Oswald Cobblepot has turned over a new leaf for real this time and he is using his Lounge as a place for hiring exVillains because nowhere else will Killer Croc (Waylon) works in the kitchen Two-Face (Harvey) is a Company Lawyer Selinda works as a Waiter Manbat (Kirk) delivers And Mr Freeze (Victor) decorates Now Hiring
Credit to @iceberg-lounge-staffmeme for the original premise: Oswald Cobblepot has gone straight along with some other Gotham rogues heâs hired in the now legitimate Iceberg Lounge, all of whom are social pariahs. The occupations of the Iceberg Lounge employees within that establishment are also @iceberg-lounge-staffmemeâs.
Iâm expanding on this to say that several of the cityâs best-known, âA-listâ supervillains are rehabilitated. This was made possible partly by Bruce Wayneâs donations to Arkham making the institution a productive rehabilitation centre (I know, unbelievable), and him bettering the city as a whole. Every ex-rogue goes to therapy. They all have PTSD due to their traumatic backstories, something that happened while they were rogues or both, and some have other disorders beside. Realistic mental illness representation! Theyâre just trying to keep their lives and their friendsâ lives safe, stable and relatively free from costumed drama of any morality. However, their crimes are forgiven by a select few and forgotten by none. And this is Gotham - thereâs always drama. The most infamous villains leaving the scene has opened the door to both more obscure and brand new villainsâ ascensions. Donât you think that would be cool? A break from the same old Gotham rogues featured again and again in adaptations? New characters with their own backstories and themes? âCause I think it has great potential.
The show is always serialized, but the tone shifts from a relatively lighthearted sitcom to increasingly mature and complex as the protagonists get roped into more and more frontline hero/villain shenanigans.
The title card is âROGUESâ being written in jagged, erratic, blood-red letters against a black background, a pause, and then âEx-â typed before it in neat, white standard font. I can picture a promotional image with the characters doing mundane tasks in the Iceberg Loungeâs lobby, but their shadows are their villainous selves.
The ex-rogues are a very close and protective group. Interpersonal relationships vary, but whether two individuals mesh well or not theyâve overall got an unshakeable solidarity and understanding. Once youâve tried to kill, imprison or sabotage each other enough, a certain tension leaves the relationship, you know? Theyâve seen each other at their lowest points. They casually joke and tease themselves and one another about their supervillain identities and activities, which would be irritating at best and triggering at worst from anyone else. Through flashbacks we watch their dynamics evolve from enemies and rivals who happen to have a common enemy to a weird, messed up, weird found family. The Iceberg Lounge crew are the prime example of this, being the core cast. Still arguably not Gothamâs weirdest and most messed up found family! *pointed look at Batfam*
The timeline is left vague to avoid such difficult questions as âWow, they must have racked up a massive body count in all those decades of evil, can they seriously be allowed to live among normal people?â, âHow much older than Nora is Victor?â, et cetera. I can already see the giant, meticulous blog posts and videos by fans whoâve attempted to pinpoint dates using tiny scattered details. This is a warning - Iâll preemptively salute your dedication, but the show will be deliberately written to foil you. I will tell you Harley, Ivy and Victor were the first to reform all in a relatively short timeframe (motivated by love or selflessness) and Oswald, Eddie, John and Waylon (motivated by cruelty and/or pride) came later. The Batfamily has Dick as Nightwing; Barbara as Oracle; Jason as Red Hood (a violent, ostensibly aloof but ultimately reliable vigilante rather than a crime lord); Tim as Red Robin; Cass and Steph as the Batgirls; Damian as Robin; and Duke as the Signal. The implication is you could be watching a parallel show about the Batfamily every episode.
