Give the Villain a Hero's Funeral: Difference between revisions

* A really sad example in the DC Golden Age, later retitled ''Earth Two'' incarnation when Bruce Wayne gives [https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Selina_Kyle_(Earth-Two) Selina Kyle] a lavish funeral. She died during a heist gone wrong, and he gives her a funeral worthy of a Wayne. Why? Because Selina ''was'' a Wayne by marriage; she pulled a [[Heel Face Turn]] after [[Faking Amnesia]] about her criminal background, and married Bruce, settling down to start a family with him. A former henchman named "Silky" Cernak framed Selina for murder long after she married Bruce, blackmailing her to do a heist as Catwoman using a doctored photo. Batman and Commissioner Gordon tried to stop the heist, only for Batman to kick a gun from a [[Mook]]'s hand and cause it to misfire, hitting Selina and knocking her off a mezzanine, fatally injuring her. Accidentally killing his wife caused Bruce to retire as Batman, while motivating their daughter Helena Wayne to become the superhero Huntress to avenge her mother. She and Bruce track down "Silky" Cernak, and obtain the proof that Selina was never a killer during her criminal life, giving Bruce closure shortly before he dies a year later.

* Happens in ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'' during ''The Judas Contract'' arc. After Terra dies attempting to bury the Titans in rubble and they deliver her employer-lover Slade Wilson to the cops, they all agree that it's in their best interest that no one knows Terra joined the team specifically to betray them to H.I.V.E. and was pure evil. They give her a Titans funeral with honors. While Raven and Robin conclude that Terra was evil from the start and remain solemn, Beast Boy is in denial, and spends the funeral sobbing over the girl he loved. This has repercussions in a later arc where a villain in the future tries to replicate the exact same plot.

 

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