Why Owlman Works and The Batman Who Laughs Doesn't

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  @davemustang8173 · 2 years ago

  Honestly the biggest crime is that Batman (as he has been established since the New 52) would IMMEDIATELY quarantine himself the instant he laughed at kids being violent

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  @umaydoruk4526 · 2 years ago

  i really appreciate how owlman doesn't start kicking and screaming when he loses, he never averts from his view of existence and just goes along, saying "it doesn't matter". there is so much context beneath that one line and it hits all the right notes.

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  @EVER_PRINCE · 2 years ago

  The idea Superman couldn’t detect the change in his biology given he could tell Terry was Bruce’s biological son just by looking at him is insane

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  @reetodd9103 · 1 year ago

  I always like how while Batman’s eyes are sharp and focused, owl man almost always looks like he’s in a daze, staring far beyond in front of him.

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  @TheWaffleRadio · 2 years ago

  The Batman who Laughs could be a really compelling body horror story about fighting against a self that is transforming into your greatest ideological enemy. But instead it was just the line "and then batman goes insane and kills everyone" over and over in visual form.

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  @demod2080 · 2 years ago

  The final scene about Owlman realizing he's bulletproof in a Meta sense is actually glorious, and him telling the Bay Baby he's not going to come back because he's a dumb idea is such a metal line.

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  @ultatack6020 · 2 years ago (edited)

  I find it quite ironic how Owlman, who despises human existence and wishes to exterminate it, is a perpetual constant. In a sense he realizes he won't get the nothing he so desperately craves as long as there is existance. Because if Batman prime exists, so too will Owlman.

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  @Godrizza_draws · 1 year ago

  Batman who laughs is all about hype moments and aura, but since he doesn’t have a good story to support those moments, he ends up as a wallpaper factory rather than an actually compelling character.

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  @dreamieleague · 2 years ago

  a nihilistic character freaking out when they die because turns out they realize they actually do care about their lives is great and all, very poignant, but holy shit owlman going "it doesnt matter." and even smirking a bit as he died??? another level. in it to the end, that bitch. because it doesnt just fit with his character, it proves that throughout it all he 100% believed nothing actually mattered. true nihilism. amazing.

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  @Warm_Winter_Nights · 1 year ago

  honestly you cannot tell me that the minute bruce said he could feel the joker venom taking over that jason wouldn't have immediately shot him in the fucking head

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  @SirGrimLockSmithVIII · 2 years ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3bZptQX0Rc&amp;t=935">15:35</a> <br><br>That&apos;s actually such a sick way of explaining Batman&apos;s remark to Owlman in the animated movie: &quot;We both looked into the abyss, but when it looked back at us, you blinked.&quot;<br><br>Owlman had the opportunity to choose to be better when facing down the revelation that his family was actually corrupt, but he blinked. <br><br>And that revelation promptly consumed him.

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  @Internetknight-m5x · 1 year ago

  Owlman smiling saying “it doesn’t matter” when he died is very scary how he genuinely believed in his ideals

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