browngirl: (Minoan lady (baranduin))
browngirl ([personal profile] browngirl) wrote2006-01-21 05:40 pm

Discussion Question: A Thousand Ships

This involves hefty spoilers for this week's DC Comics, specifically Infinite Crisis #4 and Nightwing #116.



So what fictional characters, besides Helen of Troy and now Dick Grayson, are so handsome or otherwise affecting that people have destroyed a whole city because of them?

Yes, this would be me NOT GETTING OVER Deathstroke et all nuking Bludhaven.

But it's also a real question. I'm interested in the fictional motif.

ETA: [livejournal.com profile] derryderrydown wrote commentfic, which is a thing of glory and which you want to read.

[identity profile] solvent90.livejournal.com 2006-01-21 10:26 am (UTC)(link)
Um. Not many? There's the Ramayana, I guess, in which the city of Lanka is destroyed because of the abduction of Sita. There's a specific bit where Hanuman sets the roofs of the city on fire to punish Ravana for insulting Sita. And then later the huge big epic war in which the city is obliterated.

[identity profile] blythely.livejournal.com 2006-01-21 12:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I am in awe of the comparison with Helen of Troy. It does however make sense. What would make me the happiest person on earth would be if say, Clark mentioned this to Bruce.

[identity profile] danachan.livejournal.com 2006-01-21 12:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't mind me while I O.O all over the place.

Wow. I should be reading this.

[identity profile] karadin.livejournal.com 2006-01-23 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
this is not regarding this post but another, re:hobbitfic, I am so there with you dude, I want to write them again, but I cant because of the fandom. Are you sure you're not my avatar? From a better universe of course.

[identity profile] colubra.livejournal.com 2007-04-09 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
...the arse that launched a thousand 'ships?

[identity profile] realpestilence.livejournal.com 2010-11-23 12:31 pm (UTC)(link)
What gets me the most about this-other than it being canon!-is that Deathstroke destroying Bludhaven was definitely a response to Dick leaving him. His partnership, employ, whatever you'd call it-Dick left Slade's side and BOOM!