232: Is there a situation where it's appropriate to be unkind?
Of course it’s okay to be unkind. As superheroes, being unkind is part of our job. Are we supposed to treat the bad guys with kid gloves? I don’t think so.
I think that, short of killing, anything we have to do to catch the villains is acceptable. There are those that disagree with me. Wonder Woman and Superman, for starters. But as far as I’m concerned, if I have to flirt and lie and give a general impression that I’m interested in someone that I know is a creep in order to put him behind bars, I’m okay with that. Very okay with that, and let me tell you, the fishnets work wonders in helping me convince the creeps that I’m interested.
There are people - my husband for one - who don’t really approve of me flirting with the creeps before I kick their butt and send them away. I’ve sat through more than one lecture from Diana about the dishonesty of it all.
But it’s not like the creeps don’t know that I’m a superheroine from the start. If they’re dumb enough to believe that I could ever want a lowlife like them, that’s their problem, as far as I’m concerned.
Dinah Lance, Black Canary II/Birds of Prey/204 words
I think that, short of killing, anything we have to do to catch the villains is acceptable. There are those that disagree with me. Wonder Woman and Superman, for starters. But as far as I’m concerned, if I have to flirt and lie and give a general impression that I’m interested in someone that I know is a creep in order to put him behind bars, I’m okay with that. Very okay with that, and let me tell you, the fishnets work wonders in helping me convince the creeps that I’m interested.
There are people - my husband for one - who don’t really approve of me flirting with the creeps before I kick their butt and send them away. I’ve sat through more than one lecture from Diana about the dishonesty of it all.
But it’s not like the creeps don’t know that I’m a superheroine from the start. If they’re dumb enough to believe that I could ever want a lowlife like them, that’s their problem, as far as I’m concerned.
Dinah Lance, Black Canary II/Birds of Prey/204 words