mtl008 Chapter 3616: Injustice Alliance (5)
Chapter 3616: Injustice Alliance (5)
Chapter 3616: Injustice Alliance (V)
The relationship between the three members of the Justice League is actually worth discussing. Usually, people always talk about the relationship between Batman and Superman, but ignore Wonder Woman.
But in fact, the Wonder Woman in most universes plays the role of a glue. Because to some extent, she is the oldest and most mature one in the team, so she will naturally be more inclined to mediate conflicts and maintain the stability of the team.
Injustice is like showing us what would happen if Wonder Woman was the most immature person on the team. There is no doubt that the relationship between Batman and Superman has deteriorated beyond repair.
Again, during the whole process, they actually had many opportunities to sit down and talk, shake hands and make peace. But unfortunately, Wonder Woman, who was supposed to act as a mediator, fanned the flames like crazy, and eventually the conflict became irreversible.
Many people may be curious: What is the standard of maturity and immaturity? How can a person be considered mature?
But in fact, there is no specific standard for maturity in psychology. There are only healthy and unhealthy states in psychology.
In other words, a person does not need to be mature, he just needs to be healthy. Even if he is very immature, as long as his mental state does not affect his daily life, it is not a disease, and there is no need to pursue so-called maturity.
But there is a very important concept in psychology, that is "regression". Many people often hear "degenerative lesions", so what exactly is regression?
Regression is a typical unhealthy state. It not only affects people's daily lives and makes them feel painful, but may also affect others.
Wonder Woman in Injustice presents a very typical regressive state. One of the typical manifestations of this state is "existence dependence".
Perhaps many people who have raised children or seen other people’s children will find that children always want to attract adults’ attention all the time. Sometimes they themselves don’t even realize it, but they just deliberately make some noise to get adults to notice them.
Psychology and various social sciences now understand this phenomenon as an instinct in human evolution. Children who can better attract adults' attention are more likely to survive.
Humans have a 5-10-year period of existence dependence during their early childhood. Specifically, they are very sensitive to the attention of others and can almost immediately detect the gazes of others; they are very keen on proving their existence and strengthening their sense of existence; and their sense of shame is reduced - as long as they can make a noise and attract people, they don't care even if they behave weirdly or make a fool of themselves.
This is not because the children are crazy, this is a normal growth stage. Everyone has such a period more or less, but it may be forgotten as they grow up.
From the perspective of psychoanalysis, the state of existential dependence in childhood is a manifestation of the personality's active exploration of the outside world. They want to determine the reaction of the world to them through their various behaviors, and then reflect these truthfully in their own personality, just like looking in the mirror.
How they respond to the people around them is largely determined by how their surroundings respond to them, and this influence may even last a lifetime.
For example, when children want to prove their existence, if parents respond to them very patiently and give them enough attention, it will help children understand the relationship between attention and response. If parents do not respond or simply scold them, their understanding of attention and response will be weak. This will lead to the inability to establish the necessary relationship between attention and response in their personality.
The consequences of this are: either they are not used to attention, even normal attention will make them feel exposed and want to avoid it; or they are too slow to respond to the signals of others' need for attention, or even simply cannot feel it.
Either they don't know how to respond, or don't know to what extent they should respond to other people's attention. It is possible that they respond too intensely or do not respond at all.
The regressive existential dependence of adults is often similar to that of children. But after all, they are adults, and everyone thinks they are mature enough, and no one will treat them as children, so the harm they can cause is naturally greater.
For example, Wonder Woman in Injustice, on the surface, many of the things she does have no reason at all, as if they are purely bad, such as sowing discord and fanning the flames. But in fact, this is a pathological state of degenerative existential dependence.
There is no practical benefit for her to do this. In her heart, she knows that Superman will not fall in love with her. But for a child, the benefit itself is not important, what they want is attention.
As mentioned before, children will have symptoms of reduced sense of shame during this period. This symptom is because they have not received much social and moral discipline in their childhood. For adults, in addition to reduced sense of shame, their sense of morality will also be reduced. In short, they will do anything to attract attention.
From the very beginning, Wonder Woman stood on Superman's side. Of course, it cannot be said that supporting Superman is wrong, but from the very beginning, she supported Superman not for Superman, but for herself.
If she was doing this for Superman's own good, she should have persuaded him. Because anyone could see how painful it was for Superman to break up with Batman. Even if it was to alleviate the pain, she should have played a role in bringing the two of them together.
