haley-arc ending with dick giving her up and dick going into a crazy guilt spiral not because he loved her so much and feels bad about giving her up but because he is so insanely relieved he doesn't have to take care of her anymore while also feeling like he gave up a very essential requirement to being a normal person (i.e., loving and caring for an animal) but also not feeling bad about that because really she was getting on his nerves and he knew he was neglecting her and he kept having dreams of her breaking out his apartment one night because he "accidentally" left his door or window ajar... and this all somehow flipping into dick wondering if bruce ever felt this way about him, seeing dick as this injured DOG in his life that he felt obligated to take care of but was always secretly hoping dick would just one day up and leave on his own given a cracked window or left without his robin cape (collar) to roam around without an owner in hopes of him being picked up by another well-meaning person who takes in orphans for fun
DC, takes notes. The only correct way to write Bruce about Jaybin is "He has never done anything wrong ever." Except for that one time he suspects him of murder, but it is still "He has done one thing wrong, BUT it's my fault."
Even if Jason was a demonic child, Bruce should be written being like this. I make the rules now.
Fan Art for @glitter-stained ‘s AU The Protector!!
specifically based off two scenes in ch 7-8 I believe? I really liked the contrast between a safer/happier time and the on going conflict in the ch (vague I know,, but you can always read it to find out >:3 )
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I’m not sure how,, but it turned out kinda monochromatic??
also, tumblr may have eaten the quality so heres the two sides individually:
Please read the fic (it’s literally amazing and I treasure it immensely)
it’s got one of the best representations of trauma and how it affects interpersonal relationships in the fandom
It will punch you in the heart, just a little bit (n maybe more) but it’s absolutely worth it and I once again /highly/ recommend reading it!
usually i hate the "killing is wrong" moral in stories because it ends up sounding preachy and unbelievable, especially at comic book superhero scales. this person has hurt many people, and will continue to kill and torture many, many more if they aren't stopped. and no jail will be enough to stop them (for plot reasons of course). it makes "we're better than this" sound dumb and empty.
cough the joker cough cough
that's why the supergirl wot comic is one of my favorites
spoilers below for supergirl 2026 movie + the woman of tomorrow comic !!
kara isn't against killing. she hates it, but will resort to it if need be. her problem was more with ruthye giving in to her feelings of hate and revenge to kill the man who killed her father. ruthye is still so young, and she doesn't deserve that pain
and that comic has a great ending. supergirl tries to talk ruthye down, and basically goes "i'll kill him instead" and she takes up the sword to do just that. this makes ruthye (and by extension, the reader) realize WHY supergirl didn't want ruthye to kill that man, as she now feels the same way about supergirl
(and also connects the underlying theme of "supergirl means hope in the darkest of times" that's present throughout the entire comic)
the movie translated this fine. they could've been more clear about supergirl's moral standing, especially since she wasn't shown to be careful with the lives of the people she was fighting. for the first little while, her "ruthye don't kill krem" sounded a liiiittle biiit hypocritical
(i also wish they emphasized the supergirl = hope message more. it was weakened by them modifying kara's backstory + changing the events of the original comic, and that detail is such an important part of kara)
i am very glad that they kept supergirl killing krem in the end. if they removed that and just had the "killing is wrong" message, i would've rioted
TDLR ;)
the plot was a bit on the weaker side near the end, and they didn't explore the purpose of the story as deeply as the comic, but overall good movie i had fun
the characters were just great. i love how milly alcock played supergirl she was awesome. i love me an unapologetically messy dirty woman
Ok I watched it, it was fine, nowhere near as good as Superman unfortunately. Not what I want to focus on. Theres a line in this movie that led me and my friends to lose our minds analyzing on the way home. During the flashback sequence for Kara's parents, her mother looks at Clark's escape pod as it launches and says something close to "Thats Kal-El, the baby your brother has deemed a conqueror". She says it in a tone that indicates she thinks its ridiculous. Then, when Kara is being loaded into her escape pod her father tells her that "You will have great power, and you must use it to protect those who cannot protect themselves ".
