In this post, I discussed how Wonder Woman's ability to take/endure damage is often portrayed inconsistently and how that's a real problem with the character.
In particular, when it comes to poison gases or toxins, and I mentioned how there's something ludicrous—and extremely lame—that we have a god-like character who can go toe-to-toe with the likes of Superman, but can get knocked out cold by sleeping gas or chloroform.
So then there's THIS bullshit I happened to stumble across today....
This is apparently from the recently released comic, Harley's Little Black Book, in which Harley Quinn—the Joker's groupie—happens across a gang of thugs that plans to kidnap Wonder Woman and sell her to the highest bidder.
So we get this...
I realize this is just some stupid comedy comic that shouldn't be taken seriously—and they do imply this is stronger than normal sleeping gas—but this just pisses me off.
Harley Quinn—Harley fucking Quinn—just walked up to Wonder Woman and knocked her out cold with a single goddamn gas can. And apparently it was a good thing she did, because Diana would've been screwed otherwise.
I don't even know what to say.
No, this isn't the first time—and probably won't be the last—Wonder Woman's been jobbed out by the dumbest of circumstances, and even if it is meant for a stupid laugh, this is just another example of her wildly inconsistent power-levels and only serves to make her look like a total chump.
And I don't even like Harley Quinn...
Fuck this comic.
Okay, I'll admit that this is a funny scene, but you're right about it being insulting to Wonder Woman. They could've done this same set-up with, say, Black Canary or Katana. It would have made more sense and been just as funny. I don't understand why they cast Wonder Woman in this role.
ReplyDeleteOoh someone else who doesn't like her. What's your reason? Did you not like her in the original animated series or not until they brought her into the comics and turned her into DC's Wolverine?
ReplyDeleteHarley was tolerable in the animated series. But she really started to grate on me when DC turned her into, you say Wolverine, I would say their Deadpool.
DeleteIn the cartoon, she was consistently presented as this sympathetic and relatively harmless villain that was redeemable. You could buy other characters tolerating or cooperating with her if they needed to.
Nowadays, though, she's supposed to be this unpredictable bad-ass who's done things just as vile as the Joker and can outwit and outfight characters far above her league. Yet the heroes still treat her as their cooky friend.
I just find her whole shtick insufferable now.
I called her Wolverine because I remember seeing fans complaining about how he was in everything now because of his popularity. She's definitely the Deadpool of DC but I think she's a combo of both.
DeleteYeah she is very complicate an a lot of the heinous acts the Joker did and the writers treat her as only a victim when she isn't. Remember how she helped what he did to Tim?
The biggest offense is how quickly and easily she's forgiven in the Injustice universe. She is just as responsible as the Joker for setting things in motion and she wasn't next on Superman's claw list? Ridiculous.
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