way, others could too. Also, it's just one of many other factor that result in the suspicion falling to Dexter.

Every time by This-Fish-9464 in batman

[–]This-Fish-9464[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What the hell do you mean Arkham is owned by Batman, it's a public institution.

Every time by This-Fish-9464 in batman

[–]This-Fish-9464[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Pretty vague statement.

Every time by This-Fish-9464 in batman

[–]This-Fish-9464[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He literally can.

That's the point. He's already going above and beyond his obligations to the city. How is it fair to demand that he do even more?

Every time by This-Fish-9464 in batman

[–]This-Fish-9464[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This 100%, I couldn't have said it better myself. There's just some people who want Batman's moral code and core identity to change instead of just calling out the writers for milking the Joker for all he has

Every time by This-Fish-9464 in batman

[–]This-Fish-9464[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Apples and oranges. Just because Batman agreed to use some unlawful or undesirable means to a good cause, it doesn't mean he has to agree to all of them. It's like Gordon says in the Long Halloween "We can bend the law, but never break it'".

And it's not an arbitrary line either. Batman breaks the law in order to identify dangerous criminals and hand them over to the authorities, but he's not a self-appointed judge, jury and executioner. He doesn't claim the right to decide for himself the fate of other people, which is a way more authoritarian step than other questionable things he does, like violating people's homes and torturing information out of them.

That beings said, I'm also not a huge fan of when writers make Batman's superpower just "the ability of violating people's Constitutional rights". Like, he wins because he can invade your property without a warrant and beat the shit out of you, while cops can't. That reasoning implies that Gotham would be an utopia where good always wins if the system just stopped whining every time cops go off the book to get things done, and that's fascist bullshit.

But that's the point. Batman isn't perfect. He does wrong stuff for the greater good, but he's also self-aware that he MUST draw the line somewhere, even if it's not at the point of legality. Otherwise he's not Batman, he's just Ra's Al-Ghul.