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Asexuality Awards Round 1
Red Hood | Jason Todd
Sandy Hawkins
Why do they deserve to win?
Jason Todd
Sandy Hawkins
Jason Todd fucked on panel.
Sandy has not.
This should not be complicated
Sure but those people were significantly older than him and knew him as a kid when they were both already adults (who had relationships with his brother and father already). There’s plenty of problems with those situations.
Just found out in the Romani language Kon means who but in Kryptonian it is a slur for clones that translates to abomination
So just imagine this
Tim: This is my teammate Superboy or Kon-El
Kon: Wassup
Dick: So his name translates to who…?
Tim: No. His name is a Kryptonian slur for clones that translates to “abomination”
Dick: OH MY GOD THAT IS SO MUCH WORSE
Kon: Yep…
PLEASE stop believing everything the New 52 says. That retcon was an abomination. The original meaning of Kon-El is that Kon was the name of Clark’s adopted cousin, and he gave Kon the name as a symbol of his adoption into the El family. It was never presented as meaning “abomination” or being a slur for over a decade that Kon had this name before the New 52.
The New 52 just decided to mess up Superboy’s character for no good reason and turn his name into a slur while recreating him into an entirely different person (so different that they later decide to say this Superboy was in fact literally a different person).
I know it’s a joke but like… they’re technically correct
If I remember right (which I probably don’t) Cyborg “died” as a soldier in the Civil War and was brought back as a robot so like…. He would be older than the other titans?? I think????
Idk I’ve been out of the Teen Titan mindset for a while so please correct me
It sounds like you’ve seriously confused him with a different character. Because no, that’s not his origin at all.
Cyborg was a high school athlete when he became an amputee, and he joined the Titans not long after. He’s the same age as Dick/Nightwing and turned 19 in New Teen Titans vol 1 #20 just two years after he was created. He has no association with the civil war at all. He was never a soldier and he wasn’t brought back as a robot—his dad built him prosthetics after a lab explosion destroyed much of his body.
Maybe there’s some DC extended universe version I don’t know about, but I’ve read a lot of comics and nothing you described has been Cyborg’s origin in any of them.
Plot armor but it’s Bruce Wayne’s wealth.
Bruce is one of the richest men in the world. Bruce does not want to be one of the richest men in world.
He starts by implementing high starting salaries and full health care coverages for all levels at Wayne Enterprises. This in vastly improves retention and worker productivity, and WE profits soar. He increases PTO, grants generous parental and family leave, funds diversity initiatives, boosts salaries again. WE is ranked “#1 worker-friendly corporation”, and productively and profits soar again.
Ok, so clearly investing his workers isn’t the profit-destroying doomed strategy his peers claim it is. Bruce is going to keep doing it obviously (his next initiative is to ensure all part-time and contractors get the same benefits and pay as full time employees), but he is going to have to find a different way to dump his money.
But you know what else is supposed to be prohibitively expensive? Green and ethical initiatives. Yes, Bruce can do that. He creates and fund a 10 year plan to covert all Wayne facilities to renewable energy. He overhauls all factories to employ the best environmentally friendly practices and technologies. He cuts contracts with all suppliers that engage in unethical employment practices and pays for other to upgrade their equipment and facilities to meet WE’s new environmental and safety requirements. He spares no expense.
Yeah, Wayne Enterprises is so successful that they spin off an entire new business arm focused on helping other companies convert to environmentally friendly and safe practices like they did in an efficient, cost effective, successful way.
Admittedly, investing in his own company was probably never going to be the best way to get rid of his wealth. He slashes his own salary to a pittance (god knows he has more money than he could possibly know what to do with already) and keeps investing the profits back into the workers, and WE keeps responding with nearly terrifying success.
So WE is a no-go, and Bruce now has numerous angry billionaires on his back because they’ve been claiming all these measures he’s implementing are too expensive to justify for decades and they’re finding it a little hard to keep the wool over everyone’s eyes when Idiot Softheart Bruice Wayne has money spilling out his ears. BUT Bruce can invest in Gotham. That’ll go well, right?
