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Jason Todd we get it, you're hot 🙂‍↕️

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#BDJWBSKSBSJSBS HE'S SO #jason todd #comic panels

Do you ever think about how Jason’s eyes look so lifeless, empty and soulless when he said that “I know Bruce does things his way," and when Damian brought up about how Sheila sold him out to the Joker and he just went like “yeah, she did that, so what?” like he just accepts it even though it was eating him alive, like he knows that he can never get what he wants; compare to when his eyes were glistening with tears, deep blue and trembling with hope, pleading with his father to choose him. Do you think about this as much as I do, or you just don’t care.

And how he's got his mother’s eyes.

Remember that guys. Remember that.

#it's in batman & robin (2011)!!#and in issue 11 :P

goldensunset

bad news guys i just found out i symbolize hope within the narrative so there’s gonna be a critical turning point where i die to symbolize despair 😰 maybe i’ll get to appear as a ghost or hallucination or something later to show all is not lost?

#jt

But do we talk about how he looks his age and he's pouting he's so cute so pretty you want to poke him so bad

#kiss him until he smiles #jason todd #im not allowed to be hopeful but i do allowed to appreciate

wltstation

#jason todd #jaybin #BDKSHSISHSJSHSJAA #dc #THE CUTEST

kittykatninja321

Jaybin getting singled out as particularly reckless and disobedient for victim blaming reasons as if 1. No other Robin has ever disobeyed Batman , 2. putting yourself at risk to save a civilian isn’t the exact type of self sacrifice Bruce taught them, and 3. as if any other Robin would’ve let their mom walk into a warehouse with the Joker and not followed her in

#Jason Todd #jaybin #victim blaming #as if

Every time a tiny bit of news about the New Teen Titans drops, I get incredibly excited. It fills me with such intense hope that it almost makes me sick. Everyone else is so full of hope that it makes me feel sick too. It all seems too good to be true, so I tell myself to lower my expectations to rock bottom, because DC has turned me into this cynical, low-expectation-having bitch. One moment I’m overjoyed, and the next, I’ve calmed down and gone stone-cold. I shouldn't have any hope at all *head in my hands*

#thinking about that quote from mj #sigh #im just.... all of this feel so positive it's suspicious

tigerinmarch

#the boy…#handsome boy..#jason todd #<- prev #MY BOY #dc

Rolling my eyes. Lmao.

sheepishmastectomy

Tbh one of the number one things I notice when reading Batman is how Bruce uses knowledge of women's identities to control them in a really distinct way

And how he raises his boys to do the same...

Like obviously when we see the retcons in Batgirl year one, this occurs. With Steph as well... And then in another way with Cass, where she doesn't get a civilian identity? Or when we see him bully Helena out of the mask in no man's land??? And almost every time he has one of his boys at his side assisting him

sheepishmastectomy

Like obviously a man so concerned with his own secret identity is going to view identity and knowledge about it as having power & he just does not hesitate to wield it against women in particular as a means of coercion

sheepishmastectomy

coming back with examples to illustrate my point & i am being so strong and refraining from going into a lengthy digression about how batgirl year one's commitment to a more "grounded" start for babs diminishes and mocks her over and over again...

In Batgirl Year One #4, we see Bruce dictating what Dick is allowed to call Babs. You could argue this is control over his "brand," but it's part of a larger pattern of control over Babs throughout this run:

And it's immediately followed by drugging & abducting her to the Batcave, where he interrogates her to try and find out her identity...

Followed by drugging her again and making it clear that she does not get to decide what is done with her identity or her body

They maneuver her unconscious body multiple times in this issue and forcibly unmask her. Alfred and Dick are Bruce's accomplices in this. Dick occasionally challenges Bruce, but never with any real seriousness. There is no reciprocity in Barbara and Bruce's relationship here--she is entirely at his mercy at all times, and he wants her to be aware of this & works to crush her down whenever she defies him.

Bruce controls Steph also from as soon as he knows who she is: we see him do this in Detective Comics #649... her third appearance

Her identity is a bludgeon he can deploy against her-- and he's eager to do it immediately. He always goes for this blow (and yes, I'm aware he uses Tim's secret identity against him later + sabotages his relationship with Steph... but he only does it to Tim after he's been really upset with him. With women, he will deploy it right away)

In this case, Tim is apparently the first one to discover Steph's identity, but immediately gives it to Bruce, who then uses it against her. (I am admittedly so very tired so my chain of events could be off here as I am kind of throwing this post together).

He ambushes Helena with Dick to scold her for not being good enough while calling her by the hero identity she's currently not using, revealing that he's "known from the start" who she is.

Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #120

He browbeats her into giving up the cowl and Dick cooperates with him, calling Helena by the same name:

Then he takes the costume and basically kingmakes Cass into the new Batgirl... then prefers that she never step out of the role. The one girl he chooses and she can have no other identity. The moment she "gives up" the secret, he supports her & builds up a way to avoid getting it back.

