sure, which brings up the whole crapton of cables running from the battery pack all through the catsuit up and need to be hooked up before getting the mask on …
for all of us, who hate the in-ear-phones with their cables getting all twisted up into a rats-nest - we can sympathise …
along a similar vain: I always wanted to do a movie on mundane shitty stuff of superheros …
Like food poisoning induced diarrhea and fighting your suit on the way to the toilet … or bringing your suit to the dry cleaners and the tickets get mixed up and being returned a silk-blouse or stuff like that.
(every time they walk through a doorway, the draft would close the door on their cape making for an interesting start into a pursuit… that kind of stuff)
So are small corps. Look the reason why we hear so much hate and bad tales about Walmart, Disney, Wizard of the Coast, etc- is that they are #1. #1 always gets flak, because it is so big. Also of course, since everyone is human and makes mistakes, a copr with a million employees will make more mistakes than one with a hundred- about ten thousand times more.
Except Wales was on the side of slavery and evil, and the browncoats apparently were on the side of Freedom.
No, but since he was in a group like Quantrill’s raiders, led by Bloody Bill Anderson, who commited two massacres, took scalps and robbed. Not to mention raping a 12yo girl. They were nasty evil men. The film was made in the period when filmmakers tended to portray CSA veterans as the proud outnumbered losers in a good fight.
Of course in the film, Wales is shown to be a mostly good guy, taking the side of the downtrodden, etc.
Watchmen mentioned one of the costumed characters (Nite Owl, I think) mentioning that he gave up on having a cape because he couldn’t move through his own house without knocking stuff down and redesigned his costume after losing a stakeout target while taking a bathroom break.
Watchmen even depicts a hero (Dollar Bill, his name was, if I remember right) whose cape got caught in the revolving door of a bank, trapping him there and allowing the bank robbers to easily shoot him to death.
Like the Batsignal going off. Batman jumps into the Batmobile, then sees in the security camera that there’s an elderly couple having a picnic and picking flowers at the end of the Batdriveway. An inordinate amount of time is spent trying to shoo them.
Pa Kent shaming Clark on his deathbed: “I could have been a leading seller and distributor of industrial diamonds. It would have taken you maybe 2 minutes to squeeze the coal, but no…”
Or perpetually poor Peter Parker having to sew up rips and tears in his spidey suit. “Hey Aunt May, can I borrow your sewing kit? Yeah, I tore up my work clothes again. Strenuous job, being a freelance photographer. No, no, thanks for the offer, but I can do it myself— you already do too much for me. Are we all out of red and blue thread?”
Robin demanding BM over the extense working hours and no weekend.
No shop willing to work on the Batmobile as its full of off-brand accessories … and throwing a rod in hot pursuit, just to be towed by the AAA - and having to disclose his home address…
Standing in line with the Batmobile over lunchbreak for technichal revision and failing it
To be fair, it was written by a Klansman and prominent white supremacist who was part of a movement that actively tried to promote the great lie that the civil war wasn’t about slavery. It’s not surprising that it portrayed Wales as wronged and driven to violence.
The in-universe explanation was that the Batmobile was too fast for anyone to catch up with. Despite the fact that Batman was a stickler for the rules, and wouldn’t have broken the speed limit unless in an emergency.
And who ran that telephone line out to the Batcave? In addition to being the greatest detective in the world, is Batman also the world’s greatest telephone lineman, and he did it himself? Or did he use his massive wealth to bribe all of the linemen so they would keep quiet about where the Batcave really was?
Or did he just kill them after they were done installing the Batphone?
“Super-hero has to deal with petty every day bullshit,” is pretty much Spider-Man’s whole character concept. “Peter fixing his suit between missions,” is a very common scene in his comics.
Likewise, “Batman’s clever plan for disguising the entrance to the Batcave” is a common trope, although the precise method changes pretty frequently. Secret cliff faces, holograms, a ravine that can only be jumped by a jet-assisted car.
