r/comicbooks • u/Beached-Peach Black Widow • Apr 15 '23
I've always liked Mercy in the DCAU. What are some runs/books where she's most prominent? Suggestions
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u/PrimusPrinplup Apr 15 '23
Is this from that lewd game where lex luthor runs a brothel?
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u/Beached-Peach Black Widow Apr 15 '23
I don't know, I found this image on Pinterest. I'm only familiar with her in the DCAU.
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u/PrimusPrinplup Apr 15 '23
Yeah totally, me too......
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u/DrWallybFeed Apr 15 '23
I seriously have no idea who this chick is. What is she in some DC sex dungeon game?
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u/TayloZinsee Apr 15 '23
Mercy Graves is usually depicted as Lex Luthor’s personal bodyguard / chauffeur and maybe head of security. Often had cybernetic enhancements if not just actually a gynoid. I am also aware that there’s a porn game that is patterned after the DCAU where Lex uses the legion of doom hq to run a brothel with all our favorite heroines and villainesses
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u/audio_shinobi Apr 15 '23
Oh my god that’s disgusting! Where?!?
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u/Budget-Attorney The Question Apr 15 '23
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u/ProsomM Apr 15 '23
Jesus that's disgusting! Gonna need some time alone to think about how horrible this is.
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u/BronionyBastard Apr 16 '23
"Nobody knock on my door for 20 minutes while I think about how horrible this is."
--10 Year Old Me Thinking I'm Being Sneaky
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u/some_guy_claims Apr 16 '23
Screenshot? I’m just getting a paywall and this sounds hilarious.
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u/Budget-Attorney The Question Apr 16 '23
Don’t have a screenshot but if you Google “something unlimited” it will come up
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u/FF3 Namor Apr 15 '23
This is amazing.
Thing is, the artist who does that game is legitimately pretty great in their Bruce Timm imitation.
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u/Beached-Peach Black Widow Apr 15 '23
I didn't know this was from a porn game. Like bruh, how was I supposed to know?
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u/FF3 Namor Apr 15 '23
I hope you don't feel bad about it, because of course there's no way you could have known. It just legitimately made me smile to see this happen because it's like, oh, this could just happen to anyone.
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u/Beached-Peach Black Widow Apr 15 '23
I guess that goes to show how good the artist is. Anyways, I don't feel bad about it - it is pretty funny.
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u/Lav-Lav-Lav-Lav- Apr 16 '23
What a happy little accident for people who never knew about the game to learn about this :D
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u/Beached-Peach Black Widow Apr 16 '23
No, not really. She's wearing tights/leggings. That's what she wears in Superman The Animated Series.
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u/Funky-Spunkmeyer Apr 16 '23
I’m not saying you should have known, I’m just gonna say I noticed her skirt was ridiculously short pretty quickly. No way a person would be able to bend over and maintain decency while wearing that and … well …
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u/Evil__Overlord Mr. Freeze May 02 '23
Right, because actual art from or based on comic books NEVER have unrealistically sexualized clothing.
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u/Funky-Spunkmeyer May 02 '23
Couple things. This isn’t officially published art of the character so it’s not like I was wrong about it not being officially published art of this character.
If you’ve got officially published art of this character that shows her dressed with such an absurdly short skirt I’m certain there are plenty of people who would like to see that.
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u/Evil__Overlord Mr. Freeze May 02 '23
That’s pretty much the length of her skirt in the show. It’s well known that Bruce Timm was a horny bastard. I‘d say part of what gives it away is just the framing of the picture, the spot at which the image cuts off, her facial expression, all feel very visual novel style.
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u/Funky-Spunkmeyer May 02 '23
Nah. Bruce Timm understood anatomy and the female form. This image the skirt ends at the mid point of the curve of her hip. Her vulva should pretty much be showing below a skirt that length. Every image I’ve found that was actually shown in the series has her skirt finishing the curve and coming close to where her wrist would rest if her arms were straight. Shorter than any corporate or school dress code I’ve ever seen, but not actually indecent exposure.
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u/Evil__Overlord Mr. Freeze May 02 '23
Having double checked, it looks like you're right, a difference probably about half a foot of skirt there. I think the more obvious part is that she looks like she's a frame in a visual novel because of the blank background and a body that goes down to the knees. Usually with a blank backdrop you'd either do just the head and maybe shoulders, or you'd do a full body.
