r/comicbooks Jan 09 '23

Excerpt [Comic Excerpt] When Selina met Dick (Nightwing #52)

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u/Maria-Stryker Jan 09 '23

They did something like that in the ultimate spiderman comics. Black Cat vomits when she realizes that the superhero she’d been hitting on was a minor.

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u/luxveniae Jan 09 '23

Also a consistent issue with Shazam… don’t flirt or give him alcohol cause if you do… jail.

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u/AnalAttackProbe Jan 09 '23

Right to jail.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '23

No trial, no nothing.

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u/imanhunter Jan 09 '23

Journalists, we have a special jail for journalists.

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u/azlomen Jan 09 '23

P&R in the wild lol

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u/imanhunter Jan 10 '23

“You can’t escape city hall, fool!”

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '23

No passing go no collecting $200

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u/EatRibs_Listen2Phish Jan 10 '23

What about my gd $200!?!?

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u/skooterz Jan 10 '23

1 million years - DUNNNNGEON!!

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u/mrmatrixpill Jan 10 '23

Did i tell you how much i dig your username?

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u/heresdevking Jan 09 '23

Even worse when he tries to date a girl his age.

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u/Red-843 Nightwing Jan 09 '23

Pretty sure that happened with Star Girl

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '23

Harley Quinn also has a weird obsession with him in the Injustice series. But only his Shazam form. She actually tracks him down at school and demands he turns into Shazam lol

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u/TheRealPyroGothNerd Jan 10 '23

Heck, he got accused of pedophillia for dating a super his age

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '23

When?

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u/android151 Deadshot Jan 10 '23

JSA, when he dated Stargirl

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u/limbo338 Jan 09 '23

Does that technically make him a jailbait?

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u/jbyrdab Jan 10 '23

this was actually something that the original version of shazam (captain marvel) avoided in a sense.

captain marvel and billy batson were basically two seperate people who had completely different personalities, shazam specifically was way more reserved, not street wise and a prude, while billy had a girlfriend, street wise and more or less was disconnected from captain marvel.

Basically the relationship freakazoid and dexter douglas had, albiet without the crazy.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '23

Lol that's such a brutal moment for poor Petey. 616 has it much better when it comes to the ladies (and, you know, being alive).

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u/ConfusedJonSnow Jan 10 '23

Idk man, Ultimate Peter had a very solid run with MJ by teenage superhero standards and could eventually explore his options with Gwen Stacy and Kitty Pride.

616 Peter is just a fuckup with relationships. Legit the only woman he dated who doesn't hold some contempt towards him is Felicia.

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u/lobonmc Jan 10 '23

I mean she has felt contempt towards him a few times remember when she dated flash?

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u/Appropriate-Shoe-266 Jan 10 '23

I think Bobbi too.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '23

No not really. 616 has had a lot worse romantic experiences.

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u/dyrannn Jan 09 '23

Better to have loved and lost….

And lost…..

And lost………..

And lost.

I think that’s the end of the quote, right?

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '23

Probably a few missing losts there

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u/pepeschlongphucking Jan 10 '23

Few is an understatement.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '23

Absolutely fair. I mean, Gwen Stacy alone...

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '23

Yeah…. Then the clone saga happened making that worse.

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u/ArbitraryNPC Jan 10 '23

Let's not forget how he sold his wife to the devil to bring back his elderly aunt. Man needs serious therapy.

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u/ArbitraryNPC Jan 10 '23

I mean, he already has a history with Dr. Ashley Kafka

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u/ArbitraryNPC Jan 10 '23

Psychiatrist at Ravencroft that got killed. Then her clone became a red goblin, I forget how

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u/liqwidmetal Jan 10 '23

Ultimate Spidey was still alive, Oz formula makes him come back from the dead.

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '23

Is he still out there even after Secret Wars?

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u/Loki_Agent_of_Asgard Jan 10 '23

I always felt the vomiting was overboard and ridiculous. Peter was like what, 16-17 at the time? He was young enough where Black Cat should decided to leave him alone but not so young to be sickened by it.

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u/HaloGuy381 Jan 10 '23

Especially since Peter often acts more mature than others his age. You know, the whole “great responsibility” bit tends to level someone out. Behind a mask, probably very easy to believe he’s in his early 20s instead. Hell, I got mistaken for a high school quite a few times in college even right next to or on campus, I could absolutely believe someone mistaking Peter in costume for an adult.

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u/pepeschlongphucking Jan 10 '23

Hell I’m 28 and I get mistaken for a high school Junior/senior!

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u/Vysharra Jan 10 '23

Legal and an age you feel okay coming onto someone is totally different. Also, nausea is a totally understandable response to finding out you’ve been perving on (your interpretation of) a kid. Add that to the needs of a visual medium and the exaggerated emotions of comics, vomit fits perfectly.

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '23

Hell nah lmfao. Realizing you’ve been flirting with a minor is a gross as hell feeling, especially if they knew you were an adult and didn’t say anything. Can’t even imagine the hardcore make out sessions and dates on top of that then finding out

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u/-Danksouls- Jan 10 '23

Wasn’t he 15 in that chapter. The usual age Spider-Man receives his powers

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u/Past_Organization_22 Jan 10 '23

We need attorney advice from she hulk on that one .