SilverZeo

Amazing how being away for a few years from this site and see how much it has changed...

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All depends on the material...

Like most things in the entrainment, it can  fly or sink depending how it it is handle. We don't want to see our favorite heroes geting killed or mualed, but life tends to have some parts that are... well, cruel and devastating.

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Fro example, lets take a look at the Alan Moore classic, Killing Joke, and how it left the most famous Batgirl, Barbara Gordon, crippled from the waist down.  The way it plays out, from the moment that Babes opened that door, we knew the worst was yet to come.  When she got shot, we knew it was serious when an ENTIRE page consisting of her looking surprise, getting shot, and falling down on her back; which really empathizes on the seriousness of it SO much that writers today LEFT Barbara handicap, while many other characters who died simply coming back to life.
 
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Most of the violence in comics today seem to LACK the grim aftermath of such things, like how Steel or Batman got stabbed in the same general area as Babes, but they manage to walk it off and act like it never happened at all. So even though Roy gotten his arm torn off in bloody fashion, the fact we didn't see HOW it happen and Roy just walks in with it, kinda left me thinking it sees more like a cheap marketing gimmick. Which is a shame considering that
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Roy LOST HIS ARM!
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