“What I don’t get so much is what the fuck are people are thinking when they call Midnighter “fruity” and the like. Why? Why would you watch this dude tear someone’s head off and then be like, “I think I can get away with calling him fruity”?
Not because a gay superhero wouldn’t tear someone’s head off, just because I don’t understand the idea behind antagonizing someone after you just watched him pull someone’s head off his body.
The bad guys always do this. You put a super dangerous dude in a jail cell, and you’re like, “He’s never getting out of there, so I might as well make fun of him, too. Haha, hey, I’m here 8 hours a day, gotta have a laugh now and then.”
He’s getting out! I guarantee it! So maybe don’t give him a reason to EXTRA kill you.
I mean, sure, make fun of Superman. He’s not going to punch straight through your torso and swing on your intestines like Tarzan.
People make fun of Batman, too, and that also seems kind of crazy. He’s not going to kill you, but he’ll shatter every bone in your body? And he seems to regularly fistfight gods, so maybe people shouldn’t assume that they’ve got this locked and might as well toss an insult his way?
Maybe you should, if you’re going to fistfight him, take a shot and hope he uses some kind of knockout gas on you?
Maybe I just don’t have high self-esteem, and maybe that’s why I wouldn’t make fun of Midnighter for being gay before we had a fistfight.
But maybe that’s also why, if I lived in the DC universe, even if I was a hired thug, I might still have most of the inside stuff from my body inside my body.”