i want to year your niche dc and jrwi parallels please please please
no1 is chip and jason,,, both of them had their family taken from them, in a way lost thier sense of self and did things their younger selves would find reprehensible,,, ntm they also both died and came back,,, even having some idealised verson of their father figure they look up to and compare themselves against (with varying results but know),,, theres more but nothing else comes to mind rn,,
then theres also chip and lizzie and jason and dick parallels to me where its two people knowing one version of the other and reuniting after having experiencing tragedies apart and having to reconcile with the fact your sibling is no longer how you remember them while still caring deeply about them (granted lizzie and chip managed it better than jason and dick but their relationship is less complicated in comparison)
where we get REAL NICHE is my superboy prime and everett james petalbridge comparisions. both initially well intentioned. both driven by fear and a misguided sense of what is right to do terrible things. reaching out to people they saw as friends/people they looked up to and lashed out when rejected by them,,, THEN trying to do the right thing far too late,,, in places of isolation where no one would see allowing themselves to be vulnerable and admitting they had fought for perhaps the wrong reasons and accepting defeat and offering themselves up as a sacrifice,,,,, to me everett is like if superboy prime's story ended at his sacrifice in death metal ,,, god they both make me so upset
then theres the jason and mary tmk parallels of having a parental figure be unable to save them and that lead to a sense of abandonment and therefore a desperate attempt to hold onto power to retaliate (against either the parent that failed them or the world at large that failed them also),,, and the self destruction of wanting everything to suffer with them at the cost of everyone else and themselves if it means vindication for their suffering,,,
anyway hope you enjoy the ramblings of a madman that maybe three people ever will understand LMAOO