Gotham’s infrastructure is the OSHA anti-Christ and even what little is up to code is constantly getting destroyed by Rogue attacks. Surely THAT will be a money sink.
Except the only non-corrupt employer in Gotham city is….Wayne Enterprises. Or contractors or companies or businesses that somehow, in some way or other, feed back to WE. Paying wholesale for improvement to Gotham’s infrastructure somehow increases WE’s profits.
Bruce funds a full system overhaul of Gotham hospital (it’s not his fault the best administrative system software is WE—he looked), he sets up foundations and trusts for shelters, free clinics, schools, meal plans, day care, literally anything he can think of.
Gotham continues to be a shithole. Bruce Wayne continues to be richer than god against his Batman-ingrained will.
Oh, and Bruice Wayne is no longer viewed as solely a spoiled idiot nepo baby. The public responds by investing in WE and anything else he owns, and stop doing this, please.
Bruce sets up a foundation to pay the college tuition of every Gotham citizen who applies. It’s so successful that within 10 years, donations from previous recipients more than cover incoming need, and Bruce can’t even donate to his own charity.
But by this time, Bruce has children. If he can’t get rid of his wealth, he can at least distribute it, right?
Except Dick Grayson absolutely refuses to receive any of his money, won’t touch his trust fund, and in fact has never been so successful and creative with his hacking skills as he is in dumping the money BACK on Bruce. Jason died and won’t legally resurrect to take his trust fund. Tim has his own inherited wealth, refuses to inherit more, and in fact happily joins forces with Dick to hack accounts and return whatever money he tries to give them. Cass has no concept of monetary wealth and gives him panicked, overwhelmed eyes whenever he so much as implies offering more than $100 at once. Damian is showing worrying signs of following in his precious Richard’s footsteps, and Babs barely allows him to fund tech for the Clocktower. At least Steph lets him pay for her tuition and uses his credit card to buy unholy amounts of Batburger. But that is hardly a drop in the ocean of Bruce’s wealth. And she won’t even accept a trust fund of only one million.
Jason wins for best-worst child though because he currently runs a very lucrative crime empire. And although he pours the vast, vast majority of his profits back into Crime Alley, whenever he gets a little too rich for his tastes, he dumps the money on Bruce. At this point, Bruce almost wishes he was being used for money laundering because then he’s at least not have the money.
So children—generous, kindhearted, stubborn till the day they die the little shits, children—are also out.
Bruce was funding the Justice League. But then finances were leaked, and the public had an outcry over one man holding so much sway over the world’s superheroes (nevermind Bruce is one of those superheroes—but the public can’t know that). So Bruce had to do some fancy PR trickery, concede to a policy of not receiving a majority of funds from one individual, and significantly decrease his contributions because no one could match his donations.
At his wits end, Bruce hires a team of accounts to search through every crinkle and crevice of tax law to find what loopholes or shortcuts can be avoided in order to pay his damn taxes to the MAX.
The results are horrifying. According to the strictest definition of the law, the government owes him money.
Bruce burns the report, buries any evidence as deeply as he can, and organizes a foundation to lobby for FAR higher taxation of the upper class.
All this, and Wayne Enterprises is happily chugging along, churning profit, expanding into new markets, growing in the stock market, and trying to force the credit and proportionate compensation on their increasingly horrified CEO.
Bruce Wayne is one of the richest men in the world. Bruce Wayne will never not be one of the richest men in the world.
But by GOD is he trying.
Mental Stability Award Round 1
Wonder Woman | Diana of Themyscira
Batgirl | Cassandra Cain
Why do they deserve to win?