Batgirl (2000) #14

And, you'll notice, Oracle's identity is a weapon that he can use to keep Cass in line here. She can't stay with Babs any more, because that would compromise the secret... the one that Bruce knows and has known since nearly Barbara's debut & claims ownership over once again.

#interesting meta #an important detail is that Bruce immediately reveals her identity to her father #and don't tell me that was necessary #in the long term it put her in a lot of danger #literally 2 arcs later he gets her kidnapped and nearly killed #you can tell that him and Tim don't care about keeping her identity secret #Dick knows before meeting her. Cass shows up in her house after one interaction.#I'm just not going to get into Stephbin and War Games stuff #Tim is also awful about this with Steph #Tim's more blatant with it though and while he gets called out on it he faces zero narrative consequences #“I used to hate when you called me that”#and that one panel from Robin 42 or 41 I think?#Steph's secret identity is something she seemingly has no control over #even in death #her identity has been found out by Tim and Crystal told to the rest of the batfam and broadcasted to the world #(even if retconned)#stephanie brown #barbara gordon #helena bertinelli #cassandra cain #bruce wayne #anti bruce wayne #anti tim drake #<-prev

aalghul

another thing about boy wonder is that jason is made out to be unhygienic and crass and impulsive and stupid because he is poor. then talia is made out to be the princess who's never lived her own life and mindlessly acted on her father's orders to make herself love a man and have a kid with him only to abuse the kid and also others who she deems below herself. the only way you can win in this comic is if you are a rich white boy apparently because tim drake is the saviour of the poor who don't need to think for themselves because he, ceo of wanye enterprises, is there to be the hero in their place. there is no need to involve those irrational lower classes who don't know what's good for them (which this comic certainly has proven to believe). it's impressive the lengths to which juni ba bases characters off of 2D assumptions based on class and situation rather than actually engaging with the characters as they are when not being reduced to stereotypes.

#boy wonder

ntshastark

other comic sites for fellow rco orphans (check out the reblog, tumblr seems to be hiding the other post from the tags)

ntshastark

Read online:

readcomicsonline.ru

readcomiconline.xyz

readfreecomicsonline.com

zipcomic.com

comics-online.org

Download:

comics-all.com

getcomics.info

newcomic.info

@themasterpostlibrary

@thecomiclibrary

Bonus paid option:

globalcomix.com

(i'd never heard of this site before but from what i've found it's fully legal. It has a subscription model, but you can also buy comics individually and there's a bunch of free stuff too, mostly from small creators)

ETA:

a lot of people on the notes have also recommended

batcave.biz (despite the name, it's not just batman or dc or even superhero comics)

and there was some complaining about ads, so i'm also gonna rec

ublock origin (adblock for firefox)

orion (browser with adblock for ios and macos)

#comics

moranamorena

Just once I want to read a comic where innocent civillian people of Gotham are grateful that Jason killed someone and they thank him in front of Batman

Imagine being kidnapped and assaulted by a group of men with no chance of escaping or possibly even surviving. Then having this man who looks like vigilante bursting in, killing all of your attackers and bringing you to safety. Would YOU dislike the fact that he killed them? Because I can guarantee that most people would expierience only relief and thankfulness if not a passive joy at them getting what they deserved

What about families of victims who couldn't get justice for their loved ones through the legal system. Would a parent of a dead child be upset at someone killing their baby's murdered? Yeah, I don't think so

In most comics Jason comes after the worst of the worst. Human traffickers, serial rapists, active pedophiles etc. People the victims and victims families would much prefer to see dead rather than alive in jail for a few years and then let go to walk free again

Being a victim and seeing Batman yelling at and attacking person who saved you and gave you justice would create a massive whiplash. It would make you feel that Batman wasn't on your side, on the side of the victim. How can the lifes of those criminals be more important than yours

Batman should be confronted with the reality that a lot of people would sided with Jason in those situations. We, the readers, should see a scene similar to that iconic Ragman panel

where people protect Ragman from Batman because for them he is their protector. It doesn't matter to them that he technicly kills people. He's protecting them and making their part of Gotham a safer place to live and they're willing to stand against Batman for him

It also shows how disconected Bruce can be from regular Gotham citizens and what they would consider justice. Something that we rarely see in Bruce vs Jason stories when it really should be at the core of their conflict

At the end of the day, DC doesn't like Jason and they don't want Bruce to be wrong so we will probably never see a moment like this between them. Still, it's nice to speculate over greatness that would be a realistic reaction to someone like Red Hood from the perspective of the victim of the person he killed

#dc comics #jason todd #red hood #anti batman #ragman

girlwonderous

also adding this to my 'jason gets relatively little on-screen buildup in his relationships/friendships bc when he lets you into his heart, he's rly easy to love' headcanon coping pile

(Batman 391)

#comic panels #jason todd