Oswald is the groupâs de factor leader and operates the Iceberg Lounge, which has earned a reputation as a safe space for the marginalized, including former criminals and criminals of necessity. Thatâs a big demographic in Gotham. His intimate knowledge of the criminal hierarchy and network helps him discern who to trust and defend, and who will only mean trouble. Itâs taken him years and profuse effort to convince Batman it isnât a facade this time; now Batman sporadically consults him for his underworld intel and brilliant strategies when heâs hit a complete dead end in a case. The Lounge is the ex-roguesâ favourite hangout. He frequently hosts their poker games and their movie night is Saturday in his penthouse. With the social validation heâs always yearned for, heâs much less temperamental and insecure. He donates a significant cut of his income to animal preservation charities and projects, especially bird-related ones. He hates being called the Penguin, itâs just the insult it was to him as a boy with extra shame. His friends may call him Ozzie.
Harvey Dent is the nightclubâs company lawyer. His services are also available to anyone too poor to afford another laywer. Heâs the same kind, just, honourable guy he is usually; the main changes are he finds it easier to healthily express and process anger and negotiate with and stand up to his alter. Bruce Wayne is his best friend, they hang out and collaborate a lot. He feels immense debt toward Bruce for standing by him through his fall and recovery. He and the others (his alter included) have a deal that theyâll do their absolute best to stay out of legal trouble, and if they get into it and it isnât their fault or at least not worth the punishment theyâll receive heâll come to their defence. Heâs an excellent orator and the groupâs reliable moral compass. Two-Face is more relaxed due to Harvey letting out a fairer portion of their anger - that is, his rages are no longer literally homicidal. He still has a bad habit of property damage. A key catalyst for his improvement was therapy that respected him as an independent, redeemable personality instead of treating him like a disease to be eradicated. Heâs pessimistic, cynical, standoffish and has little filter, but despite his complaints about them he values his friends greatly. He doesnât think highly of Bruce, but tolerates him and would save his life if he had to. This is because he and Harvey are genuine friends. Borderline brothers eventually, although their tastes and ideologies continue to clash. Back in the first years he went by âBig Bad Harvâ, Two-Face was a protector alter. He soon went off the deep end and became a persecutor, but that protective instinct wasnât unsalvageable. He secretly feels immeasurable self-loathing with his new sense of remorse, but unable to harm his body for Harveyâs innocence redirects it onto external targets. They still flip a coin to make trivial decisions sometimes, but a regular heads and tails one. The scarred coin has been donated to Gotham Human History Museumâs rogues gallery (heh heh). Itâs forbidden to them because it offers a moral dichotomy of choices, not merely a trivial one, therefore giving a 50% chance theyâll feel obligated to act immorally. They did get plastic surgery on their burn scars, but its main goal was to reduce the scarsâ painfulness and inconvenience and the left side of their face remains permanently disfigured. Their left eyeâs vision is better after surgeries, but not average.
Victor Fries creates decorations out of ice and frost for the Lounge and sells ice sculptures. When not in use, the freeze ray is stored in a hidden safe he alone knows the code to and Selina alone could open without it. He enjoys these jobs and they provide a decent income, but his passion is aerial, enlarged version of his freeze ray heâs designing. He hopes it will be able to rebuild the crumbling polar ice caps and cool the warming atmosphere. This global concern is a notable departure from his past where he only cared about Nora and himself. Wayne Enterprisesâs medical department is developing a cure for his wife Noraâs terminal disease, Victor having willingly granted it her cryogenically preserved body. Bruce supports his project and has promised to fund the finished designâs construction. Donât let his unemotional exterior and detached mannerisms fool you, heâs a kindhearted romantic. He doesnât mind being called Mr Freeze - his ordinary civilian title is the phonetically identical Mr Fries, after all. Pronouncing Fries like the fried potato strips, on the other handâŠ
Selina Kyle is a waitress at the Lounge. She was never insane or sent to Arkham; has never killed (she jokes she only ever hurt rich gitsâ pride and Batmanâs feelings); Catwoman was a thief, didnât rob anyone who couldnât manage without the item and outright returned a couple things of particular sentimental value; and assisted Batman and/or fought worse rogues on numerous occasions. All this and now being Bruce Wayneâs girlfriend means thereâs a palpable divide between her and the other ex-rogues. She doesnât agree with being considered a villain, for starters. Her arc is her navigating and trying to resolve how her identity of so long was inextricably linked to her moral ambiguity. Who is Selina Kyle without Catwoman? Without exhilarating rooftop chases and no definite commitment to any type of relationship? A pretty fantastic person, it turns out. A person society could admire and respect. But the real ex-villains in her circle have societyâs eternal condemnation, so what does that mean for their friendship? She ultimately decides to continue serving at the Lounge and spending time with the group because she loves them more than her reputation to the same snooty upper class she used to rob⊠and âcause sheâs, barring her impulsive streak and milder thrill-seeking behaviour, the most levelheaded ex-rogue second only to Harvey. They need her. Desperately.
