Originally Posted by
Badou
Obviously they aren't going to ever get rid of relationships, and I was being a bit facetious about it, but maybe these relationships causes people to get too invested at times as well, and maybe that leads to fans or even creators inserting their own want or desires too much into these characters fictional personal lives. This whole story is funny because of how badly DC worded their explanation, but do we really need to see Batman preforming oral sex on Catwoman in a cartoon? Or see an image of Batman's penis in a panel? I don't really know if that is a path these characters should go down, but I also am someone that has no interest in seeing it.
At their core I still think of these superhero characters as children's characters. So I guess that forms my opinion. As serious as you want to try and make a Batman he is still a guy running around in a bat costume. You can still tell mature stories, but there is a line I think. For the most part even when a superhero like a Batman or a Spider-man has sex they don't really have sex. They only show the lead up, aftermath, or it is off panel. Not always but for the most part at least. Intent is what is important over actually seeing what sex positions these characters use, but when you start trying to show more explicit things you kind of blur the line between selling pornography-like stories over more expected stories. You can end up with things like the Nightwing and Tarantula scene.
This isn't just for sex stuff, but even for over the top violence or even things like rape. There is a line. Some might like seeing Superman rip people apart like a piece of paper, but is that really appropriate? Or do you want to see a character brutally sexually assaulted? Or do I need to know if Batman likes anal sex in some cartoon? They are all kind of lumped together for me. Intent is still the most important thing, and if there is some really great story behind the motivation then maybe more explicit things would be okay, but if the intent is just because you want to show it then it probably isn't worth it.
I kind of went on a tangent there and typed more than I expected to, but I guess I think that these superhero comic book characters are stretched way thin trying to appeal to everyone where situations like this come up more than a lot of fictional IPs. I don't think a Bulma and Vegeta in Dragonball are ever going to be put in these kind of situations for example, lol.