You, too, can be sexualized while being killed! Yay! The women exist in this film to be sexy and hurt, save one, and the chase sequences of the killer delivering the final blow show helpless women, alone. So, Poison Ivy was inserted in this tale to simply be sexy and be killed off. ![]() But you want to know what happens next? You can guess, right? Of course, the Ripper kills Ivy right after this performance. Take the opening sequence (not in the original story at all), where Poison Ivy does burlesque. ![]() I expected some women to die.īut I didn’t expect those sequences to be basically torture porn. Now, of course, it’s roughly based on Jack the Ripper, a notorious violent hater of women, so I expected violence against women. Which takes us to Batman: Gotham by Gaslight. ![]() Screencap from Batman and Harley Quinn movie. That story just flat out didn’t understand that while Harley is a sexual character, there’s a difference between her owning that sexuality and the constant male gaze in this movie. Then came Batman and Harley Quinn last year, which managed to include numerous gratuitous butt shots of Harley Quinn and Dick Grayson tied to a bed so Harley can have her way with him (with his consent unclear). Rather than giving Barbara more agency, it made her even more of a woman in a refrigerator. But what ended up on screen was the addition of an affair between Barbara and Batman that was not in the book and Batman explaining feminism to Babs. (I think that’s out of character for Batman but that would be an entirely different article, so let’s leave that for now.)Īccording to Bruce Timm, in an interview at New York Comic Con, the idea of adding a prologue to The Killing Joke was to give Barbara more agency and more screen time. I hate that story, for many reasons, but mainly because it treats Barbara Gordon as a disposable prop and seems to indicate Batman and Joker could be the same person with that moment of clarity together at the end. Or, in other words, I’d hope recent DCU animated films would include the recognition that women are interested readers and views of DC Comics, especially Batman comics, and treat those characters less as fetishized sex objects and more like three-dimensional characters.įor instance, take the adaptation of Batman: The Killing Joke. The second reason is why I’m doing a review because, let’s face it, if you were excited about this movie, you’ve probably already read the reviews (mixed), watched the film, and made your mind up for yourself.īut how the female characters are treated in the recent DCU Animated films is a troubling trend, especially since, ideally, the stories they’re adapting would include some alterations for more modern sensibilities. The second reason is that Gotham by Gaslight continues a problematic trend: the oversexualized treatment of female characters within the recent DC Universe animated films. One, because it’s not nearly as interesting as I’d hoped for in an adaptation of the first Batman Elseworlds. ![]() Loren Lester, the voice of Robin in Batman: The Animated Series, returns as Nightwing.I’ve dithered about writing a review of Batman: Gotham by Gaslight, which was released on February 6, for a couple of reasons. The result is a thrill ride of action, adventure and comedy no Batman fan has seen before.īatman and Harley Quinn features a stellar voice cast led by Kevin Conroy ( Batman: The Animated Series) reprising his role as the Dark Knight, alongside Melissa Rauch ( The Big Bang Theory) making her debut as the irrepressible Harley Quinn. But Batman's patience is put to the test by the unpredictable and untrustworthy Harley during the twists and turns the reluctant companions face during their bumpy road trip. To save humanity, Batman and Nightwing are forced to enlist Harley Quinn to catch Poison Ivy, Harley's BFF and frequent partner-in-crime. The Floronic Man) embark on an ecological quest to save the planet – and, unfortunately, eliminate most of humankind along the way. From an original story by animation icon Bruce Timm, comes an all-new DC Universe animated movie.
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