Thinking abt the DC animated show that only exists in my dreams. As in my literal dreams. It's circa Justice League Unlimited.
It starts off with this hero who blacks out and when he comes to, several heroes and vigilantes and villains are dead at his hand and he does not remember any of it. He's understandably horrified, and promptly arrested. But instead of following this aftermath, it then cuts to a few years later where it's been proven he was under some sort of mind control when it occured, and no other episode has happened to him since. He is allowed to work with the Justice League again so they can keep an eye on him, but is strictly forbidden from directly being involved in any sort of hero/vigilante work.
So the show follows him training young vigilantes and heroes, looking out for descendants and relatives of supervillains who aren't given a chance simply because of who their family is, and even helping out reformed villains.
All the while we slowly get bits and pieces of information as he desperately tries to understand what happened to him when he committed those murders, and the heroes who witnessed it walk in eggshells around him. Even those that understand it wasn't his fault can't help the anger and pain because it was his face who killed their friends.
you know, a big reason i kinda drifted away from the phandom last year was because of how prevalent dp x dc content had become. at the time, i was more of a marvel girlie and i didn’t know much about the batfam or dc content in general. but this year during my (somewhat unintentional) hiatus i coincidentally got really into superman media, which then spiraled into an interest in the batfam and dc as whole and oh god I GET IT NOW
I GET THE APPEAL
dp x dc content creators, keep it going, y’all are doing wonders for this community
thoughts and feelings about the line "i don't have to be better (stronger) than you, i just have to stop supplying you with power" in a fight where the villain is a walking example of a corrupt rich capitalist who only cares about himself, who earlier stated that nobody could trust superman to save them because "can we really trust a stranger to help us for free? of course we can't", who tried to get reporter clark kent to stay quiet about the corruption he witnessed by bribing him with "classier ladies" than lois, who abuses and berates the assistant who runs his entire operation.
and then, when clark saves him - "you ruined me. what's your angle? what's in this for you?" "...dr ivo, look around. is it that hard to believe that some people just want to help?"
this show really isn't shying away from the whole Rich Capitalists Don't Care About You And Society Is Corrupt thing and i'm so glad to see it - this is a superman story, after all. standing up to corruption and inequality is kinda the point.