Cass? Perfect little Cassandra Cain? The Batgirl that's a better fighter than Batman? The Batgirl he let kill¹?
¹ Okay, there are some technicalities there ...
eta:
Even if her pinkie was broken.
She did take Shiva with that broken arm, didn't she?
Doesn't winter seem more like archiving season?
Willow ,'Lessons'
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§ ita § - Dec 06, 2004 2:45:34 pm PST #6801 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
P.M. Marc - Dec 06, 2004 2:52:46 pm PST #6802 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Yeah, Bats would be glowing with pride between whimpers of agony.
Connie Neil - Dec 06, 2004 3:36:01 pm PST #6803 of 10001
brillig
t stoic voice good job. We're done for today.
t door closes
t pushes button Alfred ... help ...
Nutty - Dec 06, 2004 5:09:53 pm PST #6804 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Well there you go. I stand corrected.
FTR, never having handled a professional baseballer's cup, I do not know if they are now metal or some really hard plastic, but the subtext of the Gary Bell story as I read it (in a memoir by Jim Bouton) is that, at the time -- 1969 -- there was nothing to be done and it was the ringing steel cup or none at all, and that this untenable situation has been somehow remedied in the decades since.
(Bouton does mention one game where he was sitting around the dugout not wearing his cup, because as ita notes it's not that comfortable to wear, and whoops got called in to relieve immediately, and spent part of an inning on the mound cup-free, and quite terrified.)
Returning to the original topic, it amuses me no end to think of evildoers attacking Batman and his crotch emitting a nice, resonant middle C as a bad guy tries and fails to incapacitate him.
§ ita § - Dec 06, 2004 5:10:18 pm PST #6805 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Keanu playing a character as befuddled as he is as an actor, the movie is only held together by the great performance of Rachel Weisz and a few good scares that are few and far between.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 06, 2004 5:33:57 pm PST #6806 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Yes, because slack-jawed bewilderment and having to work to catch up to speed are SO qualities I associate with John Constantine.
This movie has demons all over the place, right? Couldn't it spark a wave of creepy supernatural happenings that drive people out of the business like The Exorcist did?
Frankenbuddha - Dec 07, 2004 3:19:29 am PST #6807 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Yes, because slack-jawed bewilderment and having to work to catch up to speed are SO qualities I associate with John Constantine.
Preach it, Matt. The only time I remember JC being even remotely befuddled was when Morpheus tapped him to help retrieve his dust. Even when Constantine's in over his head, he usually KNOWS that going in.
Calli - Dec 07, 2004 4:26:49 am PST #6808 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
If anyone knows what's going on, it's Constantine. And even when he doesn't know, he usually keeps up a front. I occasionally like Keanu, but casting him as Constantine is as wrong as casting one of the Olsen twins as Eleanor d'Aquitaine in A Lion in Winter.
Frankenbuddha - Dec 07, 2004 4:36:35 am PST #6809 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I occasionally like Keanu, but casting him as Constantine is as wrong as casting one of the Olsen twins as Eleanor d'Aquitaine in A Lion in Winter.
AND Pauley Shore as Henry.
eta Damn you, Sting, for getting too old! shakes fist
Anne W. - Dec 07, 2004 4:36:43 am PST #6810 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
as wrong as casting one of the Olsen twins as Eleanor d'Aquitaine in A Lion in Winter.
convulses