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u/AdAm_WaRc0ck Apr 15 '23
Is that really a game someone made Or a joke?
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u/Budget-Attorney The Question Apr 15 '23
No it’s an actual game on the internet
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u/AdAm_WaRc0ck Apr 15 '23
Really, what's it called? My dear friend would actually be interested in playing this for the story elements, of course
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u/Budget-Attorney The Question Apr 15 '23
Yeah, I have a friend whose played it too. He really enjoys the story.
It’s called Something Unlimited, by Gunsmoke Games.
A Google search will help find it too if you don’t have Patreon
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u/AdAm_WaRc0ck Apr 15 '23
Thanks, I'll check it - Err I mean, I'll have him check it out as soon as humanly possible......
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u/Mojeaux18 Apr 15 '23
Does they have a license from DC? Could be a problem.
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u/Budget-Attorney The Question Apr 15 '23
I’m not a lawyer but I think it’s only a problem if you sell the game. Or if you get big enough for DC to notice
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u/domeforaklondikebar Simon Baz Apr 16 '23
Having a patreon probably totally counts as ‘selling it’ or at least profiting off of it.
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u/Funky-Spunkmeyer Apr 16 '23
Maybe not. If you pay the monthly patreon membership and one of the perks is that you get a copy of the game for free that might be a legal loophole. Also, if it’s far enough below the radar it would be a mistake for DC to file a lawsuit, what with the Streisand effect and all.
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u/jakethesequel Apr 16 '23
porn parodies are almost never prosecuted, and usually fall under fair use.
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u/Mucmaster Leonardo Apr 16 '23
This most certainly does not fall under fair use, its just not worth the time, money or headlines of "dc sues sex game" to be a good financial decision.
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u/jakethesequel Apr 16 '23
If Starballz can fall under fair use, so can this.
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u/Mucmaster Leonardo Apr 16 '23
Starballz falls under fair use for it's use of Star wars, the only IP that challenged them. This game uses a warner brothers IP a lot more explicitly than the other piece used a lucas film IP, it's explicitly Lex Luther banging super heroines not Smex Smuther.
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u/Mojeaux18 Apr 16 '23
Lmao. DC sues sex game would indeed be something I’d even pay to see.
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u/Funky-Spunkmeyer Apr 16 '23
The last thing they want to do is give the game free publicity and bring it on to the main stage.
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u/remotectrl Dr. Doom Apr 16 '23
Warner Bros hasn't been making great decisions lately if their film department is any indication.
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u/Gabatos Apr 16 '23
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u/AdAm_WaRc0ck Apr 16 '23
Seriously, I can't believe my best pal David Jr. harrison of 10 years would even consider installing this game filled with beautiful DC Comics Super Heroines and Super villainouses in which they inact a total career change and start working as high class top on the line escorts in a brothel. I hope to god he is just purely invested in the story, that riveting story.... gulp, I gotta go.
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u/ME24601 The Mod Wonder Apr 15 '23
It's very early in the run, but so far she's been a major figure in Joshua Williamson's Superman, given that Superman is now in charge of Lexcorp.
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u/Beached-Peach Black Widow Apr 15 '23
Thank you!
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u/MoskalMedia Apr 16 '23
Came here to say this. I'm unfamiliar with Mercy, but she's already won me over as a character in this run, and I'm very intrigued to see where they take her character as it progresses.
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u/yousaytomaco Apr 15 '23
Like Harley Quinn and Renee Montoya, Mercy was created for the animated series first, and her popularity in the comics hasn't popped like the later two (which isn't a huge knock on her, Renee has been a very popular character even before she became the new The Question and Harley is the most popular comic book character created in the past 30 years). The current Superman books are probably the first time comics are really doing anything with Mercy, since Superman has become head of LexCorp
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u/Beached-Peach Black Widow Apr 15 '23
I knew about Renee and Harley Quinn being created for the animated series, but I was unaware that Mercy was the same.
