Hello superhero friends! Welcome to a LIVE replay of my livestream Cosplay & Comic Books show on Tik Tok. This read features a comic book that was received as a gift at one of my past workplaces (when I was a Digital Project Manager at the hospital). I decided to feature it as a “free comic book read” as I am working through cateloging all of my content. Comic Books are such a unique medium by which to tell a story, and they also offer very unique character creations that also function as archetypes in our “modern world”. When I was interviewing fellow goddess Pamela for my Truth Beauty Freedom & Love show, her definition fell in alignment with Carl Jung’s definintion which goes a little something like this:
Jungian archetypes are a concept from psychology that refers to a universal, inherited idea, pattern of thought, or image that is present in the collective unconscious of all human beings.
From a classical viewpoint, however, archetype has a function of being an “original template” from which all other copies are made. If we consider both of these defintions as ways of modelling reality, well we can also see how characters in our beloved stories (comic books included) have a meaning and life all of their own especially with how they would interface with our own inner subconcious and inner worlds.
The Bat Family in DC Comics - Batman, Robin, Batgirl, Batwoman, Nightwing - and all of their iterations; deal a lot with the shadows. If I would have them be embodied in a sign I would say Scorpio (even if Batman Bruce Wayne is supposedly an Aries). As an archetype, it’s a darker hero - a hero that has his own set of morality. Batgirl herself as a character is one of importance of the Batfamily. Even after she is unable to be Batgirl, she continues to be part of the team as Oracle.
The cool thing about Batgirl as well is that she plays nice with the Sirens: Catwoman, Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn as well. (At least when their goals match.) Which goes to show that just like in drawing, it’s not about black and white - it’s whole lot of grey.
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