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fan of Batgirl and Huntress and Signal and and Wonder Woman, corruption comes from lack of connection to other people, greatest heroes are ones who regularly help and listen to individuals and community groups

[gabegiles777]

character analysis essays, editable for collaboration

I have analyses for multiple heroes at:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HRpHOx4wala71bgT9QExSVKWTo-qONDH?usp=drive_link

If anyone is interested in creating a group project based on these analyses, I have editable versions. I'm interested in if people want to add characters before I get to them personally, have a different analysis, or disagree with how I divide versions of the characters. If someone wants to discuss pre-Flashpoint and post-Flashpoint versions of Cassandra Cain, or combined pre and post-Crisis versions of Bruce Wayne and Kal-El and other characters, that would interest me. They're at:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1d6TRaOXoPf17dI95NovGjvr4qSwj_xbp?usp=drive_link

[gabegiles777]

Batman (1940) #633

Leslie and Stephanie were the main victims of War Games but the story really was trying to glorify Bruce and Tim, while claiming that everyone else, and especially Jason and the females, were not actually heroes. The intro to the War Drums collection claims that Jason never had a sense of right and wrong. Bruce and Tim are searching for survivors while Cass runs away to hide from the light without trying to help. Everyone, including Cass and Leslie, was written as either incompetent or heartless in an attempt to label Batman and the "real" Robin as the only heroes who mattered. Andersen Gabrych wrote Cass as someone who Bruce trusts, unlike Steph, but who only exists to follow Bruce's orders without argument and as never arguing or disagreeing with him no matter what. Bruce and Cass both come out of War Games looking like monsters.

The War Crimes story tried to rescue Batman as a hero by painting everyone who disagreed with or criticized Batman as a murderous villain. Leslie Thompkins is claimed to have murdered Steph while the journalist Arturo Rodriguez, who turned on Batman and his cold cruelty during War Games, is arrested as an accessory to murder. War Crimes ended with Bruce and the author calling Arturo and Leslie war criminals. The more I read, the more ridiculous and monstrous the story is.

The editors for the story hated every character except Bruce and Tim, wanting them to be the only actual heroes.

[muttonch0pps]

A duke for a thing im doing figured i should post something

[itsorpheus420]

Me when I find a hot sword lady

I drew this for my batfamily fantasy au that I wanna write a fic for but….the chances of that happening aren’t exceptionally likely knowing myself. More about stephcass in this au under the line if you’re interested

SO

This au is essentially like, if all of the Wayne kids had some sort of “curse” and that’s what brought them together. Yk, all outcasts, it’s cute

Cassandra in this au is essentially me taking the whole “raised to be a weapon” literally and she’s a magic sword. She is sentient and can somewhat possess whoever is wielding the blade and fight for them if they allow her. She was originally wielded by her father but she managed to escape and, eventually, ended up in the hands of Stephanie. Steph, in this au, is on an adventure to save her homeboy Timmy from a dragon (it’s Bruce…there has been a severe misunderstanding here). She is way out of her depth but she is determined, scrounging together enough money to get some small pieces of armour to go on her quest. While on this journey she ran into some people trying to mug her and she ran, stumbling upon Cass who helped Steph win the fight and this is where they began their journey together, Steph trying to find her friend and Cass trying to break her curse

In other news, we got a “Tim distraughtly pointing at lesbians” doodle sequel (the other one is from my karababs piece). I’m so glad another has been added to the collection

Anyway, as promised, sketches and shit

[finnanb]

Stephanie Brown Headcanon

In the time between Cass becoming Bagirl during No Man's Land and actually meeting her Steph was jealous that Cass had been offered Batgirl.

While she never considered becoming Batgirl during her tenure as Spoiler the fact it was seemingly available and yet never offered to her while this new girl just gets it handed to her as soon as she showed up irritated Steph.