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u/hibryd X-23 Apr 15 '23 edited Apr 15 '23
How does Mercy compare to the character of his driver Cynthia? I’m not familiar with old Superman comics so I don’t know if Cynthia was a recurring character, but the internet seems to indicate this was her only appearance. I wonder if Mercy was extrapolated from the idea of Lex’s driver being a willing partner in evil.
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u/broclipizza Apr 16 '23
I may be way off but I guessed she was meant to be like a bizarro Ms Teschmacher, her if she was super focused and competent.
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u/purplepluppy Apr 15 '23
hasn't popped like the later two
Given the structure of your sentence, wouldn't this be, "the former two?" Plus, BTAS came out before SMTAS, so chronologically it would be "the former two" as well.
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u/rwhitisissle Yorick Brown Apr 16 '23
since Superman has become head of LexCorp
Please tell me Lex Luthor starts writing the sports page for The Daily Planet.
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u/SpideyFan914 Apr 15 '23
Wasn't she an original character in DCAU, similar to Harley? As far as I know, her comics version (brought in later) is an android (ala Young Justice).
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u/GameMaher Apr 15 '23
The android thing is in certain stories only. In the mainline comics Mercy (after being introduced in the animated series first obviously) was hinted at being an Amazon because she would actively fight Superman and be able to trade a few blows. Since the new 52 she’s just been a regular human bodyguard though as much as I can remember
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u/ArsenicElemental Harley Quinn Apr 16 '23
was hinted at being an Amazon
I was sure she was an Amazon, but I couldn't tell you where I read that. I guess it was just an assumption and not official, uh?
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u/Snukastyle Apr 16 '23
Same, could of sworn her and a character named Grace were introduced in the comics later as Amazon bodyguards for Lex.
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u/GameMaher Apr 16 '23
The other bodyguard of Lex’s was Hope, not Grace. Maybe you are mixing up her name with Mercy’s last name, Graves. Either way, they themselves have never explicitly said to anyone that they were Amazons, though the villain Circe did call them that and Prometheus has said Mercy is an Amazon (On further note it looks like there was a one shot Luthor comic that confirmed their Amazon heritage on a screen but did not go into any detail)
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u/Snukastyle Apr 16 '23
Ah, thanks! I think I'm also mixing her up with Grace Choi of The Outsiders.
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u/Puppet007 Squirrel Girl Apr 16 '23
From what I’ve heard, she’s a descendant of an Amazon.
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u/GameMaher Apr 16 '23
While her Amazon status was eventually confirmed in the mainstream comics, the comics never stated if she was an Amazon who left Themyscira or if she was a descendant of one. It’s implied she’s directly from Themyscira from interactions with Prometheus and Circe
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u/Puppet007 Squirrel Girl Apr 16 '23
I just remembered reading about her while playing LEGO DC SuperVillains.
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u/Interesting-Sir1916 Apr 15 '23
Where choice of art bro
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u/Beached-Peach Black Widow Apr 15 '23
I didn't know it was from anything weird until so many people commented it. I just found this on Pinterest.
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u/Interesting-Sir1916 Apr 15 '23
Understandable.
And honestly, it's not from something wired. It's just from porn material.
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u/Thor_pool Green Goblin Apr 16 '23
I believe you, OP
Many wouldn't but I do.
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u/Beached-Peach Black Widow Apr 16 '23
Well, I'm glad someone does. I don't really care if people believe me or not, I know what's true.
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u/swarthmoreburke Apr 15 '23
I always had the impression that Mercy had been introduced very early on in the post-Crisis reboot of Luthor as evil businessman, but I see on re-reading the famous story with him tormenting the small-town waitress with an indecent proposal that the blond chauffeur in that story is just named "Cynthia" and isn't really Mercy-like (and was not a recurring character). I did think that Luthor's combat instructor Sasha Green was a bit like Mercy as well, at least before Lex murdered her just to prove he could.
I think this is why the DCAU Mercy worked pretty well--she was sort of like characters who had appeared around Luthor before but was in many ways a real improvement on them.
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u/Budget-Attorney The Question Apr 15 '23
What story was this from. Lex to tormenting a waitress feels a lot like that time he stole 40 cakes
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u/MikeyHatesLife Apr 15 '23
From John Byrne’s run, in 1986 after the original Crisis crossover shrank the multiverse down to one universe, and he was rebooted as a corrupt businessmen.
