AU where the Justice League haven’t revealed their secret IDs to each other yet (or at least Batman hasn’t) and the League, after several coincidental run-ins with him, know that Bruce Wayne is much more intelligent and calculating than he acts in the media. Except they don’t know why—they just think he acts that way because he hates working and wants to get out of dealing with responsibilities or smth
Clark Kent the reporter happens to be attending a gala Bruce is holding when it gets attacked by some rogue or other, and all the guests are being held hostage in the room, and there’s a bomb and everything, it’s all very dramatic and Gotham-typical. Clark and Bruce are hiding behind a table, coincidentally where the bomb is, timer slowly counting down. Clark can’t become Superman without blatantly blowing his secret ID, and Batman’s not showing up for some reason, so he (preparing to just fuckin jump on the bomb and tank that shit, consequences be damned) kinda frantically as a last resort asks if Bruce knows how to disarm a bomb and Bruce (who knows that Clark is Superman and is kinda messing with him) just pulls out a whole belt of tools like “As a matter of fact, Mr Kent, I took a course on bomb disposal back on my self-discovery journey!”
“A what now.”
“A self-discovery journey, Mr Kent, I’d be happy to tell you all about it after this.”
“No, I meant—you took a course on what.”
YES this was what my first tumblr post was about and no-one saw it so trying again lol
Like you know the Die Hard genre of film - Bad guys take over a building and the one person who escapes is weirdly equipped to take them all down over the course of an evening. I NEED one of these but set in DC. Like they should branch out genre-wise like Marvel did (kinda), cause Wandavision was amazing. Plus generally non-superhero movies set in superhero universes is an untapped goldmine.
So like, Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent are attending some kind of event, and happen to be together when some bad guys take it over and take every hostage. the two of them are the only ones free, so they have to work together to save everyone, John McClane style. But Bruce is desperately trying to keep up the whole 'Brucie' ruse, while simultaneously being super smart and kickass, so its not working too well. Clark, meanwhile, is trying to come up with reasons as to why he should be in the line of fire that aren't 'I'm bulletproof', and being shot down (not literally, to his annoyance) every time as Bruce pulls out a multi-tool the size of his arm that shouldn't have been able to fit under his tailored suit.
Also Ollie and Dinah could be there, and tbh I think Ollie would expect this from Bruce - still completely oblivious about Batman, but Bruce is such a strange person that no-one questions it until Clark gets there.
OR the batkids with their friends who don't know their identities and are either very confused as to why they brought a grappling hook to a gala or just baffled at how good they are at using it