The fact Steph is more similar to Babs than Cass is, teen girl inspired by Batman to put on a costume and go help people + has a thing for Robin vs trained assassin looking for attonement, didn't help. Though Cass, Stephand Babs are all similar in various ways.

Cass is the only person she has admitted this to and it played a part in why Cass gave the mantle to her. (Side-Headcanon it was Cass's idea not Bruce's because it being his idea is dumb. She suggested it after he asked her to go to Hong Kong and he agreed)

[ciricearts]

she's hereee<3

[thievingchameleon]

@supersilly897

#1 nubia lover i know, have you seen this

[sprinkledsalt]

Some women will never want children in their life in any meaningful capacity. They don't want to give birth. They don't want to adopt. They don't want to be the fun auntie. They don't want to be a godmother. They don't want to work in a field with children. They will never change a child's diaper and don't believe their lack of childcare skills is a problem that needs fixing, because childcare is not a crucial part of the human experience, with billions of people on the planet. They go about their day while only seeing kids out at the grocery store or at the park, and nothing is missing from their lives.

The refusal to accept this is driving a global right-wing backlash movement.

[casscainmainly]

This genre of Cass thoughts 😭😭

Batgirl (2000) #7 // Batgirl (2024) #3

[keeperofthebees]

let's observe with mama

[batnotes]

the thing about batman: no man's land i need everyone to understand is that it's the women of gotham who save it

it's babs and renee and helena and cassandra and leslie and ivy and selina and christina and sarah

over and over and over

[ashoss]

my cutiepies

[reducingemissions]

the reviving joker debacle being referred to as "bruce saving joker" when what he's doing is protecting his alive son over taking revenge for his dead son, who the characters had no way of knowing would come back to life or want joker dead.... jason died saving sheila and stopped bruce from killing joker earlier, bruce would be telling himself that jason wouldn't have wanted him to be a killer

Tbh batman glazers that never think he does anything wrong and batman haters who just want to take shit out of context and misinterpret situations just to hate on bruce are two sides of the same coin, they never use their critical thinking skills to actually have interesting non biased conversations as to why bruce did something and why it’s bad/good or complicated, batman have thought abt ending the joker after jason died and he also almost killed him if not for gordon and selina during hush, i personally understand why jason wanted bruce to kill him but i also understand that bruce shouldn’t kill him.

[echoultraviolet]

I NEED to read Wonder Woman comics. I had the realization that I actually know so little about her and I’m so ashamed. I recently found out that the Amazons are reincarnated women that were killed by men’s violence and that concept alone genuinely made me tear up. I fell for the propaganda that Diana is more willing to kill than the others and I feel like I need to make an apology video (to be fair, I never agreed that she was just this bloodthirsty warrior). And I recently found out that “Don’t kill if you can wound, don’t wound if you can subdue, don’t subdue if you can pacify, and don’t raise your hand at all until you’ve first extended it” quote (that I’ve HEARD BEFORE) came from her??

Diana has been done so dirty by adaptations it’s insane, and I thought EVERYONE had it bad in the past 10-15 years because of the DCEU and Injustice getting so popular. But honestly I don’t think Diana has really EVER gotten a good adaptation that really gets her, and she’s gotten so few in general compared to a lot of other superheroes. I really really hope that the DCU truly does her justice, because as much as I want to actually understand her, I want everyone else to understand her too.

Wonder Woman fans you may crucify me, I deserve it (I am, in fact, a Batman girl and I’m sorry for that), but could you also spare some comic recs? I’m just starting Absolute Wonder Woman as I’ve heard it gets her characterization right, but can I get some mainline recs? And don’t be afraid to tell me what to avoid, other than the current Tom King run that I’ve already sworn to stay FAR away from.

[gabegiles777]

predictions for Absolute versions of Barbara, Cassandra, Robins, and Shiva

I have had time to process what's going on in Absolute Batman and Catwoman and I have suspicions about what Che Grayson and Scott Snyder are planning.