This has led me to believe that Krypton in this world wasn't a monoculture of conquerors, and instead Jor-El and Lara Lor-Van are just fucking crazy. They're space MAGA. Everyone else thinks their plan to send a baby to conquer a planet is just as crazy as we do. We were crying laughing on the way home because of this. Its literally that one post from last year about "Your parents were just weird dude". Jor-El was Kara's wierd racist uncle who rambles about Kryptonian supremacy. Its so fucking funny.
love that the supergirl movie confirms that kryptonians aren’t weird ubermensch fascists and clark’s parents were just weird. Like they were just Scientologists or something
Just saw Supergirl in theaters today, and I'd like to be the vocal minority and say that I really enjoyed this movie. Just as a warning, I will be going into spoilers on this.
First of all, I really loved Kara's characterization in this movie. I love that they showed her being able to fight without her powers- also while drunk, mind you. She's a total wreck, however, and it's really refreshing to see a very imperfect lead female character. She's an alcoholic and ignores her duties as a superhero, but she still takes her mother's wishes for her to do good to heart and tries her best.
They also weren't afraid to show her being rude and crashing out, which was also something I also loved about Clark's characterization in Superman. Their dynamic is pretty great in this movie, and I loved seeing David Corenswet's Superman again. The amount of dorky lines we got from him during the short amount of time he was there was amazing.
I also wanna praise the cinematography because there were so many beautiful looking scenes in this movie, like the shots in space and on the other planets. I'm a huge sucker for space stuff, and this movie scratched that itch. The fight scenes were also very fun as well.
I wasn't a huge fan of Kara constantly pushing the "you shouldn't kill" thing onto Ruthye throughout the whole movie, but the ending really put that all into perspective. I was worried that Krem was going to be spared even after the horrible atrocities he committed, but having Kara take his life on her own and carrying that burden for Ruthye, who is still just a child, was a perfect choice and a great character moment for Kara.
Speaking of atrocities, it's a very bold move to have the main antagonists of the movie doing actually despicable shit as opposed to the classic world domination trope. You get to see Supergirl beat the shit out of sex traffickers in this movie, which is great. This movie was really dark at certain points, and we really need more of that from superhero movies. They've been afraid to let you sit in that darkness for a while, and I'm glad we seem to be moving away from that lately. It had the perfect blend of comedy and serious drama.
The movie ending so abruptly would usually be an issue for me, but Clark just going "oh no, Krypto's gotten into the chocolate- KRYPTO NO!" and then the credits rolling is really funny to me. Especially since there's no scene after this. Overall I had a lot of fun watching this. I just had to ramble about how much I liked it because it upset me seeing just how many negative reviews there are for this movie.
I know nothing about the comic Supergirl is based on or the themes it carried over from the comic aside from what I've seen folks mention, but I keep seeing stuff like how Lobo was cool but ultimately pointless as a character.
Lobo was actually very important to the movie as a foil to Kara in Ruthye's arc. He is not on the same level as them as a protagonist, but he needs to be established as a character early enough to give his presence some weight.
Because the real meat of his presence in the movie is his conversation with Ruthye where she says Krem killed her family for no reason, "for sport", and then Lobo calls that a reason. And then talks about how he kills for money. He's outright enthusiastic about the potential of her becoming a killer herself while Kara doesn't want that for her.
For Kara, no reason, not even revenge, is enough for Ruthye to carry the weight of taking a life, but for Lobo, who views sport or money as good enough of one no matter how superficial, revenge is definitely enough.
That's also why he was witness to the final scene with Krem. Because of what he represents in her arc, he needed to see Ruthye walk away from the path he wanted her to take and choose Kara's. And he needed to see Kara do the final blow because of what Kara represents: being good but not nice. She may take this life and carry that with her, but it still won't make her anything like him.
