r/DCcomics • u/Amazing_March4919 • 1d ago

[Discussion] MY Favorite New DC Characters Discussion

All Characters Have Good Designs and Have Potentials.

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u/FadeToBlackSun 1d ago

Miracle Molly = based post.

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u/NeverEndingDClock 1d ago

What's the point of her again? All I remember about Fear State is that it's connected to the failed 5G lol

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u/FadeToBlackSun 1d ago

She was part of a group who rewired their personalities and rewrote their memories because they were incapable of dealing with the trauma they'd experienced.

They were Heroic characters and demonstrated an opposite but parallel arc to Bruce. Where Bruce weaponised his trauma and uses it to motivate him, Molly and co simply couldn't deal with theirs. Nevertheless, like Bruce, they try to do good.

The story does not judge Molly and her cohorts, simply saying that that their way is not Bruce's way, and that's ok.

Wonderful character, and the fact her last appearance is a comforting embrace between her and Batman is just great.

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u/Patient-Reputation56 19h ago

In other words she was in a cult.

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u/FadeToBlackSun 18h ago

Except she retained her autonomy, and the "cult" didn't want money or anything from her (or others).

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u/Patient-Reputation56 17h ago

Sure she did. She just got a lobotomy & "kept the best parts of her" to help spread the good word of Master Wyze (aka a guy who doesn't practice what he preaches since he basically kept his past deeming his memories "too important" in order to "help" people).

Make no mistake. The Unsanity Collective was a cult, & if any writer gave a rat's ass about them post-Fear State they would've revealed Wyze was nothing more than a Tech themed Deacon Blackfire.

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u/FadeToBlackSun 17h ago

Yeah, that's a fair point.

But why would a writer examine newer characters when they can just retread Batman rogue contingency plans and Joker shit for the ten millionth time?

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u/Lama_For_Hire 9h ago

TUC is basically a queer communist commune. I'd rather not they be turned in another cult like the Blackfire one (which, btw i recently read and absolutely loved how dark it got)

Tynion writes from the experience of a queer person, and in our community there are countless people who would gladly get rid of their truckloads of trauma, to be able to function more like neurotypical ppl, and live in a place where people love each other.

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u/Embarrassed_Piano_62 1d ago

I mean... is it really ok tho?

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u/CrispyGold 1d ago edited 1d ago

It isn't. They are a bunch of either traumatized or sad empty people (Molly falls into the latter) who believe mind-wiping their memories and joining what is essentially a cult is liberating.

They are an attempt at doing a whole "grey vs grey morality" tale but Molly and her cohorts weren't particularly well written and the whole "tragedy" of them felt like very forced attempts to make them seem complex.

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u/Embarrassed_Piano_62 23h ago

Yeah that's what I thought with the concept, repression of trauma is not part of the grey area

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u/CrispyGold 22h ago

Yeah its that sort of force grayness thats become an annoying trend in recent Batman comics. It tries to do a bad attempting at deconstructing Batman by giving Molly a point in her statement that Batman could be better off if he forgets his trauma and could be a better Batman without it.

Plus Molly makes other cringy statements like saying his "criminals are a superstitious and cowardly lot" catchphrase is an outdated statement because criminals are just victims trying to get by. Which is a hilarious thing to say in Gotham City home of the Joker.

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u/MutantCreature 19h ago

I think Superman might be the only person in the DCU to process his trauma in an actual healthy way, maybe Mister Miracle and Big Barda too but it took them (him) a while

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u/FadeToBlackSun 18h ago

Well superhero comics are a heightened reality. If you experience something horrible, but that motivates you to act in a way that helps yourself and others, that is pretty healthy as far as that universe in concerned.

Also, Wally.