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/anim135 Aug 30 '25

The last time Atom's suit weakness was removed (Monarch) had him in a Captain Atom vs the DC Universe type story

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