If I suddenly found out that Batman was Michael Bloomberg, I would tell people!
Oh god, I wouldn't! People already let that guy control way too much of their lives, and that's without being physically impressed by or scared of him!
Spike: At least give me Wesley's office since he's gone. Angel: He's not gone. He's on a leave of absence. Spike: Yeah, right. Boo-hoo. Thought he killed his bloody father. Try staking your mother when she's coming on to you! Harmony: Well…that explains a lot.
'Destiny'
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Jesse - Aug 16, 2012 9:22:42 am PDT #22179 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
§ ita § - Aug 16, 2012 9:26:52 am PDT #22180 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm sure Bane is the sort of nice guy who wouldn't take that away from his enemy. All the better to set up his eventual tragic downfall...
I'm okay with Bane's henchmen being slavishly...well, anything. He's a fucking scary guy, with an impressive exit interview and maybe an ESL understanding of terminating a position.
Zenkitty - Aug 16, 2012 9:30:16 am PDT #22181 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
The same thing happened in Spider-Man 2, when Spidey's mask got ripped off (or he took it off, or something that I can't remember) on the train, and all the good people of New York opted to NOT immediately whip out their camera phones
As I recall, one guy said, "he's just a kid" and everyone just stared at him in awe. I can believe everyone was just too shell-shocked and astonished to think of taking a picture until it was too late.
That was a great scene.
DavidS - Aug 16, 2012 9:35:03 am PDT #22182 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
That was a great scene.
It was. And the point of the scene is that they won't tell. There is a bond of trust between Spidey and these New Yorkers.
Regarding Bruce's knees and back. With the knee they addressed it with a magic Lucius Fox knee brace so awesome he can kick out a brick wall. So, that wasn't hard to swallow. Mostly Bruce's medical checkup reminded me of Batman Beyond when we have Bitter Old Bruce and his wrecked body. So that was also a compelling reason for him to pass it down to somebody else. We're used to Batman's age getting rebooted frequently but if you compare his prime to that of an athlete like a football player or a boxer, he's probably not going to be doing it for more than 10-15 years tops. Plus he spent 7 years training before he even put on the mask. Because I had Bitter Old Bruce in my head, I had an emotional point of comparison to this Bruce's decision to leave the role. To move beyond Batman. Again, something that would never (could never) happen in the comics. But felt right for these movies.
§ ita § - Aug 16, 2012 9:58:54 am PDT #22183 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm really supposed to buy that he had the knee brace on after Bane stripped him of everything else? I can't even remember if he was wearing long pants, but the idea that Bane took all but one of his things is...well, I think it's as weak as the idea that Blake has the skills to be Batman, pretty much.
DebetEsse - Aug 16, 2012 1:05:56 pm PDT #22184 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I could suspend disbelief that since it was a fusion bomb, rather than a fission bomb, it didn't have the same kind of fallout as a normal atomic bomb.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 16, 2012 1:30:21 pm PDT #22185 of 30000
"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
Yeah, you'd get the initial EMP and gamma ray/neutron pulse from the explosion, but I don't think there would be a cloud of radioactive fallout afterwards. You'd just have to get it far enough out that the neutron radiation wasn't harming people. Well, and so the cloud of superheated vapor didn't blow across an inhabited coastline or par broil a bunch of lobster fishermen and tugboat captains.
Jessica - Aug 16, 2012 1:38:16 pm PDT #22186 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Even given all that, I still don't buy the reaction from the Feds watching on TV being so immediately casual/happy. I'm pretty sure if ANY kind of nuclear bomb went off that close to a major US city the reaction would be "Oh fuck" and not "Over the bay? Everything's fine!"
Steph L. - Aug 16, 2012 2:17:10 pm PDT #22187 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
No matter what, Aquaman was PISSED.
DavidS - Aug 16, 2012 6:05:08 pm PDT #22188 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'm really supposed to buy
Everybody has a different dew-point for their suspension of disbelief. I mostly didn't mind the bad science, but at least with the knee they threw three seconds of explanation at it.
You can't fix a vertebrae that's sticking out of somebody's back by punching it. And they didn't bother to wave their hands at it.