Yahoo Finance Batman fans call DC bosses ‘hypocrites’ over reason for cutting Catwoman oral sex scene
Batman fans are calling DC “hypocrites” for its reasoning for cutting an oral sex scene involving the character from a future project.
This week, it was claimed by TV producer Justin Halpern that DC Comics had ordered the sequence to be removed from the forthcoming third season of adult animated series Harley Quinn.
The scene in question would have occurred between Batman and Catwoman.
“In this third season of Harley [Quinn], we had a moment where Batman was going down on Catwoman,” Halpern told Variety. “And DC was like, ‘You can’t do that. You absolutely cannot do that.’ They’re like, ‘Heroes don’t do that.’”
He continued: “They were like, ‘It’s that we sell consumer toys for heroes. It’s hard to sell a toy if Batman is also going down on someone.’”
As news of Halpern’s comments broke, DC fans have highlighted the hypocrisy surrounding DC’s claim that “heroes don’t do that” when, in some projects the character has previously featured in, he has been shown to seriously injure people.
Fellow DC character Superman has also been shown to kill someone, with both causing devastating destruction in DCEU film Batman v Superman.
It’s also been noted that DC still expects to sell toys of their villains despite them performing horrific acts in films, TV shows and comic books.
“What the hell is going on with DC. I call them a bunch of hypocrites,” one person commented, with another adding: “There’s so much R Rated Batman stuff where he brutally murders and tortures people. But God perform a fairly vanilla sex act on a character whose entire design has been shaped by BDSM aesthetic.”
Find a selection of more frustrated and confused responses below.
There's so much R Rated Batman stuff where he brutally murders and tortures people.
But God perform a fairly vanilla sex act on a character whose entire design has been shaped by BDSM asthetic.— Tulok the Barearmsian (@tulokthe) June 14, 2021
DC: OUR COMICS UNIVERSE IS DARK AS HELL AND GRITTY. IT'S FOR ADULTS JOKES ARE FOR BABIES. BATMAN IS VENGEANCE. HE IS THE NIGHT. SUPERMAN STRAIGHT UP MURDERS A GUY.
Also DC: batman absolutely does not go down on catwoman how dare you we are trying to sell toys to children https://t.co/vuEBTINTR5— Tanis Fowler (@TanisFowler) June 14, 2021
I like that DC is concerned that they can't sell Batman toys if Batman performs certain sex acts, but they sell toys of characters like The Joker, who does murders, Two-Face, who does murders, and The Mad Hatter, who is a pedophile, and also does murders.
1/? https://t.co/k6zwsXJAV6— Davy A Sundquist (@Dakishambada) June 15, 2021
Oh lets mention the DCEU, where Batman mows down many with a machine gun, Superman levels two cities with NO concern with collateral damage, Pa Kent tells Clark to let a bus load of kids drown, OH AND SUPERMAN MURDERS A MAN WITH HIS BARE HANDS.
— Just Another Blowhard (@Xammas) June 15, 2021
The Independent has contacted DC Comics for comment.
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