Talia al Ghul
Character » Talia al Ghul appears in 886 issues.
Talia the daughter of Ra's al Ghul and the heir to his worldwide criminal empire. Talia has been both lover and mortal enemy to Batman, and is the mother of Damian Wayne otherwise known as Robin.
The Bat Mother
@Daveyo520 said:
Disney also has a hate for moms. Most movies of theirs kill them off or never had them to start. Single dads seem to be for more engaging stories somehow it seems.
I finally got to my computer so I can now reply/quote you. I think this is a good point, but not so much a hate. Also, not just having mothers lost but also fathers. Both Princess and the Frog and Tangled were missing Father figures, and if you count Cinderella's Step-Mother as a Mother figure, it was also only missing a father.
Though I do agree that Disney seems to have many single fathers, perhaps because it instils a sense of loss with the Princesses. I do not know.
@Daveyo520: Yussss. Again. I think it is because it is an easy way to make the character have a sense of loss, and therefore opens up different ways to build the character and progress with stories and such. I mean take Batman for example. His whole Superhero 'career' started because his parents were killed. Without that he would be plain old [rich] Bruce Wayne.
@Daveyo520: Yes, very true. But with Disney movies and other fiction, them finding closure means they are at peace and happy. For Bruce to get completely past that would change his character A LOT! Not to mention he hasn't gotten very far in 70 years so it may take a while. Though, I haven't read anything with Joe Chill so I don't really know that whole situation.
@RazzaTazz said:
While she is mostly absent from the lives of these characters she has indeed in the past proven to be extremely loyal to her son Damian. In another sense, she also acts as a sort of surrogate mother figure to Jason from time-to-time, even going so far as to be there and sort of responsible for his second birth (from the Lazarus Pit.)
Putting a bounty on Damian's head sure is a strange definition of loyalty, and mothers don't due what Talia did to Jason in bed, and I'm not talking about tucking him in. Let's face it Talia is crazy and not fit to be anyone's mother
I'm actually going to crawl into a hole until Talia dies. I can't take seeing her character so horrifically destroyed like Morrison has been doing.
@BlackArmor said:
@RazzaTazz said:
While she is mostly absent from the lives of these characters she has indeed in the past proven to be extremely loyal to her son Damian. In another sense, she also acts as a sort of surrogate mother figure to Jason from time-to-time, even going so far as to be there and sort of responsible for his second birth (from the Lazarus Pit.)Putting a bounty on Damian's head sure is a strange definition of loyalty, and mothers don't due what Talia did to Jason in bed, and I'm not talking about tucking him in. Let's face it Talia is crazy and not fit to be anyone's mother
LMAO.
@RainEffect said:
I'm actually going to crawl into a hole until Talia dies. I can't take seeing her character so horrifically destroyed like Morrison has been doing.
Now go hide in that hole or else.
@RazzaTazz: eh, she of course biologically fulfills the role where Damian is concerned and she also raised him to some capacity, but when it comes to everyone else not so much. Calling her a mother figure to Jason is kinda like calling Ducard a mother figure to Bruce....well it would be like that if Bruce and Ducard had gotten it on, its actually much weirder to brand the Talia Jason relationship as mother and son figure. I have to go back to Morrison's Batman and Robin but I'm pretty sure her entire current relationship with Dick is not liking him and trying to kill him. She's certainly not any kind of mother to Bruce, and for the rest of the Bat family I don't even think I've ever seen her talk to any of them unless you count Catwoman (which I don't) this doesn't mean that she doesn't have any relationship with them period but it does imply that she doesn't have anywhere near a motherly relationship good or bad with them. With Damian yeah shes a mother figure, with Jason it's creepy and its a stretch but you could say she is, but for the entire bat family while she's a strong female presence (usually a menacing one) she doesn't quite reach mother figure status, more like that disturbed baby sitter who tried o drown you in the tub when you were 5
@BlackArmor said:
@RazzaTazz: eh, she of course biologically fulfills the role where Damian is concerned and she also raised him to some capacity, but when it comes to everyone else not so much. Calling her a mother figure to Jason is kinda like calling Ducard a mother figure to Bruce....well it would be like that if Bruce and Ducard had gotten it on, its actually much weirder to brand the Talia Jason relationship as mother and son figure. I have to go back to Morrison's Batman and Robin but I'm pretty sure her entire current relationship with Dick is not liking him and trying to kill him. She's certainly not any kind of mother to Bruce, and for the rest of the Bat family I don't even think I've ever seen her talk to any of them unless you count Catwoman (which I don't) this doesn't mean that she doesn't have any relationship with them period but it does imply that she doesn't have anywhere near a motherly relationship good or bad with them. With Damian yeah shes a mother figure, with Jason it's creepy and its a stretch but you could say she is, but for the entire bat family while she's a strong female presence (usually a menacing one) she doesn't quite reach mother figure status, more like that disturbed baby sitter who tried o drown you in the tub when you were 5
thats what i see talia as......not a mother figure at all......and LOLS to the bold part cause i can actually see her doing that
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