The Robins are fighting Batman because Batman has been framed for Jim Gordon's murder and because they trust Jack Napier, the Joker. Both sides are trying to keep Gotham's citizens safe. While Batman fights the Robins and is unable to do detective work, Barbara should be investigating her father's death. The fight, with the Robins continuing to give Batman trouble, may include people being endangered and both Batman and the Robins interrupting the fight to protect them. That would give the Robins reason to suspect that Jack Napier and Slade Wilson are lying but that probably won't be enough to end the fight. I suspect it will end with Barbara arriving in her new hero identity with evidence proving that Jack and Slade killed her father and that Batman is innocent. An ex-police officer backing Batman and his protectiveness of innocent people should be enough for them to break from Jack and regret their actions. Scott Snyder may decide to have Barbara call herself Batwoman instead of Batgirl as she's an experienced adult and there's no Absolute Batwoman at this point.

We're assuming that Shiva is being a villain in the Absolute universe but she's angry at the Joker for destroying the League of Assassins and she's often not written as a villain in comics. It's possible that Shiva's League is akin to the one she proposed to Steph-in-Cass'-body in Batgirls #13. They may be focused on stopping bad people but with methods that Cass normally would hate. Cass' darkness may be a combination of having Shiva, who is colder than Cass, as her main influence and her current relationship with Selina. Hopefully, even with her anger, Cass' warmth has occasionally shown up on missions for the League though people are scared of her. From the description of the Absolute Cassandra Cain comic, it sounds like Cass and Selina knew each other, and may have been close, when they were younger. I'm guessing that they were close because of the saying that hatred comes out of having loved someone so Cass' intense hatred of Selina means that she used to be care for her deeply. Absolute Cassandra Cain will probably reveal that something happened that separated them and left Cass angry enough to want Selina dead and to hurt people. Kidnapping and scaring people isn't normal behavior for Cass so something's up. It's not unlikely that the emotional core of Absolute Catwoman will be Cass and Selina reconciling, similar to what Scott Snyder intended for Cass and Harper in Batman & Robin Eternal. If Absolute Cass is anything like mainline Cass, she'll be feeling extremely guilty over her actions as part of the League and towards Selina and Holly. This would get us a Cass with a guilt complex akin to what mainline Cass has. After they reconcile and Cass isn't hating Selina, Cass will hopefully admit that she doesn't like being part of the League of Assassins and that she wants to protect people in a different way. She'll also probably want to spend time with Selina who she's been separated from for a long time. I can't see Cass wanting to be Selina's partner and a thief as she wants people to like and trust her and thieves don't have that relationship with people. I wouldn't be surprised if Selina brings Cass to Gotham and introduces her to Bruce/Batman. Bruce can show Cass a different way of protecting people, similar to what Greg Rucka said Bruce did for Cass in the No Man's Land novel when Cass thought she needed to kill her father to protect Jim Gordon and Bruce told her that taking the money from Two-Face would also serve to protect Jim. Bruce doesn't need to teach Cass compassion but he does help her find more effective ways to protect people without having to be cruel to do so. Cass, wanting to use Bruce's methods instead of Shiva's, would probably become a bat. Scott obviously likes Cass so I'm guessing she'll call herself Batgirl and he's just teasing when he refuses to confirm that there will be a Batgirl just like Cass' quick arrival wasn't expected.

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4,633 likes, 148 comments - guardian_us on June 8, 2026: "Have you seen videos of ICE agents pointing their phones at people they’re arresti

[alicepooryorik]

I think I've talked about this before but people who go on and on about Shiva being Cassandra's mom and being soooo evil for not loving Cassandra are so funny like that woman should've been at the abortion clinic but couldn't by threat of. You know. Her life. I think it's fine she isn't present in Cassandra's life considering, you know, she's not Cassandra's mother? Like some of y'all want the rape victim to be Cassandra's mom more than the woman Cassandra acknowledges as her mom.

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