Diana
Cassandra Cain
Someone has literally never read a comic lmao
sanest in the Batfam!? She's probably the LEAST mentally healthy of them and that is a HIGH bar
Some of the unhinged things cass has done:
Believe so much in the no murder rule that she tried to break a prisoner about to be executed out of his execution.
Walks around naked when she was living with that coffee shop owner because she doesnt understand the issue with naked.
Was planning on fighting her mother, one of the best martial artist in DC with the specific goal of dying.
She never lived with the coffee shop owner, I think you’re thinking of Batman and the Outsiders when she lived with the Outsiders and Grace & Anissa saw her walk around naked.
Mental Stability Award Round 1
Superman | Clark Kent
Batman | Bruce Wayne
Why do they deserve to win?
Clark Kent
Bruce Wayne
Great panel but I’m compelled to mention it’s actually Hugo Strange in that Batman costume. Bruce had temporary amnesia or something for that issue.
Most Adorable Littlest Baby Heroling Round 3
Robin | Dick Grayson
Robin | Damian Wayne
Damian’s the baby brother, which takes over the oldest sibling once being a baby I think. Also Damian was still a preteen until 2016, but Dick literally hasn’t been a teenager since 1986. Baby Dick forever lives in my heart but Damian gets the adorable littlest baby title now.
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Worst Dad Round 1
Jack Drake
Captain Boomerang | George "Digger" Harkness
Why do they deserve to win?
Jack Drake (TW abuse)
Captain Boomerang (TW cannibalism)
I nominated Digger and I'm horrified Jack has a solid 1/5 of the votes. I'm aware Jack wasn't great but what part of "ate his son" did you miss?
It's not like that Greek myth where they didn't know what they were served. Digger used his bare hands to rip him apart with the intent to eat him. His own son.
To be clear, his son was killed by this. This is not an attempted killing, he fucking died. He wasn't brought back in untill after the new 52 universe reset.
Ate him.
Idk, if we’re counting Black Lantern stuff then Black Lantern Jack has also attacked his son and made him relive his traumatic memories. Didn’t kill him but Tim also had backup help and Owen didn’t. I don’t think Black Lantern should count, but even if it doesn’t, Digger already has enough problems to trump Jack “pulled every string to save Tim from NML” Drake. The worst things Jack has done are roughly equivalent to some things Digger has done.
Worst Dad Round 1
Alfred Pennyworth
Robotman | Cliff Steele
Why do they deserve to win?
Alfred Pennyworth
Cliff Steele
i’d like to argue in alfred’s favour that he was employed to be a butler not to parent a kid. like i do love and appreciate him as a version of bruce’s parents but also he is 100% only paid to be a butler. like i think we should take this into consideration. in his scenario i would probably not even have remained in employment let alone stepped up and parented a traumatised kid. also it’s a little unfair to blame the batman thing on alfred and not the fact that bruce underwent horrible trauma at a young age
I mean that’s fair, but also he became Bruce’s legal guardian when Bruce was 8 (or 10 depending on the comic) and then had decades to either learn some decent parenting skills or do something else. The trauma certainly messed Bruce up but “not abandoning an 8/10 year old you accidentally became guardian of” doesn’t make Alfred a particularly good father either.
Could he have been worse? Yes. Was the situation terrible? Yes. Is he a better father than Cliff Steele? …I don’t know what Robotman’s parenting is like.
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Everyone trying to cast Dick as the reliable older brother whose apartment you run off to live in when you're mad at Bruce, has it so wrong.
nothing about Dick's character can be described as reliable, so jot that down.
But also Jason literally tried that when he was still Robin and it didn't work. I'm willing to believe that Dick tried to change his ways specifically because of what happened to Jason but I am not willing to believe he was successful in the long term.
Jason however? Almost perpetually living on the outskirts of Gotham, true rebellious older child that still doesn't get along with dad? He's definitely the guy who you show up to when you and Bruce get into it and you just don't want to deal with him anymore.
He talks shit about you the whole time and constantly threatens to kick you out, but never does.
