#439208
- Thu Mar 03 2005 02:51 AM
Re: Batman VS Al Qaeda?
[Re: First Amongst Daves]
|
PJP
Go Jankees!
Registered: Tue May 06 2003
Posts: 31944
Loc: Perfectville: Population 1
|
he'd find him in about 2 -3 days if he found out there was a plot against Gotham.......otherwise he probably figures ain't his problem.
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
#439209
- Thu Mar 03 2005 06:25 PM
Re: Batman VS Al Qaeda?
[Re: PJP]
|
the G-man
Lawyers Guns & Money
Registered: Fri May 16 2003
Posts: 36218
Loc: the right
|
You know... if you think about it... Batman has been fighting the DCU version of Al Quaeda for about thirty years, in Ras Al Ghul and his League of Assassins.
Ras is a terrorist nobleman of Middle Eastern descent out to "purify" the world with the assistance of his worldwide network of terrorists.
Bin Laden is a terrorist nobleman of Middle Eastern descent out to "purify" the world with the assistance of his worldwide network of terrorists.
Of course, in the DCU, Bin Laden would not get very far with his group before being taken over by Ras's forces and given the choice to join them or die.
Which is my main problem with comic books that try to deal with Bin Laden: in a world where you have Ras, Kobra (or in Marvel Doom and the Red Skull), etc., and supervillains that level entire cities in a given month, something as bad as 9/11 would look relatively minor league.
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#439213
- Mon Mar 07 2005 10:22 AM
Re: Batman VS Al Qaeda?
[Re: King Snarf]
|
the G-man
Lawyers Guns & Money
Registered: Fri May 16 2003
Posts: 36218
Loc: the right
|
Quote:
King Snarf said:
I always thought it goofy that in JMS's Spider-Man, there was a pic of some supervillains crying over the Trade Center wreckage. Kingpin makes sense, since he lives in New York, but Doom and Magneto are a smidge harder to justify.
Yeah, they were crying and yeah it was ridiculous.
First off, both Doom and Magneto have killed, or tired to kill, more people than Bin Laden ever dreamed of.
Second off, they both hate us.
Magneto's reaction would be "What do you call 3000 dead humans? A good start."
Doom's reaction would be "Bah, so a few paltry thousand of Richards' accursed countrymen died for the weakness of their leaders. What matter is it for Doom? Let that oil fattened madman Bin Laden dare try to threaten as single sovereign subject of Latveria and then he shall know how a TRUE ruler deals with such as he..."
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
Moderator: Jeremy
|
|
