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Single Women, Fear No More!

16:18 / 22.11.02

There is a superhero for YOU!!

Terrifica's mission is to protect women from being taken advantage of by the men who would seduce them. (Bryan Robinson/ABCNEWS.com)

16:28 / 22.11.02

Is Terrifica back in the news?

I posted about her ages ago, in a thread about "why are there no superheroes in real life," or somesuch.

Can't find it in a search, though...

17:40 / 22.11.02

I remember that - it was in Switchboard, I think, and was called "Hasn't anyone thought of this before?" or some such.

Had Mexican lucha libre heroes in it.

17:45 / 22.11.02

Ahh! Head Shop, "Criminals are a Cowardly, Superstitious Lot"!

Hither!

18:46 / 22.11.02

Is that a new Terrifica though? She looks different.

18:52 / 22.11.02

Yeah, that's Terrifica 2020: the pic I posted before was the Golden Age Terrifica.

...

She just got her hair cut. Geez.

18:54 / 22.11.02

Grant's link wouldn't work for me. Here's another.

I really like that her arch nemesis was in part responsible for her creation. That's just way too cool.

Regrettable Juvenilia

08:01 / 23.11.02

"I do this because women are weak. They are easily manipulated, and they need to be protected from themselves and most certainly from men and their ill intentions toward them."

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.

XXII:X:II = XXX

16:32 / 23.11.02

Yeah, that's a skosh too Batman/cryptofascist for my palate, thanks. I'm personally acquainted with a good number of women who could easily cripple me if I pissed them off. Admittedly, they're exceptional, but yew got to aaaacceeentuate the positiiive...

I used to know some girls who wanted to ride Terrifica's coattails into fame by becoming her nemeses, dressing in costume and encouraging women to get into unpremeditated, possibly regrettable sexual situations, preferably in Terrifica's presence. Barring that one, leaving moist, flushed, bowlegged debutantes on a police station's steps with a note pinned to them reading, "Hahaha, here's another one you missed, Terrifica!" Yes, these were people of the female persuasion who wanted to do this; once you get over the initial delicious irony of it all it does turn distasteful.

Anyone got a link to Captain Broadway, Captain Big Apple, whatever the fuck his name is? Straight out of deepest, darkest Christopher Street he comes, I'd say by his costume. Make Liberace blush.

17:00 / 23.11.02

Well, of course, drunken consent is no consent at all.

But don't some people get drunk deliberately so they can cop off and pretend it was an accident? Does Terrifica have some sort of x-ray vision to distinguish between white, het(?) sex rituals and rape?

I'm off out now so y'all can berate me later.

20:54 / 23.11.02

Terrifica operates in my neighborhood, I think. I'll keep an eye out for her, invite her to a barbesymposium on superheroics.

XXII:X:II = XXX

03:34 / 25.11.02

To hell with that; invite her to a kegger. Or find her a guy who'll treat her like shit even when they're both sober. Thet'll learn 'er.

Many of the future Batman stories end with him finding ways in which to make a difference on a social, extroverted level as Bruce Wayne rather than as Batman perpetuating this negative-feedbabck loop where he attacks the symptoms of crime while only paying lip-service to bettering the lot of those desperate enough to commit crimes. This is yet another reason why I thought "Dark Knight Strikes Again" was pointless and undid the message at the end of DKR. "Kingdom Come" had the right idea in him opening free medical clinics.

Yes, I realize we're speaking of the motivations of a fictional character who's practically superhuman, despite all assurances to the contrary. But if that's who Terrifica is patterning herself after, as she references Batman several times in that piece, then that's the level you'd have to challenge her on.

09:58 / 27.11.02

so does she attack you if she smells roofies in your pocket?