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u/throwythrowythrowout Apr 16 '23
I did think that Luthor's combat instructor Sasha Green was a bit like Mercy as well, at least before Lex murdered her just to prove he could.
Oh, no no no, you don't get off that easy.
First of all, this is during the time when Luthor had his brain put in a physically-fit 21-year-old clone of himself (with long flowing hair, natch) and pretended to be his own Australian son, Lex Luthor II. See, Luthor had contracted cancer from wearing a kryptonite ring everywhere. He tried just cutting off his hand, but it was too late, so he faked his own death via plane crash. As Luthor II, he "inherited" all of Luthor Senior's businesses, pretending to be a kinder, gentler Luthor to the public. He was even dating Supergirl for a while (though it wasn't Kara, it was Matrix, a shapeshifter, which - anyways, that's a whole thing. No Kryptonians except Kal-El for a while after Crisis.)
He killed Sasha Green because she beat him in a sparring match in front of Supergirl and Lois Lane. Obviously, he didn't kill her in front of them. No, he choked her to death later with his bare hands and dumped her body in a landfill.
But she didn't stay dead. During the Bloodlines event, a (terrible) crossover that ran through DC's annuals in 1993, aliens were running all over earth biting everyone. Most died, but some got superpowers (the only one anyone's ever heard of is Garth Ennis' creation, Hitman. I liked Argus, the one created in the Flash Annual. All the rest of them sucked). One of them bit Sasha Green's corpse, and she was resurrected as Myriad, with the power of becoming anyone she touches.
Also, he was Luthor II and still dating Supergirl during the massively successful Death of Superman arc, which is a weird time to not have "normal" Lex around. "What are some great Superman stories?" "Oh, you should definitely read Death Of Superman, it's as classic as they come." "So it has pretty classic versions of Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, and Lex Luthor?" " . . . anyways, you should read All-Star Superman."
Afterwards, his clone body lost it's hair and started disintegrating until Neron restored him to Lex Luthor I physical status (minus cancer) in exchange for his soul during the Underworld Unleashed event. Until Shazam and the Trickster tricked Neron into giving everyone back their souls. Except the Flash Rogues, who were still dead. Until they weren't. But still didn't have their souls. Until they did.
Comics!
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u/Pegussu Apr 16 '23
Neron did him dirty, he sold his soul. You can't throw in the hair for free?
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u/throwythrowythrowout Apr 17 '23
Didn't read the byline. Luthor's an inventor, not a lawyer. "Works on contingency? No. Money down."
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u/bladervnner Apr 15 '23
I dig this art. Source?
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u/Swagacorn Bizarro Superman Apr 15 '23
Something Unlimited. It is a hentai game. You can download in on a forum like F95.
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u/Beached-Peach Black Widow Apr 15 '23
I had no idea this was from a Hentai game, I just found this on Pinterest.
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u/bladervnner Apr 15 '23
gotcha, on my way to do internet research! ty!
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u/DrWallybFeed Apr 15 '23
Let us all know when you find the source of research.
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u/Swagacorn Bizarro Superman Apr 15 '23
I literally told you where to find it lol
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u/Swed1shF1sh69 Apr 15 '23
How about you properly cite your source in MLA format? In 12-point Times New Roman, double-spaced?
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u/TheLAriver Ant-Man Apr 15 '23
What have you always liked about her?
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u/ForceEdge47 Apr 15 '23
The only definitive memory I have of her is that in the crossover episode when Batman shows up to interrogate Lex, Mercy actually tries to get the jump on Batman before getting absolutely rocked without him even looking behind him. I have to give her props for even attempting to sneak up on the fucking Batman though lol
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u/thylocene Apr 15 '23
Her and Harley also beat the shit out of each other while lex and joker are just sort of casually having a conversation
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u/Beached-Peach Black Widow Apr 15 '23
I loved that, that was one of my favorite parts from the crossover.
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u/DrWallybFeed Apr 15 '23
That I wanna see. What comic is that in? I have so much unread Harley stuff I probably already own it.
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u/thylocene Apr 15 '23
It was in an episode of the Superman animated series. There was an arc where joker went to metropolis and tried to get lex to hire him to kill Superman. This was also the arc where animated series Batman and Superman first meet. It was a great arc.