Waylon Jones works in the Lounge kitchen. Hey, you live homeless as long as he has, you develop an appreciation for food. His condition gives him green scaly skin, claws and pointed teeth that have made him a persecuted outcast his whole life, but its true nature is far worse than scaring those around him. Itâs chronic and progressive, slowly consuming his higher thinking and further mutating his features when left unchecked. This explains how in earlier canon Killer Croc was an intelligent villain and was reduced to stupid and almost totally animalistic. John Crane supplies him with drugs of his own invention that keep the progression at bay. He resents his condition deeply. Losing his humanity irreversibly terrifies him. He may be uneducated, but heâs very clever in an unconventional way. Heâs timid, unconfident and mistrustful around strangers and quick to get defensive, used to being perceived solely as a mindless beast or evil freak, and unconditionally loyal and loving to those he trusts. A job that doesnât require being seen by non-colleagues is perfect. Brushing off their offers to find him somewhere to stay, he insists heâs fine in his shelter in the spacious old sewer system. This is half because he doesnât want to cause any more trouble in the society above he knows he wonât ever belong in. The other half? Waylon is a champion of Gothamâs homeless population, of the forgotten and abandoned. His shelter is a haven for them too. There have been countless forceful relocations of the homeless, and the police will need to get through him to try it again! He hates being called Killer Croc, but doesnât have the energy to protest it and risk looking aggressive.
Pamela Isley runs an organization that replants trees, rewilds spaces and opposes deforestation. She lives with her girlfriend Harley. Theyâve been dating since they were villains. She doesnât mind being called Poison Ivy, and happily accepts Ivy as a nickname.
Harleen Quinzel is a psychiatrist in Arkham again. She champions better mental healthcare and public destigmatization of mental illness. She dislikes being called Harley - nobodyâd called her that in years before the Joker, so she associates it strongly with him and her time as a criminal - except by her fellow ex-rogues, who she can trust accept that part of her. Iâll call her Harley for convenience.
Jonathan Crane reverse-engineered his fear toxin to produce a new line of anxiety medication that he anonymously sells to Wayne Enterprises, getting the money with none of the credit. He chose this, aware nobody would ever trust a chemical compound âthe Scarecrowâ made. It has less dangerous side effects and better results than any previous medication. As well as suffering from generalized anxiety disorder before he decided to master fear, and PTSD then and now from his childhood, his toxin attacks were responsible for many cases of anxiety disorders and PTSD. I mean, the initial idea behind the fear toxin was to show others how he felt all the time. So he really feels a need to give back to the mentally ill. A former teacher, he has a soft spot for children and is skilled at engaging with them.
Edward Nygma is a computer programmer at Wayne Enterprises. Prior to that he created a popular puzzle game app, a last hurrah of sorts for his obsession with games and riddles.
