Shouts from the Abyss

“Will you marry me?” 

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DC fans: please go see Black Panther next February because it’s not often that we get a superhero movie with a predominantly POC cast

“The man has five kids,his comics are usually about his family ANYWAY how would marrying Catwomangoing to ruin his storylines?”

That’s something I’ve been saying A LOT. Dude has alreadyadopted a bunch of children??? He is a loving man ALREADY, yes, he is broody asfuck, a sarcastic motherfucker and the most paranoid superhero ever, but he isalso VERY human, brave and kind. Batman, when written well, can be a wonderfulround character. Earth 2 Bruce Wayne is married, has a kid and is ALL of thosethings. The idea Bruce will suffer a personality transplant because of marriageis kinda ridiculous, many superheroes and villains are married and are stilldoing their thing, I mean even fucking Deadpool was married, DEADPOOL…

*I digress*

Also, why do people think his comic book will suddenly focus solely onhis domestic life just because he is married? Even on the main Superman titlethe action and villains and the endless plots to destroy the world are thefocus of the stories… NOT his marriage. Yesterday a twitter follower told methe reason why some people might oppose to this was because for many the ideaof marriage is boring and dull. Would you say Lois Lane and Clark Kent’s lifeis boring and dull? Would you say they are a boring couple because they aremarried? What about Arthur and Mera? Barda and Scott? Ollie and Dinah? Yeah, thesepeople totally let themselves go after marriage, they are totally not kickingasses and being iconic. Sure.

The bottom line here is that DC still trying hard to sell tragic Batman(a very tired trope if you ask me), it doesn’t have anything to do with hisrelationship with Catwoman in particular (or any of his previous girlfriendstbh). If anything the only reason they didn’t killed the romance completely isbecause they know they are a popular pairing, when they need that cash flowingthey always use the romance trump card. But in the end, they don’t have thecourage to pull the trigger and do something different, so we are always stuckin this cycle.

Anyways, fun fact: my happy ending for batcat never included marriage,mostly because we always project our own expectations into our ships, but inBruce’s case it kinda makes sense you know? His parents were happily married;he was raised by Alfred (who despite being a kick-ass very unconventional butler,still holds some traditional values), so yeah, I do think Bruce would seemarriage as a way to pursue happiness with a significant other.