Bang's Blogs: Cassandra Cain vs X-23
“I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.” -Jean Racine Cassandra Cain, the third Batgirl of DC Comics. X-23, the all-new Wolverine of Marvel Comics. There isn’t much room for disagreement when it comes to your birth and the circumstances surrounding it; and these two assassins were made specifically to be a weapon from the day they were born, pushed away from human interaction and emotion in order to fulfill the purposes of their creators, to fight and kill without mercy. However, kindness would eventually find them…they received a glimpse of tenderness, and found a way out, a chance to forego their old ways and help people, while also helping themselves. Despite being on the hunt for murder and vengeance, they were stopped in their tracks and taken in by two of the greatest fighters on the planet, the Batman and Wolverine, joining a family of people like them, the Bat Family and the X-Men. And down the line they would then take up the mantles of those who came before them, a...