The Joker is dead. He died a year and a half before the show begins. How exactly is never explained (letting you to fill in whatever seems most apt to you, my personal headcanon is Alfred kills him) due to being ubiquitous knowledge, but it was very cathartic. The anniversary of his death is almost an unofficial national holiday, nicknamed. The ex-rogues have arranged to annually hold a mock funeral for him. They give comedic eulogies about how little theyâll miss their dearly despised and the countless ways he was an awful person, a different head speaker stepping forward each year in rotation, and bury a dummy of him beneath a creatively hand-decorated plaque. After having to inhabit Arkham and the Gotham underworld with him, they have a wealth of stories. The first year Two-Face was head speaker. Harley declined because the scumbagâs given her so much baggage she wasnât ready to verbalize it before a bigger audience. The Season One episode âJoker Dayâ involves her volunteering to be head speaker of the second Joker Day. Suffice to say, it gets⊠emotionally intense. But besides Joker Day episodes and a few references here and there, the show doesnât dwell on him. *cough* The Joker is overexposed and overrated. *cough*
Youâll have noticed the name Wayne comes up a lot. Yeah, Bruce is an important side character. Their opinions on Batman are⊠diverse, but even the few who arenât themselves close or indebted to Bruce will defend him on their friendsâ behalf. Itâs a running joke that the next person foolish enough to kidnap or threaten the billionaire will have absolute hell to pay. This inevitably leads to the episode where a villain does kidnap Bruce, and the Batfamily get some unexpected allies on their rescue missionâŠ
Wayne Enterprises cures Nora early on. Well, Victor probably would be less pacified if it still seemed hopeless. Her revival occurs in the beginning of the episode. Though naturally confused about her husbandâs condition and disappointed their physical relationship is over, sheâs overwhelmingly glad his suit is sustainable and sheâs permanently cured. As she puts it, âYouâre alive. And Iâm alive thanks to you, and weâre going to stay that way together for decades. Thatâs all I need.â The couple passionately hug. Nora is pleased the suit makes Victor strong enough to lift her effortlessly. Sheâs crying, Victorâs been crying the whole time. Bruce is sobbing inconsolably - when Selina remarks itâs out of character, he replies heâs been wanting to cry about their love story ever since he learned Mr Freezeâs motivation, but couldnât because he was Batman. Itâs exactly as beautiful as youâd expect such a long-awaited reunion to be. Then Victorâs smiles falters. He asks for the two to have some privacy. Alone, he explains just what heâs been doing in Noraâs hibernation. No omissions, no sugarcoating. He was a supervillain. He funded his technology through crime and has innocent blood on his hands. She deserves to know, and hear it from him. Theyâre both tearful once more, for different reasons. She reacts how a sane person would: disbelief, betrayal, fury, heartbreak. Heâs resigned to it. âIf you can never trust me again, let alone enough to be my wife - if you never want to see me again, you can go. I wanted you back so you could live, not so I could have you.â She tells him she needs time to reevaluate their relationship and leaves. The rest of the episode is Noraâs acclimatization to her new situation and her husbandâs strange yet charming friends, who attempt comfort and get to know her (and while moved by Victorâs dedication to honesty, agree to save their own dark deeds for later to give the poor woman a break). Selina in particular takes her under her wing. Victorâs ashamed moping is the side plot. By the denouement Nora has cooled down enough to show Victor gratitude for preserving her life and acknowledge her truly loves her, but establishes she doesnât know what to feel about him and sheâll be keeping her distance for the foreseeable future.
Nora is a side character of similar relevance to Bruce. She gets her own arc of reclaiming her old life and reasserting herself in a radically changed Gotham. Sheâs a champion figure skater. She rises right back up to take her crown in the next championship (âThe competition must have gone soft while I was on ice!â). Selina, Ivy, Harley and Waylon are her best friends. She and Victor rekindle their bond, platonic and eventually romantic. He isnât the man she married, thatâs for sure. But maybe he can be a better one. Her presence certainly makes him more sentimental and generous. I just want them to go to the winter fair on a date and have a snowball fight, okay? And for Nora to discover her his suitâs exhaust jets expel hot air, so if the positioning is right he can still give warm cuddles! I just want them to be an actual couple! Is that too much to ask?
John and Harley get along swimmingly. He started an unconventional mentor to her in their common interest of psychology and is practically her father figure.
Waylon, John and Oswald are good friends, each having known lifelong social rejection and fear.
Harveyâs arc is him overcoming the guilt complex and self-image issues he internalized during his abused childhood and learning to not feel responsible for everyone else all the time. Two-Faceâs arc is him becoming more sympathetic, attuned to others and appreciative of the positives in life. They coincidentally encounter Harveyâs ex-wife Gilda Gold in Season Two. That causes the additional arc of the estranged Gilda slowly mending fences with Harvey, to the point of friendship.
