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mostly jason todd ngl other bat n' dc content maybe prob untagged 24 18+

[orpheuslament]

lets play putting cigarettes out on each other

[prokopetz]

The problem with Batman in his present incarnation is that we need simultaneously to believe that this is a man who can effortlessly ninja his way through dozens of gun-toting mercenaries, and that this is a man to whom Danny DeVito with an umbrella is a credible threat.

[prokopetz]

Okay, that was glib – let me expand. I'm fully aware that Batman comics generally don't have him fighting guys like the Penguin one on one these days. That's not the problem. The problem is that superhero power creep has rendered Batman functionally immune to hired goons, but owing to his roots as a street-level vigilante, like half of his classic villains are guys whose primary threat vector is the ability to field arbitrary numbers of hired goons. There just aren't a lot of ways to work around that without either doing violence to the villain's idiom or making Batman carry the idiot ball – though I'll grant that some of the attempted workarounds have been very entertaining!

[prokopetz]

#i say we give the goons powercreep too #some goon moves to gotham and is gobsmacked at the average goons fighting ability; that would render them their own mob boss in another city (via @chaoticspacedust)

You joke, but that's literally one of the workarounds I'm referring to. One of the reasons that recent Batman stories keep looping back around to ancient ninja conspiracy stuff is that an answer to "how do we make hired goons a credible threat when Batman is an invincible ninja?" is "the hired goons are also ninjas".

[nos4ra2]

Imagine turning to crime out of financial desperation and you can’t even land a job as a dumb knuckle cracking brawler anymore without five years of martial arts training, a CDL in evasive getaway driving and a hand written recommendation from an active member of The Court of Owls.

[phantomrose96]

Hey hey don’t cry. Character who destroys themself in the end for nothing

[nadjasnandor]

consuming media like

[ninicure]

Th stupid brothers

[theunfairfolk]

the spirit is unwilling and the flesh it feels not so good also

[laterkiss]

“hey did you kiss the brick before you threw it” “prev so true” “EXACTLY!!!” “I am always saying this” “op im gonna kill myself” “dont talk to me im unwell about this” “agskhksj!!!"

[real-language-facts]

starts talking and a disclaimer appears above my head saying that all resemblance to real languages is strictley coincidental

[ladyloveandjustice]

The Discourse TM reminded me that I recently bought the Young Justice Secret Origins 80 page Giant and rereading Tim recounting his Origin to Dick, we get a rare positive mention of Jason, and cognitive dissonance between this and how Chuck Dixon tends to portray Jason and talk about him in other stories is so fascinating to me.

Bruce: "You stay. Disobey me and you'll never wear it." Dick : "You didn't listen, did you?"

Tim: Are you kidding? [...] I knew I was blowing my chances of being Robin, but I did it anyway. It's what you would have done. It's what Jason would have done.

This is so interesting, right? Tim straight up acknowledging that disobeying Batman's orders to save people is what Robin does. Saying "it's what you and Jason would have done, so I'm following in your footsteps". For once, it's acknowledged that Tim is no different from Jason in making the choice to disobey orders, and that Robin doing so is a proud tradition, a sign of heroism, something Jason is a part of and Tim is happy to be a part of. And then he says Bruce admits that it's okay to defy orders sometimes.

But in other stories Dixon writes, Jason disobeying orders (not for the hell of it. To save someone, just like Tim did) is what proves he's an unfit Robin and it's presented as the reason for his death. Dixon did not see the contradiction here.

(What's also interesting about this origin is Jason's death is never mentioned? But he's mentioned twice, here and when Tim describes his Robin costume as "Not yours or Jason's. All my own". Dixon just seems to expect the reader will know who he is, despite the conciet of the story being you don't know how Tim became Robin so here he is telling you.)

[simoneashley]

First look at The Batman Part 2 (2028)

[melina-mellow]

Every time someone calls Red Hood "DC's version of the Punisher" an angel loses its wings.

Nor do I trust the fans of Jason who say "Red Hood has the potential of being a saner version of the Punisher"

Jason Todd is not—and should not— ever comparable to Frank Castle.

Doing so is just you telegraphing a deep misunderstanding of both characters other than the surface level "anti-hero who uses guns"

[ciricearts]

he's working hard!

[blairwitchdiaries-deactivated20]

👀👀 not gonna name names but SOME of u are sweet and kind and deserve the world and i am rooting for u

[kiruyeen]

found family should be "we come from different backgrounds yet share the same hurt, the same stories, youve become an irreplaceable part of my life. I dont have the words for our connection but we have no one if not eachother and you are my one place I safely call home."

not "ok Im the child and youre the parent and that guys the little sibling"

[samtf]

reblog to give a strawberry to the person you reblogged this from

[daisywords]

"came back wrong" what about Came Back Afraid. You used to be brave. Too brave maybe, defying the odds at every turn, a fighter, cocky, playing with fire, first to throw yourself at the enemy. Until one day it all caught up to you. You came back, somehow, but now you know all too intimately how it feels to lose, to die, to be destroyed. Now you flinch and freeze and cower at the slightest provocation. Who even are you now if you can't be brave? The grave may have let you go, but the mortal fear still grips you tighter than ever.

[three-semicolons]

So, I know there are plenty of iconic nicknames for Dick — particularly “the Boy Wonder” — during his time as Robin. All of those are great. Very cute. Very wholesome.

However, I think we need to bring back “devil-child with the laughing eyes”.

Is it a mouthful? Yes. Does it convey every single aspect of Dick’s character at that age? Immaculately so. He’s mischievous. He’s dangerous. But he’s silly and gleeful while doing it, and always laughing. Just… hopefully not at you.

(And, if he isn’t silly or gleeful, if he isn’t laughing… run.)