are sidekicks basically child soldiers?
have anyone in the comics ever called that out?
Are sidekicks basically child soldiers?
Tyler Fisher
Camden Hill
Harley put an age restriction for her sidekicks.
Leo Adams
Miller’s Batman approves of the usage of child soldiers.
Christopher Sanders
sideckicks are cock sleeves, everyone always knew that
Aiden Walker
I'm struggling to find the page, but Batman was arguing with someone about the age of their sidekick, and they clapped back about him going through four Robins.
Lincoln Barnes
no that's crazy
Blake Myers
It's a retarded analogy comparing sidekicks who have chosen that life of their own free will with child soldiers who've been forced into it. There's always some retard trying to push this hot take on why sidekicks are bad, but the comparison is stupid, and any actual point a writer wanted to make could be made by just calling out the adult heroes for endangering children.
Leo Parker
I'm not so sure. Like if a teenager wanted to be a cop or a soldier or a fireman, you wouldn't just let them do it, right?
Justin Gray
History's full of teens lying about their age to fight in wars of their own free will, but the "child soldiers" analogy is a term that specifically provokes ugly comparisons to third world warlords forcing children to fight for them, often kidnapped, drugged and brainwashed children. You can call Batman out for endangering children without making a stupidly edgy comparison that bears no resemblance to what he's actually doing, and we should think seriously about whether we actually want to get rid of genre tropes like sidekicks and teen heroes that have been a part of cape comics forever before we start having stories that try to attack and tear down the concept.
Michael White
That's fair.
Eli Davis
Landon Lewis
It was Wally. The coloring and Arsenal had me thinking it was Guy or Ollie in my head. Thanks!
Grayson Nguyen
Well superheroes really arent soldiers so not quite.
Jeremiah Ward
Best costumes on the sidekicks
Juan Hughes
They are meant to be fun self inserts for kids
But somehow it fells now they became self inserts for adults that wish Batman was their daddy
Gabriel Ramirez
>now
>he doesn't want batdad
Brody Cooper
Dc is out of control with their sidekick number
It's more like child army for army
Xavier Howard
Didn't Anole talk about it in X-men, followed by him leaving the xmen and punching out Northstar?
Bentley Sanchez
or perhaps a Children's Crusade
Ian Moore
Children are basically free labor
Builds character to have them go on death defying adventures and being outside
Jonathan Long
Brat Pack is basically exploring the trauma and other things a teen face when realistically are put in a crime fighting career without going too edgy where it's comical. Other than that, I guess young justice, everyone who was a sidekick are miserable and have dysfunctional lives