>>79755969>There was no real reason to believe that Jason was going to win that fight. He landed a hit on her, but she's escaped from grabs beforeYou can always come up with excuses. "Maybe mind-control makes her weaker! Maybe she would have won if the fight went on for five more minutes!" But the excuses pile up, and pile up, and each falls flatter than the previous one. At some point you need to stop making excuses and actually show this supposed combat monster fucking wreck somebody's ass into a million pieces.
>She doesn't need to beat up every character to establish her image of being a fighter.Actually? She kind of needs to. Right here, when she's making her first ever appearance in the brand new universe, the writers need to establish the rules, show how things go when she's involved. Show the normal state of things. Not subvert expectations, but just show the normal state of things. And so far what they've shown is:
- She beats up Dick a bit (okay, off to a decent start, nothing special but not bad)
- Loses like a bitch to Jason (WTF)
- Loses to ballerinas, taking down about twice as many of them as Harper "weakest hero that's not Steph" Row did, which is beyond pathetic
- Cuts off her dad's hand in a thing that's not a real fight
- Breaks a few flying drones or such
- Loses to Helena
- Is apparently about to have a real honest to goodness fight with Harper Row instead of instantly choking her unconscious in like one panel
That does not look like a borderline superhuman master of all things martial to me. In fact, if this was a brand new character, called Blass Blain, I would peg her at about same level of combat effectiveness as Tim Drake, but without the benefits of Tim's sciencey brain. And that is not what I want from a Cassandra Cain story. What I want is to see her deflect bullets from a minigun with her Katana and backflip three storeys down onto a motorcycle and ride into the sunset, which she will soon beat up.
