“Ain’t got that.”
“Nope.”
If they really wanted to swing for the bleachers, they’d make movies based on the Golden Age conceptions of these heroes.
Batman kills. With guns. Batman shoots people with guns and they die. Batman has absolutely no moral scruples against shooting people with guns until they are dead. He also cracks more jokes than any later incarnation.
(Also, the Joker is a one-shot villain. Because he is shot. And he dies.)
Superman can’t fly. He can jump like the dickens, however. He also beats people up and kills them. He likes to beat wife-beaters to death, for example.
Wonder Woman is pretty much a dominatrix. Her lasso not only compels truth, it compels obedience. Also, her super powers are all learned skills which she can teach to others, but only other women. (Remember, kids: It isn’t subtext if it’s text.) But she can’t fly, so she does need the invisible jet.
And people thought the Dark Age was violent and weird. (Or was that just Liefeld’s art…)
They are first cousins in the comics. Ethilrist was suggesting a retcon.
That said, at least one version of Supergirl was not a blood relative, and I’m told there’s an alternate timeline where she married Superman or something.
She’s not from the Amazon basin, she’s from–oh, what does it matter? An island somewhere, usually.
You’re slanting it a little on Superman and Batman, I think. Or counting stuff from very early issues when the creators were still finding their way.
Your description of early Wonder Woman is pretty accurate though. I don’t think she was a dominatrix personality, because that would have been overkill. But the lasso was deeply scary. And “Amazon training” was indeed a thing. College girls gaining superstrength and stuff.
To be precise, I was suggesting a joke.
Remember, Thor’s early flight involved throwing the hammer really, really hard and not letting go.
Maybe she never had the invisible jet at all, and was just flying around in a sitting position to mess with people’s heads, or make them think if they hit the “jet” she’d fall out of the sky?
Actually, it was even worse – Thor threw his hammer, then caught the thong at the end of the hammer and held on as it pulled him along.
Strong thong, that.