Because that's all that Jason wanted as a kid. He wanted to show up at Dick's and talk shit and eat cereal for dinner. He wanted that brother. So reluctantly, if you can get through the security system, you can stay. At least for as long as he stays in any one spot.
He is going to complain about it the whole time though.
It’s literally canon that Tim would visit Dick’s place and go to him for advice about Bruce pretty regularly…that literally sums up their first few appearances together in comics.
Dick is a certifiable mess but no more than any other member of the batfamily. Certainly not more than Jason. He’s not even remotely considered an unreliable brother. The good brother you’re talking about is canonically Dick.
New Titans #65, Showcase ‘93 #11, Secret Origins 80-Page Giant #1, Nightwing vol 2 #6, Batman: Urban Legends #10
Not to mention, this is the guy that helped raise Damian while Bruce was “dead” and then gallivanting around for Batman Inc!
Batman #688 & #703
And the same day Dick met Jason in his original modern incarnation, he gave him his phone number and told him to call whenever Bruce was being ridiculous. And then offered the same thing over and over again.
Batman #416, New Teen Titans v2 #31
During the awful Brothers in Blood arc, one of the first times Dick & Jason interacted after Jason was resurrected is literally Jason pranking Dick by killing people in the Nightwing costume and then asking Dick to team up with him against Bruce.
So with all due respect, people are not “trying to cast” Dick as the older brother they go to when they’re mad at Bruce. He’s just already that character in the comics and has been for decades.
Who would win in a fight
Tim Drake/Red Robin/Robin
Miles Morales/Spiderman
Updated my sibling (massive tim drake fan) on this poll and the reblogs and they just told me that they will send me a list of propaganda to post for him by tomorrow evening lmaooo so stay tuned for that I guess😂
Oh dang they got it done way sooner!
Here it is lol
1. Tim is smarter than Batman
2. He has outsmarted Ras al ghul multiple times
3. He uses the titans to his advantage (note from me-whatever the heck that means)
4. And he was trained by Batman
5. He has beaten ras al ghul
For context they have only read the red robin series by Christopher Yost and a few random comics from when he was robin lol
Tim only beat Ra’s on a strategic grande scheme, by preventing Ra’s attempt at taking over WE and killing Bruce’s family. For the physical fight, Ra’s beat Tim easily and nearly killed him (would have succeeded if not for Dick Grayson). Note that Tim’s strength is often boosted by his willingness to partner with other people, like Dick or his teams. If this is a one-on-one fight that’s no benefit to him.
Despite being “smart” Tim has also self-admitted he’s not the best physical combatant of his teams or of the Robins. He’s well trained, but he can get over-confident and fail spectacularly in an actual fight at times. His biggest solo fights often hinge on out-scheming his foe (poisoning Shiva before the fight because he knows he can’t beat her in a fair fight; preparing protection for others so Ra’s plan will be ruined even when he beats Tim), which can require some planning and understanding of his opponent that he would not have going up against Miles.
Miles not only has several powers Tim isn’t used to going up against, but Miles is also himself pretty quick on his feet and good in a fight. (Miles has electricity powers, invisibility, enhanced strength and agility, etc.) In a one-on-one fight without them knowing each other initially, I think Miles is fairly likely to get Tim down the first time.
(Also I think many people have been misled about how Tim’s intelligence generally manifests. And Miles is pretty smart in his own right.)
