sovay: (Lord Peter Wimsey)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote 2022-03-10 07:06 am (UTC)

To my knowledge I don't know that anyone has, although I pitched it recently in a Twitter thread!

(a) That's wonderful.

(b) If I am interpreting that thread correctly, it looks as though the streams cross at the figure of the Harlequin, which actually feels perfectly reasonable.

(c) Bruce Wayne totally would accept a bet from a friend that he couldn't earn his own living for a month. I just don't know if he could get away with doing it at Wayne Enterprises, which would be hilarious.

(d) Jumping tracks to the second part of this comment, I just now after twenty-five years realized that the totality of the disguise of Death Bredon is a pair of glasses and a slightly different hairstyle, oh my God.

(I think Superman doesn't have a ton of Pimpernel in his DNA

He does to me in the nature of his alter ego. I agree that the ways in which the character has evolved in pop culture are not all that Pimpernel-like except for the identity porn.

but I think it's spot on about the illusory love triangle -- actually, now I'm thinking about it, while Superman himself doesn't derive from Percy, you could make a much stronger argument for Lois being a literary descendant of the Cleverest Woman in Europe.)

You should make this argument!

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