Marvel/DC: Deadpool/Batman #1 - "The Red & The Green" (2025)

propaganda:

Stealing kisses.

This man is literal royalty, and he willing played bellhop for a mission and got a door slammed on him. (Honestly, after Vlatava is destroyed government/spy work under Waller is all he's got going for him.)

AND THEN HE DOES THIS.

Like yes please do barge in and reveal your costume beneath your bellhop disguise (I know it's for the reader's sake. Visuals are obviously important especially when they are a lesser known character, but it's hilarious thinking of this from an in world perspective that he felt the need to reveal himself like that.)

(Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #5): Besides The Creeper, all of these characters are villians. And clever ones, too. Count Vertigo is cool, and I like how Killer Croc (initially just Croc) was the one responsible for Jason Todd becoming an orphan. Don't like how sexual I find his profile, though. Ed Hannigan really didn't need to make his speedo so prominent. I feel like i'm seeing something dirty. But also kind of creepy. It's weird.

DC Downgrade Bracket Round 2 - Match 4

🤢Werner Vertigo (Count Vertigo)🤢

Went from being an complicated but interesting morally grey disabled character whose disability was important to his character to a one note ugly as fuck xenophobic villain caricature whose deafness is only ever brought up so writers can be ableist + audist

🤢Maxwell Lord🤢

Max was obliterated by Countdown to Infinite Crisis. Before it, he was a manipulative businessman whose attempt to run the Justice League for personal benefit had caused him start caring about its members, listening to his conscience, and genuinely trying to do the right thing. He was still a bastard when it was funny, but his darkest moments outside of his introductory arc were things he did to try and keep the League intact and his friends safe. Countdown to Infinite Crisis turned him into a generic supervillain who secretly hated superheroes the whole time, never mind the fact that Martian Manhunter had read his mind after he'd nearly died turning his back on his first evil scheme and confirmed that his motives were good. Then Wonder Woman killed him, which has become the go-to reference moment for people who don't actually know anything about her to back up their bad takes. Also his outfit is stupid.