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word of advice : contains spoiler forNightwing # 90
DC Comics’Nightwinghas no shortage of important cleaning woman in his life , and at some point , they ’ve each become the stone pit of opposition examine to falsify him . Such is the example inNightwing#90 by Tom Taylor and Geraldo Borges , when a grouping of thugs working with KGBeast kidnaps Barbara Gordon to tempt Grayson out of concealment . This shallow intimidation endeavor pass to Barbara sarcastically advert one of the comics industry ’s laziest tropes : women in refrigerators .
The musical phrase may be discombobulate at first glance , but to laughable Good Book readers — and especially DC rooter — it ’s all too conversant . About ten years after cartoonist Alison Bechdel develop her own litmus test for the self-sufficiency of women in fiction , comic writer Gail Simonecoined this condition at the crook of the C as a way to critique a figure of misuse when it come to women in comic . It was a unmediated reaction toGreen Lantern#54 ( 1994 ) , in which Kyle Rayner discovers the corpse of his love interest , Alexandra DeWitt , stuffed inside of a icebox by the villain Major Force . manifestly , this was gruesome in its own rightfield , but the human action did n’t spark conversation so much as its implication . Simone and the woman with whom she discussed this online realize that throughout fable , female characters would be killed , snatch , or otherwise incapacitate purely to set off a reaction from the male protagonist , furthering his development at the sacrifice of their own . InNightwing # 90 , Barbara Gordon is glad to call it out simply .
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Of course , Barbara has been place by villains seeking to break the men in her life before . Killing Jokewriter Alan Moore has express sorrow over the direction of that comic overall andBarbara ’s infamous accidental injury in particular . Shock value can occasionally be beneficial for deepen the stakes of a story , but one must always weigh the potential cons . Barbara became collateral damage in a chronicle that had little to do with her otherwise , which can and has been reinterpreted as gratuitous victimization . With all this in mind , it ’s probably extra poignant that the joke come from Barbara rather than anyone else .
Her fictional character ’s personal experience aside , this offhand gossip is right in bank line with the whole tone that Taylor has established — a tone that has fancy this become one of Dick Grayson ’s most democratic adventures yet . It ’ll take a lot more than KGBeast and a rent van to take Barbara Gordon out of delegation , and anyone who try it will answer toNightwing .
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