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On the other hand, it's very possible that Spiderman will save you!

Counting nothing but Batman villains, I'd say those who are into the humanities would include... Poison Ivy yes, Catwoman yes if she were ever a villain anymore, Two-Face probably, Ra's al Ghul definitely, and a few members of the Court of Owls (I associate them more with law or business degrees, but they're so ridiculously old-fashioned I'd be surprised if there weren't a few graduates of history or literature programs in the mix).

On the other hand, it's very possible that Spiderman will save you!

“One of the things I needed to crack was how to approach mythological elements in a sort of real-world way. The big breakthrough creatively in thinking about the gods was that everything that is now explained by science was once supernatural. Lightning, thunder, earthquakes, volcanoes... people are literally seeing gods everywhere; not even the evidence of gods, they're seeing the actions of gods. I don't want to say too much about it beyond indicating that yes, the evidence of the supernatural is all around these people. It's very much part of their lives. And I think it's quite a lot of fun to tap into that.”

Yeah..... How about no....

So long story short...he didn't approach it like at all...

Honestly there is this obsession with people do that and erase the gods I mean it was all fun and games when it was done the first time in Troy movie but at least those tried something new. Yes they messed up big time with various of things but at least they tried something new. Now it is just old news. Also if he wanted that then why the hell hire Zendaya to play Athena? Is she what? A hallucination? A local girl of some kind or what?

Even Shanower seems to follow this approach with the "Age of Bronze" which was a bit turn off but at least the dude has the redeeming qualities of historically accurate designs and actually following the sources for a change and add his own interpretation or preference on them agree or disagree he does for most part

Paid service with no ads: Well, if they're not funding it with ad revenue, they need to charge us something.

Paid service with ads: Well that's bullshit.

On the other hand, it's very possible that Spiderman will save you!

GO OFF BESTIE

Like, you're born in Atlanta Georgia sometime in the 1880s. Your mother is a white English immigrant. Your father is an African American lawyer who has managed to become fairly wealthy off his practice.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle claims that your parents were married, but they almost certainly weren't or, if they were, they probably had to go elsewhere to get married and their marriage wouldn't have been recognised in Georgia. Realistically, they were facing huge amounts of prejudice that are only increased when you are born.

(Your mother openly says, in front of you when you're older, that it is a “great misfortune” that you were born with darker skin than even your father.)

Then disaster strikes. Your father dies. Your mother can't stand to stay in America without him and returns to England.

She does not take you with her. She says this is because of your health. It's just way healthier for you to stay where you are, as a parentless mixed race child in the Jim Crow era American South. Rather than going with your only living relative to England (which, while obviously still very racist, at least doesn't have any actual laws against people like you existing).

Your mother meets a new man. A merchant. He's white. She signs over all your father's money and investments to him when they marry. She doesn't tell him about you. She's worried he wouldn't understand. She later explains that this was a major ordeal for her. That she struggled in vain to resist the urge to send for you for three years, until it got too much to bear.

So now you live in England. In a cottage on the estate that was partly paid for by your father's money.

You're not allowed to leave the cottage, because if anyone sees you outside in the daylight then they might find out that you're black. While you're in the cottage, even (apparently) at nighttime, you are made to wear long gloves and a fucking mask, so that nobody can accidentally look through the window and find out that you're black.

Your mother visits you occasionally. She tells you that you're her “own girlie and mother's pet” whether you're “dark or fair”. When her husband comes to see what's going on, you and your nurse get shoved out the back door so he won't see you and find out that you're black.

Unfortunately, your stepfather has noticed that his wife keeps randomly going off in the middle of the night to visit a mysterious cottage where the only inhabitant seem to be a weirdly secretive servant woman and a strange masked figure, and has decided that something Fucked Up is going on.

So he goes to consult the Great Detective Sherlock Holmes. Normally, the Great Detective Sherlock Holmes can work this kind of shit out in his sleep, but unfortunately your family is so dysfunctional that you override his borderline magical deduction abilities, and the best theory he can come up with is either “secret affair” or “weirdly convoluted blackmail scheme”.

Fortunately however, this does lead to your stepfather eventually meeting you and finding out who you are. Including the fact that you're black.

Turns out he's fine with it.

Like completely. Quite possibly more so than your own mother is. Turns out there was no need for the traumatic abandonment, the years of separation and then the even more traumatic being forced to live like The Man In The Iron Mask in a cottage in the middle of nowhere.

Nope. Turns out you could have been allowed to go outside in daylight this entire time. You all go back to the big house (that was paid for in part with your father's investments) together and we never find out what happens to you.

I mean… what. The. Fuck.

Like, I'm not expecting Sir Arthur CD to have written an entire child psychology textbook to go with what was meant to be a fun little short story about racial tolerance, but holy shit.

Only to immediatley start pulling elements of the old canon into their stuff?

Han and Leia's son turning to the Dark Side.

A New Empire to cause trouble for the New Republic.

Palpatine returning from the dead.

The death of a beloved member of the original crew (Chewie in the old canon, Han, Luke and Leia in the new).

The Mandalorians having fought a war against the Jedi at one point in the past.

The symbol of Mandalore's right to rule being an object (Darksaber in new, The Helmet in the old).

But I was well aware of Jaina, Jacen, Ben and Anakin, the kids of the group and Mara Jade, Luke's wife.

There was a Galaxy Gun. It blew up planets, but with shells fired through hyperspace.

There were World Devastators. They consumed the surface of planets and used the raw materials to create weapons.

There was a Centerpoint Station. It could move, or destroy, planets and stars across the entire galaxy.

There was a Darksaber. It was a discount Death Star ultimately done in by its builders' shitty subcontracting and refusal to perform adequate quality control and employee vetting... Okay you know what, that was a terrific concept. That one can stay.

There was the Pulsar Station. It was another sort of discount Death Star but it was mostly just a project on paper, planted by a third party to make the New Republic believe that a warlord was building his own superweapon... Okay, that one can stay too.