This is absolutely rape and should not be taken one iota less seriously because the victim is a man–in fact it should have been a moment to show men can be raped too. Are rape jokes like this okay in comic books? Or anywhere, for that matter? As previously mentioned, the story arch is called Total Chaos if you are interested in reading the entire thing. To read this story for yourself, you need to pick up Team Titans issue 2. Because men are supposed to want it, right? This one-sided double standard thing turns this joke into something as tasteless as the McRib sandwich at McDonalds. The nonchalant mention of sexual assault is sort of brushed off as a joke, as if a man being used or abused is of no serious nature. The way this was all presented seems very bizarre to me. Because everything is a man’s fault, it seems. Naturally, Dick was still blamed immediately afterward for the incident. Through deception, she successfully raped him while he thought she was Starfire. Later we discover that Mirage also used the situation to have sex with Nightwing. This was necessary so she could break in and save her captive friend. The trouble started In Deathstroke The Terminator issue 14 when Mirage began posing as Starfire. One of these so-called heroes was called Mirage, who happened to be the lover of Nightwing. A team of heroes traveled back in time to stop Lord Chaos, the son of Donna Troy (Wonder Girl). The rape issue in question was during the Total Chaos story arch. So yes, Dick Grayson was in fact raped twice in comic history. In the comic Team Titans from 1992, a character from the future recongized him as being her lover, and decided to use deception to get what she wanted. However this was not the only time a woman had taken advantage of him. In the past I wrote about the time when Catalina Flores raped Nightwing.
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