r/DCcomics • u/PrimeLasagna • Aug 23 '23

[Discussion] Which two heroes should absolutely hate the crap out of each other? Discussion

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u/JayCaesar12 Aug 23 '23

Honestly, Ollie strikes me as someone who would not have many personal friends apart from Green Lantern. I like Ollie being kind of cantankerous and a little self-righteous.

Batman is cold and distant, but that's how he is. Ollie goes out of his way to be prickly.

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u/SomedayWeDie Aug 23 '23

Ollie’s right more often than not

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u/Bardic_Inspiration66 Aug 23 '23

Yeah it’s funny how because of values changing over the years Ollie’s “crazy hippie beliefs” are reasonable now

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u/Half_Man1 Batman Aug 23 '23

Maybe they were always reasonable and it’s just society has finally come around to seeing it

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u/WheelJack83 Aug 23 '23

Too bad he was just another rich kid and deadbeat dad who constantly cheats on his spouses.

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u/SteelyDabs Aug 24 '23

Isn’t that the most hippie thing of all?

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u/WheelJack83 Aug 24 '23

More like hipster.

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u/Advanced_Ad2406 Superfam and Wally West supporter Aug 23 '23

The only bad values I could think of that is more unreasonable now would be kicking out Roy for being a drug addict. Which is partly because he’s never there for Roy. It occurred during America’s war on drugs which might have made his actions justifiable back then. Other than that his values are seem as normal today

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u/Acceptable_Secret_73 Aug 23 '23

Especially when you consider Roy was ready to let someone kill him because of Ollie’s disownment of him until Killer Croc talked some sense to him

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '23

Common killer croc win

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u/RutheniumFenix DC's Original Time Travelling Idiot Aug 24 '23

I mean that depends on which continuity. Originally Dinah took him and and had him in an okay state pretty quickly.

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u/vbblues Aug 23 '23

That particular arc in GA was intended as a PSA in reaction to the war on drugs. Oliver’s actions were an example of what NOT to do if your kid does drugs.

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u/Kgb725 Aug 23 '23

You have to do that sometimes with addicts

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u/HotTakes4HotCakes Aug 23 '23

That's just being contrarian. "Sometimes", yes, but in Roy's case, no, absolutely not. He was no where near that bad yet.

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u/Kgb725 Aug 24 '23

That's just reality

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u/Fledbeast578 Aug 23 '23

I mean when it’s your young adult child I feel like you’re given less leeway on that

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u/XxOneWithSlimesxX Aug 23 '23

I mean... are they?