After all, the dead cannot be resurrected, and what has happened has already happened. Breaking up with Batman will not benefit Superman in any way except that he will lose his lover and his best friend at the same time. Any normal adult can think of this.
But Wonder Woman in "Injustice" did not choose to do so. This proves that her starting point is definitely not for Superman's good, but entirely for herself.
The way she gets a sense of existence from Superman is to agree with him blindly. No matter what extreme emotions Superman has due to stimulation, she agrees unconditionally. In this way, Superman's attention will always be on her.
At the same time, she is also using this method to constantly get Batman's attention. Because if Batman wants to stop Superman, he has to fight for her, so Batman's attention will also be on her.
In order to gain attention, she constantly instigated both sides without any moral bottom line. For this purpose, she even spread bad words about both sides like a clown, and she didn't even have the slightest sense of shame.
Therefore, when dealing with the Wonder Woman in Injustice, we cannot talk to her about morality, bottom line, and justice like we do with other Wonder Women, because she can completely abandon these things in order to gain attention.
To a certain extent, she can lower her bottom line very low without being forced by anyone, just like a naughty child.
The reason why many people feel disgusted when they see Wonder Woman is that she clearly has an adult body and identity, but uses it to do things that only children of a few years old would do: passing messages between two sides, fanning the flames, telling this person that this is not good, telling that person that this is not good; she would always be there to instigate whoever does something; once something happens, she would be the first to tell the teacher; not only would she cause others to get scolded, but she would also try to clear herself of all blame - isn't this the most common behavior of a troublemaker in elementary school?
So, what is the best way to deal with such a person? Since her symptom is called existential dependence, the best way to deal with her is existential deprivation.
It's not that she doesn't have a sense of existence, because if she never has a sense of existence, then maybe she can adapt to a life with low pleasure. But if she is always in an excited state and suddenly quits, she will feel pain and even go crazy. It's the same as taking drugs.
The best way to give others a sense of existence is to make them feel special. If you give everyone 10 on average, then even if you give her 10, she will not feel satisfied, because your attention is evenly distributed to everyone and she is not special.
If you give everyone 1 but give her 9, then even though it's less than the average, she will still feel more pleasure than the average.
That's why Bruce said Wonder Woman is special right from the start. Even though this is a bit blunt and superficial, people still buy into it.
It can even be said that the more superficial and straightforward it is, the happier she is. Because there is obviously no such straightforward person in the Justice League. Originally, Superman was one, but after all, he had just suffered a misfortune, and the little attention he could spare was pitiful. The earth was even more plagued by disasters, and no one had time to watch Wonder Woman's performance.
When people from other universes came, they gave her full attention. How could she not be happy?
However, this is not pure attention and praise. Bruce has put a lot of poison in it.
First of all, the Batman and Wonder Woman in this universe are just ordinary comrades-in-arms, without developing any extra feelings. So it is normal for Bruce, as Batman, to pay more attention to Catwoman, who has an affair with Batman, right?
Secondly, although you are also Wonder Woman, there is also a Wonder Woman in our own universe, and she is my real comrade and friend. It is normal for me to pay more attention to her, right?
Finally, although the Batman and Superman in your universe have broken up, I am still good friends with the Superman in our universe. I pay more attention to him, and there is nothing wrong with that, right?
Whether from an emotional or logical point of view, there is no reason for the people in other universes to pay more attention to Wonder Woman. But Bruce paid attention to her right from the start, which gave her an illusion that "I am indeed special."
You see, he has so many people who deserve his care, but he still comes to care about me first. It must be because I am special.
At this time, when Bruce pays attention to other people according to normal logic, Wonder Woman will feel as if something has been taken away by others.
Although she knew rationally that it was okay for people to talk to people from her own universe, she just felt uncomfortable because she had received attention for no reason, which proved that she was special, so she naturally wanted to get more with this specialness.
For example, if Bruce makes her feel special, she thinks she can use this specialness to attract Clark's attention, and then Oliver or Hal. She wants them to pay attention to her.
But she knew rationally that this was impossible. They were a family, so they were naturally closer to each other. So what could she do?
If they were not so close to each other, they would naturally become close to me. Then she would naturally think of how to stir up trouble with the outsiders, just as she had done in the past to sow discord between Batman and Superman.
When trying to sow discord between them, there is one person who is very important, and that is Diana, the Wonder Woman from another universe. As long as she is there, the people from the other universe will naturally get closer to their fellow countrymen, because they are the same. No matter what I do, I can never replace her position.
Wonder Woman exuded amazing malice towards Diana, perhaps she herself did not realize it. But Clark saw it all.