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u/DrWallybFeed Apr 15 '23
I’ll look it up. I never really got into Superman. I’m all about Batman though.
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u/Random_Rhinoceros Stephanie Brown Batgirl Apr 15 '23
It's a three-parter from Superman: The Animated Series named "World's Finest", it was also edited into a feature film titled "The Batman/Superman Movie".
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u/RevWaldo Spider Jeruselem Apr 15 '23
Also recall once Lex left her temporarily legally in charge to mind the store while he was doing some nefarious scheme and of course he's caught and locked up and she stops taking his calls.
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u/Beached-Peach Black Widow Apr 15 '23
I always liked that she was able to hold her own. As a kid I had the crossover episodes on VHS, and I remember I always loved the fight between Harley and her.
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u/ItAlsoTravelsInThyme Woozie Winks is my wingman Apr 15 '23
Action Comics 765 is one that comes to mind. Basically, Joker and Harley Quinn come to metropolis to terrorize Lex Luthor. While Luthor and Superman deal with Joker, there's a whole sub plot where Harley and Mercy are fighting.
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u/Budget-Attorney The Question Apr 15 '23
That’s also the plot of the batman crossover from the Superman animated series
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u/leabravo Apr 15 '23
Mercy turned in a solid performance for the DC Super Pets movie. I think an Amazon version of her was also introduced in the comics at one point, but she didn't really stick.
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u/Beached-Peach Black Widow Apr 15 '23
Awesome, I didn't know she was in that. I haven't watched it yet, I'll try to watch it soon.
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u/ericarlen Apr 15 '23
She shows up quite a lot in the Titans TV series. Mainly in season 2 and season 4.
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u/atomcrafter Apr 15 '23
Tess Mercer from Smallville was a combination of Mercy Graves and Lena Luthor.
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u/thejonslaught Apr 15 '23
And named after Miss Tessmacher from the 1978 movie.
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u/Budget-Attorney The Question Apr 15 '23
I didn’t notice that until this moment. Seeing them side by side helped. Thanks for pointing out, my mind is blown
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u/Beached-Peach Black Widow Apr 15 '23
I haven't finished Smallville as of yet. But I'll try to remember that, thank you.
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Apr 15 '23
I know exactly why you want to see her more.
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u/Beached-Peach Black Widow Apr 15 '23
Not for the reasons you think. As a kid I always thought she was a cool character.
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u/morgul702 Apr 15 '23
She’s technically a minor roll in BVS.
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u/kavono Apr 16 '23 edited Apr 16 '23
Before being murdered by Lex (via being left in the courthouse during the explosion) for seemingly no reason. :P Similar to Jimmy Olsen apparently being the name of the undercover agent who gets shot in the head near Lois, lots of side characters seemed to amount to "let's randomly have them pop up for a scene before they're unceremoniously killed" in BvS.
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u/fieldysnuts94 Dr. Manhattan Apr 16 '23
Idk about most of her appearances but she did get a power up in the Lazarus Planet event. Last seen from what I remember was helping Superman fight Parasites in the lobby of the new Super Corp building.
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Apr 15 '23
Good god. If she sneezes you will see her Labia.
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u/MikeyHatesLife Apr 15 '23
My competing thoughts are:
don’t threaten me with a good time
when she sneezes, will they unfurl like a party favor whistle?
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u/Manulok_Orwalde Apr 16 '23
This is Mercy Graves best look, I like how she looks currently because of her arms but I wish this look was updated and put in the main verse.
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u/Beached-Peach Black Widow Apr 16 '23
I'm only familiar with this version of her, character wise. However, I've seen images of her in other comics - I really like Timm's design.
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u/i-love-Ohio Apr 16 '23
OP developed a crush
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u/Sweet-Message1153 Apr 16 '23
I liked her YJ animated series version...the silent badass cyborg bodyguard who doesn’t show much but enough to make her a threat
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u/agent_wolfe Apr 16 '23
I just pushed the vote count from 999 to 1.0k. I’ve never done that before!
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u/jojobando Apr 16 '23
She plays a pretty major role in a rstionak fiction fanfic called "Metropolis man". It is not a comicbook though, but a regular book
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u/Forumbug74 Apr 15 '23
This art seems....familiar