Eddieâs arc is being repeatedly smashed in the face with humble pie.
Harvey, Two-Face and Selina are the only ex-rogues to know Batmanâs secret identity, and the Batfamilyâs identities by association. Harveyâs known all along, and just told Two-Face recently when between his internal growth and their support system he could take the gamble that Two-Face wouldnât relapse. The resultant shared experience of constant, agonizing dramatic irony bring them closer together.
Waylon and Harvey are âI blacked out and next thing I know my body had gone on a murderous rampageâ besties. Harvey is the best at getting through to Waylon in his crocodilian mental state.
Victor and Pam are close friends. We see the history of this friendship and how it influenced their lives unfold through flashbacks. In the present of the episode, the group and Bruce are fighting to let his aforementioned global-cooling freeze cannon be built and activated, design finally perfected, that authorities fear will be weaponized maliciously. First they were just two jaded misanthropes stuck together in Arkham. [Pam: Humans are the worst./Victor: I emphatically relate to your sentiment./Edward, down the hall: Just say, âI know, right?â like a normal person!/Pam: Case in point./Victor (nods grimly)] Then they bonded over their shared heartache, and helped each other rediscover their empathy and humanity. [Victor: As sharp as the sting of a loved oneâs death is, the limbo my wife must be preserved in sometimes seems worse. So close, yet so far. Alive, but cut off from any kind of life she might have with me or choose for herself. A hollow existence of imprisonment, loneliness, darkness and cold, when she has the capacity to outshine the sun./Pam, watching Harley be manipulated into returning to the Joker: (voice breaking) I⊠relate to your sentiment.] They really became a duo once Victor got into environmentalism. After a new low point in his villain career with his hope of saving Nora crushed, he fled to self-imposed exile in the North Pole. At least he could be in peace with the pure, eternal beauty of theâŠatâs wrong with the ice? Why are the ice sheets so small? They shouldnât be cracking nearly so rapidly at this time of year! He earned his PhD in cryogenics, he gets ice, the North Pole should not look like this! These are the most majestic sights heâd ever seen, heâd dreamed of showing Nora them. This will not do. He storms back to Arkham. âDr Pamela Isley! I request your assistance! I have dramatically underestimated the severity of the global warming crisis. Your expertise is in biochemistry, but you have a thorough knowledge of climate science, do you not?â Though surprised heâs invested in something other than Nora, Pam is pleased to have an ally and downright gleeful to have someone who will sit through her detailed presentation on climate changeâs causes and effects. Victorâs âzap the ice caps back to their previous sizeâ plan impresses her, but she points out itâll never get off the ground. Itâll be next to impossible to acquire such a large amount of resources. And even if he doesnât get caught before itâs assembled, everyone will assume itâs a superweapon and it will be shot down. It really is a shame how his criminality undermines his noble cause and strips him of trustworthiness and effectiveness - what? Stop looking at her like that! Soon they both go straight explicitly to aid their environmental agendas. The episode ends with the ray beginning construction and Victor hosting a a celebratory dinner. Victor thanks Pam for being his inspiration and support. âA toast,â he proposes, beaming at Nora, âto humans not being the worst.â Pam laughs, arm linked with Harleyâs. âNow thatâs a sentiment I can emphatically agree with.â
Harvey and Two-Face have an emotional support animal, a tuxedo kitten thatâs blind in her left eye named Schrödinger (Schrödie for short). They both adore her. Her presence and affection are so soothing they can snap them out of a fit of rage or PTSD attack. Feeding her adds that much more stabilizing routine to their day. It helps that neither could bear to harm her, not even emotionally. Funnily enough, Two-Face got her. When their therapist suggested a pet might be beneficial, while Harvey was willing to consider it he thought it was beyond stupid; they had enough responsibilities, including each other, without a needy, annoying animal thrown into their complicated lives. But weeks later theyâd been having a bad day and he switched in to find his alter had entered a cat shelter. He was about to leave⊠then he saw her. The nameless kittenâs family had left her behind moving house. Whether the abandonment was deliberate or accidental the staff didnât know. She was obviously unhappy in the shelter, but nobody had adopted her yet often at least partly because of her disability. To this day Two-Face canât say what came over him. (âEmpathy?â Selina suggests deadpan. âThe warm glow of connecting with another living thing? Oh right, youâve never felt it before, have you?â) Harvey awoke the next morning to the sound of purring and a weight on his lap, better rested than in ages. Selinaâs cat Isis is a maternal substitute to the kitten.
