Big Barda would much rather just be a stay-at-home housewife. She unironically LOVES cooking and doing household chores to make sure her husband comes home to a peaceful, orderly abode. She finds it relaxing.
She wants to be feminine, but things just keep drawing her back into battle.
Fundamentally (as you undoubtedly know), what makes the two characters work is why Barda's in love with Scott. It isn't physical strength, or royal heritage, or any of that - it's the fact that nobody but Scott Free could even conceive of escape from Darkseid. All the horrors of a hellish world surrounding both of them from birth, and he could still dream that there was something better out there. He's a leader in the purest sense.
Compare Scott to the rest of the Lowlies on the planet; even after Orion killed Darkseid and took the throne and tried to free them, he couldn't. Nobody could even think of freedom. When Orion tried to set up a democratic vote, everybody assumed it was a hidden test and voted for him anyway; when he walks the streets, everybody cringes and expects to be smited if they so much as look at him, no matter how much he tells them to stand. He realizes it will take literal generations before his subjects can actually have freedom.
Centuries of slavery can't be undone overnight even with help, and Scott had no help at all. When written well, Scott Free is a shining beacon of hope in otherwise inescapable despair.
Sadly, I'm sure today's writers will miss the point entirely.
His one JLU episode did a perfect job summing him up but sadly I just cringe to think of how his character would be malformed into something that'd make Anarky go 'whoa, chill man" with the writing they put out these days.
Fundamentally (as you undoubtedly know), what makes the two characters work is why Barda's in love with Scott. It isn't physical strength, or royal heritage, or any of that - it's the fact that nobody but Scott Free could even conceive of escape from Darkseid. All the horrors of a hellish world surrounding both of them from birth, and he could still dream that there was something better out there. He's a leader in the purest sense.
Compare Scott to the rest of the Lowlies on the planet; even after Orion killed Darkseid and took the throne and tried to free them, he couldn't. Nobody could even think of freedom. When Orion tried to set up a democratic vote, everybody assumed it was a hidden test and voted for him anyway; when he walks the streets, everybody cringes and expects to be smited if they so much as look at him, no matter how much he tells them to stand. He realizes it will take literal generations before his subjects can actually have freedom.
Centuries of slavery can't be undone overnight even with help, and Scott had no help at all. When written well, Scott Free is a shining beacon of hope in otherwise inescapable despair.
I've no doubt you're right.
You nailed it. That's why I love these two.
His one JLU episode did a perfect job summing him up but sadly I just cringe to think of how his character would be malformed into something that'd make Anarky go 'whoa, chill man" with the writing they put out these days.
I didn't think so.
The comics show how he escaped.
Here?
"Trade secret."