It’s the Season 2 finale, and per our President level Patron Ariel’s request, we’re covering TALIA AL GHUL! Anthony & Doc go in depth on Ra’s daughter, her on/off-again relationship with Batman, and how good of a mother she is to Damian. All this, plus a first ever treatment session and the weirdest accent Anthony’s done yet – LISTEN NOW!

SHOW NOTES:

• Introduction

  • Shoutout to Blood & Black Rum (NSFW) –  – Ryne & Chris drink beer and talk about (mostly) cult films – (3:34)

• Background (5:54)

  • Created by Dennis O’Neil and Bob Brown in Detective Comics #411 (May 1971)

  • Daughter of Ra’s al Ghul, introduced as simply Talia – Batman rescues her from the League of Assassins, and she shoots her captor (Dr. Darrk) to save Batman

  • Later revealed that a kidnapping was a test by Ra’s to see if Batman would make a good husband for Talia – Bruce rejects the offer, but still loves Talia

  • She marries Bruce in 1978 with Ra’s approval

  • She becomes pregnant with Bruce’s child, but she realizes she can’t stay with him, so she fakes a miscarriage and annuls the marriage – the boy is dropped off at an orphanage – later grows to become Damian Wayne

  • Takes over LexCorp when Lex Luthor becomes President of the US – she sells all the assets to Wayne Foundation, leaving Lex broke

  • Gets kidnapped by her half-sister Nyssa and brainwashed to turn against their father – Nyssa kills Ra’s, and both women take over his organization

  • After Bruce is apparently killed, she tells Dick Grayson to take Damian under his wing as the new Robin – after Damian is injured, she implants a device in his spine that allows her to control him, and she starts to clone him to create a more obedient son

  • Batman Inc – she takes control of an organization called Leviathan to kill Batman – her Damian clone kills the original, and she poisons Batman in a battle, but gets killed by Kathy Kane – Ra’s brings her body to a Lazarus Pit to resurrect her – she awakens with no memory of her former life

  • Rebirth – fights Catwoman after finding out she’s engaged to Bruce

  • Lies to Deathstroke and tells him that Damian is his son so he attacks Bruce

• Issues (12:02)

  • Loyalty torn between her father and Bruce

  • After kidnapping by Nyssa, becomes more detached from humanity like her father

  • Maternal instincts over Damian vary – usually fiercely loyal to him, but also willing to abandon him when he defies her (28:21)

• Treatment (39:50)

  • In universe

  • Out of universe

• Skit (54:04)

• Ending

References:

• Chris Hansen – Anthony – 3:30
• Jack Frost – Anthony – 4:08
• Leprechaun in the Hood – Doc – 4:40
• Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood – Doc – 5:04
• Ra’s al Ghul episode – Anthony – 9:04
• Maury Povich – Doc – 11:52
• “Get Down Tonight” by KC & the Sunshine Band – Anthony – 12:20
• Married with Children – Doc – 12:49
• Stockholm Syndrome – 20:48
• Gaslighting – Anthony – 22:54
• A Clockwork Orange – Anthony – 23″08
• Skinner conditioning – Doc – 24:18
• Negan episode – Doc – 27:25

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