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there's a post somewhere in me about how i suspect the "tim is seventeen forever" meme is actually a misconception that says more about the fandom than about dc or comics writers. if i'm not mistaken -- and this is the main reason it's not a post, i don't want to go and track down all the n52 and rebirth age references -- tim has actually been sixteen for most of the past decade, since n52 aged him down.
and while he was seventeen for excessively long in preboot -- i don't know that it's significantly longer than he was sixteen, or fifteen, or fourteen. comics just like to do a bunch of plots that, realistically, would last most of a year, and not age the resident teenager during any of them. (the example that comes immediately to mind: murderer/fugitive states, multiple times, that sasha was bruce's bodyguard for a year, which, no! she wasn't! because tim hasn't even turned sixteen yet! in fact, if we're using tim's age as a guidepost, all of officer down + murderer/fugitive has to have taken place over less than six months. which is ridiculous.)
i think we fixate on seventeen because it's the age tim was at the end of preboot (presumably, since we never see him turn eighteen) -- tim fans don't like to acknowledge . . . basically anything that happened between flashpoint and ul#6. so tim is forever seventeen to us because that's how old he was the last time he was really tim. poetic, if you think about it.
#I also think its kind of that in the last years no comic really focuses on anything in his life that would indicate his age #He doesnt go to school or college or has anything else which would indicate his age #So people just assume he didn't age????? (via @elirium)
so -- at the risk of spending more time talking about a period i'm not really well-versed in -- i think this is one of the weird things about the rebirth-to-infinite-frontier transition
my understanding is that rebirth tim was explicitly 16, and had a whole storyline where he was considering going away for college (he was graduating hs early because rebirth tim is a little prodigy). since then, we've had a number of minor reboots including infinite frontier, the practical effect of which has been to put everyone's full post-crisis/pre-flashpoint history back in play.
this has been implemented very unevenly and confusingly -- rebirth and post-crisis histories contradict each other on a number of points, and the rebirth stuff has often not been explicitly walked back -- but in the last couple of years (since mid-2021, which is when i started really keeping up with current comics) most of the bats have had storylines which reference or re-canonize parts of their post-crisis histories. this includes bernard's reintroduction in ul#4/"sum of our parts", but also "house of gotham" recanonizing knightfall and nml, "cheer" recanonizing sheila haywood, "failsafe" referencing tower of babel and batman rip, etc.
in this, current era, which for tim encompasses his coming out arc in urban legends, dc:yj, and td:r, as well as his appearances in failsafe/red mask, you're right. tim doesn't have a job, isn't going to hs or college, and hasn't been given any explicit age markers. i suspect that if you were to ask either meghan fitzmartin or chip zdarsky, they'd say they see tim as somewhere in the 18-20 range. (there have been indirect indications that he's now meant to be an adult -- bernard being in college, for example, or bruce in failsafe referring to tim as a "man.") however ...
a) if i'm not mistaken, tim's last given age is still sixteen, and not enough time has passed since then for him to have naturally aged up to eighteen -- damian was retconned/aged up to 13 during rebirth, for example, and is now only 14, so if tim is an adult, that has to be via "no, that early college stuff was dumb, he's eighteen now"-style retcon
b) like i've said, no one has explicitly established such a retcon. we've implicitly retconned out other aspects of rebirth tim -- it's impossible for tim's post-crisis and rebirth schooling histories to both be true, for example, and also ... rebirth tim's parents were alive! -- but no one's addressed his age. which, in addition to being kind of confusing, leaves us vulnerable to a future writer retcon where they decide to make him 16/17 again.
tl;dr: tim was effectively frozen in time for much of n52 & rebirth, and while we can surmise that his current/most recent writers would like to reverse that and bring him up to legal adulthood, they haven't explicitly done so.
(and i'm gonna reiterate that i'm pretty shaky on rebirth/pre-2021 comics stuff, so if someone who's better versed in rebirth tim is reading this, feel free to chime in/correct me.)
Not sure if this is helpfull but he told Bruce he is going to university in Detective Comics 981
(he never actually went there but well)
Unfortunately he was confirmed to be 16 when he was going to uni *early* in that arc. :( so it’s not an indication of adulthood. Though nowadays his boyfriend mentioned attending morning classes which sounds like he means college classes, and it all around sounds like he and his boyfriend are supposed to be young adults. It’s just that n52 messed things up and rebirth didn’t necessarily fix the age mess ups.
