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Forums - Movies & TV - Batman: The Killing Joke horrifyingly objectifies and victimizes Batgirl! SPOILERS!!!

bigtakilla on 24 July 2016

Wow, I am completely shocked. When I heard Tara Strong, Mark Hammil, and Kevin Conroy were coming back to do one last movie I was blown away in excitement. Then I heard there was going to be added story to flesh out Batgirl a little and was even MORE excited....

And then I seen it...

When she's not getting beat up, she is being raped or chasing Batman (like a girl who "likes likes" a guy chasing Batman). The only scene of her winning a fight is to show she can't handle being a super hero, so she quits.

It's not just a movie I will never be able to show my daughter (which I initially eventually was going to, she's a bit young now), but one I would be embarrased to show my girlfriend. 

If anyone thinks Bayo is bad because the title character is being sexually objectified, watch this movie....



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OttoniBastos on 24 July 2016

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Trunkin on 24 July 2016

I don't recall her actually being raped in the comic, but yes, she was victimized. That was kind of the point, tbh.



OttoniBastos on 24 July 2016

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Nem on 24 July 2016

We pretty much knew all this from the comics. You're late to this.



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ohmylanta1003 on 24 July 2016

Whatever. Go cry about it somewhere else.

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Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 24 July 2016

Since it is based on the source material... I don't think there is anything wrong with the movie tbh if they were faithful to it.



                  

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benjatron1701 on 24 July 2016

I know this.  I read the the graphic novel back in 2008 and it had been out for 20 years before.  You're just discovering this????



Trunkin on 24 July 2016
OttoniBastos said:
Trunkin said:
I don't recall her actually being raped in the comic, but yes, she was victimized. That was kind of the point, tbh.

It wasn't showed but it was heavily implied that she suffered some level of sexual harassment(i really don't remember exactly where because it's been a while since i read the novel but there was some pictures that joker took showing her naked or something.)

Ahh, right. I guess I didn't even consider rape as a possibility because this is still a batman comic. Also, she had already taken a bullet to the gut -- I mean, who the hell would do that?



bigtakilla on 24 July 2016
BasilZero said:
So....is that the same as the source material or is it something that the director/writer added to the movie?

I still plan to watch the movie - been waiting to watch another animated movie from the batman universe ever since I went on a marathon last year.

A lot has been added. The Joker part is where it is the same. It is supposed to be a commentary to how Batman may not be able to handle being a superhero, but they decided to focus on The Passion Of Barbara Gordon.