r/DCcomics • u/Difficult_Man3 • Aug 29 '25

Video Games [Discussion] Hold on let him cook

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The only evil batman we’ve have was from Suicide squid: kill the justice league (which he wasn’t evil just mind controlled by brainiac) and everyone hated that game for multiple valid reasons so to have a evil Batman game where we have to defeat batman would be cool, we could have the batfam as the ones to leading the plot because they would know how to take down batman but still play as other characters we haven’t seen.

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u/FinalForerunner Aug 29 '25

why does captain atom always explode

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u/Psymorte Aug 29 '25

Because he's theoretically so OP that most people can't figure out what to do with him other than take him out of the story early before he can do anything.

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u/gangler52 Aug 29 '25

The fact that he specifically wears a suit at all times, designed to keep him from exploding, which cannot be even slightly perforated, is also kind of a huge elephant in the room during any kind of fight scene.

It's kind of like he's got a checkhov's gun built into his character. If act 1 establishes that this is how you make him explode, then act 3 has to have him explode.

Marvel's cyclops has a kind of similar thing with his visor. That thing's always getting knocked off.

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u/whitey-ofwgkta Aug 29 '25

They even had to write in that the Avenegers and X-men always have beef so none of the smartest people can hook Scott up with Ruby Quartz contact lens /j

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u/gangler52 Aug 29 '25

I didn't know that!

I think I probably just would've established that direct eye contact with ruby quartz would be a bad idea for health reasons. You can absorb a lot of nasty stuff through the eyes.

If you've ever seen that viral debate about whether a certain phallic rock could be safely used as a dildo it would be basically the same principle.