I donât think the show should have many legacy villains who reuse an older villainâs gimmick. However, I do have an episode in mind for a legacy Scarecrow. This Scarecrow is a former abused henchman of John far cleverer and more ambitious than his boss credited him for. Heâs tweaked his fear toxin recipe to be the most potent yet (and work on Pam) and got upgraded gear. He is targeting John specifically, and gases his friends first to cause him pain. John is incredibly guilty, which every attack worsens, because the citizens and his friendsâ suffering is the direct result of his evil actions. He invented the base toxin, he himself even pushed a low-level henchman to supervillainy! But his rampant remorse paralyzes him, too afraid of making things worse; of course, Batman gets trapped or otherwise somehow by the Scarecrowâs overarching plan and it falls to him with his total immunity to fear toxin to save the day. The final nail in the coffin is Harley getting gassed. Her eyes widen in horror and she backs into the wall, shaking her head and mumbling, âNoâ repeatedly. She tries to act defiant, unresponsive to his efforts to ground her, and voices her protest to whatever threat sheâs seeing, but her tone is pleading. He reaches toward her. She instantly flinches away and drops to the floor in a trembling, hyperventilating ball. âOkay, okay! J-j-just go easy on me this timeâŠâ Itâs obvious who she thinks sheâs talking to. John is aghast. His face quickly hardens into cool, orderly, murderous rage. Oswald had figured out the Scarecrowâs hideout and was going to send it to Batman (and the non-indisposed vigilantes) right when he got gassed. John does so for him, but not before starting to drive there himself armed with a gun and a set of kitchen knives. The Scarecrow floods his lair with fear gas upon detecting him. He moves through it, implacable, unwavering, at most mildly annoyed by the gas, and corners and terrifies the terrorist. âIâm gonna make you wish Batman found you first.â He proceeds to beat the crap out of his successor using his trademark underhanded, manipulative tactics. Itâs awesome. He barely finds the restraint to spare his life and hands him over to Batman. His friends are fiercely concerned. He downplays both the accomplishment and the situationâs seriousness, claiming the rush of adrenaline stops him feeling a thing. âOh, wait,â he says calmly, âItâs wearing off.â He faints into Edwardâs arms. In the hospital, heâs given the revised fear toxin antidote just in case. He wakes up with Harley clutching his hand. She congratulates him and he downplays it again, but thinks twice. He reveals his resistance didnât apply to the new strain in such large quantities - he was hallucinating the entire time he was in that building. How could he keep going? His worst nightmare is losing his friends. The first people heâs cared about and have cared about him in years, who âtaught me there are things stronger than fear.â The more their screams rang in his ears, the sharper his focus and righteous drive became.
The ex-rogues invent a game called âItâs Called Commitment, Dammit!â They take turns recounting the most embarrassing, absurd, or esoteric experience theyâve had or knowledge theyâve learned purely for the sake of their villainous âgimmickâ, concluding with the titular exclamation to rationalize their actions. The funniest, most compelling story wins.
