Holy Hard-Ons, Batman!

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Many honourable and great heroes have tested themselves against your horrific hypnosis, and unfortunately many of them were defeated.

Your control is a blight against the purity and sanctity of superheroes. You have turned those shining paragons of justice into pitiful slaves, and I have had enough.

On my reputation, I shall stake everything to take you down. I will unravel your wicked networks and return the heroes you’ve brainwashed back to their former glory.

I am Solion. The father of heroes, the bastion of righteousness, the symbol of hope for all.

Prepare all you’d like. Feel free to even publicly respond. Nothing will protect you from my justice.

Mmmmm. Such a perfect example of the saccarine morality of a hero too bound by his sense of duty to realize the truth.

I do so love to listen to this kind of prattling, this holy war you seem hell-bent on raising against me. And for what?

Give it a moment of thought, mighty Solion. Is it not the power of a man, the truest strength of his character to reach out and accept a helping hand when it is needed? That’s all I’m doing for these heroes you call pitiful.

Heroes come to me already broken, tired, and wanting a break from their journey. Sometimes they need help realizing it for themselves, but they usually come to accept it, and in turn my offer of a break.

They let me hypnotize them so that they can rest. They let me hypnotize them so that they can relax. They accept my words and my voice into their minds as an escape from their troubles, and I make sure they earnestly enjoy themselves.

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Fight that inner voice all you want, mighty Solion. That one that’s been calling from the very depths of your mind for so long, begging for a break. A nice long break. Fight it with all your might.

All of that energy is being wasted. Every hero finds themselves at the same place eventually. You all burn yourselves out. And as the “father of heroes” you should set the example. Accept the hand I’m reaching out to you.

Let yourself be vulnerable, let yourself be free. Even for just a moment. Be that righteous symbol of hope in the scariest way. Show them all that you are just like any other person. Show them all that you need a break too.

Look at yourself in the mirror for a moment and recognize that what I’m saying is resonating with you. I am not wrong. My control is not a blight *against* the purity of heroes. It’s a force for good to *maintain* their goodness. To give them that freedom so that they can live in spiritual balance.

I have pondered your response, and I will concede your argument has some merit.

**However!** That is ignoring the blatant depravity of the man behind it! I am no fan of ad hominem but it is obvious you are not the misrepresented ally of justice you claim to be!

In the end, heroes indeed will need breaks, but not from salacious fetishists and villains such as yourself! And while I am not and would never consider myself to be superior to any hero, I am far above the need for breaks and relaxation!

So unfortunately Master Villain, I have come to the conclusion that you are a snake and a foe posing as a friend to manipulate your way into the hearts of heroes, and I shall expose your evil ways once and for all!

Oh dear... so many choice words you've used to describe me, and what I do... Depravity, salacious, snake-like. All because I enjoy the peak of male form, wrapped tightly in bright, colourful, form-fitting lycra material? Set that aside and what is left, mighty Solion? A hypnotist who wants his hypnotic subjects to relax, and recuperate from their stressful, tiresome jobs. I can't see the evil there.

But what I *can* see is that you seem overly convinced that I'm wicked beyond humanity. You claim to not consider yourself superior, and yet cannot even fathom that I am not as evil as others may claim. You've made your assumptions, and you've closed your mind to other possibilities. That's not very heroic, is it?

Especially considering that you find my argument to have merit. All we're doing is talking, big guy. I could follow in other villain's footsteps and work other plans to make you see reason. I could employ mind-control technology-- spirals, subliminals, scents, etc-- or even simply sneak behind you and grab something large and manly as a distraction. But I choose to connect with you in this way. Open your mind and see that I am not your enemy.

1x01 Titans - Door to the face/knocked down 1x02 Hawk and Dove - Shoved, gut and face kicked 1x03 Origins - [Childhood; therapy] 1x05 Together - Punched, gutkicked, knocked against wall, elbowed, knocked out the window, swarmed, pistolwhipped x13, bloody nose 1x06 Jason Todd - Bloody nose, self-surgery 1x07 Asylum - Restrained in a padded room x2, heavily drugged x2, 'seizing', weak, knocked unconscious, hallucinating, thrown out window, hit with a baton x6, bleeding, unresponsive, tazed x2, punched/cut lip 1x11 Dick Grayson - Hostage

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2x01 Trigon - Hostage, [fake world; shot/killed], knocked down 2x05 Deathstroke - Punched x3, bodyslammed, hit with blade hilt, flashbanged 2x07 Bruce Wayne - Hallucinating the whole episode, guilt, talks to hallucination x5, emotional 2x08 Jericho - Punched x7, hit with baton x2, knocked down x2, stabbed x2, headbutted x3, kicked, weak, unconscious, guilt 2x09 Atonement - Punched, bloody nose, guilt 2x10 Fallen - Arrested 💀, pistolwhipped x2, bleeding 2x11 E.L._.O. - Isolated, hallucinating, fever, realized missing, beaten, [Fake world; stabbed x2, killed x2], shaking, choked x2, thrown, gutkicked, punched x3, kicked, elbowed, arm dislocated 2x13 Nightwing - Knocked down, kicked x4, tazed, guilt/grieving

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3x02 Red Hood - Caught in explosion, tinnitus 3x04 Blackfire - Kicked, shot (armor), shoulder shot (clean through), punched--x4, manhandled 3x06 Lady Vic - Bleeding, bandaged 3x07 51% - Thrown 3x08 Home - Hit by a car (13:50), passes out, hospital, hallucinating x4 3x10 Troubled Water - Hallucinating 3x11 Call is Coming From Inside the House - Punched, choked, shot x4 (armor), shot in the neck, bleeding out, kicked x1000 3x12 Prodigal - Actually dead, [crying], coughing, passes out

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"He's human after all."