10 Times DC Went Too Far

8. Superman And Wonder Woman Have (Literally) Earth Shattering Sex - The Dark Knight Strikes Again

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What even WAS The Dark Knight Strikes Again? Can anyone who was actually alive when it came out explain? Because as someone who just got done reading it (and currently trying to talk myself out of tearing out my eyeballs because of it) I am utterly stumped.

There are so many points where this book goes too far, that I barely knew where to begin. Then I got to the part where Superman and Wonder Woman kill a LOT of people just from having sex, and my path was suddenly clear.

I'll spare you the context behind this because I don't want to give it the honor of describing it, but basically, Superman and Wonder Woman finally decide to bone. And the resulting sex causes earthquakes and tsunamis around the entire planet, likely killing hundreds - if not thousands of people. And all for one stupid pun Wondie makes at the end. The artwork definitely doesn't help, the once clever caricature-style art of TDKR just looking sloppy here in the sequel, and it only has the effect of making both Supes and Wonder Woman far uglier than their past stories would suggest.

Like the rest of TDKSA, it was just a poorly thought out, poor taste scene that looked ugly and just made you feel uncomfortable after reading it.

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John Tibbetts is a novelist in theory, a Whatculture contributor in practice, and a nerd all around who loves talking about movies, TV, anime, and video games more than he loves breathing. Which might be a problem in the long term, but eh, who can think that far ahead?