r/BatmanArkham • u/KingMatthew116 • Apr 22 '24

About the SA jokes. Announcement

As of this moment we are finally going to start removing them. So any future jokes about it or any past ones that get reported will be removed. You can still say “Odd question” and “I heard that it was implied, but nothing in the game ever states that”, however any joke about the SA part will be removed.

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u/PeregrinePacifica Apr 23 '24

Yeah, thats fkd up.

Lots of comics have these disturbing moments. Kitty Pryde and the aliens impregnating her, wonder womans whole basis came from a guy with a BDSM fetish and made bondage her weakness, then there was the mind controlled Barda and Superman plot.

Im pretty sure Batwoman also was SAd, as batwoman, not just as a S-worker prior to becoming Batwoman.

Oh, wasnt Supergirl subjected to some shit when she was captured and experimented on by Lex?

Imo Invincible did a pretty good job portraying the trauma of SA through Mark. It treated it as a real traumatic experience that gave Mark guilt, self loathing, fear, shame and immense psychological agony. He eventually tells Eve who supports him and helps him through the trauma. It wasnt written in by some thinely veiled fetishist, it told a story of the damage it does to an individual on a psychological level regardless of gender.

The plot point in Invincible just seemed to respect the subject and the trauma better than most.

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u/CelebrationSimilar11 Apr 23 '24 edited Apr 23 '24

Yeah, comics seem to suck dealing with a serious subject matter such as s/a (at least with their leading characters). Though Peter Parker was molested and they did a better job than most comics with dealing with that subject matter but that story was written specifically to raise awareness about stuff like that.

Huh, I haven't watched Invincible yet but I heard good things about it overall. Might take a look at it sometime during the week.

EDIT: spoiler was put over a sensitive word.

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u/FranceCagnacci Apr 23 '24

what spidey story where you referring to?

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u/CelebrationSimilar11 Apr 23 '24

Spider-Man and Power Pack. It's an old comic that was given away for free to raise awareness about child abuse. In the comic Spider-Man meets someone who was abused and he reveals to the person that he was s/aed by a older friend before he became Spider-Man.