bruce’s defence attorney

Firstly, I agree with the character assassination bit. Talia was written horribly during Morrison's run and that has left a mark on the character for quite awhile. I just have a few issues with some of the points made.

My first issue is the idea that since Talia cared for Bruce's wellbeing that the rape couldn't have happened. On one hand, there is a point but when reading other things she has done to him (she has manipulated and lied to him so that Ra's can achieve world domination like in Batman 240, gaslit him during the Bat-Murderer arc, and others) it does not hold up to scrutiny. If someone cared for your wellbeing they wouldn't gaslight or manipulate you.

Next is the idea that Talia values Bruce's agency. This is laughable. She married him when he was drugged. She saw the marriage as legitimate and believed that only the consent of the wife and the father was enough.

Bruce didn't even see the marriage as true.

She does not value Bruce's consent or agency, which is evident from the panels above.

She also had a hand in this. This wasn't only Ra's doing.

Next is Bane. Firstly, according to the timeline in both the Batman wiki for New Earth Talia (I'm guessing since we have mostly New Earth publications that is the Talia we are talking about) and on the Wikipedia, the Bane storyline happens after Damian's/proto-Damian's contraception. She was not a sexual abuse victim then.

And an abuse victim can abuse another, it is not unheard of. Next, evidently, she did not grow up in a culture were sexual abuse was decried or at least for the men. Yes, she is a sexually abuse victim but that does not make her incapable of rape.

This is the most important line in the movie. I'm 100% serious. It tells you everything you need to know about Lex Luthor's character. It shows the audience that, despite being almost omnicognizant from the get-go, Luthor clearly has no fucking idea who Superman is, only what he does.

I've never seen anyone go from All-Knowing Evil to Absolute Fucking Loser so fast. In fifteen words he went from unstoppable criminal powerhouse to flailing manchild moron. He gave his Evil Dictator demonstration and then turned around, dropped his pants and showed his entire ass. He proclaimed his manifesto of unrelenting ego, turned around, slipped on a banana peel and landed on a whoopie cushion.

And he was so mired in his own sense of superiority that he never even knew it.

And he was mourned. Superman cried for him—this stranger who gave him free falafel and, while facing death, told him that he still believed in him. Metamorpho, this cold-seeming man who is being actively blackmailed to do this, breaking down and taking the risk to believe in Superman, too, because seeing someone murdered right in front of him is devastating enough to take the risk. The newspapers run a front page article talking about how they’re going to memorialize him.

The stakes didn’t have to involve real actual loss of life. The threat of it was enough to convey the severity of the situation. Because human life is that important. All life is that important, at least to Superman who goes out of his way to save dogs and squirrels.