The Court of Owls could be antagonists later on? Like, its elaborate underground conspiracy and need to control Gotham contrasts the protagonistsâ desire to lead simple lives and leave all that kind of business, and their personal harmful means of control, behind. Its deep connection to Gothamâs history both mirrors the irreversible impact the protagonists have had on that history and contrasts their capacity to brighten its future. The Owls are essentially a thematic foil to the ex-rogues. As the ex-rogues learn to let go, they keep tightening their grip. Where the found family consists of unique, eccentric individuals encouraged to be themselves in the best way possible, the Court is conformist and stifling. And it would be funny for the protagonists to not be intimidated by them whatsoever. âMy apologies, I just canât take your gimmick -â âIt isnât a gimmick!â âSeriously. As a professor of ornithology whoâs studied owls in the wild and captivity, theyâre incredible predators, but by a human metric among the least intelligent birds. I canât stop imagining you performing owl behaviours Iâve observed. Itâs very entertaining.â
I really love your concept of a group of reformed Gotham criminals working at the Iceberg Lounge out of solidarity and their lingering isolation from society! I started thinking about how cool a show with that premise would be, and it kind of ran away with me⊠would you mind if I made a post listing some miscellaneous ideas for such a series? I would credit you for the inspiration.
You might think Poison Ivyâs weird new plant serum in the water supply is bad today, but just remember that weâre going to have to deal with Killer Croc being mad about it tomorrowâŠ
This started out with me just wanting to draw Harvey in other bicolored clothing to fit his aestheticâą , then because I did a turtleneck I ended up drawing B next to him, so then it turned into a drawing of Bruce and Harvey re-uniting as friends to low-key judge people. Just like old times Iâm sure.
bc of people cancelling plans, i bought way too much meat and i realized i couldnt eat it all before it spoils... so I brought it to the sewer figuring killer croc would probably appreciate getting beef and long story short we're friends now
Say what you will, but #onlyingotham will Killer Croc help get your car out of the ditch when you swerve to get out of his way #hesprettydamnsteong #heofferedtocarryittotheshop #ideclinedandcallledtriplea
My littlest sister came a few minutes after bedtime to tell our grandma that there was a monster under her bed. Gran went to her room, looked under the bed, and said, âWAYLON! Whatâd I tell ya bout how you come to visit friends?â (Here she dragged Killer Croc out by his foot.) âUse the front door anâ stop hidinâ! Ya hungry? Câmon and eat somethinâ.â And she led him to the kitchen, fussing at him the whole way. #OnlyInGotham
Amanda Waller once sent the Task Force X after Lois Lane, after one of her stories got a little too close to home. The entire Suicide Squad ended up in traction. Amanda didnât make that mistake twice.
I was attending an opening event for some charity food kitchen, largely funded by our local Sunshine-Boy Bruce Wayne, and the key speaker actually had the g a l l to bring up Jason Todd in his speech? Like, actually? On purpose? And he expected Bruce Wayne to actually go along with his asinine joke, about his own poor son? For some petty media-attention bs reason?!?
But I swear, what happened next freaked me out. Wayne stopped smiling and just fucking LOOMED at this guy, and I swear, he looked fucking terrifying. I know, I know, Brucie Wayne scaring someone? Our Pure Son? But I swear, he looked like he was gonna tear into this guy and feed him the microphone.
But and then, I shit you not, fucking TWO-FACE runs up, cause I guess he was gonna rob the place or something, fucking decks the keynote speaker, and then he TURNS HIMSELF IN after FLIPPING HIS COIN, cause Nightwing, Red Robina and a few others showed up. And, I, like, I donât wanna cast allegations or anything? But I think that they were, watching? Like, I think they let Two Face do that, before they arrested him?
Poor Bruce Wayne, he looked so emotional afterwards. I mean, I wanted to make sure he was gonna be okay, so I tried to follow him when he was escorted off the stage (by Talia Head of all people, which is super weird cause theyâve been in the middle of a public cold war for a while now, but I guess our Pride Sunshine Boy can charm even people like her), and I saw him hugging the RED HOOD of all people? (Further proof that Bruce Wayne needs to be recognized as a Saint, he even has the rougher guys like Hood looking out for him)
I hope heâs okay.
What a day. #OnlyInGotham, #PureGothamSon, #WayneDrama, #ITotallyUnderstandDeckingThatGuy, #IKindaWishTwoFaceWouldGetALighterSentenceForThat, #ProtectBruceWayne, #RedHoodIsntThatScaryIGuess, #WTFIsUpWithWayneAndHead,
