Heroes of the Squared Circle 19: Sanity Clause

[mithen]

Title: Sanity Clause
Relationship: Clark/Bruce
Characters: Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne, Harvey Dent, Big Barda, Scott Free, Jack Napier, Oliver Queen, Lex Luthor, Selina Kyle
Continuity: Heroes of the Squared Circle, a DC/pro wrestling fusion ( click for notes and all chapters).
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Rating: PG
Word Count 2900
Summary: The JLI

Comments

[mithen]

Even before I read it, the instant you said "contract signing," I knew it was gonna end in mayhem. So saying this as someone who hasn't read it yet... the odds that someone's going through the table at the signing? About 125%.

I have actually been saving the Cake Rule for an epigraph at some point! If I can just find a scene where I can work in a plausible cake...well, at the very least there will be a faux-wedding one day, I do know that! I absolutely love the incredibly obvious setups in wrestling--yes, let us put a bunch of tables around, nothing will come of that...

Man, Jack has got to be PISSED that Harvey and Clark got to bust out the Marx Brothers line *with him in the ring*!

Good point! I imagine a rankling growing hatred of anyone else who actually gets a chance to be funny in the ring and gets an actual laugh for it...

Did you know that the kid who DiBiase actually made kiss his foot on television that one time grew up to be Rob Van Dam? Interesting coincidence.

I--I don't think I knew that, but it is a thing of beauty and a joy forever! And I just will never get enough of the Evil Boss Requiring Ritual Humiliation... :)

I suspect that Lex doesn't want to admit he likes Bruce even at the same time he's afraid of what Bruce might end up doing.

The evolution of their relationship has been one of the biggest surprises so far--but it makes so much sense, there has almost always been an undercurrent of respect between them in comics, two non-superpowered guys surviving on their wits and tenacity...

I'm glad the beginning of Bruce's transition into tweener is making sense here! Things are about to get pushed in different directions, but I was hoping he'd start to feel more like a tweener before that happened. And yeah, non-monolithic heel motivations are love! It fits with the way that comic-book villains can never work together for long because they all tend to have their own personal motivations (admittedly, most of them boil down to "I insist on putting my desire to kill X superhero first!")

"When Jake Roberts thinks you've gone too far, you are in some pretty dark territory" are words to live by!